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    The Nile: A Journey Downriver through Egypt’s past and Present , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 739min
    A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now dead and how it sustained its successors, now in tumult. Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads us through space as much as time: From the river's mystical sources (the Blue Nile which rises in Ethiopia, and the White Nile coursing from majestic Lake Victoria); to Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple; the fertile Delta; Giza, home of the Great Pyramid, the sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World; and finally, to the pulsating capital city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the Nile. Along the way, he introduces us to mysterious and fabled characters - the gods, godlike pharaohs, emperors and empresses, who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. With matchless erudition and storytelling skill, through a lens equal to both panoramas and close-ups, Wilkinson brings millennia of history into view. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Ganim. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019231/bk_adbl_019231_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beautiful Scars: A Life Redefined , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 448min
    The 2016 Benjamin Franklin Award winner for Best Inspirational Book Kilee Brookbank was a typical sixteen-year-old, but her last ordinary day erupted in an explosion that consumed her house, burning forty-five percent of her body and sending her to the brink of death. After thirty-eight days of surgeries, skin grafts, physical therapy, and excruciating pain, Kilee had to discover how to live again. She faced her journey with determination, strength, and a positive attitude that inspired not only her community, but people around the world. Now a thriving college student, Kilee has become an author, advocate, and philanthropist focused on helping other young burn survivors and their families. Her charity, the Kilee Gives Back Foundation, has raised more than $100,000 for Shriners Hospitals for Children, Cincinnati, in just two years, and Kilee has partnered with Shriners Hospitals to promote its national Be Burn Aware campaign. Told together by Kilee and her mom, Lori, Beautiful Scars: A Life Redefined is a story of recovery, healing, and hope, reminding us all that we are never powerless, never alone, and that each challenge we face helps make us the people we are meant to be. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Claton Butcher, Marie Hoffman, Nancy Peterson, Vikas Adam. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100661/bk_acx0_100661_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    No Treason: The Anarchist Classic with a New Introduction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 210min
    Lysander Spooner was one of slavery’s fiercest enemies. As a lawyer, he offered free legal services to escaped slaves, defending them in court. He advocated smuggling guns to slaves, with which to overthrow their masters, and take possession of their property. “Give the Slave-holders, then, a taste of their own whips.”    Yet when the Civil War erupted, Spooner wasted no time in opposing the Union’s war against the Confederacy. After the war, when Northern troops occupied the conquered Southern lands, purging their governments of the warped scaffolding that had propped up slavery for centuries, Spooner called them the enemies of freedom.   What odd logic could harmonize these seemingly dissonant opinions? What philosophy could possibly despise slavery, and despise Abraham Lincoln?   The answer lies in the essay before you, Lysander Spooner’s most influential work: No Treason.Here you will find many unorthodox, and certainly unpopular, perspectives. Many notions, foundational to our concept of democracy, will be questioned, and the solutions offered will undoubtedly run against the grain of our upbringing, and everything we’ve been told about freedom.   He’ll advocate peace and violence, the rule of law, and anarchy.  You may not be convinced, but you will certainly be interested. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ayrton Parham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157383/bk_acx0_157383_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min
    The Esperanza Fire started October 26, 2006, in the San Jacinto Mountains above the Banning Pass near Cabazon, California. It destroyed 41,000 acres and dozens of homes and cost the taxpayers $16 million dollars. But by far the highest costs of the conflagration were the lives of the five-man crew of Engine 57, the first engine crew ever killed fighting a wildland blaze. Fire and superheated gases had erupted in a freak "area ignition," sending flames racing across three-quarters of a mile in mere seconds, engulfing the crew and the house they were defending. The deadly blaze was quickly determined to be no accident. Within a week, serial arsonist Raymond Lee Oyler was arrested and charged with almost two dozen counts of arson - and five counts of first degree murder. The Esperanza Fire recounts with drama and precision the gripping details of the fire and of Oyler's precedent-shattering trial and its stunning conclusion. John Maclean spent more than five years researching the Esperanza Fire and covering the trial of Raymond Oyler. The result is a thrilling, moment-to-moment insider's chronicle of that devastating and tragic inferno and the pursuit, capture, and prosecution of the man who intentionally set it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000778/bk_high_000778_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    City of God: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 928min
    The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based, City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil's most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with narcotics, where violence can erupt at any moment over drugs, money, and love - but also a place where the samba beat rocks till dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape his background and become a photographer. When City of God erupted on screens worldwide, it became one of the most critically and commercially successful foreign films of recent years. But few were aware of the story behind the film. Written by Paulo Lins, who grew up in the favela (shantytown) Cidade de Deus in Rio e Janeiro and who spent years researching its gang history, City of God began life as a coruscating, harrowing novelistic account of 20 years in the illicit pursuits of the youth gangs born from the favela. Now available in English for the first time, City of God is a raw, powerful portrait of the countless millions of poor people all over the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Christy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021839/bk_adbl_021839_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 643min
    To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning point in world history is a vast understatement. This bloody and protracted conflict pitted two flourishing Mediterranean powers against one another, leaving one an unrivalled giant and the other a literal pile of ash. To later observers, a collision between these civilizations seemed inevitable and yet to the Romans and Carthaginians at the time hostilities first erupted seemingly out of nowhere, with what were expected to be inconsequential results. Mastering the West offers a thoroughly engrossing narrative of this century of battle in the western Mediterranean, while treating a full range of themes: the antagonists' military, naval, economic, and demographic resources; the political structures of both republics; and the postwar impact of the conflicts on the participants and victims. The narrative also investigates questions of leadership and the contributions and mistakes of leaders like Hannibal, Fabius the Delayer, Scipio Africanus, Masinissa, and Scipio Aemilianus. Dexter Hoyos, a leading expert of the period, treats the two great powers evenly, without neglecting the important roles played by Syracuse, Macedon, and especially Numidia. Written with verve in a clear, accessible style, Mastering the West will be the most reliable and engaging narrative of this pivotal era in ancient history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom McElroy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021456/bk_adbl_021456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Caldera: A Yellowstone Park Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 488min
    Six-hundred-thousand years ago, the largest volcano in the Western Hemisphere erupted covering much of what is now the Central United States in a thick layer of ash. The cataclysm left behind a massive caldera that today is known as Yellowstone National Park. After volcanologist Milton Bainbridge is found dead under mysterious circumstances, USGS volcanologist Jason Trask is called in from overseas to replace his former boss and work at Yellowstone Park with Bainbridge’s assistant Carlene Carlson. Trask and Carlson discover records in Bainbridge’s computer that indicate Yellowstone is about to erupt again, only this time the survival of millions of Americans in 13 states is threatened if they cannot be evacuated from the deadly path of the fallout. To make matters worse, a terrorist organization is planning on using the disarray in the aftermath of a Yellowstone eruption to topple the government of the United States. Trask and Carlson face off against a government that doesn't believe an eruption is eminent and a terrorist organization preparing to use that denial to their advantage. Caldera is filled with technical accuracy in the lives of volcanologists assigned to Yellowstone National Park and the challenges they face when presented with the reality of a national disaster of unimaginable proportions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Lesley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023041/bk_acx0_023041_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Crime Wave , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 420min
    Jimmy McSwain returns to help his sister's boyfriend fight a murder charge - and finds he may just have a lead on a cold case. Hell's Kitchen private investigator Jimmy McSwain returns in a twisting tale of past sins and present-day vengeance. Jimmy McSwain isn't thrilled about taking a case for free - but when his sister fears her boyfriend, Rocky, is cheating on her, he has no choice. But the case takes a deadly turn when Rocky is standing over the body of a man he was just seen kissing, and he's holding the gun. He begs Jimmy to prove his innocence. Meanwhile, as a sweltering heat wave claims New York City, a gunman with a thirst for blood is targeting Manhattan deli owners and has already claimed two victims. Jimmy knows a thing or two about those - 14 years ago his father was killed outside a deli, and it's possible today's killer could be linked to that unsolved murder, one that continues to haunt Jimmy. Enlisting the aid of sexy NYPD Captain Francis X. Frisano, Jimmy finds himself torn between the two cases, as well as the heat simmering between himself and the hot cop. Suddenly a quiet summer has erupted into a full blown crime wave. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Leslie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074570/bk_acx0_074570_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Power of Submission: A Biblical Exposition of Godly Authority in the Trinity, the World, the Family, and the Church , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 544min
    Longtime Pastor John Tebay has been aware, in more than a half century of ministry, that churches can become mired in disputes ranging from petty to major. Many times, these controversies have erupted into pastoral dismissals or resignations, the frequent exodus of congregants, and bitter church splits.Pastor Tebay contends that the vast majority of these quarrels are a result of a lack of clarity concerning godly authority. Is the pastor in charge? Is the congregation in charge? Are the elders in charge? Is a combination of all these factions leading the church?In his timely audiobook, The Power of Submission, John Tebay contends that our permissive culture’s resistance to authority has permeated the Church and that God’s clear principle of authority has become muddled, murky, or ignored. When spiritual authority is unclear, the potential for division, strife, confusion, and darkness among God’s people and the world is highly intensified, always lurking and waiting to erupt.But when God is the source of authority and is applied to the Church, the family, and individuals as laid out in the Bible, you will discover how the “power of submission” can change lives and change the hearts and minds of those in the Church and in church leadership. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Tebay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136055/bk_acx0_136055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The New Zealand Hobbit Crisis: How Warner Bros. Bent a Government to Its Will and Crushed an Attempt to Unionize 'The Hobbit' , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min
    All was not well in Middle-earth.... After the third Lord of the Rings movie premiered in 2003, fans of the series eagerly anticipated production and release of its prequel, The Hobbit. It turned out they had a while to wait, as a series of troubles delayed production for years. Then, in September 2010, when almost everything seemed resolved, U.S. and international actors unions issued a pub-lic alert advising their members "not to accept work on this non-union production." Warner Bros. threatened to rip the troubled production from the country and events quickly spiraled out of control. New Zealand plunged into crisis. Saving The Hobbit was do or die for the local film industry, and the government scrambled to avoid disaster. Protests and rallies erupted and the island nation's currency fell on the possibility of losing the half-billion dollar project. Director Peter Jackson vowed to "fight like hell" to keep the shoot in New Zealand. But then studio executives flew in from Los Angeles like colonial masters ready to bring down the hammer. What happened next was almost unbelievable - and proved, if nothing else, that not all Hollywood drama is on the screen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David H. Lawrence XVII. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004688/bk_acx0_004688_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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