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    Daffodils: The Katherine Wheel Saga, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 582min
    Katy, a maidservant at Cheadle Manor, longs to escape her narrow life but events unfold slowly in her rural village. Finally, frustrated by personal tragedy and the shackles that continue to bind her, she becomes a mechanic in the WAAC as part of the British Expeditionary Force. Through the horrors of WW1 she discovers only love brings freedom. Note from the author For fans of historical fiction, Daffodils is part one of a true love trilogy, The Katherine Wheel Saga, set in Wiltshire, England at the time of the First World War. It starts slowly. Life changes little in Cheadle. Petty scandals, gossip, and the huge gap between the haves and those who serve them continue to dominate their small world. Daffodils follows the gallant women who provided the backbone for the army, not just the nurses, but the gender-defying mechanics and drivers who managed the vehicles and ambulances. But in essence, Daffodils is a love story whose tender heart is almost torn apart through this tumultuous time. Book Two of the Katherine Wheel Saga is called Peace Lily. Find out how these characters fared after the Armistice when they entered a new, modern age. A third book, Speedwell, completes the trilogy...for now...and takes the characters into the daring arena of motor racing in the 1920s. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/147348/bk_acx0_147348_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Elsie and Mairi Go to War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 545min
    When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a 30-year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant 18-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her brother. Little did they know that theirs was to become one of the most extraordinary stories of the First World War. In 1914, they roared off to London 'to do their bit', and within a month they were in the thick of things in Belgium driving ambulances to distant military hospitals. Frustrated by the number of men dying of shock in the back of their vehicles, they set up their own first-aid post on the front line in the village of Pervyse, near Ypres, risking their lives working under sniper fire and heavy bombardment for months at a time. As news of their courage and expertise spread, the 'Angels of Pervyse' became celebrities, visited by journalists and photographers as well as royals and VIPs. Glamorous and influential, they were having the time of their lives, and for four years, Elsie and Mairi stayed in Pervyse, until they were nearly killed by arsenic gas in the spring of 1918. But returning home and adjusting to peacetime life was to prove even more challenging than the war itself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patience Tomlinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000708/bk_rhuk_000708_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Drei tolle Ziele in den USA: Hawaii. New York. San Francisco, Hörbuch, Digital, 198min
    Über drei Stunden Hörerlebnis durch die aufregenden Städte Hawaii, New York und San Francisco...Auf Hawaii haben wir vier Inseln mit dem Mikrophon erkundet. Wir haben mit der Schnorchelausrüstung nach dem hawaiianischen Staatsfisch Humuhumunukunukuapuaa geforscht, sind auf Big Island über glühende Lavafelsen gewandert und haben in Honolulu das größte Chinatown Hawaiis erkundet: Die leidenschaftliche Surferin Noelani erzählt von ihrem täglichen Training, den Winterstürmen und dem Versuch, hawaiianische Traditionen wieder zu beleben, Kelii schildert die rauschenden Halloweenparties in der ehemaligen Walfängerstadt Lahaina und Chris berichtet, wie er als Kind in der Küche von seiner Muter das Hulatanzen gelernt hat.New York hat man schnell im Ohr: die Betriebsamkeit in der Wall Street, die Sirenen der Ambulances, den Strand von Long Island, und das Rattern der Subway. John erzählt von dem geschichtsträchtigen Greenwich Village, ein russischer Taxifahrer erinnert sich an seine erste Schicht, und Pernell Thomas beschreibt das quirlige Leben in der Bronx. Finden Sie heraus, ob es stimmt, wenn die New Yorker sagen: "This is the middle of the universe!"Tom und Mary erinnern sich an den Summer of Love, Laurie berichtet vom Zusammenleben der verschiedensten Kulturen und vom Nachtleben von Castro, Robert führt uns in seinen Diamond Room, halb Gallerie halb Museum und ganz in der Nähe zeigt uns Braumeister Allen wie in der San Francisco Brewery das Bier direkt aus der Kellerbrauerei in die Zapfanlage fließt. deutsch. Norbert Langer, Harry Kühn. https://samples.audible.de/bk/xgeo/000024/bk_xgeo_000024_sample.mp3.
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    Secrets of the East End Angels: East End Angels, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 605min
    Theirs was a friendship that would last a lifetime....The second novel in the East End Angel series, following Bella, Winnie and Frankie and their lives as members of Station Seventy-Five's ambulance crew.London, 1941. The East End Angels - Frankie, Bella and Winnie - are settled into life as ambulance crew members at LAAS Station Seventy-Five. The threat of air raids and other atrocities are a constant worry, but life continues regardless, and the weight of responsibility weighs heavy on each of them.Frankie's grandfather is unwell, and she promised him she would always look after Ivy, her stepgrandmother, but things between the two women are becoming increasingly strained. And then Frankie discovers something that turns everything she thought she knew about herself on its head.Winnie's natural leadership puts her at the forefront at the station, and she's soon making the difficult decisions on call-outs. As she is exposed to a higher level of war and destruction, she begins to wonder how much more London can take - and how much more can she take?Bella is beginning to drive the ambulances, she is growing closer to James and her love for writing is opening up new doors for her. Then she receives devastating news about someone close to her, and things begin to unravel.Life and war may keep testing the angels, but love will always find a way to shine, and the strength of their friendship will see them through the darkest of times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Annie Aldington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/002133/bk_twuk_002133_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Perfect Strangers: Friendship, Strength, and Recovery After Boston's Worst Day , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min
    Four lives brought together in a deadly moment prove that being in the wrong place at the worst time can lead to life's biggest adventures and most important relationships As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, she had no idea her life was about to change - that in a matter of minutes she would look up from the sidewalk, burned and deaf, staring at her detached foot, screaming for help amid the smoke and blood. In the chaos of the minutes that followed, three people would enter Roseann's life and change it forever. The first was Shores Salter, a college student who, when the bomb went off, instinctively ran into the smoke while his friends ran away. He found Roseann lying on the sidewalk and, using a belt as a tourniquet, literally saved her life that day. Then, Boston police officer Shana Cottone arrived on the scene and began screaming desperately at passing ambulances, all full, before finally commandeering an empty paddy wagon. Just then a giant appeared, in the form of Boston firefighter Mike Materia, who carefully lifted her into the fetid paddy wagon. He climbed in and held her burned hand all the way to the hospital. Since that day, he hasn't left her side, and today they are planning their life together. Perfect Strangers is about recovery, about choosing joy and human connection over anger and resentment, and, most of all, an unlikely but enduring friendship that grew out of the tragedy of Boston's worst day. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roseann Sdoia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030667/bk_adbl_030667_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Little Rock Nine: The History and Legacy of the Struggle to Integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas after Brown V. Board of Education , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 128min
    James Meredith’s struggle to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1962 is still remembered vividly, but the Little Rock Nine are frequently overlooked when it comes to discussing the Civil Rights Movement, despite attempting to integrate Little Rock Central High School five years earlier. For millions of kids, high school is a tumultuous time, with social highs and lows, academic pressure, and extracurricular wins and losses, but for the Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to attend a previously segregated high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, those years were nightmarish.Getting into Central High School was an obstacle witnessed by the entire nation, but that was only the beginning of their ordeal, because once they were permitted to step through the doors, their true battle began, pitting them against bullies, tormentors, and narrow-minded ignorance. While many teenagers’ main concern is finding a date for prom, theirs was surviving until lunch, and when some students were worrying about making the volleyball team, they were worried about making it home alive each day. The Little Rock Nine and their families and neighbors could not trust the local government to serve them, the school system to treat them fairly, or the police to protect them. As Melba Patillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Times, noted, “All my life I had felt unprotected by city officials...Whites had control of the police, the firemen, and the ambulances. They could decide who got help and who didn’t. Even if the Ku Klux Klan ravaged one of our homes, we wouldn’t call the police for help. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Houle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219595/bk_acx0_219595_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Brixton Beach , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 961min
    Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs bring the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching frantically amongst the chaos and the rubble. All around police sirens and ambulances are screaming, but Simon does not hear. He is out of breath because he has been running, and he is distraught. But who is he looking for? To find out we have first to go back 30 years to a small island in the Indian Ocean where a little girl named Alice Fonseka is learning to ride a bicycle on the beach. The island is Sri Lanka, with its community on the brink of civil war. Alice's life is about to change forever. Soon she will have to leave for England, abandoning her beloved grandfather, and accompanied by her mother Sita, a woman broken by a series of terrible events. In London, Alice grows into womanhood. Trapped in a loveless marriage, she has a son. Slowly she fulfils her grandfather's prophecy and becomes an artist. Eventually she finds true love. But London in the twenty first century is a mass of migration and suspicion. The war on terror has begun and everyone, even Simon Swann, middle class, rational, medic that he is, will be caught up in this war in the most unexpected and terrible way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlotte Strevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000609/bk_hcuk_000609_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War In Washington, DC , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1023min
    The stirring history of a president and a capital city on the front lines of war and freedom. In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House, Mrs. Sprigg's hosted lively dinner table debates of antislavery politics by the congressional boarders. The unusually rapid turnover in the enslaved staff suggested that there were frequent escapes north to freedom from Abolition House, likely a cog in the underground railroad. These early years in Washington proved formative for Lincoln. In 1861, now in the White House, Lincoln could gaze out his office window and see the Confederate flag flying across the Potomac. Washington, DC, sat on the front lines of the Civil War. Vulnerable and insecure, the capital was rife with Confederate sympathizers. On the crossroads of slavery and freedom, the city was a refuge for thousands of contraband and fugitive slaves. The Lincoln administration took strict measures to tighten security and established camps to provide food, shelter, and medical care for contrabands. In 1863, a Freedman's Village rose on the grounds of the Lee estate, where the Confederate flag once flew. The president and Mrs. Lincoln personally comforted the wounded troops who flooded wartime Washington. In 1862, Lincoln spent July 4 riding in a train of ambulances carrying casualties from the Peninsula Campaign to Washington hospitals. He saluted the "One-Legged Brigade" assembled outside the White House as "orators", their wounds eloquent expressions of sacrifice and dedication. The administration built more than one hundred military hospitals to care for Union casualties. These are among the unforgettable scenes in Lincoln's Citadel, a fresh, absorbing narrative history of Lincoln’s leadership in Civil War Washington. Here is the vivid story of how the Lincoln administration met the immense challenges the war posed to the city, transforming a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Fass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014076/bk_adbl_014076_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Metropolen. New York. Rom. London - Teil 1
    Über 3 Stunden den Geschichten und dem Klang dieser drei phantastischen Metropolen lauschen!New York hat man schnell im Ohr: die Betriebsamkeit in der Wall Street, die Sirenen der Ambulances, den Strand von Long Island, und das Rattern der Subway. John erzählt von dem geschichtsträchtigen Greenwich Village, ein russischer Taxifahrer erinnert sich an seine erste Schicht, und Pernell Thomas beschreibt das quirlige Leben in der Bronx. Finden Sie heraus, ob es stimmt, wenn die New Yorker sagen: 'This is the middle of the universe!'Was hat in London der Marktplatz Covent Garden zu bieten und warum leben im Tower auch heute noch fürsorglich gepflegte Raben? Die Foodstylistin Eliza berichtet, was zu einem richtigen Afternoon Tea gehört und Enrique erzählt aus der wilden Welt der Nachtclubs. Kommen Sie mit zu Sherlock Holmes und begleiten Sie uns zu einem Dim Sum nach China Town.Rom lockt mit all seinen Reizen! Der Krawattenmacher Mario Shunnack plaudert über die italienische Mode und Maurizio Mazarelli erklärt, was es bedeutet 'eine gute Figur' zu machen. Wir erkunden mit Schwester Martha die Katakomben von Priscilla und lassen uns von Giulia durch den Stadtteil Trastevere führen. Die Kapelle auf dem Petersplatz spielt, die Händler auf dem Campo dei Fiori rufen und die Motorini knattern: Rom ist lebendig und chaotisch, aber niemals langweilig.
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    Metropolen. New York. Rom. London
    Über 3 Stunden den Geschichten und dem Klang dieser drei phantastischen Metropolen lauschen!New York hat man schnell im Ohr: die Betriebsamkeit in der Wall Street, die Sirenen der Ambulances, den Strand von Long Island, und das Rattern der Subway. John erzählt von dem geschichtsträchtigen Greenwich Village, ein russischer Taxifahrer erinnert sich an seine erste Schicht, und Pernell Thomas beschreibt das quirlige Leben in der Bronx. Finden Sie heraus, ob es stimmt, wenn die New Yorker sagen: 'This is the middle of the universe!'Was hat in London der Marktplatz Covent Garden zu bieten und warum leben im Tower auch heute noch fürsorglich gepflegte Raben? Die Foodstylistin Eliza berichtet, was zu einem richtigen Afternoon Tea gehört und Enrique erzählt aus der wilden Welt der Nachtclubs. Kommen Sie mit zu Sherlock Holmes und begleiten Sie uns zu einem Dim Sum nach China Town.Rom lockt mit all seinen Reizen! Der Krawattenmacher Mario Shunnack plaudert über die italienische Mode und Maurizio Mazarelli erklärt, was es bedeutet 'eine gute Figur' zu machen. Wir erkunden mit Schwester Martha die Katakomben von Priscilla und lassen uns von Giulia durch den Stadtteil Trastevere führen. Die Kapelle auf dem Petersplatz spielt, die Händler auf dem Campo dei Fiori rufen und die Motorini knattern: Rom ist lebendig und chaotisch, aber niemals langweilig.
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