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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1053min

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, General Nonfiction, 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina - and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice In the tradition of the best writing on medicine, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the listener into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amidst chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the listener into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing. In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are in America for the impact of large-scale disasters - and how we can do better. A remarkable book, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your understanding of human nature in crisis. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirsten Potter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003606/bk_rand_003606_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz: American Made Music , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 903min

Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than 50 years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and cultural sources of New Orleans jazz, Charters provides a balanced assessment of the role played by all three of the city's musical lineages - African American, white, and Creole - in jazz's formative years. Charters also maps the inroads blazed by the city's Italian immigrant musicians, who left their own imprint on the emerging styles. The study is based on the author's own interviews, begun in the 1950s, on the extensive material gathered by the Oral History Project in New Orleans, on the recent scholarship of a new generation of writers, and on an exhaustive examination of related newspaper files from the jazz era. The book extends the study area of his earlier book Jazz: New Orleans, 1885-1957, and breaks new ground with its in-depth discussion of the earliest New Orleans recordings. A Trumpet around the Corner for the first time brings the story up to the present, describing the worldwide interest in the New Orleans jazz revival of the 1950s and 1960s, and the exciting resurgence of the brass bands of the last decades. The book discusses the renewed concern over New Orleans's musical heritage, which is at great risk after the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters. Published by University Press of Mississippi. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marcus D. Durham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/107257/bk_acx0_107257_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mississippi River Tragedies: A Century of Unnatural Disaster , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min

American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over 1000 miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called "natural disasters" continue to strike the Mississippi basin as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico. In some places, only the tombstones remain, leaning at odd angles as the underlying soil erodes away. Mississippi River Tragedies reveals that it is seductively deceptive - but horribly misleading - to call such catastrophes "natural". Authors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer present a sympathetic account of the human dreams, pride, and foibles that got us to this point, weaving together engaging historical narratives and accessible law stories drawn from actual courtroom dramas. The authors deftly uncover the larger story of how the law reflects and even amplifies our ambivalent attitude toward nature - simultaneously revering wild rivers and places for what they are, while working feverishly to change them into something else. Despite their sobering revelations, the authors' final message is one of hope. Although the acknowledgement of human responsibility for unnatural disasters can lead to blame, guilt, and liability, it can also prod us to confront the consequences of our actions, leading to a liberating sense of possibility and to the knowledge necessary to avoid future disasters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Troy McElfresh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090803/bk_acx0_090803_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Watch Me Die , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 675min

In Spindler’s thrilling new psychological drama, one woman’s journey to recovery becomes her worst nightmare…. Before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, stained-glass restoration artist Mira Gallier had it all: a thriving business doing work she loved and an idyllic marriage to the perfect man. But the devastating storm stole her beloved husband - his body swept away by floodwaters, never to be found. Now, after years of pain and turmoil, it looks as if Mira is finally on the verge of peace and emotional stability. But her life, like the magnificent windows blown to bits by Hurricane Katrina, is about to be shattered once again. And this time, it’s not a killer storm she faces, but a psychopath who will stop at nothing until he possesses her, body and soul…. First, church windows that she restored are vandalized, and the priest who looked over them brutally murdered. Spray-painted across the glass are the words: He Will Come to Judge the Living and the Dead. Then, New Orleans is rocked by a terrifying chain of murders that all seem to be linked to Mira. The police, led by homicide detective Spencer Malone, are following a string of clues left by the killer on each victim - and beginning to wonder if the murderer isn’t Mira Gallier herself. As Mira begins to unravel under pressure from all sides – and fear for her life – it’s unclear whom she can trust. And when a man from her past appears out of nowhere, sparking something long forgotten in her heart, he quickly becomes the police’s new prime suspect. One by one, the people in Mira's life are targeted, until it’s clear that the killer has been saving her for last... and that there’s nowhere left to run. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christina Delaine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001246/bk_aren_001246_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 507min

A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood - the deadliest flood in US history - from New York Times best-selling author, NBC host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker. May 1889: After a deluge of rainfall - nearly a foot in less than 24 hours - swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as swiftly rising waters threatened to breach the South Fork Dam in central Pennsylvania. Though they telegraphed neighboring towns on this last morning in May, warning of the impending danger, residents, used to false alarms, remained in their homes. At 3:10 p.m., the dam gave way, releasing 20 million tons of water. Gathering speed as it flowed southwest, the deluge wiped out entire towns in its path and picked up debris - trees, houses, animals - before reaching Johnstown, 14 miles downstream. Traveling 40 miles an hour, with swells as high as 60 feet, the deadly floodwaters razed the mill town - home to 20,000 people - in minutes. The Great Flood, as it would come to be called, remains the deadliest in US history, killing more than 2,200 people and causing $17 million in damage. Al Roker tells the riveting story of this tragedy, which remains one of the worst weather-related disasters in American history. Ruthless Tide follows a compelling cast of characters whose fates converged because of that tragic day, including John Parke, the engineer whose heroic efforts failed to save the dam; Henry Clay Frick, the robber baron whose fancy sport-fishing resort was responsible for modifications that weakened the structure; and Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, who spent five months in Johnstown leading one of the first organized disaster relief efforts. Weaving together their stories and those of many ordinary citizens whose lives were forever altered by the event, Roker creates a classic account of our natural world at its most terrifying. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007336/bk_harp_007336_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Surf's Up Collection (4 in One Volume of Surf’s Up Novellas): A Tide Worth Turning, Message in a Bottle, The Shell Collector's Daughter, and Christmas by the Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 589min

A Tide Worth Turning: Addison and Logan aren't in the market for love. She's recovering from a breakup, and he is hiding out on Galveston Island, trying to save enough money to get back to his country of origin before his world crashes down around him. But when Addison awakens feelings in him that he thought died long ago, Logan begins to question whether or not fleeing from the past is worth leaving Addison forever. Can love triumph where currents are rough? Message in a Bottle: Kyle loses the love of his life when girlfriend Morgan is whisked away by the CIA in the middle of the night. Almost six years later, two men show up at Kyle's door with news that he has a daughter who is ill. Her only chance of survival lies with Kyle, if he'll fly to an undisclosed island location in the Pacific. But reuniting with his first love and saving his daughter places his engagement to his fiancée, Lexie, at risk. Can love bridge the troubled waters of Kyle's past and present? The Shell Collector's Daughter: Carianna isn't like other 26-year-old women. She's never been on a date, never experienced the euphoria of a first kiss, and certainly never been in love. Can a man's heart speak to hers in a way that she can understand? And if so, will any man believe that Carianna sings with the angels and has tea with God? Will he see the star dust twinkling in her eyes or hear the secret whispers of the ocean in a seashell? When the right man comes along, will Carianna's father lift his protective wings and allow Carianna to soar into the life that God meant for her? Christmas by the Sea: Parker McIntyre is late evacuating Galveston Island prior to a hurricane. When he becomes trapped in rising floodwaters, he is going to drown if help doesn't arrive soon. Alexandria Hanson is on her way off the island to escape the immediate storm threat, but she spots a person trapped in the water. Helping the man is going to require great persona ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cecily White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/135570/bk_acx0_135570_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Graceless Series 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 218min, (USK 18)

Abby and her sister Zara are not real people. They were created by pan-dimensional beings to help save space and time. They’ve been blessed with special powers. They can see into people’s heads, even influence their thoughts. And, so long as they’re together, they can go anywhere or when. But the universe is dangerous, unpredictable. Abby and Zara have made mistakes - and many thousands have died. They know they’ve done wrong, that they have made enemies, who scour all of history to find them.So they keeping moving on, trying to make amends, trying to help people. And not to do any more harm…. Part One: The Line “The moment we stop, the moment we let the past catch up with us…We're done for.” Marek has brought Abby and Zara home to the city where he grew up. They’re wary at first – they’re meant to keep a low profile. But Marek assures them that everyone he knows here is dead.There’s a Rune Festival approaching, an excuse for a wild party – and it’s like there’s something in the air. Abby and Zara are soon swept up in the crowd, but Marek hasn’t told them the whole truth.Why has he brought them here? What can they do to help? And why is everyone so terrified of Manchu Golding? Part Two: The Flood “There goes the neighbourhood.” The rain hasn’t stopped in three days and the floodwaters are rising. A small group of townspeople are determined to stop their town from being dragged into the sea.Abby and Zara are keen to help - anything to keep themselves busy after what they’ve both just been through. Maybe, finally, they’ve found somewhere they might settle down…But there’s something causing the flood. And it can’t let anything stand in its way. Part Three: The Dark “When you’re together, you two can do anything.” Wherever Abby and Zara have ended up this time, their powers no longer work. It’s dark and cold and there are no stars. Frequent sand storms threaten to cut the girls to pieces. But they are not alone. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ciara Janson, Laura Doddington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bgfn/000021/bk_bgfn_000021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Thrills And Chills 4-Movie Collection

Four-disc set includes: A Quiet Place (2018)With the planet decimated by voracious alien attackers that can target their prey via the slightest sound, Evelyn and Lee Abbott (Emily Blunt, John Krasinski) managed to carve out a backwoods survival for themselves, son Marcus (Noah Jupe), and hearing-impaired daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds). How long, though, will they be able to maintain a life of forced silence before they give away their presence? Director Krasinski's effective, near-dialogue free hit shocker co-stars Cade Woodward. 90 min. C/Rtg: PG-13 Overlord (2018)On the eve of D-Day, a handful of American paratroopers who survived their unit's ill-fated drop over France pushed ahead with their assignment to take out a Nazi radio tower. The mission, however, would deliver more than just the anticipated terrors-as they stumbled upon a German science project tasked with resurrecting their fallen soldiers as unstoppable zombies. Unapologetic genre mash-up stars Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbæk, Iain de Caestecker. 110 min. C/Rtg: R Pet Sematary (2019)Boston doctor Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) had been having the standard difficulties moving practice, wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz), and kids to rural Maine. However, when the beloved cat of daughter Ellie (Jeté Laurence) is killed in traffic, eccentric new neighbor Jud (John Lithgow) tips him to the uncanny restorative properties of a local Indian burial ground... and starts a string of unholy consequences. Disquieting do-over of the Stephen King shocker co-stars Obssa Ahmed, Maria Herrera. 101 min. C/Rtg: R Crawl (2019)As Florida authorities were evacuating a small town ahead of a Category 5 hurricane, Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario) was fighting to get in-trying to locate her unaccounted-for dad Dave (Barry Pepper). Making her way to his house, she finds him injured within an attic crawlspace... and, now, their survival is in question, both from the rising floodwaters and the hungry alligators trolling within. Alexandre Aja's terrifying two-hander co-stars Ross Anderson, Anson Boon. 87 min. C/Rtg: R

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Noah's Ark

Two years after his last European film of the 1920s, filmmaker Michael Curtiz showed his range with this ambitious Warner Bros. Production magnificently restored here to it's fullest possible running length. Like the earlier The Ten Commandments, the two-pronged tale visits Biblical and modern times as it draws a parallel between two fateful eras. Colossal floodwaters roil, great structures topple, Noah and his family survive the worldwide destruction ' and vast destruction of another age lashes out as national hatreds erupt and World War I doughboys charge through the machine-gun hell of No Man's Land. The much-lauded flood sequence may have brought real-life doom with it: some sources say several extras drowned.

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