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The Trampled Fields: Beneath the Burning Ground, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min

Jeanne Williams is a master of the historical novel and nowhere more so than in this epic story of the Kansas Territory in the late 1850s.Jonathan and Ellen Ware have immigrated to the area from their farm in Illinois with 13-year-old Christy Ware and her two older brothers. The Wares are only one of the families that will soon be caught up in the burning issue of slavery, with raids from the Border Ruffians out of Missouri and John Brown's small army devoted to ending slavery and helping runaways to escape to the north.To aid and abet a runaway slave is a crime that carries a dear price. There are those who believe the only answer to the crisis is violence, and those who just want to protect their land and homes from war-like marauders. This is an incredible, memorable, and powerful story with characters that come vividly to life in the midst of turbulent times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurie Klein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/000703/bk_bimo_000703_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Fresh Air, Masha Gesson and Li-Young Lee, Hörbuch, Digital, 41min

Soviet born journalist Masha Gessen and poet Li-Young Lee on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Masha Gessen edited a collection of post-Soviet fiction by women, Half a Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women. Gessen says that most of the writers in the collection belong to the "mute generation" that came of age under Brezhnev. Gessen immigrated to the U.S. in 1981, when she was fourteen to be with her parents. She's been an editor, primarily in gay and lesbian press, and was international editor at The Advocate. Poet Li-Young Lee has written two volumes of poetry, Rose, and The City in Which I Love You. Lee has won many awards for his work, including the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He also wrote a memoir about his family's refugee experience in America, The Winged Seed. One reviewer writes of the memoir, "a powerful attempt to conquer the past and - with compassion - to sign a truce with it." (Original Broadcast Date: March 8, 1995) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/010123/rt_whyy_010123_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The First Desire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 729min

When Sadie sees her brother Irving nervously shifting about on her front lawn, she knows that something's wrong. Goldie, their eldest sister, has vanished without a trace, leaving everyone stunned. What begins as a family mystery becomes something deeper still: a dazzling portrait of the Cohen family and a moving story of American small-city life, spanning the years from 1929 to the late 1940s.Told in a seamless wave of perspectives, the story documents the lives of the reliable and seemingly invulnerable Sadie, her over-sexed sister Jo, and their brother Irving, whose secrets, and fears, cause him to court disaster. Also, it's a story of the family patriarch, Abe Cohen, who immigrated to America from Russia with his wife and the 5-year-old Goldie. When Abe declares Goldie dead months after her disappearance, everyone is shocked. But then again, this is a man who during his wife's illness began an affair with another woman. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000288/bk_bkot_000288_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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What’s Up, Doc?: A Surgeon’s Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 362min

Riaz Mohammed was born into a Muslim family in Pakistan. While a boy in the village of Gujarat, he witnessed a young boy chasing cattle into a fast-flowing stream. The boy was pulled from the water, but there was nothing that could be done for him, and he died. It was then that the author decided to be a doctor, so he could help people.Eventually, the author and his family immigrated to Scotland. There, he was treated unkindly, but he was determined to navigate his way through life. At age 16, he saw a vision of Jesus Christ while at camp. He converted to Christianity, which only made his life more complicated, but he studied hard and became a surgeon.He had started a family of his own and was at the top of his career when he contracted Hepatitis B, and he had to start over again in an entirely new way. Through it all, God worked in miraculous ways to never let him down. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Croasdell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195739/bk_acx0_195739_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Bone Crossed: Mercy Thompson, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 547min

The fourth novel in the international number one best-selling Mercy Thompson series - the major urban fantasy hit of the decade. Mercy Thompson: mechanic, shape-shifter, fighter. Car mechanic and sometime shape-shifter Mercy Thompson has learned, the hard way, why her race was almost exterminated. When European vampires immigrated to North America, they found Mercy's people had a hidden talent - for vampire slaying. Unfortunately for Mercy, the queen of the local vampire seethe has discovered her true identity. She's also furious when she learns Mercy has crossed her and killed one of her vampires. Mercy may be protected from direct reprisals by the werewolf pack (and her interesting relationship with its Alpha), but that just means Marsilia will come after Mercy some other way. So Mercy had better prepare to watch her back. The Mercy Thompson books: Moon Called Blood Bound Iron Kissed Bone Crossed Silver Borne River Marked Frost Burned Night Broken Fire Touched Silence Fallen Storm Cursed Shifting Shadows (Stories from the world of Mercy Thompson) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lorelei King. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/002040/bk_twuk_002040_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Unsinkable: Short Stories from Taiwanese Writers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 86min

The tumultuous recent history of Taiwan surprisingly gave the islands unusually diverse cultures. People immigrated to Taiwan for all kinds of reasons, from missionaries sent to pass on their gospels, businessmen developing new markets, workers seeking bigger money, to refugees running from wars or dissidents looking for asylum. Thus memories of the lost past are a motif of Taiwanese literature and a powerful approach for writers to deal with issues inconvenient to confront face to face. These issues include regime transfer, political oppression, faiths, sexuality, family values, urbanization, fantasies, misunderstanding, cultural clashes and discrimination. Colonialism and poverty are still living experiences and simultaneously memories to many Taiwanese. In literary works, the (dis)continuation of tradition and values are the ever present focus. In these four stories, the authors have successfully woven layers of messages through intriguing plots, characters and metaphors. With extraordinary artistry, they (re)present elaborate human natures. These are the stories of ordinary people who refuse to succumb to hardship or inequality. They are unsinkable Taiwanese. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edmund Bloxam. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230232/bk_acx0_230232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Pot of Jasmine: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min

At 17, Anahita leaves her war-torn country to take refuge in Canada, where she can feel, taste, touch, and smell freedom with every fiber of her being. Throughout many years of working hard trying to achieve her dream of becoming a prominent physicist, she struggles with depression, culminating in a manic episode which leads to a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. This story depicts the reality of living with a mental illness while achieving professional success, and it demonstrates how mental health issues can affect personal relationships.After working as an engineer for 20 years, Ms. Zarrinkoub decided to pursue her more creative and artistic passions, including writing. Although her background was in hard sciences, humanities and the arts have always been her sources of inspiration, quenching her thirst for spiritual healing. Having immigrated to Canada as a teenager, and having faced many challenges along the way as she reached for her dreams, she knew she had something to say about mental health.Front cover drawing by: Katayoun Zarrinkoub ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nusha Sepehri. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235222/bk_acx0_235222_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Islandborn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 19min

From New York Times best seller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut audiobook about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. A 2019 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration. Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else.Hers was a school of faraway places.So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island - she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories - joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening - Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: "Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you."Gloriously and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us - to our families, to our past, and to ourselves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Junot Díaz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/002988/bk_lili_002988_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Pablito: A Cuban with a Boston Accent , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 495min

This is the autobiography of a Cuban refugee who immigrated to the United States in 1962 and decided to make Boston, Massachusetts, home for his family and future generations. He starts his life chronicle the day he, after much hassle with the abusive customs officers at Havana's International Airport, who do everything they can to ruin his life, finally lands in Miami, Florida. With no knowledge of the English language but a lot of hope and ambition, this young man, who as a child suffered a mild case of troubling Tourette's syndrome, starts by telling us his parents' history and dedication in a small town in Cuba and his own growth as a student abused intellectually for his ideas at a Jesuit high school. While in Boston he becomes the first Latino Boston banking executive and community leader, and eventually he takes much desired position as a college professor of information systems and holds six college degrees - one in Freudian psychoanalysis. He is also a bilingual newspaper columnist and writer and publisher of 10 Kindle books - all while raising a family of two children and five grandchildren. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert V Gallant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059704/bk_acx0_059704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min

A fascinating, powerfully evocative story of four generations of Cuban women, through whose lives the author illuminates a vivid picture - both personal and historical - of Cuba in our century. In the Revuelta family Gimbel has found a source of both mystery and revelation. At its center is Naty: born in 1925, educated in the United States, she was a socialite during the Batista era. After marriage to a prominent doctor and the birth of a daughter, she became intoxicated with Castro and his revolution (here, published for the first time, are the letters they exchanged while he was in jail). Though her husband and daughter immigrated to the United States after Castro's victory, Naty remained in Cuba to raise her second child, Castro's unacknowledged daughter, only to be ultimately confronted by his dismissive, withering judgment: "Naty missed the train." Her two daughters, one of whom settles well into life in America, while the other never recovers from her father's intransigent repudiation of her; her granddaughter, who Naty desperately believes will return to Cuba when - not if - Castro is removed from the island; and her mother, an unregenerate reactionary: these are the lives that complete this extraordinary story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Fields. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000495/bk_blak_000495_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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