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    The West Point Class of 1846: The Cadets and History of the Academy's Most Famous Class , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min
    Profiles the class of 1846's most famous cadets, including George McClellan, Stonewall Jackson, George Pickett, A. P. Hill, and others. Discusses the relationships between the cadets and their lives during and after West Point. "Toiling uphill is not what it is cracked up to be!" (Cadet George B. McClellan) West Point has long been America's most famous military academy, but in the early 19th century it was a highly unimpressive school consisting of a few ugly buildings facing a desolate, barren parade ground. Established with just five officers and 10 cadets of the Corps of Engineers on March 16, 1802, the academy was built on a spot just 50 miles north of New York City, which had been a key Hudson River military fortress during the Revolutionary War. Cadets attending during the Point's first several decades were obliged to maintain their daily regimen knowing the school might shut down at any moment, as the US government frequently questioned why it should provide free education. As it turned out, West Point would become the foremost military academy in the nation, and it would churn out the cadets who became the most important generals in the Civil War. The future generals' years at West Point became a source of both camaraderie and colorful stories. A clerical error by West Point administrators ensured that Hiram Ulysses Grant forever became known as Ulysses S. Grant; and years after Robert E. Lee met Albert Sidney Johnston and Jefferson Davis at West Point, George H. Thomas and William Tecumseh Sherman met each other - and Richard S. Ewell. During the 1850s classes included men like John Bell Hood, Union general Phil Sheridan, and James Birdseye McPherson, who would become the only commanding general of a Union army to die in a Civil War battle. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: T. David Rutherford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/036864/bk_acx0_036864_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rigel: Appointments on Plum Street, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 493min
    Complete with 50 character voices and over 200 sound effects, Rigel is brought to life with the audiobook narrated by the author! Five-star review from Readers' Favorite Choice in AmericaA Darkness falls across the land, So run, take flight beyond the sand, But look! A light is rising in the East, And it brings us hope and peace, But first we must fight, And I'm so afraid, Of the Man of the Shadows, With his Black ParadeRigel is an orphan, stranded on Earth, miserable and alone. Then one night his life is changed forever when an airship tears through the sky with a crew offering to take him to another world.On their journey they come across other children and Rigel finds that they are all at the centre of a legend thousands of years old...and he has no memory being part of it. The children are the Light Ones and the only hope of saving each planet against The Darkness. The Darkness, trapped for so long in the Dark Realm, is beginning to stir and venture out from its prison, taking hold a world at a time, led by the malignant and cruel Frivlok. It is left in the hands of the Light Ones to do everything in their power to stop it. But with limited experience, strength and cunning as a result of hundreds of years of hiding, how will they ever succeed against Frivlok and his Dark Parade? Appointments on Plum Street is the epic fantasy series set across six worlds, three dimensions, and multiple times zones. Reminiscent of the styles of J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, and Terry Pratchett, Eli Ingle incorporates magic, time travel, and off-beat humor in a seamless blend that keeps listeners barreling through his heart-pounding debut novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eli Ingle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/137571/bk_acx0_137571_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 505min
    From best-selling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present. In the early '60s, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over the next five decades of reporting, he often returned to scenes of racial tension. Now, for the first time, the best of Trillin's pieces on race in America have been collected in one volume. In the title essay of Jackson, 1964, we experience Trillin's riveting coverage of the pathbreaking voter registration drive known as the Mississippi Summer Project - coverage that includes an unforgettable airplane conversation between Martin Luther King, Jr., and a young white man sitting across the aisle. ("I'd like to be loved by everyone," King tells him, "but we can't always wait for love.") In the years that follow, Trillin rides along with the National Guard units assigned to patrol black neighborhoods in Wilmington, Delaware; reports on the case of a black homeowner accused of manslaughter in the death of a white teenager in an overwhelmingly white Long Island suburb; and chronicles the remarkable fortunes of the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, a black carnival krewe in New Orleans whose members parade on Mardi Gras in blackface. He takes on issues that are as relevant today as they were when he wrote about them. Excessive sentencing is examined in a 1970 piece about a black militant in Houston serving 30 years in prison for giving away one marijuana cigarette. The role of race in the use of deadly force by police is highlighted in a 1975 article about an African American shot by a white policeman in Seattle. Uniting all these pieces are Trillin's unflinching eye and graceful prose. Jackson, 1964 is an indispensable account of a half-century of race and racism in America, through the lens of a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Fass, Calvin Trillin - introduction. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004622/bk_rand_004622_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 422min
    Julius Caesar, as we know, arrived in Gaul (now France) and announced "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered." But when Decius Metellus arrives from Rome, not seeking military glory but rather avoiding an enemy currently in power, he finds that although the general came and saw, so far, at least, he has far from conquered. The campaign seems at a standstill. Decius' arrival disappoints the great Caesar as well. He has been waiting for promised reinforcements from Rome, an influx of soldiers to restart his invasion. Instead he is presented with one young man ridiculously decked out in military parade finery and short on military skills, accompanied not by eager troops but by one callow and reluctant slave, the feckless Hermes. It soon develops, however, that Decius' arrival was fortuitous. When Vinius, the army's cruelest centurion (so-called because he commands 100 soldiers), is found murdered, Caesar remembers that his new recruit has successfully come up with the culprit in a number of recent crimes. Murder is bad for morale, particularly since it seems quite clear that the murderer was one of Caesar's men. Caesar orders Decius to find the killer - and quickly. Although evidence points to the son of one of Decius' clients - a youth who was the particular target of the centurion's brutality - Decius racks his brain to find a way to save him from the sentence of death. The investigation leads Decius to two German slaves of the dead man - a dwarfish old man and a beautiful woman. They are puzzling; the man is arrogant, the woman haughty - very unlike slaves. There are unanswered questions. It soon becomes clear to Decius that only by finding and punishing the real murderer will it be possible to quiet the rising dissatisfaction with Caesar's unorthodox method of warfare and forestall a mutiny against the mighty Caesar's authority and aims. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007102/bk_adbl_007102_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Girls of Tender Age, Hörbuch, Digital, 375min
    In Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith fully articulates with great humor and tenderness the wild jubilance of an extended French-Italian family struggling to survive in a post-World War II housing project in Hartford, Connecticut.Smith's Hartford neighborhood is small-town America, where everyone's door is unlocked and the school, church, library, drugstore, 5 & 10, grocery, and tavern are all within walking distance. Her family is peopled with memorable characters: her possibly psychic mother who's always on the verge of a nervous breakdown, her adoring father who makes sure she has something to eat in the morning beyond her usual gulp of Hershey's syrup, her grandfather who teaches her to bash in the heads of the eels they catch on Long Island Sound, Uncle Guido who makes the annual bagna cauda, and the numerous aunts and cousins who parade through her life with love and food and endless stories of the old days. And then there's her brother, Tyler.Smith's household was "different". Little Mary-Ann couldn't have friends over because her older brother, Tyler, an autistic before anyone knew what that meant, was unable to bear noise of any kind. To him, the sound of crying, laughing, phones ringing, or toilets flushing was "a cloud of barbed needles" flying into his face. Subject to such an assault, he would substitute that pain with another: he'd try to chew his arm off. Tyler was Mary-Ann's real-life Boo Radley, albeit one whose bookshelves sagged under the weight of the World War II books he collected and read obsessively.Hanging over this rough-and-tumble American childhood is the sinister shadow of an approaching serial killer. The menacing Bob Malm lurks throughout this joyous and chaotic family portrait, and the havoc he unleashes when the paths of innocence and evil cross one early December evening in 1953 forever alters the landscape of Smith's childhood. Language: English. Narrator: Mary-Ann Tirone Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000654/bk_sans_000654_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 331min
    Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig - the new brand of "empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women - and of themselves. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on them. In her quest to uncover why this is happening, Levy interviews college women who flash for the cameras on spring break and teens raised on Paris Hilton and breast implants. She examines a culture in which every music video seems to feature a stripper on a pole, the memoirs of porn stars are climbing the best-seller lists, Olympic athletes parade their Brazilian bikini waxes in the pages of Playboy, and thongs are marketed to prepubescent girls. Levy meets the high-powered women who create raunch culture - the new oinking women warriors of the corporate and entertainment worlds who eagerly defend their efforts to be "one of the guys". And she traces the history of this trend back to conflicts between the women's movement and the sexual revolution long left unresolved. In the tradition of Susan Faludi's Backlash and Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth, Levy pulls apart the myth of the Female Chauvinist Pig and argues that what has come to pass for liberating rebellion is actually a kind of limiting conformity. Irresistibly witty and wickedly intelligent, Female Chauvinist Pigs makes the case that the rise of raunch does not represent how far women have come, it only proves how far they have left to go. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aimee Jolson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007266/bk_adbl_007266_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Painted Queen: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 798min
    Egypt, 1912. Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins in this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated final installment of Elizabeth Peters' best-selling, beloved mystery series. Arriving in Cairo for another thrilling excavation season, Amelia is relaxing in a well-earned bubble bath in her elegant hotel suite in Cairo when a man with a knife protruding from his back staggers into the bath chamber and utters a single word - "murder" - before collapsing on the tiled floor, dead. Among the few possessions he carried is a sheet of paper with Amelia's name and room number and a curious piece of pasteboard the size of a calling card bearing one word: "Judas". Most peculiarly, the stranger was wearing a gold-rimmed monocle in his left eye. It quickly becomes apparent that someone saved Amelia from a would-be assassin - someone who is keeping a careful eye on the intrepid Englishwoman. Discovering a terse note clearly meant for Emerson - "where were you?" - pushed under their door, there can be only one answer: the brilliant master of disguise, Sethos. But neither assassins nor the Genius of Crime will deter Amelia as she and Emerson head to the excavation site at Amarna, where they will witness the discovery of one of the most precious Egyptian artifacts: the iconic Nefertiti bust. In 1345 BC the sculptor Thutmose crafted the piece in tribute to the great beauty of this queen, who was also the chief consort of Pharaoh Akhenaten and stepmother to King Tutankhamun. For Amelia, this excavation season will prove to be unforgettable. Throughout her journey, a parade of men in monocles will die under suspicious circumstances, fascinating new relics will be unearthed, a diabolical mystery will be solved, and a brilliant criminal will offer his final challenge...and per ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006084/bk_harp_006084_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Suspense: Tales Well Calculated, Hörbuch, Digital, 592min
    Radio Spirits is pleased to present 20 classic episodes of Suspense, one of radio's longest running and best mystery anthology series. This collection features programs from the early 1950s as produced and directed by Elliott Lewis.Suspense was well known for its guest star performers and the shows presented here are no exception, featuring appearances by Dana Andrews, Joseph Cotton, Richard Widmark, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Alan Ladd, Dennis Day, Fred MacMurray, Agnes Moorehead, William Bendix, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Phil Harris and Alice Faye, Deborah Kerr and more. We invite you to once more experience "tales well calculated to keep you in...Suspense!" The programs in this collection have been digitally remastered and restored for your listening enjoyment.  Episodes Included: Over the Bounding Main 09-14-50; The Crowd 9-21-50; Fly by Night 09-28-50; The Rose Garden 10-05-50; Too Hot to Live 10-26-50; Going, Going Gone 11-23-50; A Killing in Abilene 12-14-50; Christmas for Carol 12-21-50; The Windy City Six 02-08-51; The Death Parade 02-15-51; The Gift of Jumbo Brannigan 03-01-51; A Vision of Death 03-08-51; Three Lethal Words 03-22-51; Death on My Hands 05-10-51; The Case for Dr. Singer 06-28-51; The Report of the Jolly Dead Riders 08-27-51; The Evil of Adelaide Winters 09-10-51; The Hunting of Bob Lee 10-29-51; Rogue Male 12-31-51; Lady Pamela 03-31-52.Copyright information:2008 - RSPT LLC. All Rights Reserved. Audio programming is manufactured under exclusive license from series rights holders. Unauthoritzed duplication prohibited.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.  Language: English. Narrator: Dana Andrews, Joseph Cotton, Richard Widmark, Agnes Moorehead, Elliott Lewis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/radi/001791/bk_radi_001791_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Battle: The House War, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2034min
    The weeks since Jewel Markess ATerafin has been acclaimed ruler of her House have not been peaceful; four assassination attempts have been made on her life, and one of the most important members of her House Council has been forced to retire, leaving a seat empty at a time when she requires trusted allies. The war in the distant South has ended; the armies, victorious, have returned to Averalaan. During the victory parade of the Kings' armies, the fifth assassination attempt occurs - in full view of the Ten, the Kings, and thousands of spectators. To survive, Jewel takes to the sky on the back of a winged cat; she returns to the Terafin Manse, leaving demonic destruction in her wake, the demon itself in pursuit. In the forest behind her manse, she has the power - barely - to stand against the demon; she does not have the power to destroy it. In the aftermath of the Terafin's funeral, the Kings have demanded an audience with the newest ruler of House Terafin. A single, careless command given to the elemental earth on the day of the funeral has caused unexplained and disturbing changes to the palace itself. But before Jewel can answer the summons, she falls prey to the strange sleeping plague that has felled citizens across the city of Averalaan - from the poorest of holdings to the wealthiest of mansions across the Isle. It is there - in the uneasy land of dreams - that Jewel discovers the reason for the sickness, and there that she begins to understand the forces arrayed against both her House and the Empire; if she can survive the traps set by the Warden of Dreams and by her deadly, former allies, she will wake to a changed world - if she wakes at all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eva Wilhelm. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008323/bk_adbl_008323_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Red Light to Starboard: Recalling the Exxon Valdez Disaster , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 547min
    Minutes before supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, before rocks ripped a huge hole in her hull and a geyser of crude oil darkened the pristine waters of Prince William Sound, the ship's lookout burst through the chart room door. "That light, sir, it's still on the starboard side. It should be to port, sir." Her frantic words were merely the last in a litany of futile warnings. A parade of promises began the next day. Exxon Shipping Company president Frank Iarossi declared, "If it is a claim that is associated with the spill, we've assumed full financial responsibility." A week later, Alaska Governor Steve Cowper spoke at the Valdez Civic Center. "We don't want anybody to think that they have to hire a lawyer and go into federal court and sue the largest corporation in America...The state of Alaska represents you. And we want to be sure that...people who are damaged by this, get compensated fairy and quickly." He also indicated that the state would see to it Prince William Sound was cleaned up, regardless of the cost. Lengthy investigations revealed cover ups, covert operations, reckless corporate management, numerous safety violations, and a broken regulatory process. At the time of the spill, oil flowed through the Alyeska pipeline at a profit of $400,000 per hour, yet in the end, the 10,000 fishermen affected by the spill spent nearly 20 years in litigation and received little compensation for their losses. Despite a massive cleanup effort, oil remains on the beaches and continues to impact marine life. Red Light to Starboard documents a story that stunned the world, recounting regional and national events. The compelling narrative explains how an industry often seen as greedy came to be entrusted with a spectacular, fragile ecosystem, and discusses the governmental and public policy decisions that contributed to the disaster, as well as personal and environmental consequences. It also follows policy ste ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Abell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051377/bk_acx0_051377_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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