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The Fun Mover Chronicles: Biking the Northern Tier , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 659min

Strap on a pair of headphones, pods, or find yourself a quiet corner somewhere and be taken along on a bicycle trip across the United States. World renowned author and funny man Tim Fahey narrates his epic book, The Fun Mover Chronicles. Join him as he rolls his way along bicycle touring’s fondest route - the Northern Tier. The author suddenly understood the importance and the urgency of enjoying life all along the way. Your humble author re-prioritized his bucket list by putting a decades-long dream at the top: riding a bicycle from one side of America to the other.Armed with a burning desire to ride a really long way on a bicycle, Tim mounted up and pedaled onward across the United States as a newly minted orphan and a middle-aged man on a mission. Along the way, he met new people, saw new places, and discovered a hidden strength. He also discovered a nearly endless parade of characters that, together, underscored how terrific it is to be above ground and riding a bike. There is fun and adventure to be had when you’re cruising across the country, and the daily dose of random was just what the doctor ordered - "Take two wheels and call me in the morning". Since the whole thing - the bike trip, life - is all just a tad absurd in the first place, why not name your bike "The Fun Mover" and author a book about the stars of the show: the people met along the way?Adventure and and a sense of subtle hilarity ensues.Bike travel can be grueling, physically and mentally, but that’s where the true test of what you’re made of begins. Getting to where you’re going, sometimes, ain’t no picnic, but a smile makes the miles go easier. Many celebrities have read or listened to this book. Join them. Laugh out loud. The movie option rights are still available...for now. Jump on a sonic saddle and meet people you’d not otherwise come across. They’re in there. Tim will introduce them all to you! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy Fahey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171184/bk_acx0_171184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Great Escapes of World War II: The History of the Most Legendary Escape Attempts by Prisoners of War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min

War has always led to prisoners. In ancient times, many were turned into slaves by the victorious armies. By the Napoleonic era, as armies grew, many were kept in camps for the duration of the fighting, their captors not wanting to restore their enemies' manpower while the fate of nations hung in the balance. In the first half of the 20th century, war was fought on a global and industrial scale. Millions of men were flung into the grinder of World War I and World War II, leading to commensurately huge numbers of prisoners of war (POWs). Camps were built to hold thousands of captives, with their own barracks blocks, parade grounds, and even farms. Some of these captives were used for forced labor, especially by the Axis regimes in World War II, while others were left to entertain themselves as they waited for the war to end. Throughout the war, many of these men did not sit idle. Many spent their time preparing elaborate escape plans in the hopes of returning to their home nations and back to the fight. Following World War I, several books were published giving romantic accounts of successful escapes. Inspired by them, World War II brought about a number of great POWs escapes, celebrated ever since in books and films. At the same time, the escapees of the Second World War did not act alone. Networks of brave volunteers worked to see captives or potential captives make their way to freedom, and secretive organizations were established in the hearts of governments with the aim of encouraging and assisting escape attempts. Most successful escapes were made by Allied troops in Europe, including soldiers left behind after the fall of France and airmen shot down in bombing raids, but escapes happened across the world, from Canadian trains to German castles, and from the mountains of Italy to the wilds of Australia. Axis as well as Allied troops made their bids for freedom, keeping both sides on their toes. Everybody was looking to make the next g ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D. Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098516/bk_acx0_098516_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Turkey, Pies, and Alibis: Sweetfern Harbor Mystery, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 188min

Brenda Sheffield wishes her father would respond to her invitations to visit Sheffield Bed and Breakfast. So far, only silence answers her calls and letters. That her once loving father chooses to widen the gap in their relationship is the only thing missing from Brenda’s happiness. Above all, she hopes he will accept the invitation to her wedding that is coming up in less than a month. Tim Sheffield cannot understand why his only daughter wishes to marry someone who has the lowly career as detective of a small police force in a town like Sweetfern Harbor. When Tim arrives without anyone knowing he is coming, he demands a room in an already-booked weekend. It is Thanksgiving, and Sweetfern Harbor has many tourists arriving by the hour. Brenda’s bed-and-breakfast has been booked for months. She knows if she sends her father to the local hotel, he may very well fast return to Michigan rather than stick around with her. There is only one solution, and that is to book the tourist couple Rachel and Nick Bernard into the historic hotel in town. She assures the upset couple, who opted to stay beyond their two-night booking, that the inn will foot the bill for a luxurious room in the historic hotel. A day later, the Sheffield Bed and Breakfast float is completed and ready for the celebratory parade downtown. Brenda is ready to pitch candy to onlookers, but above all, she is determined to win first place in the float contest. Along the route, she is out of candy and reaches down into the overflow bin of candy only to grasp the hand of a dead body. From then on, the estrangement between herself and her father only deepens when fingers point to Tim Sheffield as the murderer of the victim. Brenda decides it is up to her to find the real killer and divert attention from her father. She must sift through aliases and forge ahead. There is no way she can marry Mac Rivers, detective, until her father is cleared since Mac can’t remove Tim Sheffield from his li ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kasey Logan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/193675/bk_acx0_193675_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Cottage , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 573min

In her 54th best-selling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of fame and friendship, charmed lives and private struggles...and of three very different men whose lives converge and collide at the Cottage.On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as the Cottage. Modeled after the “cottages” of Newport, Rhode Island, the spacious, elegant property, sitting on 14 acres of lush Bel Air, fits its owner to a T. For the man behind the wheel of the Rolls is Hollywood's ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend, Coop exudes grace, charm, and old-fashioned style. But today, Coop Winslow is in for a major surprise. He's broke. And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home of 40 years, or at least renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house. A huge blow to Coop, whose debonair attitude allows him to escape reality much of the time. His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy O'Connor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Mark's wife of 16 years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But everything changes when Mark's teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly, the Cottage is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming in and out to visit Coop.But amid all the noise and the chaos, something unexpected is happening. Three men who never would have met are becoming friends...and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. Because beneath the dazzle and flash, the impeccably tailored suits, and the sheer bravado, is a man trying to keep control of his carefully ordered world - a world that is becoming more and more unpredicta ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Garrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000183/bk_rand_000183_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Quarterly Essay 62: Firing Line: Australia and the Path to War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 142min

Going to war may be the gravest decision a nation and its leaders make. At the moment Australia is at war with the Islamic State. We also live in a region that has become much more volatile, as China asserts itself and America seeks to hold the line. What is it like to go to war? How do we decide to go to war? Where might we go to war in the future? Will we get that decision right? In this vivid, urgent essay, James Brown looks to history, strategy and his own experience to explore these questions. He examines the legacy of the Iraq War and argues that it has prevented a clear view of Australia's future conflicts. He looks at how we plug into the US war machine now that American troops are based in Darwin. And he sheds fascinating light on the extraordinary concentration of war powers in the hands of the Prime Minister - and how this might go wrong. This powerful essay argues that we have not yet begun to think through the choices that may confront us in years ahead. 'When you live in a country like ours, the dirty business of war is a stranger. That is the blessed legacy of a place where soldiers are rarely seen, and then only on parade. Where war means Anzac Day, and Anzac Days are all the same. There are few moments in modern Australia when you might pause to ask the most consequential of questions...What is it that we are willing to fight for?' (James Brown, Firing Line) James Brown is a former Australian army officer who commanded a cavalry troop in Southern Iraq, served on the Australian taskforce headquarters in Baghdad and was attached to Special Forces in Afghanistan. He now runs the Alliance 21 project at the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney. A columnist for the Saturday Paper and regular media contributor, his first book was the acclaimed Anzac's Long Shadow. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027280/bk_adbl_027280_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Unfamiliar Fishes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 448min

Many think of 1776 as the most defining year of American history, the year we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self-government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as crucial to our nation's identity, a year when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded Cuba and then the Philippines, becoming a meddling, self-serving, militaristic international superpower practically overnight. Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing. From the arrival of the New England missionaries in 1820, who came to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'état led by the missionaries' sons in 1893, overthrowing the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, if often appalling or tragic, characters. Whalers who will fire cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their god-given right to whores. An incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband. Sugar barons, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaii-born president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade. With Vowell's trademark wry insights and reporting, she sets out to discover the odd, emblematic, and exceptional history of the 50th state. In examining the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn, she finds America again, warts and all. Read by the author a cast that includes Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catherine Keener, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, and John Slattery. Music by Michael Giacchino with Grant Lee-Phillips. The score contains excerpts from "Hawai'i Pono'i" (words by David Kalakaua and music by Henri Berger) performed by Grant-Lee Phillips ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catherine Keener, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, John Slattery, Sarah Vowell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005445/bk_sans_005445_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Tiananmen Square: The Site of China's Most Infamous Protests , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 67min

Tiananmen Square, a large city square in the center of Beijing, can be said to represent the essence of Chinese culture, being the site of several important events in the country's history. It is characterized as being a vast open ground centered on and defined by a series of monuments constructed over a period of 500 years. Named after the Tiananmen gate, one that means the "Gate of Heavenly Peace", the square is located towards the north of the gate, separating it from the Forbidden City. Considered the fourth largest city square in the world, its dimensions are 440,000 square meters. Outside China, the square has come to be best known as the pivotal point of the protests of 1989 which were part of a pro-democracy movement which ended on June 4, 1989, with the declaration of martial law in Beijing by the government, and a casualty rate of thousands of civilians. The events that took place at this Square include the annual mass military displays on each anniversary of the 1949 proclamation, and the 1984 military parade for the 35th anniversary of the People's Republic of China which coincided with the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping. It also staged military displays and parades on the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic in 1999 and on the 60th anniversary in 2009. In addition, many mark the Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident in 2001 as the downfall of this grand monument. Nonetheless, a series of mass movements taking place here have become landmarks in modern Chinese history: the demonstration on May 4, 1919, in protest against the Treaty of Versailles handing over Chinese lands to Japan; the patriotic march on March 18, 1926; the demonstration on December 9, 1935, which started the resistance movement against the Japanese invasion; the anti-autocratic movement during the Civil War on May 20, 1947; the mass memorial to the former prime minister Zhou Enlai on April 5, 1976; and finally the 1989 student uprising. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Gilboe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035625/bk_acx0_035625_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Man Who Wasn't There & Death's Head Face: The Green Lama, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 333min

The jade-robed Buddhist priest who battled crime as The Green Lama is back. Conceived in 1939 at the behest of the editors of Munsey Publications to compete with The Shadow, The Green Lama was the creation of writer Kendell Foster Crossen, who was asked to think up a hero who could lure mystery-minded readers away from The Shadow's loyal legion of followers. "The basis for the Green Lama came after I'd read a nonfiction book review in the New York Times about an American who really became a lama," Crossen once recalled. "The book was titled, The Penthouse of the Gods." That individual was Theos "the White Lama" Bernard. Returning to the States, young Jethro Dumont assumed an alternative identity of the Buddhist cleric, the Reverend Dr. Charles Pali, then began gathering about him a band of civic-minded citizens to join him in his Buddhistic battle against suffering in all forms - particularly those caused by criminals. And aiding him from the shadows, the mysterious Magga, a woman of many faces who has taken an interest in guiding The Green Lama's campaign against malefactors. One of the fascinating and delightful things about Ken Crossen's Green Lama stories is the parade of supporting characters popping in and out of the action during the course of the series. In our first selection, "The Man Who Wasn't There", two of these announce their intention to marry. In the second story, "Death's Head Face", they do wed, thereby paving the way for a resourceful new couple to work in service to The Green Lama. And so, bid farewell to Gary Brown and Evangl Stewart, and say hello to Broadway-bound actors, Ken Clayton and Jean Farrell. You'll be hearing more about these latter two in upcoming audiobooks. Otherwise these exciting stories tell the linked tale of The Green Lama's confrontation with James Nord, the Man with the Death's Head Face. He's the only villain the Lama tackled twice. They first encounter one another a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James C. Lewis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016866/bk_acx0_016866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Afi's 100 years 100 songs

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The simplified fake book

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