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The Fishing Creek Confederacy: A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance (Shades of Blue and Gray) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min
One hundred and fifty years after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is still thought of as one of the best presidents of the United States. However, most Americans forget that he was elected with only 40 percent of the popular vote. Many Democratic newspapers across the North mistrusted Lincoln's claim that he would not abolish slavery, and their lukewarm support collapsed after Lincoln announced his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the fall of 1862. The advent of a national draft in the spring of 1863 only added fuel to the fire with anti-Lincoln Democrats, who argued that it was illegal to draft civilians. Many newspaper editors advocated active resistance against the draft. Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin of Pennsylvania was a staunch supporter of the Lincoln administration. The commonwealth supplied more than 360,000 white soldiers and 9,000 black soldiers during the conflict. However, there was sustained opposition to the war throughout the state, much of it fanned by the pens of Democratic newspaper editors. Though most of the opposition was disorganized and spontaneous, other aspects of the antiwar sentiment in the state occasionally erupted, creating major incidents. In The Fishing Creek Confederacy, Richard A. Sauers and Peter Tomasak address the serious opposition to the draft in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in 1864. Egged on by the anti-Lincoln newspaper editors, a number of men avoided the draft and formed ad hoc groups to protect themselves from arrest. In July 1864, the shooting of a Union lieutenant confronting draft evaders resulted in military intervention in the northern townships of the county. The troops arrested more than one hundred men, sending about half of them to a prison fort near Philadelphia. That fall and winter, some of the men were subjected to military trials in Harrisburg, the state capital. The arrests led to bitter feelings that were slow to die. The military intervention eventually impacted a Pennsylva ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Don Sobczak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008179/bk_acx0_008179_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 612min
A gripping narrative of the Truman administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949 - an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East Asian politics to this day. In the opening months of 1949, US President Harry S. Truman found himself faced with a looming diplomatic catastrophe - "perhaps the greatest that this country has ever suffered", as the journalist Walter Lippmann put it. Throughout the spring and summer, Mao Zedong's Communist armies fanned out across mainland China, annihilating the rival troops of America's onetime ally Chiang Kai-shek and taking control of Beijing, Shanghai, and other major cities. As Truman and his aides - including his shrewd, ruthless secretary of state, Dean Acheson - scrambled to formulate a response, they were forced to contend not only with Mao but also with unrelenting political enemies at home. Over the course of this tumultuous year, Mao would fashion a new revolutionary government in Beijing, laying the foundation for the creation of modern China, while Chiang Kai-shek would flee to the island sanctuary of Taiwan. These events transformed American foreign policy - leading ultimately to decades of friction with Communist China, a long-standing US commitment to Taiwan, and the subsequent wars in Korea and Vietnam. Drawing on Chinese and Russian sources as well as recently declassified CIA documents, Kevin Peraino tells the story of this remarkable year through the eyes of the key players, including Mao Zedong, President Truman, Secretary of State Acheson, Minnesota congressman Walter Judd, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the influential first lady of the Republic of China. Today, the legacy of 1949 is more relevant than ever to the relationships between China, the United States, and the rest of the world as Beijing asserts its claims in the South China Sea and tensions endure between Taiwan and the mainland. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Michael. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005294/bk_rand_005294_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Making of Legends: More True Stories of Frontier America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
Some of the American West’s grandest legends are about people who in reality were remorseless killers, robbers, and bandits. These outlaws flourished during the 1800s and gained notoriety throughout the following century. How did their fame persist, and what has inspired the publishing, movie, and television industries to recreate their fictionalized careers over and over again?Mark Dugan brings reality to the forefront in The Making of Legends. Some of the characters in his accounts are practically unknown but deserve more recognition than the bandits whose names are mythic. Exhaustive archival research enables him to recreate such colorful lives as North Carolina’s Malina Blaylock, who, disguised as a man, joined her outlaw husband in the Confederate army; slippery escape artist David Lewis, the Robin Hood of the Cumberland, who finally stopped two bullets in a chaotic Pennsylvania shoot-out; Wyatt Earp, in his mysterious post-OK Corral year, amidst the Coeur d’Alene gold rush; and grim “Laughing Sam” Hartman, of South Dakota.Dugan sets the stage by explaining how newspapers and dime novels fanned the flames of public fascination with outlaws. He unmasks the real Billy the Kid, traces the paths of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to their historic shoot-out in South America, and masterfully summarizes the Civil War grudges, bloodshed, and wanton destruction along the Kansas-Missouri border that spawned Jesse and Frank James and the Younger brothers gang.In researching the lawless era of the American frontier, Dugan discovered much information that has never been published - material that will expand readers' views of frontier history and people, both good and bad. The Making of Legends proves that the actual stories of notorious legends can be more exciting, moving, and intriguing than anything dreamed up in a dime novel or a Hollywood fantasy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rich Grimshaw. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015048/bk_acx0_015048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hannibal Fogg and the Supreme Secret of Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 671min
Through a life cloaked in mystery, Edwardian polymath Hannibal G. Fogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science, and code-breaking - producing feats of unrivaled cerebral dexterity. Hailing from a landed family, Fogg was a confidant to world leaders, a soldier, swordsman, prolific author, inventor, collector, and quite probably the most extraordinary man ever to have lived. But, while such genius won him accolades and fame, it also fanned the flames of envy. Unable to take Fogg's triumphs any longer, the British establishment sought to have him discredited. His life work was publicly destroyed in what was to become known as the "Great Foggian Purge". Banished from England, he lived out his days in secrecy - before disappearing on an expedition to Manchuria in the winter of 1939. Almost eight decades passed. Then, one morning, William Fogg receives a letter from a legal firm in London, claiming he's the sole inheritor to his great-great-grandfather's estate. Knowing almost nothing of his forebear, he takes possession of the single object left in the bequest - a large rusty iron key...the key to a door in Marrakesh. And there begins the treasure trail of mystery, danger, and uproar, as William pieces together the clues left for him by Hannibal Fogg. Zigzagging through five continents, the quest reveals how Alexander the Great was never beaten in battle. By completing the life work of Hannibal, William Fogg strives to lift the veil on the Supreme Secret of Man. First in a series of ground-breaking adventure novels from master storyteller Tahir Shah, Hannibal Fogg and the Supreme Secret of Man is unlike anything published in recent times. Ten years in the making, it's as worldly and wise as the indefatigable Hannibal Fogg. By the celebrated author of The Caliph's House, a Time top-ten book of the year. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alec Brooks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119110/bk_acx0_119110_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Instructions for American Servicemen in France 1942 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min
“You are about to play a personal part in pushing the Germans out of France. Whatever part you take—rifleman, hospital orderly, mechanic, pilot, clerk, gunner, truck driver—you will be an essential factor in a great effort.” As American soldiers fanned out from their beachhead in Normandy in June of 1944 and began the liberation of France, every soldier carried that reminder in his kit. A compact trove of knowledge and reassurance, Instructions for American Servicemen in France during World War II was issued to soldiers just before they embarked for France to help them understand both why they were going and what they’d find when they got there. After lying unseen in Army archives for decades, this remarkable guide is now available in audio. Written in a straightforward, personal tone, the pamphlet is equal parts guidebook, cultural snapshot, and propaganda piece. A central aim is to dispel any prejudices American soldiers may have about the French. Warning soldiers that the defeat “is a raw spot which the Nazis have been riding” since the occupation began, Instructions is careful to highlight France’s long historical role as a major U.S. ally. Following that is a brief, fascinating sketch of the French character and stark reminders of the deprivation the French have endured under occupation. Yet an air of reassuring confidence pervades the final section of the pamphlet, which sounds like a straightforward tourists' guide to Paris and the provinces. Written by anonymous War Department staffers to meet the urgent needs of the moment, with no thought of its historical value, Instructions for American Servicemen in France during World War II nevertheless brings to vivid life the closing years of World War II—when optimism was growing, but a long, demanding road still lay ahead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L. J. Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001331/bk_adbl_001331_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Female Persuasion: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 889min
New York Times Best Seller!“A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." (Bustle)“Ultra-readable.” (Vogue)From The New York Times best-selling author of The Interestings comes an electric novel not just about who we want to be with but who we want to be.To be admired by someone we admire - we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world.Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at 63, has been a central pillar of the women’s movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer - madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can’t quite place - feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she’d always imagined.Charming and wise, knowing and witty, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition. At its heart, The Female Persuasion is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. It’s a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time), and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Lowman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003322/bk_peng_003322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fast Ride to Hell: When the Dalton Boys Rode in Kansas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 138min
The Adair robbery was the beginning of the end for the Dalton gang. By all accounts, it was one of their more successful raids. The take was estimated at somewhere over $17,000 - not bad for a single night's work. But the pressure put on the gang afterwards led them down the path to carelessness - and ruin. Eight well-armed men rode up to the small frame station about an hour before the KATY No. Two train on the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas line pulled in. Night station agent Heywood found himself taken captive before he knew what had happened. The robbers appeared unconcerned. They waited on the station platform - laughing, and shooting jokes. For Heywood things weren't near as pleasant. He was kept at the muzzle end of eight Winchesters as he waited to flag the train down. As soon as the train came to a standstill Emmett and Grat boarded the engine. One of them took engineer Glen Ewing captive. Bill Doolin, George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, and Dick Broadwell fanned out, and grabbed the conductor, and the rest of the train crew. Charley Pierce stayed behind to watch the horses. After the robbery, the Dalton boys rested up in the Dog Creek Hills that night. They split up the booty, and slept all day. After that, they split up and rode off in groups of two and three. In Beyond the Law, Emmett says Bob took an inventory of the gang members, and trimmed the band down to five core members he knew he could trust - the remaining members were the brothers, Bob, Emmett, and Grat Dalton, Bill Power, and Dick Broadwell. Bill Doolin was wild and unruly, mentally awkward. Pierce and Newcomb displayed an uncurbed "rampant foolishness". But the biggest reason for divesting members from the gang was it was too large. There was not enough 'divvy' when each split was made. Bob needed more money for that fabled escape to South America. But that greed, that lust for more money, would leave him shorthanded for the gang’s final job. Another ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bryan J. Howard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070724/bk_acx0_070724_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Empire: Warlord : Empire Series, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 512min
Interstellar war!Their resentment of Sintar’s success fanned by the Democracy of Planets, the Alliance has voted to wage war on Sintar. They are mustering their fleets and gathering their strength to take on the Imperial Navy. Over three million warships are gathering to deliver the blow that will bring the Empire to its knees, with seven million additional warships in reserve.But Emperor Trajan, aware of their war vote, can see them mustering their ships in the Empire’s top-secret hyperspace map. And he has no intention of waiting for their declaration of war. The Empire brings up its new navy, seven million new design warships, plus eight million of the deadly little picket ships.Can the Empire prevail in this clash of titans?Interview with Rich WeyandEmpire: Warlord is an ominous title.Yes, in this volume, the Emperor Trajan is forced to fight a war he doesn't want. The Democracy of Planets has been manipulating the situation, and everybody knows it. But the monarchs of the Alliance who don't want the war are being pushed by their own militaries into fighting Sintar. The Emperor, for his part, is sworn to protect the citizens of Sintar, and will fight the war because he has to.The war itself is on a huge scale, with millions of warships and billions of crew members in each fleet.Yes. My rule of thumb in Empire is to take anything that applies to the USA and multiple by a million. So there are 300 trillion citizens in Sintar, for example. For the navies, though, I actually held back a bit. With the USN having a couple hundred warships, the Imperial Navy should have a couple hundred million warships. Instead, it’s only about ten million warships. Still a lot, but not in scale to the size of the Empire.It’s all on a huge scale, and yet the war itself is only the first half of the book or so.Of course. Wars don't end with the end of major combat. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lance Rasmussen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/193670/bk_acx0_193670_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lesbian Collection: 10 Lesbian Erotica Short Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 671min, (USK 18)
Mia loved her job. Writing an advice column for sexually troubled people was a task she was perfectly suited for. She had a therapy degree and an uncanny ability to place herself in other’s people’s shoes. Every day, her inbox greeted her with a new challenge. Monday morning was no exception. Mia read the email seconds after dragging herself out of bed. She hadn’t had her coffee yet, but the email’s explosive content jolted her wide awake. Dear Mia, After years of marriage, my husband and I had become accustomed to wild, passionate sex night after night - sometimes up to three or four times a day. Taking a break from the email, Mia fanned herself. "Three or four times a day?" she shouted. "Whew!" But lately things have changed. His hours at work have picked up, leaving him exhausted when he comes home at night. To put it bluntly, I want more. I’d love to return to the days of endless lovemaking between the two of us, the days where he would spend hours tickling my body with gentle strokes and licks until I simply couldn’t take it anymore. Mia leaned back in her chair easing her legs apart slowly. It was a challenge to keep her mind from drifting, but she somehow kept reading. The problem is I’m too shy to demand what I want from him. I usually just accept his neglect in silence, hoping that someday he’ll change. But he never does. If I’m lucky, we have sex once a week, and even then it’s not very good. I want him to take his time and explore every area of my body. I want his lips, his tongue, his teeth savoring me all over, but he usually just wants to get it over with and to get back to sleep. Like I said, I’m shy, so I’m not so good at telling him what I want. Can you help me, Mia? Unsatisfied Frida Catching her breath, Mia considered.... Warning: This content is intended for mature audiences. Over 18 only. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Theresa Stephens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108429/bk_acx0_108429_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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God's Glory Revealed: 52 Devotionals , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min
For years, Randy has written thought-provoking devotionals that have inspired and challenged listeners as they seek deeper relationships with Jesus Christ. God’s Glory Revealed includes 52 devotionals, each beginning with Scripture and followed by study questions designed to inspire deeper thought and spiritual growth. Randy’s writing is Bible based, spiritually focused, searching and relatable. He encourages listeners to maintain regular practices of prayer, study and meditating on God’s holy word. The book may be used as a spiritual guide for individuals or as a catalyst to foster discussion within your small group or Sunday school class. Following is an excerpt from Randy's introduction to the book: As a boy, while standing alone in the sun-filled atrium between the sanctuary and fellowship hall enjoying quiet stillness, I felt God’s unmistakable presence. I knew he was with me, welcoming me, loving me. Over the next 25 years I did my best to forget the encounter. Without even considering a career in ministry, I earned an engineering degree and a law degree and quickly jumped into the grind of life as an associate in a law firm in Denver. Through a series of seemingly unrelated events, I found myself stranded in an empty concourse waiting after a canceled flight. I finished all the work I had in my bag and read two newspapers and in bored desperation, I dug through my briefcase searching for something to read and I found, tucked in the bottom of a rarely used pocket, a thin copy of the New Testament that a man had handed me months earlier as I walked along a street in Denver. With my left thumb I fanned the pages from the back, saw the word Revelation, and stopped to read. Sitting there in an empty concourse, I felt apprehensive wondering what people would think of me if they saw me reading the Bible, but I continued and as I read I felt God’s unmistakable presence once again. His living word came to life. I pray this book is ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randy L. Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214287/bk_acx0_214287_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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