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  A Murder in Our Town , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 280min

  From award-winning novelist Arthur Herzog comes a true-crime story of rich and poor, murder and retribution in a town rooted in self-denial. In Salisbury, Connecticut, the lavish weekend homes of wealthy New Yorkers stand only a short distance from the dilapidated houses of the local working class, known as the "raggies". But this seemingly calm and pastoral community has a sordid, evil underbelly. Feeling oppressed by their economic and social status, the three Duntz brothers seek revenge on the wealthy upper class, and historical Salisbury becomes their target. The brothers set fire to the Salisbury town hall, a 235-year-old symbol of the town's proud heritage. But when Earl Morey confesses to seeing one of the brothers commit the crime, he is found shot to death one early October morning. Driven to bring the murderer to justice, Lieutenant James Hiltz launches the largest, most complex investigation in the history of the Connecticut State Police. But the rich are apathetic and the poor fear retribution from the Duntzes, who hamper law enforcement's efforts to capture Morey's killer and further entrench the division between rich and poor. A gripping true crime tale, A Murder in Our Town reveals the curious juxtaposition of the privileged and poor in small-town America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Seaborg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021297/bk_acx0_021297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Way Out: Christianity, Politics, and the Future of the African American Community, Hörbuch, Digital, 179min

  The African-American community represents a paradox of sorts. While collective success has been achieved in many areas, African-Americans still disproportionately suffer from a variety of social ills. The residual impact of years of slavery and exclusion from the major institutions of American life are still trenchant. Yet there is hope. As we move forward into a new millennium, our greatest answers can be found by exploring the past. The Christian faith has served as a sustaining force that has been the backbone of this community for generations. This faith, along with a holistic commitment to family, political participation, education, and entrepreneurship, are the key to its future. The Way Out tackles this issue with a mature voice that represents a juxtaposition of faith and public policy. It rejects the culture of partisan gridlock, racial division, and religious cynicism by fostering a fresh and pluralistic discourse about some of the nation's most pressing civic challenges. From the experienced policymaker to the common citizen wanting to make a difference, The Way Out provides tangible solutions through which we can all find ways to engage. It stands firmly at the intersection of religion, race, politics, and culture to light a clear path forward. Language: English. Narrator: Ted Williams III. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000750/bk_bigh_000750_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Time's Magpie: A Walk in Prague, Hörbuch, Digital, 135min

  Sometimes a city can be like a bird. Just as the magpie is an inveterate collector, hoarding beautiful eclectic bits to line its nest, so Prague retains fragments from bygone regimes and centuries past to create a city of juxtaposition that is alternately exquisite and bizarre.Prague's personality is expressed as much by its obvious beauty as by its overlooked details. This unforgettable place is brought to life by acclaimed author Myla Goldberg, a former Prague expat, whose first novel, Bee Season, captivated so many with its unique voice and exhilarating prose.Myla Goldberg lived in Prague in 1993, just as the process of Westernization was getting under way, the city straddling a past it wished to shed and a future it was eager to embrace. In 2003, she returned to see what the pursuit of capitalism had wrought and to observe the integral ways in which Prague's character had endured. In Time's Magpie, Goldberg explores a city where centuries-old buildings have become receptacles for Western values and a generation defined by the Communist regime coexists with a generation for whom communism is a rapidly fading memory.This imaginative, individualistic journey will show you the odd and unique corners of a city often seeking to erase what its very stones will not allow it to forget. Language: English. Narrator: Myla Goldberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000507/bk_rand_000507_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Drought , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min

  Do you believe that a drought of the land which causes many people to die of famine or a drought of the human soul that affects the lives of those nearest to him/her is more devastating?Can droughts of the soul can be more damaging than those of the soil? The analogy buried in the book Drought uncovers the dichotomy (or juxtaposition) of both.In one storyline, we meet Anoop, a boy who lives in 1876 India and is named for water yet battles the lack of water on his family farm. The desire of his heart is to do something great, maybe by bringing water to the world, but he ends up watering in a greater capacity.In the second storyline, Conifer, named for an evergreen tree, is an autistic twin living in Oregon over 100 years later, who speaks only in rapped song lyrics. This human Conifer needs to be watered to enable him to grow and become the mature man that he was destined to be, despite having a father who nurtures his son’s roots with nothing but drought.The reality that we all need water to survive is artistically portrayed in this analogical tale with a touch of history and science added for depth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Murphy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222732/bk_acx0_222732_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Christmas Hirelings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 233min

  Richard Armitage modernizes a classic hidden gem of Christmas Past… Sir John Penlyon is planning to spend Christmas at his estate with his niece and his friend Danby, the closest thing he has to family since disowning his daughter years ago. (She eloped with the parson, who was, of course, penniless.) Danby suggests that at Christmastime the estate needs the presence of small children, and offers to find some - the “hirelings” - despite Sir John’s skepticism. Three children duly arrive, and the youngest, precocious four year-old Moppet, quickly endears herself to Sir John. The season takes flight with merriment, warmth, and even affection, until Moppet - as young children are wont to do in Victorian holiday tales - falls deathly ill. With her life hanging by a tinsel-thin thread, how will the makeshift family cope? Listeners who smile ironically at the antiquated juxtaposition of The Christmas Hirelings might be surprised by the contemporary feel of a blended family, income inequality, and the power of togetherness to heal past sorrows. Richard Armitage’s stellar voice makes each scene as rich as a plum pudding dotted with the raisins of tradition (party favors, carols, and more!), and the entire performance feels like a trip to bygone England…just in time for the end of this year.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Armitage. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051710/bk_adbl_051710_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Rebecca's Bottom: Her True BDSM Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 531min, (USK 18)

  As a young college student, her life turned upside down when she walked into the Catholic Student Union meeting. Rebecca Stramwell's life was about to change. As a 21-year-old college student from rural Oklahoma, she didn't know anything about BDSM. She was converting to Catholicism, and trying hard to be a good girl. When she met David, all of that changed. David was handsome and charming, but he had a secret. As he starts to reveal a world of forbidden pleasures to Rebecca, she is captivated by its fantasy. Catapulted onto a deviant path full of surprisingly honorable and mannerly people, Rebecca is forced to confront the fact that the world at large is much less structured and respectable than that of the secret underground. Through the juxtaposition of her encounters with kinksters and vanilla individuals, Rebecca finds herself being jaded by the "normal" crowd and unexpectedly gaining freedom and security in sadomasochism. With this newly found world, Rebecca's paradigm begins shifting in new and exciting ways. Above all, she struggles to free herself from the constraints that she has allowed others to put on her and become what she has always wanted to be: naughty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marie Hélène. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022167/bk_acx0_022167_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now

  A stunningly original portrait of one of England's grandest country housesNo house embodies the spirit of one dynasty better than Chatsworth. Set in an unspoilt Derbyshire valley, surrounded by wild moorland, and home to the Cavendish family for sixteen generations, this treasure house is filled with works of art and objects - from Nicolas Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds and Antonio Canova's Endymion to great contemporary paintings by Lucian Freud and David Hockney - which have all, in their time, represented the very best of the new. As Stoker Cavendish, the twelfth Duke of Devonshire, likes to point out: 'Everything was new once.'Following the completion of a decade-long programme of renovations, the exterior of Chatsworth is gleaming, its stone façade newly cleaned and its window frames freshly gilded. Inside, through the inspired juxtaposition of old and modern, its rooms fizz with creative energy. Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now tells the story of this extraordinary place through seven scenes from its life, alongside a stunning photographic portrait of the house and its collections, captured at a moment of high optimism in its long history.With a foreword by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire.

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  The Chemistry of Carbonyl Compounds and Derivatives

  Originally published in Portuguese, this book is divided into three sections: the chemistry of aldehydes, ketones, nitriles, imines and derivatives; the chemistry of carboxylic and carbonic acids and derivatives; and the chemistry of alpha, beta-unsaturated carbonyls. The authors have merged aspects of valence bond and molecular orbital theories in order to discuss structural and physico-chemical properties and reactivity and stereochemical outcomes of the most relevant reactions for these functional groups. The book provides representative experimental procedures for key reactions; highlights to contextualize the concepts; properties (industrial applications, biochemical significance and catalytic developments in order to cope with the major tenets of the green chemistry approach) and includes some biographical notes for the scientists who contributed to this field. It will help advanced level undergraduate and graduate students to understand and become well acquainted with the reactions of carbonyl compounds and derivatives. The integrated approach is considered an attractive feature of this book since students receive relatively little exposure to molecular orbital theory at the undergraduate level. The juxtaposition of conventional valence bond theory with molecular orbital theory fills a largely unmet pedagogical niche.

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  The Best of Fantasy 2001 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min

  These stories are set in the familiar quasi-medieval worlds to which modern listeners are accustomed, and also stories rooted in the authentic myth-constructs of high antiquity, along with several that depend for their power on the juxtaposition of fantastic situations and terribly contemporary aspects of modern life on Earth. Together these stories make up a collection which provides reassuring proof of fantasy's eternal power in this technological age. Stories include:“Bones of the Earth” written and performed by Ursula K. LeGuin”Eternity and Afterword” written by Lucius Shepard and performed by Stefan Rudnicki”The Lady of the Wind” written by Poul Anderson and performed by Scott Brick”Legerdemain” written by Jack O’Connell and performed by William Windom“Diving the Coolidge written by Brian A. Hopkins and performed by M.E. Willis”The Mould of Form” written by Rosemary Edghill and performed by Terry Fishman”Wolves Till the World Goes Down” written by Greg Van Eeckhout and performed by Jason Cole”Ave de Paso” written and performed by Catherine Asaro”Roxanne Hernandez Grass” written by Lawrence Miles and performed by Gabrielle de Cuir and William Windom”Slipshot, at the End of the Universe” written by Robert Thurston and performed by Iris Bahr ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Cole, Terry Fishman, Gabrielle de Cuir, William Windom, Scott Brick, Catherine Asaro, Iris Bahr, M.E. Willis, Ursula K. LeGuin, Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/001520/bk_pnix_001520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Ronald Reagan: A Life from Beginning to End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 62min

  On January 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the 40th president of the United States. That same day, the Americans who had been held hostage in Iran were released. For many Americans, the juxtaposition of those events was no coincidence. Ronald Reagan was the president they elected to restore their country’s sagging influence in the world and disappointing image at home. He was a president who believed in a United States that was truly, as he said in his farewell address, "a shining city." He believed in the myth of American greatness, and for a nation that was still numb from Watergate, immersed in economic stagnation, and humiliated by international events, he made it believable.  Inside you will read about.... The small-town boy Reagan’s Hollywood career The governor's race The assassination attempt Reagan and the Evil Empire The Alzheimer’s diagnosis And much more! Ronald Reagan would remain the man who beat the Russians and ended the Cold War, changing the composition of the globe with his conservative politics and his passionate idealism. Even through Reagan’s political trials, the Iran-Contra hearings, the mixed results of his economic policies known as Reaganomics, and the military build-up that swelled the national debt, the nation saw him as the man who restored the country to its rightful place as a leader among nations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grant Finley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103356/bk_acx0_103356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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