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Drive: A Crime Thriller: The Volunteers, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 415min

Et omnia recta - to make things right. In the late 1800s, a secret society was formed by a captain from Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders with the support of the nation’s leading industrialists and bankers. Over a century later, the tradition continues in the same saloons and boardrooms of New York City, where it all began.In this crime thriller, where history and current events unite, Woodbury Kane, Jacob Riis, and Roosevelt himself fight the tyranny of Tammany Hall in the first mission of the volunteers during the turn of the last century. In today’s New York, the descendants of the volunteers recruit Annie Falcone, a New York police officer, who takes the oath: et omnia recta.She is to provide protection to one man, America’s top technological mind, from his longtime adversary Sheng, China’s most brutal hacker. Annie is unaware that she’s merely a decoy to draw Sheng out for the hit squad that was sent ahead of her. Her instincts alone will be the force behind the success or failure of the mission. Like so many other volunteers before her, Annie’s survival depends upon her courage, skill, and drive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Garfield Maitland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201629/bk_acx0_201629_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Vegas Rich , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1288min

With a heart full of dreams, Sallie Coleman leaves Texas and heads west, determined to get as far as possible from the squalor of her dirt-poor beginnings. With its shifting sands, smoky saloons, and bingo palaces, Las Vegas seems like a paradise - a paradise where an extraordinary twist of fate makes Sallie the most powerful businesswoman in Nevada. Suddenly she is rich. With the help of Philip Thornton, the handsome Bostonian, Sallie is transformed into Vegas' most elegant first lady. Philip gives her two sons, Simon and Ash. One will bring her great joy, the other, heartbreak. Enter Fanny Logan...the small-town beauty from Pennsylvania who finds her destiny in Las Vegas, where she creates a multi-million dollar clothing empire and finds happiness and heartbreak as the wife of Ash Thornton, and the daughter Sallie never had. Complications abound: Ash Thornton's life centers around his greatest triumph - Babylon, the magnificent casino that will lead to his downfall. Simon Thornton's search for meaning takes him to the battlefields of World War II to the trading rooms of Wall Street, and finally back to Nevada where he falls in love with the wife of his rival. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laural Merlington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000457/bk_brll_000457_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Sapphire Bride: Central City Brides, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 285min

Ava Lewis is a jewelry maker, the only woman jeweler where she works or that she knows in the business. Ava opens her door to find her brother who immediately falls unconscious to the floor. When she gets him awake and onto the sofa, he tells her he's dying, wounded by a poisoned blade. He demands that she take his pouch full of jewels and run. The only option she sees is to sign up as a mail-order bride under an assumed name, Jane Smith. Seamus 'Lucky' Madigan is a saloon owner. He won three different saloons in poker games and now makes a good living from the businesses. He sees how happy his friend and former captain is with his mail-order bride and orders one for himself. He desires a bride who hasn't known every man in town in an intimate way. Someone he could introduce to his mother, if he had one alive. When the same man who killed her brother comes after Ava, it will take all Seamus's skill with a knife and as a part of a sniper unit to protect his new bride. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beth Kesler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088628/bk_acx0_088628_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Poker and Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1063min

Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker's growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions.First came the hands, then came the stories - some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker's progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including:Poker on the MississippiPoker in the moviesPoker in the Old WestPoker on the newsstandPoker in the Civil WarPoker in literaturePoker on the bookshelfPoker in musicPoker in the White HousePoker on televisionPoker during wartimePoker on the computerFrom Mark Twain to "Dogs Playing Poker" to W. C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game's portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker's relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Harris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158425/bk_acx0_158425_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The United States of Beer: A Freewheeling History of the All-American Drink , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min

From the author of Bourbon, "the definitive history" (Sacramento Bee), comes the rollicking and revealing story of beer in America, in the spirit of Salt or Cod. In The United States of Beer, Dane Huckelbridge, the author of Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit - a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance best seller - charts the surprisingly fascinating history of Americans' relationship with their most popular alcoholic beverage. Huckelbridge shows how beer has evolved along with the country - from a local and regional product (once upon a time, every American city had its own brewery and iconic beer brand) to the rise of global megabrands, like Budweiser and Miller, that are synonymous with US capitalism. We learn of George Washington's failed attempt to brew beer at Mount Vernon with molasses instead of barley; of the 19th-century "beer barons", like Captain Frederick Pabst, Adolphus Busch, and Joseph Schlitz, who revolutionized commercial brewing and built lucrative empires - and the American immigrant experience; and of the advances in brewing and bottling technology that allowed beer to flow in the saloons of the Wild West. Throughout, Huckelbridge draws connections between seemingly remote fragments of the American past and shares his reports from the frontline of today's craft-brewing revolution. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Corey Snow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005259/bk_harp_005259_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Brimstone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 304min

When we last saw Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, they had just put things to right in the rough-and-tumble Old West town of Resolution. It's now a year later, and Virgil has only one thing on his mind: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart from their days in Appaloosa. Even though Allie ran off with another man, Virgil is determined to find her, his deputy and partner Everett Hitch at his side. Making their way across New Mexico and Texas, the pair finally discover Allie in a small-town brothel. Her spirit crushed, Allie joins Everett and Virgil as they head north to start over in Brimstone. But things are not the same between Virgil and Allie; too much has happened, and Virgil can't face what Allie did to survive the year they were apart. Vowing to change, Allie thinks she has found redemption through the local church and its sanctimonious leader, Brother Percival. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But Brother Percival stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Titus Welliver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001853/bk_rand_001853_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Killer from the Pecos (Dramatized), Hörbuch, Digital, 59min

Louis L'Amour brings you the Wild West as you've never heard it before. This classic story, complete with a full cast, stirring music, and authentic sound effects, sweeps listeners back to the rough and ready days of America's frontier, where a man had to live by his wits...and his gun. Death is no stranger to Almagre, a rough boomtown in which the local cemetery, Boot Hill, is almost as crowded as the saloons. Almagre had sprung up in just under two years with a silver strike, and in that short time, it had buried three town marshals. Into this wild and bloody town rides Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie, trailing a Pecos bank robber who left two men dead. All Bowdrie has to go on is an unconvincing eyewitness description, a name scrawled on a tattered post card...and his own skills as a master tracker. But it's his skill with a gun Bowdrie will need when he looks for answers in Almagre, for the town is gripped in a stranglehold by a ruthless cattle baron named Bonelli. To bring his quarry back, Bowdrie will pin on the marshal's star to face down Bonelli and his gunmen - in a town where a badge is a death warrant. Language: English. Narrator: uncredited. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/rand/001500/pf_rand_001500_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Gunsmoke: Around Dodge City, Hörbuch, Digital, 589min

Here are Western stories with an adult sensibility - complex tales of difficult choices and moral dilemmas played out against the backdrop of frontier America. William Conrad is Marshal Matt Dillon in 20 thoughtful, exciting episodes of Gunsmoke! Howard McNear co-stars as Doc, with Parley Baer as Chester, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty in these broadcasts from 1954-1955. They are joined by John Dehner, Virginia Gregg, Joseph Kearns, Jeanette Nolan, and more, who bring tales of saloons and stage holdups, bullet wounds, and blood feuds to vivid life.Includes a program guide by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Episodes Include: Young Man with a Gun 08-23-54; Obie Tater 08-30-54; The Handcuffs (a.k.a. The Promise) 09-06-54; Dooley Surrenders 09-13-54; The F.U. 09-20-54; Helping Hand 09-27-54; Love of a Good Woman 10-09-54; The Patsy 10-30-54; Smoking Out the Beedles 11-06-54; Wrong Man 11-13-54; How to Kill a Woman 11-20-54; Cooter 11-27-54; Cholera 12-04-54; Bone Hunters 12-11-54; Kitty Lost 12-25-54; The Bottle Man 01-01-55; Sins of the Fathers 01-22-55; Young Love 01-29-55; Cheyennes 02-05-55; Poor Pearl 02-19-55. Language: English. Narrator: William Conrad. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/radi/001839/bk_radi_001839_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Neon Nights: Daymond Runyon Meets James Ellroy in the Nevada Desert , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 305min

Las Vegas in 1949 was a vastly different city than the one of today. In 1949, Las Vegas was a bus-stop that made its living from selling tax-free cigarettes. The few casinos that existed were old west saloons. This all changed when Benjamin "Bugsy" Segal built his glitter palace - the Flamingo Hotel. In the ultimate hostile take-over in 1947, "Bugsy" was murdered and new management took over the hotel. The town braced itself for a possible all-out mob war. The war never happened and tensions eased until in 1949 mobster Johnny Del Rio was found murdered execution-style. State Patrolman Kelly O'Brian and Clark County Sherriff's detective Dick Pearson were assigned to investigate Del Rio's murder. Dick thought it was mob related but Kelly wasn't so sure after he talked to a string of hustlers, hookers, hypes, and hop heads that lived in Johnny's world. Whoever was right about Johnny's death - one thing was clear they had to be careful. The closer they got to the killer the more danger they would be in. What Kelly didn't know was the real danger was much closer than he imagined and it would take all the skill, guts, and luck he could muster as he navigates the neon nights of Las Vegas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Hudson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/069432/bk_acx0_069432_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving New York , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 924min

When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how TR took on Manhattan vice... and vice won. In the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with forty thousand prostitutes, glittery casinos, and all-night dives. Police captains took hefty bribes to see nothing while reformers writhed in frustration. In Island of Vice, Richard Zacks paints a vivid portrait of the lewd underbelly of 1890s New York, and of Theodore Roosevelt, the puritanical, cocksure police commissioner resolved to clean it up. Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores how young Roosevelt goes head to head with Tammany Hall, takes midnight rambles with muckraker Jacob Riis, and tries to convince two million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. When Roosevelt’s crackdown succeeds too well, even his supporters turn on him, and TR discovers that New York loves its sin more than its salvation. With cameos by Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, and a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable snapshot of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory and a brilliant miniature of one of America’s most colorful presidents. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Ochman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002906/bk_rand_002906_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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