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The Swiftest
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The Ascension Myth Boxed Set: Books 1-4: Awakened, Activated, Called, Sanctioned: The Ascension Myth Boxed Sets, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1944min
How Molly has survived military life this long, we'll never know.When her implanted computer interface is hacked by a nascent AI, Molly has to escape. Between the militaries' high tech security shields and advanced personnel protocols, it makes getting out in one piece for Molly nigh on impossible.What’s more, her new “companion” has a spunky attitude which only complicates matters further.And her biggest problem?The swiftest and most efficient way to get out is also the most embarrassing. This boxed set Includes the first four books in The Ascension Myth:AwakenedActivatedCalledSanctioned ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pearl Hewitt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/149813/bk_acx0_149813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Upriver: Riverboat Trilogy, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 397min
Book two of Lloyd's Riverboat trilogy. This novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone audiobook or as part of the series.Caleb Shaw comes out of the mountains and becomes a riverboat man, working the steamboats on the treacherous Missouri and the mighty Mississippi.It tells the story of Lucian Lambeau, his fat French sidekick, Bulgann, the Russian bosun, and Storm, the little Indian girl rescued by Caleb from the river after a tornado hits an Indian camp.The shanty Irish of St. Louis are depicted, with their bitter gang rivalries.Upriver also introduces the listener to Harvey Allen, the pilot apprentice to Anson LaFarge, the captain of the Western Star, the swiftest boat on the river. Allen later becomes a central character in the final book of the series: The Captains. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Blair. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158434/bk_acx0_158434_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 669min
From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen's biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It's survival of the fittest - and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Kellgren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001189/bk_adbl_001189_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Awakened: Age of Expansion: The Ascension Myth, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 578min
In the future, even the broken can make a change... When a nascent AI hacks her holo device, Molly Bates has to think fast and get out of the military before anyone discovers what has happened. The only problem? The swiftest way out is also the most embarrassing. Mortifyingly embarrassing. Ever the underdog, Molly refuses to stay down. What follows is a rough and tumble adventure that takes Molly and her team of change makers up against an enemy with power they had not considered. Regrouping off world, they set up base on an asteroid that has its own mysteries to uncover. Please note: Inside this book is cursing, amusing cursing, but cursing nonetheless. If bad language offends you, perhaps this book is not for you. Set on the foundation laid by the Kurtherian Gambit Series, Awakening tells an entirely new story in the Age of Expansion - when the Etheric Empire is fast becoming the Etheric Federation with all of the trials and tribulations that come with bringing together different peoples, systems, and ideals. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pearl Hewitt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099053/bk_acx0_099053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Agony of Victory: When Winning Isn't Enough , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 498min
What makes some men drive themselves to succeed in their chosen sport, no matter how daunting the odds? And what are the struggles that victory almost inevitably brings? Meet the swiftest and saddest cyclist of his time, a man whose craving for speed was outstripped by a terrible urge toward self-annihilation. Try to understand the most accomplished high-school runner in American history, whose long-distance records still astound and who, a few years later, abruptly abandoned his wife and three small children. Learn about the briefly glorious life of the leading scorer in Division I college basketball, one of the inner city’s great success stories . . . while it lasted. This superbly narrated and insightful audiobook follows the paths of thirteen ravaged champions in solitary crafts such as cycling and running, bowling and boxing, hiking and golf. These men work at and master their sports, driven only by a burning need to prove themselves. Movingly detailed here are their painful journeys to grace, and their eventual realization that no victory brings lasting happiness. In short, here is the human experience, told in seconds and miles, scorecards and records. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graham Corrigan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014958/bk_adbl_014958_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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10 Mythological Heroes & Stories: Greek Mythology, Hörbuch, Digital, 128min
Ten mythological heroes and stories from Greek mythology, for a delightful overview of the fundamentals of our culture. This is a selection of the most touching and inspiring stories from Ancient Greece; they have all inspired countless works of art through the centuries, often come from even more ancient myths, and are here retold in a detailed and lively manner. This selection contains: "The Myth of Apollo and Daphne" about the revenge of the cruel god Eros on Apollo; "Atalanta", the story of the swiftest runner who ever was; "Echo and Narcissus", about a nymph who angered a god; "Endymion", a shepherd whose beauty made the goddess Diana fall in love; "Icarus", this ageless story of failure at the hands of pride; "King Midas", the famous cautionary tale; "Orpheus and Eurydice", the ultimate tragic love story and one of the most famous Greek myths; "Phaeton", a similar story to that of Icarus about the pride of wanting to be like a god; "Pygmalion", a sculptor so skilled he fell in love with one of his creations; "The Death of Adonis", one of Greece's most touching stories, in which a goddess hopelessly falls in love with a man whose sole passion is hunting. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Spera. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/001588/bk_cids_001588_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Knights of the Range: A Western Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 577min
From the best-selling author of Riders of the Purple Sage, comes another classic Western tale. The sun set across the purple sky over the Don Carlos Rancho while the warm Santa Fe breeze rustled through the grazing fields just off the trail. The Colonel sat on his porch, staring over the whole scene, pondering the seemingly-doomed future of his prized cattle ranch. "Another spell with my heart like this last one will kill me," he said nervously to his right-hand man, Britt. Afraid it would break her, the Colonel kept his condition from his alienated daughter, Holly - who was shipped off to boarding school in the East at the tender age of eight. The Colonel would settle for nothing less than the best education for his daughter. Not to mention, the West - crawling with outlaws, thieves, and greed - was no place for a naïve, young woman. However, in the wake of the Colonel's death, Holly is forced to return and take the reins of her father's beloved cattle empire. In the midst of hordes of outlaws ransacking the ranch and antagonizing their stock, the heiress must learn the ways of the West alongside the Captain Britt, in an attempt to salvage what's left of her father's dream. In the spirit and glory of a classic Western, and published exactly as the author originally intended, Knights of the Range, is one of Zane Grey's swiftest and most exciting novels. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McLain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009301/bk_brll_009301_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 685min
The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America's smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps' uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power. Along with unapologetic self-promotion, a strong sense of identity has enabled the Corps to exert a powerful influence on American politics and culture. Aaron O'Connell focuses on the period from World War II to Vietnam, when the Marine Corps transformed itself from America's least respected to its most elite armed force. He describes how the distinctive Marine culture played a role in this ascendancy. Venerating sacrifice and suffering, privileging the collective over the individual, Corps culture was saturated with romantic and religious overtones that had enormous marketing potential in a postwar America energized by new global responsibilities. Capitalizing on this, the Marines curried the favor of the nation's best reporters, befriended publishers, courted Hollywood and Congress, and built a public relations infrastructure that would eventually brand it as the most prestigious military service in America. But the Corps' triumphs did not come without costs, and O'Connell writes of those, too, including a culture of violence that sometimes spread beyond the battlefield. And as he considers how the Corps' interventions in American politics have ushered in a more militarized approach to national security, O'Connell questions its sustainability. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Danny Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/002954/bk_tant_002954_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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World War II Dogfights: The History and Legacy of Aerial Combat during the Second World War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 105min
Like lethal insects undergoing a series of metamorphoses into ever more mature and dangerous forms, military aircraft moved rapidly from stage to stage of their development as the 20th century progressed. The catalyst of war provided the swiftest impetus to this evolution. The new mechanized armies existing from the later period of World War I onward seized on the fresh technology and sought to squeeze every possible drop of advantage from it that the limits of science and the era's materials would allow. Many military thinkers and even aeronautical enthusiasts believed that blimps would remain the chief military aerial asset more or less forever. These men thought airplanes would play a secondary role at best, and might even prove a uselessly expensive gimmick soon to fade back into obscurity, leaving the majestic bulk of the dirigible as sole master of the skies. Thus, when World War I began, airplane improvements occurred in an ad hoc, almost accidental manner during the war. However, when pilots' mounting of armaments on airplanes proved a successful means of defeating other aircraft and even attacking men on the ground, a much more active and systematic development of warplanes began across the continent. Each advance prompted a countermeasure, as the two sides strove for primacy in a deadly, unforgiving environment which rewarded real advances in equipment and tactics with survival and punished poor ideas with death. Before long, relatively powerful, heavily armed aircraft buzzed through the skies over battle-stained Europe, tearing each other apart with furious gusts of machine gun fire and sending many of the vaunted dirigibles plunging, burning, to the ground. The new era of fighting aircraft arrived in dramatic fashion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105312/bk_acx0_105312_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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