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    Oahu's Windward Coast: Kahala, Hawaii Kai, Kailua and Beyond , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 226min
    The Windward Coast is a natural paradise. The world-class Kahala Hotel and Resort is here, some of the world's favorite beaches, Diamond Head, gorgeous Kahala Beach and Wai`alae Beach Park. Then there is Hanauma Bay State Park and the Halona Blow Hole. Other spectacular natural attractions are Makapu`u Head (home to the Makapu`u Lighthouse) and then Sea Life Park, Waimanalo Bay, home to O`ahu's longest sandy beach, and then the busy town of Kailua, which has shopping, great dining and lots of water activities. Kane`ohe Bay, is where you'll see famous and hard-to-miss Mokoli`i Island, better known as "Chinaman's Hat." This is also where you'll find 4,000-acre Kualoa Ranch, which offers many outdoor adventures. Restaurants reviewed in the guide range from the most luxurious dining to the best take-out places. The top beaches; secret spots for snorkeling; the best outfitters for everything from diving to deep-sea fishing; the galleries and shops. Accommodations and activities for those traveling with children; how to get married on the island; the best honeymoon resorts; finding the lowest airfares and package deals. Where to fish, hike, play golf, tennis, scuba, ocean kayak, along with camping, horseback riding, biking, whalewatching – it's all here. Our author lives in Oahu. She has hiked the trails, taken the boats, scuba'd the reefs, dined in the restaurants, visited all the resorts, snorkeled the coastline, explored the hidden waterfalls and she shares all of her knowledge. This guide is drawn from our larger guide to Oahu. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Huff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020402/bk_acx0_020402_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blood, Sweat, and My Rock 'n' Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 503min
    On paper Steve Katz's career rivals anyone's except the 1960s' and '70s' biggest stars: the Monterey Pop Festival with the legendary Blues Project; Woodstock with Blood, Sweat & Tears; and even producing rock's most celebrated speed addict, Lou Reed. There were world tours, and his résumé screams "Hall of Fame" - it won't be long before BS&T are on that ballot. He has three Grammies (10 nominations), three Downbeat Reader's Poll Awards, three gold records, one platinum record, and one quadruple platinum platter (the second Blood, Sweat & Tears album), not to mention three gold singles with BS&T. Altogether, he's sold close to 29 million records. He had affairs with famous female folk singers, made love to Jim Morrison's girlfriend Pam when Jim was drunk and abusive, partied with Elizabeth Taylor and Groucho Marx, dined with Rudolf Nureyev, conversed with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Tennessee Williams, hung out with Andy Warhol, jammed with everyone from Mose Allison to Jimi Hendrix, and was told to get a haircut by both Mickey Spillane and Danny Thomas. But his memoir is more Portnoy's Complaint than the lurid party-with-your-pants-down memoir that has become the norm for rock 'n' roll books. It's an honest and personal account of a life at the edge of the spotlight - a privileged vantage point that earned him a bit more objectivity and earnest outrage than a lot of his colleagues, who were too far into the scene to lay any honest witness to it. Set during the Greenwich Village folk/rock scene, the 60's most celebrated venues and concerts, and behind closed doors on international tours and grueling studio sessions, this is the unlikely story of a rock star as nerd, nerd as rock star, a nice Jewish boy who got to sit at the cool kid's table and score the hot chicks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Triandiflou. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039429/bk_acx0_039429_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Obama's Deadliest Cover-Up: They All Have Blood on Their Hands , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 979min
    Obama’s Deadliest Cover-Up goes beyond the official narrative of the 2010 Upper Big Branch (UBB) Mine disaster to disclose the dark truth. In this daring exposé, Don Blankenship reveals how far the government will go to keep its dirty secrets, even if it means disparaging deceased miners and sending innocent Americans to prison. Using government documents, witness testimony, and science, Blankenship pieces together the Obama-Biden administration’s responsibility for the explosion. Blankenship explains how the government used prevarication, lies, and document destruction to bury the truth. Blankenship calls the American media "Pinocchio" and backs it up. Blankenship presents compelling proof that America’s elite, America’s media, and America’s DOJ hid the UBB truth and says, “They all have blood on their hands.” An unflinching look at corruption in America, Obama’s Deadliest Cover-Up issues a dire warning: Our government will do anything to “get what it wants.Don Blankenship was “born into a poor house, dined at the White House, and spent time in the big house.” Blankenship grew up in Central Appalachia, worked as a teenage coal miner, and became CEO of Massey Energy Company, a then publicly traded Fortune 600 company. Blankenship was sent to Taft federal prison for a misdemeanor following an explosion at a Massey Energy coal mine in which 29 miners died. Blankenship was the only misdemeanant at Taft where he served ten months with 2400 felons. US Magistrate Judge Omar J. Aboulhosn recommended that Blankenship's conviction should be thrown out because the prosecution withheld favorable evidence that could have exonerated Blankenship. Even so, nefarious US District Judge Irene Berger upheld the wrongful conviction and is now denying Blankenship a “certificate of appeal.” Blankenship ran for a seat in the US Senate in 2018 and was leading in the polls before Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Dona ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan McGowan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199335/bk_acx0_199335_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Thomas Jefferson: A Life from Beginning to End: One Hour History: US Presidents, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 69min
    At a White House dinner in 1962 honoring the Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere, President John Kennedy greeted them by saying: "I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." The laureates might have been a trifle nonplussed to hear themselves collectively compared to one man, but Thomas Jefferson left his imprint on his state of Virginia; his young country, the United States; France, where he served as ambassador; and the world, where his opposition to tyranny and his advocacy of freedom have inspired generations to believe that the pursuit of happiness, as he wrote in his Declaration of Independence, is an unalienable right. You will hear about.... His life, his loves, his legacy The son of Virginia Jefferson the patriot Jefferson in Paris Jefferson the politician Jefferson the President Jefferson at home Jefferson himself opted for less opulent praise; the epitaph that he composed for his tombstone accommodated space for the dates of his birth and death, and listed the following accomplishments: author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and father of the University of Virginia. Between Kennedy's description of the third president of the United States and Jefferson's own rendition of his accomplishments resides the enigma of an American philosopher who ardently believed in freedom yet owned slaves; a patriot who served his country with his talents and energies, but who was embroiled in the political machinations which rose to the surface as soon as the first president was in office; a human being who doubted the intellectual equality of African-Americans yet ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Jeck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095004/bk_acx0_095004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 870min
    The Third Plate is chef Dan Barber’s extraordinary vision for a new future of American eating. After more than a decade spent investigating farming communities around the world in pursuit of singular flavor, Barber finally concluded that - for the sake of our food, our health, and the future of the land - America’s cuisine required a radical transformation. The revelations Barber shares in The Third Plate took root in his restaurant’s kitchen. But his process of discovery took him far afield - to alternative systems of food production and cooking that maximize sustainability, nutrition, and flavor. Barber explores the traditional farming practices of the Spanish dehesa, a uniquely vibrant landscape that has been fine-tuned to produce the famed jamón ibérico. Along the Atlantic coast, he investigates the future of seafood through a revolutionary aquaculture operation and an ancient tuna fishing tradition. In upstate New York, Barber learns from a flourishing mixed-crop farm whose innovative organic practices have revived the land and resurrected an industry. And in Washington State he works with cutting-edge seedsmen developing new varieties of grain in collaboration with local bakers, millers, and malters. Drawing on the wisdom and experience of chefs and farmers from around the world, Barber proposes a new definition for ethical and delicious eating destined to refashion Americans’ deepest beliefs about food. Traditionally, Americans have dined on the "first plate", a classic meal centered on meat with few vegetables. Thanks to the burgeoning farm-to-table movement, many people have begun eating from the "second plate", the new ideal of organic, grass-fed meats and local vegetables. But neither model, Barber shows, supports the long-term productivity of the land. Instead, he calls for a "third plate", a new pattern of eating rooted in cooking with and celebrating the whole farm - an integrated system of vegetable, grain, and ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Barber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002364/bk_peng_002364_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Take Me Home from the Oscars: Arthritis, Television, Fashion, and Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 446min
    Christine Schwab has lived a life of Hollywood and New York glamour most people can only dream about. For 20 years she appeared as a fashion and beauty reporter on the nation's leading television shows including, Live with Regis & Kelly, Oprah!, The Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, and NBC Nightly News. She dined with celebrities, met US Presidents, attended numerous Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes, published two books and was featured in and wrote for many of the most popular magazines while living a thrilling personal and public life married to a powerful Hollywood executive. But for most of those years, she was hiding a devastating illness that threatened to take over her entire life. In Take Me Home from the Oscars, Schwab tells for the first time her story of living an amazing life in television while suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Schwab recounts with incredible honesty how on the same day she produced and appeared in a major makeover segment for Live with Regis & Kelly in New York and then raced to Chicago to appear on Oprah!, all while balancing medications to ward off the relentless pain that plagued her on-camera and off. She shares an enchanted evening at the Oscars and the unpredictable arthritis pain that cut it heartbreakingly short. She re-lives being driven to deceive herself and others in a career that demands timeless beauty and youth. Schwab kept her career alive through determination, deception, and hope. In Take Me Home from the Oscars, she takes us behind the scenes in Hollywood and New York, and behind her public persona to the 19-year journey through drug trials and treatment at the UCLA Medical Center. Listeners will root for her at every step, and cheer when she ultimately finds remission and her new life's work as a spokesperson for the National Arthritis Foundation. This is a book of hope for anyone dealing with adversity in their life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda Carlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008594/bk_adbl_008594_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 624min
    From New York Times best-selling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world. In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just 16 years old, had recently moved to the city. White was 47 and a principal in the prominent architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. As the foremost architect of his day, he was a celebrity, responsible for designing countless landmark buildings in Manhattan. That evening, after drinking champagne, Nesbit lost consciousness and awoke to find herself naked in bed with White. Telltale spots of blood on the bed sheets told her that White had raped her. She told no one about the rape until, several years later, she confided in Harry Thaw, the millionaire playboy who would later become her husband. Thaw, thirsting for revenge, shot and killed White in 1906 before hundreds of theatergoers during a performance in Madison Square Garden, a building that White had designed. The trial was a sensation that gripped the nation. Most Americans agreed with Thaw that he had been justified in killing White, but the district attorney expected to send him to the electric chair. Evelyn Nesbit's testimony was so explicit and shocking that Theodore Roosevelt himself called on the newspapers not to print it verbatim. The murder of White cast a long shadow: Harry Thaw later attempted suicide, and Evelyn Nesbit struggled for many years to escape an addiction to cocaine. The Girl on the Velvet Swing, a tale of glamour, excess, and danger, is an immersive, fascinating look at an America dominated by men of outsize fortunes and by the the women who were their victims. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Lakin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003693/bk_hach_003693_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Inferno of Zane's Redemption, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 192min
    Zane and Chris met in Central Park, New York. They instantly hit it off. Little did they know, though, how tumultuous their journey together would be in the name of love. Chris was a writer for a reputable New York firm, but his job took him overseas in risky and difficult circumstances. He would be gone for weeks at a time. His last trip was to Sudan, Africa - a war zone. This left Zane lonely and confused, especially since they did not officially announce an engagement or seal it with a ring. When she did not hear from Chris for over a week and the opportunity came to go out with a rich and attractive looking man, she only hesitated once. In the meantime, Chris was caught in treacherous conditions in Sudan and had to be air lifted out of there to save his life and the lives of those who were working alongside him. Zane, in the meantime, thought that Chris had forgotten her so when she was swept off her feet by another man, she fell for it. The story unfolds with Zane meeting Rick Fontaine in his ritzy nightclub and he wined and dined her - making her feel special and wanted. He relentlessly tried to pursue her until she finally gave in and spent one weekend of passionate bliss with him that she would never forget. The doorbell rang unexpectedly a day after her weekend trysts with Rick Fontaine, the wealthy nightclub owner. When she opened the door, Chris walked in - tired, but so happy to see her. His plan was to quit his job and never have to leave Zane again! She is now caught in an inferno of lies and when Chris finally finds out about her infidelity, she earnestly tries to redeem her self. The Inferno of Zane's Redemption is filled with love, cheating, passion, hurt, jail, a child born out of one passionate weekend and a man who has a forgiving heart and will do anything to get his Zane back. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Schrecongost. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019236/bk_acx0_019236_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 546min
    The story of Oscar Wilde's landmark 1882 American tour explains how this quotable literary eminence became famous for being famous. On January 3, 1882, Oscar Wilde, a 27-year-old "genius" - at least by his own reckoning - arrived in New York. The Dublin-born Oxford man had made such a spectacle of himself in London with his eccentric fashion sense, acerbic wit, and extravagant passion for art and home design that Gilbert & Sullivan wrote an operetta lampooning him. He was hired to go to America to promote that work by presenting lectures on interior decorating. But Wilde had his own business plan. He would go to promote himself. And he did, traveling some 15,000 miles and visiting 150 American cities as he created a template for fame creation that still works today. Though Wilde was only the author of a self-published book of poems and an unproduced play, he presented himself as a "star", taking the stage in satin breeches and a velvet coat with lace trim as he sang the praises of sconces and embroidered pillows - and himself. What Wilde so presciently understood is that fame could launch a career as well as cap one. David M. Friedman's lively and often hilarious narrative whisks us across 19th-century America, from the mansions of Gilded Age Manhattan to roller-skating rinks in Indiana, from an opium den in San Francisco to the bottom of the Matchless silver mine in Colorado - then the richest on earth - where Wilde dined with twelve gobsmacked miners, later describing their feast to his friends in London as "First course: whiskey. Second course: whiskey. Third course: whiskey". But, as Friedman shows, Wilde was no mere clown; he was a strategist. From his antics in London to his manipulation of the media - Wilde gave 100 interviews in America, more than anyone else in the world in 1882 - he designed every move to increase his renown. There had been famous people before him, but Wilde was the first to become famous for being famous. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021516/bk_adbl_021516_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Trees Are All Young on Garrison Hill: A Personal Memoir Featuring the Battle of KOHIMA , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 388min
    The Trees Are All Young on Garrison Hill is written and read by a veteran of the Second World War battle of Kohima. This tautly-written autobiography takes the listener on a journey from a quiet respectable Scottish boyhood to the sudden brutality of jungle warfare in Assam and Burma, and afterwards through the twilight of Empire in India, where Gordon Graham lived for 10 years after the war. Now in his mid-90s, Gordon Graham's powerful and at times moving delivery draws on his personal sources as well as on official records including war diaries of his battalion, blending an objective account of great events with a soldier's spontaneous and candid reactions to them. Episodes of drama and intense emotion are punctuated by moments of both poignancy and humour, leavened by mature reflection on the meaning and meaninglessness of war. Garrison Hill was the epicentre of one of the fiercest and most strategically vital battles of World War II. Overlooking Kohima, a town in the Naga hills of North East India, Garrison Hill was until 1944 a tranquil tree-clad enclave surrounding the Commissioner's bungalow and tennis court. Suddenly in April 1994, it became the scene of intensive close-quarter combat between a Japanese force attempting to invade India and a British division thrust into action to repel it. Visiting Japan as part of his business life as a publisher in New York and London, the author sought out and dined cordially with Japanese veterans who had fought at Kohima, and later, as one of a small number of British veterans seeking reconciliation, entertained visiting Japanese veterans at his home. One such party finished with a sing-song, and a rendering of Auld Lang Syne in Japanese. When you can laugh and sing and cry a little with your former enemies, he writes, you know the war is really over. The denouement of the book describes the formation of the Kohima Educational Trust, a charity founded by the author after the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Graham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/024979/bk_acx0_024979_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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