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  Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. But they made one crucial error: as they were disposing of the body of young Bobby Franks, whom they had bludgeoned to death, Nathan's eyeglasses fell from his jacket pocket. Multi-award-winning author Candace Fleming depicts every twist and turn of this harrowing case--how two wealthy, brilliant young men planned and committed what became known as the crime of the century, how they were caught, why they confessed, and how the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow enabled them to avoid the death penalty. Following on the success of such books as The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh and The Family Romanov, this acclaimed nonfiction writer brings to heart-stopping life one of the most notorious crimes in our country's history.

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• Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. But they made one crucial error: as they were disposing of the body of young Bobby Franks, whom they had bludgeoned to death, Nathan's eyeglasses fell from his jacket pocket. Multi-award-winning author Candace Fleming depicts every twist and turn of this harrowing case--how two wealthy, brilliant young men planned and committed what became known as the crime of the century, how they were caught, why they confessed, and how the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow enabled them to avoid the death penalty. Following on the success of such books as The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh and The Family Romanov, this acclaimed nonfiction writer brings to heart-stopping life one of the most notorious crimes in our country's history.

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  Libby the Psychic Dog , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min

  Libby the Psychic Dog is a series written for adults from a dog's point of view.A fun holiday listen!What happens when an English lord is reincarnated as a pudgy terrier? Lord Percival Plep was a hero in the war to end all wars, but when a bullet ends his life, he wakes to find that he has been reborn 100 years later as a dog!When Lord Plep is adopted by an elderly woman he calls "Mama", he settles into a comfortable life of watching movies and sharing Mama’s snacks. He also gains a reputation as a psychic dog when he finds eyeglasses and keys for the aged residents of the mobile home park where Mama lives. When a child is lost, a neighbor asks Mama if Libby (yes, Lord Plep was reborn as a female), could use her psychic abilities to find the little girl. Using all her human and canine instincts, Libby's powers are put to the test, and Mama hopes the chubby little terrier will be able to find the girl and bring her home safe and sound.Libby the Psychic Dog is a light mystery written for the young at heart. It is a short listen of 11,500 words and contains an excerpt from Libby's new adventure - Mystery in the Mansion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Trethowan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161873/bk_acx0_161873_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mrs. Duchesney Mysteries Francesca's Story - The Interview: The Mrs Duchesney Mystery Series, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 478min

  Mrs. Duchesney Mysteries Francesca's Story - The Interview.People often ask me, "How did Mrs. Duchesney become a famous Paris detective?" I tell them it should have been easy to predict that Francine Robinsworth Duchesney would find success doing something unexpected of a young woman from a small town in the American Midwest. For you see, she had never been what others in that part of the world might call "normal." When I came to Paris in search of Mrs. Duchesney, a person described to me as the legendary Paris Sleuth Extraordinaire, I did not imagine her to be the unassuming little woman seated alone on a bench in Parc Montsouris.There was nothing extraordinary about this vaguely fashionable bundle of clothes, whose face was hidden beneath a hat and eyeglasses. Born with an exceptional curiosity, in a small town jam-packed with well-preserved century-old mysteries, where indiscretions lined cellars and attics like jars of last year's apricots, Francine found no lie was so well constructed, no secret so well kept, no treasure so deeply buried that she could not discover it. My interviews with Mrs. Duchesney would be the focus of my first year in Paris. After that, I was completely seduced by the woman and the city, forgetting the reason I had come there and finding new reasons to stay. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert G.C. Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/147494/bk_acx0_147494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hell Before Their Very Eyes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 397min

  On April Fourth, 1945, United States Army units from the 89th Infantry Division and the Fourth Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated in Germany. In the weeks that followed, as more camps were discovered, thousands of soldiers came face to face with the monstrous reality of Hitler's Germany. These men discovered the very depths of human-imposed cruelty and depravity: railroad cars stacked with emaciated, lifeless bodies; ovens full of incinerated human remains; warehouses filled with stolen shoes, clothes, luggage, and even eyeglasses; prison yards littered with implements of torture and dead bodies; and - perhaps most disturbing of all - the half-dead survivors of the camps. For the American soldiers of all ranks who witnessed such powerful evidence of Nazi crimes, the experience was life altering. Almost all were haunted for the rest of their lives by what they had seen, horrified that humans from ostensibly civilized societies were capable of such crimes. Military historian John C. McManus sheds new light on this often-overlooked aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on a rich blend of archival sources and thousands of firsthand accounts - including unit journals, interviews, oral histories, memoirs, diaries, letters, and published recollections - Hell before Their Very Eyes focuses on the experiences of the soldiers who liberated Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, and Dachau and their determination to bear witness to this horrific history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011310/bk_blak_011310_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Light Ages

  Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-written, it's a charismatic evocation of another world' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandThe Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities, the first eyeglasses and the first mechanical clocks as medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky. In this book, we walk the path of medieval science with a real-life guide, a fourteenth-century monk named John of Westwyk - inventor, astrologer, crusader - who was educated in England's grandest monastery and exiled to a clifftop priory. Following the traces of his life, we learn to see the natural world through Brother John's eyes: navigating by the stars, multiplying Roman numerals, curing disease and telling the time with an astrolabe. We travel the length and breadth of England, from Saint Albans to Tynemouth, and venture far beyond the shores of Britain. On our way, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy, the French craftsman-turned-spy and the Persian polymath who founded the world's most advanced observatory.An enthralling story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man and an extraordinary time, The Light Ages conjures up a vivid picture of the medieval world as we have never seen it before.

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  Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

  Experience the action-packed first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson's laugh-out-loud middle-grade fantasy series like never before-Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians is now in paperback with all new covers! AN ANCIENT RIVALRY REAWAKENS. Everything I'd known about the world was a lie. On my thirteenth birthday, I, Alcatraz Smedry (yes, I got named after a prison, don't ask) received my inheritance: a bag of sand. And then I accidentally destroyed my foster parents' kitchen. It's not my fault, things just break around me, I swear! I thought the sand was a joke until evil Librarians came to steal it. You're probably thinking, "Librarians are nice people who recommend good books," but that's just what they want you to think! It turns out they're actually a secret cabal keeping the truth from you-a hidden world filled with magical eyeglasses, talking dinosaurs, and knights with crystal swords! Or so my Grandpa Smedry claimed when he suddenly showed up to rescue me. So now I have to go with him to invade the local library and get that sand back, before it's used to conquer the world. And Grandpa says how I keep breaking things is actually an amazing talent. There's no way that can all be true, right? Will I ever make it back home alive? "An excellent choice to read aloud to the whole family. Funny, exciting, and briskly paced." -NPR

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  The Misguided Thief , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 591min

  Well, it isn’t theft, Stellan Nieves tells himself, not when you’re stealing from a crook. Stellan, a married mid-20s Chicago accountant, dreams of a new life free from a spiteful wife and two unruly young daughters. His salvation comes by way of mobster Dusan “Squeezebox” Kovačević. Stellan stumbles onto a cache of $2.1 million hidden beneath loose floorboards at Squeezebox’s warehouse. He at first resists the temptation, but it proves too tempting. He plots out his theft, and, under the cover of darkness, bolts with the money in his trunk. Ditching his sensible Brooks Brothers suits and wingtip Oxfords, Stellan resurfaces in a small college town in Vermont. Certain no one would ever look for him there, he reinvents himself as Pete Harris, with a beard, wire frame eyeglasses, jeans, plaid shirts, hiking boots, and a pickup truck. A vengeful Squeezebox becomes apoplectic at the theft. He hunts manically for Stellan, but Federal indictments put an end to his search. Charged under the RICO Act, he receives a 60-year sentence. His forever home will be a 6’ x 8’ cell in a small federal prison. The only way Squeezebox will ever leave prison is in a pine box. Time passes, and serendipity plays her hand. While taking courses at the local college, a bulletin board notice seeking volunteers to teach English and math classes at the nearby prison catches Pete’s attention. He mulls it over. Why not? He can spare the few hours. The tension is palpable as the two men unexpectedly face each other across a small table in the prison waiting room. Will this chance meeting lead to their complete undoing, transformational redemption, or none of the above? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Kuhn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235280/bk_acx0_235280_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Wild Limo Ride: Crossdresing Stories, Book 31 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 31min, (USK 18)

  He noticed her as he came through the door that led into the arrival hall. He had actually stopped to adjust his eyeglasses and was hoping on moving on to the exit with the slim briefcase he held in his hand. The woman was holding a placard in her hand. There was something about her that made him take a closer look. It wasn’t as if he was the only person who had caught sight of the woman. He observed that other people, including men and women, who encountered her either had to take another look after they walked past her, or they deliberately stopped walking quickly in order to get a good look at her. So, even if he was supposed to be guilty and charged for staring, moping, or leering, at least he knew he wasn’t going to be alone. She reminded him of a pilot, the way that the black cap rested on her head as if it was meant to always be there. She wore it so well that it perfectly complemented her silver colored hair. And speaking of her hair, she chose to allow it to fall loosely on her shoulders and on her back. Her eyes were big, taking in everything that came within view. As she looked around, the long artificial eyelashes that she had on flicked and fluttered like the wings of a bird. Her nose was straight and pointed, while her lips were full and painted in bright red. She was dressed in what appeared to be a uniform made up of a white short-sleeved blouse and a pair of black pants. But it was not her uniform that was eye-catching. It was the figure inside the uniform. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katrina Medina. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/234266/bk_acx0_234266_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Leopold and Loeb: The History and Legacy of One of 20th Century America's Most Notorious Crimes and Trials , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 75min

  A superman...is, on account of certain superior qualities inherent in him, exempted from the ordinary laws which govern men. He is not liable for anything he may do. (Richard Loeb) There has been no shortage of shocking crimes and trials that generated frenzied coverage across America, but few can lay claim to the "crime of the century" like the murder carried out by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in 1924. While studying as young adults at the prestigious University of Chicago, Leopold and Loeb devised a meticulous plot to kidnap and murder a child while managing to get away with ransom money, thereby perpetrating what they considered a "perfect crime". On May 21, they put their plan in motion and targeted 14-year-old Bobby Franks, who had the misfortune of being acquainted with Loeb. Franks was lured into a vehicle and brutally murdered before Leopold and Loeb dumped his body 25 miles away. When attempts at ransom went awry almost immediately, Leopold and Loeb tried to cover their tracks, only to have a special set of eyeglasses link Franks' murder back to Leopold. Less than a week after the murder, the "perfect crime" completely unraveled when Leopold and Loeb were brought in for formal questioning and confessed. The crime was horrific enough, but the trial brought even more attention to the case, and it touched on several crucial issues. Both young men cited the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche as a motivation for attempting to commit the crime and prove they were better than the common man. As Leopold told his own attorney, "The killing was an experiment. It is just as easy to justify such a death as it is to justify an entomologist killing a beetle on a pin." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Gilboe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038160/bk_acx0_038160_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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