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    The Deal from Hell
    The Deal from Hell ab 11.99 € als epub eBook: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaften,
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    Treasure Island (AmazonClassics Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 439min
    Peg-legged pirates, colorful parrots, and plundered riches - they're all here in Robert Louis Stevenson's original seafaring adventure. When young Jim Hawkins decides to follow a map to buried treasure, he must befriend or outsmart memorable characters such as pirate Long John Silver, captain Billy Bones, and island man Ben Gunn. Mutinous plans, mysterious deaths, and a tangle of double crosses keep Jim guessing all the way to the prize. Inspired by real-life seafarers, Stevenson captures the adventurous spirit of the times and the imagination of readers, young and old alike. Revised edition: Previously published as Treasure Island, this edition of Treasure Island (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Page. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009222/bk_brll_009222_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min
    From the best-selling author of The Lightouse Stevensons, a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea. A fine wreck has always represented sport, pleasure, treasure and, in many cases, the difference between living well and just getting by. The Cornish were supposed to be so ferocious that notices of shipwrecks were given out during morning service by the minister whilst the congregation spent their time concocting elaborate theological justifications for drowning the survivors. Treeless islanders relied on the harvest of storms to furnish themselves with rafters, boat hulls, fence posts and floors. In other places false lights were set up with grisly ingenuity along the coast to lure boats to destruction. With romance, insight and dry wit, Bella Bathurst traces the history of wrecking, looting and salvaging in the British Isles since the 18th century and leading up to the present day. 'For a fully laden general cargo to run to ground in an accessible position is more or less like having Selfridges crash-land in your back garden,' she writes. 'A Selfridges with the prices removed.' Far from being a black-and-white crime, wrecking is often seen as opaque by its practitioners - the divisions between theft and recovery are small. No successful legal prosecution has ever been brought; the RNLI was founded by wreckers - even today lifeboat crews maintain the right to claim salvage; and since the sinking of the Cita in 1997, the inhabitants of the Scilly Isles have a startling propensity to sport Ben Sherman shirts. In settings ranging from the eerily perambulatory Goodwin Sands to the wreck-strewn waters off the coast of Durham, these murky tales of resourcefulness and quick-witted opportunism open a beguiling vista of life at the rough edges of our land and legality. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Crankshaw. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031853/bk_adbl_031853_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A World to Live In: An Ecologist's Vision for a Plundered Planet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min
    A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the Earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the Earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the biosphere is now a global human protectorate and that its integrity of structure and function are tied closely to the human future. The earth is a living system, Woodwell explains, and its stability is threatened by human disruption. The assumption that we can continue to use fossil fuels and "adapt" to climate disruption, Woodwell argues, is a ticket to catastrophe. But Woodwell points the way toward a solution. We must respect the full range of life on Earth - not species alone, but their natural communities of plant and animal life that have built, and still maintain, the biosphere. We must recognize that the Earth's living systems are our heritage and that the preservation of the integrity of a finite biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: W.B. Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082403/bk_acx0_082403_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Unvanquished: How Women of the South Survived the Civil War: In Their Own Words , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 138min
    Eyewitness accounts from over 50 diaries of southern women facing the hardships of the Civil War. Includes voices of slave women. As Yankee soldiers plundered, and starvation stalked the land, they hid food and heirlooms in wells and swamps. They watched Atlanta and Georgia burn and fed hungry children. Vivid accounts of women who witnessed the battles. Turned into food scavengers at the brink of starvation, southern women devised ways to feed their children. Genteel wives and southern aristocracy were catapulted out of their cozy worlds of privilege. They endured humiliation, terror, and grief, yet prevailed. Numerous diary entries. Includes frugal Civil War recipes: oatmeal pie, cabbage stew, "idiot's delight" cake, and Hoppin John. Their stories offer inspiration in resilience and determination. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Virginia Ferguson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167826/bk_acx0_167826_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Razor Rocks : Paradise Crime Mysteries, Book 13 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min
    Paradise is plundered by pirates.Someone is attacking and robbing luxury yachts as they sail the Hawaiian Islands leaving their passengers missing and presumed dead. Sergeant Lei Texeira, with her typical leap first look later style, dives into a case with the Coast Guard to find answers that lie as deep as Davy Jones’ locker.He’s taking back what was stolen.The Pirate King has a hidden agenda that’s bigger than the pillage of luxury yachts, and he’ll stop at nothing to reign on the sea.Lei is back, solving crime! Grab this fast-paced mystery with a twist of romance, and take a trip to Hawaii with the series that’s sold more than a million copies!"This series is persistently riveting." (Kirkus Reviews) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sara Malia Hatfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222338/bk_acx0_222338_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 791min
    In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it owned the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In The Deal From Hell, veteran Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to disaster in boardrooms and newsrooms from coast to coast, based on access to key players, court testimony, and sworn depositions. The Deal from Hell is a riveting narrative that chronicles how news industry executives and editors - convinced they were acting in the best interests of their publications - made a series of flawed decisions that endangered journalistic credibility and drove the newspapers, already confronting a perfect storm of political, technological, economic, and social turmoil, to the brink of extinction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L. J. Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003247/bk_adbl_003247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Horizon
    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author's travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity's thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today's ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.
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    Spiritual Awakening : Ghosted, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 115min, (USK 18)
    “Nearly all my life, I have been searching. I have navigated tunnels, oceans, and deserts. I have searched ships, plundered citadels and circumvented flows of lava and yet my princess is always in another castle.” He's a lonely construction worker with an affinity for vintage video games. She's a homicidal, spirit looking to rape his mind in an attempt at vengeance. Can it ever work between them? Should it?From the mind that brought you Level Up, come join the journey as Alexa Sommers takes you for a walk on the wild side. Author's Note: This book is the first in a number of novella length serials. As such, it does not have a traditional ending and is not intended to be listened to as a standalone book.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sharmila Devar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227835/bk_acx0_227835_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Pirate and the Alpha: BBW Shapeshifter Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 42min, (USK 18)
    His hands grabbed my hips, his fingernails digging into me. Claiming me. His prize. The Lady Brass was feared far and wide. Dozens of ships I've plundered with my crew. We were whispered about in every tavern from Cuba to Haiti. But no amount of fearsome reputation can save you when your ship is sinking. I should've died in that battle. I should've died at sea. I should've died when the Royal Navy sailor found me unconscious on the beach. But I didn't. I don't know what happened or what kind of beast he is. Nor do I know why I've found my eyes lingering on his body.... This audiobook is for 18+ only. Over 6,600 words of a BBW pirate queen being taken roughly by a bestial alpha male shapeshifter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Audrey Lusk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037396/bk_acx0_037396_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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