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    Voices in the Silence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 945min
    Intelligence agent David Morton must avert a world crisis and destroy a Russian-made weapon capable of controlling the U.S. President's mind. David Morton and his new Hammer Force - an intelligence agency created by the United Nations after the carnage in Bosnia - have a formidable task. To avert a world crisis they must win the deadly, invisible battle for control of the mind on the President of the United States. The weapon they must destroy is born out of the technology which brought victory in the Gulf War and supremacy in Space for an American that is no longer master of all it surveys. Created by the former Soviet Union’s most brilliant scientist, Professor Igor Tamasara, the weapon is designed to trigger responses in the President’s mind - responses that will bring the United States and Japan into conflict...and will lead to World War III. From that conflict will emerge Tamasara’s new paymaster - China - as the superpower of the 21st century. Set against the background of Washington, Beijing and Hong Kong - this highly original and totally credible futuristic thriller builds to a climax of nail-biting suspense. Once more showing an astonishing command of the inner workings of international politics and the world of secret intelligence, Gordon Thomas has created a first-rate work of fiction, featuring unforgettable characters. Center stage is David Morton, and in Voices in the Silence Morton’s role as 'the James Bond of the 90s' is firmly established, as is Gordon Thomas’s reputation as a thriller writer of quality. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012875/bk_adbl_012875_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Going Public...in Shorts!: Complete Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1008min
    From haunting ghost stories to classic fairy tales, Going Public ...In Shorts! is a collection of 40 classic and lesser-known works by history's greatest writers. Among the stories included are "The Death of a Government Clerk", Anton Chekhov's defining vignette; "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", Mark Twain's comedic story that earned him national fame; "The Gift of the Magi", O. Henry's masterful Christmastime tale about love and sacrifice; and "The Story of an Hour", Kate Chopin's enduring feminist work about a frail woman and her dead husband. Also included are lesser-known stories such as "Brown Wolf", a short tale by Jack London; "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", an early thriller-romance by F. Scott Fitzgerald; "The Spectre Bridegroom", a folk tale-style ghost story by Washington Irving; and "The Prophets' Paradise", a dreamlike narrative by Robert W. Chambers. Proceeds from the publisher's sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy organization. The full list of narrators: John Lee, Mark Turetsky, John McLain, Scott O'Neill, Diane Havens, Dick Hill, Simon Vance, John Pruden, Arielle DeLisle, Jo Anna Perrin, Dion Graham, Amy Rubinate, Kyle Munley, Adam Verner, Rachel Fulginiti, Cris Dukehart, Coleen Marlo, Susan Ericksen, Oliver Wyman, Paul Michael Garcia, Gabrielle de Cuir, Johnny Heller, Tish Hicks, Kaleo Griffith, David Drummond, Karen White, Peter Berkrot, Vanessa Hart, Patrick Lawlor, Jeffrey Kafer, Hillary Huber, Gary Dikeos, Luke Daniels, Stefan Rudnicki, Robert Fass, Cassandra Campbell, Robin Ray Eller, and Xe Sands. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: various narrators. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010011/bk_blak_010011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Poisoned Sky , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 851min
    David Morton is the hero of the most exciting and visible series of international action thrillers since James Bond was granted his licence. (The Sunday Times) Operative David Morton accompanies the US president on an anti-pollution campaign in an effort to infiltrate and foil an international conspiracy. The world’s getting smaller by the minute. In a remote corner of East Anglia six nuclear trigger mechanisms are stolen from a maximum security bunker. A few hours later the crew of a racing balloon are rescued from the North Sea. In Moscow, a former Soviet research scientist is seen leaving a mortuary in the dead of night. At the time of his disappearance, Sergei Mikhailovich Bodor was rumored to have been investigating the effect of the ozone layer’s destruction on the development of military hardware until the collapse of communism made his work obsolete. In Washington, the President of the United States unveils his vision of a worldwide environmental program, Operation Earth Saver, having finally won over the support of most of the major western leaders. To educate the developing nations of its merits, he is preparing to use the futuristic presidential airliner, Air Force One, as the traveling venue for the unique global conference tour. In the world headquarters of the multi-portfolio industrial conglomerate Meridian International, its own president Ignatius Bailey believes in a very different kind of survival…Poisoned Sky portrays a world almost too close to our own, shrunk by the most sophisticated of intelligence networks and ravaged by the industrial pollution, but a world in which individuals still have the power to change its future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012877/bk_adbl_012877_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Judy: A Legendary Film Career , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
    Through her incomparable work on screen, stage, record, radio, and television, Judy Garland earned renown as “The World’s Greatest Entertainer.” It was as a motion picture star though, that she first rose to international fame. From her feature film debut in 1936 through the aptly titled I Could Go on Singing in 1963, she lit up the screen with a magic uniquely hers—and dazzled world-wide audiences of all ages.Judy Garland starred in two dozen of the all-time classic movie musicals, among them A Star is Born, Meet Me in St. Louis, Babes in Arms, Easter Parade, For Me and My Gal, and The Harvey Girls. Her dramatic turns in Judgment at Nuremberg, The Clock, and A Child is Waiting won added acclaim. And perhaps most unforgettably, she starred as Dorothy Gale in the best-loved motion picture of all time: The Wizard of Oz.Judy: A Legendary Film Career tells the story of Garland’s movie work in unprecedented detail. Hundreds of never-before-published photos, newly-assembled contemporary reviews, insight from her costars and coworkers, and production histories are provided for each film in which she appeared. Highlighting and complimenting the feature films is a definitive biography; an examination of Judy’s short subjects; details of the movies she did not complete; and an enthralling compendium of film projects for which she was considered or rumored. The text is illustrated by more than five hundred photos, encompassing poster art; costume tests; behind-the-scenes candids; onstage and backstage glimpses of her theatrical successes; and personal snapshots. Judy is the exhaustively researched work of historian John Fricke. He celebrates as never before the heart, humor, and incandescent motion picture achievement of the one-and-only Judy Garland. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017162/bk_adbl_017162_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Red April: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
    Peru, the 1980s and 1990s: It was a cruel, bloody and terrifying era. The rebels of Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path"), founded by philosophy professor, Abimael Guzman, slaughtered vilagers in the mountains and hung dogs from power lines, their carcasses canvases for Maoist slogans. The government responded with a corrosive mix of assasination, bribery and intrigue which brought down the rebel leader but triggered the fall of the president. For some this described a successful counterinsurgency, for others a cautionary tale about the cost to democracy of fighting terrorism. For all this period of Peru's history was a nightmare. Red April - remarkable for the self-assured clarity of its style, the inexorable momentum of its exposition, and the moral complexity of its concerns - traces the investigation of a bizarre, horrible murder, conducted by a mother-haunted, literature-loving, by-the-book prosecutor, Felix Chacaltana Saldivar, a heretofore unambitious petty bureaucrat abandoned by his wife. He has done nothing bad in life, nothing good. But as we follow the propulsive twists and turns of his investigation, we are compelled to confront what happens to a man and a society when death becomes the the only form of life. A note to the listener of Red April from the author: "The Senderista methods of attack described in this book, as well as the counter-subversive strategies of investigation, torture, and disappearance, are real. Many of the dialogues of the characters are in fact quotations from Senderista documents or statements made by terrorists, officials, and members of the armed forces who participated in the conflict.... However, all the characters, as well as most of the situations and places mentioned here are fictitious, and even factual details have been taken out of the context of their place, time, and meaning. Like all novels, this book recounts a story that could have happened, but its author does not confirm t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000374/bk_acx0_000374_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Godless Icon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1048min
    A military troika in Russia, a pastor in California bent on spreading global hatred, and most sinister of all, a powerful Chinese businessman, threaten world peace, whilst in Rome, a dying Pope Nicholas the Sixth strives to unite all the faiths of the world. In a world ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, we once again meet David Morton, the intelligence agent who emerged as the James Bond for the 90s, in Deadly Perfume. After the collapse of the Soviet Empire, a military troika is in power. Suspicious of the West, fearful of the Moslem fanatics to the East, the troika plans to ensure that the Republic of Russia emerges as a military superpower. In Rome a very different plan preoccupies Pope Nicholas the Sixth - to unite all the faiths and bring to the world a peace and stability it has never known. But Nicholas is dying from a brain tumor. It is to Julius Enkomo, South Africa’s first black Cardinal, that Pope Nicholas turns, entrusting him with a crucial, secret mission. In California the pastor of the Church of True Belief, the Reverend Edward Kingdom, uses his satellite to spread global hatred. But the threat of Wong Lee is the most sinister of all. Head of the world’s largest conglomerate, he is powerful beyond belief. Using a mosaic of shard-like details, each meticulously exact, this extraordinary novel explores the dark, turbulent forces which Morton must overcome if he is to destroy the cynical alliance around him. Already compared to Ian Fleming and John le Carre, in Godless Icon Gordon Thomas confirms his reputation as a novelist of stature. Gordon Thomas is the author of Gideon’s Spies and Secret Wars: Inside British Intelligence. His series of Morton Books continue where his inside revelations about the secret world and secret intelligence began. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012874/bk_adbl_012874_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Organ Hunters: A David Morton Novel, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 965min
    On a remote island in Central America, David Morton must foil Dr. Gustav Romer, who performs transplants for the elite of the crime world with organs harvested from those killed by a sinister organization. On a remote island in Central America, Dr. Gustav Romer - once the medical supreme of the now defunct Stasi, the East German security service, and the world’s leading immunologist until his reported death - has secretly built a clinic like no other. His patients are the elite of the crime world - Mafia bosses, Triad leaders, the new czars of the Russian criminal fraternity, the lords of the Japanese underworld. For them, he provides organ transplants. The organs come from the bodies of those killed for that very purpose by the sinister organization which employs Romer and his staff. They owe allegiance to one person, the person known as Madam. Rich beyond comparison, her wealth is equaled only by her evil. But to a still unsuspecting world she is best known for her charitable acts. And for her hatred of the other woman in her dead lover’s life - his wife. Theirs is an unremitting feud which straddles the globe. Once a year fate brings them together - at the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm. This year, David Morton of Hammer Force, the police agency created by the United Nations, has a personal interest in the Awards - his long-time friend and collaborator, Dr. Yoshi Kramer, is to receive the Prize for Medicine. Only Morton knows that Yoshi himself has a heart condition and needs urgent surgery.… Gordon Thomas has created a stunningly original plot to succeed his previous David Morton adventures - Deadly Perfume, Godless Icon, and Voices in the Silence. Combining the author’s matchless knowledge of the latest medical technology with that of the secret intelligence world, Organ Hunters is a compelling story of life - from death. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012876/bk_adbl_012876_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 763min
    From roots to canopy, a lush, verdant history of the making of California. California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and civic reformers began to "improve" the bare, brown countryside, planting millions of trees to create groves, wooded suburbs, and landscaped cities. They imported the blue-green eucalypts whose tangy fragrance was thought to cure malaria. They built the lucrative "Orange Empire" on the sweet juice and thick skin of the Washington navel, an industrial fruit. They lined their streets with graceful palms to announce that they were not in the Midwest anymore. To the north the majestic coastal redwoods inspired awe and invited exploitation. A resource in the state, the durable heartwood of these timeless giants became infrastructure, transformed by the saw teeth of American enterprise. By 1900 timber firms owned the entire redwood forest; by 1950 they had clear-cut almost all of the old-growth trees. In time California’s new landscape proved to be no paradise: The eucalypts in the Berkeley hills exploded in fire; the orange groves near Riverside froze on cold nights; Los Angeles’ palms harbored rats and dropped heavy fronds on the streets below. Disease, infestation, and development all spelled decline for these nonnative evergreens. In the north, however, a new forest of second-growth redwood took root, nurtured by protective laws and sustainable harvesting. Today there are more California redwoods than there were a century ago. Rich in character and story, Trees in Paradise is a dazzling narrative that offers an insightful, new perspective on the history of the Golden State and the American West. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015263/bk_adbl_015263_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Saul Steinberg: A Biography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1772min
    From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.The issue date was March 29, 1976. The New Yorker cost 75 cents. And on the cover unfolded Saul Steinberg's vision of the world: New York City, the Hudson River, and then...well, it's really just a bunch of stuff you needn't concern yourself with. Steinberg's brilliant depiction of the world according to self-satisfied New Yorkers placed him squarely in the pantheon of the magazine's - and the era's - most celebrated artists. But if you look beyond the searing wit and stunning artistry, you'll find one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. Born in Romania, Steinberg was educated in Milan andwas already famous for his satirical drawings when World War II forced him to immigrate to the United States. On a single day, Steinberg became a US citizen, a commissioned officer in the US Navy, and a member of the OSS, assigned to spy in China, North Africa, and Italy. After the war ended, he returned to America and to his art. He quickly gained entree into influential circles that included Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, Willem de Kooning, and Le Corbusier. His wife was the artist Hedda Sterne, from whom heseparated in 1960 but never divorced and with whom he remained in daily contact for the rest ofhis life. This conveniently freed him up to amass a coterie of young mistresses and lovers. But his truly great love was the United States, wherehe traveled extensively by bus, train, and car, drawing, observing, and writing. His body of work is staggering and influential in ways we may not yet even be able to fully grasp, quite possibly because there has not been a full-scale biography of him until now.Deirdre Bair had access to 177 boxes of documents and more than 400 drawings. In addition, she conducted several hundred personal interviews. Steinberg's curious talent for creating myths about h ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012883/bk_adbl_012883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kos Reiseführer Michael Müller Verlag
    Anders reisen und dabei das Besondere entdecken: Mit den aktuellen Tipps aus den Michael-Müller-Reiseführern gestalten Sie Ihre Reise individuell, nachhaltig und sicher.Urlaub auf Kos - Frank Naundorf und Yvonne Greiner nehmen Sie mit auf die Ägäis-Insel mit den paradiesischen Stränden. Die neunte Auflage des Reiseführers »Kos« hat 240 Seiten mit 120 Farbfotos, prall gefüllt mit allem Wissenswertem und vielen Geheimtipps der Autoren, um Ihren Kos-Urlaub einzigartig zu machen. In engagierter Kleinarbeit haben die Autoren alles vor Ort akribisch recherchiert. 25 Karten inklusive der vier Nachbarinseln Patmos, Kalymnos, Nissiros und Pserimos sowie zehn Wanderungen und zwei Radtouren führen Sie in jeden Winkel der Insel. Ökologisch, regional und nachhaltig wirtschaftende Betriebe sind gekennzeichnet.Die Insel im Überblick: Die Stadt Kos und Umgebung, die Nordküste mit Tigaki, Mastihari und Marmari, das Dikeos-Gebirge, die Tavernen von Zia, Kunst in Pyli, die Inselmitte mit Kardamena und Antimachia, der Inselwesten mit Kefalos, Kamari und dem Paradise Beach, die Nachbarinseln Kalymnos und ihre Schwammtaucher, Pserimos, die Vulkaninsel Nissiros, Patmos und Bodrum - mit dem Reiseführer »Kos« kennen Sie sich so gut aus wie die Einheimischen.Was ist los auf Kos? Griechenlands Geschichte hinterließ viele archäologische Sehenswürdigkeiten. Interessierte können auf der Insel zahlreiche Zeugnisse der Griechen, der Römer, von Kreuzrittern und mohammedanischer Herrschaft bewundern. Das sonnige Wetter Kos' macht die Insel zu einem idealen Ziel für klassischen Strandurlaub. Wanderfreunden und Naturliebhabern hat Kos viel zu bieten: Im Frühjahr entrollt die Natur auf Kos einen Blütenteppich, daher der antike Beiname »schwimmender Garten der Ägäis«. Badefreunde sind entzückt von den 70 Kilometern Strand und der im Allgemeinen hohen Wasserqualität. Darüber hinaus lockt Einmaliges wie die kostenfreie Empros-Therme unter freiem Himmel im Osten der Insel. 144 Seiten im Reiseführer Kos strotzen vor solchen Highlights und Geheimtipps.Kos mit Kindern: Die lieben Kleinen sind herzlich willkommen auf der Insel. Sie zahlen in Museen und archäologischen Stätten nur den halben Eintritt. Kreuzritterburgen oder die Geisterstadt Paleo Pyli beflügeln die Fantasie. Go-Kart-Bahn und Ponyreiten begeistern ebenso wie eine Fahrt im Mini-Zug, wenn es für eine Radtour zu warm ist. Die vielen Sandstrände mit guter Wasserqualität laden zum Planschen und Sandburgenbauen ein. Der Reiseführer »Kos« kennt alle Strände und verrät, wo es besonders schön ist.Essen und Trinken: In schlichten Tavernen und Restaurants wird typische Insel-Küche serviert. Mediterran, mit türkischen und italienischen Einflüssen - gerne einfach, dafür frisch und ursprünglich. Der Reiseführer »Kos« hat eine kleine Übersicht mit den wichtigsten Speisen von Fisch und Fleisch, Käse, vegetarisch bis zu den Nachspeisen. Wo sich eine Einkehr besonders lohnt, verraten die ausgesuchten Geheimtipps der Autoren.Unterkunft und Übernachtung auf Kos: Hotels, Appartements, Pensionen und Privatzimmer sind auf der Insel in mehr als ausreichender Zahl verfügbar. Die Autoren haben alle Unterkünfte geprüft. Tipps zur Auswahl Ihrer Unterkunft und worauf Sie bei der Ankunft auf der Insel besonders achten sollten, verrät der Reiseführer »Kos«.Mit dem Reiseführer »Kos« haben Sie einen detailliert vor Ort recherchierten Begleiter an der Seite, der mit bewährten Tipps und hilfreichen Hinweisen Ihren Kos-Urlaub zu einem individuellen und gelungenen Erlebnis macht.Gut zu wissen: Dieser Reiseführer des Michael Müller Verlags wurde klimaneutral produziert.
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