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Jimmy Hoffa Called My Mom a Bitch: Profiles in Stupidity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 519min

The book is broken up into various chapters of stupidity: Stupid Democrats, Stupid Republicans, Stupid Atheists, Stupid Christians, Stupid Criminals, Stupid Policies, Stupid People and so on. The "Stupid Criminals" chapter contains one of my favorite columns that appeared on the Detroit News' political website. The June 29, 2010 column is titled "Globe Al Warming Gets Rubbed the Wrong Way," and it takes on allegations that the former VP got inappropriately horny with female masseuse at a Portland, Oregon hotel. That column also continues the sick, yet hilarious saga of Otis "Masturgate" Mathis, the illiterate (no kidding), former head of Detroit Public Schools who was forced out after he admittedly fondled himself in front of numerous female superintendents. No, I am not making this up. I coined the scandal "Masturgate" and it soon became the rage in Detroit media and made my column one of the most popular on the site. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Eaken. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/041394/bk_acx0_041394_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and Other Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 473min

In It's Just the Way It Was, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the investigations, covert surveillance, and murky world of informants in the war against organized crime. Make no mistake about it. It was a war targeting the insidious nature of the mob and their detrimental effect on Rhode Island and throughout New England.Indeed, the audiobook reveals the extensive nature of organized crime throughout the United States. From the opening moments detailing a mob enforcer's near-death in a hail of gunfire to the potentially deadly confrontation between then detective Brendan Doherty and a notorious mob associate Gerard Ouimette, this book puts you right there in the middle.Most books on the mob tell a sanitized story of guys who relished their time as mobsters. As Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys put it, "Most mob books are the egomaniacal ravings of an illiterate hood masquerading as a benevolent godfather." This is not that kind of book. This is the story of the good guys. It's just the way it was. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184455/bk_acx0_184455_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Charlemagne: A Life from Beginning to End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 65min

It is possible that no man has ever dominated a time as much as Charles the Great dominated the Early Middle Ages. It is true that the era had its kings, warriors, scholars, and religious leaders, but in many ways, Charlemagne was all of these things. Inside you will hear about.... "Charles the Carolingian" "Charles the Conqueror" "Charles the King" "Charles the Man" "Charles the Holy Roman Emperor" "The End of Charlemagne" He conquered land for the Franks and sent in missionaries to convert the pagans to Christianity. He was probably illiterate, but he brought in Europe’s most renowned scholar, Alcuin of York, to transform education for both clergy and laity. He was much-married and virile, but he cherished his children and provided education for both his sons and his daughters. When he was named the Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III, his title was a Christian benediction for the conquest that unified Western Europe. The unification did not last, but the legend never faded. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nate Sjol. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104882/bk_acx0_104882_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min

From the New York Times best-selling authority on early Christianity, the story of how Christianity grew from a religion of 20 or so peasants in rural Galilee to the dominant religion in the West in less than 400 years. Christianity didn't have to become the dominant religion in the West. It easily could have remained a sect of Judaism fated to have the historical importance of the Sadducees or the Essenes. In The Triumph of Christianity, Bart Ehrman, a master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, shows how a religion whose first believers were 20 or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some 30 million people in just four centuries. The Triumph of Christianity combines deep knowledge and meticulous research in an eye-opening narrative that upends the way we think about the single most important cultural transformation our world has ever seen - one that revolutionized art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics, economics, and law. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern, Bart D. Ehrman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008007/bk_sans_008007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 957min

The best-selling novel that introduces Margaret of Ashbury and launches a trilogy featuring this irrepressible woman. Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in 14th-century England, she is illiterate. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret’s scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task. As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness. Married off at the age of 14 to a merchant reputed to be the Devil himself, Margaret was left for dead during the Black Plague. Incredibly, she survived, was apprenticed to an herbalist, and became a midwife. But most astonishing of all, Margaret has experienced a Mystic Union—a Vision of Light that endows her with the miraculous gift of healing. Because of this ability, Margaret has become suddenly different—to her tradition-bound parents, to the bishop’s court that tries her for heresy, and ultimately to the man who falls in love with her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Flosnik. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008035/bk_adbl_008035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 543min

The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. They are little known to history: Sydney Howard Gay, an abolitionist newspaper editor; Louis Napoleon, a furniture polisher; Charles B. Ray, a black minister. At great risk they operated the Underground Railroad in New York, a city whose businesses, banks, and politics were deeply enmeshed in the slave economy. In secret coordination with black dockworkers who alerted them to the arrival of fugitives and with counterparts in Norfolk, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Albany, and Syracuse, underground-railroad operatives in New York helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Their defiance of the notorious Fugitive Slave Law inflamed the South. White and black, educated and illiterate, they were heroic figures in the ongoing struggle between slavery and freedom. Making brilliant use of fresh evidence - including the meticulous record of slave rescues secretly kept by Gay - Eric Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. D. Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000903/bk_high_000903_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Whispers on the Wind: A Prairie Hearts Novel, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 717min

A straitlaced bookseller and a rowdy trail guide fight their ill-suited attraction in Book Five of the Prairie Hearts series by USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe. Wyoming Territory, October 1883 Tabitha Canterbury came to Logan Meadows with one goal: to open the bookshop she's always dreamed of having. In a town full of illiterate cowboys, though, making the Storybook Lodge a success is easier said than done. And things get more complicated when the saloon next door gets a new co-owner and Tabitha finds herself falling for the wrong sort of man.... After a lifetime guiding settlers across the prairie, Hunter Wade isn't looking to stay put in Logan Meadows. But as a partner in the Bright Nugget saloon, he's determined to turn a profit - and if that puts him in competition with Miss Hoity-Toity Canterbury, that's fine. Even if she is beautiful, and clever, and always ready with a witty retort. Can these two stubborn souls come together - or will pride keep them apart? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Glouchevitch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008318/bk_brll_008318_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Emperors of Byzantium

A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of its 92 emperors.The Byzantine empire was one of the most successful states of the Middle Ages, ruling over a huge terrain straddling Europe and western Asia for an unrivalled eleven hundred years. Yet its history remains largely unfamiliar. This chronicle brings this majestic yet turbulent period to life through the lives of its emperors: supreme military commander, Head of State and God's representative on earth, no less.These were the men and women that presided over many of the foundations of the modern world, from the establishment of the Eastern Orthodox Christian faith, to the magnificent artistic heritage of Hagia Sophia and Mount Athos, and the creation of a visual template for Christian art.Each illustrated biographical entry contributes to the story of how Byzantium shaped our art, culture, religious beliefs and justice systems, and the role this extraordinary empire played in halting repeated invasions, allowing the idea of 'Europe' to flourish. Through stories of nobility and petty revenge, of religious devotion and brutal genocide, and of sexual intrigue and artistic brilliance; from soaring intellectuals to illiterate peasants, eunuchs and despots, this is a humanizing portrayal of individuals, whose role impacted the lives of millions.

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The Boy in the Window: A Mennonite Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 342min

Growing up as a Ragland boy meant a one-way street to nowhere — until the Mennonites moved to town. Robert Ragland toiled every day on his family’s Appalachian tobacco farm as a young boy. His father, an impoverished and illiterate sharecropper, spent his earnings on alcohol and beat his children and wife constantly. And Robert couldn’t take one more strike. Meanwhile, Mennonite families had moved to town, providing food and comfort when Robert’s mother broke her leg. Witnessing compassion from these people, Robert wondered: What would it feel like to belong to a group where I was wanted, loved, and appreciated? What if I could break free my father’s abuse and the Ragland destiny? What if I could become one of them? Desperate to escape his lot in life as a white trash failure, Robert joins the Mennonite church, gets married, and becomes a father. Despite his new life, Robert hides dark secrets and deep wounds from his Mennonite family. The Boy in the Window is a powerful true account of heartbreak, defeat, and failure. But most of all, it’s an inspirational story of redemption, healing, and hope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Weaver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/204103/bk_acx0_204103_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Time of Women , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 473min

Life is not easy in the Soviet Union at mid-20th century, especially for a factory worker who becomes an unwed mother. But Antonina is lucky to get a room in a communal apartment that she and her little girl share with three old women. Glikeria is the daughter of former serfs. Ariadna comes from a wealthy family and speaks French. Yevdokia is illiterate and bitter. All have lost their families, all are deeply traditional, and all become “grannies” to little Suzanna. Only they secretly name her Sofia. And just as secretly they impart to her the history of her country as they experienced it: The Revolution, the early days of the Soviet Union, the blockade and starvation of World War II. The little girl responds by drawing beautiful pictures, but she is mute. If the authorities find out she will be taken from her home and sent to an institution. When Antonina falls desperately ill, the grannies are faced with the reality of losing the little girl they love - unless a stepfather can be found before it is too late. And for that, they need a miracle. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Raz Mason. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013399/bk_acx0_013399_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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