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    A History Of The Greenbacks V9 Second Series
    A History Of The Greenbacks V9 Second Series ab 40.99 € als Taschenbuch: With Special Reference To The Economic Consequences Of Their Issue 1862-65. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    Murder on the Florida Frontier: The True Story behind Sanford's Headless Miser Legend , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 322min
    Archie Newton stepped off the river steamer in 1880 with a letter of introduction and a secret. Seeking refuge, the young Newton hoped for a new life on the Florida frontier. Samuel McMillan was a miserly Sanford bachelor who carried large sums of "greenbacks" and trusted no one. The ambitious Newton had his eye on purchasing McMillan's profitable orange grove. But on his way back from Newton's home one evening, McMillan disappeared, and he wasn't seen again until his headless, mutilated corpse was pulled from a nearby lake. Newton's trial was sensational and the evidence gruesome, and local legends grew of a headless ghost rising from the lake. Author Andrew Fink chronicles the twists and turns of this shocking story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Huddleston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170435/bk_acx0_170435_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    More Brains Than Bullets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 61min
    Banker Tom Lindsay made a bad decision when he decided to do business with Ross Yerby. Yerby convinced Tom to print a few extra greenbacks to help him trade some cattle in exchange for half the profit. What Tom hadn't figured into the equation was Ross losing the money, and returning - desperate - for more. An argument between the two men goes bad, Lindsay is killed, and Yerby flees with a bundle of Lindsay's cash in tow. With no witnesses to the robbery turned murder, the first accusing finger is pointed at Lindsay's assistant Bill Culver, who's conveniently absent when Lindsay's body is discovered. But Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie, who's just arrived in town on a different matter, decides to take a detour and try to find Lindsay's killer. What he finds is a second victim -- but this one's still alive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: uncredited. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/rand/001541/pf_rand_001541_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Case of the Singing Skirt: Perry Mason Series, Book 58 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 315min
    Ellen Robb does more than just sing for her supper - she also dances and sells cigarettes in a two-bit gambling parlor in a one-horse town. But when she hits a sour note with her scheming employer by refusing to help fleece a fat-cat customer in a crooked card game, she finds herself out of all three jobs. That's when she sings her song of woe to Perry Mason, who promises to turn her blues into greenbacks with the help of his crack team, Della Street, and Paul Drake, and a hefty lawsuit. Things are humming along just fine - until murder interrupts the merry melody of Mason's crafty legal maneuvers. When the vindictive wife of Ellen Robb's not-so-secret lover turns up shot to death, Mason is certain it's a frame-up - and that his songbird client's belligerent boss is to blame. Until his own gun is found at the scene. The cocksure Mason will have to change his tune - and do some quick thinking - or else this case could be his swan song. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Cendese. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008981/bk_brll_008981_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Deadly Dollars : An O'Brien Western, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 223min
    From the pen of Amazon Kindle number one best-selling Western writer Ben Bridges comes....The Deadly DollarsA mad-dog killer running loose up in the Rockies…a bank robbery that ended in death…a fortune in stolen greenbacks…and three hanged men swaying gently in the breeze....They were all elements in a bizarre mystery the likes of which professional adventurer Carter O’Brien had never encountered before.Up until a hidden sniper damn near killed him, all he’d wanted was to ride on to his next job in nearby Jackson’s Peak, but it looked like somebody else had other ideas.Suddenly he was up to his neck in something deadly. Why had people started dying all around him? Who was the bushwhacker and his sinister Oriental sidekick? And why had they picked on him?Almost before he knew it, O’Brien found himself riding a dangerous trail of deadly dollars in order to find the answers. Too bad he didn’t know he was being watched every step of the way...."Not just an excellent western, but a real conundrum of a mystery that I defy anyone to solve!" (Mike Stotter, author of McKinney's Revenge and Death in the Canyon) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vincent Hase. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226716/bk_acx0_226716_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It (Discovering America) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 275min
    How did the greenback achieve planetary dominance a mere century and a half after President Lincoln issued the first currency backed only by the credit - and credibility - of the federal government? In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in US monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the US treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent US monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power - and the enormous risks - of the dollar's worldwide reign. The book is published by University of Texas Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Killavey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115959/bk_acx0_115959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860-1865 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 250min
    Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865. Drawing on contemporary reports in the Los Angeles Star, Southern News, and other sources, Robinson shows how the war came to Los Angeles and narrates the struggle between the pro-Southern faction and the Unionists.Los Angeles in the early 1860s was a developing town, lacking many of the refinements of civilization that San Francisco then enjoyed, and was much smaller than the bustling metropolis we know today. The audiobook focuses on the effects of the war on Los Angeles, but Robinson also considers social and economic problems to provide a broader view of the community and its place in the nation. The Conscription Act and devalued greenbacks incited public unrest, and the cattle-killing drought of 1862-64, a smallpox epidemic, and recurrent vigilantism challenged Angelenos as well.California historians and those interested in the city’s historical record will find this audiobook a fascinating addition to the body of California’s Civil War history.Published by University of Oklahoma Press."Brief, very readable, and important book...." - Thomas F. Andrews, research historian for special collections, Asuza Pacific University ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Toner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106783/bk_acx0_106783_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Silver Lies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 804min
    The crooked, the greedy, and those with a checkered past - they all came to Leadville with the same purpose: Get in, get rich, get out. As 1879 draws to a close, silver fever burns hot in the Rocky Mountain boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. Unfortunately for Joe Rose, an assayer of precious metals, death stakes its own claim. Joe’s body is found trampled into the muck behind Inez Stannert’s saloon. Inez already has much more to deal with than pouring shots of Taos Lightning. A lady educated on the East Coast, she has a past that doesn’t bear close scrutiny, due in part to her elopement with a gambling man who has recently disappeared. Most of the townsfolk, including Inez’s business partner, Abe Jackson, dismiss Joe’s death as an accident. Death, after all, is no stranger in Leadville. But Inez wonders why this loving husband and father was carrying a brass token good for “one free screw” at the parlor house of Denver madam Mattie Silks. When Joe’s widow Emma asks Inez to settle Joe’s affairs, Inez reluctantly agrees and soon uncovers skewed assays, bogus greenbacks, and blackmail, leading her to believe that Joe was murdered. Was he killed over money or for purely personal motives? It’s up to Inez to find out. Ann Parker, a science writer by day, is the author of the Silver Rush historical mystery series, of which Silver Lies was the winner of the Willa Cather Award for Historical Fiction and the Colorado Gold Award for Best Mystery. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirsten Potter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005498/bk_blak_005498_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Colors of Truth : The Carnton Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 925min
    In a town battered and bruised by war, one woman embarks upon an impossible search - and one man must face the past in the very place that almost destroyed him.Tennessee, 1866. According to the last letter Irish immigrant Catriona O'Toole received from her twin brother, Ryan, he was being dispatched to Franklin, Tennessee, where - as a conscripted Confederate soldier - he likely endured the bloody Battle of Franklin that claimed the lives of thousands. Catriona leaves behind the lush green of their Irish homeland in search of him, with nothing to her name except the sum of cash Ryan sent to their family. Now the sole provider for her seven-year-old spitfire sister, Nora, Catriona hopes to reunite the siblings - the only surviving members of their devastated family.Wade Cunningham is a former Federal soldier who now works for the newly formed United States Secret Service and is trying to uncover counterfeiting rings in the postwar South. In order to infiltrate their sophisticated enterprise, he must pose as a former Confederate in Franklin - a town where counterfeit greenbacks run rampant. When Wade meets Catriona, he is immediately intrigued by her and the little redheaded scamp in her care - but what he doesn't anticipate is that the cash in Catriona's possession is some of the most convincing counterfeit money he's ever seen. Soon the object of Wade's affection is also the suspect in a major crime - one he's expected to prosecute.With rich historical detail and multifaceted prose, USA Today best-selling author Tamera Alexander tells a riveting tale of truth, betrayal, and unlikely romance that unveils the many shades of God's perfect redemption.The Carnton series are stand-alone novels, meaning they are part of a series but can be enjoyed individually.Christmas at Carnton, a novellaWith This Pledge, book oneColors of Truth, book two ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Rudd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227019/bk_acx0_227019_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 875min
    In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times best sellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, DC, and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this momentous period of American history. With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern town of Washington, DC, found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States. After the declaration of secession, many fascinating Southern women left the city, leaving their friends - such as Adele Cutts Douglas and Elizabeth Blair Lee - to grapple with questions of safety and sanitation as the capital was transformed into an immense Union army camp and later a hospital. With their husbands, brothers, and fathers marching off to war, either on the battlefield or in the halls of Congress, the women of Washington joined the cause as well. And more women went to the Capital City to enlist as nurses, supply organizers, relief workers, and journalists. Many risked their lives making munitions in a highly flammable arsenal; toiled at the Treasury Department, printing greenbacks to finance the war; and plied their needlework skills at the Navy Yard - once the sole province of men - to sew canvas gunpowder bags for the troops. Cokie Roberts chronicles these women's increasing independence, their political empowerment, and their indispensable role in keeping the Union unified through the war and in helping heal it once the fighting was done. She concludes that the war not only changed Washington, but it also forever changed the place of women. Sifting through newspaper articles, government records, and private letters and diaries - many never before published - Roberts brings the war-torn capital into focus through the lives of its formidable women. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cokie Roberts. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004425/bk_harp_004425_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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