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    Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1502min
    Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns, the heroism and treachery of its combatants unmatched in song and story. Driven by fierce passions and loyalties, men and gods battle to a devastating conclusion. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife. Though the stormy god of the ocean has sworn vengeance against him, and witches and sirens try to lure him off course, Odysseus is clever and has the brilliant goddess Athena on his side. Homer (9th or 8th century B.C.) is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two greatest epic poems of ancient Greece. Virtually nothing is known about his life. Tradition has it that he was blind. Most scholars believe he composed the Iliad and the Odyssey by relying on oral traditions. Their value lies chiefly in the poetry itself, moving from sublime passages about the gods and heroic exploits to passages expressing deep human emotion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anthony Heald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005511/bk_blak_005511_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Better Days , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
    Finalist - Eric Hoffer AwardWhen his boyhood friend vanishes, a man who has coasted through life on the fading memory of high school heroics, risks everything to save him.They had a parade for Darwin Burr years ago when his team won the state title. He's coasted through life on that memory. Still lives in Claxton, Illinois - but the bucolic farm town now simmers with racial tension. He has a cushy job working for his wheeler-dealer boyhood friend, Billy Rourke. He has a country house, a healthy 401k, and still drinks for free at Clarkie's Bar. His wife Daina, who escaped from Latvia and never looked back, disdains Darwin's lack of ambition. She's consumed by her job helping Claxton's underclass and has little time for Darwin or their daughter, Astra.When Billy arranges for Darwin to assist Astra's high school basketball coach - the mysterious and flirtatious Fariba Pahlavi - Darvin stops coasting. He discovers a passion for coaching. And Fariba.Just as Darwin is getting back in the game, Billy vanishes, the FBI wants Darwin's help to find him, and Darwin learns his wife's secret past has put her life in jeopardy. Darwin know's Billy's guilty, but he can't betray his friend, and he's falling in love with Fariba, but can't abandon his wife. He has no good choice, no winning shot , and in this world heroes don't get parades. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David L. J. George. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/200317/bk_acx0_200317_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    D-Day (Time Patrol) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 484min
    June 6th is the Day of Days. Same date; six different years, the Time Patrol must save our timeline from the shadow by preserving our past to protect our timeline from annihilation. History is made by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The fact that often history doesn't record the heroics of these people doesn't alter that. The missions on June 6th range from: AD 1944: Parachuting in behind the beaches of Normandy and linking up with the Resistance to insure the last good war ends the way history records. 478 BC: At the Pythian Games in Greece in AD 478 where art and war merge. AD 452: A monster's lair in AD 452 where a man becomes the legend of Beowulf. AD 1843: At West Point, where a middling cadet, small in stature, named Ulysses S. Grant is trying to survive and graduate, with his curious brain that mixes war and art. AD 1998: In a secret nuclear weapons depot in Pakistan, where the saber-rattling of nuclear tests is getting ready to escalate into Armageddon; a war to end all wars. And, strangest of all, a mission thousands of years into pre-history, to the day Art is born. It is up to the Time Patrol to send an agent back to six different years on June 6th and make sure our timelines stay intact! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric G. Dove. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078493/bk_acx0_078493_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lessons from Fallen Civilizations: Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 820min
    Islam's aggression against the West has been constant for the 14 centuries of its existence. The armies of Allah conquered most of the Christian Middle East and nearly conquered all of Christian Europe twice. Americans know that the fall of Rome has ominous lessons for America. They instinctively know that there are always barbarians at the gate. Using history as its guide, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations poses and answers the question: Can a bankrupt America survive the current Islamic threat? Today, millions of militant Muslims wake every morning plotting the destruction of the US. Many are among us. They are our neighbors and coworkers. Their mission is first to intimidate, then to destabilize our economy and ultimately to plant the black flag of Islam at the top of the White House. Lessons demonstrates how immutable laws have always governed the fall of five great civilizations. It shows how those immutable laws can be seen to repeat over time and how they are at work now. It is a saga that chronicles the decisions, deeds, and heroics of our ancestors who saved the West. It identifies the decisions we must make and the actions we must take in order to remain a free people. Kelley's "Immutables" demonstrate how a declining America will fall at the hands of Islamic extremists. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Sipple. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033840/bk_acx0_033840_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Not Dead Yet: A British Zombie Apocalypse Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 434min
    How will the Victorians handle a zombie apocalypse? Not all heroes are heroic...in fact, some are outright dastardly. After being expelled from Eton, Jack Strapper is tricked into joining the army and posted to an Irish cavalry regiment in the false belief that it'll be safe. However, he's horrified to discover the nation's already amidst an ongoing apocalypse. Worse still, his unit's commanded by a mad colonel who's intent on making him fight. He was told it would be all pretty girls and parties. Oops! How will the now Captain Strapper cope, knowing a million victims of the potato famine are roaming the land as zombies? Yet, after an astonishing run of incredible coincidences and good fortune, he soon builds a reputation as an intrepid warrior. But not all are fooled. There is one officer, Major Lynch, the regiment's most decorated soldier, who's taken a disliking to the young upstart. Refusing to believe the tales of heroics, he's disgusted by the way his comrades fawn over this boy who can barely even hold a sabre, never mind single-handedly vanquish dozens of foes. And why are there no living witnesses? After an unfortunate incident with his wife, Lynch now holds a personal vendetta and will stop at nothing to expose Jack for the coward he really is. If you enjoy a zombie military series and a hilarious antihero, you'll love the historical twists in Not Dead Yet. Get it now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: K. Bartholomew. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161707/bk_acx0_161707_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Japanese Mythology: Classic Stories of Japanese Myths, Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, and Monsters: Classical Mythology, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 219min
    Giant monsters. Tales of eternal love. The beginning of creation. Pint-sized warriors. Long voyages and insurmountable heroics are only a small piece of the classic myths that have helped shape Japan’s unique and immaculate history. Each story in this audiobook is filled with excitement and adventure that is just waiting to be discovered and enjoyed.Some of the classic myths that are found inside this audiobook are:"Amaterasu and the Cave""The One-Inch Boy - Issun-Boshi""Susanoo and Orochi""The Tongue-Cut Sparrow""The Peach Boy - Momotaro""Izanagi and Izanami - The Birth of the Gods""Tsukuyomi and the Creation of Day and Night""The Journey to Yomi", as performed by the great Japanese hero and the first man, Izanagi."The Purification of Izanagi: The Birth of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Susanoo"A general introduction explaining what the Kami are, the gods of ancient Japan, along with other introductions to esoteric Japanese terminology.Stories of "The Strong Boy - Kintaro", "The Luminous Princess - Kaguya Hime", and othersEvery culture all over the world, ancient and contemporary, has its unique myths and legends. If you have never learned about the classic stories that come from the land of Japan, then you have a treasure trove of new knowledge waiting to be unlocked. If you are already familiar with the ancient stories of Japanese myths and were looking for a retelling of them, then look no further. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Oliver Hunt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128314/bk_acx0_128314_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Smek for President! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 359min
    In this much anticipated sequel to The True Meaning of Smekday, Tip and J.Lo are back for another hilarious intergalactic adventure. And this time (and last time, and maybe next time), they want to make things right with the Boov. After Tip and J.Lo banished the Gorg from Earth in a scheme involving the cloning of many, many cats, the pair is notorious - but not for their heroics. Instead, human Dan Landry has taken credit for conquering the Gorg, and the Boov blame J.Lo for ruining their colonization of the planet. Determined to clear his name, J.Lo and Tip pack into Slushious, a Chevy that J.Lo has engineered into a fairly operational spaceship, and head to New Boovworld, the aliens' new home on one of Saturn's moons. But their welcome isn't quite as warm as Tip and J.Lo would have liked. J.Lo is dubbed Public Enemy Number One, and Captain Smek knows that capturing the alien is the only way he'll stand a chance in the Boovs' first-ever presidential election. With the help of a friendly flying billboard named Bill, a journey through various garbage chutes, a bit of time travel, and a slew of hilarious Boovish accents, Tip and J.Lo must fight to set the record straight - and return home in once piece. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bahni Turpin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001792/bk_lili_001792_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hero's Journey: A Memoir: John Ritter, the Chip Hilton Goshen, Indiana , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 428min
    What makes a real hero?Chip Hilton was an ideal hero for boys growing up in small Midwestern towns in the 1950s and '60s. Chip was the best athlete at his school, an A-student, loving son, and hard worker at the local drug store. He had a gang of loyal friends and was the star player on his high school teams. But Chip was just a fictional character in a series of sports-action books.John Ritter was a real, live boy who seemed to be as close to Chip Hilton-like perfection as humanly possible. He grew up in Goshen, Indiana, to become a record-breaking All-Star basketball player and captain of Bob Knight's first outstanding Indiana Hoosiers team. After his college heroics, John Ritter's life began to diverge from the expectations of his hometown fans. Real life has turned out much different for John Ritter than his fictional twin.Jeff Rasley's childhood memories of his storybook and real-life sports heroes are the launchpad for a far-ranging study on how we create, treat, and mistreat our heroes. Hero's Journey taps voices as diverse as Patti Smith, Homer, Shakespeare, the Grateful Dead, and Dennis Rodman in an examination of the cultural shifts in the meaning of hero.The lustrous triumphs and pitiable travails of mythical heroes, like Achilles and Lancelot, are compared to ethical martyrs, like Gandhi and King, and to more troubling champions like Allen Iverson, Mike Tyson, Caitlyn Jenner, and Donald Trump. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Russell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229954/bk_acx0_229954_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Any Human Heart: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 958min
    Best-selling author William Boyd—the novelist who has been called a “master storyteller” (Chicago Tribune) and “a gutsy writer who is good company to keep” (Time)—here gives us his most entertaining, sly, and compelling novel to date. The novel evokes the tumult, events, and iconic faces of our time as it tells the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, and man of the world—through his intimate journals. It covers the “riotous and disorganized reality” of Mountstuart’s 85 years in all their extraordinary, tragic, and humorous aspects. The journals begin with his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, then move to Oxford in the 1920s and the publication of his first book, then on to Paris where he meets Joyce, Picasso, Hemingway, et al., and to Spain, where he covers the civil war. During World War II, we see him as an agent for naval intelligence, becoming embroiled in a murder scandal that involves the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The postwar years bring him to New York as an art dealer in the world of 1950s abstract expressionism, then on to West Africa, to London where he has a run-in with the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and, finally, to France where, in his old age, he acquires a measure of hard-won serenity. This is a moving, ambitious, and richly conceived novel that summons up the heroics and follies of 20th-century life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004375/bk_blak_004375_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One Good Soldier: Tau Ceti, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 655min
    One Good Soldier is the third book in the rapid-fire hard science military SF series of One Day on Mars and The Tau Ceti Agenda.In another 24-like narrative set six years after the events in The Tau Ceti Agenda, this exciting action story unfolds in a single critical day in the history of the United States of the Sol System, the extra-solar colonies, the Separatist Revolutionaries of the Tau Ceti system, and all of mankind. As another of Earths colonies, Ross 128, secedes from the union, the President of the United States, former marine major Alexander Moore, takes swift action to prevent a second American Civil War, this time on an interstellar scale. He sends the flagship of the U.S. Naval fleet through the Quauntum Membrane Teleporter based in the Oort Cloud to the seceding colony. But the Tau Ceti Separatists have stationed their own teleporter there and the flagship will be met with heavy resistance from the Separatist Navy. And, unknown to the president and first lady, their 18 year old military school cadet daughter has been kidnapped and whisked away to the Separatist leader's house on Tau Ceti.Only the heroics and sacrifices of one good soidier after another can save the flagship, the Union, and the first daughter in an all-out winner-take-all showdown thatreaches its final climax with frenzied hand-to-hand combat in the Oval Office itself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dufris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001591/bk_adbl_001591_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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