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    The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism (eBook, ePUB)
    The lethality of lone-wolf terrorism has reached an all-time high in the United States. Isolated individuals using firearms with high-capacity magazines are committing brutally efficient killings with the aim of terrorizing others, yet there is little consensus on what connects these crimes and the motivations behind them. In The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism, terrorism experts Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij combine criminological theory with empirical and ethnographic research to map the pathways of lone-wolf radicalization, helping with the identification of suspected behaviors and recognizing patterns of indoctrination.Reviewing comprehensive data on these actors, including more than two hundred terrorist incidents, Hamm and Spaaij find that a combination of personal and political grievances lead lone wolves to befriend online sympathizers-whether jihadists, white supremacists, or other antigovernment extremists-and then announce their intent to commit terror when triggered. Hamm and Spaaij carefully distinguish between lone wolves and individuals radicalized within a group dynamic. This important difference is what makes this book such a significant manual for professionals seeking richer insight into the transformation of alienated individuals into armed warriors. Hamm and Spaaij conclude with an analysis of recent FBI sting operations designed to prevent lone-wolf terrorism in the United States, describing who gets targeted, strategies for luring suspects, and the ethics of arresting and prosecuting citizens.
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    Track Changes (eBook, ePUB)
    An Arab Israeli man, back in Jerusalem to see his estranged father, narrates "a novel about just how sad, fractured and tricky cultural identity can get" (Seattle Times). Having emigrated to America years before, a nameless memoirist now residing in Illinois receives word that his estranged father, whom he has not spoken to in fourteen years, is dying. Leaving his wife and their three children, he returns to Jerusalem and to his hometown of Tira in Palestine to be by his family's side. But few are happy to see him back and, geographically and emotionally displaced, he feels more alienated from his life than ever. Sitting by his father's hospital bed, the memoirist begins to remember long-buried traumas, the root causes of his fallout with his family, the catalyst for his marriage and its recent dissolution, and his strained relationships with his children-all of which is strangely linked to a short story he published years ago about a young girl named Palestine. As he plunges deeper into his memory and recounts the history of his land and his love, the lines between truth and lies, fact and fiction become increasingly blurred. Hailed as "an unusually gifted storyteller with exceptional insight" (Jewish Tribune), Bernstein Award-winning writer Sayed Kashua presents a masterful novel about the stories Palestinians and Israelis tell themselves about their lives and their histories.
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    Killer Within: Killer Instinct, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 420min
    In the heart-pounding sequel to the "zippy, gripping psychological drama" (Kirkus Reviews) Killer Instinct, teen vigilante Lane must face the secrets and unexpected consequences that arise in the wake of her first kill. It's been three months since Lane made her first kill - the sadistic Decapitator - and now she feels both closer and more alienated than ever from her united, grieving family. Haunted by conflicting memories of her mother, Lane resumes her role as the vigilante Masked Savior out of a feeling of obligation - but her heart just isn't in it anymore. Now that Lane has felt the rush of deeper, darker thrills, a growing part of her wants to revisit its seductive power, and she's not sure how long she can resist. Meanwhile, the Masked Savior has inspired its own fan site, where groupies gather online to praise, document, and debate each delivered act of justice. But one of Lane's secret admirers is becoming a cunning copycat, exacting "justice" on defenseless innocents, increasing the violence with each attack. Someone is watching Lane, edging closer to making contact - someone who knows her darkest secrets. Will Lane be able to stop the copycat and keep her identity protected, or will she give in to the thrills that tempt her? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007611/bk_blak_007611_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heart of the Assassins: Academy of Assassins Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 589min
    Morgan has been banned from hunting until she learns to control her powers and her impulsive nature. Her team is so focused on her training, she feels more alone and alienated than ever. She must make the heartbreaking decision to stay and fight for the men who mean everything to her or turn her back on the Academy to survive.  But the choice is taken from her when the Academy is viciously attacked and Morgan is abducted and dumped into the primordial realm. Abandoned and unable to get back to the Academy, Morgan must take a crash course in survival in this alien world. As she investigates the deadly mist sweeping through the realm, she is horrified to discover her team has followed her, determined to earn back her trust. With their lives in danger, Morgan will do whatever it takes to save them, even if it means entering Tartarus and uncovering the secrets of the forgotten gods. With the cure in hand, they must defeat monsters from myths and legends - and their worst nightmares - and escape the gates of hell or risk becoming forever trapped and forced to watch the destruction of their world.  Contains mature themes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Traci Odom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/012048/bk_tant_012048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Still Kicking: The Lainie Lovett Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min
    Lainie Lovett’s passions, in no particular order, are her son and daughter, the fourth grade class she teaches, and the Rockettes - the recreational league women’s soccer team in the sleepy Boston suburb of Rockford, Massachusetts.When Lainie spots the husband of one of her Rockettes teammates canoodling with another woman under the electric jalapenos at El Camino Restaurant one night, she is discreet - until he turns up dead, shot with a nail gun in a half-built McMansion that his construction company was developing.Could his betrayed wife have killed him? Or, maybe, his buxom girlfriend? Or, his alienated teenage son, who had once been a student of Lainie’s? Or, one of the anti-development environmentalists trying to shut down his business? Or, the hunky construction foreman who was always butting heads with him?All Lainie wants to do is teach, make her gray hairs disappear, and score against arch-rival Burlington in a soccer game, and maybe, have a sex life, if that’s not asking too much. But once she becomes one of the Rockford Police Department’s prime suspects in Arthur Cavanagh’s murder, she’ll have to clear her name before she’ll ever be able to lace on her soccer cleats again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: AJ Ferraro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194933/bk_acx0_194933_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Shitty Bosses and Asshole Employees: Don't Read This Book! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 300min
    The long and short of it: I. Loved. This. It’s insightful, useful, funny, and incredibly easy to relate to. The audience is distanced in the intro and then pulled into the fold in a unique and engaging way. I love the “tough-love” approach; this audiobook takes a hard, honest look at what people can do to change, what best practices and methods are, and what a toxic work environment looks like. Importantly, it refuses to let the listener bypass recognizing their own flaws and weak points, but it also doesn’t make the listener feel alienated or judged for not being perfect.Gold nuggets of wisdom are liberally sprinkled throughout, and I wanted to scoop up every single one because:I really came to like and be engaged with the author’s voice and personaI genuinely felt I was learning life lessons in a way that wasn’t condescending, pretentious, or tedious.The "personal story" touch followed by the psychological breakdown (with examples and questions, no less!) is a really awesome way to get the listener really thinking, processing, and engaged. This audiobook creates space for the listener to feel “in it together” with the author and results in the listener doubling-down on the effort to understand and retain the message. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Crystal Ishihara, PhD. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/220261/bk_acx0_220261_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Do the Gods Still Dance in Waterfalls?: The New Adventures of Lorewyn & Company, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 270min
    Khendryll, a young Acolyte from the rigidly theocratic realm of Khelyria, has an experience when he’s a boy. He witnesses something wonderful and magical that changes his life and drives him to want to explore a deeper understanding of spiritual and mystical truth, an understanding that is forbidden by the Clerics of Jurryk. His trust in his progressive mentor shaken and his best friend alienated by an impulsive decision on his part, Khendryll eventually gives up and accepts the traditional interpretations of the Temple, becoming a Cleric himself and denying what he once believed.But the arrival of Lorewyn and her companions in Khelyria rekindles the young man’s desire to seek the truth, unpopular as it may be, and inspires Lorewyn, Rhianyn, Tristyn, and Blythe to join him (along with a wayward ally from the past) in helping a troubled realm come to understand who Jurryk really is, and what his teachings are truly about.Do the Gods Still Dance in Waterfalls? is the first in a new series of adventures featuring Lorewyn and a few other familiar characters from the Cordysian Chronicles. Look for even more chapters of this “spin off” saga to come, including the upcoming second audiobook, The Brighter Snow Falls in the Dark. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Haley Burfoot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231752/bk_acx0_231752_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Don't Go Crazy Without Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
    Don’t Go Crazy Without Me tells the tragicomic coming-of-age story of a girl who grew up under the seductive sway of her outrageously eccentric father. He taught her how to have fun; he also taught her to fear food poisoning, other children’s infectious diseases, and the contaminating propensities of the world at large. Alienated from her emotionally distant mother, the girl bonded closely with her father and his worldview. When he plunged from neurotic to full-blown psychotic, she nearly followed him. Sanity is not always a choice, but for the 16-year-old, decisions had to be made and lines drawn between reality and what her mother called her “overactive imagination". She would have to give up beliefs carried by the infectious agent of her father’s love.Saving herself would require an unconventional reading of Moby Dick, sexual pleasure in the body that had confounded her, and entry into the larger world of political activism as a volunteer in Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign. After attending his last stop at the Ambassador Hotel the night of his assassination, she would come to a new reckoning with loss and with engagement beyond the confines of her family. Ultimately, she would find a way to turn her grief into love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Beth Garber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235998/bk_acx0_235998_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lady of Magick , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 771min
    Sylvia Izzo Hunter brought "both rural Brittany and an alternative Regency England to vivid life" (national best-selling author Juliet Marillier) in The Midnight Queen, her debut novel of history, magic, and myth. Now, in her new Noctis Magicae novel, Sophie and Gray Marshall are ensnared in an arcane plot that threatens to undo them both. In her second year of studies at Merlin College, Oxford, Sophie Marshall is feeling alienated among fellow students who fail to welcome a woman to their ranks. So when her husband, Gray, is invited north as a visiting lecturer at the University in Din Edin, they leap at the chance. There, Sophie's hunger for magical knowledge can finally be nourished. But soon Sophie must put her newly learned skills to the test. Sophie returns home one day to find a note from Gray - he's been summoned urgently to London. But when he doesn't return, and none of her spells can find a trace of him, she realizes something sinister has befallen him. With the help of her sister, Joanna, she delves into Gray's disappearance and soon finds herself in a web of magick and intrigue that threatens not just Gray but the entire kingdom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julian Elfer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015974/bk_adbl_015974_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    ISIS: The State of Terror , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 579min
    The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated even the hardcore terrorists of its parent organization, al Qaeda. Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger, two of America’s leading experts on terrorism, dissect the new model for violent extremism that ISIS has leveraged into an empire of death in Iraq and Syria, and an international network that is rapidly expanding in the Middle East, North Africa and around the world. ISIS: The State of Terror traces the ideological innovations that the group deploys to recruit unprecedented numbers of Westerners, the composition of its infamous snuff videos, and the technological tools it exploits on social media to broadcast its atrocities, and its recruiting pitch to the world, including its success at attracting thousands of Western adherents. The authors examine ISIS’s predatory abuse of women and children and its use of horror to manipulate world leaders and its own adherents as it builds its twisted society. The authors offer a much-needed perspective on how world leaders should prioritize and respond to ISIS’s deliberate and insidious provocations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ray Porter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004261/bk_harp_004261_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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