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    The Walls Came Tumbling Down
    The Walls Came Tumbling Down ab 16.49 € als Taschenbuch: A journey of bravery heroism and unbowed humanity. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Belletristik, Briefe & Biografien,
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    Two Feet Below: The China Bohannon Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 542min
    Smart and sassy 1890s bookkeeper-turned-sleuth China Bohannon is a magnet for danger. Assigned to office duties in the Doyle & Howe detective agency, she lands smack in the middle of the detective’s latest murder case when a suspicious character tries to bribe her - and she takes the bribe!  In an adventure that is destined to go downhill from there, China is thrown overboard from a steamboat into Coeur d’Alene Lake to drown. Escaping that, while hot on the trail of the murderer, she’s arrested on charges of prostitution in the wild mining town of Wallace, Idaho. Worse, her handsome boss, Gratton Doyle, doesn’t see eye-to-eye with her when it comes to determining the leading suspect.  Proving her point takes getting shot when, bloodied though unbowed, China wins a fight more suited to skid road loggers than a proper Victorian lady. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Cook. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/002152/bk_bimo_002152_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Best of Car Talk (USA), Untowed and Unbowed, December 26, 2020, Hörbuch, Digital, 56min
    This week on The Best of Car Talk, Steve moved to Chicago for a job and a girlfriend. He lost both, but he's kept his sense of humor, and is just kinda confused about why his Acura was the only car not towed from a party.Elsewhere, we thought nobody could be more devoted to an old heap than Tommy, until we met Lita who has written a poem about her Monte Carlo—we're just relieved she didn't try to rhyme anything with "rust bucket."Also, the holiday season brings good cheer and the annual squeak to Betsy's Town and Country; Kate's temporary fix for her frozen door locks is hilarious, and incredibly dangerous; and, did the hottest man in show business set Melinda's radio on fire? All this and more, this week on The Best of Car Talk. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/cart/190156/rt_cart_190156_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Unbeaten: The Story of My Brutal Childhood, Hörbuch, Digital, 123min
    For Kim Woodburn finding fame in her 60s in the smash hit television series How Clean is Your House? with fellow dust-buster Aggie Mackenzie is like living a fairy tale. Often she has simply wished that she had never been born, for Kim has overcome horrific emotional and physical abuse both at the hands of her alcoholic mother and her philandering, sexually abusive father. In her brave and revealing story Kim's memories of growing up are not of love and cuddles, but of beatings and random cruelty. Shuttled between the brutal houses of her warring parents, a succession of miserable children's homes and a grim convent - Kim's past has cast a long shadow over her life. But just before her 16th birthday she finally made her escape. It has taken decades of hard work, and a wonderfully happy marriage to conquer depression but now she has emerged unbowed and unbeaten as Britain's Queen of Clean. Language: English. Narrator: Kim Woodburn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/000072/bk_hodd_000072_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Shadow Box: An Amateur in the Ring , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 782min
    George Plimpton makes his riskiest foray into participatory journalism - stepping into the ring against a champion boxer - in Shadow Box, now including never-before-heard content from the Plimpton archives. Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induced him to become a participatory journalist. Bloodied but unbowed, he holds his own in the bout - and lives to tell in this timeless book on boxing and its devotees, among them Ali, Joe Frazier, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer. Shadow Box is one of Plimpton's most engaging studies of professional sport, told through the eyes of an inquisitive and astute amateur. From the gym, from the locker room, ringside, and even in the harsh glare of the ring itself, Plimpton documents what it is like to be a boxer, an artist of mayhem. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Bottoms. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002556/bk_hach_002556_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Elephants in the Room: An Excavation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 406min
    Through the lens of Rowe's relationships with two Kenyan conservationists, Wangari Maathai and Daphne Sheldrick, The Elephants in the Room surveys a number of prejudices that many of us who are fortunate to be born with the privileges attached to our skin color, sex, and access to resources don't like to deal with: Race, misogyny, and the legacy of empire. By examining the two women's memoirs (Unbowed and Love, Life, and Elephants), both of which were launched following talks at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, these metaphorical elephants in the room are combined with a study of the exploitation of actual elephants on the continent of Africa, and the iterations of memory that are disclosed or hidden in the writing of memoirs and the collecting of bones for museums. Like elephants themselves, The Elephants in the Room ranges far, analyzing work by Joseph Conrad, Robert Pogue Harrison, Barbara Gowdy, Willard Price, George Orwell, Adam Hochschild, and others. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Rowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016638/bk_acx0_016638_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Truth About Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 491min
    The Truth About Death, the title novella of this virtuosic collection, is a masterpiece of sardonic humor that confronts Death head-on and emerges bloody but unbowed. Simon, an undertaker, embalms his own father and faces his own death. Louisa, Simon's mother, makes peace with her husband over his dead body in a cooler in the basement of the funeral home. Simon contemplates the mystery of death over a plate of spaghetti cacio e pepe in Rome with an Italian undertaker. The dog, Maya - who works as a greeter at the funeral home, where she comforts those who are grieving hardest--eventually makes the truth about death known to Elizabeth, Simon's wife. New Yorker cartoons keep the family laughing during the most difficult months. Elizabeth decides to show her own cartoons to the New Yorker cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff, at his office in New York. The serious issues cleverly addressed in The Truth About Death are touched with warmth, humour and deep feeling in the eight other stories, not by invoking comforting fairy tales but by accepting the fact that death and grief are part of the natural order of things. As Maya explains to Elizabeth, 'It's just the way things are'. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johnny Heller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027490/bk_adbl_027490_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo: Volume Two: Unabridged , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1181min
    Continue the journey through the history, adventure, tension, and dangers faced by the Conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes - the Alexander of the Americas - as they continue their epic tale of conquest against the Mexican Empire.After Cortes' expulsion from the Mexican capital on the much-lamented Night of Sorrows, the Conquistadors are reeling and their alliances crumbling.Hernan Cortes, unbowed and undaunted, refuses to give up the fight and determines to stay the course of the war against the Aztecs, and his own countrymen, to its bitter conclusion.The Aztecs themselves, flushed with their recent victory and completely rejuvenated under the new Emperor, specially selected to wipe the Spaniards from the face of the earth, make preparations for the ultimate battles to come.This memoir is an autobiographical account of the events as eye-witnessed by Bernal Diaz - a Conquistador on that journey. The young man from Spain desperately hoped to carve out a life of riches for himself in the new world and instead found himself on an epic journey of conquest, while desperately fighting to stay alive, in previously unknown and unimagined lands.This is a true tale written in his own hand and translated into English. It is a gripping account of the events from the soldiers' viewpoint as each day becomes a battle for survival against incredible odds and could easily be mistaken for a work of fiction. Each chapter is rich with jaw-dropping details of the journey into that world. A journey that has long since been forgotten and can now be rediscovered. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Prickett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/003149/bk_mike_003149_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Standing Up to Goliath: Battling State and National Teachers' Unions for the Heart and Soul of Our Kids and Country , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 718min
    Rebecca Friedrichs tells real-life stories that expose state and national teachers’ unions as the money and muscle behind the degradation of America’s schools and culture.In a book that’s both accessible and enlightening, Rebecca Friedrichs recounts her 30-year odyssey as an elementary school teacher who comes face to face with the forces dividing and corrupting our schools and culture - state and national teachers’ unions. An exciting true story that features real-life testimonies of teachers, parents, and kids as well as political and social commentary, Rebecca’s journey leads her to the realization that the only hope for America’s schools and families is returning authority to parents and teachers while lessening the grip of state and national unions that:  Promote a culture of fear and bully teachers and parents into silence.Undermine parents’ authority by sexually, socially, and politically indoctrinating kids.Use the apple-pie image of the PTA as a “front” to promote a partisan agenda.These insights and more led Rebecca and nine other teachers to the US Supreme Court, where their case, Friedrichs v California Teachers Association, et al., sought to restore the First Amendment rights of all teachers and government employees. They argued no one should be forced to pay fees to abusive, politically driven unions and were poised to change the very landscape of American education - until tragedy struck.Saddened but unbowed, Rebecca started a national movement, For Kids and Country, leading the charge of servant leaders who believe Judeo-Christian values (including kindness) and restoration of the teaching profession - possible only by rejecting state and national unions and forming “local only” associations - are the answers to America’s woes.Audiobook Engineered by Joshua Brooks Recorded at Hybrid Studios, Santa Ana, CA ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Friedrichs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133842/bk_acx0_133842_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Ten Commandments Judge: The Story of Roy Moore, Jr., in King James English , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 157min
    No other man in recent American history has captured the attention and love of this nation's Christians the way Roy Moore, Jr., has. He has been rightly compared to Daniel in the Holy Bible for refusing to bow to any authority he believes wrong. And though his beliefs have cost him his position as the Chief Justice of Alabama's Supreme Court, he remains unbowed and unbeaten. Now, as the people of Alabama again get ready to elect a new US senator, all eyes are upon this man, for a great many people desire him to be that man, and it is believed he will win. This book tells his life story in a very unique way - in King James English. For his is a modern day story that could easily have happened in biblical times. Roy Moore, Jr., was born into poverty, struggled and succeeded in rising out of it, and has never ran from a physical or religious or political fight in all his life. Facing incredible odds, he failed, failed again, and then rose to become the highest judge in the State of Alabama, only to have it stripped from him in a trial filled with political intrigue. Not only is he as Daniel in the lion's den, he is as David alone against the dangerous giants of the Alabama and national political machines. This is his story, from birth up to the final days of his running for the US Senate, told as best as possible, in the simple, beautiful language of the King James Bible - the greatest book ever written. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Floyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103441/bk_acx0_103441_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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