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  In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 973min

  Most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying black men and women even their names. Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of geneticists and researchers, takes 19 extraordinary African Americans on a once unimaginable journey, tracing family sagas through US history and back to Africa.Those whose recovered pasts collectively form an African American "people’s history" of the United States include celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock, Don Cheadle, Chris Tucker, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner, and Quincy Jones; writers such as Maya Angelou and Bliss Broyard; leading thinkers such as Harvard divinity professor Peter Gomes, the Reverend T. D. Jakes, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot; and famous achievers such as Mae Jemison, Tom Joyner, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Linda Johnson Rice.More than a work of history, In Search of Our Roots is a book of revelatory importance that, for the first time, brings to light the lives of ordinary men and women who, by courageous example, blazed a path for their famous descendants. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Hoffman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/001172/bk_bkot_001172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Trenchtown , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 260min

  After a former stockbroker is released from prison seven years after being sentence to the death penalty, she fears that her new, idyllic life may not last forever as she battles her wariness of the strange foster home next door.At 28 years old, Jennifer O’Neill was a stockbroker and rising star who graced the cover of Forbes Magazine in 2008 as a powerful African American woman breaking through an industry dominated by white men. She was also contributing to illegal predatory lending, willfully looking the other way in her ambitious pursuit. When the housing market crashed, Jen’s life exploded into chaos – especially when she discovers her boss’s terrifying solution to beating an FBI investigation. Mercifully, Jen’s resulting death penalty conviction is overturned after seven years. Released into the arms of her loving boyfriend and the daughter she birthed in the early days of her prison sentence, Jen’s life finally seems to be taking a beautiful and serendipitous turn. However, Jen’s experiences have taught her one thing – nothing good can last forever. Besides, something is definitely chilling about their neighbors’ interest in her daughter.   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D.F. Forte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/216615/bk_acx0_216615_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Promise Fulfilled: Pioneer Hearts, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 80min

  Anna Hayden is devastated when the man she expected to marry is conveniently betrothed to another bride. Thinking she may be condemned to a lifetime of drudgery and boredom as a ladies maid, she willfully responds to an advert for a mail order bride. Determined to prove her independence, she fails to inform her sister Josie of her plans. A shock awaits Anna at the train station in Wichita. It is only the kindness of two strangers that avert disaster for the young city girl stranded in a dangerous Western town.In the uncertain days that follow, Anna discovers that God's grace is far bigger than all of our mistakes! Prideful mistakes and innocent regrets, a stranded damsel and strangers at a station, a house of ill repute and a rough, redeeming cowboy all make for a clean, fulfilling western listen that will leave you smiling! Frontier Hearts is a heartwarming collection of Wild Western romances celebrating the courage of young mail order brides and their trailblazer husbands. Each book is a complete story in itself, with strong characters you will fall in love with.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leonor A. Woodworth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225010/bk_acx0_225010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 650min

  Beyond what we already know about "food miles" and eating locally, the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. How we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to the table all have an impact. And our government and the food industry are willfully ignoring the issue rather than addressing it. In Anna Lapp's controversial new book, she predicts that unless we radically shift the trends of what food we're eating and how we're producing it, food-system-related greenhouse gas emissions will go up and up and up. She exposes the interests that will resist the change, and the spin food companies will generate to avoid system-wide reform. And she offers a vision of a future in which our food system does more good than harm, with six principles for a climate friendly diet as well as visits to farmers who are demonstrating the potential of sustainable farming. In this measured and intelligent call to action, Lapp helps readers understand that food can be a powerful starting point for solutions to global environmental problems. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lori Blanchard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009684/bk_adbl_009684_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Pandemics: Our Fears and the Facts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 62min

  History books abound with accounts of large scale destruction wrought by infectious disease. As recently as 1918, a pandemic of influenza claimed over 50 million lives worldwide. The advent of drugs and vaccines led to an era of hope when we thought our battles with infectious disease were won, but our optimism has been eroded by the recognition that many pathogens have the capacity to transform themselves and escape our efforts to eradicate them. Are we now facing an inevitable repeat of a calamity such as the 1918 influenza pandemic or the Black Death? Can we anticipate and thwart such an event, or are we willfully creating the conditions that would promote the emergence of new and highly virulent human infectious disease? Sunetra Gupta is Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford specializing in infectious diseases. She holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the University of London. She has been awarded the Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her scientific research. She is also a novelist whose books have been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Southern Arts Literature Prize, shortlisted for the Crossword Award, and long-listed for the DSC and Orange Prizes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jones Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014289/bk_adbl_014289_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Vendetta , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min

  Blood Will Spill, Hearts Will Break: With a fierce rivalry raging between two warring families, falling in love is the deadliest thing Sophie could do. An epic debut set outside modern-day Chicago. For Sophie it feels like another slow, hot summer in Cedar Hill, waitressing at her family's diner and hanging out with her best friend, Millie. But then someone moves into the long-abandoned mansion up the block - a family of five Italian brothers, each one hotter than the last. Unable to resist caramel-eyed Nicoli, Sophie finds herself falling for him - and willfully ignoring the warning signs. Why are Nic's knuckles cut and bruised? Why does he carry an engraved switchblade? And why does his arrogant and infuriating older brother, Luca, refuse to let her see him? As the boys' dark secrets begin to come to light, Sophie is confronted with stinging truths about her own family, too. Suddenly she's torn between two warring dynasties: the one she's related to and the one she's now in love with. She'll have to choose between loyalty and passion. When she does, blood will spill, hearts will break. Because in this twisted underworld, dishonor can be the difference between life and death. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/008518/bk_reco_008518_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  First, Do No Harm: Brier Hospital, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 650min

  First in the Brier Hospital Series. If you believe that television, movies or medical fiction, accurately portray what it's like to be an acute care physician or a critically ill patient in a hospital today, think again. Doctor Joseph Polk is an intelligent, charismatic, and a powerful member of the medical staff at Brier Hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he's killing his patients. No gun, knife, poison or drug injected into their intravenous tubing, common plot lines in medical thrillers, and he doesn't plan to kill them. They die anyway because this once brilliant physician, a functional psychopath for most of his career, has decompensated. Nurses and front-line physicians see Polk's indifference, incompetence, and stubborn cruelty, but the medical staff and the hospital administration are willfully blind. Patients suffer, and worse. Jack Byrnes, finally completing his training in Intensive Care Medicine, joins the staff at Brier Hospital. Well prepared to care for patients, Jack is woefully unprepared when he runs smack into Joe Polk, the medical staff and the hospital's administration. The strength of First Do No Harm lies in the authenticity of the medical setting and the struggles of patients and physicians. Joe Polk is a very different kind of villain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Larry Gallegos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019752/bk_acx0_019752_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 414min

  In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O. J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but he was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, in which he was found liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole by committing battery with malice and oppression. In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O. J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book. A Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the Goldmans in August 2007 to partially satisfy the unpaid civil judgment, which has risen, with interest, to over $38 million. The Goldman family views this book as Simpson's confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read or listen to this book and learn the truth. This audiobook was produced from the original manuscript approved by O. J. Simpson, with additional insight from the Goldman Family, Pablo F. Fenjves, and Dominick Dunne. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kim Goldman, Pablo Fenjves, G. Valmont Thomas, Grover Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002373/bk_blak_002373_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The 10 Pillars of Wealth: Mind-Sets of the World’s Richest People , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 391min

  Think Like a Multimillionaire: Leave the Nine to Five Behind. The world has led you to believe that financial freedom is not something you can willfully create in your life. You have been taught to view wealth as something that happens only to a lucky few who win a random business lottery or are blessed with unimaginable talent. The truth is that creating excessive financial wealth does not come down to luck or talent. It comes down simply to your beliefs, understanding, and views - the "pillars" that reinforce your every action. Alex Becker not only breaks down the most important pillars for you, but also shows you how to bring them into your life today to begin generating lifelong financial freedom. Discover how to: Successfully quit your nine to five and take back your life without taking massive financial risks. Separate your time from money so that you are constantly getting paid (even in your sleep). Understand the lessons multimillionaires have learned through years of trial and error. Map out the exact steps needed to build million-dollar businesses. Skip time-wasting mistakes and learn how to make money quickly by focusing solely on what gets you paid. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barry Abrams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/009085/bk_tant_009085_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 262min

  Two hundred and rising. That's the death tally for the Obama administration's "Operation Fast & Furious." The program was supposedly designed to "win the drug war" by deliberately walking more than two thousand guns across the border to Mexico. But instead of catching drug lords, Fast & Furious armed the very kingpins it was supposed to trap. Despite the protests of gun store owners and ATF whistle-blowers, federal agents deliberately violated federal law-and common sense-and wound up placing American weapons into the hands of Mexico's most violent criminals. And when the guns started showing up at crime scenes-including the murder scene of a U.S. border patrol agent-the cover-up began. So reveals Townhall editor Katie Pavlich in her news-breaking exposé Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal. While the White House has claimed ignorance of the program, Pavlich debunks their lies, denials and excuses by demonstrating incontestable proof that President Obama and Attorney General Holder did willfully and knowingly sanction the program in order to advance their anti-second amendment agenda. A horrifying look at one of the bloodiest scandals in the history of the American presidency, Fast and Furious is this season's sensational, must-listen book that will rock America-and the Obama administration-to its core. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Durante. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/002473/bk_tant_002473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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