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  Summary of The Terror Years by Lawrence Wright: Includes Analysis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 25min

  Lawrence Wright's The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State is a collection of Wright's essays from The New Yorker and other venues about radical Islamic terror in the 2000s. Terrorist activities are shaped by the experiences, ideology, and choices of terrorist leaders. The wave of international terrorism in the 1990s and 2000s came about in part because of the partnership of Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon. Al-Qaeda's increased brutality and its escalating attacks on Muslims were the result of the rise in influence of convicted Jordanian criminal Musab al-Zarqawi, who gained control of al-Qaeda operations in Iraq. Conversely, when Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, also known as Dr. Fadl, an important Egyptian theorist of violent terrorism, renounced indiscriminate violence in 2007, it had a splintering effect on the Islamic terrorist movement and reduced the threat of violence, especially in Egypt. Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dwight Equitz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070544/bk_acx0_070544_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Extras , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 569min

  Extras, the final book in the Uglies series, is set a couple of years after the "mind-rain", a few earth-shattering months in which the whole world woke up. The cure has spread from city to city, and the pretty regime that kept humanity in a state of bubbleheadedness has ended. Boundless human creativity, new technologies, and old dangers have been unleashed upon the world. Culture is splintering, the cities becoming radically different from each other as each makes its own way into this strange and unpredictable future.... One of the features of the new world is that everyone has a "feed", which is basically their own blog/Myspace/TV channel. The ratings of your feed (combined with how much the city interface overhears people talking about you) determines your social status - so everyone knows at all times how famous they are. As Scott Westerfeld explored the themes of extreme beauty in the first three Uglies books, now he takes on the world's obsession with fame and popularity. And how anyone can be an instant celebrity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joy Osmanski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007242/bk_sans_007242_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Middlesteins: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 416min

  For more than 30 years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food - thinking about it, eating it - and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live. When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle - a whippet thin perfectionist - is intent on saving her mother-in-law's life, but this task proves even bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai mitzvah party. Through it all, they wonder: do Edie's devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone? Or are others at fault, too? With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. The Middlesteins explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and our devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Molly Ringwald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/001040/bk_hach_001040_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Viking's Captive: Clan Hakon Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min

  Prophecy spoken.Alliances broken.Will duty come before love?The Viking's Captive is the exciting sequel to The Viking's Chosen by USA Today best seller Quinn Loftis.Torben is faced with a terrible choice: rescue the woman he loves from the clutches of a madman or save his people from attack by a ruthless foreign invader. He longs to save Allete, especially since the clan's oracle has prophesized that she will become his queen and help unite the clans. But if saving the princess means abandoning his clan, the choice would be unconscionable. Torben races across land and sea on a collision course with Magnus, Allete's kidnapper and Torben's former king. Their meeting will change the fate of Clan Hakon - either saving it from destruction or splintering it forever.Will Torben be able to rescue Allete before Magnus' actions ruin them all? Or will Cathal find the princesses first, enslaving them and using them for his own twisted purposes? Swords will clash and arrows will fly before the fate of Allete and Torben is finally decided.Novels in the Clan Hakon Series Include:The Viking's ChosenThe Viking's CaptiveThe Viking's Consort ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Emmes, Chris Ciulla. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133550/bk_acx0_133550_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Fourth Turning

  First came the postwar High, then the Awakening of the '60s and '70s, and now the Unraveling. This audacious and provocative book tells us what to expect just beyond the start of the next century. Are you ready for the Fourth Turning? Strauss and Howe will change the way you see the world--and your place in it. In "The Fourth Turning, they apply their generational theories to the cycles of history and locate America in the middle of an unraveling period, on the brink of a crisis. How you prepare for this crisis--the Fourth Turning--is intimately connected to the mood and attitude of your particular generation. Are you one of the can-do "GI generation," who triumphed in the last crisis? Do you belong to the mediating "Silent Majority," who enjoyed the 1950s High? Do you fall into the "awakened" Boomer category of the 1970s and 1980s, or are you a Gen-Xer struggling to adapt to our splintering world? Whatever your stage of life, "The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for America's next rendezvous with destiny.

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  Edge of Insanity: The Alliance, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min

  Sometimes the only way to survive is to let insanity take over.... Edge remembers little of his capture, but what has happened since is vivid in his memory. The Waxians want information about Trivator military and weapons systems. Edge can feel his mind splintering from the prolonged torture, but a soft voice in the darkness urges him to resist and fight back. Lina Daniels is used to fighting fire with fire. She isn’t afraid of death, but she is terrified of being captured. As a resistance fighter on Earth, she knew the dangers. Those threats seem minuscule compared to those on the alien world she was taken to. Determined to return home, her plan is simple: Free the Trivator warrior she discovered and force him to take her and the other women that are with her back to Earth. But when the unpredictable Trivator becomes convinced that she is his Amate, that plan crumbles into chaos. With the Waxian and Drethulan forces on their tail, it will take more than a few daring moves to escape to freedom. Can a tortured warrior and his rebellious rescuer escape the forces chasing them, or will the threat of losing the last thing holding him together hurl Edge over a dangerous mental precipice? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Brenin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118799/bk_acx0_118799_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Queen of Unicorns: A Rumpelstiltskin Retelling: Kingdom of Fairytales: Rumpelstiltskin, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 160min

  What happened after the "happily ever after"? You know the story of Rumpelstiltskin, but did you ever wonder what happened after the fairy-tale ending? Well, we know. Not all "afters" end up happily. Sometimes, the real adventure starts much later....Vale hasn’t been the same for Princess Eliana since her husband passed away. Grieving and pregnant, she finds solace in the peaceful meadows surrounding her castle, taking comfort in the presence of the wild unicorns who make the meadow their home. But Eliana’s fragile peace is splintering....Something is out to get the unicorns. Something that has Eliana’s mother, the queen, going into overprotective overdrive as Eliana prepares to bring new life into the world. But Eliana refuses to hunker down in the palace like a coward.With her childhood friend Jay at her side, can Eliana protect the unicorns and find who - or what - is hunting them? Or, will the safety of the meadows be jeopardized forever? Following famous fairytale characters 18 years after their happily ever afters, the Kingdom of Fairytales offers an edge-of-the-seat thrill ride in an all new and sensational way to listen. With lightning-fast listens you won’t be able to stop listening to, fantasy has never been so epic!  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexandra Hunter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230296/bk_acx0_230296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Bitter Fruit: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 590min

  With the publication of Kafka's Curse, Achmat Dangor established himself as an utterly singular voice in South African fiction. His new novel, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award, is a clear-eyed, witty, yet deeply serious look at South Africa's political history and its damaging legacy in the lives of those who live there. The last time Silas Ali encountered Lieutenant Du Boise, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Silas's wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husband's participation in Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. When Silas sees Du Boise by chance 20 years later, as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is about to deliver its report, crimes from the past erupt into the present, splintering the Alis' fragile peace. Meanwhile Silas and Lydia's son, Mikey, a thoroughly contemporary young hip-hop lothario, contends in unforeseen ways with his parents' pasts. A harrowing story of a brittle family on the crossroads of history and a fearless skewering of the pieties of revolutionary movements, Bitter Fruit is a cautionary tale of how we do, or do not, address the past's deepest wounds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tug Yourgrau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021797/bk_adbl_021797_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Survive the Chaos: Small Town EMP, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 575min

  When the lights go out, anarchy reigns supreme.After Austin Merryman’s wife died, he and his 14-year-old daughter left home to travel the country in an old RV. But the comfort and renewal they sought soon descends into chaos - even before the EMP hits. When a message from an old college buddy leads Austin to a bridge in the middle of nowhere, he finds his friend - now an NSA agent - waiting to give him a USB drive. Before the contents can be explained, machine gun fire strafes the bridge, killing Austin’s friend and forcing Austin into the raging river.Rescued downstream by a beautiful veterinarian, Austin learns that EMP attacks have thrust the world into eternal darkness and separated him from the only person he has left: his young, but resourceful, daughter. Now, he’ll move heaven and earth to locate her and make it to his brother’s hideaway in Utah.But the post-apocalyptic world is no longer a friendly place. Resources are growing scarce. Factions break out and walls go up. Everyone is willing to do whatever it takes to survive in an increasingly hostile environment. And Austin’s daughter is caught right in the middle of this splintering society.But an even-deadlier foe stalks them as they struggle across the landscape - someone who hasn’t forgotten about the USB drive Austin possesses. And they’ll do anything to get it back.Please note: This novel contains violence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maxwell Zener. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164525/bk_acx0_164525_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Love Me Like You Won't Let Go , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 422min

  You never get over your first love. It’s something I’ve heard countless times. Like someone has to point out that your pain will never go away. That your shattered heart will never mend.Because that’s exactly what my heart did the day I watched Asher Evans board that train - it shattered, splintering into a million tiny fragments that I didn’t think I’d ever be able to piece back together. He was the boy I had loved since I understood what loving someone meant. The one who knew me inside and out. The one who swore he’d never let me go. It’s been six years since that day and even now the memory haunts me like it was yesterday.I’ve done my best to move on, to rebuild, and for the most part I’ve done pretty well. But all of that comes crashing down when Asher strolls back into town like he never left.I don’t want to want him. I certainly don’t want to need him. But that doesn’t stop me from doing it anyway. Only things are different now. I’m different. I’m not the girl he left behind all those years ago. I may have been foolish enough to give him my heart once but I won’t make that mistake a second time. Or at least that’s what I tell myself until I’m standing face to face with the one man who has the power to break me all over again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexandria Bodick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219645/bk_acx0_219645_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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