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American Legends: The Life of Harry Truman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 124min
The people can never understand why the President does not use his powers to make them behave. Well all the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. - Harry Truman A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Among America's presidents, Harry Truman's presidency produced some of the nation's most crucial decisions and left one of the nation's most unique legacies. When President Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945, Vice President Truman, somewhat unprepared for the Presidency, now had to fill some of the biggest shoes in American history. Incredibly, Truman had not been informed of the country's secret attempt to build atomic bombs, confiding in his diary after learning about it, "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark." The new president had to usher America through victory in Europe in his first month and decide to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a few months later, but the end of World War II produced only the first of many consequential decisions Truman would face during his nearly eight years in office. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037621/bk_acx0_037621_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 882min
In Roosevelt's Second Act Richard Moe has shown in superb fashion that what might seem to have been an inevitable decision of comparatively little interest was far from it. --David McCullough On August 31, 1939, nearing the end of his second and presumably final term in office, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was working in the Oval Office and contemplating construction of his presidential library and planning retirement. The next day German tanks had crossed the Polish border; Britain and France had declared war. Overnight the world had changed, and FDR found himself being forced to consider a dramatically different set of circumstances. In Roosevelt's Second Act, Richard Moe focuses on a turning point in American political history: FDR's decision to seek a third term. Often overlooked between the passage and implementation of the New Deal and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, that decision was far from inevitable. As the election loomed, he refused to comment, confiding in no one, scrambling the politics of his own party; but after the Republicans surprisingly nominated Wendell Willkie in July 1940, FDR became convinced that no other Democrat could both maintain the legitimacy of the New Deal and mobilize the nation for war. With Hitler on the verge of conquering Europe, Roosevelt, still hedging, began to maneuver his way to the center of the political stage. Moe offers a brilliant depiction of the duality that was FDR: The bold, perceptive, prescient and moral statesman who set lofty and principled goals, and the sometimes cautious, ambitious, arrogant and manipulative politician in pursuit of them. Immersive, insightful and written with an inside understanding of the presidency, this book challenges and illuminates our understanding of FDR and this pivotal moment in American history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allan Robertson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015553/bk_adbl_015553_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 659min
This warm, wise exploration of female friendship from the best-selling author of You Just Don't Understand will help women lean in to these powerful relationships. Best friend, old friend, good friend, BFF, college roommate, neighbor, workplace confidante: women's friendships are lifelines in times of trouble and support systems for daily life. A friend can be like a sister, daughter, mother, mentor, therapist, or confessor - or she can be all of these at once. She's seen you at your worst and celebrates you at your best. Figuring out what it means to be friends is, in the end, no less than figuring out how we connect to other people. In this illuminating and validating new book, New York Times best-selling author Deborah Tannen deconstructs the ways women friends talk and how those ways can bring friends closer or pull them apart. From casual chatting to intimate confiding, from talking about problems to telling what you had for dinner, Tannen uncovers the patterns of communication and miscommunication that affect friendships at different points in our lives. She shows how even the best of friends - with the best intentions - can say the wrong thing, and how words can repair the damage done by words. Through Tannen's signature insight, humor, and ability to present pitch-perfect real-life dialogue, listeners will hear themselves and their friendships in this book. The book explains: The power of women friends who show empathy, give advice - or just listen How women use talk to connect to friends - and to subtly compete How fear of being left out and fear of getting kicked out can haunt women's friendships How social media is reshaping communication and relationships Drawing on interviews with 80 women of diverse backgrounds, ranging in age from 9 to 97, You're the Only One I Can Tell gets to the heart of women's friendships - how they work or fail, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deborah Tannen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005067/bk_rand_005067_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Long Kiss Goodbye (Onyx & Mercury, #2) (eBook, ePUB)
She has a secret. He has a darker secret. One of their secrets can get them both killed. Avery is brutally attacked. There is no motive, no suspect. She doesn't know who to trust. The neighbor? Her friends? What about her lover or the police? Making the wrong choice will lead to her murder. Days later, a neighbor is found dead. His mutilated body is the second in a matter of weeks. A serial killer has hit the streets of Scottsdale, and Avery suspects her assault is somehow tied to the killings. As she slowly unravels the truth, Avery realizes her attack is anything but normal or random. She is only one player amongst many. But does she risk confiding in anyone? What about her next-door neighbor, Luys? His act of kindness has brought them together. But is it truly kindness or something more sinister? Could he be hiding his own agenda? Luys wants his past kept in the past. But a killer, far deadlier than any human, isn't willing to let things go. Then when Avery is assaulted, he knows he must do something to protect her, but at what cost? There's no going back if he dares to trust Avery with his dark history. He'll not only expose himself but the ones he loves. And what of any relationship between them? Is it doomed from the start, leading to pain, even death? If they join forces to find a killer, will it be enough to survive? Because before they're done, more than one person will die. And they'll quickly learn someone is pretending to be who they're not and that the killer is filled with a seething need for vengeance.- Shop: buecher
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TRACE - The Complete Series: Parts One, Two & Three , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 419min
The TRACE Series from New York Times & USA Today best-selling author Deborah Bladon - in one bundle! TRACE - Part One Being a nurse gives Vanessa Meyer a true purpose in life. It grounds her in a way that nothing else can. Since she's watched her mother slide into the clutches of a painful condition, she's worked hard to better the lives of her patients, giving as much as she can to those who seek help. Garrett Ryan is an attorney in Manhattan. He centers his life on himself. When he's brought to the hospital after a horrible crash, Vanessa tends to his wounds. Their first meeting is explosive. She sees the worst in him. He sees only the best in her. When she needs his legal expertise, he jumps at the chance to help her find the answers she seeks. He encourages her to set out on a journey of self-discovery, but neither can predict where that complex trail will take her. When she finally traces the path of her past to the present, it leads her to a reality that changes everything she's ever known. TRACE - Part Two Vanessa Meyer had finally taken on the task of learning more about her birth mother. The twisted path that brought her to her family's townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan also brought her face to face with the man she's been spending most of her nights with. When Vanessa accepts the reality of why Garrett Ryan is connected to her sister, it changes everything for her. She has to decide whether confiding in him is worth the risk of losing him. As more of her past becomes clear to her, she's forced to confront the woman who took a promised future of love and stability away from her. Vanessa can't get back what she's lost, but she can gain an understanding of a mother's love she'll never know. Will she risk everything she's built with Garrett for a brief glimpse into her birth mother's mind and heart, or will fate step in and force her hand? TRACE - Part Three Vanessa Mey ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Claire Christie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026543/bk_adbl_026543_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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History for Kids: A Biography of Harry Truman for Children , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 32min
In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Among America's presidents, Harry Truman's presidency produced some of the nation's most crucial decisions and left one of the nation's most unique legacies. When President Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945, Vice President Truman, somewhat unprepared for the Presidency, now had to fill some of the biggest shoes in American history. Incredibly, Truman had not been informed of the country's secret attempt to build atomic bombs, confiding in his diary after learning about it, "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark." The new president had to usher America through victory in Europe in his first month and decide to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a few months later, but the end of World War II produced only the first of many consequential decisions Truman would face during his nearly eight years in office. As president, Truman would lay the groundwork for the next 50 years of American foreign policy, as the architect of Cold War containment, the man who signed off on the Marshall Plan, and the commander-in-chief during much of the Korean War. He would also be the president who finally integrated the military, a crucial step on the way to full civil rights for the country's minorities. These accomplishments have earned Truman admiration and praise from most historians today, but the Korean War in particular made him especially unpopular during much of his presidency. To this day, his most memorable picture was a byproduct of his upset victory over Dewey in the 1948 election, with Truman holding up a Chicago Tribune newspaper incorrectly asse ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracey Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/097595/bk_acx0_097595_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Come to the Garden: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 346min
JENNIFER HAS WRITTEN AN AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL BOOK. (Kathie Lee Gifford, Today Show host and Emmy-award winner) A novel based on true experiences, Come to the Garden is a story about a woman’s journey with a mysterious angel that encourages listeners to believe heaven is closer than they think. Author Jennifer Wilder Morgan served as a hospital volunteer, visiting critically ill patients – praying with them and listening to their stories. As she created a safe space, patients began confiding about the mysterious ways God spoke to them – including encounters with angels, visions of loved ones who’ve passed on, and messages of comfort spoken in dreams. She witnessed the profound healing that occurs when people are permitted to talk about these experiences, and as a result, Morgan was inspired to share her own personal encounters with God in a novel. In Come to the Garden, the main character, Jenn, wakes up on her birthday to discover an angel in her backyard garden. The angel, who calls herself Margaret, is charming and funny, and she knows that Jenn has been questioning a lot of things about God recently. Is he really there? How is anyone supposed to believe that God truly cares for us when we see so many bad things happening in our world, and we experience the disappointments and tragedies of life? But Jenn suspects that God has been trying to speak to her in mysterious ways. If only she could figure out what He wants her to know. Margaret is here to help her understand. Framed as conversations between Jenn and her guardian angel, this unconventional and charming narrative will strike deep into the hearts of anyone seeking a greater understanding of God. Come to the Garden is an inspirational fictional story based on real events about the surprising ways God works in our lives and affirms that heaven is truly closer than we think. Enjoy this special edition crafted for the audiobook. Download be ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathie Lee Gifford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048435/bk_acx0_048435_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Worst Idea Ever
DON'T MISS THE RAZOR-SHARP NEW SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RICHARD & JUDY PICK QUEEN BEE AND FAKING FRIENDS 'Emotionally intelligent and beautifully written' DAILY MAIL 'Funny, insightful, sharp, wicked, brilliant - Jane Fallon at her very best' MILLY JOHNSON 'I literally could not put this book down' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Friendship, jealousy, deceit and so much more - I didn't want it to end' 5***** READER REVIEW 'The queen of the revenge novel' HEAT ________ Best friends tell each other everything. Or do they? Georgia and Lydia are so close, they're practically sisters. So when Lydia starts an online business that struggles, Georgia wants to help her - but Lydia's not the kind to accept a handout. Setting up a fake Twitter account, Georgia hopes to give her friend some anonymous moral support by posing as a potential customer. But then Lydia starts confiding in her new internet buddy and Georgia discovers she doesn't know her quite as well as she thought. Georgia knows she should reveal the truth - especially when Lydia starts talking about her - but she just can't help herself. Until Lydia reveals a secret that could not only end their friendship, but also blow-up Georgia's marriage . . . Georgia's in too deep. But what can she save? Her marriage, her friendship - or just herself? ________ 'I loved Worst Idea Ever. Another Fallonesque treat, possibly my favourite so far. Full of heart, humour and humanity. Great characters and a riveting story from the start. She's so good at tapping into the best and the worst in us. Fabulous' RUTH JONES 'This witty page-turner could be her best yet' CLOSER 'Takes us on a deep dive into the emotionally murky waters which exist between protagonists Lydia and Georgia . . . I adored it' DAILY MAIL 'Incredibly funny and original . . . fabulous' ADELE PARKS, Platinum Magazine 'An addictive page turner about friendship and revenge . . . I loved it' ALICE FEENEY 'We love everything Jane Fallon writes' BELLA Readers rate WORST IDEA EVER 5****: 'Absolutely wonderful! An excellent tale of toxic female friendship' 5***** 'A fabulous story of friendship, jealousy, deceit and good intentions' 5***** 'A remarkable read - I want to scream about this book from the roof tops!' 5***** 'Page after page of twists, the storyline will keep you gripped until the end' 5***** 'The writing was flawless and made you really feel for the characters . . . A brilliant book from a brilliant author' 5***** 'I read it in one sitting' 5***** ________ Praise for Jane Fallon: 'Compelling, edgy, beautifully written' Daily Mail 'Hugely compelling and unpredictable' Ruth Jones 'Barbed, twisty and full of deliciously dry wit' Sunday Mirror 'She always delivers a fabaliss read' MARIAN KEYES- Shop: buecher
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Things That We Are Made Of
Mary Chapin Carpenters brand new album 'The Things We are Made of' comprises of eleven songs that communicate with the plainspokeness of handwritten, heartfelt letters from a confiding friend, this is art without the artifice. The result is music that is likely to be as powerfully moving as any you have ever heard.The album is suffused with images of maps and traveling - yearning for stillness when in motion, longing for adventure when in repose. The Things That We Are Made Of was recorded in Nashville and produced by Dave Cobb, best known most recently for his work with Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson.- Shop: odax
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