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    On Old Olympus Towering Top: Coping with Four Decades of Privation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 516min
    This audiobook describes the lives of persons from three separate cultures persevering during WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII.The central character is Louis, the only son of Lourdes and Joseph. Lourdes is the oldest daughter of an opulent Mexican landowner during the Mexican Revolution. Her family flees to the border town of Paso del Notre. Lourdes’ father dies suddenly. The family is saved from ruin because Lourdes smuggled 50 gold coins hidden under her skirt.Lourdes falls in love with Joseph, a Tigua Indian who previously served in the Army during WWI. Joseph’s sister, Flor, is married to the governor of the Tigua Indian Community and they have a daughter, Rosalia, who is very close to Joseph.Rosalia abandons the Tigua community. Louis’ family survives the depression years and he finishes college. Louis meets a friend, Manfred, who introduces him to his father, a physician. Manfred teaches Louis mnemonics as a memory tool.Louis is accepted to medical school. In medical school during WWII, Louis befriends Izzy Schefter who introduces him to his family. Izzy’s father, Arthur, is a Jewish forensic pathologist who emigrated from Germany after being imprisoned in Russia during WWI. His wife, Madeline, is a doctoral student and their daughter, Anne, is a violist who is a senior in high school. She is infatuated with Louis but the feeling is not reciprocated. Both struggle with a fragile liaison stifled by too many cultural and philosophical differences and they decide to go their separate ways. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: e-AudioProductions.com, Jim Cooper, Daniella Agitelli, Layla Rhodes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232742/bk_acx0_232742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Galaxy's Edge
    After devastating losses at the hands of the First Order, General Leia Organa has dispatched her agents across the galaxy in search of allies, sanctuary, and firepower - and her top spy, Vi Moradi, may have just found all three, on a secluded world at the galaxy's edge. A planet of lush forests, precarious mountains, and towering, petrified trees, Batuu is on the furthest possible frontier of the galactic map, the last settled world before the mysterious expanse of Wild Space.
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    Appointment with Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 357min
    Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Fraser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000201/bk_hcuk_000201_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Antony and Cleopatra , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 215min
    The twin empires of Egypt and Rome mingle and clash in this towering tragedy. Impulsiveness, passion, mistaken identity and dark humor all color the fascinating dalliance between Antony and Cleopatra, the larger-than-life pair at the center of this play. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kimberly Schraf. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbk/000068/bk_adbk_000068_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blazing New Trails , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min
    Fifty-five poems by award-winning author, Regina Puckett. "The Afternoon Blaze" The sky was aflame with towering clouds of fire Its warnings appeared to be a poetic, sunlit pyre Red and orange against billowing whites and grays Creating the late afternoon’s most dazzling blaze. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cole Niblett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016021/bk_acx0_016021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Appointment with Death
    A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra...Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met...
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    Gamma Wolves (eBook, PDF)
    In the blasted, radiation-scorched, wastelands of the Earth's surface, towering mecha do battle, defending the interests of one of the few remaining arcology governments, providing security for wilderness outposts, or seeking out loot and supplies as a mercenary company. With detailed rules for designing and customizing your mecha, from size and propulsion type to payload and pilot skills, and a campaign system that allows pilots to gain experience and skills as they patrol the shattered Earth, Gamma Wolves is a fast-playing game of post-apocalyptic mecha warfare.
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    The Far Frigid North: Scared Spitless: A True Short Story (Well...Mostly True) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 49min
    Some people have to be force-fed maturity - particularly teenagers stranded helplessly on remote Canadian Islands. Join Patrick Marks, a towering icon of wimp-i-tude, in this hilarious short tale about maturing experiences with bears, mosquitoes the size of large poodles, Pot-Licker the cat, and near-death experiences with outhouses. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick C. Marks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/120124/bk_acx0_120124_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ezra Stoller: A Photographic History of Modern American Architecture
    A captivating history of 20th-century Modern American architecture, as seen through the eyes of a legendary photographer It is impossible to overstate the importance of photography's role in shaping the world's perception of architecture. And towering above the ever-growing crowd of image-makers is Ezra Stoller, an architectural photographer of immeasurable consequence in documenting the history of modern architecture - both known and unknown - in the United States and beyond. This book is one of the first to present the breadth of Stoller's largely unseen archive of images, brought to life through exquisite color and duotone black-and-white reproductions.
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    Pollock/Picasso: The European Vanguard Versus American Modernism: Studies in World Art, Book 112 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 40min
    This audiobook considers the magnetic poles of post-war modernism and the towering figures of Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock. The essay considers the history of French avant-garde art led by Picasso to the post-war years and the increasing dominance of American artists foregrounded by the advent of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Jenkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104143/bk_acx0_104143_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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