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    The Rising Sun Sets: A U.S. Soldier’s Account of WWII South Pacific Battles with the Empire of Japan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 272min
    Many veterans of war, upon their return home, choose to never speak about their time serving in the military, hoping to put it behind them and forget. But some veterans don’t hesitate to share their stories and experiences with anyone who will listen. Whether talking about it is their way of coping with what they witnessed and endured, an effort to pass on to the next generation a small slice of history, or an attempt to preserve the memories for themselves, doesn’t really matter. What matters is that countless veterans have shared their stories.Laurin Hansen was such a veteran. He told of his time serving in the US Army during WWII to his sons and wife during family road trips. He spoke of his experiences to his sons as they sat for hours in a fishing boat and during chilly evenings in a north woods hunting cabin. This book is the result of the stories told by an American father who proudly served his country, as recalled by his oldest son.This work of creative nonfiction was lovingly compiled to honor his father’s memory. The author also uses interviews with some of his dad’s army buddies and wartime letters from soldiers to loved ones back home to aid in his painstaking efforts to maintain historical accuracy and detail. The Rising Sun Sets is written in a way that will give the listener a true sense of one soldier’s time in New Guinea, the Philippines, and other South Pacific Islands during the war. Follow Laurin Hansen and his squad of American soldiers from basic training, to face-to-face combat, to the eventual occupation of Japan, and get a glimpse of what it was like to be on the receiving end of heart-pounding banzai charges by fanatical Japanese soldiers, contrasted with the boredom of day after day with no enemy contact, all while trying to adjust to the unfamiliar and sometimes brutal environment of the islands.The amazing coincidences that occurred during this story are hard to believe when one ponders the odds, bu ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Drummond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209847/bk_acx0_209847_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Locket: Short Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 6min
    In The Locket, a confederate soldier declines his fellow soldiers’ request to reveal the contents of the locket around his neck. The locket, which holds pictures of his fiancée’s parents and the date of their wedding is found on the battlefield after a battle.Later, the soldier’s fiancée visits the battlefield with the soldier’s father, both shaken with grief. The soldier’s father asks his son’s fiancée to remove her veil, as it contrasts too sharply with the beautiful day and adds that on such a day miracles seem ready to happen.Returning home, something extraordinary happens to make her believe he may be right. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Berneis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003683/bk_drms_003683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Absolute Friends , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 820min
    The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier’s son born 1947 in a new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late 60s, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today’s world of terror. Spanning 56 years, Absolute Friends is a savage fable of our times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Jayston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003286/bk_bbcw_003286_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bad Axe (Dramatization), Hörbuch, Digital, 111min
    Bad Axe is the story of a woman accused of murdering her husband at a military outpost in the Old West. Did hostile Indians force her to scalp him as revenge for his brutality, or did she kill him out of frustration with her plight as a soldier’s wife? An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring John Castellanos, Harry Hamlin, Amy Irving, Peter Jacobs, and Jessica Walter. Recorded before a live audience. Language: English. Narrator: John Castellanos, Harry Hamlin, Amy Irving, Peter Jacobs, Jessica Walter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000337/pf_latw_000337_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The True Measure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 428min
    The Ibarra Nation holds Roland prisoner. The armor soldier’s fate lies in the hands of the inhuman Stacey Ibarra. Roland will face the truth behind the Ibarra rebellion and decide if his loyalties are to Earth or his ideals. While the Iron Dragoons recover from their last battle, dark forces are at work. Gideon is called as a witness to New Bastion, where the treaty that opened the stars to humanity may force all-out war with the Ibarras or turn the rest of the galaxy against Earth. Beyond the edge of known space, an old enemy readies a vendetta that can only be ended with humanity’s extinction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luke Daniels. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/podm/001119/bk_podm_001119_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fabled Journey III , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 132min
    This collection of fantasy short stories are from the three winners of Remastered Words 2018 audio anthology, including a tale from one of our judges, Ian Whates with "Return to Arden Falls", which was first published in “Legend”, an anthology released in 2013 in honour of David Gemmell.  There is a definite theme running through this year’s tales of the soldier’s passage; whether it be returning home to family, revisiting past battlefields, or taking the treacherous path into unknown realms and through bloody battlefields. Either way, wherever the roads may lead, you’ll be glad of a warm fire and comfy chair while the fabled journey plays out. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diana Croft, Joshua Young. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136269/bk_acx0_136269_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Pilgrim: Lydia Bennet and a Soldier's Portion: Bennet Wardrobe, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 984min
    My life has been very much like an unfinished painting. The artist comes to the portrait, day after day, to splash daubs of color onto bare canvas, filling in the blanks of my story. Thus grows the likeness, imperfect as it may be, which you see today.” (Lydia Fitzwilliam, Countess of Matlock, in letter to her sister Elizabeth Bennet Darcy, March 14, 1831)Does it matter how a man fills out his regimentals? Miss Austen never considered that query. Yet, this question marks the beginning of an education - and the longest life - in the Bennet Wardrobe saga.Lydia Bennet, Longbourn’s most wayward daughter, embarks on her quest in The Pilgrim: Lydia Bennet and a Soldier’s Portion. This biography reveals how the Wardrobe helps young Mrs. Wickham learn that honor and bravery grow not from the color of the uniform - or the gender of its wearer - but rather from the contents of the heart.In the process, she realizes that she must be broken and repaired, as if by a kintsugi master potter, to become the most useful player in the Bennet Wardrobe’s great drama.The Pilgrim explores questions of love, loss, pain, worry, and perseverance. All of these are brought to bear as one of the silliest girls in England grows into the Dowager Countess. This novel is the seventh and next-to-last volume in the Bennet Wardrobe series. Each book along the way has revealed more about how the mysterious Wardrobe has led Miss Austen’s Bennets to learn that which they need in order to take part in its ultimate mission.Praise for the book:“Multifaceted and nuanced, The Pilgrim: Lydia Bennet and a Soldier’s Portion speaks to the verities of life. Once again, Don Jacobson has combined the essence of Pride and Prejudice with an esoteric storyline and the universal themes of redemption and forgiveness in this well-crafted narrative.” (Mirta Ines Trupp, author of The Meyersons of Meryton) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda Berry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195266/bk_acx0_195266_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blades of Bluegrass , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 514min
    Captain Britt Story lost more than her left arm in Afghanistan. She lost faith in honor and humanity when her command’s failure to act cost a young soldier’s life, turning Britt into a ticking political time bomb the U.S. Army and her father, an influential senator, are desperate to disarm.Occupational therapist First Lieutenant Teddy Alexander was thrust into the national spotlight when she successfully petitioned to receive survivor’s benefits after her wife was killed in Afghanistan days before DOMA was repealed. Six years later, she remains safely cocooned in the past by her military family until her assignment to rehab Captain Story drags them both into a confusing battle between duty, consequences, and hot attraction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollis Elizabeth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/210014/bk_acx0_210014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Absolute Friends , Hörbuch, Digital, gekürzt, 394min
    Absolute Friends is a superbly paced novel spanning 56 years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier’s son born 1947 in a new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife, who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men first meet as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late '60s, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today’s world of terror. Spanning 56 years, Absolute Friends is a savage fable of our times. gekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John le Carré. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002563/bk_boli_002563_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Body Work , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 844min
    When V. I. Warshawski, the hardest-working of private eyes, goes out one night, a stranger is shot and dies in her arms. V.I. has been visiting Club Gouge, where a woman known as the Body Artist turns her naked body into a canvas for the audience to paint on. The show attracts all kinds of people, from Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war veterans. A tormented young painter shows up too, and the intricate designs she creates drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage. When the painter is shot, the police think it’s a clear-cut case. But the soldier’s family hires V.I. to clear his name. And the detective uncovers a chain of ugly truths. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liza Ross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001421/bk_isis_001421_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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