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    Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 368min
    During his time as an inspector with the Paris Sûreté, Monsieur Pamplemousse had been 'in at the death' on more than one occasion, but even he had to admit that the phrase took on an entirely new meaning when he was present at the spectacular ending to Cuisine de Chavignol, France's premier television cookery programme. Seated in the front row of an invited studio audience, he watched in silent horror as the eponymous host, having downed an oyster in close-up, uttered a strangled cry and sank from view behind a kitchen worktop. Pommes Frites, sniffer dog extraordinaire, has his own views on the matter: Claude Chavignol was a really bad egg... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Wallis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/007133/bk_bbcw_007133_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Was geschah wirklich?
    Echten Katastrophen und Geheimnissen auf der Spur Wieso sank die Titanic? Gab es Bigfoot wirklich? Und was ist dran am sagenumwobenen Bermudadreieck? Dieses Buch rollt echte Fälle neu auf, von katastrophalen Unglücken bis hin zu rätselhaften Erscheinungen und mysteriösen Begebenheiten. Lies nach, was wirklich passiert ist, und beleuchte die Geschehnisse von allen Seiten: Die Fallakten mit Zeitungsausschnitten, Zeugenaussagen und Experteneinschätzungen helfen dir dabei! Wahre Begebenheiten: Alle Fälle sind wirklich geschehen!Übersichtlich: Jeder Fall ist auf einer Doppelseite dargestellt und wird anschließend auf einer weiteren Doppelseite aus allen Richtungen beleuchtet,Sinnvolle Beschäftigung: Fördert logisches Denken, kritisches Hinterfragen und den Umgang mit Informationen und Quellen.Toll illustriert: Die erzählerischen Illustrationen bilden eine schöne Ergänzung zum Text.Mit Glossar: Zum Nachlesen und VerstehenRolle die Fälle neu auf!Lies die Fallakte, sammle Informationen und bilde dir deine eigene Meinung. Ein aufregendes Buch für Kinder ab 10 Jahren.
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    Thursday's Child: One Woman's Journey to Seven Continents
    Happy, tragic, and at times, a combination of both. This is the story of one woman's journey across seven continents. Maralyn Rittenour has lived a life of accidental twists and turns full of luck, opportunity, intrigue, and at times, hardship and tragedy. From her first close call as an infant when her mother literally missed a boat that later sank, to being twice married in November and twice widowed in August, to trips to all seven continents on the globe, to her work for MI6, Thursday's Child chronicles the life of a true adventurer, her rich family history, and the people-some famous, some not-she's met along the way. For anyone who has ever traveled extensively, or even just dreamed about it, the wonderful and unexpected journeys told in this travel memoir will captivate and inspire the adventurer in all of us.
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    The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 420min
    In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's surviving crewmen, scores were submerged in the ocean as the shattered warship sank beneath the waves - and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Based on official American and Japanese histories, personal memoirs, and the author's exclusive interviews with key participants, The Castaway's War tells the entirely unique and very personal tale of Navy Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller's fight for survival against both a hostile environment and an implacable human enemy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ian Harding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009435/bk_reco_009435_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Escape and Evade: The Collapse Trilogy, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 306min
    The seas were empty of all life. The Midwest was a desert. The western states fought wars over water as coastal cities sank under rising sea levels. What food was left was hoarded by the wealthy living lavish lives in the city states while those around them starved. Vin Tanner and the others in his settlement survived by scavenging the urban waste lands around the cities. There was no law except survival of the fittest in a civilization on the verge of collapse. But something was wrong, the cities were scouring the ruins for one man. He held the key to their survival. He was the only one who could give them the answers they needed. What he found out would change everything. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Block. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088872/bk_acx0_088872_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Apostle Peter Speaks from Heaven: A Divine Revelation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 118min
    Matthew has previously visited with several saints from heaven, including the apostle John and Mary Magdalene. In this audiobook, he spends time with another saint, the apostle Peter, who freely shares from his heart and answers numerous questions about his life from Matthew and his friends Rebecca and Jeff. In Apostle Peter Speaks from Heaven: A Divine Revelation, you can learn Peter’s thoughts about the following: How the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost changed himWhat really happened when Peter sank in the waterWhat Jesus is likeHow to draw closer to GodAnd much more! Take a journey with Matthew and delve into the perspective of the apostle Peter, one of Jesus’ inner circle. Hear his heart as he shares deep treasures from heaven.   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ronald Fox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/125359/bk_acx0_125359_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Collision Course: The Classic Story of the Collision of the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 692min
    One of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in the world, the Andrea Doria was en route to New York from Italy. Departing from the United States was the much smaller Stockholm. On the foggy night of July 25, 1956, 53 miles southeast of Nantucket, the Stockholm sliced through the Doria's steel hull. Within minutes, the sea was pouring into the Italian liner. Eleven hours later, she capsized and sank into the ocean. Associated Press journalist Alvin Moscow recounts the heroic, rapid response of other ships - which averted a catastrophe of the same scale as that of the Titanic - and the official inquest. Moscow delivers a fact-filled, fascinating drama of how a supposedly unsinkable ship ended up at the bottom of the sea. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mel Foster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/001605/bk_drms_001605_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Slow but Deadly, the Dive-Bombers of World War II: Traditional American History Series, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 309min
    The theme of this book is the exploration of the theory and practice of dive-bombing, which tactic proved more precise than that of level-flight bombers and more effective than air-launched torpedo attacks against surface ships. It is also the author's purpose to come to a more general conclusion as to the effectiveness of dive-bombing under actual combat conditions. In this regard the words and observations of several dive-bomber aviators have been incorporated. While the best known dive-bomber was the Stuka, the most successful of the major dive-bombing airframes was undoubtedly the American-made Douglas SBD Dauntless that would prove (like most of its type) to be Slow But Deadly - hence the title of this book. Dive-bombing made a name for itself in the Second World War; some might say it created a legend. The 400-year-long naval dominance of the surface battleship had been transferred almost overnight to the aircraft carrier, thus proving the adage that future wars are often fought with the knowledge and weapons of the past. The Stuka Ju-87 and the Aichi D3As were among the best known aircraft among those who lived through the war. That the Dauntless came out of the war as the premier purpose-designed dive-bomber may be due as much to the fact that the Axis lost the war and the Allies emerged victorious. Yet the SBD had certain innate characteristics that made it great. Slow But Deadly, the SBD sank over 300,000 tons of enemy shipping in the Pacific theater alone. It killed 18 warships from submarines to battleships, and it was the premier killer of aircraft carriers among all other weapons systems sinking six flattops almost entirely without assistance and damaging several more. From May to November 1942, SBDs sank or disabled 30 percent of the naval strength of the Empire of Japan and decimated its carrier air arm causing one authority to declare the Dauntless "the worst enemy of the Imperial Navy of Japan." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gene E Traupman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025629/bk_acx0_025629_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sinking of the General Slocum: The History of New York City's Deadliest Maritime Disaster , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 64min
    There is a popular saying that claims timing is everything, and in no other field of study is that truer than in history. For instance, under normal conditions, a ship that sank with more than 1,000 passengers aboard - most of whom died - would be big news, yet today the sinking of the PS General Slocum is often overlooked if not entirely forgotten. While it might have generated the type of publicity and reaction of the Johnstown Flood of 1889 or the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 under normal circumstances, deadliest disaster in New York City's history before 9/11, and the second deadliest maritime disaster in peacetime in American history has become something of a historical footnote. On June 15, 1904, an annual gala was held on the passenger ship as it steamed up the East River, with about 1,400 people from St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Consisting mostly of German immigrants, the boat was packed with women and children, and when a small fire started on the ship shortly after the trip began, faulty equipment was unable to put it out or stop it from spreading. On top of that, the lifeboats were tied up and the crew, which never conducted emergency drills, was unprepared for a potential disaster. When parents put life preservers on their children and then had them enter the water, they soon learned that the life preservers were also faulty and didn't float. As the disaster unfolded, over 1,000 passengers burned to death or drowned, many swept under the water by the East River's current and weighed down by heavy wool clothing. Few people on board knew how to swim, exacerbating the situation, and eventually the overcrowded decks began to collapse, crushing some unfortunate victims. In the end, the General Slocum sank in shallow water while hundreds of corpses drifted ashore, and the fallout was immediate. The captain was indicted for criminal negligence and manslaughter, and the ship's owner was also charged. While the c ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/079674/bk_acx0_079674_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Run the Storm , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
    In the best-selling tradition of A Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, a harrowing account of the incredible true story of the recent shocking disappearance of El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank suddenly in the Bermuda Triangle in 2015 - taking with it 33 lives. On October 1, 2015, the SS El Faro, a cargo ship tall as a hundred-story building that made a regular run between Jacksonville, Florida, and Puerto Rico, delivering everything from razor blades to new Chevrolet cars, disappeared in Hurricane Joaquin, a category 4 storm. The ship, her hundreds of shipping containers, and her entire crew sank to the bottom of the ocean, three miles down. The sinking was the greatest seagoing US merchant marine shipping disaster since World War II and evoked the haunting resonances of Gordon Lightfoot’s famous song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. The massive ship had a seasoned crew, state-of-the-art navigation equipment, advance warning of the storm, and knowledge of its supposed track. It seemed incomprehensible that such a ship could sink so suddenly, unable to send even a Mayday call before disappearing. How, in this day and age, could something like this happen?  The answer is that a ship as large as the El Faro doesn’t sink for just one reason; it sinks because many factors intersect - everything from hurricane-tracking algorithms to the decay of rubber gaskets on hatches to the arcane science of loading shipping containers to the complex relationship between a ship’s captain and his corporate overlords, who are anxious that cargo be delivered on time. All of these factors and more came into play in the sinking of the El Faro. Relying on Coast Guard inquest hearings as well as numerous interviews, Foy has crafted a brilliant account that brings to life the last voyage of El Faro, from her loading to her shocking demise, a story lasting only a few days but that relentlessly ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L. J. Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008758/bk_sans_008758_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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