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    Cry of the Peacock: Metamorphoses, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1006min
    A stand-alone companion to Of Moths and Butterflies.An illustrious marriage, a fortune, a position of wealth and influence. These are the dreams and ambitions of any Victorian woman of sense. Or are they?Perhaps not for Arabella Gray.The death of Abbie’s father, the overseer of a large country estate, leaves her without means or resources, without even a place to live. Her landlords, in an extraordinary display of charity, invite her to live at Holdaway Hall. But the invitation is as puzzling as it is generous. Why are the Crawfords, who have never paid her any notice before, so concerned with her well-being now?It’s a question the younger Crawford brothers would like to have answered as well. Certainly Miss Gray is a mercenary upstart. Certainly their brother is mad for fancying himself in love with her. Such a union would make them a laughingstock. They mean to put a stop to it, but when they learn that her past is closely - even disturbingly - connected with their own, they are brought up short, forced to ask themselves some very hard questions.As Abbie herself soon learns, there is a great mystery at the heart of her landlords’ extraordinary offer. Everything she has ever dreamt of might be hers for the taking, but is the price worth it? More than her happiness alone rests upon her decision. If she refuses Ruskin Crawford’s offer of marriage, will she be able to live with the consequences? If she does, will she be able to live with herself?In the end, all must ask themselves some very hard questions. What does it mean to be a man or woman of honor and integrity? What does it mean, after all, to be a gentleman? And what, exactly, is the price of a woman’s heart? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stacey Patrone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230187/bk_acx0_230187_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920-1967 (Sports & Popular Culture) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 679min
    The National Football League that celebrated its first Super Bowl in 1967 bore scant resemblance to the league of its obscure origins. In its earliest years, the league was a ragtag collection of locally supported small-town teams that generated attention only in the locales in which they played, if they were lucky. Many teams received no support at all. Only after enduring a slow, often treacherous, journey did the enterprise of professional football reach its position as the king of the sports world by the late 1960s. In From Sandlots to the Super Bowl, Craig R. Coenen recounts the NFL's ascension from a cash-strapped laughingstock to a perennial autumn obsession for millions of sports fans. It offers an in-depth summary of the NFL's early years and its struggles to build an identity. This book shows how the fledgling NFL of the 1920s and 1930s attempted to build support both on a local and national scale. Considered a sport of hooligans and lower-class athletes, professional football paled in comparison to the reputations of competing sports such as college football and professional baseball. Even more difficult for the league, developing civic support for franchises proved an almost impossible task. Teams would spring up and disappear overnight, generating hardly any notice among sports fans. Coenen shows how the league's survival depended on small town franchises being able to tap into the civic pride and larger economic interests of nearby, growing urban centers. This book also details how the league faced challenges from rival leagues, the government, and at times, itself. Finally, it documents how the NFL mastered the use of new technologies like television to market itself, generate new revenue, and secure its financial future. This book approaches the history of the National Football League not only with stats and scores but with what happened beyond the gridiron. Starting in Canton and Massillon and ending in Los Angeles wit ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Troy Klein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/011173/bk_acx0_011173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Troop Beverly Hills
    Shelley Long stars as a spoiled Beverly Hills resident who does nothing but shop, prompting her husband to tell her he's fed up with her selfishness. To prove him wrong, she assumes leadership of Troop Beverly Hills in the Girl Scout-like Wilderness Girls organization. Troop Beverly Hills is made up of brats who are the laughingstock of the scouting community.
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    Sitd: Stronghold
    Debütalbum des Elektro-Duos [:SITD:]. Das Elektro-Duo [:SITD:] - bestehend aus Carsten Jacek und Thomas Lesczenski - kombiniert auf seinem grandiosen Debütalbum traurig schöne Melodien und harte Beats zu modernen Elektro-Underground-Hymnen. Mit ihren beiden erfolgreichen Maxis "Snuff E.P." und "Laughingstock" lieferten die beiden aus dem Ruhrgebiet stammenden Musiker bereits einen mehr als vielversprechenden Vorgeschmack auf dieses Debütalbum. So konnten beide Veröffentlichungen diverse Top-Chartplatzierungen (u.a. DAC) und massives Airplay verzeichnen. Hinzu kamen diverse, gefeierte Live-Aufritte, so u.a. auf dem M'era Luna Festival, im Rahmen der Popkomm, dem Zillo-Festival und dem Infest in Bradford/England. Remix-Aufträge für Bands wie Suicide Commando, Bruderschaft und Pzycho Bitch zeigen, dass [:SITD:] nicht nur den Nerv der Szene treffen, sondern auch bei ihren Musiker-Kollegen hoch im Kurs stehen. [:SITD:] liefern mit ihrem Longplayer "Stronghold" einen facettenreichen Electro-Soundtrack der absoluten Extraklasse ab. Tracks wie "Locked In Syndrom", "2nd Death", "Venom" oder "Rose-Coloured Skies" sind potenzielle Clubhits und dürften schon sehr bald die Tanzflächen der internationalen Clubs füllen. "Stronghold" enthält zudem den [:SITD:]-Überhit "Snuff Machinery" (in neuer Version) sowie exklusive Versionen von den Club-Smashern "Laughingstock" und "Hurt". Electro-Highlights des Jahres 2003!
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