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    I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005: I Survived, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min
    The storm of the century—and the survival story of a lifetime! It's the end of August 2005, and a big hurricane is blowing in to New Orleans, Louisiana. Barry's family plans to evacuate the Ninth Ward with everyone else, but when Barry's little sister gets violently ill, they must return to their home and stick out the storm. At first, everything seems fine. But then the levees break, the water rises, Barry is swept out of his home, and everything changes. Stranded in the floodwaters with no idea where he is and only a stranded dog by his side, Barry must find the courage to survive the storm of the century. Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in this new fictional series. Readers will be transported by stories of amazing kids and how they survived! Audio extra: Includes author's notes, read by Lauren Tarshis! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arnell Powell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/schc/000695/bk_schc_000695_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned, Hörbuch, Digital, 377min
    Here, celebrating the 20th anniversary of its debut as a New York Times best seller, is the revised, updated, and expanded edition of the classic anti-textbook that changed the way we look at history. First published two decades ago, when the “closing of the American mind” was in the headlines, Don’t Know Much About History proved Americans don’t hate history - just the dull version that was dished out in school. Now Davis has brought his groundbreaking work up to the present, including the history of an “Era of Broken Trust”, from the end of the Clinton administration through the recent Great Recession. This additional material covers the horrific events of 9/11 and the rise of conspiracy theorists, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina, and the failure of the New Orleans levees, the global financial meltdown, the election of Barack Obama, and the national controversy over same-sex marriage. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey, Kenneth C. Davis, Zach McLarty, Cassandra Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002674/bk_rand_002674_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Opening the Floodgates , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
    She survived Hurricane Katrina, but can she survive Joshua? Bella makes it out of New Orleans just moments after the levees broke. She escapes over the border into Texas, on a hot-wired school bus, and back to the man she fled from five years ago, her infamous husband, former NBA superstar, Bad Boy Joshua Keys. Bella feels like she’s running from one hurricane right into the crushing arms of the next, but these days Joshua Keys is living for the Lord. He looks the same, he smells the same, the intense emotions he ignites inside of Bella are definitely the same, but the old Bad Boy Joshua Keys is gone. After a night of passion and rekindled love, Joshua discovers Bella’s shocking truth. Now the cat’s out the bag and Bella‘s waiting for Hurricane Joshua to blow. In this modern day adaptation of the biblical story of Hosea, can Bella can open her eyes long enough to see truth?She just might discover that the man who was once a hurricane has become a soft place to land after the storm. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kaleem Abdullah. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/148872/bk_acx0_148872_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 686min
    When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, chef and widower Simon Fortier knows how he plans to face the storm - riding it out inside his long-time home in the city's Treme neighborhood, just as he has through so many storms before. But when the levees break and the city is torn apart, Simon disappears. His son Julian a celebrated jazz trumpeter, rushes home to a New Orleans he left years before to search for his father. As Julian crisscrosses the city, fearing the worst, he reconnects with Sylvia, Simon's companion of many years; Parmenter, his father's erstwhile business partner and one of the most successful restaurateurs in New Orleans; and Velmyra, the woman Julian left behind when he moved to New York. Julian's search for Simon deepens as he finds himself drawn into the troubled history of Silver Creek, the extravagantly beautiful piece of land where his father grew up, and closer once again to Velmyra. As he tries to come to grips with his father's likely fate, Julian slowly gains a deeper, richer understanding of his father and the city he loved so much, while unraveling the mysteries of Silver Creek. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brad Sanders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021731/bk_adbl_021731_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 272min
    Levees break in New Orleans. Iraq descends into chaos. The housing market teeters on the brink of collapse. Americans of all political stripes are heading into the 2008 election with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with American politics. But what exactly? Democrats blame Republicans and Republicans blame Democrats. Greedy corporate executives, rogue journalists, faulty voting machines, irresponsible defense contractors - we blame them, too. The only thing everyone seems to agree on, in fact, is that the American people are entirely blameless. InJust How Stupid Are We?, best-selling historian and renowned myth-buster Rick Shenkman takes aim at our great national piety: the wisdom of the American people. The hard truth is that American democracy is more direct than ever - but voters are misusing, abusing, and abdicating their political power. Americans are paying less and less attention to politics at a time when they need to pay much more: Television has dumbed politics down to the basest possible level, while the real workings of politics have become vastly more complicated.Shenkman offers concrete proposals for reforming our institutions - the government, the media, civic organizations, political parties - to make them work better for the American people. But first, Shenkman argues, we must reform ourselves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000581/bk_adbl_000581_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min
    The powerful first collection of short stories by Jon McGregor. From the publication of his first Booker-nominated novel, at the age of 26, Jon McGregor's fiction has consistently been defined by lean poetic language, a keen sense of detail, and insightful characterization. Now, after publishing three novels, he's turning his considerable talent toward short fiction. The stories in this beautifully wrought collection explore a specific physical world and the people who inhabit it. Set among the lowlands and levees, the fens and ditches that mark the spare landscape of eastern England, the stories expose lives where much is buried, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won. The narrators of these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell us what they believe to be important - in language inflected with the landscape's own understatement - while the real stories lie in what they unwittingly let slip. A man builds a tree house by a river in preparation for a coming flood. A boy sets fire to a barn. A pair of itinerant laborers sit by a lake and talk, while fighter-planes fly low overhead and prepare for war. This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You is an intricate exploration of isolation, self-discovery, and the impact of place on the human psyche. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Piers Gibbon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009507/bk_adbl_009507_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disaters of Tomorrow , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min
    When houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to "natural disasters" or "acts of God." But what if they're neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves? That's the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first audiobook to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a "perfect storm," but a tragedy of our own making - and one that could become commonplace. The authors, one a longtime New Orleans resident, argue that breached levees and sloppy emergency response are just the most obvious examples of government failure. The true problem is more deeply rooted and insidious, and stretches far beyond the Gulf Coast. Based on the false promise of widespread prosperity, communities across the U.S. have embraced all brands of "economic development" at all costs. In Louisiana, that meant development interests turning wetlands into shipping lanes. By replacing a natural buffer against storm surges with a 75-mile long, obsolete canal that cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they guided the hurricane into the heart of New Orleans and adjacent communities. The authors reveal why, despite their geographic differences, California and Missouri are building - quite literally - toward similar destruction. Too often, the U.S. "growth machine" generates wealth for a few and misery for many. Drawing lessons from the most expensive "natural" disaster in American history, Catastrophe in the Making tells why thoughtless development comes at a price we can ill afford. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clinton Wade. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014269/bk_adbl_014269_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beyond Control: The Mississippi River's New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico (America's Third Coast Series) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min
    Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a preexisting football-field-size crater. That night the Mississippi River nearly changed its course for a shorter and steeper path to the sea. Such a map-changing reconfiguration of the country's largest river would bear national significance as well as disastrous consequences for New Orleans and towns like Morgan City, at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River.Beyond Control traces the history of this phenomenon, beginning with a major channel shift around 3,000 years ago. By the time European colonists began to explore the Lower Mississippi Valley, a unique confluence of waterways had formed where the Red River joined the Mississippi, and the Atchafalaya River flowed out into the Atchafalaya Basin. A series of human alterations to this potentially volatile web of rivers, starting with a bend cutoff in 1831 by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, set the forces in motion for the Mississippi's move into the Atchafalaya Basin.Told against the backdrop of the Lower Mississippi River's impending diversion, the book's chapters chronicle historic floods, rising flood crests, a changing strategy for flood protection, and competing interests in the management of the Old River outlet.The book is published by University Press of Mississippi. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."This is a fascinating - and, in many places, downright riveting - look at the Mississippi River and the problems and threats it creates." (John M. Barry, author of Rising Tide)"Highly readable account of the endless struggles to harness a dynamic Mississippi River." (Craig E. Colten, Louisiana State University, author of Southern Waters) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R F McCoy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224062/bk_acx0_224062_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 688min
    From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods, including Pontchartrain Park, the home of Wendell Pierce's family and the first African American middle-class subdivision in New Orleans. The hurricane breached many of the city's levees, and the resulting flooding submerged Pontchartrain Park under as much as 20 feet of water. Katrina left New Orleans later that day, but for the next three days the water kept relentlessly gushing into the city, plunging eighty percent of New Orleans under water. Nearly 1,500 people were killed. Half the houses in the city had four feet of water in them - or more. There was no electricity or clean water in the city; looting and the breakdown of civil order soon followed. Tens of thousands of New Orleanians were stranded in the city, with no way out; many more evacuees were displaced, with no way back in. Pierce and his family were some of the lucky ones: They survived and were able to ride out the storm at a relative's house 70 miles away. When they were finally allowed to return, they found their family home in tatters, their neighborhood decimated. Heartbroken but resilient, Pierce vowed to help rebuild, and not just his family's home, but all of Pontchartrain Park. In this powerful and redemptive narrative, Pierce brings together the stories of his family, his city, and his history, why they are all worth saving and the critical importance art played in reuniting and revitalizing this unique American city. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wendell Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002650/bk_peng_002650_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rain: A Natural and Cultural History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 704min
    A natural history of rain, told through a lyrical blend of science, cultural history, and human drama. It is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of all the world's water. Yet this is the first audiobook to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science - the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of colored rains - with the human story of our attempts to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey's mopes and Kurt Cobain's grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking listeners to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is an audiobook for everyone who has ever experienced it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christina Traister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006942/bk_brll_006942_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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