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  Zombie Baseball Beatdown , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 363min

  In this inventive, fast-paced novel, New York Times bestselling and Printz Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi takes on hard-hitting themes - from food safety to racism and immigration - and creates a zany, grand-slam adventure that will get kids thinking about where their food comes from. The zombie apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel, and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked out by a really big stink. Little do they know the plant's toxic cattle feed is turning cows into flesh-craving monsters! The boys decide to launch a stealth investigation into the plant's dangerous practices, unknowingly discovering a greedy corporation's plot to look the other way as tainted meat is sold to thousands all over the country. With no grownups left they can trust, Rabi and his friends will have to grab their bats to protect themselves (and a few of their enemies) if they want to stay alive...and maybe even save the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sunil Malhotra. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001632/bk_lili_001632_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Kardashians: An American Drama , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 592min

  A delicious new audiobook that's better than fiction! Secrets and scandals of the Kardashians, so closely held that not even hardcore fans have heard about them, are finally exposed in New York Times best-selling author Jerry Oppenheimer's forensic dissection of the infamous reality TV clan. From the curious life of patriarch Robert Kardashian, whose family meatpacking business was tainted by scandal, to "momager" Kris Jenner's top-secret plan for the future, The Kardashians reveals the untold, definitive story based on two years of investigative reporting and scores of candid, on-the-record interviews, ranging from childhood friends to powerful business associates, who break their silence for the first time. In the decade since the Kardashians first appeared on the scene, millions of speculative words have been written about their drama-filled lives. But most has been tabloid hype and gossip column fantasy. Until now. Oppenheimer has authored revelatory books on such international icons as the Clintons, the Kennedys, the Hiltons, and more. Now comes The Kardashians, the true story that will make headlines and shock even the most loyal fans. This audiobook will make listeners gasp, cringe, and take to social media. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Holter Graham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002617/bk_aren_002617_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Last Words: The Coleridge Taylor Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min

  In March of 1975, as New York City hurtles toward bankruptcy and the Bronx burns, newsman Coleridge Taylor roams police precincts and ERs. He is looking for the story that will deliver him from obits, his place of exile at the Messenger-Telegram. Ever since he was demoted from the police beat for inventing sources, the 34-year-old has been a lost soul. A break comes at Bellevue, where Taylor views the body of a homeless teen picked up in the Meatpacking District. Taylor smells a rat: The dead boy looks too clean, and he's wearing a distinctive army field jacket. A little digging reveals that the jacket belonged to a hobo named Mark Voichek and that the teen was a spoiled society kid up to no good, the son of a city official. Taylor's efforts to protect Voichek put him on the hit list of three goons who are willing to kill any number of street people to cover tracks that just might lead to city hall. Taylor has only one ally in the newsroom: young and lovely reporter Laura Wheeler. But time is not on his side, and if he doesn't wrap this story up soon, he'll be back on the obits page - as a headline, not a byline. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Corren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009244/bk_blak_009244_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Jungle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 786min

  This 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair emphasizes the predicament of the working class and illustrates the corruption of the American meatpacking industry in the early-20th century. The story sets off with a dramatic portrayal of a Lithuanian wedding feast, which introduces the listener to all of the major and secondary characters: Jurgis Rudkus (originally "Rudkos"), his bride Ona, their extended family, and their friends. Drawn away from Lithuania by assurances of work, the Rudkus family arrived in the Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago at the end of the 19th century, only to learn that their dreams of a modest life are not likely to be fulfilled. The family had previously imagined that only Jurgis would support them in America; however one at a time, all of them - the women, the young children, and Jurgis' sickly father - are all required to look for jobs to contribute to the scanty family income. They are confronted with a ruthless world of work in the Chicago Stockyards, where everybody has his or her price, where everyone in a position of power - including government inspectors, the police, and judges - must be rewarded, and where blacklisting is common. A sequence of ill-fated events - accidents at work, a number of deaths in the family that under normal conditions could have been avoided - draws the family toward ever more tragedy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Raimundas Jonas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/huds/000095/bk_huds_000095_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Toltec Cup (eBook, ePUB)

  The Toltec Cup was published in 1890 by A. C. Wheeler under the pseudonym of "Nym Crinkle." A tale of conspiracy and love triangles, the novel centers on a mysterious silver cup covered in hieroglyphs that goes missing just days after its owner's death. New York Police Inspector John Wilder grows suspicious when someone offers a huge reward for the cup's return. Wilder traces the reward to Colin Carteret, an artist engaged to the murdered man's daughter, who swears he did not know of the cup before the reward appeared in the newspaper. Together, the two men follow a trail of clues that lead them to New York City slums, a beautiful young woman named Manuella Castleton, and a syndicate that believes that the cup will lead to an extraordinary buried treasure. Contemporary readers will enjoy the novel's remarkable depictions of mid-nineteenth-century New York City. Roaming the Gas House District, the Bowery, Union Square, Harlem, and the Meatpacking District, The Toltec Cup explores a dynamic landscape and diverse peoples. This new edition revives a forgotten world for a new generation of readers.

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  Last Reader Standing: The Story of a Man Who Learned to Read at 54 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 213min

  The day Archie lost his 31-year job as a laborer at a meatpacking company, he was forced to confront the secret he had held so closely for most of his life: at the age of 54, he couldn't read. For all his adult life, he'd been able to skirt around the issue. But now, forced to find a new job to support his family, he could no longer hide from the truth. The Last Reader Standing is the story of Archie's amazing and often painful journey of becoming literate at middle age, struggling with the newfound knowledge of his dyslexia. From the little boy who was banished to the back of the classroom because the teachers labeled him stupid, Archie emerged to becoming a national figure who continues to enlighten professionals into the world of the learning disabled. He joined Barbara Bush on stage for her Literacy Foundation's fundraisers where she proudly introduced him as the man who took advantage of a second chance and improved his life. This is a touching and poignant story that gives us an eye-opening view of the lack of literacy in our society, and how important it is for all of us to have opportunity to become all that we can be to have hope and go after our dreams. It will also help parents, educators, and medical practitioners to better understand their roles in supporting and providing opportunity for the reading-challenged. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wayne Edwards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/050317/bk_acx0_050317_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 874min

  Kosher? That means the rabbi blessed it, right? Not exactly. In this captivating account of a Bible-based practice that has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry, journalist Sue Fishkoff travels throughout America and to Shanghai, China, to find out who eats kosher food, who produces it, who is responsible for its certification, and how this fascinating world continues to evolve. She explains why 86 percent of the 11.2 million Americans who regularly buy kosher food are not observant Jews—they are Muslims, Seventh-day Adventists, vegetarians, people with food allergies, and consumers who pay top dollar for food they believe “answers to a higher authority”. Fishkoff interviews food manufacturers, rabbinic supervisors, and ritual slaughterers; meets with eco-kosher adherents who go beyond traditional requirements to produce organic chicken and pasture-raised beef; sips boutique kosher wine in Napa Valley; talks to shoppers at an upscale kosher supermarket in Brooklyn; and marches with unemployed workers at the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant. She talks to Reform Jews who are rediscovering the spiritual benefits of Kashrut and to Conservative and Orthodox Jews who are demanding that kosher food production adhere to ethical and environmental values. She chronicles the corruption, price-fixing, and strong-arm tactics of early-20th-century kosher meat production, against which contemporary kashrut scandals pale by comparison. A revelatory look at the current stat of kosher in America, this audiobook will appeal to anyone interested in food, religion, Jewish identity, or big business. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Walter Dixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000484/bk_gdan_000484_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  ADAC Reiseführer New York

  New York, New York: Willkommen in der Stadt, die niemals schläft. Wohin nur zuerst? Auf das Empire State Building, zum Times Square oder in den Central Park? Zur Freiheitsstatue, in die Wallstreet oder zum Broadway? Kaum eine Stadt verfügt über so viele Sehenswürdigkeiten, berühmte Schauplätze und Filmkulissen, und nirgendwo kann man sich besser durch Hochhausschluchten treiben lassen und vom Rhythmus und der Energie anstecken lassen als im "Big Apple". Aber auch in New York gibt es sie: versteckte Gärten und stille Orte, den Highline Park etwa, den Meatpacking District oder auch den Lesesaal der Public Library - Oasen der Ruhe im allzeit vibrierenden Großstadtgetümmel.Detaillierte Informationen, praktische Tipps, übersichtliche Nutzung, handliches Format - das und noch viel mehr bietet der ADAC Reiseführer New York zu einem top Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis:Clevere Elemente für noch bessere Orientierung und leichtere Urlaubsplanung:Klappenkarten, die parallel zum Reiseführer genutzt werden könnenviele weitere Detailkarten im InnenteilADAC Quickfinder, Ihr persönlicher Erlebnis-WegweiserÜbersichtsseiten mit Hotels am Ende jedes KapitelsFür Eilige: Vorschläge für einen spannenden Tag in der StadtMit klaren Icons alles auf einen Blick erfassen:10 Top Tipps zu den touristischen Highlights25 ausgesuchte Empfehlungen für einen perfekten UrlaubErlebnisse für die ganze FamilieInformationen zum Parken und zu VerkehrsmittelnInformative ADAC Servicekästen zu den Themen:MobilitätSparenRegionale Besonderheiten Ganz einfach: Gut informiert, besser reisen.

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  Long Gone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 609min

  After a layoff and months of struggling, Alice Humphrey finally lands her dream job managing a new art gallery in Manhattan’s trendy Meatpacking District. According to Drew Campbell, the well-suited corporate representative who hires her, the gallery is a passion project for its anonymous, wealthy, and eccentric owner. Drew assures Alice that the owner will be hands off, allowing her to run the gallery on her own. Her friends think it sounds too good to be true, but Alice sees a perfect opportunity to make a name for herself beyond the shadow of her famous father, an award-winning and controversial film maker. Everything is perfect until the morning Alice arrives at work to find the gallery gone - the space stripped bare as if it had never existed - and Drew Campbell’s dead body on the floor. Overnight, Alice’s dream job has vanished, and she finds herself at the center of police attention with nothing to prove her innocence. The phone number Drew gave her links back to a disposable phone. The artist whose work she displayed doesn’t seem to exist. And the dead man she claims is Drew has been identified as someone else. When police discover ties between the gallery and a missing girl, Alice knows she’s been set up. Now she has to prove it - a dangerous search for answers that will entangle her in a dark, high-tech criminal conspiracy and force her to unearth long-hidden secrets involving her own family... secrets that could cost Alice her life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tamara Marston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000579/bk_high_000579_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  City of Savages , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 710min

  After the Red Allies turn New York City into a POW camp, two sisters must decipher the past in order to protect the future in this action-packed thriller with a dual narrative. It's been nearly two decades since the Red Allies first attacked New York, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp ruled by Rolladin and her brutal, impulsive warlords. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that keeps her from the world beyond the city's borders. But for Sky's younger sister, Phee, the POW camp is a dangerous playground of possibility--and the only home she'd ever want. When Sky and Phee discover their mom's hidden journal from the war's outbreak, they both realize there’s more to Manhattan--and their mother--than either of them ever imagined. And after a group of strangers arrives at the annual POW census, the girls begin to uncover the island's long-kept secrets. The strangers hail from England, a country supposedly destroyed by the Red Allies, and Rolladin's lies about Manhattan's captivity begin to unravel. Hungry for the truth, the sisters set a series of events in motion that end in the death of one of Rolladin's guards. Now they're outlaws, forced to join the strange Englishmen on an escape mission through Manhattan. Their flight takes them into subways haunted by cannibals, into the arms of a sadistic cult in the city's Meatpacking District, and through the pages of their mom's old journal, into the island's dark and shocking past. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Rebecca Lowman, Joy Osmanski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006967/bk_sans_006967_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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