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The Falcon: Count Me out Tonight, Angel, Hörbuch, Digital, 440min
Always ready with a hand for oppressed men, and an eye for repressed women. Michael Waring is the freelance investigator, troubleshooter, and adventurer known to one and all as The Falcon. One part The Saint, one part Boston Blackie, and one part Philip Marlowe - Waring can be suave and charming, especially when a lady is involved. But, there's never any doubt about his nail-spitting toughness, nor of his impatience with the plodding methods of the police - most often expressed in an endless stream of clenched-teeth wisecracks. Les Damon brings an ever-so-slightly-world-weary tone to the title character in 15 of these digitally remastered and restored radio episodes, with James Meighan making one appearance as The Falcon. Also heard in these broadcasts is radio regular Jackson Beck and announcer Ed Herlihy. Episodes include: "Murder is a Family Affair" 11-27-45 starring James Meighan as The Falcon, "The Case of the Quarrelsome Quartet" 09-03-50, "The Case of the Worried Champion" 09-10-50, "The Case of the Double Deal" 09-17-50, "The Case of the Friendly Target" 09-24-50, "The Case of the Talented Twins" 10-01-50, "The Case of the Invisible Thug" 01-07-51, "The Case of the Happy Hoodlum" 01-14-51, "The Case of the Substitute Target" 01-21-51, "The Case of the Worried Wife" 04-01-51, "The Case of the Carved Ham" 04-08-51, "The Case of the Shopkeepers Gun" 04-15-51, "The Case of the Missing Miss" 04-22-51, "The Case of the Beautiful Bait" 08-22-51, "The Case of the Gold Ring" 02-24-52, "The Case of the Vanishing Visa" 06-19-52. Language: English. Narrator: Les Damon, Jackson Beck, Ed Herlihy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/000894/rt_radi_000894_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Freshwater Passages: The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 783min
Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740-1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest. He was also well-known as a partner in Montreal’s North West Company and as mentor to Alexander Mackenzie, who journeyed down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Sea. Knowing 18th-century North America on a scale that few others did, Pond drew some of the earliest maps of western Canada.In this meticulous biography, David Chapin presents Pond’s life as part of a generation of traders who came of age between the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution. Pond’s encounters with a plethora of distinct Native cultures over the course of his career shaped his life and defined his reputation. Whereas previous studies have caricatured Pond as quarrelsome and explosive, Chapin presents him as an intellectually curious, proud, talented, and ambitious man, living in a world that could often be quite violent. Chapin draws together a wide range of sources and information in presenting a deeper, more multidimensional portrait and understanding of Pond that has been hitherto unavailable.The text form of this audiobook is published by University of Nebraska Press."Chapin's biography is wonderfully written and enjoyable." (Historical Quarterly)"This will be the definitive biography of the man for a long time to come." (Annals of Iowa)"An engaging contribution to understanding a global fur industry undergoing an intensive growing phase." (The Magazine of Western History) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander G.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/145862/bk_acx0_145862_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Influence the Psychology of Persuasion: How to Use Psychology to Positively Influence Human Behavior. Proven Strategies to Make Your Pitch, Get Others to Do What You Want with Power of Persuasion! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 215min
Do you want to understand the psychology of persuasion? If yes, then keep reading...If you want to practice persuasion, then practice it with kids. Imagine a kid who is not eating, then ask yourself how you can try to convince him or her to accept that food they hate. It is a task; therefore, you have to be of high emotional intelligence. This is a quality where you can easily align their interest with your interests and harmoniously connect them without the other party feeling disoriented. Remember that influence is a general term that constitutes of manipulation and persuasion. Manipulation is mostly negative, and persuasion is positive. For that case consider the following secrets of persuasion. Persuasion is really applicable in the business setup where you have to convince people to buy your product.These people know their audience too well. They have in-depth knowledge of the people they are dealing with; therefore, they use that knowledge to try to relate their interests. Everybody wishes their rights, wishes, and interests to be respected, and most persuasive people know this better. To facilitate such knowledge, they conduct research on the needs of those people. Imagine how you would feel finding someone who can easily spot your business need even before telling them.They easily connect with the people they relate to. Normally people find it easier to express their concerns and needs with people they perceive friendlier. If you bore them, they will curse you, and hatred can develop. In the business scenario, this is dangerous because such customers will no longer buy from you. Connecting with different kinds of people is not an easy task. There may be such kinds of people who are temperamental, and others are violent, spiteful, or quarrelsome. Therefore, you have to learn all the techniques of making each one of them.Persuasive people do not give pressure to their correspondents. However, they should give them a free will of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick ZH. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/183223/bk_acx0_183223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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It's Not Me, It's You: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman, Hörbuch, Digital, 196min
A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). ‘I haven’t woken up with a cup of tea by the bed for seven years. It seems such a small thing but it’s one of a thousand things I miss about having someone around to take care of me. I have spent my entire adult life getting things the way I want them and all I want now is someone to give it all up for.’ Jon Richardson. Is your filing faultless? Your CDs, apostrophes, cutlery all in the right places? Can you eat a biscuit in the correct way? Then Jon Richardson (single for seven years and counting) could be your ideal man…Living alone in a one bedroom flat in Swindon, 27 year old Jon has had far too much time on his hands to think. In fact to obsess. About almost everything. Jon’s obsessive compulsive personality disorder has seen him arrange the coins in his pockets in ascending size and colour code his bookshelves. It takes him less than 90 seconds to locate a receipt for a pair of shoes he bought in 1997. Over to the filing cabinet and R for receipts, S for shoes. But Jon doesn’t want to be like this, in fact he would quite like to share his life with someone. But who could that someone be? Someone like himself, a quarrelsome perfectionist only with breasts and less body hair? Absolutely not. But who exactly is Jon looking for and where will he find her? Faced with a loveless future filled with his own peculiar quirks and perfectionism, Jon sets about his search for The One. The question is, will he mind her keeping the knives to the left of the forks in the cutlery drawer or organising the CDs by genre and not alphabetically? Language: English. Narrator: Jon Richardson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000845/bk_hcuk_000845_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Operation Columba - The Secret Pigeon Service: The Untold Story of World War II Resistance in Europe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 574min
The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II.Between 1941 and 1944, British intelligence dropped 16,000 homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe, from Bordeaux, France to Copenhagen, Denmark, as part of a spy operation code-named Columba. Returning to MI14, the secret government branch in charge of the "Special Pigeon Service", the birds carried messages that offered a glimpse of life under the Germans in rural France, Holland, and Belgium. Written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the birds’ legs, these messages were sometimes comic, often tragic, and occasionally invaluable - reporting details of German troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons, radar systems, and even the deployment of the feared V-1 and V-2 rockets used to terrorize London.The people who sent these messages were not trained spies. They were ordinary men and women willing to risk their lives in the name of freedom, including the "Leopold Vindictive" network - a small group of Belgian villagers led by an extraordinary priest named Joseph Raskin. The intelligence Raskin sent back by pigeon proved so valuable that it reached Churchill and MI6 parachuted agents behind enemy lines to assist him.Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of the Operation Columba and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. A powerful tale of wartime espionage, bitter rivalries, extraordinary courage, astonishing betrayal, harrowing tragedy, and a quirky, quarrelsome band of spy masters and their special mission, Operation Columba opens a fascinating new chapter in the annals of World War II. It is ultimately, the story of how, in one of the darkest and mos ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Perkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007809/bk_harp_007809_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Submission in Silk: A Collection of Five Erotic Lesbian Stories, Hörbuch, Digital, 106min, (USK 18)
A collection of five erotic stories with mixed and varied lesbian themes from Xcite Books, winners of the ETO Best Erotic Book Brand 2010 and 2011. Submission in Silk by Giselle Renarde Priti wants to be used and abused. Devra doesn’t play that way. She believes in simultaneous submission, in giving and receiving freely rather than overpowering her partner. But when this quarrelsome pair becomes inspired by a silk neck roll from the extensive collection of cushions on Devra’s bed, they find it impossible to extract power play from their encounter. Go Find Yourself by Velvet Tripp Lisa's divorce forces her to re-evaluate her life. Her memories take her back to her experiences and fantasies from her teenage years, when cultural taboos prevented her from following her longing for another woman. She feels she's denied her real self for too long, and decides to take off on an adventure of discovery. She attends a "camp camp", the ACCN, where she meets Ross, who captivates her and ultimately seduces her. The Girl from Xanadu by Olivia London Worker bee Claire and gorgeous trust-fund intern Velma come from very different worlds. Claire barely makes ends meet while Velma works just to keep busy. Around the office, Velma is as inept as she is beautiful, but Claire eagerly helps the lovely lass to the next level, going beyond the office to the bedroom. As the saying goes, the rich are different. But Velma needs support, and Claire comes to the rescue. Who wouldn't want to rescue a damsel in distress? As a reward, Velma shows her new friend the finer things in life, but can this relationship between lovers and colleagues last? Acid Orange by Helen Dring Environmental disaster brought together two very different women. While Lee fights to control the fallout of a surge in energy, policing the streets and finding safety for those displaced, Anita locks herself away and prays that she comes h Language: English. Narrator: S. Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/xcit/000011/bk_xcit_000011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Two: A Biography of the Original Siamese Twins , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 973min
They came into the world as one - inseparably tied together at their chests - yet they were two. They were born on May 11, 1811, on a bamboo mat in a small houseboat afloat on the river in the village of Meklong, located 60 miles west of Bangkok, the capital of Siam. They became world celebrities, American citizens, married two native-born Southern sisters, and between them fathered 21 children, while acquiring respectable status as landowners, famers, slave owners, and pillars of their local community. "They" were the famous, the first, the original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng, and their story is told in this fascinating and remarkable book in such detail, with such enormous insight and warmth, and with such a superb sense of drama, that one understands, for the first time, just how bizarre, heroic, tragic, and human their lives in fact were. Linked by Nature, Chang and Eng were fated to spend their lives joined by a thick, fleshy ligament resembling an arm, five to six inches long and eight inches in circumference, that connected them at the base of their chests. Yet they could swim, perform gymnastic feats and lead "normal" lives. Together they built their own house, opened a store, became wealthy gentlemen farmers, skilled horse breakers and, when necessary, defended themselves with their fists. The most fascinating part of the story is, of course, their physical link to each other; for as Chang and Eng grew older, each dreamed of a separate life, despite the obvious risks that an operation would entail, and each feared that the death of one would cause the death of the other. Nor were their natures altogether harmonious, for each was a highly individual person: Eng, quiet, contemplative, and even-tempered; Chang, hot-tempered, quarrelsome and, as he grew older, inclined to bouts of heavy drinking. Chang's insistence on going to his own house in midwinter (the brothers arranged to alternate three days in one's house and three days i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Adashefski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000363/bk_acx0_000363_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min
A riveting spy story set in World War Two. Using declassified documents and extensive original research, Secret Pigeon Service tells the dramatic untold story of MI 14(d) and its spy networks including the remarkable 'Leopold Vindictive', a Belgian resistance cell who used the pigeon they found in 1941 to spy on the Nazis. Everyone has heard of MI5 and MI6. Some may even have heard of MI9, which helped downed airmen escape in World War II. Few have heard of MI14(d) - home to Operation Columba. In this new spy story set during the Second World War, Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. Between 1941 and 1944, 16,000 pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of 'Columba' - a secret British operation to bring back intelligence from those living under Nazi occupation. The messages flooded back written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the legs of the birds - authentic voices from rural France, Holland, Belgium, sometimes comic, often tragic and occasionally invaluable, with details of German troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons, radar systems or the deployment of the V-1 and V-2 rockets that terrorized London. Who were the people who provided this rich seam of intelligence? Many were not trained agents nor people with experience of spying. At the centre of this audiobook is the 'Leopold Vindictive' network - a small group of Belgian villagers prepared to take huge risks. They were led by an extraordinary priest, Josef Raskin - a man connected to royalty and whose intelligence was so valuable it was shown to Churchill, leading MI6 to parachute agents to assist him. A powerful and tragic tale of espionage, the book brings together the British and Belgian sides of Leopold Vindictive's story and reveals for the first time the wider history of a quirky, quarrelsome ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Hope. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003297/bk_hcuk_003297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Death in the Forest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 392min
Death in the Forest is a crime novel with an historical background. It is set in England in the years following the Norman conquest. To make his New Forest a hunting preserve, William the Conqueror destroyed churches and villages, and it was believed that in revenge the forest would prove fatal to his sons. This is the story of their deaths - and of what lay behind them. The story's heroine is Edith, a princess of Scotland and descendant of the Saxon kings of England. She lives in a nunnery at Romsey, between the forest and Winchester, the ancient capital of Wessex. Yearning to rescue England from the Normans, she is far from reconciled to spending her life immured as a nun. But although sent to Romsey to be secluded from the world, Edith is not sheltered from intrigue and violent death - or even from the opportunity of becoming queen. On her very first day four lords come to view her beauty and one of them is murdered. Who is the murderer? And what will be the effect on the succession to England and Normandy? Edith is determined to find out. The famous figures of the 11th century are portrayed here. Edith, known to history as the Rose of Romsey, meets all the Conqueror's quarrelsome sons, his diminutive but formidable queen and even the awesome Conqueror himself. She visits Edward the Confessor's widow and is herself visited by Archbishop Anselm, companion of popes and scourge of kings. The abbess, who is her aunt, and Father Edmund, her confessor, form part of the intrigue which Edith seeks to unravel. About the author: Jeremy Potter served the Richard III Society as Chairman from 1971 to 1989. During his chairmanship, the Society launched several important initiatives, including the commissioning of a heroic statue of Richard III (on display in Castle Gardens, Leicester), the securing of royal patronage from H.R.H. Richard Duke of Gloucester, and the broadcast of a trial of Richard III, with Lord Elwyn-Jones, former Lord Chan ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellie Griffiths. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009343/bk_adbl_009343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Travels with George . . . is quintessential Philbrick-a lively, courageous, and masterful achievement." -The Boston Globe Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington's unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all thirteen former colonies, which were now an unsure nation. Travels with George marks a new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into a single narrative. When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing-Americans. In the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called "the infant woody country" to see for himself what America had become in the 229 years since. Writing in a thoughtful first person about his own adventures with his wife, Melissa, and their dog, Dora, Philbrick follows Washington's presidential excursions: from Mount Vernon to the new capital in New York; a monthlong tour of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island; a venture onto Long Island and eventually across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The narrative moves smoothly between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries as we see the country through both Washington's and Philbrick's eyes. Written at a moment when America's founding figures are under increasing scrutiny, Travels with George grapples bluntly and honestly with Washington's legacy as a man of the people, a reluctant president, and a plantation owner who held people in slavery. At historic houses and landmarks, Philbrick reports on the reinterpretations at work as he meets reenactors, tour guides, and other keepers of history's flame. He paints a picture of eighteenth-century America as divided and fraught as it is today, and he comes to understand how Washington compelled, enticed, stood up to, and listened to the many different people he met along the way-and how his all-consuming belief in the union helped to forge a nation.- Shop: buecher
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