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    War Porn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min
    The term war porn refers to videos and images brought back from combat zones - IED explosions, air strikes, firefights, images of death and gore largely shorn of context, at times even evidence of potential war crimes (most famously, the photos of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib). War porn is also, in Scranton's searing debut, a metaphor for the fragmentation and confusion of modern combat, the broken shards of experience that form the wartime experiences of soldiers and civilians alike. The three sections of War Porn fit inside one another like nesting dolls: from an end-of-summer barbecue in the American Southwest to the perspective of a young US soldier in the early months of the occupation of Iraq to the story of Qasim al-Zabadi, an Iraqi math professor who faces the American invasion with a blend of fear, denial, and perseverance. Through the eyes of the occupiers, we watch Qasim become an interpreter for US forces, then prisoner and victim. As the scene switches from America to Iraq and back again, as home and hell merge, Qasim reveals the fragile humanity that connects occupier and occupied, torturer and tortured. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Hutchison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009546/bk_reco_009546_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Complete Book of the New Sun
    The Complete Book of the New Sun ab 34.49 € als epub eBook: The Shadow of the Torturer The Claw of the Conciliator The Sword of the Lictor The Citadel of the Autarch The Urth of the New Sun. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Fantasy,
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    The Green God: Stories from the Golden Age , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 121min
    Lieutenant Bill Mahone of Naval Intelligence is on a mission to find The Green God ... and it’s life or death.Along the way, he’s tortured with knives, threatened with a slow, painful death, and buried alive. And then things get really nasty. The entire Chinese city of Tientsin is under siege from within - the streets filled with rioting, arson, mass looting, and murder. And all because the city's sacred idol, the Green God, has gone missing.Mahone’s convinced he knows who stole the deity of jade, diamonds and pearls. To retrieve it, though, he’ll have to go undercover and underground. But he’s walking a razor’s edge - between worship and warfare, between a touch of heaven and a taste of bloody hell.Also includes the adventure “Five Mex for a Million”, in which an American Army captain, falsely accused of murder, finds himself taking on the Chinese government, a powerful Russian general, and a mysterious, unexpected passenger.What does a near-death experience sound like? Find out, as the audio version of The Green God gives new meaning to the word escapism - escape from a crazed mob, escape from the clutches of a torturer, escape from an early grave. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. F. Daley, Michael Yurchak, Christina Huntington, Jim Meskimen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gala/000113/bk_gala_000113_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Emotional Balance and Compassion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 507min
    Two leading thinkers engage in a landmark conversation about human emotions and the pursuit of psychological fulfillment. At their first meeting, a remarkable bond was sparked between His Holiness the Dalai Lama, one of the world's most revered spiritual leaders, and the psychologist Paul Ekman, whose groundbreaking work helped to define the science of emotions. Now these two luminaries share their thinking about science and spirituality, the bonds between East and West, and the nature and quality of our emotional lives.In this unparalleled series of conversations, the Dalai Lama and Ekman prod and push toward answers to the central questions of emotional experience. What are the sources of hate and compassion? Should a person extend her compassion to a torturer - and would that even be biologically possible? What does science reveal about the benefits of Buddhist meditation, and can Buddhism improve through engagement with the scientific method? As they come to grips with these issues, they invite us to join them in an unfiltered view of two great traditions and two great minds.Accompanied by commentaries on the findings of emotion research and the teachings of Buddhism, their interplay - amusing, challenging, eye-opening, and moving - guides us on a transformative journey in the understanding of emotions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Gere. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000873/bk_aren_000873_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heroes of Afghanistan: Payback , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 450min
    Afghanistan, a nation in perpetual torment. A frightened land where cruelty and casual killing are a part of normal life. Now the violence has worsened. The brutal Independent Islamic State has appeared, founded on a mountain of corpses. To raise funds, the Islamists embark on a campaign of kidnap and ransom. When they abduct the wife of a senior United Nations official, the husband approaches Rafe Stoner to get her back. A former US Navy SEAL and gun for hire, Stoner is initially reluctant, but he is soon persuaded when he learns the identity of the leader of the kidnappers, Rumi Kamran. Torturer, child murderer, and a man he has long vowed to kill. With the help of his veteran colleague Greg Blum, Stoner embarks on a suicidal mission to infiltrate the impregnable enemy stronghold of Asmar. Within hours the pair are embroiled in a series of vicious battles. Their rescue mission is threatened with failure at every turn. Against all the odds, they must go on, determined to reach their objective. To free the kidnapped wife of the United Nations official, and kill the Islamic psychopath who holds her captive, before he leads her to the slaughter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neal Vickers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/060171/bk_acx0_060171_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Shadow & Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun
    "A major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping." -The New York Times on The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by the Washington Post. THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in this four-volume epic, the tale of young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession- showing mercy toward his victim. The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic and learn the truth about his hidden destiny. "A masterpiece...the best science fiction I've read in years!" --Ursula K. Le Guin This new Tor Essentials edition of Shadow & Claw contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning Too Like the Lightning.
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    The Torturer's Daughter: The Internal Defense Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 375min
    When her best friend, Heather, calls in the middle of the night, Becca Dalcourt assumes it's the usual drama. Wrong. Heather's parents have been arrested as dissidents - and Becca's mother, the dystopian regime's most infamous torturer, has already executed them for their crimes against the state. To stop Heather from getting herself killed trying to prove her parents' innocence, Becca hunts for proof of their guilt. She doesn't expect to find evidence that leaves her questioning everything she thought she knew about the dissidents...and about her mother. When she risks her life to save a dissident, she learns her mother isn't the only one with secrets - and the plot she uncovers will threaten the lives of the people she loves most. For Becca, it's no longer just a choice between risking execution and ignoring the regime's crimes; she has to decide whose life to save and whose to sacrifice. It's easy to be a hero when you can save the world, but what about when all you can do is choose how you live in it? An Amazon dystopian best seller, The Torturer's Daughter is a story about ordinary life amidst the realities of living under an oppressive regime...and the extraordinary courage it takes to do what's right in a world gone wrong. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carolyn Nicely. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016147/bk_acx0_016147_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Golden Prey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 666min
    The man was smart, and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Lucas Davenport's first case as a US marshal sends him into uncharted territory in the thrilling new novel in the number one New York Times best-selling series. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension but for the US Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. He gets to pick his own cases, whatever they are, wherever they lead him. And where they've led him this time is into real trouble. A Biloxi, Mississippi, drug-cartel counting house gets robbed, and suitcases full of cash disappear, leaving behind five bodies, including that of a six-year-old girl. Davenport takes the case, which quickly spirals out of control as cartel assassins, including a torturer known as the "queen of home-improvement tools", compete with Davenport to find the Dixie Hicks shooters who knocked over the counting house. Things get ugly real fast, and neither the cartel killers nor the holdup men give a damn about whose lives Davenport might have saved; to them he's just another large target. Filled with his trademark razor-sharp plotting and some of the best characters in suspense fiction, Golden Prey is further reason why "Sandford has always been at the top of any list of great mystery writers" (The Huffington Post). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Ferrone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003013/bk_peng_003013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 615min
    The definitive work of literary journalism on the Arab Spring and its troubled aftermath. In 2011 a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new ethos of common citizenship. Five years later their utopian aspirations have taken on a darker cast as old divides reemerge and deepen. In one country after another, brutal terrorists and dictators have risen to the top. A Rage for Order is the first work of literary journalism to track the tormented legacy of what was once called the Arab Spring. In the style of V. S. Naipaul and Lawrence Wright, the distinguished New York Times correspondent Robert F. Worth brings the history of the present to life through vivid stories and portraits. We meet a Libyan rebel who must decide whether to kill the Qaddafi-regime torturer who murdered his brother; a Yemeni farmer who lives in servitude to a poetry-writing, dungeon-operating chieftain; and an Egyptian doctor who is caught between his loyalty to the Muslim Brotherhood and his hopes for a new tolerant democracy. Combining dramatic storytelling with an original analysis of the Arab world today, A Rage for Order captures the psychic and actual civil wars raging throughout the Middle East and explains how the dream of an Arab renaissance gave way to a new age of discord. With an introduction read by the author. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will Damron, Robert Worth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004672/bk_rand_004672_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Driver: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min
    From the creator of the TV show Bones comes a smart and funny debut thriller. “Everything a great thriller should be - always smart, often funny, and relentlessly exciting. I loved every page.” (Scott Turow)Michael Skellig is a limo driver waiting for his client in the alley behind an upscale hotel. He’s spent the past 28 hours ferrying around Bismarck Avila, a celebrity skateboard mogul who isn’t going home any time soon. Suddenly the wind begins to speak to Skellig in the guttural accent of the Chechen torturer he shot through the eye in Yemen a decade ago: Troubletroubletrouble. Skellig has heard these warnings before - he’s an Army Special Forces sergeant whose limo company is staffed by a ragtag band of wounded veterans, including his Afghan interpreter - and he knows to listen carefully. Skellig runs inside just in time to save Avila from two gunmen but too late for one of Avila’s bodyguards - and wakes up hours later in the hospital, the only person of interest in custody for the murder. Complicating matters further is the appearance of Detective Delilah Groopman of the LAPD, gorgeous and brash, for whom Skellig has always held a candle. As for Avila? He’s willing to help clear Skellig’s name under one peculiar condition: that Skellig become Avila’s personal chauffeur. A cushy gig for any driver, except for the fact that someone is clearly trying to kill Avila, and Skellig is literally the only person sitting between Avila and a bullet to the head. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ari Fliakos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003223/bk_peng_003223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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