61 Results for : bonfires
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Champs Elysee: Travel Paris , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 8min
Learn about the history of the beautiful Champs Elysees in Paris with iMinds Travel's insightful audio knowledge series. The Champs Elysées is the main boulevard of Paris in France. Over the years, it has been a popular rallying point in times of national crisis and celebration. In 1998, for example, the people of Paris assembled here to party all night in celebration of France’s soccer win in the World Cup. And every year in July people flock to the Champs Elysées to witness the end of the famous Tour de France bicycle race. After a triumphal march in 1871, Parisians lit bonfires under the Arc de Triomphe and down the Champs Elysées to get rid of what was referred to as the “stain” of German boots. Today, the Bastille Day procession, which marks the storming of the Bastille, a key event in the French Revolution, begins at the Arc de Triomphe. This procession involves tanks, guns and flags. Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind. iMinds offers 12 main categories, become a Generalist by increasing your knowledge of Business, Politics, People, History, Pop Culture, Mystery, Crime, Culture, Religion, Concepts, Science and Sport.. Clean and concise, crisp and engaging, discover what you never knew you were missing. Make your MP3 smarter with iMinds MindTracks, intersperse with music and enjoy learning a little about a lot.. knowledge of your own choice and in your own time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Margot Knight. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/imnd/000164/bk_imnd_000164_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Call the Fire Brigade , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 596min
Working as a fireman in London's East End during the early 1970s was no easy ride. In the years before workplace health-and-safety legislation had started to exert its grip, Allan Grice had to cut his fire-and-rescue teeth without the advantages of a breathing apparatus for each member of his crew. Back then, the time-tested strategy was to 'get in' - to crawl below the intense heat and 'eat' the thick smoke - in order to locate a missing child or to halt a rapidly spreading inferno. In Call the Fire Brigade!, Grice recounts his most memorable experiences as a front-line member of the London Fire Brigade working the city's East End, with its myriad commercial premises, brooding Thames-side warehouses, seedy tenements and colourful cosmopolitan community, ranging from prosperous manufacturers to down-and-out winos with their body-warming bonfires in derelict houses. Fires in factories, tenements and warehouses, and non-fire emergencies such as the Moorgate Tube disaster of 1975, are graphically described, while the elation of rescue, the sadness of being too late to save lives and the warm camaraderie of fire crews during some of the capital's busiest peacetime years are vividly depicted. Allan Grice's career in the fire service spanned more than 30 years, most of which was spent in the highest fire risk districts. Upon retirement, he formed an independent fire safety advisory consultancy and has been a visiting lecturer on fire, rescue and fire law enforcement at Leeds University since 1997. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Meadows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015682/bk_adbl_015682_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Elf Killers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min
“Not for the fainthearted! Kids die horribly, and amid the trolls jockeying for leadership is trial by head bashing.”For the Elves, it's the very worst time to be in the woods.Trolls are hunting them down.Will they live long enough to reach a safe place to live?Oisin’s plan is to come with his bow to help Aedan and Doona lead a party of children into the forest to gather the maidenhair seedlings his people would take across the sea as they flee the trolls who hunt them as prey. Maybe he can be back in time for supper. And if he only dares to dream, he might also be back in time to speak with Doona alone.Dyr's plan is an early evening head smash for the foolish Elves who think they can steal away to the sands of the endless eye sting water and build their strange float huts. They will make a glorious feast.But on the way, Dyr's brutes stumble across Oisin's gathering party and attack, leaving Aedan mortally wounded and scattering Doona and the children to flee in terror into the dark mountain woods, only to be run down and captured by the bloodthirsty trolls.Can Oisin find the bonfires of the trolls and rescue them before it’s too late?And what then? Will any of them live long enough to reach safety?"Elf Killers is about death...and life. Seriously imaginative (especially troll-speak!) and gritty in action and battle, this is worth a read...but be prepared! Oh, be prepared. I dare you to grab a copy!"Warning: If This Were a Film It Might Be Rated RPLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sky Wildmist. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/177545/bk_acx0_177545_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, Hörbuch, Digital, 450min
A gripping tale and groundbreaking investigation of a mysterious, and largely forgotten, eighteenth-century slave plot to destroy New York City.Over a few weeks in 1741, 10 fires blazed across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more evidence of a slave uprising. Tried and convicted before the colony's Supreme Court, 13 black men were burned at the stake and 17 were hanged. Four whites, the alleged ringleaders of the plot, were also hanged, and seven more were pardoned on condition that they never set foot in New York again. More than 100 black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall, where many were forced to confess and name names, sending still more men to the gallows and to the stake.In a narrative rich with period detail and vivid description, Jill Lepore pieces together the events and the thinking that led white New Yorkers to make "bonfires of the Negroes". She reconstructs the harsh past of a city that slavery built, and almost destroyed. She explores the social and political climate of the 1730s and '40s and examines the nature and tenor of the interactions between slaves and their masters. She shows too that the 1741 conspiracy can be understood only alongside a more famous episode from the city's past: the 1735 trial of the printer John Peter Zenger. And, weighing both new and old evidence, she makes clear how the threat of black rebellion made white political pluralism palatable.Lucid, probing, captivatingly written, New York Burning is a revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics. Language: English. Narrator: Beth McDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000218/bk_high_000218_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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It Started with a Rescue: A Young Adult Sweet Romance: Nanny Tales: The Hamptons, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 212min
A small-town girl who's more interested in playing sports than going on dates. A summer lifeguard who is used to getting attention for his tanned muscles and good looks. Can two teenagers from opposite worlds find love? Jaxx Carter is ready for a summer at the beach. Being a nanny in the Hamptons seemed like the perfect thing to do after high school graduation, so it didn't take a lot of convincing from her best friend to get her to agree to the job - even though she did feel like a fish out of water among the beautiful people that she now saw all around her. Nate Wilson is ready for another fun summer at the beach. He loved nothing more than the long, sunny days spent at the pristine beach club and nightly bonfires by the water. He couldn't imagine a better way to earn some summer cash. When Jaxx - normally very confident in her swimming abilities - finds herself in trouble while out for a swim, Nate comes to her rescue - something that leaves her feeling both surprised and horrified. She wants nothing more than to put the scare behind her, but for some reason, she's having a hard time forgetting about those strong tanned arms that had brought her to safety.It Started with a Rescue is the first stand-alone book in the Nanny Tales: The Hamptons - a sweet teen romance series. If you like beach romances and flirtatious twists of fate, then you'll love Jillian Adams’ idyllic tale of love and romance for young adults.Buy It Started with a Rescue to get swept away by a summer beach romance today! Listen to all the books in the Nanny Tales series! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gwendolyn Druyor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219520/bk_acx0_219520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 582min
Stolen Words is an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the world - tens of millions of books that the Nazis looted from European Jewish families and institutions. Nazi soldiers and civilians emptied Jewish communal libraries, confiscated volumes from government collections, and stole from Jewish individuals, schools, and synagogues. Early in their regime, the Nazis burned some books in spectacular bonfires, but most they saved, stashing the literary loot in castles, abandoned mine shafts, and warehouses throughout Europe. It was the largest and most extensive book-looting campaign in history. After the war, Allied forces discovered these troves of stolen books but quickly found themselves facing a barrage of questions. How could the books be identified? Where should they go? Who had the authority to make such decisions? Eventually the army turned the books over to an organization of leading Jewish scholars called Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. - whose chairman was the acclaimed historian Salo Baron and whose on-the-ground director was the philosopher Hannah Arendt - with the charge to establish restitution protocols. Stolen Words is the story of how a free civilization decides what to do with the material remains of a world torn asunder and how those remains connect survivors with their past. It is the story of Jews struggling to understand the new realities of their post-Holocaust world and of Western society's gradual realization of the magnitude of devastation wrought by World War II. Most of all, it is the story of people - of Nazi leaders, ideologues, and Judaica experts; of Allied soldiers, scholars, and scoundrels; and of Jewish communities, librarians, and readers around the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Glickman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049620/bk_acx0_049620_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Ten-Cent Plague
The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told -- until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu's remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority. In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created-in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress-only to resurface with a crooked smile on its face in Mad magazine. When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how -- years before music -- comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers. The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between "high" and "low" art. As he did with the lives of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington (in Lush Life) and Bob Dylan and his circle (in Positively 4th Street), Hajdu brings a place, a time, and a milieu unforgettably back to life.- Shop: buecher
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The Legend of the Albino Farm , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 400min
The harrowing saga of the last of a loving family cursed over the years by a progressively destructive community legend or by a piece of land in the Missouri Ozarks that is haunted by some evil first revealed through a childhood vision. The Legend of the Albino Farm is a horror story turned inside out. What if a thriving family were saddled with an unshakable spook tale? And what if that lore cursed them with an unending whirlwind of destruction from thrill seekers, partiers, bikers, and goths? Hettienne Sheehy is about to inherit this devouring legacy. Last child to bear a once golden name, she is heiress to a sprawling farm in the Missouri Ozarks. During summer, childhood idylls in the late 1940s, Hettienne has foreseen all this apocalyptic fury in frightening, mystifying visions. Haunted by a whirling augury, by a hurtful spook tale, and by a property that seems to doom all who would dare own it, in the end, Hettienne will risk everything to save the family she truly loves. The legend has haunted two generations of Sheehys and marred all memory of the family's glory days. Worse, this spooky lore now draws revelers, druggies, motorcycle gangs, hippies, and later goths to trample the land, set bonfires, and vandalize its structures, all while Hettienne's aged aunts cling to privacy, sanity, and a rapidly deteriorating 13-room mansion. From her youth, throughout her marriage and her rearing of her children, the curse of the Sheehys drags at her and her family like a vortex. Haunted by a whirling augury, by a hurtful spook tale, and by a relentlessly judgmental Ozarks city, in the end, Hettienne believes she must make decisions that might compromise her family's financial security but will severe them from an ever more dangerous legacy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nina Alvamar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/010185/bk_reco_010185_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Huguenots: The History and Legacy of the French Protestants and Their Religious Conflicts with the Catholics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 71min
In the 16th century, corruption, debauchery, and the general perversion of ethics were running rampant within the Roman Catholic Church. The public began to grow leery of the crooked church, and soon, they could no longer bite their tongues. Among the church's most vocal opponents was Martin Luther, whose publication of the 95 Theses gave rise to the Protestant movement. This reformed brand of Christianity gradually spread throughout Europe, planting flags across the continent. France was among the first to latch onto the movement, and these new-wave Protestants became known as the "Huguenots". The exact origins of the Huguenot name is still disputed to this day, but most historians have agreed it is a French and German translation of the Swiss-German term, eidgenossen, meaning "oath-fellowship". The Huguenots mostly resided in the southern regions of France, along with the northern regions of Normandy and Picardy. They shared quite a few similarities with the Protestant Walloons, who lived in what is now Belgium, but the two groups were unique communities. Even so, both groups frequently convened to worship together as refugees. The Huguenots, whose belief system incorporated a blend of unorthodox Waldensian and Calvinist teachings, continued to bloom, which did not sit well with the authorities. Critics attributed the rise of Protestant-led riots to the no-good Huguenots. The Huguenots were known iconoclasts who rejected statues, paintings, idols, and other religious images, as often seen in the numerous statues and stained glass artwork in Catholic churches. Across Europe, rebellious Protestants seized Catholic churches and swiped all heretical images, destroying them with axes and hurling them into roaring bonfires. The string of ambushes included the 1562 Looting of the Churches in Lyon, which were followed by similar attacks in Zurich, Copenhagen, Geneva, and many more. Even in the face of persecution, the Huguenot influence gain ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/081957/bk_acx0_081957_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Getting It All , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 592min
It's Tucker Bennet's turn to fall in love! There's nothing like summertime in Sapphire Falls, and Tucker Bennett is looking forward to hosting his best friend's four young sons for the next three months. This is their first trip to Tuck's farm since their father's passing, and he's fully prepared to step up for the boys. He's also thrilled by the instant attraction to their aunt Delaney. He's only ever wanted three things in life - his farm, a wife, and kids. He's already got the farm. Now it looks like fate has delivered the rest in one complete just-add-dirt-bikes-and-a-new-puppy package. Delaney Callan is beyond grateful for Tucker's help while she catches her breath from becoming a sudden surrogate mother to her nephews. And she's not immune to the sexual tension bouncing between them. But with all her focus on not screwing everything up with her nephews, there's no time for a relationship, especially with marriage-minded Tucker. Of course a casual summer fling is something else. After all, it would be a shame to waste a perfectly good barn.... Casual is the last thing Tucker wants. He's set on taking care of Delaney and the boys, while she's determined to prove she can go it alone. But she didn't count on Sapphire Falls, the adorable little town filled with the loving, impossible-to-ignore Bennett family, well-meaning friends, and everything four little boys could ever wish for. What's Delaney to do when the most impossible-to-ignore Bennett of all shows her the difference between what she needs and what she wants...and he turns out to be both? If you're a fan of booze, bonfires, proposal-inducing pastry, and using hay bales as a horizontal surface, this story is for you. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Udall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026963/bk_adbl_026963_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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