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    The Man Who Saw Everything
    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019'An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe' The Times_________________________________'It's like this, Saul Adler.' 'No, it's like this, Jennifer Moreau.'In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West. But in the GDR he finds himself troubled by time - stalked by the spectres of history, slipping in and out of a future that does not yet exist. Until, in 2016, Saul attempts to cross the Abbey Road again . . . _________________________________'A time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing. Thoroughly gripping' Sunday Telegraph'Writing so beautiful it stops the reader on the page' Independent'Levy splices time in artfully believable, mesmerizing strokes' Lambda Literary'Skewering totalitarianism - from the state, to the family, to the strictures of the male gaze - Levy explodes conventional narrative to explore the individual's place and culpability within history' Guardian'An utterly beguiling fever dream' Daily Telegraph
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    Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust
    One quarter of all Holocaust victims lived on the territory that now forms Ukraine, yet the Holocaust there has not received due attention. This book delineates the participation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed force, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska povstanska armiia-UPA), in the destruction of the Jewish population of Ukraine under German occupation in 1941-44. The extent of OUN and UPA's culpability in the Holocaust has been a controversial issue in Ukraine and within the Ukrainian diaspora as well as in Jewish communities and Israel. Occasionally, the controversy has broken into the press of North America, the EU, and Israel. Triangulating sources from Jewish survivors, Soviet investigations, German documentation, documents produced by OUN itself, and memoirs of OUN activists, it has been possible to establish that: OUN militias were key actors in the anti-Jewish violence of summer 1941; OUN recruited for and infiltrated police formations that provided indispensable manpower for the Germans' mobile killing units; and in 1943, thousands of these policemen deserted from German service to join the OUN-led nationalist insurgency, during which UPA killed Jews who had managed to survive the major liquidations of 1942.
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    Essays on the Financial Crisis: Systemic Greed and Arrogant Stupidity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 231min
    The financial crisis that peaked in the United States during the fall of 2008 is an excellent case study of what can go wrong with leadership and corporate governance - in business, financial ethics, government regulation directed both at the firm level and at that of the financial system itself, and legal accountability for the culprits. The collection begins with a series of essays on Lehman Brothers, with particular attention to its last CEO, Richard Fuld. Given the fraud surrounding sub-prime mortgage bonds at numerous banks, the second part of the collection looks at why legal accountability was so elusive in the United States. Weaknesses in the financial regulation, with particular attention to whether agencies had been captured by their respective regulated firms, comprises the third part. The fourth part examines the culpability of the Federal Reserve Bank, which had perhaps been too close to its regulated banks to anticipate the crisis. The audiobook concludes with essays on why business ethics had been so very weak. The careful listener will take from the collection a sense that the financial system remained vulnerable even after government attempts to reduce the systemic risks of a big bank going under. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Kruse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101043/bk_acx0_101043_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 943min
    Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes precontact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, US Army soldiers, US congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1.7 million on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials' culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book. Cover image courtesy of the Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum, Los Angeles: 482 ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027232/bk_adbl_027232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    False Flag Murdering Neocon Crazies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 33min
    This is a controversial audiobook that will change the lives of many readers who take the time to listen to the material. Murder, mayhem and conspiracy at the highest level of government is something that is dismissed by many. But, you cannot come away from this audiobook without garnering a new mistrust of your government, especially with regard to foreign policy decisions that have killed innocent people and that could ultimately determine the fate of the world. This audiobook exposes the neocon crazies, what make them this way, and why you need to understand that they are the most dangerous people in the world. If you can't understand the science behind false flags, you have the opportunity to look into the minds of neocons as a way to understand their evil deeds. They have left a trail of hints and suggestions that point to their culpability in fostering attacks upon U.S. citizens. They have made threats against Russia couched in the form of defense. If you are for national security and you want your grandchildren to live and prosper, you can't support the neocon crazies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/009130/bk_acx0_009130_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Speer: Hitler's Architect , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1140min
    A new biography of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject's deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities. In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer's lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well. Kitchen reconstructs Speer's life with what we now know, including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years, challenging the portrait presented by earlier biographers and by Speer himself of a cultured technocrat devoted to his country while completely uninvolved in Nazi politics and crimes. The result is the first truly serious accounting of the man, his beliefs, and his actions during one of the darkest epochs in modern history, not only countering Speer's claims of non-culpability but also disputing the commonly held misconception that it was his unique genius alone that kept the German military armed and fighting long after its defeat was inevitable. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Page. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/010598/bk_tant_010598_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Everything You Want Me to Be: A Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 644min
    Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town's darkest secrets come to the forefront, and she inches closer and closer to her death. High school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good citizen. When she's found brutally stabbed to death on the opening night of her high school play, the tragedy rips through the fabric of her small-town community. Local sheriff Del Goodman, a family friend of the Hoffmans, vows to find her killer, but trying to solve her murder yields more questions than answers. It seems that Hattie's acting talents ran far beyond the stage. Told from three points of view - Del, Hattie, and the new English teacher whose marriage is crumbling - Everything You Want Me to Be weaves the story of Hattie's last school year and the events that drew her ever closer to her death. Evocative and razor sharp, Everything You Want Me to Be challenges you to test the lines between innocence and culpability, identity and deception. Does love lead to self-discovery - or destruction? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caitlin Thorburn, John Moraitis, Jeff Harding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007730/bk_sans_007730_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bread for the Baker's Child: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 449min
    After nearly ten years, Joseph Caldwell returns to the literary scene with a rich novel of immense and resonant scope. With Dostoevskyian ambition, Bread for the Baker's Child sets out to probe the large questions of good and evil, culpability and sacrifice, and the meaning of suffering. In this tale of two lives immutably intertwined, Sister Rachel is a nun in a failing order, a painter with a history of madness, devoted to her dying Mother General. Her brother Phillip is an accountant serving time for embezzlement, a man capable of great violence and anger who has turned his back not simply on the church, but faith as well. They have nothing in common except for a shared childhood tragedy. Or do they? In this masterful display of structural precision, Caldwell slowly unravels the complementary nature of these two lives - at first glance hermetically sealed from one another - until their shared fate becomes a symbiotic relationship, as though they were two sides of the same coin, intersecting and reflecting one another. Through events operatic in tone and reach, Rachel and Phillip come to redefine our notions of love and kinship, and embody the human need for redemption and forgiveness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Jessen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016009/bk_adbl_016009_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Woman with a Gun: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 473min
    New York Times best-selling master of mystery Phillip Margolin transcends his traditional territory in this new and different book, a haunting thriller inspired by an unforgettable photograph. Visiting an art museum displaying a retrospective of acclaimed photographer Kathy Moran's work, aspiring novelist Stacey Kim is stunned by the photo at the center of the show - the famous Woman with a Gun, which won a Pulitzer Prize and launched the photographer's career. Shot from behind, the enigmatic black-and-white image is a picture of a woman in a wedding dress, standing on the shore at night, facing the sea. Behind her back, she holds a six-shooter. The image captures Stacey's imagination, raising a host of compelling questions. Has the woman killed her husband on their wedding night? Is she going to commit suicide? Is she waiting for someone she plans to kill? Obsessed with finding answers, Stacey discovers that the woman in the photograph is Megan Cahill, suspected of killing her husband, millionaire Raymond Cahill, with the six-shooter on their wedding night. But the murder was never solved. Drawn deeper into the case, Stacey finds that everyone involved has a different opinion of Megan's culpability. But the one person who may know the whole story - Kathy Moran - isn't talking. Stacey must find a way to get to the reclusive photographer or the truth may never see the light of day. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hillary Huber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004209/bk_harp_004209_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 643min
    No one keeps more secrets. No one is better at hiding them. Haunting, evocative and beautifully written, The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman will grab you and not let you go. Full of twists and turns, with an ending you will never see coming and characters that will stay with you long after the audiobook has finished, The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman is a gripping psychological mystery perfect for fans of Emma Cline's The Girls and Clare Mackintosh's I See You. 'Utterly absorbing and original' Elly Griffiths, author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. Eighteen-year-old Hattie Hoffman is a talented actress, loved by everyone in her Minnesotan hometown. When she's found stabbed to death on the opening night of her school play, the tragedy rips through the fabric of the community. Sheriff Del Goodman, a close friend of Hattie's dad, vows to find her killer, but the investigation yields more secrets than answers: it turns out Hattie played as many parts offstage as on. Told from three perspectives, Del's, Hattie's high school English teacher and Hattie herself, The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman Wonderfully evocative of its Midwestern setting and with a cast of unforgettable characters, this is a book about manipulation of relationships and identity; about the line between innocence and culpability; about the hope love offers and the tragedies that occur when it spins out of control. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caitlin Thorburn, Jeff Harding, John Moraitis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000301/bk_qpuk_000301_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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