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A Sterner Plan for Italian Unity
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A Sterner Plan for Italian Unity
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Restoring Valor: One Couple’s Mission to Expose Fraudulent War Heroes and to Protect America’s Military Awards System , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
Stolen valor occurs when a person lies about receiving military decorations that he or she has in fact never earned. It has become a major societal problem that has been discussed numerous times in the news and, most recently, by the US Supreme Court. According to The New York Times, the Department of Veterans Affairs paid disability benefits to more than six hundred people falsely claiming to have been POWs in the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars. The number of stolen valor cases reported to the FBI has tripled in the last decade. In fact, more imposters lie about earning high military declarations for battlefield bravery than the actual number of real-life hero recipients. These imposters trade on tales and the trappings of military valor to secure privileges such as career advancements and even unearned veterans’ benefits. Because officially recognized valor is a calling card of trust and courage, many of these imposters steal” it to invade the lives of people and institutions, for personal gain and often with criminal results. In Restoring Valor, Doug Sterner provides riveting case studies of the stolen valor imposters he’s investigated and exposed, and the serious crimes — including murder — they’ve committed. He chronicles the evolution of stolen valor from the inception of the republic to today. Sterner demonstrates why the federal law he and his wife Pam helped to enact, called the Stolen Valor Act, is necessary. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Geoffrey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016577/bk_adbl_016577_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Allmen und das Geheimnis der Erotik
Bei einer Lesung macht Johann Friedrich von Allmen, Kunstdetektiv und Lebemann, die Bekanntschaft einer geheimnisvollen jungen Frau: Jasmin Sterner. Um der Schönen zu imponieren, die in einem Orden unter der Obhut von Cognatus Reimund aufwächst, stiehlt er ein wertvolles Fabergé-Ei - ohne zu ahnen, dass er in eine inszenierte Falle tappt. Wilhelm Krähenbühler, ein etwas dubioser Zeitgenosse, erpresst Allmen mit dem Diebstahl und zwingt ihn, einen riskanten Einbruch zu begehen. Aus einem exklusiven Wertlager entwendet Allmen notgedrungen mit seinem treuen Diener Carlos eine äußerst seltene Porzellansammlung. Da Allmen sich nur ungern erpressen lässt und zudem ganz im Bann von Jasmin steht, fangen die Probleme für ihn und Carlos natürlich damit erst an...- Shop: buecher
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Entirely Surrounded , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 286min
It is 1934. Red-headed Henry Cook, fresh out of Amherst and excited about working on his first book at an infamous writers' colony, arrives at the Vermont island retreat at the invitation of its owner, Thaddeus Hulbert, a boisterous, bellowing, bloviated curmudgeon, whose reputation as a novelist, columnist, and radio commentator has vaulted him to national prominence. Additional island guests include Clarence Fitch, the editor of a prominent New York magazine; Agnes Sterner, an elegant, mature woman, also an author and close friend of Hulbert's; Daisy Lester, a nationally-known nightclub singer also known by Hulbert and friends to be a heavy drinker if not watched carefully; and Leith O'Fallon, an artist, writer, and liberal cause protester for whom Henry falls hard. Among the supporting characters are Mr. Veitch, the slow-drawling Vermonter who navigates the mail boat to and from the island, and Jenny, the shrieking housekeeper and cook who tends - genially if not loudly - to the needs of Hulbert's guests. Entirely Surrounded is a slightly venomous roman à clef poking satirically at the habits of several of the Algonquin Round Table notables: Alexander Woollcott (Hulbert), Alice Duer Miller (Sterner), Dorothy Parker (Lester), Harold Ross of the New Yorker (Fitch), and Neysa McMein, popular magazine cover illustrator (O'Fallon). The novel's author and narrator, Charles Brackett (Cook), had been a regular at the Algonquin for several years before leaving for Hollywood at the peak of the group's notoriety. Through Entirely Surrounded, Brackett deconstructs the Round Table's core elite and re-assembles them on their lake encircled hideaway to endure each other's company, play croquet, backgammon, cribbage, and anagrams, all under the withering snide and cutting bombasts of their host, Hulbert. The story's narrator, Henry Cook, is the mean gang's naïve foil, surrounded as he is by the idols of his literary dreams, vip ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. James Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001653/bk_mike_001653_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Oriental Wife , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
The Oriental Wife is the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who flee Hitler’s Germany and struggle to put down roots elsewhere. When they meet up again in New York, they fall in love both with each other and with America, believing they have found a permanent refuge. But just when it looks as though nothing can ever touch them again, their lives are shattered by a freakish accident and a betrayal that will reverberate into the life of their American daughter. In its portrait of the immigrant experience, and of the tragic gulf between generations, The Oriental Wife illuminates the collision of American ideals of freedom and happiness with certain sterner old world virtues. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kristin Kalbli. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017712/bk_adbl_017712_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Cradle Will Fall: DI Mike Lockyer Novella , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min
You never forget your first case.... Police Constable Jane Bennett is back on the beat after a spell away from the force. Working with the Serious Case Team, she's witnessed some of the worst crimes and endured them all. With her eye on promotion, Jane attends each call-out without complaint, determined to show her superiors her dedication. However, nothing could prepare her for this next case. Behind the ordinary façade of someone's home, she discovers a truly chilling scene. While her male colleagues flake beside her, Jane shows she is made of sterner stuff and manages to impress DI Lockyer. It is an incident that will change both of their careers, as an indomitable partnership is formed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Imogen Church. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030110/bk_adbl_030110_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Place Called Hope: Z-Day, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 773min
Win Big or DieThe survivors built a community and called it Hope. After eight years, they allowed themselves to think that the zombie scourge was ending; the hordes fading away in the face of time. But the enemy they thought extinct was evolving - growing faster, stronger, and more cunning. The timely return of the much-depleted first Reconnaissance Battalion, US Marine Corps helped turn the tide of one battle. The prospect of renewed war against a different type of enemy will require sterner stuff and serious firepower. Now, they must go far beyond the overgrown wastes they call the Wild in a desperate attempt to recover vital military equipment that will determine whether the future of mankind is one for the living - or for the dead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Calhoun. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/153317/bk_acx0_153317_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Protectors: Royal Institute of Magic, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 562min
Ben Greenwood is continuing his apprenticeship at the Royal Institute of Magic, hoping things will be slightly less complicated now that he has advanced to the second grade. Fat chance. Coupled with the sterner challenges that the second grade brings, there is also the small matter of the impending dark elf invasion, making life at the Institute even busier than usual. Ben is the only one who can stop them, by finding Elizabeth's armor and its Guardians. Ben has retrieved one piece of the armor - the boots - but the rest remain hidden. He has just one clue, which could lead to Elizabeth's helm: an old black and white photo given to him by the Master of Apprentices. Ben must split his time between his apprenticeship and searching for the helm, before the dark elves strike and all hell breaks loose. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Kenny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/podm/000413/bk_podm_000413_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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One Wicked Winter: Rogues and Gentlemen Series, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 575min
Blackmailed by his sister into giving a Christmas house party to celebrate her recent marriage, Edward Greyston, Marquess of Winterbourne, is quite certain the next few days will be an utter nightmare. Nightmares, however, are something Edward is all too familiar with. After the bloody battle of Waterloo, he has returned from the war a changed man, full of rage and guilt. Suspecting one of his house guests, the bluestocking Belinda Holbrook is about to trap unsuspecting and gullible Lord Nibley into marriage, he goes to warn him, only to get caught himself. Furious but honor bound to do the right thing, Edward finds himself married to a woman he doesn't trust and knows nothing about, and he has no intention of trying to find out more. Yet Belinda is made of sterner stuff and refuses to be afraid of the angry man she married. Somehow she determines to melt icy Lord Winterbourne's frozen heart, and she's prepared to be wicked to do it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philip Battley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128737/bk_acx0_128737_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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