Before the Revolution
America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of the nation’s pre revolutionary past.
In this pathbreaking revision, Daniel Richter shows that the United States has a much deeper history than is apparent—that far from beginning with a clean slate, it is a nation with multiple pasts that stretch back as far as the Middle Ages, pasts whose legacies continue to shape the present.
Exploring a vast range of original sources, Before the Revolution spans more than seven centuries and ranges across North America, Europe, and Africa. Richter recovers the lives of a stunning array of peoples Indians, Spaniards, French, Dutch, Africans, English as they struggled with one another and with their own people for control of land and resources.
Författare: Dr. Daniel K. Richter
Uppläsare: Walter Dixon Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Dare to Be a Daniel
In Dare to be a Daniel, Tony Benn feelingly recalls his years experiencing the agonies of adolescence and of school, where boys were taught to 'keep their minds clean', and the shadow of fascism and war with its disruption and family loss; and describes his emergence from the war as a keen socialist about to embark upon marriage and an unknown political future.
This warm, affectionate and funny account reveals the childhood of a radical national political figure and shows how early influences have shaped the commitments and beliefs he holds today.
Författare: Tony Benn
Uppläsare: Tony Benn Förlag: Random House
Helvetet inifrån: Femton år i Sveriges största brottsorganisation
2013 har Hells Angels MC funnits i Sverige tjugo år. Under den tiden har organisationen bidragit till att förändra den svenska brottsligheten i grunden. Mord, sprängdåd, misshandelsfall, utpressningar och ekonomiska brott har kantat rörelsens framväxt och gett upphov till ett nytt begrepp: gängkriminalitet.
Michael 'Mega' Johannessen från Göteborg var under nästan femton år en av dem som befäste Hells Angels MC:s ställning som en dominerande kraft inom den undre världen. När Michael träffade Ebba tycktes han liv komplett. Hon kom från en annan värld och lät sig inte skrämmas av de farliga attributen.
I nästan tio år levde Michael och Ebba efter Hells Angels regler. Till sist skulle paret ändå ställas inför Hells Angels verkliga ansikte. Deras hus brann ner, ägodelar stals och Michael utsattes för beskjutning. Av fruktan för sina liv sökte paret hjälp hos polisen. En lång resa tillbaka till en tillvaro utan klubben kunde börja.
Från sitt gömställe utomlands ger Michael och Ebba Johannessen sin osminkade berättelse för journalisterna Lasse Wierup och Daniel Olsson.
Författare: Daniel Olsson,Lasse Wierup
Uppläsare: Björn Wahlberg Förlag: Reporto
House of Secrets
THE HOUSE OF SECRETS follows three siblings and their family as they are forced to move to a mysterious new house in San Francisco and end up embarking on a journey to retrieve a dark book of untold power.
The Walker kids had it all: loving parents, a big house in San Francisco, all the latest video games ...But everything changed when their father lost his job. Now the family is moving into Kristoff House, a mysterious place built nearly a century earlier by a troubled fantasy writer. Suddenly the siblings find themselves launched on an epic journey, to retrieve a dark book of untold power and uncover the Walker family's secret history. Oh and save their parents ...and maybe even the world.
Författare: Ned Vizzini,Chris Columbus
Uppläsare: Daniel Vincent Gordh Förlag: Harper Collins
Hunter's Run
A new benchmark in modern SF. A sharp, clever, funny morality tale that answers the biggest question of all: what makes us human?
A fight in an alley behind a bar: a visiting European is knifed by local thug Ramon Espejo and all hell breaks loose.The dead man was a diplomat on an important mission to São Paulo, and next day Ramon is on the run heading north in his van toward land that no one has ever explored, or even thought of exploring, land so far only glimpsed from orbit during the first colony surveys.There are women still alive on São Paulo who can recall the initial descent onto an untouched world. All the cities of the south have bloomed since then, like mould on a Petri dish.
Ramon was among the second wave of colonists. He's gone from being nothing in the hills of Mexico to being nothing on this strange alien world. His only friend Griego tells Ramon God meant him to be poor, or he wouldn't have made him so mean. Ramon's rage has never deserted him. It was there in the alley behind the bar, but he can't actually remember why he killed the European.
Leaving all the hell and shit and sorrow of Diegotown behind, Ramon's plan is to look for minerals in the unmapped lands while the heat dies down. He's made a bare living prospecting so far, expecting each trip to be the big one that'll make him rich, and this one is no different. The first samples he blows out of the mountain, however, bring down the mountain upon him as well and a whole undiscovered alien race. Ramon is tethered to one of them and set to 'perform his function'. Whatever that means, he'll find out. And he'll remember why he killed the European.
Författare: George R,Gardner Dezois,R. Martin,Daniel Abraham
Uppläsare: Kerry Shale Förlag: Harper Collins
Jag är Daniel
Livet i Thailand blir en daglig kamp för att överleva och undkomma det förflutna. Daniel tvingas bo i Bangkoks ghetto, han är pank och håller på att svälta ihjäl. Han är efterlyst av polisen, jagas av den undre världen och får bokstavligt talat slåss för sitt liv. Under det falska namnet David Larsson startar han en blogg där han skriver om sig själv och om det svåra läge han hamnat i. I allt han gör har han bara ett mål för ögonen; att reda ut situation i Sverige så att han kan återvända hem och träffa sin son.
Jag är Daniel är den sanna berättelsen om en man som varje dag och varje sekund kämpar mot sitt förflutna och mot sig själv; en man som till varje pris vill lämna kriminaliteten bakom sig, gottgöra de människor han svikit och börja ett nytt liv. Fristående fortsättning på Jag är wanted.
Författare: David Larsson
Uppläsare: Reine Brynolfsson Förlag: Earbooks
Learning From The Heart
“What does it mean to be human?' asks acclaimed psychologist and talk show host Dan Gottlieb at the beginning of this award winning book. The answers are within.
With the gentle and guiding voice that has endeared him to millions of readers and listeners, Dan describes how we gain deeper wisdom and understanding from the unexpected events in our lives. A classic storyteller, Dan provides tender and deeply affecting “lessons” that reveal his own very human vulnerability as well as the love and generosity of others. These revelations come from an author who has experienced many forms of loss in his own life.
From the moment he suffered a spinal cord injury that left him quadriplegic at the age of 33, Dan found himself facing the kinds of questions that most people encounter over the course of a lifetime. In the process of rebuilding his career, his family, and his life, Dan made discoveries about what all humans have in common, including a longing for love, understanding, and security. And he learned that the speed of life only takes us further away from what we long for.
In this audio, Dan is unstintingly generous in sharing the thoughts and feelings that have touched the lives of so many. From “Our Orphanhood” (why the universality of loneliness can make us feel less alone) and “We, the Wounded” (how wounds may be inevitable, but so is healing) to “What Our Children See” (how parental stress can shape a child's future) and “Holding My Mother's Hand” (a moving recollection on the death of a parent), Dan reflects on the challenges that all of us face as humans and the feelings that, too often, we do not allow to surface.And, finally, Dan succeeds in answering the primary question: What does it mean to be human? His answers—challenging and reassuring, humorous and transcendent—are sure to touch the heart of every listener.
Författare: Daniel Gottlieb
Uppläsare: Daniel Gottlieb Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Letters to Sam
“Dear Sam, my life was changed the moment you were born.”
So begins this remarkable collection of thirty two intimate and compassionate letters that Dan (“Pop”) Gottlieb wrote to Sam, his grandson. Frank and honest, they address the same challenges we all face, each in our own way, and reading them delivers an inspiring and emotional punch.
Although the themes of the letters are universal, they draw from a highly personal well of experience. Dan Gottlieb has been paralyzed from the neck down since a nearly fatal automobile accident twenty five years ago. His grandson Sam was diagnosed at fourteen months old with Pervasive Developmental Disability, a severe form of autism. Dan wrote these letters with the hope that Sam would one day be able to read them and, through them, get to know his grandfather.
Yet you will find no self pity or regret in these letters. They sing with the purity of a grand father's love, understanding, concern, and wisdom and cover universal life lessons: dealing with parents, coping with school, falling in love, living with disappointment, experiencing joy, and achieving personal success.
Written with keen intelligence and hard won sensitivity, these are letters that illuminate the moments a man and a boy share. Dan's healing voice of tolerance, hope, and experience is inspiring and serves as a wonderful reminder that, regardless of our abilities and limitations, we all share in the human condition.
Författare: Daniel Gottlieb
Uppläsare: Daniel Gottlieb Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Little Manfred
The heart-lifting, heartbreaking story by Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller.In the Imperial War Museum is a wooden Dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended. This is the story of how it got there...When the Bismarck sinks, one of the only German survivors is taken on board a British ship as a prisoner of war. Sent to live with a host family, Walter must adapt to a new way of life, in the heart of an enemy country. Gradually, though, he finds a friend in ten-year-old Grace. So when the time finally comes to go back to Germany, it's an emotional parting, with Walter leaving Grace with only a carved wooden dog to remember him by. The question is, will Walter and Grace ever meet again? In 1966, with the World Cup coming to Britain, that opportunity may just have come along...
Författare: Michael Morpurgo
Uppläsare: Daniel Philpott Förlag: Harper Collins
Livvakten - vägen till monarken
I media har Daniel Webb kallats 'livvakten' och under många år var han grovt kriminell. Under sin brokiga karriär har han ofta anlitats av Sveriges rikaste och mäktigaste familjer för att lösa en rad olika problem, som att ta tillbaka och spåra upp värdefullt stöldgods, avhjälpa hot, konflikter och kidnappningar. Han har också rört sig i de innersta kretsarna runt hovet och själv bevittnat hur kungen i hemlighet festat med kaffeflickor.
För den bredare allmänheten blev Webb känd när hans inspelningar av hemliga samtal med kungens vänner offentliggjordes. Han blev anlitad för att konfrontera huvudkällan till Den motvillige monarken och undersöka hotet om publicering av bilder från komprometterande situationer. I den här boken avslöjas hela sanningen bakom den skandal som fått vår monarki att skaka i sina grundvalar.
Författare: Anders Johansson,Daniel Webb
Uppläsare: Anders Ekborg Förlag: Earbooks
Llama Drama (Awesome Animals)
The seventh animal in the hilarious AWESOME ANIMALS series - awesome adventures with the wildest wildlife.
It's a HUGE surprise when Farmer Palmer chooses Lewie the llama to guard his new lambs. It's the most important job on the farm and everyone thought he'd pick the biggest strongest, loudest llama.Lewie is the best at singing and dancing but is he a match for a cunning coyote?
Författare: Rose Impey
Uppläsare: Daniel Philpott Förlag: Harper Collins
Portrait of a Spy
Gabriel Allon, secret agent, assassin and master art restorer, returns in a spellbinding new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
Europe is exploding. And one man must find out why.
For Gabriel Allon and his wife Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a romantic weekend in London. But nothing is ever that simple when you're an off-duty spy and assassin.Bombings in Paris and Copenhagen have put him on edge and when Gabriel notices a man exhibiting several traits common to suicide bombers, he follows him into the Covent Garden throng. He's determined to prevent the carnage he fears is about to take place, but before Gabriel can draw his sidearm, he is knocked to the pavement by two plain-clothes police officers. A moment later he looks up to find a scene from his nightmares.
From the streets of New York and London, to the unforgiving landscape of the Saudi desert, Gabriel Allon is in a race to the death against a calculating mass-murderer that he dare not lose...
Författare: Daniel Silva
Uppläsare: Simon Vance Förlag: Harper Collins
Robinson Crusoe
Reine Brynolfsson läser äventyrsberättelsen om den skeppsbrutne Robinson som kastas i land på en till synes öde ö.
Författare: Daniel Defoe,Maj Bylock
Uppläsare: Reine Brynolfsson Förlag: Earbooks
SIRENS
A beautifully written insight into the stresses, strains and successes of working for the London Ambulance service.Is there anyone who hasn't wondered about the state of the occupant of an ambulance, screaming along with its sirens on and blue lights flashing? Have you? And have you wondered about the other people inside the ambulance, maybe fighting to save the patient's life? Or have you considered that the ambulance may be another 'maternataxi' ordered by a woman who can't be bothered to book a real cab and who then complains she can't smoke on the way to hospital? And that the medical technician inside might just be desperate to get back home from a busy shift, to have a cup of tea and catch up with his blog?
Meet Tom Reynolds. Tom is an Emergency Medical Technician who works for the London Ambulance Service in East London. He has kept a blog of his daily working life since 2003 and his award-winning writing is, by turn, moving, cynical, funny, heart-rending and compassionate. It is never less than compelling.From the tragic to the hilarious, from the heartwarming to the terrifying, the stories Tom tells give a fascinating - and at times alarming - picture of life in inner-city Britain, and the people who are paid to mop up after it.
Författare: Tom Reynolds
Uppläsare: Daniel Philpott Förlag: Harper Collins
SIRENS VOLUME 2
The sequel to the bestselling memoir Blood, Sweat & Tea. Tom Reynolds is an ambulance worker.On any given day he can be attacked by strangers, sworn at by motorists, puked on, covered in blood and other much more unpleasant substances. He could help to deliver a baby in the morning and witness the last moments of a dying man in the afternoon. He deals with road accidents, knife attacks, domestic violence, drug overdoses, neglect and suffering. And you think you're having a bad day at work? Tom blogs about his experiences at the end of each shift.
His Random Acts of Reality website has a huge following with over 30,000 visitors every day. He is an internet legend and a remarkable writer.His first book, Blood, Sweat & Tea came out of nowhere to be a surprise bestseller in 2006. Readers were stunned by the stories he had to tell and impressed by the sheer quality of his writing. Critics who sneer at blogs-to-books have never read this one.More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea charts the past two years of Tom's life as an ambulance worker. He is tired, he is frustrated and he is more pissed off than ever but he still manages to capture the more moving, heartwarming and inspirational moments alongside the chaos.
Författare: Tom Reynolds
Uppläsare: Daniel Philpott Förlag: Harper Collins
Stjärnfall
Daniel Hill, avhoppad och desillusionerad aktieanalytiker, dras in i en mordhistoria som tar sin början samma kväll som börsen kraschar. Ryktet säger att två människor mördats strax efter varandra; en ung kvinnlig IT-analytiker och en berömd uppfinnare. Daniel, som haft en kärleksaffär med kvinnan, kommer en helt ny sorts brottslighet på spåren.
Författare: David Lagercrantz
Uppläsare: David Lagercrantz Förlag: Bonnier Audio
Svenska hackare - En berättelse från nätets skuggsida
För många är hackaren en skurk. För andra är han en osäker tonåring med datorn och nätet som enda vänner. Men hackaren är också en hjältefigur och en fanbärare. Hackarens tro på teknikens möjligheter och sin egen självklara rätt att använda den som han vill har satt sin prägel på allt från 90 talets spirande hemdatorkultur, via 00 talets häftiga debatt kring The Pirate Bay till dagens diskussioner om övervakning och digital politisk aktivism. 'Svenska hackare' är en bok om människor, inte om maskiner. En berättelse om den brokiga skara personer som samlas under namnet hackare, och en inblick i en av vår tids mest mytomspunna subkulturer.
Författare: Linus Larsson,Daniel Goldberg
Uppläsare: Tomas Bolme Förlag: Norstedts
The Fall
The tension-filled sequel to The Strain, from the world-famous director whose films include Pan's Labyrinthe and Hellboy. Humans have been displaced at the top of the food chain, and now understand - to their outright horror - what it is to be not the consumer, but the consumed.Ephraim Goodweather, director of the New York office of the Centers for Disease control, is one of the few humans who understands what is really happening.
Vampires have arrived in New York City, and their condition is contagious. If they cannot be contained, the entire world is at risk of infection. As Eph becomes consumed with the battle against the total corruption of humanity, his ex-wife, Kelly, now a vampire herself, is ever-more determined to claim their son, Zack. As the Biblical origins of the Ancient ones are gradually revealed, Eph learns that there is a greater, more terrible plan in store for the human race - worse even than annihilation...
Författare: Guillermo del Toro
Uppläsare: Daniel Oreskes Förlag: Harper Collins
The Fallen Angel
Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding #1 New York Times bestselling novel.
Bruised and war-weary following his secret war to bring down a terrorist mastermind, Gabriel Allon returns to his beloved Rome to restore a Caravaggio masterpiece.But early one morning Gabriel is summoned by his friend and occasional ally Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to the Pope. The broken body of a beautiful woman lies beneath Michelangelo's magnificent dome.
Donati fears a public inquiry will inflict more wounds on an already-damaged Church so he calls upon Gabriel to use his matchless talents and experience to quietly pursue the truth - was it suicide, or something more sinister?Gabriel discovers that the woman revealed a dangerous secret that threatens powers beyond the Vatican. And an old enemy plots revenge in the shadows, an unthinkable act of sabotage that will plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. Once again Gabriel must return to the ranks of his old intelligence service-and place himself, and those he holds dear, on the razor's edge of danger.
Författare: Daniel Silva
Uppläsare: George Guidall Förlag: Harper Collins
The Night Eternal
The nail-biting vampire thriller from the world-famous director of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy. The night belongs to them, and it will be a night eternal...
After the blasts, it was all over. Nuclear Winter has settled upon the earth. Except for one hour of sunlight a day, the whole world is plunged into darkness. It is a near-perfect environment for vampires. They have won. It is their time.Almost every single man, woman and child has been enslaved in vast camps across the globe. Like animals, they are farmed, harvested for the sick pleasure of the Master Race.Almost, but not all. Somewhere out there, hiding for their lives, is a desperate network of free humans, continue the seemingly hopeless resistance.
Everyday people, with no other options - among them Dr Ephraim Goodweather, his son Zack, the veteran exterminator Vassily, and former gangbanger Gus.To be free, they need a miracle, they need divine intervention. But Salvation can be a twisted game - one in which they may be played like pawns in a battle of Good and Evil. And at what cost...?
Författare: Chuck Hogan,Guillermo del Toro
Uppläsare: Daniel Oreskes Förlag: Harper Collins
The Payback
Dennis Milne is a man with a past, and a past that involves murder. A former cop, he's earned his living killing the bad guys – drug dealers, corrupt business men people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. For the past two days, he's been in Manila, waiting for his next target: a young woman who's made herself some poor life choices, and some even worse enemies.
DI Tina Boyd is a woman on a mission. Tough, spiky and determined, she's looking for the man she holds responsible for the death of her lover. She knows he's ruthless. She knows he's dangerous. But he's in Manila, and she's determined to find and kill him – before he kills her. Two cops with pasts that haunt them and a present that could see them both dead. They are about to meet. And when they do, it's payback time …
Författare: Simon Kernick
Uppläsare: Daniel Weyman Förlag: Random House
The Rose and the Yew Tree
A newly reissued edition of Agatha Christie's 'Mary Westmacott' novel, a Crime of the Heart novel about love and anguish across the class divide.Everyone expected Isabella Charteris, beautiful, sheltered and aristocratic, to marry her cousin Rupert when he came back from the War. It would have been such a suitable marriage. How strange then that John Gabriel, an ambitious and ruthless war hero, should appear in her life. For Isabella, the price of love would mean abandoning her dreams of home and happiness forever. For Gabriel, it would destroy his chance of a career and all his ambitions...
Författare: Agatha Christie
Uppläsare: Daniel Philpott Förlag: Harper Collins
The Science of Fear
From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear is running amok, and often with tragic results. In the months after 9/11, when people decided to drive instead of fly believing they were avoiding risk road deaths rose by 1,595. Those lives were lost to fear.
The Science of Fear is a disarmingly cheerful roundtrip shuttle to the new brain science, dissecting the fears that misguide and manipulate us every day. As award winning journalist Daniel Gardner demonstrates, irrational fear springs from how humans miscalculate risks. Our hunter gatherer brains evolved during the old Stone Age and struggle to make sense of a world utterly unlike the one that made them. Numbers, for instance, confuse us. Our 'gut' tells us that even if there aren't '50,000 predators...on the Internet prowling for children,' as a recent U.S. Attorney General claimed, then there must be an awful lot. And even if our 'head' discovers that the number is baseless and no one actually knows the truth there could be 100,000 or 500,000 we are still more fearful simply because we heard the big number. And it is not only politicians and the media that traffic in fearmongering. Corporations fatten their bottom lines with fear. Interest groups expand their influence with fear. Officials boost their budgets with fear. With more information, warnings and scary stories coming at us every day from every direction, we are more prone than ever to needlessly worry.
Författare: Daniel Gardner
Uppläsare: Scott Peterson Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Spooks Apprentice
The Spook's trained many, but precious few completed their time, Mam said, and those that did aren't a patch on him. They're flawed or weak or cowardly. They walk a twisted path taking money for accomplishing little. So there's only you left now, son. You're the last chance. The last hope.
Författare: Joseph Delaney
Uppläsare: Daniel Weyman Förlag: Random House
Underbarnets gåta
Tredje romanen om förmögne bohemen Daniel Mill handlar om mordet på en psykiskt sjuk narkoman, en man som en gång betraktades som ett underbarn med skyhög IQ och var Daniels bästa vän. Daniel försöker reda ut vad som hänt och spåren leder till den politiska maktens toppskikt.
Författare: David Lagercrantz
Uppläsare: David Lagercrantz Förlag: Bonnier Audio
Vi har redan sagt hej då
Jag har inte haft en flickvän på fem år. Hjälpt av ett strikt regelverk samt en strategi att främst dejta tjejer med pojkvän sambo/make har jag gjort det till en konst att avsluta relationer innan de börjar på riktigt. Strax före jul gick jag på dejt med Iris. Vi åt biskvier och hon berättade något som borde ha fått mig att rusa därifrån. Istället satt jag kvar, fascinerad av hennes säregna historia och den oväntade dragning den hade på mig. "Vi har redan sagt hej då" är en berättelse om rädsla för tvåsamhet. Om förälskelse och svek. Om otrohet och kärlek. Och det som ligger däremellan.
Författare: Daniel Åberg
Uppläsare: Daniel Åberg Förlag: Sockerförlaget
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