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Writer Lyz Lenz lives in Iowa, but she was raised in a small town in Texas, and her Audible Original Cottonwood Creek explores her funny and emotional memories of her life as a homeschooled evangelical girl in a large family of eight children. Growing up, Lenz and her family fervently believed that the rapture was coming, maybe any day now, and she and her siblings spent their days - which for all they knew could have been their last on earth - exploring the woods near their home, conjuring playtime fantasies, and testing the limits of their imaginations.

There have been literally hundreds of books about T. E. Lawrence, best known as Lawrence of Arabia, but never a work quite like Legion. Legion tells the astonishing life story of an man who was far more than a war hero; for Lawrence was also an archaeologist, a linguist and translator, a historian and classicist, a marine engineer, an airman and one of the great English writers of the 20th century. He was also an enigma, even at times to himself, tormented by guilt and shame, by his masochism, self-loathing and his fear of his own sexuality.

El escritor Simeon Tegel nos lleva al corazón de un denso bosque en el Chaco Argentino donde mueren asesinados Manuel Roseo, uno de los 10 mayores terratenientes de Argentina, y su cuñada. Su cuerpo mostraba marcas de una sádica tortura, que la policía sospechaba fue a manos de un sicópata “El hombre de las mil caras”. El apasionante relato de El Impenetrable revela paso a paso una trama mucho más compleja que combina poder político, corrupción administrativa y codicia sin límites.

In Love and Struggle brings together a group of prestigious women of color to share their stories during this unique calendar moment, a leap year which serves as a bridge, uniting Black History Month and Women's History Month. A slate of participants includes actor Sarah Jones, law professor Anita Hill, commentator Brittany Packnett Cunningham, model and speaker Aaron Philip, poet Mahogany L. Browne, writer Bassey Ikpi, scholar Salamishah Tillet, author Jodie Patterson, and hip-hop artist Mumu Fresh.

To most audiences, Philip Roth is a literary icon, author of probing, provocative works like American Pastoral, Portnoy’s Complaint, and Goodbye, Columbus. But to James Atlas, Philip Roth was more than just a writer—he was a friend. In 1977, when he was 28, James Atlas published his first book, a biography of the poet Delmore Schwartz, and was stunned to receive a congratulatory letter from Philip Roth. He had been moved by the tragic story it told.

In 2012, 21-year-old Dutch hacker David Schrooten was living at his parents’ house in the Netherlands and spending most of his time online. When he wasn’t squabbling with fellow hackers, he was making plans to visit his Romanian girlfriend. His life turned upside-down when Interpol agents arrested him at an airport in Romania on international hacking charges involving $63 million in damages. Soon Schrooten found himself extradited to the United States, a country where he had never been before.

On night one of the NFL Draft, Alabama star Brian Branch sat backstage anxiously waiting for his name to be called. This was the defining moment of his lifetime; the culmination of years of hard work, struggle, and determination. The small-town kid turned Alabama football star was expected to be picked in the first round, that's why he had received one of the coveted invitations to attend the draft in person. Various experts had predicted that he would be drafted as high as pick 11. Would they be right? Or, as he so often felt, would Brian Branch have something to prove?

In Grounded, we meet Doreen as she’s struggling with the realization that she’s pregnant, weighing her own dreams and professional ambitions against the life she imagines is necessary to nurture and raise children well. Doreen’s mother was a stay-at-home mom who did everything in her power to ensure her daughters had the same opportunities as the white kids in their New Jersey suburb. Years later, the influence of her mom still looming large as her own children grow up, Doreen begins to see her mother’s choices in a different light.

In the spring of 1980, the British colony of Rhodesia became the independent nation of Zimbabwe. Tonderai Munyevu, a born-free, was part of the hopeful next generation from a new country with a new leader, Robert Gabriel Mugabe. While exploring Tonderai’s personal story and his relationship with his father, Mugabe, My Dad and Me charts the rise and fall of one of the most controversial politicians of the 20th century.

Entre sábanas con un hacker cuenta la increíble historia oculta tras la filtración de datos más impactante de la era de internet: el hackeo de Ashley Madison. De un minuto a otro, millones de personas casadas vieron sus nombres, direcciones y preferencias sexuales publicadas en línea en una base de datos que cualquiera podía consultar.

Es geschieht am helllichten Tag, in tiefster Nacht, am Rande der Gesellschaft und mitten unter uns - das Verbrechen. Es kommt über uns wie eine Naturgewalt oder wie ein grausamer Witz. Die Tat teilt uns in Opfer, Täter, Unschuldige, Monster und Menschen. Und wir alle fragen uns: Wie konnte das geschehen? Und was passiert jetzt?

A Universityのテーマは「複雑な世界で、より善く生きる」タイパ・コスパと言った、いかに効率よく生きるかを競うことばかりに注目が集まる時代。

Expectativas Delirantes é um projeto original da Audible, apresentado pela atriz, humorista e criadora de conteúdo Valentina Bandeira. Ao longo da temporada, Valen faz um mergulho sincero na sua formação amorosa e na maneira como essa fundação resultou em desencantos e desilusões românticas em série.

Es geschieht am helllichten Tag, in tiefster Nacht, am Rande der Gesellschaft und mitten unter uns - das Verbrechen. Es kommt über uns wie eine Naturgewalt oder wie ein grausamer Witz. Die Tat teilt uns in Opfer, Täter, Unschuldige, Monster und Menschen. Und wir alle fragen uns: Wie konnte das geschehen? Und was passiert jetzt? Hinter jedem Fall steckt eine einzigartige Geschichte. Wahre Verbrechen. Der Stern-Crime-Podcast erzählt sie aus nächster Nähe: Die Opfer, die Täter, die Ermittler und die Experten.

Brooklyn North is the true story of how four Black men were wrongfully convicted of murder—nearly all connected to a once-legendary NYPD homicide detective, Louis Scarcella. Jonathan Fleming, Sundhe Moses, Jabbar Washington, and John Bunn were among dozens of innocent New Yorkers who spent decades in prison—guilty until proven innocent. This Original documentary follows their relentless fight to unveil an insidious pattern of police and prosecutorial corruption in Brooklyn at the height of the war on drugs and a historic peak in violent crime in the 1980s and ‘90s.

Roma, agosto 2018: una donna di origini tedesche viene arrestata per spaccio internazionale di stupefacenti. Si chiama Alice. Con lei ci sono i suoi due figli, di 4 e 18 mesi, che finiscono con la madre nella sezione nido del carcere femminile di Rebibbia. Meno di un mese dopo, il 18 settembre 2018, un tonfo. Alice aspetta che le altre detenute siano in fila per il pranzo e scaraventa i figli giù dalle scale. Moriranno entrambi. La domanda che tutti si pongono è la stessa di sempre: come è potuto accadere? In parte lo ha stabilito una sentenza.

Torino 1974, sulla scia delle contestazioni del ’68 il sistema psichiatrico italiano viene messo in discussione da un processo che fa la storia. Per la prima volta le testimonianze dei “matti” vengono ascoltate per giudicare l’operato del dottor Giorgio Coda, tristemente noto col soprannome di “elettricista” per la sua abitudine a trattare i pazienti psichiatrici con l’elettroshock.

Axel Petermann ist einer der Vorreiter der operativen Fallanalyse in Deutschland, auch bekannt unter dem Begriff “Profiling”. Gemeinsam mit der Journalistin Teresa Sickert gibt er spannende Einblick in seine Ermittlungsarbeit der vergangenen Jahre. Aus seinen Büchern hat er die wichtigsten Fälle seiner Karriere ausgesucht und erklärt nun, wie er dabei vorgegangen ist. Welche Indizien waren entscheidend, um Täter und Täterinnen zu überführen? Welche Rolle spielen auch immer wieder Kreativität und Intuition bei den Ermittlungen?

Als Tom in einer kalten Novembernacht aus dem Kloster flieht, weiß er nicht, ob er seine Frau und seine beiden Kinder jemals wiedersehen wird. Aus einem gemeinsamen Traum ist für ihn ein Alptraum geworden. Mit seiner Familie hatte sich Tom einer Gruppe aus Freunden angeschlossen, die die Welt zum Guten verändern wollte. Die Gruppe ist in in ein altes Kloster in Bayern gezogen, um miteinander zu wohnen, zu diskutieren, sich die Arbeit zu teilen, die so anfällt, und einander auch emotional zu unterstützen - mit Gesprächsrunden und viel Reflexion. Doch mit der Zeit ist etwas gekippt.

Assistere impotenti al lento scivolare di un familiare verso il male, senza poter prevedere quanto tragici saranno gli esiti. Scoprire un giorno che una persona amata è stata capace di commettere uno degli orrori più grandi, senza che tu abbia potuto far nulla per fermarla in tempo. Vedere il proprio cognome sui giornali, subire gli sguardi accusatori, anche se non si è colpevoli di nulla. Non poter uscire di casa per la vergogna, rendendosi conto che la vita non sarà mai più la stessa.