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    Yuletide Immortal: The Immortal Chronicles, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 129min
    Christmas comes but once a year. Adam wants another beer. The first time I met Santa was in a bar. I was occupying a barstool in the Village in lower Manhattan at the time. It was December, of course - one does not meet Santa in August - and the year was 1955. It was really Santa, too. And by that I mean it was an overweight gentleman with a long, grey-white beard, a dark red suit with white trim, wire-framed glasses and a balding head. His cheeks were rosy either from the cold or the exertion of hoisting himself up on the barstool. He was not particularly tall. "What's the rumpus?" Santa asked. When he's in a funk, Adam the immortal man mostly just wants a place to drink and the occasional drinking buddy. When that buddy turns out to be Santa Claus, Adam is forced to face one of the biggest challenges of extremely long life: Christmas cheer. Will Santa break him out of his bad mood? Or will he be responsible for depressing the most positive man on the planet? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Carlson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/089062/bk_acx0_089062_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Poor Your Soul , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 540min
    Guided by the narrative of her mother's tragic loss of a son years earlier, Mira Ptacin confronts an unexpected pregnancy with a child who has no chance of survival outside the womb. At age 28, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though it was unplanned, she soon embraced the pregnancy and became engaged to Andrew, the father. But five months later, an ultrasound revealed birth defects that would give the child no chance of survival outside the womb. Mira was given three options: terminate her pregnancy, induce early delivery, or wait and inevitably miscarry. Her story is woven together with the story of Mira's mother, who immigrated from Poland (also at the age of 28) and adopted a son, Julian, who would die tragically, bringing her a similar, unimaginable grief. A gorgeous, heartfelt first book by an award-winning essayist and Guernica contributor. An earnest and direct discussion of women's reproductive rights from a personal angle rather than a political one. Author has a robust social presence on Facebook and Twitter and has written for The Atlantic, New York Magazine, McSweeney's, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kyra Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009145/bk_reco_009145_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Telling: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 461min
    Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell, she wasn't sure what to expect or what to say. Through a kaleidoscopic series of experiences - Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia, meets and marries her husband, and gives birth to her children - she traces the development of her sexuality, her relationships with men, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow of her childhood sexual abuse. Bolstered with research, Zolbrod argues passionately for the empowerment of sexual abuse victims and the courage it takes to talk about it. The Telling is an intimate examination of one woman's reckoning with a past she can't always explain and a life lived in search for the right words. Zoe Zolbrod's work has appeared in Salon, The Nervous Breakdown, The Weeklings, and the Rumpus, where she serves as the Sunday editor. Her debut novel, Currency, won a 2010 Nobbie Award and received an honorable mention by Friends of American Writers. Zolbrod lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her husband and children. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zoe Zolbrod. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028986/bk_adbl_028986_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    And Now We Have Everything , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 308min
    One of the most anticipated books of 2018 - Esquire, Elle, Nylon, Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, The Rumpus, GoodReads, The Millions, BookRiot, Bustle, The Week. "Smart, funny, and true in all the best ways, this book made me ache with recognition." - Cheryl Strayed A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed - a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood - didn't exist. So she decided to write it herself. And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of the cataclysmic, impossible-to-prepare-for experience of becoming a mother. With her dark humor and hair-trigger B.S. detector, O'Connell addresses the pervasive imposter syndrome that comes with unplanned pregnancy, the fantasies of a "natural" birth experience that erode maternal self-esteem, post-partum body and sex issues, and the fascinating strangeness of stepping into a new, not-yet-comfortable identity. Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and often unspoken, And Now We Have Everything is an unflinchingly frank, funny, and visceral motherhood story for our times, about having a baby and staying, for better or worse, exactly yourself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meaghan O'Connell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004381/bk_hach_004381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Uncle Janice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min
    On any given day, Janice Itwaru might be found trolling the streets of Queens for drugs. Janice is an "uncle" - an undercover narcotics officer - trying to meet the impossibly high quota of drug busts needed to make detective, or be sent back down to uniformed patrol. So Janice is out there in her secondhand hoochie skirt, trying to get potential drug dealers - criminals, addicts, dumb kids, whomever - to commit a felony on her behalf. Other days are spent in the "Rumpus Room" at the precinct, trying to keep up with the bantering lies and inventively cruel pranks of her fellow uncles while coping with the insane demands of the big bosses. With an ailing mother at home, her cover nearly blown, four more buys to get her gold shield and rumors circulating that Internal Affairs has her unit under surveillance, Janice is running very short on luck as her quota deadline approaches. Now she has to decide which evil to confront: the faceless bureaucrats at One Police Plaza, or the violent drug dealers who may already be onto her identity. Bursting with the glorious chaos of the streets of New York, Uncle Janice is an uproariously funny portrait of how undercover cops really talk and act, and a compelling story of their crazy, dangerous and often nonsensical lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rachel Fulginiti. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000892/bk_high_000892_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Alone in the Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter, and Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 67min
    What do you do when fate hands you a wild daughter? As Micah recounts her struggles to raise a brave daughter and to keep her safe at the same time, she also tells the story of her own sometimes humorous, sometimes harrowing two week solo adventure in the Adirondack Mountains as a teenager. Micah Perks' candid short memoir takes an insightful look at women and the wild, the wildness she experienced as a child on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness, the ways women and wildness are depicted in movies and books like Cheryl Strayed's bestselling memoir Wild, and the wilderness she discovers inside her own daughter. Micah Perks is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here, and a memoir, Pagan Time, about growing up on a commune in the Adirondack Wilderness. Pagan Time is an audiobook from Audible and an e-book and has been translated into Korean. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, and The Rumpus, among many other journals and anthologies. She's won an NEA Award, a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts grant, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and several residencies at the Blue Mountain Center. She lives with her family in Santa Cruz and codirects the creative writing program at UCSC. This is a short audiobook published by Shebooks - high quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gwen Hughes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023619/bk_adbl_023619_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Complete Adventures of Blinky Bill , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min
    Here are Dorothy Wall's classic tales of the cheeky, adventurous koala and his bush friends, brought to life in more than seven hours of enchanted storytelling! Ideal for any child aged 4 to 12. Keep the kids enthralled during long hours of driving on school holidays, or let them escape at any time into Blinky's magical bushland, together with his friends Snubby, Nutsy, Splodge the Kangaroo, Jacko the Kookaburra, Mr Mouse, Angelina Wallaby, Mr Owl, and many many more. Hold your breath as Blinky tries to escape from Miss Pimm's shop after stealing all her peppermints! Learn how a naughty koala plays leap-frog with frogs! Go with Blinky underground to a rabbits' birthday party, where he gets into trouble with Madam Hare. Giggle with Blinky as he outwits his mom, Mrs Koala, and her friend Mrs. Grunty. Listen to how Blinky foils plots by Granny Goannna, Mrs. Snake, and Belinda Fox to gobble up baby possums and rabbits. Capture the excitement of Blinky's escape from the zoo, with Splodge! Hear Blinky and Nutsy's race, with Mrs. Field Mouse, to save Mrs. Echidna's life. Join with Blinky and Nutsy as the pelicans cause a rumpus! Plus many many more adventures. Here are seven hours and 13 minutes of irresistible charm and mayhem, caused by one mischevious koala. No child should miss out on these classic Australian yarns! Now you can have these incomparable stories read to you and your children. This audio version is completely faithful to all three of Dorothy Wall's original Blinky Bill books. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shane Sody. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sody/000002/bk_sody_000002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 181min
    Winner - Best Transgender Nonfiction - 2015 Lambda Literary Awards Best Books of 2014 - Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2014 - NPR Books Best Nonficton Books of 2014 - Kirkus Reviews 10 Best Transgender Nonfiction Books - Advocate What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be. Man Alive engages an extraordinary personal story to tell a universal one - how we all struggle to create ourselves and how this struggle often requires risks. Far from a transgender transition tell-all, Man Alive grapples with the larger questions of legacy and forgiveness, love and violence, agency and invisibility. About the author: Thomas Page McBee was the "masculinity expert" for VICE and writes the columns "Self-Made Man" for The Rumpus and "The American Man" for Pacific Standard. His essays and reportage have appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, Salon, and BuzzFeed, where he was a regular contributor on gender issues. He lives in New York City, where he works as the editor of special projects at Quartz, and is currently at work on a book about modern American masculinity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Page McBee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031167/bk_adbl_031167_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Neruda on the Park (eBook, ePUB)
    An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification "Strikes all the right notes-captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an unforgettable debut!"-Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022-The Rumpus, Electric Lit, The Millions, Lit Hub The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of New York City, for twenty years. When demolition begins on a neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, takes matters into her own hands by devising an increasingly dangerous series of schemes to stop construction of the luxury condos. Meanwhile, Eusebia's daughter, Luz, a rising associate at a top Manhattan law firm who strives to live the bougie lifestyle her parents worked hard to give her, becomes distracted by a sweltering romance with the handsome white developer at the company her mother so vehemently opposes. As Luz's father, Vladimir, secretly designs their retirement home in the Dominican Republic, mother and daughter collide, ramping up tensions in Nothar Park, racing toward a near-fatal climax. A beautifully layered portrait of family, friendship, and ambition, Neruda on the Park weaves a rich and vivid tapestry of community as well as the sacrifices we make to protect what we love most, announcing Cleyvis Natera as an electrifying new voice.
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    Neruda on the Park
    An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification "Strikes all the right notes-captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an unforgettable debut!"-Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022-The Rumpus, Electric Lit, The Millions, Lit Hub The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of New York City, for twenty years. When demolition begins on a neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, takes matters into her own hands by devising an increasingly dangerous series of schemes to stop construction of the luxury condos. Meanwhile, Eusebia's daughter, Luz, a rising associate at a top Manhattan law firm who strives to live the bougie lifestyle her parents worked hard to give her, becomes distracted by a sweltering romance with the handsome white developer at the company her mother so vehemently opposes. As Luz's father, Vladimir, secretly designs their retirement home in the Dominican Republic, mother and daughter collide, ramping up tensions in Nothar Park, racing toward a near-fatal climax. A beautifully layered portrait of family, friendship, and ambition, Neruda on the Park weaves a rich and vivid tapestry of community as well as the sacrifices we make to protect what we love most, announcing Cleyvis Natera as an electrifying new voice.
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