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The Last First Day: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 510min

From the author of The Rope Walk, the story of a woman's life in its twilight, as she looks back on both a harrowing childhood and the unaccountable love and happiness that emerged from it. Ruth has always stood firmly beside her upstanding, brilliant husband, Peter, the legendary chief of the Derry School for boys. The childless couple has a unique, passionate bond which grew out of Ruth's arrival on his family doorstep as a young girl orphaned by tragedy. And though sometimes frustrated by her role as lifelong helpmeet, Ruth is awed by her good fortune in Peter. As the novel opens we see the Derry School in all its glorious New England fall colors and witness the loosening of the aging Peter's grasp - he will soon have to retire, and Ruth is wondering what they will do in their old age, separated from the school into which they have poured everything, including their savings. As the novel unfurls, it takes us back through their days and years, revealing the explosive spark and joy of their love - undiminished now in their 70s - and giving us a deeply felt portrait of a woman from the generation that quietly put individual dreams aside for the good of a partnership, twinned with the revelation of the surprising gift of the right man's love, which keeps giving to the end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jo Howarth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016736/bk_adbl_016736_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Lincoln's Billy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 362min

Abraham Lincoln trusted and confided in his law partner William "Billy" Herndon, but his still-influential 1889 biography was censored by his collaborator and publisher. In Lincoln's Billy, Tom LeClair imagines Herndon's deathbed autobiography and the "real life" of his partner, revealing secrets about a randy and "rasslin'" Lincoln on his youthful trips to New Orleans, the hidden sources of his depression, and the untold cause of his hatred of slavery. Based on the latest biographical research, Lincoln's Billy presents a vulgar, tale-telling Lincoln unknown to most Americans and a radical, truth-telling Herndon who was more advanced - and more contemporary - than the president on public education, women's rights, and most importantly, slavery. The abolitionist and free-thinking Billy contends with his beloved partner for 16 years, and after the assassination, he conflicts with Lincoln's family, other biographers, Christian fundamentalists, corrupt Republican politicians, robber barons, and Victorian propriety as he struggles to write his unconventionally frank biography. Just as strong-willed are the novel's women: the ambitious, emotionally volatile, and mentally ill Mary Todd Lincoln as well as Herndon's two wives - Mary Maxcy, an active intellectual helpmeet despite being the mother of six, and Anna Miles, a Democrat, Presbyterian, and slavery sympathizer with whom Billy argues issues of the day. Like the story of Lincoln's life and autobiographies by Franklin, Douglass, and Henry Adams, Lincoln's Billy is a classic American tale of failure, resistance, persistence, and hard-won success. The author of five novels with contemporary settings, Tom LeClair pairs two vivid historical voices in Lincoln's Billy - Abe's "Kaintuck" vernacular and Billy's lawyerly rhetoric - as the two attorneys duel over biographical truth and historical fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Traber Burns. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007539/bk_blak_007539_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A House Among the Trees: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 823min

In Julia Glass's fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant - a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power of an unexpected legacy. When the revered children's book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home, he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant, Tomasina Daulair, who is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will. Tommy knew Morty for more than four decades, since meeting him in a Manhattan playground when she was 12 and he was working on sketches for the book that would make him a star. By the end of his increasingly reclusive life, she found herself living in his house as confidante and helpmeet, witness not just to his daily routines but to the emotional fallout of his strange boyhood and his volatile relationship with a lover who died of AIDS. Now Tommy must try to honor Morty's last wishes while grappling with their effects on several people, including Dani Daulair, her estranged brother; Meredith Galarza, the lonely, outraged museum curator to whom Lear once promised his artistic estate; and Nicholas Greene, the beguiling British actor cast to play Mort Lear in a movie. When the actor arrives for the visit he had previously arranged with the man he is to portray, he and Tommy are compelled to look more closely at Morty's past and the consequences of the choices they now face, both separately and together. Morty, as it turns out, made a confession to Greene that undermines much of what Tommy believed she knew about her boss - and about herself. As she contemplates a future without him, her unlikely alliance with Greene - and the loyalty they share toward the man whose legacy they hold in their hands - will lead to surprising upheavals in their wider relationsh ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Stuart Masterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005155/bk_rand_005155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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500k/MO!! As EPIC-POET! by Vincent Vinnie The Weasel Vulpikonek - Introduction by Mister C.N. Sumbvert (Mentor-Helpmeet-Editor-At-Largess(TM)) - with Chris Sumberg (Side-Kick Gofer)

500k/MO!! As EPIC-POET! by Vincent Vinnie The Weasel Vulpikonek - Introduction by Mister C.N. Sumbvert (Mentor-Helpmeet-Editor-At-Largess(TM)) - with Chris Sumberg (Side-Kick Gofer): ab 4.49 €

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