104 Results for : retraces
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Waiting for the Boatman: A BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation, Hörbuch, Digital, 43min
The painter Mario Minniti has travelled to Naples to seek out his old friend and former mentor Caravaggio. But on arrival, the great painter is nowhere to be found. In a bid to find him, Mario retraces Caravaggio's last known movements. His search reveals a life lived dangerously. Starring David Tennant as Mario Minniti, with Anton Lesser, Peter Hamilton, Joe Dempsie, Tracy Wiles and Harry Livingstone. Written by Stephen Wakelam. Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. Editor: Colin Guthrie. Studio Managers: Colin Guthrie, Keith Graham, Alison Craig. Production Coordinator: Nicole Fitzpatrick. Language: English. Narrator: David Tennant, Anton Lesser, Full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006325/bk_bbcw_006325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Helping Effortlessly: A Book of Inspiration and Healing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min
How she healed herself: A burnout survivor’s road map to recovery.Inspirational new audiobook retraces Canadian author’s personal journey to lasting good health.As a mother, foster parent, youth counsellor and wife, Jenn Bruer had it all: Obesity, adult acne, mood swings, mild depression, asthma, and allergies. In short, she was broken and burned out at the young age of 35.“I perhaps thought I was superwoman and nothing could break me”, Bruer reflects. But she was wrong. “I was exhausted. And I needed to find a way to get healthy”.And so began her self-guided transformation to physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. That was 2011. Today she’s vibrant, happy, and healthy after discovering the healing power of food, finding inner peace, and learning the meaning of self-love.Now Bruer is sharing her tale of trials and triumphs in Helping Effortlessly. “This book is my personal story. It’s filled with hope and tangible ways to begin a journey of healing, going far beyond the conventional solutions of self-care”, she says.Burnout is a “rampant affliction” especially among the helping professions, according to Bruer, who hopes her book will help others heal.With candour, courage, and humour as her travel companions, Bruer retraces every intricate step along her very personal path from burnout to betterment. Drawing on themes of nutrition, exercise, spirituality, mindfulness, stress management, and forgiveness, she invites listeners to begin their own life-changing journey. Her book is packed with tips, practical information, anecdotes, and mental exercises that challenge individuals to think differently about mind, body and spirit - from the food that goes into their mouth to the words that come out. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jessica Gurd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/202279/bk_acx0_202279_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Clara , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min
Clara watches as her husband is lowered into the ground. Tears fall from her cheeks onto the dusty African earth. Her son looks up at her. With her husband's body lies a terrible secret. Should she tell her son? Their fates are intertwined. As she retraces her steps to find an answer, she realizes that everything she thought she knew may have been the problem to begin with. This story take us on a journey into human relationships, love, the bonds of a family, and how they can be torn apart by larger forces. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Kuch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002022/bk_acx0_002022_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Garnethill , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 669min
Maureen O'Donnell is a psychiatric patient, stuck in an affair with Douglas, a shady therapist. She’s about to end it with him when she wakes up one morning to find him in her living room with his throat slit. Viewed by the police as both a suspect and a witness, even Maureen’s family suspects her. Panic-stricken, she retraces Douglas' last days, finding a trail of rape and deception at a psychiatric hospital where she’d been an inmate. The patients won't talk and staff are afraid. Then a second brutalised corpse is discovered and Maureen realises that her life is in danger. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katy Anderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001950/bk_isis_001950_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Invisible Circus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 681min
In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age 18. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister, Faith, a beautiful, idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love and Faith's lost generation. This spellbinding audiobook introduced Egan's remarkable ability to tie suspense with deeply insightful characters and the nuances of emotion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Madeline Lambert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001401/bk_twuk_001401_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hopeless , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 469min
What's a safe call?Hope Pendleton is a prude – a straight, by-the-book investigative reporter. Then her best friend, Callie, goes on a date and doesn't come back. Gone. Totally off the grid.Hope's instincts kick in. The only clue is her friend's alternative lifestyle, and Hope finds herself faced with uncomfortable choices. Partnering with the stand-offish but enigmatic FBI agent investigating her friend's disappearance, Hope retraces Callie's path, following her trail through the underbelly of the Nashville BDSM scene.The scene in Nashville, though, isn't just a bunch of consenting adults playing sex games. Before Hope realizes it, she has gone from investigative reporter … to bait. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Murphy, Paul Brion. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/083563/bk_acx0_083563_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lost Japan: Last Glimpse of Beautiful Japan
An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, and tells the story of the hidden valley that became his home.But the book is not just a love letter. Haunted throughout by nostalgia for the Japan of old, Kerr's book is part paean to that great country and culture, part epitaph in the face of contemporary Japan's environmental and cultural destruction.Winner of Japan's Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize, and now with a new preface.Alex Kerr is an American writer, antiques collector and Japanologist. Lost Japan is his most famous work. He was the first foreigner to be awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in Japan.- Shop: buecher
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The Witches of Enchanted Bay: A Bewitching Murder : Witches of Enchanted Bay Cozy Mystery, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 146min
Donut shop manager and secret witch Meg Walton has her picture-perfect small town life rocked when she finds out her old friend, Paige Martin, has died in Los Angeles. The police have ruled the death a suicide, but Meg's gut instinct is telling her foul play was involved. As Meg retraces the final days of Paige's life, she becomes convinced that her friend's death was murder. When the police brush Meg's theory off, she knows the only way for justice to be served is to find Paige's killer herself. The Meg Walton Series:The Witches of Enchanted BayAx to GrindKiller TwistA Bewitching MurderA Riddle of a MurderThe Nuts and Bolts of MurderStrangling AmbitionTherapy Can Be Murder ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lainie Pahos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158562/bk_acx0_158562_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Hörbuch, Digital, 428min
The number-one international best seller - and the Grammy-award winner for best spoken album in 2006. Before Barack Obama became a politician, he was, among other things, a writer. Dreams from My Father is a masterpiece: a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking the big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama recounts an emotional odyssey. He retraces the migration of his mother's family from Kansas to Hawaii, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father's life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Language: English. Narrator: Barack Obama. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cnon/000001/bk_cnon_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Hörbuch, Digital, 428min
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey; first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Language: English. Narrator: Barack Obama. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000619/bk_rand_000619_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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