187 Results for : bouvard
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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 152min
A searing, enlightening polemic about the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers. 'It is not even the American dream they pursue, but rather a more modest aspiration: to wake up from the nightmare into which they were born.' Why did you come to the USA? When a child migrant arrives in the US all alone, this is the first question he or she will be asked. It's the beginning of an official interview of 40 questions used by the federal immigration court in New York City, where Valeria Luiselli works as a volunteer interpreter for the tens of thousands of children from Mexico and Central America being detained at the US border. But nothing is ever that simple. The children's stories are always shuffled, stuttered, always shattered beyond the repair of a narrative order. The problem with trying to tell their story is that it has no beginning, no middle, and no end.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003139/bk_hcuk_003139_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Infinite Home , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min
An utterly charming and tender story of the disparate tenants of a Brooklyn brownstone and the community they form around their ageing landlord when their home is suddenly threatened. Within a charming if dilapidated Brooklyn brownstone live a family of sorts: beautiful agoraphobe Adeleine, who surrounds herself with the past; Thomas, an artist who has shut away his materials in the wake of a stroke; Edward, a cynical stand-up comedian mired in depression; and Paulie, a young man with William's syndrome, a disease that grants him the irrepressible cheerfulness of a six-year-old. Brought together by ageing landlady Edith, the tenants all live safely in tune with each other, even if they do keep to themselves. But when their home is suddenly and violently threatened, they are shocked into action. Infinite Home is a poignant story of how a community is built and torn apart and how when lives interweave a beautiful and unusual tapestry is made. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002142/bk_hcuk_002142_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Glass Universe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 712min
Number one New York Times best-selling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science. In the mid-19th century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or 'human computers', to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the women turned to studying images of the stars captured on glass photographic plates, making extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what the stars were made of, divided them into meaningful categories for further research, and even found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of a group of remarkable women whose vital contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002546/bk_hcuk_002546_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kojiki , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 832min
Every civilization has its myths. Only one is true. When 18-year-old Keiko Yamada's father dies unexpectedly, he leaves behind a one way ticket to Japan, an unintelligible death poem about powerful Japanese spirits and their gigantic, beast-like Guardians, and the cryptic words: Go to Japan in my place. Find the Gate. My camera will show you the way. Alone and afraid, Keiko travels to Tokyo, determined to fulfill her father's dying wish. There, beneath glittering neon signs, her father's death poem comes to life. Ancient spirits spring from the shadows. Chaos envelops the city, and as Keiko flees its burning streets, her guide, the beautiful Yui Akiko, makes a stunning confession that she, Yui, is one of a handful of spirits left behind to defend the world against the most powerful among them: a once noble spirit now insane. Keiko must decide if she will honour her father's heritage and take her rightful place among the gods. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029287/bk_adbl_029287_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Witches of New York , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 855min
The year is 1880. Two hundred years after the trials in Salem, witches Adelaide Thom and Eleanor St Clair finally feel safe and have opened a tea shop in Manhattan, specialising in cures, palmistry and potions. When an enchanting young woman called Beatrice joins the witches as an apprentice, she soon proves indispensable, but her new life is marred by strange occurrences. She sees things no one else can see. She hears voices no one else can hear. Objects appear out of thin air, as if gifts from the dead. Has she been touched by magic, or is she simply losing her mind? Amidst the witches' tug-of-war over how best to nurture her gifts, Beatrice disappears - but was it by choice or by force? In the desperate search, the witches are confronted by spectres from their own pasts. In a time when women were corseted, confined and committed for merely speaking their minds, were any of them really safe? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oras/000013/bk_oras_000013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Here's to Us , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 697min
An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times best-selling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with addiction, depression and not one but two scandals. As summer nears he travels to the idyllic eastern bluff of Nantucket, where he takes his own life. In the wake of Deacon's shocking suicide, his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Laurel Rowe, sets out to gather Deacon's far-flung family - including Deacon and Laurel's son and Deacon's other ex-wives and children - on the island. Here's to Us brings together three very different, resilient women and their children, who start out not only as strangers but as bitter rivals, each wanting to claim the primary place in Deacon's life. Secrets are revealed, confidences are shared and improbable bonds are formed as this unlikely family says good-bye to the man they loved. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001343/bk_hodd_001343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Forgotten Dead , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 703min
A thriller set in the dark underbelly of Europe, perfect for fans of I Am Pilgrim. Into the darkness they fall.... Tarifa, Spain. A man's body washes up on the beach. No-one seems to care. Patrick Cornwall is a highly acclaimed investigative journalist. His latest project: to uncover the plight of migrants trying to start new lives in Europe and to expose the corruption that runs to the highest levels of society. Patrick's wife, Ally, is used to Patrick being out of contact. But she's just discovered she's pregnant, and she must track him down. Unable to reach him and starting to worry, she flies across the ocean to get answers. Still unable to find him, Ally delves into the secrets Patrick was determined to expose and is drawn into an ever-deadlier web. Because in the dark underbelly of Europe, where lives are cheap, the perpetrators will stop at nothing to keep their sins hidden and their victims forgotten.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003005/bk_hcuk_003005_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Portable Veblen , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 690min
A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding planning - from an electrically entertaining new voice. Meet Veblen: a passionate defender of the anticonsumerist views of her namesake, the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen. She's an experienced cheerer-upper (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator of Norwegian and a firm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand more than it lets on. Meet her fiancé, Paul: the son of good hippies who were bad parents, a no-nonsense, high-flying neuroscientist with no time for squirrels. His recent work on a device to minimise battlefield trauma has led him dangerously close to the seductive Cloris Hutmacher, heiress to a pharmaceuticals empire, who is promising him fame and fortune through a shady-sounding deal with the department of defence. What could possibly go wrong? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002274/bk_hcuk_002274_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sarah's Key , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 598min
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old Jewish girl, is arrested by the French police in the middle of the night, along with her mother and father. Desperate to protect her younger brother, she locks him in a cupboard and promises to come back for him as soon as she can. Paris, May 2002: Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, is asked to write about the 60th anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv'--the infamous day in 1942 when French police rounded up thousands of Jewish men, women and children, in order to send them to concentration camps. Sarah's Key is the poignant story of two families, forever linked and haunted by one of the darkest days in France's past. In this emotionally intense, page-turning novel, Tatiana de Rosnay reveals the guilt brought on by long-buried secrets and the damage that the truth can inflict when they finally come unravelled. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/murr/000017/bk_murr_000017_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox: The Effortless Health and Weight-Loss Solution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 364min
For the first time ever, Dr. Davis presents a simple 10-day grain detox plan - all the advice and a superb selection of recipes. This audiobook includes an accompanying PDF, complete with 10-day meal plan, recipes, and tips for successfully managing a wheat-free lifestyle. Dr. Davis provides a simple 10-day grain detox plan. With carefully designed meal plans and delicious recipes, you'll have everything you need to fully eliminate wheat and related grains from your diet in just 10 days. Listeners will be guided through the complete detox experience and provided with instructions on how to reduce or eliminate wheat-withdrawal symptoms. This plan is for people who follow Wheat Belly but may have fallen off the wagon or for newcomers who need a quick jump-start to weight loss. The author will conduct a test panel and follow people on their grain detox journey. There will be inspiring and informative case studies. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Russell Bentley, Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002254/bk_hcuk_002254_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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