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A Whole Life

Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize.Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. An exquisite novel about a simple life, it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of readers with a message of solace and truth. It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are.Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her hand in marriage, but instead has some of his friends light her name at dusk across the mountain. When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. He leaves his valley just once more, to fight in WWII - where he is taken prisoner in the Caucasus - and returns to find that modernity has reached his remote haven . . .'It is at once heart-rending and heart-warming. A Whole Life, for all its gentleness, is a very powerful book.' - Jim Crace, author of Harvest

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To the Best of Our Knowledge: The Course of Time, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min

In this hour, Steve Paulson interviews Brian Swimme, mathematical cosmologist at the Center for the Story of the Universe at the California institute of Integral Studies, about the origins of the universe, and how cosmology can help us reconnect with the natural world.Next, Anne Strainchamps interviews Thebe Medupe, astrophysicist at the University of Capetown in South Africa, about African views of astrology and creation. He produced the documentary, Cosmic Africa. Then, Jim Fleming interview with Jim Crace, author of The Pesthouse. The book envisions the end of time -- a post-apocalyptic America, after an un-named eco disaster destroys civilization. Nan A. Talese, 2007.After that, Anne Strainchamps interviews Ron Mallet, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut, about his boyhood dream of building a time machine and rescuing his own father. Mallett also explains current research into time travel and says the ability to go back and forth in time may be closer than we think. His book is called Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.Finally, Fleda Brown reads her poem, “For My Daughter’s Fortieth Birthday” which connects space and time in an entirely different way. Brown is the author of many books, including Reunion and Breathing In, Breathing Out. Brown also served as the poet laureate of Delaware, from 2001 to 2007. [Broadcast Date: December 29, 2010] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/101229/rt_tbon_101229_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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To the Best of Our Knowledge: The Course of Time, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min

In this hour, Steve Paulson interviews Brian Swimme, mathematical cosmologist at the Center for the Story of the Universe at the California institute of Integral Studies, about the origins of the universe, and how cosmology can help us reconnect with the natural world.Next, Anne Strainchamps interviews Thebe Medupe, astrophysicist at the University of Capetown in South Africa, about African views of astrology and creation. He produced the documentary, Cosmic Africa. Then, Jim Fleming interview with Jim Crace, author of The Pesthouse. The book envisions the end of time -- a post-apocalyptic America, after an un-named eco disaster destroys civilization. Nan A. Talese, 2007.After that, Anne Strainchamps interviews Ron Mallet, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut, about his boyhood dream of building a time machine and rescuing his own father. Mallett also explains current research into time travel and says the ability to go back and forth in time may be closer than we think. His book is called Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.Finally, Fleda Brown reads her poem, “For My Daughter’s Fortieth Birthday” which connects space and time in an entirely different way. Brown is the author of many books, including Reunion and Breathing In, Breathing Out. Brown also served as the poet laureate of Delaware, from 2001 to 2007. [Broadcast Date: January 10, 2014] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/140110/rt_tbon_140110_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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To the Best of Our Knowledge: The Course of Time, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min

In this hour, Steve Paulson interviews Brian Swimme, mathematical cosmologist at the Center for the Story of the Universe at the California institute of Integral Studies, about the origins of the universe, and how cosmology can help us reconnect with the natural world.Next, Anne Strainchamps interviews Thebe Medupe, astrophysicist at the University of Capetown in South Africa, about African views of astrology and creation. He produced the documentary, Cosmic Africa. Then, Jim Fleming interviews with Jim Crace, author of The Pesthouse. The book envisions the end of time -- a post-apocalyptic America, after an un-named eco disaster destroys civilization. After that, Anne Strainchamps interviews Ron Mallet, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut, about his boyhood dream of building a time machine and rescuing his own father. Mallett also explains current research into time travel and says the ability to go back and forth in time may be closer than we think. His book is called Time Traveler: A Scientist�s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.And finally, Fleda Brown reads her poem, "For My Daughter�s Fortieth Birthday" which connects space and time in an entirely different way. Brown is the author of many books, including Reunion, and Breathing In, Breathing Out. Brown also served as the poet laureate of Delaware, from 2001 to 2007. [Broadcast Date: January 8, 2010] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/100108/rt_tbon_100108_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Meaning of Life in 5 Easy Lessons (To the Best of Our Knowledge Series), Hörbuch, Digital, 265min

This special To The Best of Our Knowledge series contains five programs:In the BeginningWhere do we come from? Fair question. Religious scholar Stephen Mitchell says the answer lies in humanity's different creation myths. Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku says we're the reverb of a Big Bang from another universe. And, midwifery guru Ina May Gaskin gets down to where each one of us really comes from - mom.Why Bother?Catholic-nun-turned-unbeliever Karen Armstrong describes her path back to God. Cinema Nirvana: enlightenment lessons from Hollywood. Also, Parker Palmer on how to keep going when life stops making sense. And, that good old existentialist, Charlie Brown.Are We Having Fun Yet?At nearly 70, one high school English teacher discovers the joys of sex. Poet Billy Collins stops to smell the roses while our host, Jim Fleming, goes to Paris for a sumptuous chocolate tour. And, to the woods we go, playing jazz for the birds.RegretsPete Best has a few... He had Ringo's job just months before the Beatles' first hit "Love Me Do" came out. Also, world-renowned concert pianist Leon Fleisher reflects on the disease that destroyed his right hand. And, one man sets out to apologize to the descendants of his family's slaves.The EndWhat happens when we die? Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen says much more than you think. Novelist Jim Crace says nothing, nothing at all. Also, Amy Tan's story of the murder that shaped her life as a writer. And, whistle a tune at the Grim Reaper with Monty Python's Eric Idle. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/000543/rt_tbon_000543_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Amazing Grace: 13 Conversations About the Life of the Soul (To The Best of Our Knowledge), Hörbuch, Digital, 138min

This special To The Best of Our Knowledge collection contains 13 interviews:Embracing Your Life: Tara Brach is a psychologist, Buddhist meditation teacher, and author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.The Gift of Silence: Parker Palmer is a Quaker writer, educator, activist, and author of Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation.Alone in a Cave: Tenzin Palmo was one of the first Western women ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun.Divine Music: Jazz singer Kurt Elling talks about reaching for the divine through his music.In Praise of the Wild: Pattiann Rogers tells Jim Fleming that naming things is the way to notice and appreciate them.Evening Blessings: M.J. Ryan wants to revive the custom of saying grace before meals.The Path of Gratitude: Gregg Krech talks about the Japanese tradition of Naikan-conscious thankfulness for everything that positively impacts your life.The Town that Talks to the Dead: Christine Wicker talks about the small upstate NY town that has the world's largest community of Spiritualists.Love Never Dies: Justine Picardie's book chronicles her efforts to contact her sister Ruth's spirit in the year after Ruth's death from breast cancer.Life Without God: Novelist Jim Crace (Being Dead) says he's an atheist and wanted to find a way of talking about death that doesn't depend on God.A Leap of Faith: Yann Martel (Life of Pi) says researching his book turned him into a churchgoer.Redemption: Jimmy Santiago Baca was illiterate and in a maximum security prison when he fell in love with poetry.Living a Good Life: Rabbi Harold Kushner says that people need to believe their lives are meaningful. Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/000544/rt_tbon_000544_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Work Like Any Other

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley and JM Coetzee, this debut novel charts the story of Roscoe T Martin in rural Alabama in the 1920s. Roscoe has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. It becomes his training, his life's work. But when his wife Marie inherits her father's failing farm, Roscoe has to give it up, with great cost to his pride and sense of self, his marriage and his family. Realising that he might lose them all, he uses his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty and happiness on a farm recently falling to ruin. Even the love of Marie and their son seems back within Roscoe's grasp. Then everything changes. A young man is electrocuted on their land. Roscoe is arrested for manslaughter and - no longer an electrician or even a farmer - he must now carve out a place in a violent new world.'Gorgeously spare and brilliantly insightful, Work Like Any Other is a striking debut about love and redemption, the heavy burdens of family and guilt, and learning how to escape them ... Virginia Reeves is a major new talent' Philipp Meyer, bestselling author of The Son 'An exceptional novel ... I absolutely loved it' Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds 'Assured and absorbing ... a potent mix of icy honesty and heart-wrenching tenderness' Jim Crace, author of Harvest and Being Dead

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