28 Results for : unwinds
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Where They Found Her: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 660min
From the author of the New York Times best seller and 2014 Edgar and Anthony nominee Reconstructing Amelia comes another harrowing, gripping novel that marries psychological suspense with an emotionally powerful story about a community struggling with the consequences of a devastating discovery. At the end of a long winter in well-to-do Ridgedale, New Jersey, the body of an infant is discovered in the woods near the town's prestigious university campus. No one knows who the baby is or how her body ended up out there. But there is no shortage of opinions. When freelance journalist and recent Ridgedale transplant Molly Anderson is unexpectedly called upon to cover the story for the Ridgedale Reader, it's a risk, given the severe depression that followed the loss of her own baby. But the bigger threat comes when Molly unearths some of Ridgedale's darkest secrets, including a string of unreported sexual assaults going back 20 years. Meanwhile Sandy, a high-school dropout, searches for her volatile and now missing mother, and PTA president Barbara struggles to help her young son, who's suddenly having disturbing outbursts. Told from the perspectives of Molly, Barbara, and Sandy, Kimberly McCreight's taut and profoundly moving novel unwinds the tangled truth about the baby's death, revealing that these three women have far more in common than they realized. That the very worst crimes are committed against those we love. And that - sooner or later - the past catches up to all of us. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tavia Gilbert, Lauren Fortgang, Rachel F. Hirsch, Therese Plummer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004403/bk_harp_004403_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Supernatural Horror Collection: Three Novels in One Volume , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1264min
Three terrifying novels in one collection from master of horror, Lee Mountford. The Demonic, The Mark, and Forest of the Damned are now all available in one horrifying volume.The Demonic: A woman returns to her childhood home to lay to rest the ghosts of the past. But in this house, the ghosts are real, and evil has found a home.The Mark: A satanic cult. A woman's brutal assault. Can one woman face her darkest fears before a demonic entity is unleashed from the depths of hell?Forest of the Damned: A group of paranormal researchers investigate the infamous Black Forest, hoping to find proof of the afterlife and learn more of the infamous Mother Sibbett. But what they find is far beyond even their worst nightmares.Listen to The Supernatural Horror Collection now, and strap in for three terrifying tales of ghosts, demons, death, and fear."The Demonic, by author Lee Mountford, is a horror tour de force.... It is scary. Truly scary." (HorrorNovelReviews.com on The Demonic)"There's a slow build-up of dread, as he builds the characters and atmosphere, and slowly unwinds the story. At times, he dangles you over the edge for a few moments before he plunges you over the edge. And this is where his storytelling is a cut above many of his peers." (IntoTheMacabre.com on The Mark)"I find that it’s often the details we least expect that elevate a novel’s status in our mind, and keep it there longer. A great testament to Mountford’s skill as a writer, is that I can still vividly 'see' many of the scenes in my mind, several books afterward. Highly recommended." (HorrorAfterDark.com on Forest of the Damned) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hannibal Hills. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166427/bk_acx0_166427_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Out of the Clouds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 655min
In the best-selling tradition of the The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse the world had ever seen. In the wake of World War II, as turmoil and chaos were giving way to a spirit of optimism, Americans were looking for inspiration and role models showing that it was possible to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top - and they found it in Stymie, the failed racehorse plucked from the discard heap by trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Like Stymie, Jacobs was a commoner in "The Sport of Kings", a dirt-poor Brooklyn city slicker who forged an unlikely career as racing's winningest trainer by buying cheap, unsound nags and magically transforming them into winners. The $1,500 pittance Jacobs paid to claim Stymie became history's biggest bargain as the ultimate iron horse went on to run a whopping 131 races and win 25 stakes, becoming the first Thoroughbred ever to earn more than $900,000. The Cinderella champion nicknamed "The People's Horse" captivated the masses with his rousing charge - from-behind stretch runs, his gritty blue-collar work ethic, and his rags-to-riches success story. In a golden age when horse racing rivaled baseball and boxing as America's most popular pastime, he was every bit as inspiring a sports hero as Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. Taking readers on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, Out of the Clouds unwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin T. Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004458/bk_hach_004458_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Overthinking: A Complete Guide to Declutter Your Mind. Discover Success Habits, Mindfulness Meditation, Mental Toughness and Positive Thinking. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 231min
Do you get caught up in loops of thought that keep you from getting any peace or clarity? Keep reading for answers!So many of us struggle with patterns of overthinking that work us up, stimulate our stress responses, and keep us from getting the rest and the peace we really need. The world and life, in general, are stressful enough without our minds adding their own unhelpful commentary. So many of us come home at the end of a long day, wanting nothing more than to unwinds, decompress, and take joy in some of the things that make life a little bit easier. We’re then interrupted by these patterns of overthinking, causing us to worry about things that are going on around us, causing us to come up with imaginary scenarios, what-ifs, and endless questions that we can’t be expected to answer ourselves.With this audiobook, you will find explanations for the things that we can’t seem to control, and you’ll get answers about practical solutions you can use to improve your life and to keep those loops of overthinking from creeping in and taking over your life.In this audiobook you will find:Detailed explanations about what overthinking is and what causes it.Ways for you to pull back from the situation and evaluate only what is real and true.Techniques you can use to stop those thoughts in their tracks and turn things around.The power of negative and positive influences in your life.How to reinforce good habits so you can rest easy and feel secure.So much more!If you’re someone who has struggled with patterns of thinking way more than you should be, and if you want nothing more than to be able to quiet your mind and experience peace, this is the answer. You owe it to yourself to find the true answers about why your mind behaves the way it does and how to make a crucial difference in those patterns. Your mind is a powerful thing and it can be your greatest asset in life if you’ ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leigh Ann Haga. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203407/bk_acx0_203407_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Body Work , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min, (USK 18)
Things have been a little tense lately and your body is complaining about it! You could really do with a long hot soak in the tub and a back rub from your lover. They are not around so you book a professional massage, one where the body oil is plentiful and warm, scented with hints of more costly essential oils that make your senses swim just a little. The hands on you are knowing, strong and firm, kneading every muscle and tendon just where the greatest tension is. As your body unwinds and you relax, the touch of his hands on your sensitive skin gives you much more than just relaxation.This is just what you need to make you feel so very good and the masseur's fingers seem to know exactly what you want. The arousal grows with each delicious release he gives you and you want a little more, a little comfort other than his wonderful hands and sensual fingers. He is happy to oblige you with a comforter that fills the bill. Relax and enjoy the touching, stroking and oral experience. The audio is a fantasy sexual experience that takes the female listener on a deeply erotic journey to intense satisfaction at the knowing hands and of a very experienced masseur. Directed Erotic Visualisation, or DEV. DEV is an Immersive Audio Experience similar to 3D Audio, a blend of guided meditation, visualisation, relaxation and suggestion techniques that can put you right into the thick of a story, you can feel it, touch it and...well listen for yourself; over 1.4 million men and women have listened to DEV audio experiences since December 2007. The respected Sexologist, Dr. Susana Mayer has this to say about Directed Erotic Visualisation. I had the privilege of attending one of Essemoh Teepee's workshops at the 2011 Erotic Author's Association Conference in Las Vegas...speaking further with Essemoh, he offered to create a personalized version and I agreed to critique his method. After receiving the MP3, I created a comfortable environment to ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Essemoh Teepee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smot/000043/bk_smot_000043_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Clameur
Inspired by the idea that music could be haunted by a speaking voice, Matthew Pollard and Peter Kenny's first collaboration This concert will fall in love with you was composed with unprecedented speed and intensity. Peter's first draught of the monodrama sequence arrived, Gothically enough, during the night of a full moon. It was only on meeting Matthew, however, did the strangely heartbroken persona Peter had created begin to find it's true context. After much collaborative discussion, the newly-revised monologues provided the basis for Matthew's spellbinding composition, the most recent addition to a small category of works combining spoken word with an instrumental ensemble. Mindful of the Sitwell-Walton Façade (1951) Matthew decided to directly relate the music to the texts, illustrating the monologues with rhythms and cadences derived from the impassioned tone of the words. Matthew accommodated Peter's voice either freely or within repeating 'episodes' of a few bars each. Matthew's unorthodox choice of instruments (piano, violin, marimba, vibraphone, speaking voice and mixed choir) allowed him to create a vivid variety of tone and texture with an orchestral range of pitch. Musically, the work divides the twelve monologues into three sections. The first and third sections use the theme in it's original, tonally consonant form. The middle section (Variations three to eight) employs an inverted version of the theme, releasing stranger, more dissonant harmonies and reflecting the slightly unhinged abstraction of the words at this point. Clameur (meaning a cry or a plea) is a setting for mixed choir and marimba of a poem from Peter's collection 'The boy who fell upwards'. If This concert will fall in love with you contains a voice somehow trapped inside a concert, Clameur continues the theme of confinement: 'I came to in a coffin/in London's riddled clay/crushed in a tube train/stuck in a tunnel'. The piece fell naturally into two parts. Part one opens with a vocalisation depicting the violent clamour of an Underground journey, with ostinatos driving the piece relentlessly through the labyrinth of the London Tube. This gradually unwinds into the second movement, where the tone is one of ecstatic nostalgia, reflecting the poem's escapist and homesick longing for Guernsey's granite cliffs. In Guernsey there is an ancient legal practice called Clameur de Haro. When a Clameur is raised (by declaiming the Lord's Prayer in French) all protagonists in a dispute must stop and take the matter to a higher authority. The Minotaur is the ultimate victim of confinement. This short poem is in the tradition of dramatic monologue going back to Robert Browning (via Modernists such as T.S.Eliot and Ezra Pound) and hovers between tragedy and comedy. For, almost wilfully, the Minotaur does not understand his own nature or that of the labyrinth in which he has been confined. Matthew completed the music for Minotaur on the morning of the recording and this is the first-and only-take. The right hand of Glen Capra's piano part describes a jittery, anxious surface, while the left hints at dark, subconscious motives. Together they create Minotaur's self-deceiving maze. Our sincere thanks to the choir: Jane Farrell, Tim Gillett, Tanya Izzard, Ric Morris, Anna Orchard, Basil Richmond, Tim Rose, Erika Schilsky, Gill Stephenson and Richard Wilson. Also to Simon Scardanelli location recording, sound engineering and mastering, Adrian Turner artist photos, and Phillip Adams of St Michael & All Angels Church, Brighton, where these recordings were made and 'This concert will fall in love with you' was given it's world premiere in 2010.- Shop: odax
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Symphony No. 1 & Other Works
Alexander Negerevich began writing Symphony No. 1 in September 2007 at his home in Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia and completed the four movement work after a prolonged illness in late 2008. The four-movement work aims at exploring the relationship between tonal and dissonant harmonic structures. The tonal elements of the Symphony contrast against the dissonant subject material, creating an almost 'love-hate' relationship. The First Movement (Moderato) begins with a melancholic theme doubled by oboes and trumpets. It is accompanied by underlying semiquaver woodwind passages that give way to brass and string flourishes. After a brief pause in the strings and horns, a short rhythmic figure is announced by the first trumpet and mimicked by other brass and woodwind instruments. This motif is explored and soon joined by slow ascending and descending glissandos in the upper strings, followed by horns. This is accompanied by similar glissandos in the lower strings. English horn and oboe then follow with brief lyrical melodies that give way to a new subject announced by the 1st and 2nd Violins. A triplet motif hovering on the same pitch appears above the strings and leads to an echo-like figure punctuated by the brass. Another detached three note rhythm is played by the 2nd horns and copied by various Wind and Brass instruments which leads into a crescendo chord with an underlying timpani roll that announces the Allegro Vivace. A change of key signature at this point, introduces dramatic string passages that are interplayed between Woodwind and Brass flourishes. After some jostling between parts a small fugue develops between opposing String voicing that eventually lead to a high pitched 4 note semitone cluster that is soon released by another new String triplet motif which soon leads to a brief Moderato section where the 1st Oboe nonchalantly remembers the opening theme of the Symphony. Immediately, the Allegro Vivace is then re-introduced and hurries towards a dramatic finale, with Timpani hammering along in high gear. With virtually no pause the Symphony progresses into the second movement (Adagio) by a long held sustained note introduced in the bass clarinet. Immediately, a five note bird-like motif, which is developed throughout this entire movement, is announced by the English horn. With continuous obstinacy this motif is re-introduced many times by different instruments. A second melodic motif is played by the Clarinet with a same pitch triplet that often is interrupted by minor second clashes in the background, that again argue between consonance and dissonance. The movement progresses to a second dramatic flourish which finally gives way to a receding minor fifth fall in the strings followed by a small bass clarinet solo which dies away completely to nothing. The Third Movement (Moderato) is introduced by a chord shared between woodwind and strings that quickly leads to a chorale style Brass passage. Each individual String part then announces a Canon-type motif, played in a minor key which bears the sound of "burgeoning optimism". When the lower strings finally take up the minor-theme, short triplet motifs are sounded by Flutes, Bassoons and Clarinets that lead to a long held Contra Bassoon and Timpani pause which introduces a delicate String tremolo section. After a "softly treading" pizzicato figure in the strings that accompanies French Horn solos, the Brass announce a new melodic figure which is expanded by all sections of the orchestra. An urgent crescendo leads to a loud spine-tingling climax within the movement. Lower Woodwind and Brass then develop a rousing Fortississimo, which drops in tension to a Flute flourish and English Horn solo. Finally the strings play a series of chords that are accompanied by Flutes and Horns which mimic the earlier pizzicato of the Strings. The fourth movement Allegro Moderato begins with an "urgent", "pressing" motif announced by Horns and Trombones whilst Timpani rolls thunder underneath. Wind and Brass announce short thematic motifs that are strongly accompanied by rapid broken chord passages within the Strings. A two-bar Timpani solo leads into a slowly expanding crescendo, of small semiquaver motifs, played by the Strings to a huge climax. Towards the conclusion of the movement a slower tempo change occurs heralded by a long Bassoon note which is joined by a small Bass Clarinet solo, reminding the listener of the second movement thematic material. Gradually the musical focus changes into a punctuated dotted rhythm with rising triplet flourishes that culminate in a dynamic ending. The Lament on Shattered Lives was composed in 2007. It reflects the tragedy of daily life for innocent Iraqi citizens going about their daily business in the unstable environment post Saddam Hussein. Influenced by the daily news reports filtered through the worldwide media, the Lament depicts the atrocities committed by terrorists and extremists, bent on causing mayhem and destruction. Upon listening to one such news report, telling of the deaths of more than fifty people killed by a senseless act of destruction, the composition aims at reflecting the belief that no religion can condone the death of innocents for any reason, nor can any human justification be given for such barbarism. The Lament is composed for String Orchestra alone. Cellos introduce a melancholy five bar melody which gradually is taken up by each section playing the same theme. The work then moves into a forceful passage of suspensions. After a climax of repeated notes, the tension is released and then interrupted by a surge of dissonance that depicts the peace of daily life being forever interrupted by shattering explosions. Another tonal cluster with each section appears in two bar intervals and grows in intensity into a frenzied rhythmic attack. This climax unwinds into a fading, but ominous sounding duet between the cello and double bass sections. New thematic material emerges in the middle section, with the theme being enveloped by tremolo and counter melodies. After a second round of dissonant triplets, the original theme returns in a new key and fades to a peaceful ending. The Manhattan Requiem was composed on the very day American citizens and the world witnessed the tragedy of September 11th, 2001. The composition is a tribute to those Americans and individuals of different nationalities who lost their lives as a result of the terrorist attacks that occurred. The composition was originally conceived and written for Piano Quartet, but was subsequently reworked one year later for full String Orchestra with timpani in an expanded form. The work depicts the horror and tragedy of the day through long, drawn-out chord clusters with suspensions. The unison movement of the work portrays a chorale structure, reminiscent of a hymn. The work concludes with layered sections building towards a climax.- Shop: odax
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