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The Face of the World (eBook, ePUB)

Is there anything wrong with a man that wants to change the world? What happens when he goes a little too far against the wishes of his family? All Dr. Mark wants to do is help, but is this possible?An idealistic physician, shaped by his reformist mother, decides to practice medicine in a cold area in the far north of Norway among the Sami people. He returns home with his stylish new wife and sets about looking into the social factors that contribute to illness. This leads him into difficulty not least from his jealous wife.Will Dr. Mark's epiphany for social justice outweigh his ability to function rationally in his role as physician and husband? An insightful novel from Northern Norway at the turn of the 20th century.Johan Bojer (born Johan Kristoffer Hansen) was a popular Norwegian novelist and dramatist. He grew up as a foster child in a poor family living in Rissa near Trondheim, Norway. He learned the realities of poverty at an early age.Bojer principally wrote about the lives of the poor farmers and fishermen, both in his native Norway and among the Norwegian immigrants in the United States. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times and is best remembered for his novel 'The Emigrants', a major novel dealing with the trials and tribulations of Norwegians emigrating to the plains of North Dakota.

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Beached with a Baronet: A Steamy Regency Romance: Ravishing Regencies, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 197min

A man who wants to be alone, and a woman seeking shelter from the cold - and neither can hold out from temptation… Sir Moses of Wandorne is a miser. Despite not even reaching thirty, his miserable outlook on life and mysterious past means that he is usually left alone: which is just how he likes it. But Chloe Vaughn is about to change all that. Accidentally stuck on the shores of the river that passes through the Wandorne estate, she seeks refuge from the storm and discovers a man who doesn't want to be found. It is an unlikely pairing, but society demands a certain amount of conversation from a host, and Sir Moses finds himself drawn by the strange and intoxicating stranger. Will Sir Moses decide to open his heart - and his bed - to a woman he barely knows? Can being beached with a Baronet give Chloe a night she will never forget? This is the sixth in a series of the Ravishing Regencies series. This is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and part of a series that can be read in any order. The Ravishing Regencies series:Lost with a LordDrenched with a DukeShipwrecked with a SuitorMarooned with a MarquisVoyage with a Viscount (coming March 2019)Beached with a Baronet (coming May 2019)Catastrophe with a Count (coming July 2019)Emigrating with an Earl (coming September 2019) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Eve. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151557/bk_acx0_151557_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Waves of Mercy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 855min

In 1897, Geesje de Jonge is asked to write a memoir about her experience emigrating from the Netherlands to the Michigan wilderness in honor of her town's 50th anniversary. As Geesje recalls the events of the past, a young visitor, Anna Nicholson, mourns a broken engagement. Over the course of one summer, the lives of both women will change forever. Lynn Austin returns with a multi-generational historical novel. Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age 17 with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctant at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love. At the nearby Hotel Ottawa Resort on the shore of Lake Michigan, 23-year-old Anna Nicholson is trying to ease the pain of a broken engagement to a wealthy Chicago banker. But her time of introspection is disturbed after a violent storm aboard a steamship stirs up memories of a childhood nightmare. As more memories and dreams surface, Anna begins to question who she is and whether she wants to return to her wealthy life in Chicago. When she befriends a young seminary student who is working at the hotel for the summer, she finds herself asking him all the questions that have been troubling her. Neither Geesje nor Anna, who are different in every possible way, can foresee the life-altering surprises awaiting them before the summer ends. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rachel Dulude, Margaret Strom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009733/bk_reco_009733_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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First Catch Your Calamari: Travels with an Appetite (A Writer's Food Diary) (eBook, ePUB)

Here is a book for everyone who loves food and travel. It is a book that will introduce you to the foods of Africa, Europe and the USA with great company along the way. This is not a gourmand's book of overindulgence, but a slow savouring of the food that has nourished the author's imagination and taste over a lifetime. The son of a baker, Julian Roup grew up in South Africa with two powerful food cultures, his mother's French-Dutch-Norwegian heritage and his father's Eastern European Jewish food tradition. The mix provided him with sophisticated and discerning taste buds from the earliest age. His journeys around South Africa, Mozambique and Angola provide tales of adventurous travel well stocked with interesting food. Emigrating to the UK in 1980, he discovered a whole new world of tastes in Europe as he ventured into his new continent from Greece to Portugal, Spain to France and Italy, with visits to America's West Coast as well. He is as interested in the taste of bread as he is in cordon bleu. Roup is best known for his books on the environment, horse riding, fishing and politics, but now he invites you to join him on his trail out of Africa to Europe and America, with all the colour and tastes of the places he fell in love with. This is a book that will feed your appetite to break bread and to take to the road once more in search of the best the good earth offers us.

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The Passenger: Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.IN THIS VOLUME: The mass is ended by Catherine Dunne and Caelainn Hogan・ The Way Back by Colum McCann・A Trip to Westeros by Mark O'Connell・plus: life on the margins of two unions and right in the middle of Brexit, making war on each other for 30 years while playing on the same national rugby team, emigrating to the great enemy or transforming the country one referendum at a time, digging peat bogs and building cottages, talking of the sea in Gaelic, and much more..... The Passenger sets off to discover a land full of charm and conflict, a country that in just a few decades has gone from being a poor, semi-theocratic society to a thriving economy free from the influence of the Catholic Church. With the 1998 peace agreements, the conflict between nationalists and unionists seemed, if not resolved, at least dormant. But Brexit—with the ambiguous position it leaves Northern Ireland in—caused old tensions to resurface. The Passenger explores their ramifications in politics, society, culture, and sport. Meanwhile, south of the border, epochal transformation has seen a deeply patriarchal, conservative society give space to diversity, the only country in the world to enshrine gay marriage in law through a referendum. And there's a whole other Ireland abroad, an Irish diaspora that looks to the old country with new-found pride but doesn't forget the ugliness it fled from. Memory and identity intertwine with the transformations—from globalisation to climate change—that are remodelling the Irish landscape, from the coastal communities under threat of disappearing together with the Irish language fishermen use to talk about the sea, while inland the peat bogs, until recently important sources of energy and jobs, are being abandoned. From Catherine Dunne to Colum McCann, Mark O'Connell and Sara Baume, Irish (but not only) writers and journalists tell of a country striving to stay a step ahead of time. 


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Bad Choices Make Good Stories: Finding Happiness in Los Angeles: How the Great American Opioid Epidemic of the 21st Century Began, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min

The strange true story of a writer who falls in love with one of his readers and meets his future wife on Goodreads.Dear Reader,You're a little late to the party. Where the hell have you been? This is already the third and final part of the trilogy, and you're only joining us now? Tsk tsk tsk.Let me get you up to speed on what you've missed so far:In book one, Going to New York, you missed the utterly fascinating, nay spellbinding, saga of me growing up in Germany and later emigrating to New York. I was a brooding, troubled teenage hacker. Wow! Good stuff! It's almost like my life was the perfect kind of crazy to make a really awesome book!Anyway, being a teenage hacker came in handy later in life. I went from rags to riches thanks to my keen understanding of technology and how to use the web to my advantage.In New York, I was married to Donna, a girl I had met online. She was an agoraphobic, prone to temper tantrums. And fun was had by all, which led to a divorce 16 years later. That's where the story gets really interesting.I began dating. It didn't go well. I was no good at it. OK, truth be told, I was really bad at it. Apparently I had terrible taste in women. A heroin-addicted hooker named Alice broke my heart and robbed me of my will to live. Doesn't sound very fun, does it? But it's a fun read, I promise. Dark, but fun. Mesmerizing even!Brokenhearted, I moved from New York to Florida. That's where the first book ends.The second book you missed (I'm not mad at you. I'm just disappointed.) is called The Heroin Scene in Fort Myers, which is a very fitting title, believe you me.Sometimes I'm a slow learner, so I dated my way through the heroin scene in Florida, and I couldn't figure out for years why I wasn't finding any wife material. But oh how I tried. And tried. In all the wrong places. Pretty sad. I'm not proud of it.After years of sad pathetic sex with heroin addi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William R. Keeton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123985/bk_acx0_123985_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Gego - The Architecture of an Artist

Die Künstlerin Gego studierte vor ihrer Emigration nach Venezuela von 1932 bis 1938 Architektur und Ingenieurwesen an der Technischen Hochschule in Stuttgart. An ihren ehemaligen Professor Paul Bonatz schrieb sie 1955 - also zu jener Zeit, als sie begann, künstlerisch tätig zu werden: "Wenn ich auch der Architektur verloren gegangen bin und nicht durch sie das Leben hab' meistern können, so hat sie mich doch, zum Teil gewiss, geformt. Selbst unglückliche Lieben haben großen Wert und ihre Wirkung." Wenige Jahre später kaufte das MoMA in New York eine erste Arbeit der Künstlerin an. Heute zählt Gego zu den bekanntesten Künstler·innen Lateinamerikas. Konzeptuelle wie praktische Überlegungen zu Architektur und Raumbildungsverfahren blieben in ihrer Kunst stets Thema einer kreativen Auseinandersetzung. Die vorliegende Publikation erscheint zur Ausstellung Gego. Die Architektur einer Künstlerin, welche diese Bezüge anhand einer Dauerleihgabe von 100 Arbeiten der Fundación Gego im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart sichtbar macht und dem grafischen Werk der Künstlerin eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit schenkt. Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt (1912, Hamburg, Deutschland - 1994, Caracas, Venezuela) besser bekannt als Gego, war eine deutsch-venezolanische Bildhauerin, Installationskünstlerin, Architektin und Zeichnerin. Bekannt wurde sie vor allem durch ihre abstrakten Zeichnungen, dreidimensionalen Arbeiten und ihre mit Draht vernetzten Konstruktionen in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren.--From 1932 to 1938, before emigrating to Venezuela, the artist Gego studied architecture and engineering at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart. In 1955 - at the time, that is, when she began to become active as an artist - she wrote to her former professor Paul Bonatz, "Even if I have strayed from architecture and found myself unable to master life through it, it has none- theless shaped me, to some degree at least. Even unhappy loves are of great value and have their effect." A few years later, MoMA in New York bought one of the artist's first works. Today, Gego ranks as one of the best-known artists in Latin America. Conceptual approaches and practical ideas about architecture and processes of space creation have remained a constant theme in her art and have been the perennial subject of creative debate. This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Gego: The Architecture of an Artist at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. The Fundación Gego's permanent loan to the museum of 100 works has made it possible to give visible expression to these connections, with special attention paid to the artist's graphic work. Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt (1912, Hamburg, Germany - 1994, Caracas, Venezuela) better known as Gego, was a German Venezuelan sculptor, installation artist, architect, and draughtswoman. She is best known for the work she did in the 1960s and 1970s, com- prising abstract drawings, three-dimensional works, and wire constructions.

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