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  West Mountain Epilogue: A Reading by Jay Parini from His New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015, Hörbuch, Digital, 55min

  A reading by Jay Parini of 33 of his most celebrated poems. Jay Parini's readings are always an event but too rare. For the first time, Parini has recorded his best known and most recent poems in an audiobook that welcomes the listener to enter his universe, which revolves around his deep connection to nature and underlines his concerns about the impacts of pollution and climate change. The audiobook follows the pattern of his popular readings, with the poet introducing each poem with context and comments, invariably revealing and often amusing. In these beautiful, haunting poems, Parini writes about the landscapes of mining country, of the railroads of Pennsylvania, of farm country, of worlds lost, families dispersed, faith tried and contested. Language: English. Narrator: Jay Parini. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004638/bk_rand_004638_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Mythos of Cormac McCarthy

  For over 40 years, Cormac McCarthy's novels have presented an intriguing puzzle for readers and critics alike. Often described as plotless and impenetrable, devoid of ethics and morality, or simply as nihilistic, his tales have confounded interpretation through their dizzying array of ambiguities and contradictions even as they tantalize the reader with consistent hints of philosophical coherence. Offering what one of McCarthy's most enigmatic characters terms "a string in the maze," this study applies the traditional tools of close reading and thematic analysis to elucidate that coherence in the first eight novels. Following McCarthys methods from the Orchard Keeper of 1965 through the completion of the Border Trilogy in 1998, chapters on each novel identify narrative techniques and technical innovations. Intended for scholars and general readers alike, the essays show how McCarthy uses characters drawn from Appalachian regional folklore and the history of the American West as archetypes and Everymen, exploring the parallel lives of his paired protagonists--one invariably an ambivalent wanderer, the other a man committed to a quest.

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  Things (eBook, ePUB)

  "Things" is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Things" is a short story by Sinclair Lewis. "This is not the story of Theodora Duke and Stacy Lindstrom, but of a traveling bag with silver fittings, a collection of cloisonné, a pile of ratty school-books, and a fireless cooker that did not cook. Long before these things were acquired, when Theo was a girl and her father, Lyman Duke, was a so-so dealer in cut-over lands, there was a feeling of adventure in the family. They lived in a small brown house which predicated children and rabbits in the back yard, and a father invariably home for supper. But Mr. Duke was always catching trains to look at pine tracts in northern Minnesota. Often his wife went along and, in the wilds, way and beyond Grand Marais and the steely shore of Lake Superior, she heard wolves howl and was unafraid." Preview.

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  The Book of Life

  The Book of Life presents Shelby Lee Adam's color photographs of four generations of the Appalachian people. Adams began photographing the inhabitations of the rural Appalachian mountain range in 1974, using black-and-white film and Polaroid materials. In time he also worked with color Kodachrome film, invariably returning to the Eastern Kentucky region where he was born. By 2010 Adams was photographing exclusively in digital color, and this book marks the first time he is sharing his color work. Adams has consistently focused on the valleys and homes of Kentucky families, relatives and neighbors in a predominantly seven-county region. He has often revisited individuals and families many times over decades, distributing his photos and books while creating new pictures. This personal approach has led to the creation of genuine and deep relationships between photographer and subject, in which the subject is often involved in unusually creative ways, verbalizing the emotions they would like to express during the shoot, and where and how they would like to be depicted.

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  A Most Unlikely Hero: Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 373min

  Sometimes, life gives you lemons. Other times, it gives you bodacious alien babes.Alexander S. Ryker has decided to let Gabrielle continue living with him, despite now knowing that she is the daughter to the emperor of the galaxy. Whether this was a sound decision remains to be seen.Between the two of them constantly making inventions that explode, the sexy situations that he invariably winds up in, and a host of alien suitors who wish for Gabrielle’s hand in marriage - and who are willing to do anything to get it - Alex is about to find himself beset by dangerous and erotic scenarios. The life of a wannabe hero is never easy.Scroll up and click the "buy now" button to listen to this hot harem sci-fi light novel now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amber Lee Connors. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/190439/bk_acx0_190439_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mailing Lists Unboxed: The Three-Year, No-Bestseller Plan for Making a Sustainable Living from Your Fiction, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 171min

  Self-published authors are coming to realize that a stable career is about a backlist of titles and keeping that backlist selling. But how do you do this?Invariably, advice given by other authors includes holding promotions and lowering the price of the first book in series, or even making it free. However, few people mention one of the most powerful ways to keep your backlist selling: the author mailing list.This is where Mailing Lists Unboxed comes in. It shows you:The different types of author mailing listsWays how to recruit people to sign upSteps on what to do with your list once you have oneAttitudes about mailing lists, including those that stand in your wayWarnings and precautionsAnd much moreThis is not a book for beginners. If you know little about self-publishing, listen to Self-Publishing Unboxed first. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patty Jansen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195031/bk_acx0_195031_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Religion's Role in the FDR Presidency , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 418min

  In The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, religion journalist and author Christine Wicker establishes that faith was at the heart of everything Roosevelt wanted for the American people. This powerful book is the first in-depth look at how one of America's richest, most patrician presidents became a passionate and beloved champion of the downtrodden - and took the country with him. Those who knew Roosevelt best invariably credited his spiritual faith as the source of his passion for democracy, justice, and equality. Like many Americans of that time, his beliefs were simple. He believed the God who heard his prayers and answered them expected him to serve others. He anchored his faith in biblical stories and teachings. During times so hard that the country would have followed him anywhere, he summoned the better angels of the American character in ways that have never been surpassed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Virginia Wolf. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008556/bk_tant_008556_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Gulliver's Travels, Hörbuch, Digital, 286min

  Gulliver’s Travels has been in print since its first publication in 1726, due to its popularity with young and old alike. As well as a wildly imaginative tale of travel and adventure, it is a comment on human nature and an overblown explorer’s story, rich in symbolism and humour. Lemuel Gulliver, an English surgeon, sets sail on expeditions to extraordinary worlds. He is twelve times larger than the inhabitants of Liliput, who recruit him into their military, and equally as small to the people of Brobdingnag. His journeys grow more and more strange. Satirical and absurd in its twists and turns, which invariably see Gulliver either fleeing or ejected by the strange tribes of people he meets, this CSA WORD production will be a welcome addition to any audio collection. Now an epic film starring Jack Black and Emily Blunt. Language: English. Narrator: Philip Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/csaw/000209/bk_csaw_000209_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Heaven: How to Get There , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 205min

  This world that so many think is heaven is the home of sin, a hospital of sorrow, a place with nothing in it to satisfy the soul.Perhaps the greatest American evangelist of the 19th century, Dwight L. Moody inspired millions with his sermons. Although a century and a half separates us from his impassioned explications of the Bible, Moody's ardor rings with overtones of today's fundamentalist Christianity and can offer critical clues to understanding the orthodox religious outlook still dramatically influencing our culture in the 21st century.Moody explains why Christians believe that the Bible is invariably correct ("None of the other religious volumes, like the Koran, that claim a divine origin, agree with common sense"); who resides in heaven ("The inhabitants of Heaven will be select"); and that Christians are set apart from the larger culture ("We must go against the current of this world"); and more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Wallace. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003283/bk_blak_003283_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Poseidon: The Origins and History of the Greek God of the Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min

  Poseidon is one of the most easily recognizable characters in all of ancient Greek mythology. His signature trident is iconic; one sight of it invariably floods the modern mind with images of aquatic chariots and daunting typhoons. But there is so much more to the character of Poseidon than maritime denizens and disasters, which shouldn't really come as a surprise. Poseidon was one of the most revered gods of the ancient Mediterranean for centuries - if not millennia - and that kind of reverence brings with it the layering of myths, rituals, and history like the strata of sediments on a river bed. The idea of a god like Poseidon being only the god of the sea is too minimalistic and too reductionist to come anywhere near the truth of how an ancient worshipper may have pictured him in her prayers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/086887/bk_acx0_086887_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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