Brookline

Rosemary Kennedy: The Legend of the Hidden Kennedy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 31min

Rosemary Kennedy was born at her parents' house in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was the third kid and very first child of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald. Throughout her birth, the physician was not readily available and the nurse commanded her mother to keep her legs closed, requiring the infant's head to remain in the birth canal for 2 hours. By Massachusetts state law, the Binet intelligence test was provided to her prior to first grade. Due to failing this test she was held back twice from kindergarten. Rose Kennedy sent Rosemary to the Spiritual Heart Convent in Elmhurst, Providence, Rhode Island, at age 15, where she was separated from the other trainees and given special assistance. She studied hard even though she might have felt she dissatisfied her mom and dad, whom she desired to please. The Kennedys thanked them for their efforts by offering the school a brand-new tennis court. Throughout this duration, her mom set up for her older brother John to accompany her to a tea-dance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kimberly Hughey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078478/bk_acx0_078478_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Seventeen Hundred Fifty-Eight And Eighteen Hundred Fifty-Eight

Seventeen Hundred Fifty-Eight And Eighteen Hundred Fifty-Eight ab 22.49 € als Taschenbuch: A New Year's Discourse Preached At Brookline (1858). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,

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Louder: We Can't Hear You (Yet!), The Political Poems of Marge Piercy, Hörbuch, Digital, 62min

Scribbled on walls, e-mailed to friends, posted on the web, recited in rallies from coast to coast, Marge Piercy's political poems have become anthems for social change. Louder, the first collection of her political poetry, brings us over sixty minutes of beloved poems in Piercy's own voice. Performing old favorites such as "To be of use," "For strong women," and "The low road;" as well as new ones including "No one came home," an elegy for 9/11, "Choices," about the occupation of Iraq, and "Sneak and Peek," her hilarious response to the Patriot Act, Piercy delivers 26 poems that give voice to our outrage, our passion, our utter disbelief and desire for peace. Marge Piercy's reading style is powerful and unique; her poetry readings are often standing-room-only events. She has performed at venues around the world, from the Library of Congress and New York City's Public Theater to the Institute for Contemporary Art in London and at over four hundred universities nationwide. Louder, We Can't Hear You (Yet!) includes some of her most oft-requested poems, such as the deeply moving "Rape poem" and "For two women shot to death in Brookline, Massachusetts," as well as the very funny "What's that smell in the kitchen?" and "Report on the fourteenth subcommittee on convening a discussion group." Language: English. Narrator: Marge Piercy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/frog/000001/bk_frog_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Girl Underwater , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 518min

An adventurous debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer's harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her - only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness. Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. Growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, she took swim lessons at her community pool and captained the local team; in high school she raced across bays and sprawling North American lakes. Now a sophomore on her university's nationally ranked team, she struggles under the weight of new expectations, but life is otherwise pretty good. Perfect, really. That all changes when Avery's red-eye home for Thanksgiving makes a ditch landing in a mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies. She is one of only five survivors, which includes three little boys and Colin Shea, who happens to be her teammate. Colin is also the only person in Avery's college life who challenged her to swim her own events, to be her own person - something she refused to do. Instead she's avoided him since the first day of freshman year. But now, faced with subzero temperatures, minimal supplies, and the dangers of a forbidding nowhere, Avery and Colin must rely on each other in ways they never could've imagined. In the wilderness the concept of survival is clear cut. Simple. In the real world, it's anything but. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Whelan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002538/bk_peng_002538_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Mystery of the Malcontent Misanthrope: The Adventures of Ossian Macbrádaigh , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 92min

What's more fun than a mystery? A mystery novella, that's what! Meet Oissan Mac Brádaigh - Brady for short - a handsome, two-fisted, poetry-loving private eye with an office in the heart of Harvard Square. His assistant, Sarah Friedman, cute as pie, has a totally huge crush on Brady. His client is Edward Whiteside, an alcoholic drink-at-his-desk attorney who has hired Brady to find Rolland Toulouse, the wealthiest rock 'n' roller-cum-computer game inventor cum-author in history, who's gone missing. Whiteside needs Brady to get Rolland to the IPO for his company, MortePortal, in four days or lose the deal. Brady uses his logic to start the search, but it's Sarah's intuition and iPhone that gets them on Rolland's trail. Following that trail leads to Rolland's dark, ominous mansion in Brookline. Here Sarah and Brady suddenly find they've unintentionally engaged their Uber driver Connor, Nicole Donovan, a Boston cop and Brady's girlfriend, and Drago, Rolland's butler, in pursuit of the missing misanthrope. Led by Drago through the underground tunnels of Boston to Rockburyport, questions plague them: Will they or won't they find Rolland? What happens if they do? Can they get him to the IPO? And just what is going on with Drago? Exciting, bizarre, funny and a quick listen, anyone who likes Raymond Chandler, Carl Hiaasen or the Firesign Theater will enjoy Brady. The Audible version is narrated by the talented Michael Larrain and the original (and often humorous) sound effects from Faux Fiction Audio make the story come alive in ways you never expected. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Larrain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085677/bk_acx0_085677_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Streetcar suburbs

Streetcar suburbs ab 37.99 € als Taschenbuch: Newton Massachusetts Eastmoreland Portland Oregon Evanston Illinois Brookline Massachusetts Oak Park Illinois Huntington Park California Shaker Heights Ohio Mount Rainier Maryland Mt. Lebanon Pennsylvania Highland Park. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,

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The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 502min

A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and adventure At 25, as her wedding date approached, Laura Smith began to feel trapped. Not by her fiancé, who shared her appetite for adventure, but by the unsettling idea that it was hard to be at once married and free. Laura wanted her life to be different. She wanted her marriage to be different. And she found in the strangely captivating story of another restless young woman determined to live without constraints both an enticement and a challenge. Barbara Newhall Follett was a free-spirited trailblazer who published her first novel at 11, enlisted as a deck hand on a boat bound for the south China seas at 15 and was one of the first women to hike the Appalachian trail. Then in December 1939, when she was not much older than Laura, she walked out of her apartment on a quiet tree-lined street in Brookline, leaving behind a fraying marriage, and vanished without a trace. Obsessed by her story, Laura set off to find out what had happened. The Art of Vanishing is a riveting mystery and a piercing exploration of marriage and convention that asks deep and uncomfortable questions: Why do we give up on our childhood dreams? Is marriage a golden noose? Must we find ourselves in the same row houses with Pottery Barn lamps telling our kids to behave? Searingly honest and written with a raw intensity, it will challenge you to rethink your most intimate decisions and may just upend your life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003386/bk_peng_003386_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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