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Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 732min
From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters forever. How on earth did we fix upon our 26 letters? What do they really mean? And how did we come to write them down in the first place? Michael Rosen takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in 26 vivid chapters, fizzing with personal anecdotes and fascinating facts. Starting with the mysterious Phoenicians and how sounds first came to be written down, he races on to show how nonsense poems work, pins down the strange story of OK, traces our five lost letters and tackles the tyranny of spelling, among many, many other things. His heroes of the alphabet range from Edward Lear to Phyllis Pearsall (the inventor of the A-Z), and from the two scribes of Beowulf to rappers. Each chapter takes on a different subject - whether it's codes, umlauts or the writing of dictionaries. Rosen's enthusiasm for letters positively leaps off the page, whether it's the story of his life told through the typewriters he's owned or a chapter on jokes written in a string of gags and word games. So if you ever wondered why Hawaiian only has a 13-letter alphabet, why X should mark the spot or became shorthand for Christmas or how exactly to write down the sound of a wild raspberry, read on.... PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Rosen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/000614/bk_hodd_000614_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Assassin Years , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 360min
Two presidential level assassinations that don't occur in history as we now know it, but in this young adult time travel political thriller, a powerful, wealthy man plans to change that. He hates history as we know it because the United States remains strong.In October 1968, teenager Denise Reid falls asleep one evening just like every night. So does Taylor Williams, also 17 years old, in October, 2012.In the morning, they discover they exchanged personalities.Denise wakes up in 2012 in Taylor's body. Taylor now occupies Denise's body and time. Each must learn to cope with the 44 year-switch. And each attends a presidential campaign speech central to a European billionaire's plot to destroy the United States.His plan? Assassinate presidential candidate Richard Nixon in 1968 and President Obama, running for reelection, in 2012. Only Denise and Taylor stand between him and success. But how can two teenage girls stop the armed killers?To Denise, 2012, cell phones, personal computers, and $6 per gallon gasoline come straight out of an episode of The Jetsons. To Taylor, 1968 feels like a museum come to life. The pink princess telephone won't work unless plugged into the wall. Typewriters. Clothes either too demure or too outlandish.However, her high school teachers horrify Denise the worst. They criticize the United States more than the hippies of her time. Teachers! And the students agree. But not all. Soon, she meets Andre who writes the blog The Voice of Young Black Republicans. She doesn't know a blog from Wi-Fi, but answers her many questions about the world of 2012. He takes her to a meeting of a conservative activist organization. He doesn't know that an inner circle of the group, manipulated by an agent of the European billionaire, plans to meet President Obama's upcoming campaign speech with bullets instead of protest signs.Taylor hates Denise's annoying boyfriend but comes to rely on the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lya Morrissette. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171966/bk_acx0_171966_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Newspaperman : Inside the News Business at The Wall Street Journal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 614min
When Warren Phillips was 11 years old, his father took him on a guided tour of the New York Daily News, where he got his first look at the frenzied yet surprisingly ordered and controlled world of newspaper publishing. He saw everything from the industrial printing presses churning out newspapers at astonishing speeds to reporters hunched over their typewriters, writing the very stories those presses would be producing within hours - or even minutes. Phillips was hooked. He knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life. Newspaperman tells the story of how an immigrant's shy son from Queens, New York, rose to the top of his industry, powered by little more than passion, brains, and hard work. Phillips began his career working as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune for 16 dollars a week... and ended it as publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent corporation, Dow Jones & Company. The life story of Warren Phillips is the story of the American newspaper business. Here, the details of his vast experience come together to create a broad picture of the industry, revealing how news is discovered, reported, edited, published, and disseminated. Sharing vivid tales of working as a reporter around the world and describing the many colorful characters he met along the way, Phillips provides a level of insight that only a leading figure in newspapering could offer. Newspaperman gives you an up-close look at one of the most influential people in the history of The Wall Street Journal and an unprecedented view of the business, from its rapid modernization during the post-World War II, cold war era to the early years of digital publishing and the rise of the Internet, which may mark the decline of the printed page forever. Phillips's entertaining, penetrating, and impressively detailed account is a must-listen for both devotees of America's most iconic business publication and anyone with an i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L. J. Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003385/bk_adbl_003385_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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My Salinger Year , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 491min
Poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny: a memoir about literary New York in the late '90s, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century. At 23, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches. At night she goes home to the tiny, threadbare Williamsburg apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty, surrounded by titanic personalities, and struggling to trust her own artistic instinct, Rakoff is tasked with answering Salinger’s voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the candid, heart-wrenching letters from his fans around the world, she finds herself unable to type out the agency’s decades-old form response. Instead, drawn inexorably into the emotional world of Salinger’s devotees, she abandons the template and begins writing back. Over the course of the year, she finds her own voice by acting as Salinger’s, on her own dangerous and liberating terms. Rakoff paints a vibrant portrait of a bright, hungry young woman navigating a heady and longed-for world, trying to square romantic aspirations with burgeoning self-awareness, the idea of a life with life itself. Charming and deeply moving, filled with electrifying glimpses of an American literary icon, My Salinger Year is the coming-of-age story of a talented writer. Above all, it is a testament to the universal power of books to shape our lives and awaken our true selves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joanna Rakoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020338/bk_adbl_020338_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ask Me to Marry You: The Brides of Evergreen, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 221min
Here comes the bride…and he isn’t happy. Part I - "Male-Order Bride" - With her father’s passing, Audra Drysdale accepts she needs a man to save her ranch. A mail-order groom will keep her prideful men working and a neighboring rancher at bay. What could go wrong?Part II - "A Proposal So Magical" - Evergreen’s sheriff, Dent Hernandez, has fallen in love and now actually has to do something about it or risk losing the woman he loves.Once, the toughest lawman in the territory, Dent has been brought to his knees by love and he knows it’s time to ask Amy to marry him. He has to make the proposal in a truly magical and courageous way. A handsome ghost from her past, though, has designs of his own on Amy.Hunting outlaws was never this hard....Other books by Author Heather Blanton:Romance in the Rockies SeriesA Lady in Defiance, Book 1 - His town. Her God. Let the battle begin.Hearts in Defiance, Book 2 - Men make mistakes. God will forgive them. Will their women?A Promise in Defiance, Book 3 - Choices have consequences...even for the redeemedStandalone booksGrace be a Lady - Act like a man. Think like a lady.In Time for Christmas - Charlene needs a miracle. God had one waiting...a hundred years in the past.Love, Lies, & Typewriters - A soldier with a purple heart. A reporter with a broken heart. Which one is her Mr. Right?Brides of Evergreen Series (standalone books)Hang Your Heart on Christmas, Book 1 - he wants justice - some say revenge. She wants peace. A deep betrayal may deny them everything.Ask Me to Marry You, Book 2 - Here comes the bride, and he's not happy.Mail-Order Deception, Book 3 - Secret identities lead to stolen hearts. Can love survive the truth? A Proposal So Magical, Book 4 ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meghan Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151178/bk_acx0_151178_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Man with Six Typewriters
The Man with Six Typewriters - . . . and Others Who Knew God: ab 19.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Smoking Typewriters
Smoking Typewriters - The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America: ab 19.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Smoking Typewriters
Smoking Typewriters - The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America: ab 19.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Typewriters Bombs Jellyfish
Typewriters Bombs Jellyfish - Essays: ab 12.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Monkeys with Typewriters
Monkeys with Typewriters - How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories: ab 15.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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