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You Are Here , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 331min
In this groundbreaking book, the New York Times best-selling co-author of The Green Book, Thomas M. Kostigen, reveals the vital missing link in today's environmental crisis: how we as individuals are connected to the most tenuous geography on the planet. Despite the recent prominence of "green" issues in the news, we continue to ignore the raw relationship between the earth and our actions. But the seemingly insignificant things we do every day have the power to literally alter the landscape in the ongoing battle to resuscitate the planet. Kostigen writes: "We may reduce, reuse, recycle. So we save a tree. We use less gas. We conserve power. What effect do those actions really have on the world? So much of this information is in a vacuum without the necessary context. We have been told, not shown, what issues matter and why. Read on and you will be taken to the frontlines of the environmental battlegrounds. This isn't about conjecture or the future....We travel to distant and exotic locales to make clear the price of our current actions." Starting with Jerusalem, where we see history crumbling before our eyes, Kostigen then takes us to what well may be a glimpse of our future in Linfen City, China, one of the most polluted cities on the planet. From a garbage patch twice the size of Texas in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to the melting arctic ice shelf, to the flood zone that is Mumbai, India, to the dwindling rainforests of the Amazon, You Are Here describes the environmental crisis in a way we can feel, see, and touch. Kostigen presents us with opportunities for change and shows us how to take action on the spot, wherever we are. Combining groundbreaking research and frontline reporting, Kostigen pulls back the curtain on the most pressing and provocative issues of the day - and in so doing, we see the earth and our place on it in brand new light. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas M. Kostigen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001708/bk_harp_001708_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Holidays in Heck , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min
P. J. O’Rourke is one of his generation’s most celebrated political humorists, hailed as “the funniest writer in America” by both Time and The Wall Street Journal. Twenty-three years ago he published the classic travelogue Holidays in Hell, in which he trotted the globe as a “trouble tourist,” a chaos rubberneck, sight-seeing at wars, rebellions, riots, political crises, and other monuments of human folly. After the Iraq War - “too old to keep being scared stiff and too stiff to keep sleeping on the ground” - he retired from what foreign correspondents call “being a s**thole specialist.” But he couldn’t give up traveling to ridiculous places, often with his wife and three young children in tow. Usually he was left wishing he were under artillery fire again. O’Rourke’s journeys take him to locales both near (and nearly bizarre) and far (and far from normal). Having made a joke that Ski magazine takes seriously, he winds up on a family ski vacation - to Ohio. The highest point of elevation is the six-foot ski instructor his wife thinks is cute. Convinced by an old friend and one too many drinks that “a horse trek is just backpacking on someone else’s back,” he finds himself (barely) in the saddle, crossing the mountains to a part of Kyrgyzstan so remote that the Kyrgyzs have never seen it. He visits Kabul for the food and conversation (excellent lamb chops and a droll after dinner story about the mullah and the cow). He even takes his kids to his erstwhile home away from home, the bar at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong. “‘Would the little ones like something to eat?’ asked the waiter. They serve food at the FCC? Who knew?” Holidays in Heck shows P. J. O’Rourke in top form - a little older, a little wiser, going to the bathroom a little more often, but just as darkly funny as he was in Holidays in Hell. Here is a hilarious and often moving portrait of life in the fast lane, as he’s always lived it - only ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan John Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003347/bk_brll_003347_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Visit from the Goon Squad , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding audiobook circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the listener does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-30s, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life - divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house - and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, revelling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardour for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang - who thrived and who faltered - and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both - and escape the merciless progress of time - in the transpor ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roxana Ortega. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001418/bk_twuk_001418_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 749min
A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them. Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess - lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries. But now he's come to the Bar Harbor Home for the Elderly to spend the remainder of his days among kindred spirits: the publishing industry's nearly gone but never forgotten greats. Only now, at the end of his life, does he comprehend the price of appeasing every desire, and the consequences of forsaking love to pursue greatness. For Alfonse has an unshakeable case of writer's block that distresses him much more than his precarious health. Set on the water in one of New England's most beautiful locales, the Bar Harbor Home was established specifically for elderly writers needing a place to live out their golden years - or final days - in understated luxury and surrounded by congenial literary company. A faithful staff of nurses and orderlies surround the writers, and are drawn into their orbit, as they are forced to reckon with their own life stories. Among them are Cecibel Bringer, a young woman who knows first-hand the cost of chasing excess. A terrible accident destroyed her face and her sister in a split-second decision that Cecibel can never forgive, though she has tried to forget. Living quietly as an orderly, refusing to risk again the cost of love, Cecibel never anticipated the impact of meeting her favorite writer, Alfonse Carducci - or the effect he would have on her existence. In Cecibel, Alfonse finds a muse who returns him to the passion he thought he lost. As the words flow from him, weaving a tale taken up by the other residents of the Pen, Cecibel is reawakened to the idea of love and forgiveness. As the edges between story and reality blur, a world within a world is created. It’s a place where the old are made young, the damaged are made whole ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007493/bk_harp_007493_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Case of the Antiquities Collector: A Joey Mancuso, Father O'Brian Crime Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 466min
Their daughter goes missing and they don't call the cops? That’s one of many......intriguing mysteries deliciously and intricately layered in this audiobook. Layer upon layer, twist upon twist, secret upon secret, this is a case tailor-made for a Sherlock Holmes devotee like private investigator Joey Mancuso. From the beginning, there’s just something funny about parents who didn’t report a missing student right away, and days later still want no police. Hold it here! This is their beloved daughter, last seen leaving for a date. Why wouldn’t they want as much firepower as they can get? Because they know too much, that’s why - and Owen Parr’s clever detective senses that. Joey’s first job is to save the girl, but no way he’s going to stop there. The scrappy PI and ex-cop’s going to get answers if it kills him. Which, of course, it nearly does. The body count soars as his brother and detective partner Father Dom, always the adult in the room, clucks, prays, and begs for caution - to no avail. The ruthless kidnappers have something huge to cover up…an operation involving stolen art that’s being used to finance one of the greatest evils on the planet. Once Joey knows that, he’s a runaway train. A lot of the fun is in the clever Russian doll structure of a puzzle wrapped in a mystery, each discovery leading to a bigger and more surprising twist, but it wouldn't be half as delightful without the loveable series ensemble author Parr has assembled. The usual suspects are here - Marcy, Joey’s new wife and favorite FBI agent; researcher Agnes, who goes to Father Dom’s Mass every morning, presumably to repent for her shameless hacking. There’s also a welcome new addition - a professor who’s as close as you’re ever going to get to Indiana Jones. Full of action and exotic locales, this PI series entry will appeal to action-adventure fans as well as those who can't get enough of hard-boiled New York detective stories. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Filbrich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116402/bk_acx0_116402_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cervantes Street , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 522min
The actual facts of Miguel de Cervantes' life seem to be snatched from an epic tale: An impoverished and talented young poet nearly kills a man in a duel and is forced into exile; later, he distinguishes himself in battle and is severely wounded, losing the use of his left hand; on his way back to Spain his ship is captured by pirates and he is sold into slavery in Algiers; after prolonged imprisonment and failed escape attempts, he makes his way back home, eventually settling in a remote village in La Mancha to create his masterpiece, the first modern novel in Western literature: Don Quixote. Taking the bare bones of Cervantes' life, Jaime Manrique has accomplished a singular feat: an engaging and highly accessible interpretation of a brilliant, enigmatic man and his epoch. Manrique breathes vivid life into his characters, transporting listeners viscerally into his story as he makes full use of its inherent suspense and drama, its pathos and ironies, its colorful locales and momentous events. It all begins with two bright youths in Madrid whose rivalry over a beautiful woman will shape the course of their lives. Miguel de Cervantes is the passionate one, handsome, gifted, reckless, and ambitious, but from a family fallen on hard times and suspected of being "tainted" with Jewish blood. His classmate Luis de Lara, a wealthy but awkward aristocrat, as well as mediocre poet, from one of the most powerful families in Spain, is engaged to his beautiful cousin Mercedes. When 22-year-old Miguel nearly kills someone in a tavern brawl, he is forced to flee to Seville, joining a troupe of traveling actors to escape a decree ordering that his right hand be cut off. As Luis endeavors to save his friend, he has occasion to introduce Miguel to his beloved Mercedes. To Luis's horror, he soon discovers that the two have fallen in love. Luis becomes consumed with hatred for his former friend and swears eternal revenge. From that moment on, the two ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Wayne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010021/bk_adbl_010021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ms. Cassandra Game On! (The Gift, #8) (eBook, ePUB)
Fool! Why did I think coming home would solve my problems?Dr. Cassandra Guthrie deals with the tragedy that destroyed her entire family and begins a job near her birthplace. Dr. David Guthrie warmly welcomes her into his practice and into his life. Despite their shared, lifelong history and earlier hopes of a future together, a sudden, debilitating, physical trauma causes David to drive Cassy away.Cassy's meltdown sends her speeding down the highway, resulting in house arrest, and leads to a friendship with a couple who are on the police force where Cassy's family's plane crash occurred. Cassandra's emotional frailty keeps her on a roller coaster, but the couple's oversight helps her come to terms spiritually and romantically. They, with many others, address the wickedness that continues to plague David and Cassandra.As they work through their relationship, the continued attacks on their lives send them to a local sanctuary where they can remain unmolested. David's condition is still of uncertain origin, and Cassandra's wounds at the hand of her nemesis must be considered if they are to confront the evil. In their weakness, will they be able to defend themselves? Can they really have a future together?Caveat EmptorBooks by KB may contain a few naughty words, occasional, mildly inappropriate behaviors, conservative viewpoints, religious ideologies, politically incorrect scenarios, activities beyond 'neuro normal', and plain old imagination.If any of these things would cause offense, feel free to keep on walkin' down the line and buy someone else's books.If you want a fun read, come on, grab a glass of iced tea, pull up a chair, sit a spell, and enjoy.Keep in mind that all characters, events, and most locales are simply KB's creativity taking a spin, i.e. - complete fiction. When Bible verses, poems, songs, or old sayings are quoted exactly, KB gives proper credits. Her freestyle paraphrasing (aka total misquote) doesn't really need details. Book cover designs are the works of KB's amazing grandchildren or her own sweet self!- Shop: buecher
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Ms. Anya, The Gift Revealed (eBook, ePUB)
Ms. Anya, The Gift RevealedUnemployed and searching for purpose, Anya Galloway Archer's knight in shining armor, Bowie Bonner, offers her a dream job as a model. The Yankee clothing designer doesn't have a clue his new employee, though unskilled in modeling, will turn his company tail-over-teakettle by nightfall. Anya's expertise in business and marketing sends Bonner Fashions into overdrive, but it's her hereditary, paranormal bonding that shifts Bowie and Anya into spontaneous attraction warp speed.Back in Georgia, Anya's family business is at risk. When she returns to remedy the situation, she runs into a powerful, rogue militia. The Neo-Nazi group is exacting its own brand of genocide on kidnapped Americans and unsuspecting illegals being smuggled into the country. As Anya accepts and uses her Gift, others in her family take ownership of their own skills and join her to defeat evil.Will Anya's Gift drive a wedge in her new relationship? Will The Gift cause moral downfall, or will it become Anya's life's purpose? Caveat EmptorMs. Anya is longer than most of KB's books, but at least you'll get your money's worth!Books by KB may contain a few naughty words, occasional, mildly inappropriate behaviors, conservative viewpoints, religious ideologies, politically incorrect scenarios, activities beyond 'neuro normal', and plain old imagination.If any of these things would cause offense, feel free to keep on walkin' down the line and buy someone else's books.If you want a fun read, come on, grab a glass of iced tea, pull up a chair, sit a spell, and enjoy.Keep in mind that all characters, events, and most locales are simply KB's creativity taking a spin, i.e. - complete fiction. When Bible verses, poems, songs, or old sayings are quoted exactly, KB gives proper credits. Her freestyle paraphrasing (aka total misquote) doesn't really need details. Book cover designs are the works of KB's amazing grandchildren or her own sweet self!- Shop: buecher
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A Visit From the Goon Squad
The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. Timeless. Relevant. Passionate. Unified as a series - distinctive as books. A good book is great. A great book is essential. Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life-divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house-and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, revelling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardour for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang-who thrived and who faltered-and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to Powerpoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both-and escape the merciless progress of time-in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.- Shop: buecher
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Chronicles of a Mermaid: Scuba Diving and Backpacking in Southeast Asia (Chronicles of a Motorcycle Gypsy, Book 3) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 324min
The two things I’ve always feared most in life are drowning or being paralyzed. So, naturally, I started scuba diving and racing motorcycles.”Tiffani wanted a change when she left Los Angeles, but moving to Northwestern Montana for the winter might have been a bit too much of one. Six months of isolation, an absent partner, and endless snowfall was enough to send anyone spiraling into depression. As her heart and relationship held onto their last fraying threads, she made a rash decision to save them both. She quit her job, shoved her things into a backpack, and booked two one-way tickets to Thailand. She was going to become a scuba diver. She was going to try to salvage her relationship. And like a true mermaid, she was going to swim her way out of the blue hole she had drowned herself in while taking a journey through a sensational world within our vast oceans. So what if she didn’t know how to swim?Chronicles of a Mermaid stands alone as the third book in a series of travel memoirs, following the life of a young woman seeking adventure in spite of her clumsiness, anxiety, and fears. This chapter in her story will take you through three months of backpacking through Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan, with a sarcastic and self-deprecating sense of humor.If you loved the exotic locales of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love, the heartfelt personal conquest of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, and the scuba diving accounts of Jill Heinerth's Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver, you'll love Chronicles of a Mermaid! UNKNOWN N N ©2020 Tiffani Burkett;(P)2020 Tiffani Burkett http://www.audible.de/pd/B08W1VCK7Y?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B08W1VCK7Y?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true The Peacemakers: The Code of War, Book 2 (Unabridged) 25.95 AVAILABLE The Peacemakers: The Code of War, Book 2 (Unabridged) The Peacemakers (Unabridged) Jim Roberts The world's largest and most secretive Private Military has made itself known on the world stage. Operating with impunity, they spread their tentacles into any nation willing to pay their exorbitant price.... Jim Roberts Jim Roberts 2021-02-08 14:07:18 862 B08W2G5KTY English - Mysteries & Thrillers English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/236027de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/236027/bk_acx0_236027_sample.mp3 Olympus has risen....The world's largest and most secretive private military has made itself known on the world stage. Operating with impunity, they spread their tentacles into any nation willing to pay their exorbitant price. For Joseph Braddock and his warrior brother, Danny Whisper" Callbeck, the battle has only begun. Waging a desperate war across the globe, Joe Braddock and his team of Peacemakers have weathered a humiliating defeat from Olympus in western Pakistan. Now, their fledgling unit is in danger of being shutdown by the CIA. But when a rogue CNN reporter promises them important information about the enigmatic Code of War, no amount of bureaucracy can keep Joe from bringing his war to the scorching cities of Africa. Meanwhile, Danny Callbeck travels to Russia in an attempt to find the original creators of the Code. But there, he runs into the woman who has haunted his dreams for nearly eight months: the devastating Olympus assassin Agrippina. The Peacemakers is the sequel to Jim Roberts' debut novel, Olympus Rises. A blockbuster in every way, the Code of War keeps getting bigger...more action, more adventure, more globe-trotting excitement! Join the Peacemakers today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tiffani Burkett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235993/bk_acx0_235993_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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