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    Theatre and War 1933-1945
    Theatre and War 1933-1945 ab 34.99 € als pdf eBook: Performance in Extremis. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Kunst, Musik & Design,
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    Mensch und Maschine
    Probator Symeon Noctis, ein Spross aus wohlhabendem Hause, will die Sünden seiner Vergangenheit sühnen und setzt sich für die machtlosen Bewohner des Nahstahl-Viertels ein. Aber die wuchernde Stadt Varangantua schert sich nicht um die gesichtslosen Massen. Als in der neutralen Zone zwischen Nahstahl und der Adeptus-Mechanicus-Enklave Stahlhöhe eine zerfetzte Leiche entdeckt wird, sieht sich Noctis seinem bislang gefährlichsten Fall gegenüber.Zusammen mit dem Techpriester Rho-1 Lux vom Kollegiat Extremis gerät Noctis immer tiefer in einen düsteren Strudel aus Techketzerei, illegalen Servitoren und Ausbeutung und setzt dabei die eigene Karriere und sogar sein Leben aufs Spiel.
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    Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 264min
    In this truly one-of-a-kind book, the author/narrator - a representative, in extremis, of contemporary American obsession with beauty, celebrity, transmitted image - finds himself suspended, fascinated, in the remoteness of our wall-to-wall mediascape. It is a remoteness that both perplexes and enthralls him.Through dazzling sleight of hand in which the public becomes private and the private becomes public, the entire book - clicking from confession to family-album photograph to family chronicle, to sexual fantasy to pseudo-scholarly footnote, to reportage to personal essay, to stand-up comedy to cultural criticism, to literary criticism to film criticism, to prose-poem to litany, to outtake - becomes both an anatomy of American culture and a searing self-portrait.David Shields reads his own life - reads our life - as if it were an allegory about remoteness and finds persuasive, hilarious, and heartbreaking evidence wherever he goes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dave Elvin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/238183/bk_acx0_238183_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Contortionists , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 629min
    When five-year-old Joshua Christopher disappears off the street as he walks to a friend’s birthday party, his family is forced to confront the unimaginable. What happened? Why? Who took him? Was the convicted sex offender caught lurking near the search? Why won’t the police leave his family, his parents, alone?In his second novel, his first in 20 years, Robert H. Van Wagoner explores a family in extremis tottering at the edge of faith: in God and church, in family, and in marriage - in the institutions that promise safety and meaning. Both lyrical and explosive, The Contortionists unfolds as a pause-resisting mystery.Van Wagoner’s wrenching narrative propels the listener forward toward the novel’s harrowing climax, while deftly unpacking its major themes - mental illness, sexuality, and substance abuse in a culture that would rather not confront them. Does the truth ever set anyone ultimately free? The stakes for Joshua and his family could not be greater. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226067/bk_acx0_226067_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Shiro Project (Le project Shiro) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 402min
    Can a lone man stop mass destruction looming from the past? Reporter Branislav Poborsky is running away from a bad marriage, when he witnesses the Czech army covering up the extermination of an entire village. Saved in extremis by the gentle-giant Mossad agent Eytan Morgenstern, he is thrown into a troubling race to defuse a larger-than-life conspiracy. After Eytan’s mentor is kidnapped, he must join forces with his arch-rival to put an end to a mysterious group that has weapons of mass destruction. Once again, the atrocities of World War II come back to haunt the modern world. What links exist between Japanese camps in China in the 1940s, a US Army research center in the 1950s, and the deadly threat Eytan faces today? From Prague to Tokyo, with stops in Ireland, yesterday’s enemies become today’s best allies and mankind seems on the verge of repeating the errors of the past. What can a lone man do against the madness that is bound to follow? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graham Vick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019502/bk_adbl_019502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In Many Waters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min
    In Many Waters is the gripping story of three orphans whose lives intersect on the island of Malta during our current, urgent refugee crisis. Zoe, a budding historian, comes to Malta with her younger brother Cal to learn more about their Maltese mother, as well as the mysterious circumstances surrounding their parents’ untimely deaths. The siblings’ well-mapped plans are derailed when Cal, who is a daily swimmer in the Mediterranean, discovers a girl floating in the sea, barely alive. The small, battered fishing boat on which she has journeyed from Libya to Malta capsized in a storm: Aziza is the sole survivor. Meanwhile, Zoe returns to the site of her parents’ drownings and stumbles across a trail of clues which lead to the discovery of an unknown family member, unearthing a chain of life-changing secrets. In Many Waters brilliantly mines the hearts and minds of characters in extremis, the unforgettable tale of the ways that we love and help one another and how the choices we make reverberate through generations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Asha Vijayasingham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ecwp/000546/bk_ecwp_000546_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Best of Best American Erotica, The Final Edition, Hörbuch, Digital, 650min, (USK 18)
    The final edition of the best-selling Best American Erotica series, featuring erotic stories by: Susie Bright, Steven Saylor, Greta Christina, and Alicia Gifford. In Susie Bright's own contribution, "Story of O Birthday Party", she recounts her lover's elaborately orchestrated birthday gift: a re-creation of Pauline Réage's classic S/M tale, with Susie at the center of the action. Joe Maynard enters a love/hate relationship with a two-million-dollar sex toy in "Fleshlight". Greta Christina's "Are We Having Sex Now or What?" asks the provocative question: What defines authentic sexual connection and experience? Included in this collection: "Halves" by Rowan Elizabeth "Surviving Darwin" by Alicia Gifford "Playing Doctor" by Eloise Chagrin "Innocence in Extremis" by Debra Boxer "The Program" by G. Bonhomme "The Letters" by Eric Albert "The Desires of Houses" by Haddayr Copley-Woods "Horny" by Greg Boyd "Pinkie" by Jennifer D. Munro "Three Obscene Phone Calls" by Marian Phillips "Tennessee" by Patrice Suncircle "Up for a Nickel" by Thomas S. Roche "This Isn't About Love" by Susan St. Aubin "Blue Light" by Steven Saylor, writing as Aaron Travis Previously published as Best American Erotica 2008. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Bright, Theo McKell, Don Leslie, Kathe Mazur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000157/bk_adbl_000157_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Borne , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 729min
    A novel that is simultaneously harrowing, dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting from the author of the Southern Reach trilogy. 'Am I a person?' Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. 'Yes, you are a person,' Rachel tells him. 'But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.' A ruined city of the future lives in fear of a despotic, gigantic flying bear, driven mad by the tortures inflicted on him by the Company, a mysterious biotech firm. A scavenger, Rachel, finds a creature entangled in his fur. She names it Borne. At first Borne looks like nothing at all - a green lump that might be a discard from the Company. But he reminds Rachel of her homeland, an island nation long lost to rising seas, and she prevents her lover, Wick, from rendering down Borne as raw genetic material for the special kind of drugs he sells. But nothing is quite the way it seems: not the past, not the present, not the future. If Wick is hiding secrets, so is Rachel - and Borne most of all. What Rachel finds hidden deep within the Company will change everything and everyone. There, lost and forgotten things have lingered and grown. What they have grown into is mighty indeed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bahni Turpin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002955/bk_hcuk_002955_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1254min
    The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination and the world's headlines to an extraordinary degree. Not all of them lived to tell the tale, of course, but those who emerged triumphant from jungle, desert, or polar wasteland were hailed as if returning from beyond the grave. Journalists vied for their stories and publishers rushed their firsthand accounts of exciting and dangerous journeys into print for a wide and voracious readership. Acclaimed travel historian John Keay introduces this selection of the best of these firsthand narratives, including those of John Ross and John Franklin, writing about their experiences in the Arctic; Richard Burton's account of his search for the source of the Nile; John Speke on Lake Victoria; David Livingstone and Henry Stanley's adventures in central Africa; Alexander McKenzie's first crossing of America and Meriwether Lewis's encounter with the Shoshonee; Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen's voyages to the poles; and the poignant last words of William Wills in Australia and Robert Scott's In Extremis. Keay includes the experiences of four remarkable 20th-century explorers: Hiram Bingham on the discovery of Machu Picchu; Wilfred Thesiger on Arabia's Empty Quarter; Edmund Hillary on reaching the summit of Everest; and Harry St John Bridger Philby facing despair and defeat in the Arabian desert. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Norton, Charles Reston, Constantine Gregory, David Shaw-Parker, Emma Tate, Guy Paul, Jay Benedict. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cons/000021/bk_cons_000021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Chauffeur: Urban Fantastic Shorts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 114min
    Driving Ms. Daisy, this ain't! Corporal Christopher Furlong was nearly killed when his military convoy was blown up by an IED in Afghanistan. Years later, he has remodeled his life to compensate for his injuries - new passion, a girlfriend, and a doting mother. He never forgot what he saw that day though, the moment before he was blasted into darkness, a window opened, and he had a glimpse into the fabric of reality and what it took to disrupt or weaken it. If you can see through illusion, then you are the solution. Chris is heading for his daily work out and physiotherapy session when he is drawn into stopping an attempted abduction on the street. His reality flips, and in moments, he's fighting for his life against alien assassins who want to kill a woman trapped in the car. He helps her to escape but is nearly killed in the process. Chris is rebuilt using biological techniques thousands of years ahead of human technology. And that's when his old world melts away to give rise to the new world of Candice Negasi and the Extremis Foundation, who are tasked with keeping the planet Earth in the hands of humans. Chris becomes her trusted chauffeur, but as his gift of finding the weakness in any known system becomes acuter, he is to play a much larger role in protecting Earth from ultimate invasion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Andrew Hume. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/112309/bk_acx0_112309_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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