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  Picturebook Makers

  What exists in the space between the words and the pictures? How do the stories unfold? What happens between the first sketch and finished picturebook?Twelve of the world's finest contemporary picturebook makers generously share their experiences, challenges, doubts, sketches, illustrations, and invaluable insights into their creation process. They reveal the complex and time-consuming work that happens behind the scenes, in service of their stories and their readers.An inspiring collection of picturebook knowledge for anyone interested in this unique and dynamic art form. The editor of the book is Sam McCullen, who runs the Picturebook Makers blog and the picturebook platform dPICTUS.PICTUREBOOK MAKERS reveals the picturebook's immense creative potential, and celebrates outstanding international picturebooks and their creators.Featuring Jon Klassen, Kitty Crowther, Beatrice Alemagna, Shaun Tan, Eva Lindström, Blexbolex, Chris Haughton, Suzy Lee, Bernardo P. Carvalho, Isol, Manuel Marsol, and Johanna Schaible.

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  The Duke of Defiance: The Untouchables, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 498min

  Difficult and defiant as a child, Bran Crowther, Earl of Knighton left England as a young man to pursue independence and adventure. He never expected to inherit the title and when duty calls him home, he still finds Society's codes constricting and others' expectations oppressive. Nevertheless, he needs a wife to be a mother to his young daughter, preferably a woman of intelligence and warmth who is, above all, immune to his idiosyncrasies - and to falling in love. Widow Joanna Shaw isn't interested in a second marriage, not after the loveless, passionless union she endured. She'd much rather dote on her young niece and nephew since they will likely be the only children in her life...until she meets a precocious girl, in desperate need of a mother. But her father, the so-called Duke of Defiance, is as peculiar as he is handsome, and Jo won't take another risk with her heart. Their rules, however, are made to be broken, even when the consequences could destroy them both. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marian Hussey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103468/bk_acx0_103468_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Auf Ganovenjagd in New York City (MP3-Download)

  Es ist so weit! Endlich bekommt Lady Mortimer die Gelegenheit, ihrem Ehemann Harry ihre geliebte Heimatstadt New York City zu zeigen. Aber die Metropole leidet unter der schlimmsten Hitzewelle des Jahrhunderts und das Nachtleben ist durch die Prohibition lahmgelegt. Aber im Untergrund der Stadt brodelt es, und als Teddy Crowther - der Enkel eines steinreichen Industriellen - von der Mafia entführt wird, bittet die Familie Kat und Harry um Hilfe. Die beiden tauchen in die Abgründe New Yorks ein und finden sich bald in einem gefährlichen Katz-und-Maus-Spiel wieder ... Ein glamouröses Ermittlerduo, ungewöhnliche Verbrechen, schnelle Autos, schicke Kleider und rauchende Revolver - das ist Mydworth, die neue Serie von Matthew Costello und Neil Richards, den Autoren der britischen Erfolgsserie Cherringham. Sir Harry Mortimer, der ehemalige Spion im Dienste ihrer Majestät, ermittelt zusammen mit seiner umwerfenden Ehefrau Kat, die es mit jedem Bösewicht aufnehmen kann! Mydworth ist eine spannende Zeitreise ins England der 20er Jahre - für Fans von Babylon Berlin, Downton Abbey und Miss Fishers mysteriösen Mordfällen.

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  Lagos - Leben in Suburbia

  In der Ajayi Crowther Street in Lagos treffen sich Nachbarinnen, um zu tratschen, sich heftig zu zerstreiten ... um dann doch wie jeden Sonntag gemeinsam in die Kirche zu gehen. "Lagos - Leben in Suburbia" erzählt von Reverend Akpoborie und seiner Familie. Sein Sohn wagt es nicht sich in der homophoben Umgebung als schwul zu outen, während seine Tochter ihre uneheliche Schwangerschaft verheimlichen muss, um das Ansehen der Familie zu wahren. Dazu heimliche Affären, spirituelle Quacksalber und religiöse Heuchler, aber es ist der Reverend selbst, der das dunkelste Geheimnis verbirgt!Wie die Soap Operas aus Nollywood, die in ganz Afrika beliebt sind, breiten die beiden nigerianischen Autoren in ihrer Graphic Novel das Leben ihrer Protagonisten mit all ihren Tief- und Höhepunkten aus und geben einen Einblick in das quirlige Leben im Großstadtmoloch Lagos."Eine fesselnde Lektüre und eine schöne Ergänzung in einem Genre, das viel zu selten einen Blick über Europa und Nordamerika hinausbietet." James Smart, The Guardian

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  Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 669min

  In this anthology of creative nonfiction, 28 writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in these essays were shaped, for good and bad, by the economic and political crosswinds of their time. Whether their formative experience was the Great Depression or the upheavals of the 1970s, their lives reflected their era and influenced how they raised their children. The writers in Mothers and Strangers explore the reliability of memory, examine their family dynamics, and come to terms with the past.  In addition to the editors, contributors include Belle Boggs, Marshall Chapman, Hal Crowther, Clyde Edgerton, Marianne Gingher, Jaki Shelton Green, Sally Greene, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Eldridge "Redge" Hanes, Lynden Harris, Randall Kenan, Phillip Lopate, Michael Malone, Frances Mayes, Jill McCorkle, Melody Moezzi, Elaine Neil Orr, Steven Petrow, Margaret Rich, Omid Safi, James Seay, Alan Shapiro, Bland Simpson, Sharon K. Swanson, and Daniel Wallace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve White, Brian Holsopple, Linda Stephens, Kevin Free, Allyson Johnson, Neil Shah. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052259/bk_adbl_052259_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Soapbox-Momster: Cyber-Stalker of the Abyss , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 313min

  The story of a very ugly cyber-stalker and bully that extorts men and women for her own perverse pleasure and profit to live a lavish lifestyle. She taunts, tortures, and torments her victims and ruins their lives and then promises to clean it all up for blackmail... but she never does, she just takes their money and destroys them. After all, they don't want to be further humiliated by her, so they feel powerless to fight back. But when making such a huge number of real world enemies, eventually the hunter becomes the hunted. The victims may just turn the table in the oldest form of revenge known to mankind... murder! Now the problem is how to pull off this crime so that there is no evidence of how it was done and who did it. That is the perfect revenge: Murder without fear of being caught. In this modern era of instant access to information and virtually any kind of service, the very tool used to torment her victims could be the same tool used to find her and end her own life - by a very determined person that wants the ultimate revenge. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Crowther. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052296/bk_acx0_052296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The White Cottage Mystery: An Albert Campion Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 254min

  Seven people might have murdered Eric Crowther, the mysterious recluse who lived in the gaunt house whose shadow fell across the White Cottage. Seven people had good cause. It was not lack of evidence that sent Detective Chief Inspector Challenor and his son Jerry half across Europe to unravel a chaos of clues. The White Cottage Mystery was Margery Allingham's first detective story, published initially as a newspaper serial. Margery Allingham was born in Ealing, London in 1904 to a family immersed in literature. Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published in 1923 when she was 19. Her first work of detective fiction was a serialized story published by the Daily Express in 1927. Entitled The White Cottage Mystery, it contained atypical themes for a woman writer of the era. Her breakthrough occurred in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley. This introduced Albert Campion, albeit originally as a minor character. He returned in Mystery Mile, thanks in part to pressure from her American publishers, much taken with the character. Campion proved so successful that Allingham made him the centrepiece of another 17 novels and over 20 short stories, continuing into the 1960s. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Gaminara. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008213/bk_adbl_008213_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mydworth - Auf Ganovenjagd in New York City (eBook, ePUB)

  Es ist so weit! Endlich bekommt Lady Mortimer die Gelegenheit, ihrem Ehemann Harry ihre geliebte Heimatstadt New York City zu zeigen. Aber die Metropole leidet unter der schlimmsten Hitzewelle des Jahrhunderts und das Nachtleben ist durch die Prohibition lahmgelegt. Aber im Untergrund der Stadt brodelt es, und als Teddy Crowther - der Enkel eines steinreichen Industriellen - von der Mafia entführt wird, bittet die Familie Kat und Harry um Hilfe. Die beiden tauchen in die Abgründe New Yorks ein und finden sich bald in einem gefährlichen Katz-und-Maus-Spiel wieder ... Ein glamouröses Ermittlerduo, ungewöhnliche Verbrechen, schnelle Autos, schicke Kleider und rauchende Revolver - das ist Mydworth, die neue Serie von Matthew Costello und Neil Richards, den Autoren der britischen Erfolgsserie Cherringham. Sir Harry Mortimer, der ehemalige Spion im Dienste Seiner Majestät, ermittelt zusammen mit seiner umwerfenden Ehefrau Kat, die es mit jedem Bösewicht aufnehmen kann! Mydworth ist eine spannende Zeitreise ins England der 20er Jahre - für Fans von Babylon Berlin, Downton Abbey und Miss Fishers mysteriösen Mordfällen. eBooks von beTHRILLED - mörderisch gute Unterhaltung!

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  The Saffron Kitchen: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 501min

  In this powerful debut, Yasmin Crowther paints a stirring portrait of a family shaken by events from decades ago and a world away. On a blustery day in London, the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryann Mazar surface violently, with tragic consequences for her daughter, Sara, and her newly orphaned nephew, Saeed. Consumed with guilt, Maryann leaves her suburban home and mild English husband to return to Mazareh, the remote village on Iran's northeast border where her own story began. There she must face her past and the memories of a life she was forced to leave behind when she was young, headstrong, and beautiful.Back in England, Sara tries to understand what could have compelled her mother to leave. Together with Saeed and her distraught father, she begins to unearth Maryann's story from amid her memories of opium poppies, family lore, and fragments of conversation, photographs, and a few lines of poetry. In her quest to piece her life back together, Sara follows her mother to Iran to discover the roots of her unhappiness and to try and bring her home.A rich and haunting narrative, The Saffron Kitchen tells of betrayal and retribution, of secrets that can lie undisturbed for decades, of the pain of exile, and the bittersweet joy of homecoming. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mehr Mansuri, Ariana Fraval. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000548/bk_peng_000548_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Auf Ganovenjagd in New York City: Mydworth - Ein Fall für Lord und Lady Mortimer 10

  Es ist so weit! Endlich bekommt Lady Mortimer die Gelegenheit, ihrem Ehemann Harry ihre geliebte Heimatstadt New York City zu zeigen. Aber die Metropole leidet unter der schlimmsten Hitzewelle des Jahrhunderts und das Nachtleben ist durch die Prohibition lahmgelegt. Aber im Untergrund der Stadt brodelt es, und als Teddy Crowther - der Enkel eines steinreichen Industriellen - von der Mafia entführt wird, bittet die Familie Kat und Harry um Hilfe. Die beiden tauchen in die Abgründe New Yorks ein und finden sich bald in einem gefährlichen Katz-und-Maus-Spiel wieder...Ein glamouröses Ermittlerduo, ungewöhnliche Verbrechen, schnelle Autos, schicke Kleider und rauchende Revolver - das ist Mydworth, die neue Serie von Matthew Costello und Neil Richards, den Autoren der britischen Erfolgsserie Cherringham. Sir Harry Mortimer, der ehemalige Spion im Dienste ihrer Majestät, ermittelt zusammen mit seiner umwerfenden Ehefrau Kat, die es mit jedem Bösewicht aufnehmen kann! Mydworth ist eine spannende Zeitreise ins England der 20er Jahre - für Fans von Babylon Berlin, Downton Abbey und Miss Fishers mysteriösen Mordfällen.

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