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    Going off Script: How I Survived a Crazy Childhood, Cancer, and Clooney's 32 On-Screen Rejections , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min
    A witty, warm, and inspiring memoir from E News! host, Fashion Police panelist, red-carpet correspondent, author, and reality show star Giuliana Rancic. Giuliana Rancic is best known for interviewing A-listers on the red carpet and E! News, skewering their shocking style choices on Fashion Police, and giving viewers a front-row seat to her marriage and family life on her reality show, Giuliana & Bill. What fans may not know is that she learned English from Eddie Murphy, got her American citizenship so she could be a beauty queen, and used to have a bad habit of stealing cars for fun. Giuliana bares this and so much more in her hilarious, warm, and inspiring memoir, Going off Script. From a young age she dreamed of being a TV anchorwoman, but because of her inclination toward mischief and away from schoolwork, her path to her dream job was far from straight. After a fateful (and mortifying) encounter with the late Senator Ted Kennedy, she learned that Hollywood news was where she belonged. Thankfully for listeners, this epiphany led her to a bounty of LA misadventures (featuring notables such as Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Russell Crowe) and an entertaining behind-the-scenes perspective on what our favorite celebrities are really like. In spite of her glamorous Hollywood life, however, Giuliana could not escape some rockier times, including her battles with infertility and breast cancer. Here, for the first time, she reveals the whole truth behind her well-publicized struggles and the highly controversial decisions she had to make. And, of course, at the heart of it all are the two loves of her life who keep her strong through everything: her husband, Bill, and her son, Duke. Candid, funny, and poignant, Going off Script is an autobiography that proves you don't always have to follow the rules to get the life you've always dreamed of. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Giuliana Rancic. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004149/bk_rand_004149_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Girls in the Picture: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 991min
    From the New York Times best-selling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator’s Wife, a “rich exploration of two Hollywood friends who shaped the movies” (USA Today) - screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford.“Full of Old Hollywood glamour and true details about the pair’s historic careers...a captivating ode to a legendary bond.” (Real Simple)Named one of the best books of the year by Real Simple.It is 1914, and 25-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently as an artist. But the word on everyone's lips these days is "flickers" - the silent moving pictures enthralling theatergoers. Turn any corner in this burgeoning town and you'll find made-up actors running around, as a movie camera captures it all. In this fledgling industry, Frances finds her true calling: writing stories for this wondrous new medium. She also makes the acquaintance of actress Mary Pickford, whose signature golden curls and lively spirit have earned her the title "America's Sweetheart". The two ambitious young women hit it off instantly, their kinship fomented by their mutual fever to create, to move audiences to a frenzy, to start a revolution. But their ambitions are challenged by both the men around them and the limitations imposed on their gender - and their astronomical success could come at a price. As Mary, the world's highest paid and most beloved actress, struggles to live her life under the spotlight, she also wonders if it is possible to find love, even with the dashing actor Douglas Fairbanks. Frances, too, longs to share her life with someone. As in any good Hollywood story, dramas will play out, personalities will clash, and even the deepest friendships might be shattered. With cameos from such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Rud ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kimberly Farr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005315/bk_rand_005315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Entirely Surrounded , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 286min
    It is 1934. Red-headed Henry Cook, fresh out of Amherst and excited about working on his first book at an infamous writers' colony, arrives at the Vermont island retreat at the invitation of its owner, Thaddeus Hulbert, a boisterous, bellowing, bloviated curmudgeon, whose reputation as a novelist, columnist, and radio commentator has vaulted him to national prominence. Additional island guests include Clarence Fitch, the editor of a prominent New York magazine; Agnes Sterner, an elegant, mature woman, also an author and close friend of Hulbert's; Daisy Lester, a nationally-known nightclub singer also known by Hulbert and friends to be a heavy drinker if not watched carefully; and Leith O'Fallon, an artist, writer, and liberal cause protester for whom Henry falls hard. Among the supporting characters are Mr. Veitch, the slow-drawling Vermonter who navigates the mail boat to and from the island, and Jenny, the shrieking housekeeper and cook who tends - genially if not loudly - to the needs of Hulbert's guests. Entirely Surrounded is a slightly venomous roman à clef poking satirically at the habits of several of the Algonquin Round Table notables: Alexander Woollcott (Hulbert), Alice Duer Miller (Sterner), Dorothy Parker (Lester), Harold Ross of the New Yorker (Fitch), and Neysa McMein, popular magazine cover illustrator (O'Fallon). The novel's author and narrator, Charles Brackett (Cook), had been a regular at the Algonquin for several years before leaving for Hollywood at the peak of the group's notoriety. Through Entirely Surrounded, Brackett deconstructs the Round Table's core elite and re-assembles them on their lake encircled hideaway to endure each other's company, play croquet, backgammon, cribbage, and anagrams, all under the withering snide and cutting bombasts of their host, Hulbert. The story's narrator, Henry Cook, is the mean gang's naïve foil, surrounded as he is by the idols of his literary dreams, vip ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. James Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001653/bk_mike_001653_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, Hörbuch, Digital, 371min
    What is the guiding principle of the world's most powerful nation as it searches for enemies at home and abroad? The One Percent Doctrine is the deeply secretive core of America's real playbook: a default strategy, designed by Dick Cheney, that separates America from its moorings, and has driven everything - from war in Afghanistan to war in Iraq to the global search for jihadists. The story begins on September 12, 2001, the day America began to gather itself for a response to the unimaginable. Ultimately, that reply would shape the nation's very character. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Ron Suskind tells us what actually occurred over the next three years, from the inside out, by tracing the steps of the key actors; the notables, from the President and Vice President to George Tenet and Condoleezza Rice, who oversee the "war on terror" and report progress to an anxious nation; and the invisibles, the men and women just below the line of sight, left to improvise plans to defeat a new kind of enemy in an hour-by-hour race against disaster. The internal battles between these two teams (one, under the hot lights; the other, actually fighting the fight) reveal everything about what America faces, and what it has done, in this age of terror. Who is actually running U.S. foreign policy? Is there an operational cell, armed with WMDs, inside the United States? Have some of the world's most dangerous terrorists, including leaders of al Qaeda, been caught and accidentally released? Can America prevail in this struggle against enemies who are patient, ingenious, certain, and have clear tactical advantage? With his unparalleled access to senior officials, past and present, Ron Suskind, author of The Price of Loyalty, the most revealing book yet written on the Bush administration, finally answers the questions that keep Americans awake at night. Language: English. Narrator: Edward Herrmann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000705/bk_sans_000705_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 654min
    Meet Michael Blutrich, mild-mannered New York lawyer and founder of Scores, the hottest strip club in New York City history, funded by the proceeds of an insurance embezzlement scheme. All Blutrich wanted was to lay low, make the club a success, and put his criminal acts behind him. But the Mafia got involved, and soon the FBI came knocking. Scores became wildly popular, in part thanks to Blutrich's ability to successfully bend the rules of adult entertainment. It was the first club in Manhattan to feature lap dancing by ignoring existing requirements. He also sidestepped statutes requiring topless dancers to wear pasties. His formula worked, and Scores grew into the hottest club in Manhattan, frequented by sports superstars, Oscar-winning actors, television icons, Grammy-winning singers, and political notables alike. Unfortunately for Blutrich, it would all soon implode. Scores was located in a neighborhood controlled by the Gambino crime family, and it became a hotbed for illicit mob activity, culminating in a double murder of two of his employees. When federal prosecutors started sniffing around for potential crimes, he went from carefree club owner to undercover spy in a heartbeat. To obtain maximum leniency for his insurance fraud, Blutrich became an unlikely but highly successful undercover FBI informant. He wore body wires and placed ceiling cameras in his offices, and he was eventually credited with more than 30 Mafia convictions, including a crime-family head and associates from multiple international families. For his cooperation, the Department of Justice and the FBI assured him he would avoid any significant jail time - or so they said. Here, Blutrich tells it all: recording armed gangsters in the act of committing felonies, stealthily evading discovery, living with death threats, revealing long-covered-up celebrity doings, enduring a psychotic break from the pressures, and losing everything in h ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael D. Blutrich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009615/bk_blak_009615_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wisdom of the Great
    The Wisdom of the Great ab 46.99 € als Taschenbuch: A biographical collection of over 2600 quotations from 450 writers & notables of 40 countries in the span of 3 millenniums (9th centuries B. C. to the present time). It is a unique book with wealth of knowledge & words of wisdom &. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    To Sir, With Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 271min
    The Classically Southern Romance... The May-December Relationship... Personified by such notables as President Thomas Jefferson, and President Jefferson Davis. Older Southern men and their much younger soul mates... The textbook Southern romance; President Jefferson and President Jefferson Davis had these types of extremely successful relationships in their lives. In this story, a hellfire and brimstone revisionist history teacher meets his soul mate, and together, they form a bond as deep as the one Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis enjoyed... (17 and 35, respectively). A fun read, with true American history being taught in the process... 48 Year Old History Professor Richard Branson is a widower, living alone in a world of his own making... that of teaching his Advanced History 300 students the courses that he, himself, developed for the college. Quick-witted, knowledgeable, and comfortable in his life, he feels that he has finally reached the place where he can relax, and fade off into the life of the middle-aged single man, completely in control of his life and his destiny. His sense of moral and sexual honor is straight out of the 1850's, and he refuses to join the many other instructors in their immoral crimes and sins against the law and against the Christian God. 17 year old Taylo Jamison is a gorgeous Norwegian blonde girl-child, who is the absolute height of innocence and virtue. She is an all A student, who has no real social life and no real friends, mainly due to her fantastic looks and her scholastic achievements. But, like Professor Branson, she is thus quite comfortable in her own little world of order, chastity, and self-absorption - and really needs no one else, for anything, at all... Until she meets Professor Branson. Both of these striking people become victims of their own perfections, when they come into contact with one another, and they each find out what others have known, all along... that, once y ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Taylo R. Beauregard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002960/bk_acx0_002960_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Black Food
    A beautiful, rich, and groundbreaking book exploring Black foodways within America and around the world, curated by food activist and author of Vegetable Kingdom Bryant Terry.ONE OF THE TEN BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Time Out, NPR, Los Angeles Times, Food52, Glamour, New York Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Vice, Epicurious, Shelf Awareness, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal Mouthwatering, visually stunning, and intoxicating, Black Food tells a global story of creativity, endurance, and imagination that was sustained in the face of dispersal, displacement, and oppression. Imani Perry, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University In this stunning and deeply heartfelt tribute to Black culinary ingenuity, Bryant Terry captures the broad and divergent voices of the African Diaspora through the prism of food. With contributions from more than 100 Black cultural luminaires from around the globe, the book moves through chapters exploring parts of the Black experience, from Homeland to Migration, Spirituality to Black Future, offering delicious recipes, moving essays, and arresting artwork. As much a joyful celebration of Black culture as a cookbook, Black Food explores the interweaving of food, experience, and community through original poetry and essays, including "Jollofing with Toni Morrison" by Sarah Ladipo Manyika, "Queer Intelligence" by Zoe Adjonyoh, "The Spiritual Ecology of Black Food" by Leah Penniman, and "Foodsteps in Motion" by Michael W. Twitty. The recipes are similarly expansive and generous, including sentimental favorites and fresh takes such as Crispy Cassava Skillet Cakes from Yewande Komolafe, Okra & Shrimp Purloo from BJ Dennis, Jerk Chicken Ramen from Suzanne Barr, Avocado and Mango Salad with Spicy Pickled Carrot and Rof Dressing from Pierre Thiam, and Sweet Potato Pie from Jenné Claiborne. Visually stunning artwork from such notables as Black Panther Party creative director Emory Douglas and artist Sarina Mantle are woven throughout, and the book includes a signature musical playlist curated by Bryant.With arresting artwork and innovative design, Black Food is a visual and spiritual feast that will satisfy any soul.
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    Vallis Clausa (eBook, ePUB)
    Pourquoi le tueur laisse-t-il systématiquement son ADN sur chaque scène de crime ? Quel est le lien entre ces victimes ? Le capitaine Randy Massolo de la Crime quitte Marseille. L'affaire qu'il vient de résoudre dans la cité phocéenne l'a particulièrement impacté ( Le sang des fauves éd. Sudarènes), c'est en Avignon qu'il va se refaire une santé. Affecté à la section criminelle de la cité des papes, une affaire de découverte de jeunes femmes assassinées lui est confiée. Les filles de trois familles de notables locaux sont sauvagement tuées, sur chaque scène de crime le tueur laisse son ADN. Chaque corps est retrouvé dans les carrières d'ocre du village de Roussillon. Entre Luberon et mont Ventoux, entre mistral puissant et terre rouge Randy va évoluer au milieu de rumeurs, de vieilles légendes et de rancoeurs tenaces. Vallis Clausa entraîne le lecteur dans de magnifiques villages du nord Vaucluse aux côtés de ce flic torturé incapable de soigner ses propres blessures et de trouver la paix auprès d'une jeune femme. Aidé d'un vieux policier local et de son fidèle lieutenant Julien et tentant d'échapper à ses propres travers Randy Massolo va suivre cette enquête étrange qui va l'entraîner dans des lieux glauques et auprès de personnages mystérieux. Suivez le capitaine Randy Massolo dans cette nouvelle enquête des plus palpitantes ! À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Marc La Mola est un ancien flic de Marseille. Il a grandi dans cette ville et a longtemps travaillé dans les quartiers nord. De la brigade Anti-Criminalité à la brigade de Sûreté Urbaine où il dirigea un groupe de voie publique il a servi l'état durant plus de vingt ans. C'est lors de son passage à la brigade criminelle où il était affecté dans un groupe de droits communs qu'il va croiser les pires meurtriers sévissant dans cette région, règlements de compte de cité, affaires de coeur et autres crimes de sang seront son quotidien. Il ne compte plus les cadavres ramassés, les autopsie auxquelles il a assistées et les familles en pleurs qu'il a côtoyées. C'est dans tout cela qu'il puise son inspiration.
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    La Dieta Antiinflamatoria (eBook, ePUB)
    Si tienes acceso a un supermercado normal, puedes sentirte mejor dentro de 24 horas¿Has pasado años tratando de controlar tu intestino permeable?¿Sufres de problemas de salud inexplicables como ojos secos, problemas de piel y niebla cerebral?¿O acaso la artritis está arruinando tu vida?Lo que puede que te sorprenda es que más y más estudios - incluyendo los estudios del Instituto Nacional de Alergias y Enfermedades Infecciosas (National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases) - están demostrando que estos problemas de salud frecuentemente están causados por la dieta.Pero hay una solución Veras, puedes empezar a sentirte mejor dentro de 24 horas…Al solo modificar los alimentos que consumes.De hecho, señaló el destacado doctor e investigador de diabetes chino Dr. Frank Hu, en una charla en la Universidad de Harvard. "Muchos estudios experimentales han demostrado que los componentes de los alimentos o las bebidas pueden tener efectos antiinflamatorios".Los chinos son conocidos por usar los alimentos como prevención para las enfermedades de la salud.Y funciona. Por ejemplo, el porcentaje de estadounidenses con artritis es cuatro veces mayor que en China según un estudio de la Revista de Investigación de Artritis (Journal of Arthritis Research).Además, la investigación del Dr. Hu ha descubierto una serie de avances notables en cómo los alimentos que consumimos pueden afectar nuestro bienestar general.Como la semilla de apio, que se puede encontrar en la mayoría de los supermercados o en línea, por menos de $1 por onza - reduce el colesterol y elimina las toxinas de tu cuerpo.En este libro descubrirás:La gran razón dietética de porque las mujeres en China no sufren de cáncer de mama - Página 31El mejor alimento de todos para la curación del intestino permeable - Página 65Los 5 mejores suplementos antiinflamatorios - Página 38El costo real de comer sano (mucho menos de lo que piensas) - Página 24Como usar esta fruta en particular para mejorar tu memoria y revertir el deterioro mental - Página 37La forma libre de drogas para calmar tu SII - Página 67¡7 alimentos que no creerás que son buenos para ti! - Página 54La vitamina que más le falta a los estadounidenses, y como tú puedes revertirlo por menos de 10 centavos al día - Página 42El alimento que necesitas consumir si tienes una historia familiar de enfermedad cardiaca - Página 53Los mejores alimentos antiinflamatorios para la artritis - Página 67Cómo usar esta popular hierba para evitar que los radicales libres dañen tu sistema inmunológico - Página 38El alimento común que es el primer paso hacia un abdomen plano - Página 60El peligro oculto de cocinar en el microondas - Página 48... más un plan de alimentación antiinflamatorio completo de 1 semana.Haz clic en "agregar al carrito" y recibe tu libro al instante.
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