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    How to Be a Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 346min
    Never acknowledge the fact that you're a girl, and take pride when your guy friends say, 'You're one of the guys.' Tell yourself, 'I am one of the guys,' even though, in the back of your mind, a little voice says, 'But you've got girl parts.' A girl whose self-worth revolves around masculinity, a bartender who loses her sense of safety, a woman who compares men to plants, and a boy who shoots his cranked-out father. These are a few of the hard-scrabble characters in Tamara Linse's debut short story collection, How to Be a Man. Set in contemporary Wyoming - the myth of the West taking its toll - these stories reveal the lives of tough-minded girls and boys, self-reliant women and men, struggling to break out of their lonely lives and the emotional havoc of their families to make a connection, to build a life despite the odds. How to Be a Man falls within the tradition of Maile Meloy, Tom McGuane, and Annie Proulx. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: P. J. Morgan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025228/bk_acx0_025228_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Italia! Die Italiener und ihre Leidenschaft für das Essen
    Die Regionen, die Feste, die Spezialitäten - ganz Italien in einem Buch. Ein Fest für jeden Italienliebhaber!Die leidenschaftliche Beziehung der Italiener zu ihrer Küche ist legendär. Gespräche über das Aroma eines »ragù« und den passenden Rotwein haben den gleichen Stellenwert wie das Debattieren über Sport oder Politik. Dieses Phänomen hat die Historikerin Elena Kostioukovitch, die seit über 20 Jahren in Italien lebt, nicht mehr losgelassen. Sie nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise durch die Geschichte, Kultur und Traditionen der Küche Italiens. Kenntnisreich und unterhaltsam berichtet sie von den regionalen Spezialitäten und Eigenheiten, vom bergigen Friaul bis hin zu den Olivenhainen Siziliens. Sie erzählt von altüberlieferten Zubereitungsmethoden, von Slow Food und Volksfesten und macht so die einzigartige Vielfalt und den Reichtum der italienischen Kultur, die Leidenschaft und Lebensfreude Italiens auf unnachahmliche Weise erfahrbar.Mit zahlreichen s/w Fotos.»Eine wunderbare Sammlung prägender Gerichte, die die Vielfältigkeit der italienischen Küche widerspiegeln. Die Darstellung von Küche, Kultur und den Menschen der verschiedenen Regionen gleicht einem Gemälde.«Annie Proulx
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    Trusting the Elements: Never Too Late, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 344min
    If love at first sight is a fantasy, why does what they have feel so right?For the past few years Otto Proulx has been hiding in the shadows, living vicariously through others. Maybe it’s time for a change?Greg Trainor runs a kite shop and helps his friends out when they need it; that’s the kind of guy he is. When he sees a car stuck on the side of the road he stops to help, never expecting to see the stranger again.One night of passion leads to...several more, and suddenly both men are searching around to define what they have together. Neither wants to scare the other off and neither wants to ask for more.Otto's out of his comfort zone and Greg has family issues; but love has its own rules and sometimes you just have to trust it will find a way.Trusting the Elements is a dual POV about a light-hearted man who’s lost his bounce, and a caring, sexy, big-hearted man who doesn’t know his own worth. Trusting the Elements is the first in the Never Too Late series. It's never too late to find love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Balderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165171/bk_acx0_165171_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Complaint , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 483min
    The first collection of short fiction from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex and The Marriage Plot. Jeffrey Eugenides' best-selling novels have shown that he is an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, sexual identity, self-discovery, family love and what it means to be an American in our times. The stories in Fresh Complaint continue that tradition. Ranging from the reproductive antics of 'Baster' to the wry, moving account of a young traveller's search for enlightenment in 'Air Mail' (selected by Annie Proulx for The Best American Short Stories 1997), this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in 'Bronze', a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future. Narratively compelling, beautifully written and packed with a density of ideas that belie their fluid grace, Fresh Complaint proves Eugenides to be a master of the short form as well as the long. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Eugenides, Ari Fliakos, Cynthia Nixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003116/bk_hcuk_003116_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Flights , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 752min
    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." (Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time)"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." (Washington Post)From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. "Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going?" we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Whelan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/004112/bk_peng_004112_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Complaint: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 483min
    The first collection of short fiction from Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, and The Marriage Plot.  Jeffrey Eugenides's best selling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American in our times.  The stories in Fresh Complaint explore equally rich and intriguing territory. Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of "Baster" to the dreamy, moving account of a young traveler's search for enlightenment in "Air Mail" (selected by Annie Proulx for Best American Short Stories), this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art founder under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Fresh Complaint," a high school student whose wish to escape the strictures of her immigrant family lead her to a drastic decision that upends the life of a middle-aged British physicist.  Narratively compelling, beautifully worded, and packed with a density of ideas despite their fluid grace, these stories chart the development and maturation of a major American author.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Eugenides, Ari Fliakos, Cynthia Nixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002621/bk_aren_002621_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    That Old Ace in the Hole , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 860min
    Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind - his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms. Dollar finds himself in a Texas town called Woolybucket, whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all manner of seismic shifts in panhandle country. These are tough men and women who witnessed first-hand tornadoes, dust storms, and the demise of the great cattle ranches. Now it's feed lots, hog farms, and ever-expanding drylands. Dollar settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for $50 a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Cafe, targets Ace and Tater Crouch's ranch for Global Pork, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old owners will hold on to their land, even though their children want no part of it. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original and intimate, That Old Ace in the Hole tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and character over the past century. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Stechschulte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005528/bk_sans_005528_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    That Old Ace in the Hole , Hörbuch, Digital, gekürzt, 381min
    Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind - his task, to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms. Dollar finds himself in a Texas town called Woolybucket, whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all manner of seismic shifts in panhandle country. These are tough men and women who witnessed firsthand tornadoes, dust storms, and the demise of the great cattle ranches. Now it's feed lots, hog farms, and ever-expanding drylands.Dollar settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for $50 a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Cafe, targets Ace and Tater Crouch's ranch for Global Pork, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old owners will hold onto their land, even though their children want no part of it.Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original and intimate, That Old Ace in the Hole tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and character over the past century. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction.Please note: This is the abridged edition. An unabridged version is also available. gekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arliss Howard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000382/bk_sans_000382_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min
    For 15 years, Sue Eisenfeld hiked in Shenandoah National Park in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, unaware of the tragic history behind the creation of the park. In this travel narrative, she tells the story of her on-the-ground discovery of the relics and memories a few thousand mountain residents left behind when the government used eminent domain to kick the people off their land to create the park.With historic maps and notes from hikers who explored before her, Eisenfeld and her husband hike, backpack, and bushwhack the hills and the hollows of this beloved but misbegotten place, searching for stories. Descendants recount memories of their ancestors “grieving themselves to death”, and they continue to speak of their people’s displacement from the land as an untold national tragedy.Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal is Eisenfeld’s personal journey into the park’s hidden past based on her off-trail explorations. She describes the turmoil of residents’ removal as well as the human face of the government officials behind the formation of the park. In this conflict between conservation for the benefit of a nation and private land ownership, she explores her own complicated personal relationship with the park - a relationship she would not have, without the heartbreak of the thousands of people removed from their homes.The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."Eisenfeld writes about Shenandoah the way Annie Proulx writes about Wyoming or Edward Abbey about the deserts of the Southwest: pristine, unsentimental, eloquent prose." (Kirkus Reviews)"Beautifully captures the mountain people and the official vendetta that made them refugees from their own land." (Washington Times)"Anyone with an interest in national parks…will appreciate this book." (Library Journal) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gloria Mason Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/163635/bk_acx0_163635_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Seasons: Desert Sketches , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min
    The late writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER, NPR Utah in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would illuminate facets of human connection to nature and challenge listeners to examine the world anew. Seasons: Desert Sketches is a compilation of these essays, transcribed from their original cassette tape recordings. Whether Meloy is pondering geese in Desolation Canyon or people at the local post office, listeners will delight in her signature wit and charm - and feel the pull of the desert she loves and defends. With a foreword by Annie Proulx. “Ellen Meloy just might be my favorite Utah writer. She’s smart and witty. She’s laugh–out–loud funny. She’s self–deprecatory and never preachy. She always gets her natural history right. And her writing is sufficiently gorgeous for her books to be finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.  “Seasons serves as a fine introduction to the work of this underappreciated writer. Meloy grounds us in her home landscape—our home landscape, where, she realizes, ‘I always belonged, but didn’t know it.’ To earn our place in this red rock desert community, Meloy asks us to ‘slow down, pay attention, stay local, go deep.’  “That’s what she does here, and we are privileged to travel with her through the cycles of southern Utah seasons as she searches for ‘the core of home.’”  —STEPHEN TRIMBLE, editor of Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah’s Public Lands" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellen Meloy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219159/bk_acx0_219159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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