92 Results for : kael
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The Brightest Stars: The Stars Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min
International best-selling author Anna Todd returns with a gripping novel about a young woman's journey toward love and the obstacles life throws up at every turn. Karina knows the harsh realities of military life. Like anyone who has grown up around an army base, she knows the background noise that follows a soldier home from war. That's why she's forging her own quiet life in her own little house. But she hasn't turned her back on her family. She's the glue that holds them together - when her father is deployed, when her brother, Austin, has another brush with the law. Karina knows she has to look after herself, that she can't always fix what's broken. But when Austin's behavior worsens and her father's reactions grow more extreme, Karina feels her own edges beginning to fray. That's when she meets him - a closed book she's desperate to open. At just 20, Kael is a handsome, brooding soldier struggling with the aftermath of two tours in Afghanistan. He's emotionally damaged and closed off. Quiet doesn't begin to describe him. But as Karina gets used to his stable presence, she finds it hard to ignore the way he makes her feel. In their time together, she finds the stillness she has always wanted and never found. She lets down her guard. She lets herself fill in the blanks about this mysterious man. But illusions quickly made are quickly shattered. That's when Karina has to find her own courage - to untangle the truth from the lies and decide what she's going to do about it. A riveting story about love and lies, The Brightest Stars will stay with you long after the final moment. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brooke Bloomingdale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011432/bk_blak_011432_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 621min
How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell. That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as "Downtown" became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style. This portrait of a critic as a young man is also a rollicking, acutely observant portrayal of a legendary time and place. Wolcott was taken up by fabled film critic Pauline Kael as one of her "Paulettes" and witnessed the immensely vital film culture of the period. He became an early observer-participant in the nascent punk scene at CBGB, mixing with Patti Smith, Lester Bangs, and Tom Verlaine. As a Village Voice writer he got an eyeful of the literary scene when such giants as Mailer, Gore Vidal, and George Plimpton strode the earth, and writing really mattered. A beguiling mixture of Kafka Was the Rage and Please Kill Me, this memoir is a sharp-eyed rendering, at once intimate and shrewdly distanced, of a fabled milieu captured just before it slips into myth. Mixing grit and glitter in just the right proportions, suffused with affection for the talented and sometimes half-crazed denizens of the scene, it will make listeners long for a time when you really could get mugged around here. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Woodman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011735/bk_adbl_011735_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 691min
From acclaimed literary critic Michelle Dean, winner of the National Book Critics Circle's 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, a powerful portrait of 10 writers who managed to make their voices heard amidst a climate of sexism and nepotism. Featuring writers from the 1920s to the 1990s, including Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler and Janet Malcolm. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the 20th century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of the men who often undervalued their work as critics and essayists. These women are united by their 'sharpness', the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit, a claiming of power through writing rather than position. Sharp is a vibrant and rich depiction of the intellectual beau monde of 20th-century New York, where gossip-filled parties at night gave out to literary slanging matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books, as well as a considered portrayal of how these women came to be so influential in a climate where women were treated with derision by the critical establishment. Mixing biography, literary criticism and cultural history, Sharp is an enthralling exploration of how a group of brilliant women became central figures in the world of letters despite the many obstacles facing them, a testament to how anyone not in a position of power can claim the mantle of writer and, perhaps, help change the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vanessa Labrie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbas/000035/bk_lbas_000035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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American Legends: The Life of Mel Brooks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. (Mel Brooks) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. One of the more well-known Mel Brooks quips is his statement, in reference to his birth, that "we were so poor, my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me." While obviously fabricated, the story is worthy of note, as it illustrates Brooks' self-deprecatory Jewish humor and his way of transforming a childhood of deep adversity into fodder for comedy. This is, of course, one among many famous Mel Brooks remarks, and over his decades-long career Brooks has built a veritable treasure chest of them. Although many of his forebears in the Jewish comedy tradition built their success on slapstick comedy (here one thinks of the Marx Brothers and Jerry Lewis in particular), Brooks' humor has always been more verbal than physical, closer to Woody Allen than Jerry Lewis. Indeed his jokes and famous one-liners rank among those of Woody Allen in the pantheon of great Jewish verbal wit. As much as Brooks invites comparison to other Jewish comedians, there also is no doubt that his comedy is deeply polarizing. Pauline Kael, for example, was a constant biting critic of Brooks, and he was never fully welcomed into the bosom of the American critical establishment. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: MJ McGalliard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037408/bk_acx0_037408_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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People from Sonoma County California
People from Sonoma County California ab 21.99 € als Taschenbuch: Tom Waits Jerry Garcia Winona Ryder Mickey Hart Henry H. Arnold Pauline Kael Lynn Woolsey Robert F. Yonash Jonny Gomes Leo Laporte Shuggie Otis Corbin Harney George Switzer David M. Traversi Rich Rowland Johnny Otis. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Empress Capsule: Audacity Saga, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 807min
Prodigy. Deserter. Commander.At 22, Commander Ellen Ryu is a little young to be "retired". Yet she’s planned - and bled in - more battles than veterans twice her age. And, well, she didn’t exactly retire so much as desert. Betrayed by her superiors, turned into a science experiment, and nearly driven insane, Ellen seized the chance for freedom when a shadowy organization offered her a ship of her own and an elite, all-female crew. She's got a new mission now: get revenge on the scientist who almost destroyed her. Nobody is going to get in her way this time. Especially not the merc who's just shown up at her cargo hatch, looking to hitch a ride.Mercenary. Convict. Renegade. In the middle of an op gone wrong, cyborg mercenary Kael Sidassian gets stuck with a mission he can't refuse: carry a capsule to safety, the contents of which would bring the galaxy down on his head if anyone knew what was inside. But he’s also got damaged hardware in his head and a plan to escape from the barbaric merc company that forcibly conscripted him over a decade ago. So when a humanitarian ship grants him passage, he thanks his lucky stars for a job that'll solve all his problems at once. That is, if the attachment he’s forming to the ship’s commander - one that goes way beyond duty and loyalty - doesn’t get in the way.As a new threat rises, the prodigy and the renegade discover far more in common than they ever thought possible. Now both their missions will have to wait, because if they aren't audacious enough to work together, they'll never survive what's coming for them. For lovers of romantic space opera, Lois McMaster Bujold, and David Weber, The Empress Capsule is the first volume in the new Audacity series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Ericksen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151085/bk_acx0_151085_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kael (Texas Rascals #6)
Kael (Texas Rascals #6): ab 3.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael - A Life in the Dark: ab 10.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Talking about Pauline Kael
Talking about Pauline Kael - Critics Filmmakers and Scholars Remember an Icon: ab 95.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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