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The Links of Life, Hörbuch, Digital, 34min
The links that make up the chain of events that shape and direct our lives can either be a source of freedom or a source of oppression. Each new link can bring us one step closer to the life of our dreams, or drag us one level further down the path to failure. When you look back retrospectively over the time leading up to a particular culminating event, it all makes so much sense. You can see the story of your life. When you are in the thick of it, however, there is a lot to learn. In this audio program, you'll learn: What links of life really are good or bad The propelling factor of links Creating links that reflect your personal purpose and vision What to do to begin an extraordinary chain of events Serendipity - the conscious act of automatically setting yourself on a path strewn with opportunity What to do when the link breaks or disconnects How to impartially take a look at the links in your life right now, and find the day that turned your life around...or is it still in the future? Language: English. Narrator: Bob Proctor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/made/000210/sp_made_000210_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Jailbird , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 524min
Walter Starbuck, a career humanist and eventual low-level aide in the Nixon White House, is implicated in Watergate and jailed, after which he (like Howard Campbell in Mother Night) works on his memoirs. Starbuck is innocent (his office was used as a base for the Watergate shenanigans, of which he had no knowledge), and yet he is not innocent (he has collaborated with power unquestioningly and served societal order all his life). In that sense, Starbuck is a generic Vonnegut protagonist, an individual compromised by the essential lack of an interior. Jailbird (1979) uses the format of the memoir to retrospectively trace Starbuck's uneven, centerless, and purposeless odyssey in or out of the offices of power. He represents another Vonnegut Everyman caught amongst forces he neither understands nor can defend. Written in the aftermath of Watergate, Jailbird is, of course, an attempt to order those catastrophic events and to find some rationale or meaningful outcome, and, as is usually the case with Vonnegut's pyrotechnics, there is no easy answer, or perhaps there is no answer at all. Starbuck (his name an Americanized version of his long, foreign birth name), in his profound ambiguity and ambivalence, may himself constitute an explanation for Watergate, a series of whose consequences have not, decades later, been fully assimilated or understood. The Nixon who passes across the panorama of Jailbird is no more or less ambiguous than Starbuck himself - a man without qualities whose overwhelming quality is one of imposition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Ferrone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021249/bk_adbl_021249_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Super Host
A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart. Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and his gallery wants to stop selling his work, claiming they'll have more value retrospectively…when he's dead. So, left with a large West London home and no income, he's forced to move into his artist's studio in the back garden and list his house on the popular vacation rental site, AirBed. A stranger now in his own home, with his daughter, Mia, off at art school, and any new relationships fizzling out at best, Bennett struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests-lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcée Kirstie-unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long. Warm, witty, and utterly humane, Super Host offers a captivating portrait of middle age, relationships, and what it truly means to take a new chance at life. Story Locale: London, England- Shop: buecher
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This Fall , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 373min
Excerpt from the preface: I'm writing this preface retrospectively, on New Year's Day, 2016, just before I open the folder that holds the files that my "book" will comprise, this series of personal essays I wrote during a one-month window this fall, thus the title, starting late October and running until late November. It was a warm, spectacular fall this year, courtesy of El Nino, the ongoingly pleasant days just perfect for a splendorous leaf-fall. I have always loved that time of year, every day such a dramatic change from the day preceding, as if time is accelerated, trying to close down the show before Thanksgiving gets here, nature finally revealing, rapid-fire, all the glitzy layers it kept under wraps in the heat of the summer, like some mega-stage magic show, the pace breathtaking. As you will find out soon, I walk in the woods every day, usually in the morning, for an hour or so, as my wife Carol and I did for years before she passed away last winter. We used to have on those walks wonderfully circuitous conversations about anything and everything all rolled up together, day after day, completely unscripted, always surprising, like elaborate mazes we navigated to pass the time pleasingly together while we walked. We would wonder from time to time what it might be like if we tried to write them down, these meandering, vivid riffs on life, love, time, death, all of it. But, like dreams, about a minute after we got back to the workaday world they were wiped clean, receding simply into our nervous systems as a gathering residue of embodied wisdom, or wackiness, which are, we both agreed, right next to each other, sometimes even simultaneous, on the tachometer of human understanding. These walks and these talks somehow kept us grounded, steady, ready together to take on what we had to take on to make a way in a world where "normal," or at least a convincing simulation of it, is often obligatory. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Kameen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080599/bk_acx0_080599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Untwisted Sister (eBook, ePUB)
Untwisted Sister cordially invites the readers of those with obstacles of common grounds mentioned therein, who'd experienced, retrospectively, such adversities of life by reason of naivety or unawareness, whereby our universes are mathematically ordained, orderly and constructively spoken into its existing manifestation from the afterthought of God (Genesis 1:1-5). God said, and it was so; thus, the laws, bylaws, and commandments were solely God's to construct and establish, the only existing being who is, was, and is to come-the alpha and omega (Revelations 1:4).It behooved me to exclaim in the writings of this book a beginning, middle, and faith-believing end, making the reader aware of a forerunner of chaos, imbalance, and waste of precious, valued time in the earth's realm-that has no holds barred-then a transition to an orchestrated afterlife, as well as to inform you that no matter what, God Himself has already weighed the outcome of any plight-far above principalities and powers of indifference, Satan's obscured methods at distractions and diversions. Satan has misconstrued the perspectives and priorities of life's partnership belonging to God alone. Our lives here are of great significance (Deuteronomy 28:30, Joshua 1:6-9, Romans 12:1-21). The truth shall set us free, for the joy of the Lord is our strength. We were purposely created. Not to be consumed by the "wang dang doodles" that sin derives. Such high pollutants are superficially temporal. There is profound orderly guidance in revering God, the architect of our universe and the physical, mental, and spiritual fabric of our makeup. Similar to trees, let's grow, bear good fruits of gratitude and adoration to the God of glory.- Shop: buecher
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