17 Results for : belatedly

  • Thumbnail
    Olympic Affair: A Novel of Hitler's Siren and America's Hero , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 714min
    Although not a member of the National Socialist Party, Leni Riefenstahl was the film-maker darling of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. First a successful dancer and actress in Germany, she became more notorious when she produced and directed Victory of Faith and Triumph of the Will, the chilling documentaries about Nazi Party congresses at Nuremberg. Glenn Morris was an All-American farm boy from tiny Simla, Colorado, as well as a former college football star and student body president at the school now known as Colorado State University. At the 1936 Olympics, he won the decathlon, earning him the label "the world's greatest athlete." Among the American heroes at the Berlin Games, he was considered second only to Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals. Riefenstahl and Morris: An unlikely couple? Perhaps, but in her 1987 memoirs, the German filmmaker belatedly confirmed she had an affair with the American athlete during the filming of Olympia, Riefenstahl's documentary about the Berlin Games. In fact, she portrayed it as much more than a dalliance, saying that she had dreamed of marrying Morris and that he broke her heart. Morris, who went on to Hollywood, the National Football League, and military service, spoke sparingly of the relationship, but mused late in life that he "should have stayed in Germany with Leni." In Olympic Affair, author Terry Frei turns to historical fiction in a novel researched in much the same fashion as his widely praised works of non-fiction, including Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming and Third Down and a War to Go. Using deduction, imagination and narrative skill to augment documented fact (as well as debunk myths parroted for many years), Frei tells the story of their ill-fated affair…and beyond. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Moseley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015611/bk_adbl_015611_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    On Living , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 251min
    A hospice chaplain passes on wisdom on giving meaning to life, from those taking leave of it. As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan didn't offer sermons or prayers unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about God, at least not overtly. Instead she discovered she'd been granted an invaluable chance to witness firsthand what she calls the "spiritual work of dying" - the work of finding or making meaning of one's life, the experiences it's contained, and the people who have touched it, the betrayals, wounds, unfinished business, and unrealized dreams. Instead of talking she mainly listened: to stories of hope and regret, shame and pride, mystery and revelation and secrets held too long. Most of all, though, she listened as her patients talked about love - love for their children and partners and friends; love they didn't know how to offer; love they gave unconditionally; love they learned, sometimes belatedly, to grant themselves. This isn't a book about dying - it's a book about living. And Egan isn't just passively bearing witness to these stories. An emergency procedure during the birth of her first child left her physically whole but emotionally and spiritually adrift. Her work as a hospice chaplain healed her from a brokenness she came to see we all share. Each of her patients taught her something - how to find courage in the face of fear or the strength to make amends; how to be profoundly compassionate and fiercely empathetic; how to see the world in grays instead of black and white. In this poignant, moving, and beautiful book, she passes along all their precious and necessary gifts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kerry Egan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002949/bk_peng_002949_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    In Bed with Susie Bright Annual Collection: Season 17, Hörbuch, Digital, 1226min, (USK 18)
    Get intimate with all 39 episodes of the 17th season of In Bed with Susie Bright. 2017 was a year absolutely dripping with sexual politics and erotic intrigue; Susie pulls back the covers on the secrets, and controversies that influenced our sex lives and imaginations. In each episode, Susie brings experience, knowledge, and a sex positive viewpoint you won’t find anywhere else. This 2017 collection features interviews with authors, journalists, and educators on some of the year's most compelling subjects: Lesbians for men: a history of lesbian imagery and the male gaze with Taschen’s Sexy Books Editor Dian Hanson A discussion of the importance and misuse of Title IX with academic and author Laura Kipnis Tristan Taormino Extreme Tickling and WTF happened to the Porn Business Rachel Kramer Bussel: resistance porn and crushing on Monica Lewinsky The feminist retail revolution with Lynn Comella, author of Vibrator Nation A raucous discussion of Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music with author and NPR music critic, Ann Powers Susie covered some of the most ridiculous, infuriating, and provocative topics of 2017: Vatican Orgies—why Catholic officials sexual proclivities are so EXTRA!Saying goodbye to gonzo journalism— the Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson launch party was one for the agesMolecular Condoms: Everyone into the soup!Star Trek belatedly goes queerHurricane Harvey and #metoo — is this a real revolution or will the backlash lead to outrageous protectionism? In Season 17, Susie helped her listeners navigate some of the most bemusing and some of the most relatable dilemmas in their sex lives: —What's the best buttercream for cupcakes and breasts? —Can we talk about abortion rights for women who Language: English. Narrator: Susie Bright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/suzy/000033/pf_suzy_000033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Get Well Soon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 560min
    If you were diagnosed with a condition for which there was no known cure, what wouldyou do? Nick Duerden is a writer and journalist. This is his memoir about a long period of ill health and how he was forced to plunge, like it or not, into the often bewildering - but increasingly blossoming - world of alternative therapy in pursuit of a cure.... He followed strictly regimented, vitamin-rich diets and swallowed all manner of supplements. He smeared himself in coarse mineral salts and grew tepid in Epsom salt baths. He visited energy practitioners and spiritual gurus. He learned yoga, how to meditate, to breathe properly, to face his fears and to manage the new anxieties those very fears had done so well to engender. Over the course of three years, Nick's lifelong cynicism is gradually replaced by an open eagerness to try anything, if not quite everything, and in doing so he starts on the pathway back to health. Get Well Soon is a memoir that focuses on the journey all of us will at some point have to face: the abrupt obligation to start living better, wiser and healthier, to be kinder to our minds and bodies by realising that minds and bodies do require care. It's about what happens to life when you become ill, because everyday life is never going to stop going about its chaotic business. This is not a self-help book. But it is, in its own candid, unflinching and stumbling way, a mapless guide to belatedly learning to live well, to negotiating a very particular and all too common midlife crisis. It is honest, and funny, and ultimately optimistic. And it might just offer proof that self-discovery, even when it is enforced self-discovery, is no bad thing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kris Dyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031982/bk_adbl_031982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Do You Solemnly Swear?: A Nation of Law, The Dark Side , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 523min
    What if your former girlfriend decides to use her 6-year-old daughter to punish you for breaking up with her? How do you prove that you are innocent of the worst case of sexual perversion against a child? Is it possible to refute the lies of a beautiful, seemingly innocent, little girl? When Gabe McAllister, decorated former Marine and respected Texas State Trooper, walked out of his condo in West Houston on a Tuesday morning to head to a meeting of the newly formed task force of the DEA, Texas State Police and Border Patrol, he found five Houston cops waiting to collar him for the rape of 6-year-old Annie Bridges. His next several days and weeks are a blur as he realizes belatedly that he has no chance against his diminutive accuser. His implicit trust in the fairness of the justice system shattered, McAllister lands in the Huntsville prison, sentenced to three counts of 20-to-life sentences. In the sequel to The Fragrance Shed By a Violet, Lin Wilder embroils characters in another complex web of dysfunctional family, deceit, revenge, and the politics of courtrooms. Pulitzer Prize reporter Kate Townsend's front page story for her newspaper, The Houston Tribune, about a juror - the foreman of McAllister's jury - stepping forward to speak about the case and her concern about why McAllister was not granted a retrial, galvanizes Houstonians once again: Had a Houston jury convicted another innocent person? Dr. Lindsey McCall, former inmate at Huntsville and now Medical Director at the Prisons, and Rich Jansen, Chief Warden at the prisons, are faced with the all-too-familiar question of just how involved should they get as Townsend begins to dig into the background of little Annie Bridges and her mother. When Townsend reveals the details of her new investigative series: A Nation of Law: The Dark Side, Jansen is more than intrigued. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Kamish. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095301/bk_acx0_095301_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    The Nazi Hunters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 809min
    More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off. Their saga can now be told almost in its entirety. After the Nuremberg trials and the start of the Cold War, most of the victors in World War II lost interest in prosecuting Nazi war criminals. Many of the lower-ranking perpetrators quickly blended in with the millions who were seeking to rebuild their lives in a new Europe, while those who felt most at risk fled the continent. The Nazi Hunters focuses on the small band of men and women who refused to allow their crimes to be forgotten - and who were determined to track them down to the furthest corners of the earth. The Nazi Hunters reveals the experiences of the young American prosecutors in the Nuremberg and Dachau trials, Benjamin Ferencz and William Denson; the Polish investigating judge, Jan Sehn, who handled the case of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss; Germany's judge and prosecutor, Fritz Bauer, who repeatedly forced his countrymen to confront their country's record of mass murder; Mossad agent Rafi Eitan, who was in charge of the Israeli team that nabbed Eichmann; and Eli Rosenbaum, who rose to head the US Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations that belatedly sought to expel war criminals who were living quietly in the United States. But some of the Nazi hunters' most controversial actions involved the more ambiguous cases, such as former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's attempt to cover up his wartime history. Or the fate of concentration camp guards who have lived into their 90s, long past the time when reliable eyewitnesses could be found to pinpoint their exact roles. The story of the Nazi hunters is coming to a natural end. It was unprecedented in so many ways, especially the degree to which the initial impulse of revenge was transformed into a struggle for justice. The Nazi hunters have tran ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Stillwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016893/bk_adbl_016893_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    In Spite of the Storm
    "In Spite of the Storm" New album out now in North America "Another typically thoughtful and thought-provoking excursion from a band still hungry for tunes - and, belatedly, for songs. The intimacy of Séamus Begley's voice and his freewheeling tunes knit new patterns into Téada's mix." - Siobhan Long, Irish Times "One of the outstanding releases in recent memory." - Daniel Neely, Irish Echo Sligo, Ireland (3 February 2014) "Ainneoin na stoirme" (In spite of the storm), the fifth album from one of Irish traditional music's leading young groups Téada (TAY-da), is out now in North America on the Gael Linn label. The album was released in Ireland in September as part of the prestigious Irish label's 60th anniversary celebrations. It is available at teada.com. Featuring a mix of rare older tunes juxtaposed with a range of more recent compositions, In Spite of the Storm provides a fascinating collaboration of generations, influences, and interpretations. The album marks a major departure for Téada with the addition of vocals from renowned singer Séamus Begley, 2013's Traditional Singer of the Year (Irish TV TG4) and member of a famous musical family in Co. Kerry. Begley's legendary vocals bring a wealth of reflective moments, including the late Marty Robbin's song "Saddle Tramp," alongside bracing instrumental selections which see Téada at their best. Founded by Sligo fiddler Oisín Mac Diarmada in 2001, Téada's five young instrumentalists are driven by the timeless, expressive force of music inherited from previous generations of musicians. Irish Music Magazine describes them "at the cutting edge of the next generation of Irish musicians...with a fierce familiarity with the old ways." "Ireland has been greatly transformed since the fever of materialism...readjustments have been...deeply felt. But as our late Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney said: 'We are not simply a credit rating or an economy but a history and a culture.' Our music, songs, language and culture have deep roots, they will withstand any storm." - Téada, from the liner notes Inlay Notes 1. Reels: Dinny O'Brien's (comp. Paddy O'Brien) / The Sweetheart Reel / Paddy Kenny's (03:56) Prolific Tipperary composer and accordionist, Paddy O'Brien, composed the first tune in memory of his father. The second reel features in Petrie's Complete Irish Music under the title 'Temple Hill. A Cork Reel', but without the 3rd part with which it is typically played today. The final tune was sourced from fiddler Paddy Ryan during a Scoil Éigse workshop in Sligo in 1990, with Paddy himself learning the tune from Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon fiddler, Paddy Kenny. 2. Song: An Spailpín Fánach (02:52) A popular song emanating from 18th-century Ireland, which Séamus learned while at school from influential teacher Caoimhín Ó Cinnéide. The melody is similar to that found in 'The Girl I Left Behind M'", a popular folk song and military march in the United States. The term 'spailpín' refers to a labourer hired for a job of temporary duration, such as potato digging. 3. Slides: Deálaí's No. 1 & 2 / The Peeler and the Goat (02:45) Séamus sourced the first two tunes from Dún Chaoin accordion-player, Muiris Ó Dálaigh (Deálaí). The closing tune is a slide version of a popular 19th century song, the melody of which was published in O'Neill's "Music of Ireland" (1903). 4. Reels: The Reel with the Birl / Carraigín Ruadh (comp. Brendan Tonra) / Ryan's Rant (03:14) The selection begins with a version of Drowsy Maggie associated with Clare concertina player, Elizabeth Crotty. Mayo/Sligo fiddler Brendan Tonra, long-time resident in Boston, composed the tune that follows. The set finishes with a version of a tune recorded by fiddle Tommy Potts on the album "The Liffey Banks" and subsequently by James Kelly/Paddy O'Brien/Daithí Sproule on "Traditional Music of Ireland". 5. Song: Pé in Éirinn Í (03:53) Another song which Séamus heard initially from Caoimhín Ó Cinnéide, before sourcing the lyrics from the publication 'Abair Amhrán'. Another song which Séamus heard initially from Caoimhín Ó Cinnéide, sourcing the lyrics from the publication 'Abair Amhrán'. The song originates from an Aisling of same title written by Tipperary poet Liam Dall Ó hIfearnáin (c.1720 - c.1803). 6. Jigs/Slip Jig: The Jig of the Dead / I Have a House of My Own with a Chimney Built on the Top of It (comp. Junior Crehan) / Paddy Breen's / The Bird's Call (comp. James Kelly) (04:13) The first tune was recorded a number of years ago by Belfast flute-players Harry Bradley and Michael Clarkson. In the inlay notes to their "The Pleasures of Hope" album, mention is made that according to flute-player Séamus Tansey, the tune "was employed for an unusual funeral rite performed in the countryside around his native Gurteen". During the waking process, a number of hardy dancers would lift the body of the deceased and dance it around the room for one last time, usually to the backdrop of this tune. The second and fourth tunes are compositions of fiddlers Junior Crehan and James Kelly respectively, while Paddy Breen's comes from the playing of Michael Tubridy, appearing in "Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3". 7. Song: Saddle Tramp (comp. Marty Robbins) (02:44) A song from famous American Country & Western singer/songwriter, Marty Robbins, released in 1966. 8. Slow Reel / Barndances: Gone for His Tea / Joe Derrane's (comp. James Kelly) / All About Weaving (comp. Charlie Lennon) (04:32) The first tune is a reel, though in this instance played at a slower tempo, sourced from "Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3", and contributed by flute-player Michael Tubridy. Fiddler James Kelly is the composer of the barndance which follows, a tune inspired by the music of Irish-American accordion legend Joe Derrane. The set concludes with a barndance composed by Charlie Lennon, recorded here at a brisker tempo, which featured on Frankie Gavin's "Frankie Goes to Town" album. 9. Jigs: Brísdín Bréide / The Thatched Cabin (comp. Junior Crehan) / Morning Sunday (comp. Charlie Lennon) (04:01) The first tune is a version of a jig that appears in "Tunes of the Munster Pipers" (1998), featuring tunes collected by Canon James Goodman during the 1860s. The remaining two tunes are compositions of noted fiddlers, the first from Clareman Junior Crehan and the second from Leitrim fiddler and piano-player, Charlie Lennon. 10. Song/Waltz: Ar a mBóithrín Buí / Tell me Now (comp. Damien Connolly) (03:43) Séamus initially heard this song played as a waltz by the great Paddy O'Brien during a Comhaltas event in Roscrea in 1968. Years later he came across the words in an old song book. The song concludes with a newly-composed waltz from Clare musician Damien Connolly, who now resides in Connecticut, and has been composing some wonderful tunes over the past few years. 11. Reels: James Murray's (comp. James Murray) / Porthole of the Kelp (comp. Bobby Casey) / The Watchmaker / The Spinning Wheel (04:26) The first tune was composed by Sligo flute-player James Murray from the townland of Ogham, Tubbercurry, while the second is a composition of noted Clare fiddler Bobby Casey. The set continues with a tune that appeared under the title 'Neils Gowan's Second Wife' in "The Gunn Book", a mid-19th century manuscript collection compiled by Fermanagh fiddler John Gunn. Concluding the set is a version of the reel 'Miss McDonald's' which appeared in O'Neill's "Music Of Ireland" (1903).
    • Shop: odax
    • Price: 14.31 EUR excl. shipping

Similar searches: