14 Results for : gottesman
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The Creative Fire: Book One of Ruby's Song , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 807min
Character-driven, social science fiction inspired by the life of Evita Peron.Nothing can match the power of a single voice....Ruby Martin expects to spend her days repairing robots while avoiding the dangerous peacekeeping forces that roam the corridors of the generation ship the Creative Fire. The social structure of the ship is rigidly divided, with Ruby and her friends on the bottom. Then a ship-wide accident gives Ruby a chance to fight for the freedom she craves. Her enemies are numerous, well armed, and knowledgeable. Her weapons are a fabulous voice, a quick mind, and a deep stubbornness. Complicating it all—an unreliable AI and an enigmatic man she met—and kissed—exactly once—who may hold the key to her success. If Ruby can't transform from a rebellious teen to the leader of a revolution, she and all her friends will lose all say in their future.Like the historical Evita Peron, Ruby rises from the dregs of society to hold incredible popularity and power. Her story is about love and lust and need and a thirst for knowledge and influence so deep that it burns. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yetta Gottesman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/006916/bk_adbl_006916_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Divine Husband: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1325min
Francisco Goldman, one of the most talented and award-winning writers of his generation, released his third novel, The Divine Husband, to wide and rapturous acclaim. Beginning with a single, possibly scandalous love poem by Jose Marti, Cuba's greatest revolutionary-poet-hero with an infamous secret love life, The Divine Husband is the story of Maria de las Nieves Moran, a former nun forced out of her convent by a revolution in a Central American capital. While making her way in this metropolis nicknamed "The Little Paris", she enrolls in a writing class taught by Jose Marti, under whose spell Maria de las Nieves and her classmates quickly fall. Soon after, Maria de las Nieves flees her home for New York, where Marti has also relocated - a crucial interval that shaped Marti's consciousness. Nearly a century later, an elderly woman in Massachusetts hires a college student to investigate her claim that she is the illegitimate offspring of Marti and Maria de las Nieves. Mixing a lovingly re-created historical past with often hilarious, ironic, and moving conjecture that brings to life an unforgettable heroine and her remarkable collection of friends, nemeses, and rival suitors, The Divine Husband is a magnificent American novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yetta Gottesman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021814/bk_adbl_021814_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sick: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New BooksBustle’s 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 listNylon’s 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018Electric Literature’s 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018Huffington Post’s 60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018Bitch’s 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018The Rumpus’s What to Read When 2018 Is Just Around the CornerVol.1 Brooklyn’s 23 for 2018: A Literary Preview for the Year to ComeThe Millions Most Anticipated 2018 ListAuto Straddle Most Anticipated 2018 PreviewThe Coil's Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery that details author Porochista Khakpour's struggles with late-stage Lyme disease.For as long as writer Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. All of her trips to the ER and her daily anguish, pain, and lethargy only ever resulted in one question: How could any one person be this sick? Several drug addictions, three major hospitalizations, and over $100,000 later, she finally had a diagnosis: late-stage Lyme disease.Sick is Khakpour's arduous, emotional journey - as a woman, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problems - through the chronic illness that perpetually left her a victim of anxiety, living a life stymied by an unknown condition.Divided by settings, Khakpour guides the reader through her illness by way of the locations that cha ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yetta Gottesman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007415/bk_harp_007415_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hostage Nation: Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 734min
The crash of a U.S. reconnaissance plane into the Colombian jungle on February 13, 2003, set off a series of events that, five years later, would bring three South American countries on a collision course toward war, pit a giant government contractor against its employer - the U.S. government - and catapult a 40-year-old guerrilla army to the international stage as one of the most active and successful terrorist organizations in the world. Hostage Nation follows the players in this international drama in which lives interweave across a chaotic and deadly chessboard. While at first the case appeared to be a one-dimensional kidnapping of three American contractors that would play out in backdoor negotiations, as many had before, the paradigm shift that took over Washington after 9/11 made impossible any such path to win the freedom of the hostages. This is the story of Thomas Howes, Keith Stansell, and Marc Gonsalves, three Americans who went to work for the U.S. government's ill-fought "War on Drugs" and crash-landed into their worst nightmare, five years in captivity of the FARC rebel Army. It is the story of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, poster child for all the prisoners in Colombia. It is the story of corporate malfeasance by Northrop Grumman, one of the largest defense contractors in America. It is the story of a paradigm shift that turned poor Colombian guerrillas into the biggest drug mafia in the world and earned them a prominent position on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. This is also a fascinating expose about the way that civilian soldiers have become the main players in covert wars that fly under the radar of the American people. It is the story of the U.S. government's ambivalence concerning victims who don't have to be tallied on the nightly news. It is the story of fragmented government factions that refuse to work together, and of foreign-policy blunders that put government contracts ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yetta Gottesman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000614/bk_acx0_000614_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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