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The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway (a Unique Ernest Hemingway Biography, Gift for Writers)
In The Importance of Not Being Ernest, acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and work of Ernest Hemingway while drawing parallels to his own. This memoir and biography contains an in-depth analysis of the places and people in Hemingway's life.- Shop: buecher
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Crooked House
A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home...The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiance of the late millionare's granddaughter...- Shop: buecher
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Black Wave , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 617min
Desperate to quell her addiction to drugs, disastrous romance, and '90s San Francisco, Michelle heads south for LA. But soon it's officially announced that the world will end in one year, and life in the sprawling metropolis becomes increasingly weird. While living in an abandoned bookstore, dating Matt Dillon, and keeping an eye on the encroaching apocalypse, Michelle begins a new novel, a sprawling and metatextual exploration to complement her promises of maturity and responsibility. But as she tries to make queer love and art without succumbing to self-destructive vice, the boundaries between storytelling and everyday living begin to blur, and Michelle wonders how much she'll have to compromise her artistic process if she's going to properly ride out doomsday. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michelle Tea. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009734/bk_blak_009734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Prophet
Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. Before he departs, a group of people gather round and ask him to share his wisdom. Written as a collection of poetic essays, and detailing such diverse and sprawling topics as love, death, pleasure and prayer, The Prophet was an immediate success on its initial publication in 1923, and has since been translated into more than a hundred languages.- Shop: buecher
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The Mercy Thompson Collection Books 1-5 (eBook, ePUB)
Patricia Briggs presents a collection that includes the first five novels in her #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a coyote shapeshifter with some unusual talents, Mercy's found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so-human on more than one occasion... This collection includes: MOON CALLED BLOOD BOUND IRON KISSED BONE CROSSED SILVER BORNE- Shop: buecher
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the harsh totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty he begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker, Julia, but soon discovers that the true price of freedom is betrayal.- Shop: buecher
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Robert B. Parker's Wonderland
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favour. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino. Bitter rivals emerge and alliances turn.- Shop: buecher
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East of Eden , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1523min
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Poe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001730/bk_peng_001730_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Wizard : Gaean Trilogy, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 901min
One of the greatest science-fiction epics ever written, John Varley's Titan, Wizard, and Demon comprise a groundbreaking trilogy that will live forever. Human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of the alien Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful. And definitely insane.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allyson Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000215/bk_adbl_000215_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Crooked House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 345min
The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion - until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, 50 years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire's granddaughter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Fraser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000284/bk_hcuk_000284_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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