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    814: Betty Dodson at 90, Hörbuch, Digital, 30min, (USK 18)
    [Contains explicit content] Susie shares letters from women pleading for an abortion in 1917 and 2018 - and they aren't so different. Next, a note from Betty Dodson's business partner and teaching heir. As gloomy as the news is, a joyous sex positive movement still lives. Then it's "New on Audible": Louise Fitzhugh’s Nobody's Family Is Going to Change is a lost classic and just as acerbic and tender as Harriet the Spy. Have a question or news story for Susie? You can send your confidential queries and comments to susie@susiebright.com. [Episode 814, December 14, 2018]   Language: English. Narrator: Susie Bright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/suzy/190015/pf_suzy_190015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ophira Eisenberg: Bangs!, Hörbuch, Digital, 50min, (USK 18)
    Ophira Eisenberg is the hilarious host of NPR's hit trivia comedy show Ask Me Another, a regular host and storyteller at The Moth, and a stand-up comedian based in Brooklyn, NY - but originally from Canada. Ophira's new comedy album, Bangs!, recorded at the intimate Brooklyn mainstay, Union Hall, showcases her unique ability to seamlessly move from acerbic one-liners to autobiographical stories, while airing biting commentaries on the dating app phenomenon TINDR, being married to a comic book nerd, and the singular luxuries of big city living - like being able to cry in public, undisturbed. Language: English. Narrator: Ophira Eisenberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cody/000585/bk_cody_000585_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Quite Ugly One Morning, Hörbuch, Digital, 333min
    Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? And if it's not the corpse, what is that awful smell? A post-Thatcherite nightmare of frightening plausibility, Quite Ugly One Morning is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller, full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue, and villains both reputed and shell-suited. Language: English. Narrator: David Tennant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000043/bk_twuk_000043_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Man with One of Those Faces , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 671min
    The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history.Or else they’ll be history. A Man with One of Those Faces is the first book in Caimh McDonnell's critically acclaimed Dublin Trilogy series, which melds fast-paced action with a distinctly Irish acerbic wit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Morgan C. Jones. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/126030/bk_acx0_126030_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The History of the Countess of Dellwyn, by Sarah Fielding (eBook, PDF)
    Sarah Fielding was one of the most respected women authors of her generation and a key figure in the development of the novel. She was admired especially by Samuel Richardson, who famously commented that her 'knowledge of the human heart' was greater than that of her brother, the novelist Henry Fielding. This edition revives The Countess of Dellwyn, the only one of Sarah Fielding's major works not previously available in a modern scholarly edition. The novel is satirical and didactic, taking as its targets fashionable life and modern marriage (and scandalous divorce) and narrated with acerbic wit by its anonymous third-person narrator. This edition benefits greatly from Gillian Skinner's editorial work and it is a book that will be of great interest to researchers into the eighteenth-century novel and women's writing of the period worldwide.
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    The History of the Countess of Dellwyn, by Sarah Fielding (eBook, ePUB)
    Sarah Fielding was one of the most respected women authors of her generation and a key figure in the development of the novel. She was admired especially by Samuel Richardson, who famously commented that her 'knowledge of the human heart' was greater than that of her brother, the novelist Henry Fielding. This edition revives The Countess of Dellwyn, the only one of Sarah Fielding's major works not previously available in a modern scholarly edition. The novel is satirical and didactic, taking as its targets fashionable life and modern marriage (and scandalous divorce) and narrated with acerbic wit by its anonymous third-person narrator. This edition benefits greatly from Gillian Skinner's editorial work and it is a book that will be of great interest to researchers into the eighteenth-century novel and women's writing of the period worldwide.
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    Catullus: The Complete Poems , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 190min
    Acerbic wit and stinging satire are contrasted with delicate sensibility and passionate desire in the work of the Latin poet Catullus. Armed with an urbane sophistication and an aristocratic circle of friends, Catullus moved about easily in the upper ranks of Roman society and was acquainted with Cicero, Caesar, and Pompey among others. His poems describe the lifestyle prevalent among his circle in the middle of the first century B.C. But it is his description of his love affair with a married woman he calls "Lesbia" which is the basis of his fame. His influence on later Latin poets and Renaissance writers was immense. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000126/bk_acon_000126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Eye in the Sky , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 478min
    When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy. Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic, and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and hilarious takedowns. Eye in the Sky blends the thrills and the jokes to craft a startling morality lesson hidden inside a comedy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan John Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003919/bk_brll_003919_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 276min
    With his signature acerbic wit and hilarious voice, 20-something author, blogger, and entrepreneur Shane Burcaw is back with an essay collection about living a full life in a body that many people perceive as a tragedy. From anecdotes about first introductions where people patted him on the head instead of shaking his hand, to stories of passersby mistaking his able-bodied girlfriend for a nurse, Shane tackles awkward situations and assumptions with humor and grace. On the surface, these essays are about day-to-day life as a wheelchair user with a degenerative disease, but they are actually about family, love, and coming of age. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirby Heyborne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052480/bk_adbl_052480_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Treasury of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Seven Great Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 279min
    There is no detective in fiction as shrewd as Sherlock Holmes. His dazzling analytical abilities regularly put Scotland Yard to the blush. An accomplished violinist, adept at a dozen obscure sciences, and possessed of an acerbic wit, Holmes's adventures with Dr. Watson have delighted readers for more than a century. Read by Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, this collection features "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-Headed League," "The Man with the Twisted Lip," "The Adventure of the Crooked Man," "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches," and "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons." This title is also available in Spanish as Las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ben Kingsley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dove/000220/bk_dove_000220_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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