43 Results for : hopefulness
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Imagine: The Story of a Song , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 55min
From the acclaimed literary biographer of Kurt Vonnegut and Harper Lee comes the life story of a song, one of the most iconic ever written: John Lennon's "Imagine". "Twenty-two lines of graceful, plain-spoken faith in the power of a world to repair and change itself," said Rolling Stone. Only 183 seconds long, the simple melody and poetry captured the wounded hopefulness of its moment - and transcended its time to inspire generations that followed. Charles J. Shields traces the song's origins - from the fire-bombing of Tokyo during Yoko Ono's youth to the violent death of Lennon's mother during his adolescence, from Lennon's post-Ed Sullivan skepticism to John and Yoko's Bed-Ins of 1969 - and unearths the secrets of its lasting import. If music can change the world, "Imagine" came as close as any song might. This is its story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Troxell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021344/bk_adbl_021344_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Future for Curious People , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 570min
Meet Evelyn and Godfrey. Evelyn is breaking up with her boyfriend, who’s passing out advertisements for his band on a snowy street corner in Baltimore. She's seen their dismal future together at Dr. Chin's office: she and her boyfriend, both many years older, singing "Happy Birthday" to a Chihuahua and arguing about cheese. She hopes for more. Meanwhile, Godfrey is proposing to his girlfriend, Madge, who is not quite willing to take that leap; she wants to see their future together first - just to be sure they're meant for each other. The Future for Curious People follows Evelyn and Godfrey's soon-to-be-entwined lives, set in motion by the fabulist premise of a world with envisionists like Dr. Chin. In struggling with their pasts and possible futures, the characters encounter the mysteries of sorrow, love, death, and fate. It’s a story that will capture you with its brightness, its hopefulness, its anxious twists and turns. It is a love story that is ultimately a statement about happiness and how to accept our fleeting existence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather Corrigan, Justin Torres. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000857/bk_high_000857_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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11 Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 271min
When Roscoe Jones, a one-time trumpet prodigy, loses his finger, he loses more than his ability to play. Instead of becoming a musician, he becomes the superintendent of the Chicago apartment building where he has lived since birth. Very soon, his life is no longer his own; he fades into the background, plumbing and fixing and toiling for the tenants populating the 11 stories above him. Although they hardly notice him as anything but a working part of the building, he develops a sometimes uncomfortable intimacy with the details of their complicated lives. Every night, in the privacy of his basement quarters, alone with his secret longings, he plays his trumpet. That is until the evening he climbs to the roof to play in public for the first time in 50 years - and the course of his life is irrevocably changed. For some, losses may turn, unexpectedly, to gain. For Roscoe, the relationships he forms with the tenants - two, in particular - justify the amputation of his finger and the forfeiture of his dreams. This is a story about sacrifice and service, longing and love - and the abiding hopefulness of the human heart that connects us all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Magnus. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023795/bk_acx0_023795_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Frazzlebrain (eBook, ePUB)
Find lasting relief from worry and stress with powerful techniques grounded in clinical experience and neuroscience. If you feel frazzled, you dwell in good company. Racing between the demands of work, health, family, and friends, many people report feelings of worry, irritability, and increasing stress. While we often cannot control stressful life events, we can learn to control our brain's response to those circumstances and reduce our suffering. Drawing from the latest research and more than 25 years of clinical experience, Dr. Gina Simmons Schneider explains the link between anxiety, anger, and stress and shares groundbreaking remedies from neuropsychology. These tools will strengthen your resilience and expand your capacity for happiness.In Frazzlebrain, you'll discover how to: Soften your response to stress Overcome toxic self-criticism Tame hostile and cynical thinking Activate your brain's self-healing properties Create meaningful experiences Cultivate optimism and hopefulness Each chapter offers exercises, case examples, and self-improvement skills to help you achieve a calmer, happier, healthier lifestyle.- Shop: buecher
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Coping with Death and Destruction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 571min
This is a collection of twelve, high concept, multi-part short stories reflecting on and inspired by the death and transformation of the year 2016. It serves as an elegy for that period of time, submerging into its dark themes of loss, extracting what irreverence and hopefulness it can, and reflecting it through a prism of an eternal universe. Sorted astrologically, the stories sometimes span generations, depicting conflict based around such themes as apocalypse, dreams, aging, dying, ghosts, the afterlife, animals, nature, global politics and pop culture. Location also varies, taking the reader through several American states to North Korea, Africa, the Philippines and beyond - often peppered with heavy doses of Southern Gothic sensibility. Here you can listen about religion based on science fiction and fantasy, a 1960's lounge singer marginalized by the Beatles, or a mixture of drugs that allows the user to summon the dead. Several of the tales blend fact into the fiction, nodding to the cultural giants whose deaths loomed over the year 2016: David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Carrie Fisher and others. These are detailed and developed stories, intended to instill within the reader a sense of timelessness and a comfort in the notion of infinity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arrison Kirby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090074/bk_acx0_090074_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Earl Nightingale: Understanding the Life and Teachings of One of Americas First and Greatest Motivational Speakers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 55min
The life of the man who is arguably one of the greatest philosophers of his era began in a time when one would not expect such a profound outcome. Born in Los Angeles, California on March 12, 1921, Earl Nightingale's humble beginnings proved to be an ideal setting. In his prime, he earned the title of the "Dean of Personal Development", but there was once a time when hopefulness was not a part of his everyday reality. The country's most inspirational motivational speaker and author was inspired by his meager surroundings. At just 12 years old, Earl witnessed his father walk out on his mother, Gladys "Honey" Nightingale, and his two brothers. Millions of American citizens were already unemployed and, now, Honey and her three boys joined the ranks of the needy. To support them, she took a job working in a sewing factory at the Works Progress Administration (WPA). At the time, the WPA was credited for developing eight million jobs for the unemployed and distributing clothes, food, and housing to the poor. Here is a preview of what you'll learn when you download your copy today: Earl Nightingale's life story The strangest secret The importance knowing and manifesting what you want in life How to incorporate Earl Nightingale's message into your own life The growth of Earl Nightingale's business ventures ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dale M. Wilcox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/066394/bk_acx0_066394_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Death On The Ferry Hygeia
THE 1920'S. A TIME OF EXCITEMENT AND TUMULTUOUS SOCIAL CHANGE. The horrors of World War One have passed, receding into history and the Great Depression has yet to come. In the bubble of relative calm, the city prospered as her citizens went about their lives. Ineffective social welfare led to crushing poverty and low-level crime. Defending the city from villains was an undermanned and under equipped police force experiencing great change. A well connected but guileless young policeman begins his career in this city of contrasts, blended extreme poverty and wealthy privilege. Constable Jim Foley's commitment and enthusiasm is put to the test under the scrutiny of his uncle a senior Officer in the force. A major charity event is planned aboard the majestic Port Phillip Bay excursion ferry Hygeia. But his career, and even his very life, are on the line as evil stalks the decks of this luxurious excursion ship and the blood flows into the water... "An historical ride into a period of modesty and hopefulness that drives a tale of suspense and thrill just as Agatha did on the Nile, a blast of classic past storytelling and mystery...wonderful work!" Dianne, Indiebook reviewer- Shop: buecher
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Death On The Ferry Hygeia (eBook, ePUB)
THE 1920'S. A TIME OF EXCITEMENT AND TUMULTUOUS SOCIAL CHANGE.The horrors of World War One have passed, receding into history and the Great Depression has yet to come. In the bubble of relative calm, the city prospered as her citizens went about their lives. Ineffective social welfare led to crushing poverty and low-level crime. Defending the city from villains was an undermanned and under equipped police force experiencing great change. A well connected but guileless young policeman begins his career in this city of contrasts, blended extreme poverty and wealthy privilege. Constable Jim Foley's commitment and enthusiasm is put to the test under the scrutiny of his uncle a senior Officer in the force. A major charity event is planned aboard the majestic Port Phillip Bay excursion ferry Hygeia. But his career, and even his very life, are on the line as evil stalks the decks of this luxurious excursion ship and the blood flows into the water... "An historical ride into a period of modesty and hopefulness that drives a tale of suspense and thrill just as Agatha did on the Nile, a blast of classic past storytelling and mystery...wonderful work!" Dianne, Indiebook reviewer- Shop: buecher
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Writers & Lovers (eBook, ePUB)
Funny and heartbreaking, Writers & Lovers by Lily King is the bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life, until two men step into her world and offer her two very different futures.The New York Times Bestseller'Captivating, potent, incisive, and wise' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe'Extremely funny' - Sunday TimesRecently out of a devastating love affair and mourning the loss of her beloved mum, Casey is lost. The novel she has been writing for six years isn't going anywhere, her debt is soaring, and at thirty-one, with all her friends getting married and having kids, she feels too old for things to be this way.Then she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar - older, fascinating, troubled - walks into her life, his two boys in tow. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, torn between two very different relationships that promise two very different futures. And she's still got to write that book . . .'Suffused with hopefulness and kindness' - Ann Patchett'Exquisite' - Sunday Telegraph'Funny and immensely clever' - Tessa Hadley'Beautiful . . . Reading the book feels like waiting for clouds to break - a kind of gorgeous agony' - Guardian'I loved this book' - Curtis Sittenfeld- Shop: buecher
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Breathe (eBook, ePUB)
After being pressed into service as a nurse, seventeen-year-old Virginia discovers her innate talent, begins a clandestine romance with her father's Italian assistant, and learns what it truly means to be a modern woman during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. "Don't miss BREATHE! Fujimura brilliantly weaves together a love story and a coming-of-age tale, amid the shifting post-war world. 1918 comes alive for readers in this beautifully told account of a doctor's teenage daughter fighting to save herself, her family, and her friends during the Spanish flu epidemic-an epidemic that took more American lives than both world wars combined. Vividly told, exquisitely researched, and not to be missed." ~Kathleen Baldwin, award-winning author of REFUGE FOR MASTERMINDS, EXILE FOR DREAMERS, and A SCHOOL FOR UNUSUAL GIRLS "BREATHE intricately weaves the seriousness of the Spanish Flu/WWI and the hopefulness of women on the cusp of having their right to vote recognized with the exhilaration of falling in love and following your dream into a tapestry of events that influences headstrong seventeen-year-old Ginny's future. You will root for her all the way!" ~Kathleen Burkinshaw, award-winning author of THE LAST CHERRY BLOSSOM- Shop: buecher
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