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  Fresh Air, Mary Karr, Hörbuch, Digital, 45min

  Poet and memoirist Mary Karr on this edition of Fresh Air. In a follow-up to Liar's Club, what critics call "a hard scrabble childhood," Karr returns to East Texas to detail her adolescence in Cherry. The author relates anecdotes of rebellion, self-doubt, and sexual coming of age. The recipient of several literary awards such as the Pushcart Prize and the Bunting Award, she has published two volumes of poetry. She is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. (Original Broadcast Date: October 2, 2000) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/010704/rt_whyy_010704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Fresh Air, Mary Karr, Hörbuch, Digital, 46min

  Poet and memoirist Mary Karr on this archive edition of Fresh Air. In a follow up to Liar's Club, what critics call "a hard scrabble childhood," Karr returns to East Texas to detail her adolescence in Cherry. The author relates anecdotes of rebellion, self-doubt, and sexual coming of age. The recipient of several literary awards such as the Pushcart Prize and the Bunting Award, she has published two volumes of poetry. She is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. (Original Broadcast Date: October 2, 2000) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/020201/rt_whyy_020201_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Step , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 33min

  Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic ghost story. The Step tells the bizarre and terrifying tale of a British money-lender in Alexandria who is aware of uncanny footsteps following him as he walks home from his club at nights. Initially he ignores the footsteps... then he plucks up courage to challenge the invisible follower... then finally he meets the mysterious follower and what he sees sends him running up the street in sheer terror. But worse is yet to come... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000502/bk_redd_000502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Arts and Letters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 890min

  Best-selling novelist, memoirist, and biographer Edmund White displays his sharp wit and boundless erudition in 37 portraits of the writers, artists, and cultural icons who have captured his curiosity and imagination for the last 20 years. White is as compelling as he is unpretentious in these stories of his encounters with some of the most provocative writers, artists, and personalities of our time. Marcel Proust, Catherine Deneuve, David Geffen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andre Gide, Michel Foucault, Andy Warhol, Vladimir Nabokov, Jean Genet, Jasper Johns, Allen Ginsberg, Yves Saint Laurent, and Elton John are among the cast. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000627/bk_acx0_000627_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min

  Joe Eszterhas knows a lot about darkness. A writer of sinister, sexually graphic, violent films like Basic Instinct and Jagged Edge, he awoke one hellishly hot day in 2001 and found God. Or, rather, God found him. Crossbearer is the powerful, poignant story of how a streetwise, cynical man found faith in some of the most mundane places: a game of baseball, a child's photo of a cloud, a dying mother's dying roses. A startling personal story, Crossbearer, written by a master memoirist, reveals a fresh, absolutely inspiring look at the importance of faith, values, family, and love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grainger Hines. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000087/bk_pnix_000087_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 386min

  A guide to keeping the psyche intact when you're being spun on life's roulette wheel. Is there an art to survival? Seeking answers to this intriguing question from a pantheon of master survivors, noted thinkers, and spiritual teachers, acclaimed memoirist Mark Matousek combines decades of personal experience with recent scientific breakthroughs - and heroic testimonies - to create a guidebook for navigating life's tricky terrain. How do we live with uncertainty - blossom through adversity while others fall apart, prevail in times of change and challenge? Transformation is in our wiring, the author concludes by the end of this deeply personal quest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Matousek. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008417/bk_acx0_008417_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  C. S. Lewis and the Art of Writing

  C. S. Lewis and the Art of Writing ab 34.49 € als Taschenbuch: What the Essayist Poet Novelist Literary Critic Apologist Memoirist Theologian Teaches Us about the Life and Craft of Writing. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,

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  My Mommy Medicine

  My Mommy Medicine is a picture book about the comfort and love a mama offers when her child isn't feeling well, from renowned author Edwidge Danticat. Whenever I am sick, Or just feel kind of gloomy or sad, I can always count on my Mommy Medicine. When a child wakes up not feeling well, it's mommy to the rescue! Her remedy includes a yummy cup of hot chocolate, a cozy bubble bath, unlimited snuggles and cuddles, fun sing-alongs, and all the extra special love and attention a kid could ask for. Mommy Medicine can heal all woes and make any day the best day! Award-winning memoirist Edwidge Danticat's rich and lyrical text envelops the reader in the security of a mother's love, and debut artist Shannon Wright's vibrant art infuses the story with even more warmth. A Parent's Choice Recommended Award Winner 2019 2020 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year List

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  Aunts and Pianos , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 21min

  Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his masterly and uncanny ghost stories. Less well known are his wonderful humorous stories, of which Aunts and Pianos is one. Bobby is an accomplished and charming pianist who has befriended a number of rich elderly widows and spinsters, each of which he refers to as 'aunt'. He already has his own Bechstein grand piano, plus another concert grand which was (touchingly but highly inconveniently) left to him by a late 'aunt'. Now various of his other 'aunts' are also keen to offload their grand pianos on him.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/001038/bk_redd_001038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Rest In Places: My Father's Post-Life Journey Around The World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 514min

  Death ends an embittered life and inspires a healing journey. Join award-winning memoirist Marlayna Glynn Brown on an emotional voyage in Rest In Places to understand the alcoholic father she never knew in life by taking his ashes to sacred places after his death. Joined by her teenage son, the twosome travel to foreign mountains, oceans, volcanoes, rivers, lakes and cloud forests to rejoin John Glynn with the world he found so troubling. A relatable must-read for anyone who has lost a loved one, this memoir lights the way to afterlife and afterdeath where forgiveness supersedes pain, blame, remorse and regret. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lia Frederick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026589/bk_acx0_026589_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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