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    Our Mutual Friend: The Audible Dickens Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2097min
    This definitive performance of Our Mutual Friend - Dickens' final completed novel - features expert narration by Meera Syal and an exclusive introduction written and read by Lucinda Hawksley, great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Hawksley is a biographer, author and lecturer whose wealth of knowledge on Dickens is both research-led and personal. She introduces us to the themes in Our Mutual Friend and tells us how they connect to the life of Dickens himself. Full of both satire and social analysis, Our Mutual Friend looks at what could happen in Victorian England when a fortune passes to a working-class couple. The audiobook will enchant the listener with its larger-than-life characters, its poignant depiction of social injustice and the singular seed of hope with which Dickens hints at the possibility of a better tomorrow. About the author Having experienced the incarceration of his father, Charles Dickens had to abandon his studies at a young age and set to work in a factory so as to support himself. Despite his short-lived education, Dickens went on to write 15 novels, various articles, novellas and short stories. He lectured and led campaigns for children's rights and education and arguably became the ultimate self-made man. About the narrator Comedian, writer and actor Meera Syal rose to prominence as one of the creators of comedy sketch show Goodness Gracious Me and cemented herself as a household name in the UK portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42. Multitalented Syal has penned novels, scripts and screenplays as well as lending her vocals to various songs and albums. Here she uses her voice to tell our Dickensian story with all the mastery you would expect from this talented performer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meera Syal, Lucinda Hawksley - introduction. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033676/bk_adbl_033676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 440min
    Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic is the sequel to the hilariously scary New York Times bestselling novel Nightmares! by multitalented actor Jason Segel and bestselling author Kirsten Miller. You thought the nightmares were over? You better keep the lights on! Charlie Laird has a dream life. He has a weirdo stepmom who runs an herbarium. He lives in a purple mansion with a portal to the Netherworld. Since they escaped from the Netherworld, he and his best friends have been sleeping like babies. But Charlie can't shake the feeling that something strange is afoot. Charlotte's herbarium used to be one of the busiest stores in Cypress Creek. Now her loyal following is heading to Orville Falls for their herbal potions. Weirder, though, Orville Falls is suddenly filled with...zombies? At least, they sure look like the walking dead. Rumor has it that no one's sleeping in Orville Falls. And Charlie knows what that means. Things are getting freaky again.Praise for the Nightmares! Series:"Charlie Laird, who learns fear will eat you alive if you feed it, makes an impression, and...readers will want to accompany him again." (The New York Times Book Review)"A touching comical saga...about facing things that go bump in the night." (US Weekly)"Coraline meets Monsters, Inc. in this delightfully entertaining offering from actor [Jason] Segel and co-author [Kirsten] Miller." (Publishers Weekly)"Comical antics, cartoonish spot illustrations, and creepy villains make for quite an entertaining read."(Booklist)"Succeeds at scaring and amusing in equal measure... Sweet, charming, and imaginative." (Kirkus Reviews)"An engaging and creative story...woven with a generous amount [of] humor." (VOYA)"There's humor and a fairly high ick-factor." (School Library Journal)"Cleverly craf ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Segel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001903/bk_lili_001903_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 781min
    In this remarkable dual memoir, film legend Martin Sheen and accomplished actor/filmmaker Emilio Estevez recount their lives as father and son. In alternating chapters—and in voices that are as eloquent as they are different—they narrate stories spanning more than 50 years of family history, and reflect on their journeys into two different kinds of faith. At 21, still a struggling actor living hand to mouth, Martin and his wife, Janet, welcomed their firstborn, Emilio, an experience of profound joy for the young couple, who soon had three more children: Ramon, Charlie, and Rene. As Martin’s career moved from stage to screen, the family moved from New York City to Malibu, while traveling together to film locations around the world, from Mexico for Catch-22 to Colorado for Badlands to the Philippines for the legendary Apocalypse Now shoot. As the firstborn, Emilio had a special relationship with Martin: They often mirrored each other’s passions and sometimes clashed in their differences. After Martin and Emilio traveled together to India for the movie Gandhi, each felt the beginnings of a spiritual awakening that soon led Martin back to his Catholic roots, and eventually led both men to Spain, from where Martin’s father had emigrated to the United States. Along the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage path, Emilio directed Martin in their acclaimed film, The Way, bringing three generations of Estevez men together in the region of Spain where Martin’s father was born, and near where Emilio’s own son had moved to marry and live. With vivid, behind-the-scenes anecdotes of this multitalented father’s and son’s work with other notable actors and directors, Along the Way is a striking, stirring, funny story—a family saga that listeners will recognize as universal in its rebellions and regrets, aspirations and triumphs. Strikingly candid, searchingly honest, and full of the immediacy and warmth that ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004291/bk_adbl_004291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Blue Sapphire: The Blue Chronicles, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 996min
    The Blue Sapphire is the second in a series of five books chronicling the magical exploits of Princess Blue, Princess Victoriana, and Lady Charlotte along with many other endearing and some not so enduring characters. A fairy tale in the spirit of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Mary Poppins with her magical powers.Two young princesses and their lovely governess, banished from the Kingdom of the North for reasons beyond their understanding, attempt to avoid the diabolical wrath of the wickedly beautiful Aleksandrina. Traveling across the land, they encounter brigands, thieves, and the roguish Shurta Watenea. They also meet incredible creatures such as the friendly Ihop and the dreaded gompies.Mistaken for wily and risqué Damettes, the princesses are at first shunned, until their true identity is discovered. They have little time to rest while negotiating a labyrinth of adventures traveling to their new home at Schloss Lichtenstein. Simultaneously, the princesses learn to survive without the shield of royal status.Their governess Lady Charlotte confronts many dangerous and deadly challenges as she races ahead of the princesses. Even with the protection of a mythical sisterhood of courageous and multitalented female knights, the wicked Damodell Queen may still trick them into her lair. Legend says the only force capable of defeating the evil one’s plan is the triad of The Blue Sapphire. Unbeknownst to the three maidens, they are The Blue Sapphire. Originally written as a fairy tale for bedtime, the stories evolved into an exciting series about friendship, love, and the coming of age. The Blue Sapphire, along with the rest of the series, is an enjoyable escape for those of all ages.About the author: C.B. Phillips was a career soldier in the United States Army, deployed multiple times to Iraq. C.B. Phillips wrote the Blue Books as a psychological escape from the realities of war ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan McGurl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225340/bk_acx0_225340_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    American Legends: The Life of Howard Hughes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 292min
    My father told me, never have partners. (Howard Hughes) "I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire." (Howard Hughes) Howard Hughes lived a life that was quintessentially American, and his personal history was so varied, improbable, and extraordinary that he practically resembled a living folk hero. Hughes was barely in his 20s during America's Roaring Twenties, but he had already begun to command the nation's headlines as a multitalented millionaire, and the varied pastimes that his talents and wealth afforded him made him nearly impossible to ignore. In the '20s and '30s, the most famous people in the country were generally gangsters, jazz musicians, inventors, baseball players, Hollywood stars, or flying aces, and by the end of the '30s, the 35-year-old Hughes was at least three, and arguably four, of those; perhaps learning to play jazz or hit home runs seemed greedy at that point. After receiving a handsome inheritance in his teens, Howard made himself into one of the world's first billionaires by the time he was in middle age, so he clearly wasted no time. Already a tycoon at the age of 20, Hughes took no pleasure in rest or success, and his accomplishments were just as unique as the man himself. He made Oscar-nominated films while simultaneously becoming the fastest man on the planet by setting airspeed records in a plane of his own invention, but even as he became a national celebrity, he displayed little interest in other people. A consummate loner, he rarely interacted with the elite social circles to which he had access unless business necessitated it, instead surrounding himself with employees to carry out the practical matters of his empire, make his designs into reality, cobble together his film productions, and organize the disparate parts of his life according to his precise specifications. He was known to millions and managed a diverse empire, but was a friend to no one. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Romick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038558/bk_acx0_038558_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    I'm an Idiot, Hörbuch, Digital, 41min, (USK 18)
    A multitalented farm boy from Hutchinson, Kansas, Brett Riley considers himself the proverbial everyman. Everyone who comes across this "slim-fat" white guy with a small-town Kansas demeanor and a friendly "I've met this guy before" face has the same reaction: "Didn't see that coming." An accomplished comedian and vocalist with an endless grab bag of stories, observations, and opinions, his motto is "forget the formula", because "we are the formula, and in a nutshell, we should strive to leave our own footprints rather than follow in those of others". His comedy career was born at the age of 20, when he was signed up by a friend for an open-mic night. "The club owner said that he was going to give me the light in five minutes, and that means you're done and off stage, no questions asked. But the light never came on, and, at the time where I realized I'd been up there for about 15 minutes, I thanked the crowd and went off. The club owner came up to me and offered me two hundred dollars to come back and open for the guy he had coming in from Memphis, which for us was the big city. That's where it started." Two years after moving to LA, Brett was stopped in his tracks by a near-fatal car accident. Afraid of being forgotten, he limped back onstage with crutches just two weeks after the accident. Today, after doing stand-up for 15 years, Brett is a crowd favorite. His act is ever evolving, much like himself. His material comes from his real-life experiences. He talks about life as a married dad, his real-life frustrations, and his take on pop culture. His audiences find him totally relatable and engaging. Brett Riley is a stand out performer in a Los Angeles comedy scene that is overflowing with talent. He is a force to be reckoned with! Language: English. Narrator: Brett Riley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/roar/000177/pf_roar_000177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    This Living Hand: And Other Essays , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1165min
    When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris (who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison) was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his teachers told him, "You have the most precious gift of all - originality." That quality is abundantly evident in this selection of essays. They cover 40 years in the life of a maverick intellectual who can be, at whim, astonishingly provocative, self-mockingly funny, and richly anecdotal. (The title essay, a tribute to Reagan in cognitive decline, is poignant in the extreme.) Whether Morris is analyzing images of Barack Obama or the prose style of President Clinton, or exploring the riches of the New York Public Library Dance Collection, or interviewing the novelist Nadine Gordimer, or proposing a hilarious "Diet for the Musically Obese", a continuous cross-fertilization is going on in his mind. It mixes the cultural pollens of Africa, Britain, and the United States, and propogates hybrid flowers - some fragrant, some strange, some a shock to conventional sensibilities. Repeatedly in This Living Hand, Morris celebrates the physicality of artistic labor, and laments the glass screen that today’s e-devices interpose between inspiration and execution. No presidential biographer has ever had so literary a "take" on his subjects: He discerns powers of poetic perception even in the obsessively scientific Edison. Nor do most writers on music have the verbal facility to articulate, as Morris does, what it is about certain sounds that soothe the savage breast. His essay on the pathology of Beethoven’s deafness breaks new ground in suggesting that tinnitus may explain some of the weird aural effects in that composer’s works. Masterly monographs on the art of biography, South Africa in the last days of apartheid, the romance of the piano, and the role of imagination in nonfiction are juxtaposed with enchanting, almost unclassifiable ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edmund Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003316/bk_rand_003316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Like Brothers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min
    The multitalented writers, directors, producers, and actors (as seen on The League, Transparent, and The Mindy Project) share the secrets of their lifelong partnership in this unique memoir.   "A book that anyone will love... You can enjoy it even if you have no idea who the Duplass brothers are." [Janet Maslin, The New York Times ("17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer")] Whether producing, writing, directing, or acting, the Duplass Brothers have made their mark in the world of independent film and television on the strength of their quirky and empathetic approach to storytelling. Now, for the first time, Mark and Jay take listeners on a tour of their lifelong partnership in this unique memoir told in essays that share the secrets of their success, the joys and frustrations of intimate collaboration, and the lessons they've learned the hard way. From a childhood spent wielding an oversize home video camera in the suburbs of New Orleans to their shared years at the University of Texas in early '90s Austin, and from the breakthrough short they made on a three-dollar budget to the night their feature film Baghead became the center of a Sundance bidding war, Mark and Jay tell the story of a bond that's resilient, affectionate, mutually empowering, and only mildly dysfunctional. They are brutally honest about how their closeness sabotaged their youthful romantic relationships, about the jealousy each felt when the other stole the spotlight as an actor (Mark in The League, Jay in Transparent), and about the challenges they faced on the set of their HBO series Togetherness - namely, too much togetherness.  But Like Brothers is also a surprisingly practical road map to a rewarding creative partnership. Rather than split all their responsibilities 50-50, the brothers learned to capitalize on each other's strengths. They're not ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006039/bk_rand_006039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    I'm Free
    Are you ready to release the troubles of this world that have you bound? Are you ready to free yourself to the will of God? If you've answered yes, then this album is for YOU! Tina Marie Johnson writes and composes songs to minister to the innermost spirit of mankind. It's her desire to provide hope for the hopeless and encourage the body of believers in Christ Jesus to establish an intimate relationship with Him. Over the years, her passion for gospel music continues to intensify. It has been God's divine will that Tina continues to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ through the gift of music. From the first note produced by this marvelous singer/musician/writer/producer you will agree that she has the Midas touch. God blessed Tina to release her own independent project entitled "Don't Give Up" in July 2006. This project is a personal testimony that God will reward those who delight themselves in Him and stay in His will. Two years later, God continued to give her song after song to encourage those who long for a closer relationship with Him and the freedom to proclaim His mighty acts. So, in obedience to do His will, Tina released her second project entitled, "I'm Free" in September 2008. Throughout this project, Tina tells a story of how FAITH alone will help you reach your destiny. It doesn't matter how strenuous the task might be, "Somehow Someway" God will grant you favor "In His Time". Tina is multitalented in the area of ushering God's people into His presence as a musician and Praise and Worship leader. It's her mission to lead people beyond the comfort zone of praise, but into worshipping God in spirit and in truth. Tina has served as a music director for various ministries over the past 17 years. Her experience within teaching, directing, facilitating music ministry workshops and coordinating concert productions has enhanced the calling God has placed on her life. Tina's goal is to make music that the entire world, every age and nationality can relate to. "I want people to be encouraged and uplifted when they listen to my music. God is good and I am thankful He entrusted me to do a work for Him. Remember only what you do for Christ will last and make the difference!!!"
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    Riddim of the Dove / Various
    At a time when our youth are under increased pressure and scrutiny this group of multitalented Musical Ambassadors demonstrate what is possible when assistance, opportunities, guidance and moral support are afforded to them. These five Musical Ambassadors are involved in every aspect of this production from the root to the tip this is a showcase of youth potential at it's best. All these are self-taught musicians who have labored long and hard hours to see this product to it's fruition. Once again, thanks to the kind assistance of Washasha X of Turtle Dove Productions and Turtle Dove Recording Studio along with their own Lions Den Recording Studio. These are examples of a few of the new Beat Makers gracing Nature's Little Secret on the island of Tortola. A nice blend of Soca, Reggae, Dance Hall and HipHop demonstrate where today's Virgin Islands music is headed. Coming from the same local as the famous Island Pop Artist known as "IYAZ", these youths are ready to take on the WORLD.
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