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    Spies of the Balkans (eBook, ePUB)
    Salonika, 1940. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. In the backrooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers.Costa Zannis is the city's dashing chief detective - a man with contacts high and low, in the Balkans and beyond. And as unknown ships and British 'travel writers' trickle through the port, he is a man very much in demand. Having helped defeat Italy in the highlands of Macedonia, Zannis returns to a city holding its breath. Mussolini's forces have retreated - for now - but German sights are fixed firmly on the region. And as the situation in Germany worsens, Zannis becomes involved in an audacious plot - smuggling Jews to Istanbul, through the back door of Europe. The British hear he can penetrate the continent's closed borders, and soon Zannis is embroiled in the resistance, and in a reckless love affair that could jeopardise everything. With a remarkable cast of operatives, SPIES OF THE BALKANS is a brilliant espionage novel from Alan Furst.
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    My Life In Music
    Die legendäre Pianistin Ruth Slenczynska, die gerade ihren 97. Geburtstag feierte, ist die letzte lebendeSchülerin des großen russischen Komponisten und Pianisten Sergej Rachmaninow und kehrt nach sechsJahrzehnten mit einem brandneuen Solo-Klavieralbum für Decca Classics zurück. Unter dem Titel MyLife in Music feiert das Album ihr bemerkenswertes Leben und ihre Karriere als Pianistin, die in den1920er Jahren als Wunderkind begann. My Life in Music ist inspiriert von Slenczynskas persönlichenBeziehungen zu Rachmaninow, aber auch zum amerikanischen Komponisten Samuel Barber, der SlenczynskasStudienkollege war. Slenczynska hörte sogar Barbers inzwischen weltberühmtes Adagio für Streicherim Klassenzimmer, bevor dieses Stück seinen Titel trug. Und einmal ist Slenczynska für Rachmaninoweingesprungen, als er wegen einer Verletzung nicht auftreten konnte. Auf dem neuen Album beschäftigtsich Slenczynska auch mit der Musik von Chopin, Debussy, Grieg und Bach, die alle für sie Erinnerungenan ihre großen pianistischen Mentoren wecken. Nachdem die Pianistin in den 1950er und 60er Jahren fürDecca Gold aufgenommen hatte, ist Slenczynska begeistert, wieder ein Album aufzunehmen: Unglaublich!Wer hat schon gehört, dass eine Pianistin in meinem Alter noch ein Album aufnimmt? Musik soll Freudemachen. Und wenn meine Musik den Zuhörern immer noch Freude bereitet, dann tut sie, was sie tun soll.
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    The Tragedy of Brady Sims , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 172min
    A courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order - in the final novella by the beloved Ernest J. Gaines. After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks only to be allowed two hours before he'll give himself up to the sheriff. When the editor of the local newspaper asks his cub reporter to dig up a "human interest" story about Brady, he heads for the town's barbershop. It is the barbers and the regulars who hang out there who narrate with empathy, sadness, humor, and a profound understanding the life story of Brady Sims - an honorable, just, and unsparing man who, with his tough love, had been handed the task of keeping the black children of Bayonne, Louisiana, in line to protect them from the unjust world in which they lived. And when his own son makes a fateful mistake, it is up to Brady to carry out the necessary reckoning. In the telling, we learn the story of a small Southern town divided by race and the black community struggling to survive even as many of its inhabitants head off northward during the Great Migration.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: JD Jackson, Danny Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005279/bk_rand_005279_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 565min
    Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? How could anyone think that mortals like Perseus, Beowulf, and St. George actually fought dragons, since dragons don't exist? Strange though they sound, however, these "myths" did not begin as fiction.This absorbing book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies. Geologists' interpretations of how a volcanic cataclysm long ago created Oregon's Crater Lake, for example, is echoed point for point in the local myth of its origin. The Klamath tribe saw it happen and passed down the story - for nearly 8,000 years. We, however, have been literate for so long that we've forgotten how myths encode reality. Recent studies of how our brains work, applied to a wide range of data from the Pacific Northwest to ancient Egypt to modern stories reported in newspapers, have helped the Barbers deduce the characteristic principles by which such tales both develop and degrade through time. Myth is in fact a quite reasonable way to convey important messages orally over many generations - although reasoning back to the original events is possible only under rather specific conditions.Our oldest written records date to 5,200 years ago, but we have been speaking and mythmaking for perhaps 100,000. This groundbreaking book points the way to restoring some of that lost history and teaching us about human storytelling. The book is published by Princeton University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beth Richmond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redw/000021/bk_redw_000021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Not Another Prison Diary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 251min
    When the City of London police raided the home of boiler room suspect and stockbroker mason's home in 2011, what came next was a roller-coaster ride from hell taking this former city boy into the bowels of one of Europe's most notorious prisons.Housing murderers, rapists, cartel members and this middle-class boy from Essex. Not Another Prison Diary tells you what happened in the aftermath of the UK's first "Wolf of Wall Street" style conviction."Want to see inside? What about "Inside"!A story that is unabashedly true and unblemished by artistic license. This is a true account of one man's time behind bars in Modern Britain, within an ancient prison."In 2011 I said goodbye to my family and walked into the first day of my new life. A name in the morning, a number at night. My comfortable suburban home, swapped for a shared cell, surrounded by murderers, rapists and the very dregs of society you'd cross the road to avoid.This is my inside story, of inside life. A diary, unlike others. Suicide, gangbanging, billionaire barbers and a shed load of heroin.My crimes? I was the UK's first boiler room conviction.Think Wolf of Wall Street, but a less impressive resume, slightly fewer drugs and a different accent. But that's me. And this is my no-holds-barred diary of exactly what goes on in the Queen's finest establishments.I hope this read helps you if you are about to walk this path, or if you need a reason to think twice before doing anything a little stupid. I wrote this for you.This is your white-collar crime to prison tracksuit fairytale, and I'm in charge of the class." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Mason. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205514/bk_acx0_205514_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone, Hörbuch, Digital, 83min
    Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting funny songs to YouTube that immediately turned heads with their wise satire that belied his very young age. He quickly struck a chord. Over 16 million people watched his videos and he soon amassed a gigantic (and young) online following that excitedly awaited each new video. Soon after that, Bo became revered in all comedy circles for being a wholly original, highly intelligent young voice. Judd Apatow started championing the young comedian, and Bo taped his first Comedy Central special at age 18, the youngest in history. His comedy/song albums were huge critical and commercial successes. His MTV show, Zach Stone is Gonna be Famous, of which he is the star, writer, director, and producer, and which largely comments on his own rise to fame, will premiere in 2013. Written in his very distinctive comedic voice, Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone brings Bo's award-winning brand of brainy word play to the page in the form of off-kilter writings, thoughts, and poems. Collaborating with long-time friend, artist and illustrator Chance Bone, Bo writes about everything from painful breakups to bald barbers, in a collection that makes the reader laugh, but like his stand-up and music, also displays surprisingly mature insights. Read by the author, and with original black & white illustrations supplied as an accompanying PDF, this book will appeal to Bo's already established fans. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.  Language: English. Narrator: Bo Burnham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000628/bk_orio_000628_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture During Lockdown , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 330min
    How does one record an extraordinary time? Confined to his Delhi apartment, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee unravels the intimate paradoxes of the life he encounters in the first weeks of a global pandemic. His stories about local fish sellers, gardeners, barbers, and lovers merge with his concerns for the exodus of migrant labourers, the challenges faced by health workers, and a mother braving check posts to bring her son home.   Drawing inspiration from contemporary literature and cinema, The Town Slowly Empties is a unique window on a world desperate for love, care, and hope. Manash is our Everyman, urging us to slow down and mend our broken ties with nature.  Written with rare candour and elegance, this meditative book is a compelling account of the human condition that soars high above the empty streets.“The Town Slowly Empties retains a raw and authentic tone, describing an experience from the inside, unmediated by time and memory.” (Sasha Dugdale, author of Deformations [from the foreword])“Lyrical and evocative, a pandemic journal with a difference.” (Siddhartha Deb, author of The Beautiful and the Damned)“Captivating observations, piercing personal memories and essayistic reflections with a double goal: to bear witness and to remain a human being.” (Aleš Steger, author of Above the Sky Beneath the Earth)“What sustains the narrator-protagonist of this beautiful and compelling memoir of our very own plague year is his passionate, full-bodied immersion in culture.” (Ranjit Hoskote, author of The Atlas of Beliefs)“In this book of quiet meditations, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee shows the unique value of sensible, informed and honest thought... The greatest contribution is the author’s sheer calm of mind in a world driven mad by anxiety.” (Peter Riley, editor of The Fortnightly Review) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Spencer Dillehay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231945/bk_acx0_231945_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sketches New and Old , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 741min
    Sketches New and Old is a compilation of fictional stories written by Mark Twain. Among them is "A Ghost Story". In each story, one can catch a great sense of Twain's humor and creativity. These classic sketches from Twain are no longer than 10 minutes each, but all show his quick-witted humor in response to the events of the day. A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. Composed between 1863 and 1875, the 63 often outrageous sketches in Sketches, New and Old contain, for instance, a piece about the difficulty of getting a pocket watch repaired properly; complaints about barbers and office bores; and satirical comments on bureaucrats, courts of law, the profession of journalism, the claims of science, and the workings of government. In Mark Twain's hands, all these potentially dry and dull topics bristle with vitality and interest. "What fascinates Twain," Lee Smith writes in her introduction, is how people "react to the things that happen to them." Twain "lets them speak in their own voices by and large, in a chorus ranging from high-flown oratory to the plain speech of working people.... It seems generally true that the more elevated the speech, the likelier that person is to be an idiot; words of wisdom and common sense are invariably voiced by the common man" - or woman. "The most profound and moving sketch in this whole collection" Smith writes, is one "told by a freed slave." The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches in this volume are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during 13 quite amazing years. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Field. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/001714/bk_hove_001714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 302min
    Imagine for a moment that you are about to take a foreign vacation to an exotic destination. You have saved your entire life to travel there. It is a destination with almost unlimited choices of how to spend your time and you know you will not have enough time to explore every opportunity. You are fairly certain that you will never get to take a second trip to this destination; this will be your one opportunity.Now imagine that someone informs you that there are several people in your neighborhood who have been to that country, explored every corner. Some of them enjoyed the journey and have few regrets, but others wish they could take the trip again knowing what they know now. Would you not invite them over for dinner, ask them to bring their photographs, listen to their stories, and hear their advice? This is precisely the journey explored in this book. Dr. John Izzo and his colleagues interviewed over 200 people over the age of 60 (up to 106 years of age) who were identified by others as having lived happy lives and as having found purpose and contentment. The interviewees ranged from aboriginal elders to town barbers, from Holocaust survivors to former CEOs. In these interviews, each person was asked to reflect back on his or her life to identify the sources of happiness and meaning as well as lessons learned, regrets, major crossroads, and what did not contribute to meaning in their lives. Based on these interviews, and Dr. Izzo’s 20 years experience helping people find more spirit and purpose, the book explores the secrets to finding contentment, happiness, and purpose. Using a powerful narrative voice, Dr. Izzo helps the listener understand the common themes from the lives of those interviewed, the commonality of what really matters in their lives, and especially how to put this wisdom into practice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Izzo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155075/bk_acx0_155075_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Old Calabria (eBook, PDF)
    I Find it hard to sum up in one word the character of Lucera - the effect it produces on the mind; one sees so many towns that the freshness of their images becomes blurred. The houses are low but not undignified; the streets regular and clean; there is electric light and somewhat indifferent accommodation for travellers; an infinity of barbers and chemists. Nothing remarkable in all this. Yet the character is there, if one could but seize upon it, since every place has its genius. Perhaps it lies in a certain feeling of aloofness that never leaves one here. We are on a hill - a mere wave of ground; a kind of spur, rather, rising up from the south - quite an absurd little hill, but sufficiently high to dominate the wide Apulian plain. And the nakedness of the land stimulates this aerial sense.There are some trees in the "Belvedere" or public garden that lies on the highest part of the spur and affords a fine view north and eastwards. But the greater part were only planted a few years ago, and those stretches of brown earth, those half-finished walks and straggling pigmy shrubs, give the place a crude and embryonic appearance. One thinks that the designers might have done more in the way of variety; there are no conifers excepting a few cryptomerias and yews which will all be dead in a couple of years, and as for those yuccas, beloved of Italian municipalities, they will have grown more dyspeptic-looking than ever. None the less, the garden will be a pleasant spot when the ilex shall have grown higher; even now it is the favourite evening walk of the citizens.
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