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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 446min
A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at 33, based on the author's viral Buzzfeed essay. Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon she saw the world - quite literally - upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the hospital, and multiple questions and tests, she learned that she had had a stroke. For months Lee outsourced her memories to her notebook. It is from these memories that she has constructed this frank and compelling memoir. In a precise and captivating narrative, Lee navigates fearlessly between chronologies, weaving her childhood humiliations and joys together with the story of the early days of her marriage and then later, in painstaking, painful, and unflinching detail, her stroke and every upset, temporary or permanent, that it causes. Lee processes her stroke and illuminates the connection between memory and identity in an honest, meditative, and truly funny manner, utterly devoid of self-pity. And as she recovers, she begins to realize that this unexpected and devastating event provides a catalyst for coming to terms with her true self. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005772/bk_harp_005772_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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BDSM Series: Domination & Submission for Slave Adults. Rough Stories on Punishment, Discipline, Humiliations, Sadomasochism and Sex-Game , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 380min, (USK 18)
Tales of shy submissive women, ready to be taken for a ride of painful orgasmic pleasure!This rough collection is packed with stories of first-time BDSM experience, a dominant man exploring a younger submissive woman’s body, outdoor exploration and more....The characters in this audiobook are consenting adults engaged in a variety of kinky, fun activities and this novel is intended for adult listeners only!Play safe, play excited.... Click buy now and enjoy this naughty collection of stories! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D.J. Rhyder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/217282/bk_acx0_217282_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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This Old Body: And 99 Other Reasons to Laugh at Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 164min
Personal essays on the ridiculousness of aging. It’s clean, it’s clever, it’s anything but clichéd, This Old Body speaks to all of us who aren’t what we once were. With such witty titles as, “Where, Oh, Where Has My Little Waist Gone?” and “The World Is Round But my Feet Are Flat,” Barbara Greenleaf will get you laughing at the everyday humiliations and aggravations that befall people of a certain age. In addition, she treats you to quick takes by other funny people. Here's one from Carrie Fisher: "As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't."In the book’s first section, “Aging: Why Didn’t Anybody Warn Me,” Barbara pokes fun at our physical decline. In the second section, “Married Since the First Crusade”, she kids around about her eons of marital bliss. And in the third section, “Muddling Through the Modern World”, she good-naturedly lampoons family occasions, airplane seatmates, oldies concerts, and dietary fads. When Barbara reads out loud from This Old Body, audience members rave: “I feel she is speaking just to me.” “Entertaining as hell.” “Makes us feel we’re all in this aging thing together.” Wonderful birthday, host, and holiday book for all the Baby Boomer and above men and women in your life. One for them, one for you.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Greenleaf, Don Ollis, Phil Mayes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173062/bk_acx0_173062_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Get Inspired by Real Heroes: Winston Churchill , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 115min
Winston Churchill was born to wealth and nobility in the United Kingdom, blessed with advantages most could only dream of. But despite his high birth, he overcame personal obstacles on the way to being one of the most famous and successful self-made men in history. And the lessons he took to heart most profoundly were learned in the schoolroom of the British Army. In his role as a soldier, a leader of men in battle, even as a writer, he was impressive yet relatable. A patriotic civil servant of the British Empire, he dedicated his life towards the glory of his country, and towards the world's democracy. A seat in Parliament proved the spot best suited to his ambition. While his vision allowed him to see ahead to trending events most could not understand. Over the years he was never finished learning, as much from his defeats and humiliations as from his bravery and foresighted triumphs. He was the embodiment of "We shall never surrender", when his nation was marked for an inevitable defeat. Sir Winston Churchill was a real proof that one person can change the course of their life, even world history, through will and determination. In his own words..."Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sangita Chauhan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078728/bk_acx0_078728_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Laird for All Time: A Laird for All Time, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 631min
After 10 long years of education and residency, Dr. Emmy MacKenzie decides it's time for a much-deserved vacation. But when she's traveling the British Isles, a twist of fate at the gates of the ancient castle of Duart hurls Emmy more than a hundred years into the past and into the arms of a magnificent Highlander who thinks she is his long-lost wife, Heather MacLean. The 10 years since his new bride abandoned him on his wedding day have brought Connor MacLean, earl of Strathclyde, nothing but misery and bitterness, but that is nothing compared to the anger he feels when she shows up on the 10th anniversary of that day. Determined to punish her for the humiliations she dealt him, he is shocked when his wife insists that she is not his wife at all. Though he tries to cling to his anger, Connor cannot deny the attraction he feels for his mysterious wife, and soon he finds himself wanting nothing more than to take her in his arms and make her his. When the truth of Heather MacLean's disappearance comes to light, more than just Connor's life could be destroyed. Choices will have to be made. Forgiveness begged. Second chances taken not just for the people of Duart but for Emmy herself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirsten Potter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/004747/bk_tant_004747_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Festival of Earthly Delights , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 679min
Boyd Darrow is a young American living in Puchai, a tiny Southeast Asian country that tourist brochures refer to as "The Kingdom of Winks". In a series of letters written to a mysterious recipient, Boyd tells of the delights, humiliations, and brain-bending misadventures he experiences while adjusting to life in the small college town of Mai Mor. He and his somewhat less-than-faithful girlfriend, Ulla, were hoping to start their lives over in Puchai, but Puchai has an agenda all its own. Ulla's been hired to organize the talent show at the town's annual "Festival ofTaang", but she seems more interested in the possibilities of cultural exchange with a local revolutionary. Meanwhile, Boyd grapples with a culture in which baby owls are considered a delicacy, turtles are worshipped as deities, and a wink can have one of 379 possible meanings (including "You're fired," "There's something in my eye," and "I want to kiss your lips!"). He's also falling for his boss's daughter, a half-Puchanese girl with a black eye and a troubling past. Lines are crossed, secrets are revealed, and, as Boyd's life inevitably spins out of control, the festival draws closer with each day.... Hilarious and wise and fiercely original, The Festival of Earthly Delights is a no-holds-barred celebration of love, cultural differences, and one man's reluctant embrace of the sensual pleasures of this world, in all their awkward, enigmatic glory. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frederic Basso. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012724/bk_adbl_012724_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of "The View" , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 563min
This program is read by the author.Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show. When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within 10 years, she’d revolutionized morning TV and made household names of her cohosts: Joy Behar, Star Jones, Meredith Vieira, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. But the daily chat fest didn’t just comment on the news. It became the news. And the headlines barely scratched the surface. Based on unprecedented access, including stunning interviews with nearly every host, award-winning journalist Ramin Setoodeh takes you backstage where the stars really spoke their minds. Here's the full story of how Star, then Rosie, then Whoopi tried to take over the show, while Barbara struggled to maintain control of it all, a modern-day Lear with her media-savvy daughters. You'll hear about how so many cohosts had a tough time fitting in, suffered humiliations at the table, then pushed themselves away, feeling betrayed - one nearly quitting during a commercial. Meanwhile, the director was being driven insane, especially by Rosie. Setoodeh uncovers the truth about Star’s weight loss and wedding madness. Rosie’s feud with Trump. Whoopi’s toxic relationship with Rosie. Barbara’s difficulty stepping away. Plus, all the unseen hugs, snubs, tears - and one dead rodent. Ladies Who Punch shows why The View can be mimicked and mocked, but it can never be matched. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ramin Setoodeh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003554/bk_aren_003554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Joe Biden
The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year 'A thoroughly readable primer' Guardian 'Biden has overcome unimaginable tribulation, multiple presidential primary humiliations, a potentially crippling speech impediment and his own mediocrity. Now he carries the hopes of billions upon his shoulders' Sunday Times President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest - fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses that he has suffered. Yet even as Biden's life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors and reversals of fortune. His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship - an essential quality as he addresses a nation at its most dire hour in decades. Blending up-close journalism and broader context, Evan Osnos illuminates Biden's life and captures the characters and meaning of an extraordinary presidential election. He draws on lengthy interviews with Biden and on revealing conversations with more than a hundred others, including President Barack Obama, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and a range of progressive activists, advisers, opponents, and Biden family members. In this nuanced portrait, Biden emerges as flawed, yet resolute, and tempered by the flame of tragedy - a man who just may be uncannily suited for his moment in history.- Shop: buecher
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The Lost Chapters: Finding Recovery and Renewal One Book at a Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 368min
Leslie Schwartz's powerful, skillfully woven memoir of redemption and reading, as told through the list of books she read as she served a 90 day jail sentence.In 2014, novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County Jail for a DUI and battery of an officer. It was the most harrowing and holy experience of her life. Following a 414-day relapse into alcohol and drug addiction after more than a decade clean and sober, Schwartz was sentenced and served her time with only six months' sobriety. The damage she inflicted that year upon her friends, her husband, her teenage daughter, and herself was nearly impossible to fathom. Incarceration might have ruined her altogether, if not for the stories that sustained her while she was behind bars - both the artful tales in the books she read while there, and, more immediately, the stories of her fellow inmates. With classics like Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome to contemporary accounts like Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken, Schwartz's reading list is woven together with visceral recollections of both her daily humiliations and small triumphs within the county jail system. Through the stories of others - whether rendered on the page or whispered in a jail cell - she learned powerful lessons about how to banish shame, use guilt for good, level her grief, and find the lost joy and magic of her astonishing life. Told in vivid, unforgettable prose, The Lost Chapters uncovers the nature of shame, rage, and love, and how instruments of change and redemption come from the unlikeliest of places. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leslie Schwartz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/004084/bk_peng_004084_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Churchill , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2298min
Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost 60 years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had it not been for World War II. In this magisterial book, Roy Jenkins' unparalleled command of the political history of Britain and his own high-level government experience combine in a narrative account of Churchill's astounding career that is unmatched in its shrewd insights, its unforgettable anecdotes, the clarity of its overarching themes, and the author's nuanced appreciation of his extraordinary subject. From a very young age, Churchill believed he was destined to play a great role in the life of his nation, and he determined to prepare himself. Jenkins shows in fascinating detail how Churchill educated himself for greatness, how he worked out his livelihood (writing) as well as his professional life (politics), how he situated himself at every major site or moment in British imperial and governmental life. His parliamentary career was like no other - with its changes of allegiance (from the Conservative to the Liberal and back to the Conservative Party), its troughs and humiliations, its triumphs and peaks - and for decades, especially the crisis years of the late 1930s and the terrifying 1940s, when at last it was clear how vital Churchill was to the very survival of Britain. He evaluates Churchill's other accomplishments, his writings, with equal authority. Exceptional in its breadth of knowledge and distinguished by its stylish wit and penetrating intelligence, this is one of the finest political biographies of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000554/bk_blak_000554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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