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    Farewell to Winston, Hörbuch, Digital, 56min
    For many thousands of people the 30th of January, 1965, saw the final severing of their link with the events of the Second World War. When Winston Churchill was accorded the solemn pageantry of a state funeral - the first (and so far only) non-royal to be given such a privilege since Gladstone - former service-men and women, by now in their 40s, marked his passing.Forty years on from the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, Nicholas Witchell remembers the winter's day when the sleet fell and a generation that had lived and served through the war lost an iconoclastic leader. Also included here is archival material from the day itself and contemporary interviews with those who were in the crow or part of the procession. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Witchell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/bbcw/002049/rt_bbcw_002049_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Perfectly Good Family , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 777min
    Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war.Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A Perfectly Good Family is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Ericksen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001615/bk_brll_001615_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lost Boys
    Lost Boys, Slava Mogutin's first monograph, is a compelling collection of his portraits and landscapes taken over the past ten years-since he was exiled from Russia for "malicious hooliganism with exceptional cynicism and extreme insolence." Although it was his outspoken gay writing that angered the Soviet authorities, Mogutin's photographs caused just as much controversy. Provocative yet iconoclastic, his work transcends the conventions of male nude photography, confronting the viewer/voyeur with a raw style and new sensibility. A cross between porn and fashion, pop culture and marginal kink, Lost Boys is a poetic and sometimes raunchy journey into different obsessions and fetishes of the cosmopolitan urban youth culture. Crimean rasta boys, Russian wrestlers and military cadets, German skinheads, and football hooligans are among the subjects of these incendiary but intimate portraits.
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    Free Agent Nation: How America's New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live, Hörbuch, Digital, 186min
    The Organization Man is history. Taking his place is America's new economic icon: the "free agent" - the job-hopping, tech-savvy, fulfillment-seeking, self-reliant, independent worker. Already 30 million strong, these new "dis-organization" men and women are transforming America in ways both profound and exhilarating. In this landmark book, Daniel H. Pink offers the definitive account of this revolution in work. He shows who these free agents are - from the marketing consultant down the street to the home-based "mompreneur" to the footloose technology contractor - and why they've forged a new path. His entertaining and provocative account of the new frontier of work reveals how free agents are shaking up all of our institutions - from politics to education to the family. Hip and hopeful, meticulously researched and joyously iconoclastic, Free Agent Nation will change your thinking - and maybe even change your life. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel H. Pink. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/time/000226/bk_time_000226_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Picasso Pathology: Drawings Collage Prints : Cv/Visual Arts Research Book 242 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min
    A personal view of Picasso and Paper, a major exhibition at the Royal Academy. The collection of over 300 works covers drawings, collages, and prints.With key paintings, including precocious and magneti examples from the artist’s childhood in Malàga; academic drawings; early works in Paris, Horta del Ebro, and Gosol; introduction to the Blue and Rose periods, leading to the revolutionary development of Cubism; the iconoclastic masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; his designs for Parade in 1917 by Eric Satie; the Neoclassical period of the 1920s; and works for the Resistance during the war years of 1939-45. The postwar move to the South of France shows an unceasing prolific invention, exploring themes of life, love, and memory, and culminating in the stark self-portrait during his last days. The whole body of work constitutes a consistent and critical formation of pictorial fact. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Selbie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221894/bk_acx0_221894_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How This Night is Different: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min
    In her critically acclaimed debut story collection, Elisa Albert boldly illuminates an original cross section of disaffected young Jews. With wit, compassion, and a decidedly iconoclastic 21st-century attitude, in prose that is by turns hilarious and harrowing, Albert has created characters searching for acceptance, a happier view of the past, and above all the possibility of a future. Holidays, family gatherings, and rites of passage provide the backdrop for these ten provocative stories. From the death of a friendship in "So Long" to a sexually frustrated young mother's regression to bat mitzvah -- aged antics in "Everything But," and culminating with the powerful and uproariously apropos finale of "Etta or Bessie or Dora or Rose," How This Night Is Different will excite, charm, and profoundly resonate with anyone who's ever felt ambivalent about his or her faith, culture, or place in the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suzanne Toren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013367/bk_adbl_013367_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1056min
    Uncensored, uncontained, and thoroughly demented, the memoirs of Paul Krassner are back in an updated and expanded edition. Paul Krassner, "father of the underground press" (People magazine), founder of the Realist, political radical, Yippie, and award-winning stand-up satirist, shares his stark-raving adventures with the likes of Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Groucho Marx, and Squeaky Fromme, revealing the patriarch of counterculture’s ultimate, intimate, uproarious life on the fringes of society. Whether he’s writing about his friendship with controversial comic Lenny Bruce, introducing Groucho Marx to LSD, his investigation of Scientology, or John Kennedy’s cadaver, no subject is too sacred to be skewered by Krassner. And yet his stories are soulful and philosophical, always authentic to his iconoclastic brand of personal journalism. As Art Spiegelman said, "Krassner is one of the best minds of his generational to be destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked - but mainly hysterical. His true wacky, wackily true autobiography is the definitive book on the '60s." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Letwin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004247/bk_adbl_004247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tragedy of Rudy Giuliani, Hörbuch, Digital, 128min
    From Michael Wolff, author of the explosive, number one best seller Fire and Fury, comes the mesmerizing story behind the most bizarre melt-down in recent American political history.The decline and fall of Rudy Giuliani, from “America’s Mayor” to public spectacle, has all the makings of a modern Shakespearean tragedy. Those who know Giuliani, whose tough leadership and even tougher politics helped revitalize New York City in the 1990s and lead the country through 9/11, have stood by and watched with incredulity as he put himself at the heart of impeachment charges against the President. In The Tragedy of Rudy Giuliani, Michael Wolff uncovers just what happened to the iconoclastic former mayor, and reveals how his apparent self-destruction frames some of the great political questions of the age: How have evidently unstable people come to have such success in institutional politics? How have the mean and nasty achieved such heights in a system that has valued – insisted on – likeability and conventionality? Language: English. Narrator: Michael Wolff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/001216/or_orig_001216_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 671min
    In this deeply revealing and engaging autobiography, Herb Silverman tells his iconoclastic life story. He takes the listener from his childhood as an Orthodox Jew in Philadelphia, where he stopped fasting on Yom Kippur to test God's existence, to his adult life in the heart of the Bible Belt, where he became a legendary figure within America's secular activist community and remains one of its most beloved leaders. Never one to shy from controversy, Silverman relates many of his high-profile battles with the Religious Right, including his decision to run for governor of South Carolina to challenge the state's constitutional provision that prohibited atheists from holding public office. Candidate Without a Prayer offers an intimate portrait of a central player in today's increasingly heated culture wars. It will be sure to charm both believers and nonbelievers alike, and will lead all those who care about the separation of church and state to give thanks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Herb Silverman, Richard Dawkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001228/bk_acx0_001228_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Happy Family , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 718min
    A mordantly funny and propulsive novel about a woman coming to terms with her family - adoptive, biological, and future. In 1962 a pregnant girl staggers into a health clinic, gives birth, and flees. A foster family takes the baby in, and an unlikely couple, their lives unspooling from the recent death of their infant, adopts her. Forty years and many secrets and lies later, Cheri Matzner is all grown up and falling apart. Ironic and fierce, she's a former cop turned disgruntled academic, a frustrated wife trying to get pregnant, an iconoclastic daughter bearing war wounds from her dysfunctional family. Thrust into an odyssey of acceptance, she discovers that sometimes it takes half a lifetime to come of age. Weaving together the stories of the deeply flawed but well-intentioned people who've shaped Cheri's life, Happy Family is an intimate exploration of the gap between our expectations and beliefs about our families - and the truth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Courtney Patterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002554/bk_hach_002554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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