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The Disappointment Artist: Selected Unabridged Essays , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 225min

In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces", Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession, in his case, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these "voyages out from himself" have led him home, home to his father's life as a painter, and to the source of his beginnings as a writer. The Disappointment Artist is a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape, and personal history that formed Lethem's richly imaginative, searingly honest perspective on life as a human creature in the jungle of culture at the end of the 20th century.From a confession of the sadness of a "Star Wars nerd" to an investigation into the legacy of a would-be literary titan, Lethem illuminates the process by which a child invents himself as a writer, and as a human being, through a series of approaches to the culture around him. In "The Disappointment Artist", a letter from his aunt, a children's book author, spurs a meditation on the value of writing workshops and the uncomfortable fraternity of writers. In "Defending The Searchers" Lethem explains how a passion for the classic John Wayne Western became occasion for a series of minor humiliations. In "Identifying with Your Parents", an excavation of childhood love for superhero comics expands to cover a whole range of nostalgia for a previous generation's cultural artifacts. And "13/1977/21", which begins by recounting the summer he saw Star Wars 21 times, becomes a meditation on the sorrow and solace of the solitary movie-goer.The Disappointment Artist confirms Lethem's unique ability to illuminate the way life, his and ours, can be read between the lines of art and culture.BONUS: This audio also includes an interview with the author. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Lethem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000560/bk_rand_000560_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Opium Wars: A History from Beginning to End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 65min

Opium WarsViolent confrontation between armed groups over the supply of illegal narcotics is something we commonly associate with criminal gangs in modern cities, but in the mid-19th century Great Britain went to war with Imperial China in order to continue to supply Chinese addicts with opium. The two wars that followed have become known as the Opium Wars, and they led to the utter defeat of China, the establishment of a British colony in Hong Kong, and the continuation of a narcotics trade that was worth millions of pounds each year to the British.The Opium Wars exposed the weaknesses of the Chinese Qing dynasty in terms of its military abilities and internal corruption. They also exposed divisions in Victorian Britain where people were beginning to question the morality of going to war to support an illegal narcotics trade which caused misery and death for millions of Chinese. In the end, the British were able to overcome their reservations and prosecuted these two wars with great success. British casualties were small and the gains enormous - the British opium trade to China would continue for more than 50 years after the end of the Second Opium War.In this book you will hear about....The joy plantOutbreak of the first Opium WarBritish superiority and the devil shipThe treaty of Nanking: first of the unequal treatiesThe inevitable second Opium WarThe fall of Beijing and much more! For the Chinese Qing dynasty, the Opium Wars marked the beginning of the end. Imperial China had endured for 2,000 years, but within 50 years of the humiliations of the Opium Wars, a revolution overthrew the imperial court and turned China into a republic. Although they are little remembered today, the Opium Wars changed the face not just of China but also of the whole of Asia. This is the story of those wars. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/149933/bk_acx0_149933_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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MFM, Sci-Fi, Femdom, Cuckolding, Reverse Harem Bundle: Includes Two Series - The Alpha Stables and Cuckolds in Space: Raven Merlot's Sci-Fi Cuckolding Reverse Harem Bundles, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 248min, (USK 18)

The battle of the sexes has ended. Women won. Men have been reduced to a subservient position in society, where they can be truly useful and reach their full potential and servants and lovers. What's left of their masculinity has been molded into a quiet and respectful supporting role for their mistresses the world over. Being an obedient beta male is as much as a natural born man could ever hope for. Masculine dominance and aggression does have certain entertainment value for the women who desire it though. It just needed to be distilled into something more controllable. Humanity's most brilliant and forward-thinking scientists created the Alphas, genetically superior male models used for pleasure. They're stronger and more aggressive than the un-enhanced Beta males, and everyone knows it. Some wealthy mistresses are able to afford frequent trips to the Alpha Stables, while others just splurge from time to time. Regardless, once a woman goes to an Alpha, her beta males know that they are obsolete. Being reminded of their inferiority keeps them in line and working as hard as they can to stay useful. When a subservient beta male commits a serious enough infraction such as pleasuring himself or finishing too early he can endure one of the greatest humiliations possible: watching his mistress be pleasured by a superior Alpha model. He’ll never forget his place after that. Humanity is also ready to spread throughout the stars. Led by Commander Strong and a group of female scientists, Earth's first interstellar voyage has begun. The women have all that they'll need on-board. Food, water, and of course some men for entertainment. Beta males are available for menial tasks and to provide the brave explorers with sexual pleasure, but that task occasionally eludes them.In cryo-sleep are several Alphas, men genetically engineered simply to pleasure women. Resented by Betas and coveted by women, these perfect specimens are at the ready to please t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ruby Rivers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130296/bk_acx0_130296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Life and Legacy of James Joyce: Pioneer of Modern Literature , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min

His writing is not about something. It is that something itself. (Samuel Beckett, Joyce’s friend and secretary, about Finnegans Wake)James Joyce is the high priest of modernist writing who lived a life of endless sacrifice to literature, loaded with poverty and petty humiliations. He blazed the path of the writer as resolute individualist, rejecting all conformity and risking everything, even public shaming, in order to "communicate" over the supine body of language with his enthralled readers. He once remarked to his younger brother Stanislaus, “Don’t you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? I mean that I am trying...to give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own...for their mental, moral, and spiritual uplift.” Joyce pioneered modern literature through his use of stream of consciousness, a literary technique that lets readers get straight into the mind of the book’s characters and stands in stark contrast to Ernest Hemingway's "iceberg" style of leaving things to the readers' imaginations. In his masterpiece Ulysses, Joyce explores several topics and thoughts that go through the mind of one man in Dublin for a day, and he also wrote other critically-acclaimed works such as the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).He said of his frequent use of Dublin as a setting, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal." The Life and Legacy of James Joyce: Pioneer of Modern Literature profiles the life and career of one of America's most famous entertainers. You will learn abou ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100168/bk_acx0_100168_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Everything I Know About Love

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR BBC ONE TV SERIES'There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it' Lisa Taddeo, author Three Women'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug' Evening StandardAward-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flat-shares, the heartaches and humiliations, and most importantly, the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together. Glittering with wit, heart and humour, this is a book to press into the hands of every woman who has ever been there or is about to find themselves taking that first step towards the rest of their lives.'Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation' Elizabeth Day'Steeped in furiously funny accounts of one-night stands, ill-advised late-night taxi journeys up the M1, grubby flat-shares and the beauty of female friendships, as Alderton joyfully booze-cruises her way through her twenties' Metro'Deeply funny, sometimes shocking, and admirably open-hearted and optimistic' Daily Telegraph'A sensitive, astute and funny account of growing up millennial' Observer'I loved its truth, self awareness, humour and most of all, its heart-spilling generosity' Sophie Dahl'Alderton proves a razor-sharp observer of the shifting dynamics of long term female friendship' Mail on Sunday'It's so full of life and laughs - I gobbled up this book. Alderton has built something beautiful and true out of many fragments of daftness' Amy Liptrot*Winner of Autobiography of the Year at the National Book Awards 2018* *A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2019* *A Sunday Times paperback of the year 2019* *Selected for Stylist's The Decade's 15 Best Books by Remarkable Women*

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Every Good Boy Does Fine

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music-its power, its meanings, and what it can teach us about ourselves-from the MacArthur "Genius" Grant-winning pianist "Jeremy Denk has written a love letter to the music, and especially to the music teachers, in his life."-Conrad Tao, pianist and composer In Every Good Boy Does Fine, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. His life is already a little tough as a precocious, temperamental six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey, and then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico. There, Denk must please a new taskmaster, an embittered but devoted professor, while navigating junior high school. At sixteen he escapes to college in Ohio, only to encounter a bewildering new cast of music teachers, both kind and cruel. After many humiliations and a few triumphs, he ultimately finds his way as a world-touring pianist, a MacArthur "Genius," and a frequent performer at Carnegie Hall. Many classical music memoirs focus on famous musicians and professional accomplishments, but this book focuses on the everyday: neighborhood teacher, high school orchestra, local conductor. There are few writers capable of so deeply illuminating the trials of artistic practice-hours of daily repetition, mystifying advice, pressure from parents and teachers. But under all this struggle is a love letter to the act of teaching. In lively, endlessly imaginative prose, Denk dives deeply into the pieces and composers that have shaped him-Bach, Mozart, and Brahms, among others-and offers lessons on melody, harmony, and rhythm. How do melodies work? Why is harmony such a mystery to most people? Why are teachers so obsessed with the metronome? In Every Good Boy Does Fine, Denk shares the most meaningful lessons of his life, and tries to repay a debt to his teachers. He also reminds us that we must never stop asking questions about music and its purposes: consolation, an armor against disillusionment, pure pleasure, a diversion, a refuge, and a vehicle for empathy.

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Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 313min, (USK 18)

In this audiobook Tantra yoga is explained by a true Tantra goddess. Laurie's take on Tantra, Tantric sex, and how they relate to intimacy will have you laughing and possibly crying - you will definitely look within. You may even find a way to transform your relationships in the process. That's what Tantra is all about according to Sex & Happiness author Handlers. Tantra = transformation through pleasure!Excerpts from Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy"Even after listing sexual expansion techniques, I would still say, "Come to the bedroom with no expectations, but rather with openness in your heart for whatever happens". And you would probably say, "Yeah, well, if I could do that I wouldn't need to read this book, now would I?" And you would be right. This whole book is about regaining the unguarded openness of your heart and bringing it to sex.Have you heard the Zen expression, beginner's mind? It's a way of being in the world like everything in it is new. There is no expectation, no pain from a history of hurts and humiliations. Everything is experienced from an alert yet unguarded place. It's a fresh, open, childlike state of mind. Practicing Tantra is one path to this clear, childlike place, but it doesn't just happen.It takes work and training to come back to the open and loving place that is our natural state, because there's so much grief and rage to be dealt with between now and then, so much shame and guilt, and so many ideas about how we should be in love, in relationship, and in sex". "Intimacy with someone else requires, first and foremost, coming to peace with your own emotional and physical life. This is not a small task, but it is a crucial one. It takes time and courage and forgiveness, coming from you to you.If you want a love affair that is sexually electric and truly intimate, you have to begin by unblocking and unleashing the sex force that is already inside you and learning t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurie Handlers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215423/bk_acx0_215423_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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I Don’t Care about Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I’ve Dated , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min

In the tradition of Cynthia Heimel and Chelsea Handler, and with the boisterous iconoclasm of Amy Sedaris, Julie Klausner's candid and funny debut I Don't Care about Your Band sheds light on the humiliations we endure to find love - and the lessons that can be culled from the wreckage. I Don't Care about Your Band posits that lately the worst guys to date are the ones who seem sensitive. It's the jerks in nice guy clothing, not the players in Ed Hardy, who break the hearts of modern girls who grew up in the shadow of feminism, thinking they could have everything, but end up compromising constantly. The cowards, the kidults, the critics, and the contenders: these are the stars of Klausner's memoir about how hard it is to find a man - good or otherwise - when you're a cynical grown-up exiled in the dregs of Guyville. Off the popularity of her New York Times "Modern Love" piece about getting the brush-off from an indie rock musician, I Don't Care about Your Band is marbled with the wry strains of Julie Klausner's precocious curmudgeonry and brimming with truths that anyone who's ever been on a date will relate to. Klausner is an expert at landing herself waist-deep in crazy, time and time again, in part because her experience as a comedy writer (Best Week Ever, "TV Funhouse" on SNL) and sketch comedian from NYC's Upright Citizens Brigade fuels her philosophy of how any scene should unfold, which is, "What? That sounds crazy? Okay, I'll do it." I Don't Care about Your Band charts a distinctly human journey of a strong-willed but vulnerable protagonist who loves men like it's her job, but who's done with guys who know more about love songs than love. Klausner's is a new outlook on dating in a time of pop culture obsession, and she spent her 20s doing personal field research to back up her philosophies. This is the girl's version of High Fidelity. By turns explicit, fun ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Klausner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004467/bk_adbl_004467_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Geraldo Show: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 793min

In public life for half a century, my image and reputation have had more ups and downs than the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island. I have been called savior and sinner, fool and wise man, crusader and exploiter, hothead and dope. I am routinely scorned, admired, beloved, and belittled. The opinions are usually based on when they tuned in. Were you around for my early days as a crusading local newsman? Did you waste an evening inside Al Capone's empty vault? Were you watching when the bombs dropped in Afghanistan or Iraq, or did you tune into the raucous talk show when my nose got broken in the best television studio brawl ever caught on tape? Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, and my employment by the conservative rabble-rousers of Fox News, and, more recently, with the coming of the Age of Trump, my professional life has been even more difficult to define. How could a sincerely progressive native-born Jew Rican New Yorker like me ever work for an outfit better suited to the vibes of Orange County, California, the Dixie, Appalachia, or the Mountain West? How could I not condemn and obstruct a wrecking ball like Donald Trump? Over five decades, I have met most of the era's good and bad guys, from Ronald Reagan to Charles Manson, Fidel Castro to Yasser Arafat, and Muhammad Ali to John Lennon. Two figure heavily in this book, both longtime friends. Roger Ailes is the disgraced yet undeniably brilliant creator of Fox News. Donald Trump, once a flamboyant playboy, billionaire businessman, is now 45th President of the United States. Now at the vigorous twilight of my career, I have nothing left to prove, and time has both enlightened and humbled me. In this book, I speak frankly about my failures and successes, my humiliations and triumphs. Throughout my career, I've done my best to provide you with groundbreaking journalism and great entertainment. In this book, I've tried to provide both...and a few life lessons, as well. Sincer ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geraldo Rivera. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010694/bk_brll_010694_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Golden Bowl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1299min

Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. They are rich, finely appreciative of European art and culture, and deeply attached to each other. Maggie has all the innocent charm of so many of James' young American heroines. She is engaged to Amerigo, an impoverished Italian prince; he must marry money, and as his name suggests, an American heiress is the perfect solution. The golden bowl, first seen in a London curio shop, is used emblematically throughout the novel. Not solid gold but gilded crystal, the perfect surface conceals a flaw; it is symbolic of the relationship between the main characters and of the world in which they move. Also in Europe is an old friend of Maggie's, Charlotte Stant, a girl of great charm and independence, and Maggie is blindly ignorant of the fact that she and the prince are lovers. Maggie and Amerigo are married and have a son, but Maggie remains dependent for real intimacy on her father, and she and Amerigo grow increasingly apart. Feeling that her father has suffered a loss through her marriage, Maggie decides to find him a wife, and her choice falls on Charlotte. Charlotte's affair with the prince continues, and Adam Verver seems to her to be a suitable and convenient match. When Maggie herself finally comes into possession of the golden bowl, the flaw is revealed to her, and, inadvertently, the truth about Amerigo and Charlotte. Fanny Assingham (an older woman, aware of the truth from the beginning) deliberately breaks the bowl, and this marks the end of Maggie's innocence. She is no pathetic heroine-victim, however. Abstaining from outcry and outrage, she instead takes the reins and maneuvers people and events. She still wants to be with Amerigo, but he must continue to be worth having and they must all be saved further humiliations and indignities. To be a wife she must cease to be a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble, Katherine Kellgren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002738/bk_adbl_002738_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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