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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 340min

In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. In a series of deftly drawn scenes Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas' wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to); her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot. An unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love, Funny in Farsi will leave us all laughing, without an accent. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Firoozeh Dumas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000021/bk_adbl_000021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 624min

Everyone knows that the United States of America is made up of 50 states and, uh...some other stuff. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands are often neglected, but they are filled with American flags and national parks and US post offices and some four million people, many of whom are as proudly red-white-and-blue as any Daughter of the American Revolution. In The Not-Quite States of America, Doug Mack ventures 31,000 miles across the globe and deep into American history to reveal the fascinating and forgotten story of how these places became part of the United States, what they're like today, and how they helped create the nation as we know it. Along the way Mack meets members of millennia-old indigenous groups, far-flung US government workers, ardent separatists, and tropical-paradise dropouts and dreamers in a quixotic and winning quest to find America where it is least expected. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Yen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001218/bk_high_001218_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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In Bed with Susie Bright 668: You say 'Caitlin', I Say 'Kardashian' - the Quixotic Search for Transgender Role Models, Hörbuch, Digital, 43min, (USK 18)

On today's show, Susie looks at what's happening to "trans consciousness" these days. Like early gay liberation, which was smeared by vicious right-wingers but hailed by ultra-politically correct left leaners, the search for explaining transgender is on. And because it can be hard for the general public to make sense of real people who are trans, many love having a celebrity in the picture to help them embrace a confusing idea. Caitlin Jenner is our new trans role model, but Susie has a beef with America's choice of Caitlin to represent the trans community. So today she has a great story to share, one she wrote about gender and all its complexities. It's from her book The Sexual State of the Union. Have a question or news story for Susie? You can send your confidential queries and comments to susie@susiebright.com.[Episode 668, July 31, 2015] Explicit Language Warning: You must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Bright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/suzy/150731/pf_suzy_150731_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Willful: How We Choose What We Do , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 341min

A revelatory alternative to the standard economic models of human behavior that proposes an exciting new way to understand decision‑makingWhy do we do the things we do? The classical view of economics is that we are rational individuals, making decisions with the intention of maximizing our preferences. Behaviorists, on the other hand, see us as relying on mental shortcuts and conforming to preexisting biases. Richard Robb argues that neither explanation accounts for those things that we do for their own sake, and without understanding these sorts of actions, our picture of decision‑making is at best incomplete. Robb explains how these choices made seemingly without reason belong to a realm of behavior he identifies as “for‑itself.”A provocative combination of philosophy and economics that offers a key to many of our quixotic choices, this groundbreaking volume provides a new way to understand everything from investing to how hard we work to how we manage daily interactions. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Bowlby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053345/bk_adbl_053345_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sloe Ride: Sinners, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 552min

Sequel to Tequila Mockingbird Sinners series, book four It isn't easy being a Morgan, especially when dead bodies start piling up and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. Quinn Morgan never quite fit into the family mold. He dreamed of a life with books instead of badges and knowledge instead of law - and a life with Rafe Andrade, his older brothers' bad boy friend and the man who broke his very young heart. Rafe Andrade returned home to lick his wounds following his ejection from the band he helped form. A recovering drug addict, Rafe spends his time wallowing in guilt, until he finds himself faced with his original addiction, Quinn Morgan - the reason he fled the city in the first place. When Rafe hears the Sinners are looking for a bassist, it's a chance to redeem himself, but as a crazed murderer draws closer to Quinn, Rafe's willing to sacrifice everything - including himself - to keep his quixotic Morgan safe and sound. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tristan James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/046340/bk_acx0_046340_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Henry David Thoreau: A Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1341min

Walden. Yesterday I came here to live. That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment in living at Walden Pond. A member of the vibrant intellectual circle centered on his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was also an ardent naturalist, a manual laborer and inventor, a radical political activist, and more. Many books have taken up various aspects of Thoreau's character and achievements, but, as Laura Dassow Walls writes, "Thoreau has never been captured between covers; he was too quixotic, mischievous, many-sided." Two hundred years after his birth, and two generations after the last full-scale biography, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Boehmer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008760/bk_tant_008760_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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His Brother's Keeper: One Family's Journey to the Edge of Medicine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 687min

Stephen Heywood was 29 years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight, his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they travel together to the edge of medicine. The book brings home for all of us the hopes and fears of the new biology.In this dramatic and suspenseful narrative, Jonathan Weiner gives us a remarkable portrait of science and medicine today. We learn about gene therapy, stem cells, brain vaccines, and other novel treatments for such nerve-death diseases as ALS, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's - diseases that afflict millions, and touch the lives of many more. "The Heywoods' story taught me many things about the nature of healing in the new millennium," Weiner writes. "They also taught me about what has not changed since the time of the ancients and may never change as long as there are human beings - about what Lucretius calls 'the ever-living wound of love". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Victor Bevine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001660/bk_adbl_001660_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hyper-Chondriac: One Man's Quest to Hurry Up and Calm Down , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min

Does your blood pressure surge if the car in front of you turns without signaling? Do your neck veins pulsate when a cashier takes too long to ring you up? Does relaxing seem like it'll have to wait until you're dead? Then your name could very well be Brian Frazer. On paper, Frazer is the world's healthiest guy. He eats right, exercises regularly, gets plenty of sleep, has never smoked and has missed only one day of flossing in the last five years. But inside he's a swirling vortex of angst, capable of contracting a new malady every month. Once Frazer realized that all his ills were tied to stress, he went on a quixotic quest for calm, venturing into everything from Tai Chi, serotonin blockers and Kabbalah to an unfortunate incident involving pineapple-chicken curry at a Craniosacral therapy session. Never has the road to wellville taken so many unforeseen turns. Achingly funny, uncomfortably true and always entertaining, Hyper-Chondriac is just the medicine for anyone who wants to take it down a notch. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Arthur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010141/bk_adbl_010141_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Unexpected Journeys of Lawrence Tyrone: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min

A hard-drinking man. A dented Harley. A detour to an unexpected future. Professor Lawrence Tyrone didn't have a drinking problem - or an obsession with his ex-wife - until he discovered she was marrying his brother. When crashing the wedding with disastrous results leaves him divorced for a second time, unemployed, and close to rock bottom, Tyrone moves to the country, buys a Harley, and starts taking riding lessons from a secretive Polish expat. Isolated out in the country, far from his usual haunts and routines, Tyrone gets caught up in the lives of several unpredictable characters - his neighbors and their Labrador dog (who has a mind of her own), his street-smart riding instructor, a rebellious young girl, a gambler, and a medical resident caught in a love triangle. Meddling in other people's lives forces Tyrone to confront his own failings. For the first time in his life he wants to be a different man, but there's that lifetime of bad habits and bad behavior to overcome....The Unexpected Journeys of Lawrence Tyrone is a quixotic, inspiring misadventure with an eccentric assortment of characters! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacob Saxton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159169/bk_acx0_159169_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 982min

New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Drawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history. For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an underfunded band of civil rights attorneys on a quixotic crusade. In 1972, in a most unlikely victory, the Supreme Court struck down Georgia’s death penalty law in Furman v. Georgia. Though the decision had sharply divided the justices, nearly everyone, including the justices themselves, believed Furman would mean the end of executions in America. Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of the Supreme Court declined, the stage was set in 1976 for Gregg v. Georgia, in which the Court dramatically reversed direction. A Wild Justice is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the Court, the justices, and the political complexities of one of the most racially charged and morally vexing issues of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jones Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014070/bk_adbl_014070_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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