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The Garden of Lost Memories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min
Just because you feel ordinary doesn’t mean you aren’t extraordinary to someone else. Sixty-two-year-old Elsie knows what she likes. Custard creams at four o’clock, jigsaw puzzles with a thousand pieces, her ivy-covered, lavender-scented garden. Ten-year-old Billy would rather spend his Saturdays kicking a ball, or watching TV, or anything really, other than being babysat by his grumpy neighbour Elsie and being force-fed custard creams. If it was up to them, they’d have nothing to do with each other. Unfortunately, you can’t choose who you live next door to. But there is always more to people than meets the eye….Elsie doesn’t know that Billy’s afraid to go to school now, or why his mother woke him up in the middle of the night with an urgent shake, bags already packed, ready to flee their home. Billy doesn’t know that the rusting red tin he finds buried in Elsie’s treasured garden is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode her carefully organised life. And that when he digs it up, he is unearthing a secret that has lain dormant for 28 years….This moving tale is for anyone who has ever felt the pang of loneliness, or worried that their broken heart might never be the same again. Fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, The Keeper of Lost Things and The Library of Lost and Found will fall head over heels for this life-affirming novel that shows us that if you’re willing to take a risk, happiness is only ever a heartbeat away. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Naomi Frederick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/188063/bk_acx0_188063_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II, Hörbuch, Digital, 378min
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships. But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey: a World War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones all buried under decades of accumulated sediment. No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts that Chatterton and Kohler brought to the surface. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found. In fact, the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew at that location. Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest to solve the mystery. Chatterton and Kohler, at first bitter rivals, would be drawn into a friendship that deepened to an almost mystical bond of brotherhood. As the men's marriages frayed under the pressure of a shared obsession, their dives grew more daring, and each realized that he was hunting more than the identities of a lost U-boat and its nameless crew. Author Robert Kurson's account of this quest is at once thrilling and emotionally complex. The story of Shadow Divers often seems too amazing to be true, but it all happened, 230 feet down, in the deep blue sea. Language: English. Narrator: Campbell Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000446/bk_rand_000446_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Trains Now Departed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 645min
Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed. They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with gripping and colourful tales of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine in the dining car, the grand expresses with their evocative names, and continental boat trains to romantic, far-off places. The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. In his personal odyssey around Britain, Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks and the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them. It is a journey into the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired in time, is fortunately not lost for ever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002038/bk_rhuk_002038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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First Girl Gone: Charlotte Winters, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 646min
An absolutely addictive crime thriller with a twist Down the beach, she can just make out the rusting hulk of the Ferris wheel through the dawn mist. The hairs prickle on her neck as she drags her focus back to the chestnut hair fanned out in the shallow water at her feet, to the grains of sand decorating the beautiful girl’s white cheeks like freckles. Private Detective Charlie Winters never thought she’d find herself back on Salem Island, but she’s forced home to reopen the wound that never healed: Her sister was abducted from the small town when they were teenagers. For Charlie, her sister’s voice in her head - pushing her to risk everything to seek justice for the innocent - is a painful and constant reminder of what she lost. And never has that voice been louder than when a family friend comes to Charlie begging for help to find her missing daughter, Kara. Searching Kara’s messy, poster-covered bedroom, Charlie finds more questions than answers. Did Kara run away, or was she snatched? She’s clearly been keeping secrets from her family - but don’t all teenagers? A little black matchbook hidden in a jewelry box is Charlie’s only lead, but the seedy nightclub it comes from proves to be nothing but a dangerous dead end. Until Charlie is approached by a second distraught mother whose daughter has also vanished. Forced at every turn to relive the trauma she ran away from, Charlie’s blood runs cold when a girl’s body is discovered in the exact spot on the water’s edge where the last trace of her sister was found. It’s clear someone is taunting Charlie, but with other innocent girls’ lives at risk, she has no choice but to take the bait.... Fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni, and Lisa Regan will need to sleep with the lights on! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Cannon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215521/bk_acx0_215521_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Struggles: Short Fiction by Tom Burkhalter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 129min
These stories span over 30 years of writing time. In themselves, they each represent that struggle that goes on inside a writer to bring something out of the inchoate darkness within the subconscious, and shove it out into the light for all to see who care to look. Because of the time span these stories also represent something of a learning curve.The oldest short story in this collection is Purple Heart. I wrote that on a typewriter. Somewhere I still have the yellowed manuscript pages, held together with a rusting paperclip, that I carried from a failed marriage into an uncertain future and from one job and one apartment to another.Some of these were written on my first desktop PC. The youngest ones made the transition from PC to laptop. So the learning curve is not only the craft but the tools.Now I’m sending these strange children out into the world to see what others might make of them. You’ll make your own judgment about them, based on what you yourself bring to the work. Perhaps it’s presumptuous of me to tell you a little about their genesis, but putting one word after another is what I do, and besides, I’m saying goodbye. These stories will never be quite all mine again.The Visit came out in a rush, it is pretty much as it was written in that two-hour stretch in the spring of 1996 - 23 years ago. Soldiers of the War was modified a little more over the years because I was never quite happy with the ending. The Ball Turret Gunner was inspired by a poem written by Randall Jarrell, which is one of perhaps three poems I actually like. One Step at a Time was written for a short story workshop taught by Kevin Keck. Cutters just sort of came to me; I was thinking about a no-nonsense Navy fighter pilot as a character and then started wondering about the guy’s father, a no-nonsense surgeon. Mona Lisa had a similar thought process; the model, the artist, and what’s in a smile? The Good ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Burkhalter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154984/bk_acx0_154984_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting
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The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting
The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting - A French Recipe for a Long Life Well-Lived: ab 13.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Monhegan Suite & Other Musical Journeys
This CD contains three different musical journeys through time. We hope that listeners will feel they have spent that day on Monhegan Island, experienced the brief but passionate relationship of the Apache lovers and traced the evolution of the Tango over the course of a century. Monhegan Suite by John Kusiak was commissioned by Jill Dreeben to depict the moods and tones of different places on Monhegan Island in the course of a summer day. The rest of this booklet will be devoted to the thoughts of the composer. Katherine Hoover described Canyon Echoes as the story of two young Apaches from a large canyon "where the streams ripple and the wind sings in the cottonwoods." In Dance they meet and have eyes only for each other. Serenade marks the growth in their friendship. She Mourns when her young lover leaves for the hunt. When He Returns he is stricken to learn she has fallen ill and died. In Histoire du Tango, Astor Piazzolla traces the evolution of the Tango from it's origins in Buenos Aires in Bordel 1900 to Cafe 1930 then to Club 1960. Prelude - 12 Nautical Miles - This movement opens with the guitar emulating the sound of distant bell buoys that gradually come closer. An introduction leads to a dreamy anticipation of the day, the main theme with it's Lydian mode character is stated by the flute. Excitement over returning to Monhegan builds as I imagine the Laura B ferry making the 12- mile trip from Port Clyde over open sea, a trip sometimes accompanied by harbor porpoises, whales, and seals. Sunrise at Burnt Head - The summer day begins with a sunrise that can be best experienced by rising a half-hour before dawn, walking a half mile across the island to the eastern cliffs (in this case, Burnt Head) and waiting for the sun to appear over the ocean. The dawn is shared with seagulls and scrub pine. The flute gradually climbs as the sun ascends and the mood is serene and reverent, finishing with a chorale-like section in Eb. Lobster Cove - Lobster Cove is on the southern tip of the island and is mostly flat and rocky. It sports a wreck of the D.T. Sheridan rusting peacefully by the surf. In the music, I have tried to create a feeling of the rolling waves with guitar arpeggios and odd meters. The flute melodies contain and develop some of the bird songs that I recorded while walking to the cove. Day Trippers - This is a fun movement for mid-day that illustrates the chaotic and sometimes humorous activity found on the dock, Main Street and the beaches when tourists converge on Monhegan for a few hours. The Trails to the Headlands - Monhegan is famous for it's trails. This movement evokes the haunting beauty of the forest. It is quiet and dark with shafts of light illuminating green moss. In foul weather, these trails can be treacherous, but in August they are magical. The trail ultimately leads to the Headlands, opening onto bright sunlight and dramatic cliffs. Waves crashing against the rocks below are suggested by cascading flute arpeggios and dramatic guitar strumming. Few who fall in on this side of the island have been rescued. The danger is real for the reckless and the unlucky. The Library/Jackie and Edward - Jackie Barstow and Edward Vaughan were two of the unlucky ones. In 1926, Edward was supervising Jackie's eleventh birthday party picnic on a flat rock at the base of Black Head when she was swept out to sea by a rogue wave. Edward jumped in to save her. Both were lost. The Monhegan Memorial Library was dedicated to them and provides a quiet place to read and reflect. Here the main theme is stated and developed by both instruments in turn, a simple meditation on the tragic loss of two innocents. Sunset at the Lighthouse - One of the great pleasures of Monhegan is viewing the sunset from lighthouse hill. This movement is related in tone and tempo to the Sunrise movement, building in intensity with the setting sun through quiet expectation, dramatic light and clouds, and vibrant colors. It reprises the reverent chorale of the Sunrise music as the sun descends into the horizon, ending with a promise of return through the use of unsettled seventh-chord harmony. Evening: Friends and Family - Here, the theme loses it's Lydian character as it is set to a simple accompaniment in B Major expressing the warmth of family, friends and laughter. Music that describes the boat journey to the island is recapitulated in portraying the journey back to the mainland. Epilogue -Dream: Winter on the Island - Back home on the mainland - "inshore" as year-rounders call it - the island is still with me in my imagination. Dreaming about what the island is like in winter is reflected musically in a new theme played by solo guitar. When the flute enters, hints of previous themes return in an extended quasi-improvised section. As the movement concludes, guitar themes from the prelude are repeated. The bell buoy sounds a positive chord as it fades away beneath undulating flute arpeggios. Jill Dreeben has performed in numerous solo flute and chamber music concerts throughout New England. She is a founding member of Solar Winds Woodwind Quintet and a member of Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble. She has played with the Lumen Contemporary Ensemble, Composers in Red Sneakers and has been a soloist with The Boston Secession. She premiered music written for her by composer John Kusiak and recorded some of his commercial works as well as works by local composers Pasquale Tassone, Armand Qualliotine, Betsy Schramm and James Ricci. Jill Dreeben plays with the New England Orchestra in Lowell and she has performed with Emmanuel Music of Boston. Ms. Dreeben studied with Craig Goodman, Louis Moyse and Lois Schaefer. She earned a BA in Music from Cornell University (1983) and an MM in Flute Performance from New England Conservatory (1987). Currently Ms. Dreeben teaches flute at Brandeis University and maintains a private studio in Arlington, MA. Peter Clemente has performed solo and chamber music throughout New England and has completed successful concert tours in California and in the southwestern United States. He has been featured live in concert/interview radio broadcasts on WGBH, Boston, and KPFK, Los Angeles, and in 1990 made his New York debut at Weil Hall with soprano Katherine Emory. A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Clemente studied the guitar with Richard Provost at the Hartt School of Music, where he is the only guitarist to have received the prestigious Applied Music Award for outstanding musical performance. Later training was with David Leisner at New England Conservatory and with Neil Anderson at the Boston Conservatory. He was the firstprize winner in both the Guitar Foundation of America's International Solo Competition in 1986 and the Ovation Classical Guitar Competition in 1981. He is currently a Lecturer in Music at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. John Kusiak composes music for film, television and live performance. He has scored hundreds of projects, including television documentaries (HBO, IFC, PBS and Sundance), large-screen exhibitions (Yellowstone National Park and the Smithsonian) and feature films (Tabloid, Secrecy, The Singing Revolution and additional music for the 2004 Academy Award winning documentary The Fog of War). His score for Errol Morris' "Tabloid" won the 2012 Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music.- Shop: odax
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