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    Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 534min
    In 1838, 13,000 Cherokee were forced to leave their homeland in the southeast and walk 900 miles to present-day Oklahoma. Hunger, cold, fatigue, and disease threatened their very survival. Their grueling relocation trek - the Trail of Tears - takes on new immediacy and meaning with this stunning work of fiction. Maritole loses not only her home and her settled life in North Carolina, but also many of the people closest to her. A chorus of voices joins hers to vividly recreate the tragic story of the Cherokee removal. Amid wrenching scenes of hardship and pain, there is the underlying strength that ultimately allowed this ancient people to endure. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diane Glancy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/001854/bk_reco_001854_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ben Hur , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1355min
    Ben-Hur could be said to be the first American blockbuster. When it was published in 1880, it sold over two million copies and was translated into numerous languages. It combines all the best elements of popular classic, epic, and action stories against a background of authoritative historical detail. The pace and immediacy of Ben-Hur was the basis of its appeal to filmmakers - Charlton Heston's portrayal of the title role became one of the classics of the cinema. Wallace's original novel has been largely forgotten now, but as this reading shows, the story, together with the sweeping rhythm of the writer's prose, make it ideally suited to audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Killavey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/jimc/000007/bk_jimc_000007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
    In addition to her successful career as a uniquely gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, longtime teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of Claremont, California. She was also a visual artist of astonishing originality. In Try to Tell a Fish About Water, the bold colors and gestural immediacy of Tanega's paintings and mixed media art is presented for the first time alongside photos, illustrations, journals, and other ephemera. Featuring reflections and remembrances from Norma's friends and collaborators scrapbooked together with the extraordinary visuals, Try to Tell a Fish About Water is a long overdue exploration of Tanega's art career and a collaged testament to a life spent immersed in creativity.
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    The Benn Tapes 1, Hörbuch, Digital, 113min
    Late each night for over 25 years, the Labour MP and former Secretary of State Tony Benn sat alone and dictated onto tape his account of the daily events at the heart of government. The immediacy, passion, and mood is striking as he unburdens himself of the pressure and stress, trials and tribulations of government and opposition, with accounts veering from anecdotal to almost confessional. Events recalled in the first of these unique and remarkable recordings - heard by the public for the very first time on Radio 4 - include Harold Wilson's surprise resignation in 1976, the potentially catastrophic 1977 strike at Windscale, the year-long miners' strike in 1984, and the general election in 1992. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Benn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/bbcw/001262/rt_bbcw_001262_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Encounter Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 32min
    How do teenagers confront the problems of life in real, hard ways? These stories - all originally published in Encounter - were written with teenagers in mind. Each one has a unique flair for addressing very specific problems, but all of them will delight as much as any of the other work by Lancelot Schaubert.Praise for Lancelot Schaubert:“Schaubert’s words have an immediacy, a potency, an intimacy that grab the reader by the collar and say, ‘Listen, this is important!’ Probing the bones and gristle of humanity, Lancelot’s subjects challenge, but also offer insights into redemption if only we will stop and pay attention.” (Erika Robuck, national best-selling author of Hemingway’s Girl) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: T.J. Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223365/bk_acx0_223365_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Glimpses , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 628min
    Akin to Thomas Hardy stories of the Dorset countryside - timely to his place and ours - Thomas Morgan's Indiana stories synchronize a sense of country place apposite and applicable to our time.... "Tom Morgan displays venerable literary skills; attentiveness to detail, alertness to context, and a hunger for larger meaning." "The literary equivalent of preternatural bat-like sonar that senses how to address readers in a voice possessing both immediacy and retrospective wisdom.""Astonishingly well-read, he structures his reminiscences and meditations as a series of vignettes that add up to taut scenes from a Midwesterner's life in the mid-20th and early 21st centuries - some occurring in Europe, Mexico, and California."  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas G. Morgan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124827/bk_acx0_124827_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Caravaggio (eBook, ePUB)
    Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of cardinals and whores, prayer and violence. On the streets surrounding the churches and palaces, brawls and swordfights were regular occurrences. In the course of this desperate life Caravaggio created the most dramatic paintings of his age, using ordinary men and women - often prostitutes and the very poor - to model for his depictions of classic religious scenes. Andrew Graham-Dixon's exceptionally illuminating readings of Caravaggio'spictures, which are the heart of the book, show very clearly how he created their drama, immediacy and humanity, and how completely he departed from the conventions of his time.
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    From Beirut to Jerusalem, Hörbuch, Digital, 182min
    In From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times and author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, has drawn on his decade in the Middle East to produce the most trenchant, vivid, and thought-provoking book yet on the region. No issue in international politics has been more hotly debated than the Arab-Israeli conflict. And no reporter has illuminated both the conflict and the rhythms of life in the Middle East with more immediacy and brilliance than Friedman, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Whether it's extremism, terrorism, or fundamentalism on right and left, Friedman puts all the operative currents into perspective with an inimitable specificity and clarity. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas L. Friedman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001350/bk_harp_001350_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 534min
    In The Eating of the Gods, the distinguished Polish critic Jan Kott reexamines Greek tragedy from the modern perspective. As in his earlier acclaimed Shakespeare, Our Contemporary, Kott provides startling insights and intuitive leaps which link our world to that of the ancient Greeks. The title refers to the Bacchae of Euripides, that tragedy of lust, revenge, murder, and "the joy of eating raw flesh" which Kott finds paradigmatic in its violence and bloodshed. Whether reflecting on Prometheus or drawing a modern parallel in Beckett's Happy Days ("the final version of the Prometheus myth"), Kott's vision is brilliant, his method innovative, and his sensibility consistently new. Since this book first appeared, Kott's connections between ancient and modern have become even more compelling in their immediacy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007398/bk_blak_007398_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Manuscript in Dreams - Study of Chopin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 131min
    This critically acclaimed imaginary autobiography of Frédéric Chopin was given a privileged place in the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw on his Bicentennial, "Since it's written by him," wrote the museum's director to the author.    A work of lovely lyrical and musical accents written in Chopin's voice, Manuscript in Dreams brings to light the most meaningful moments and aspects of the composer’s life and work. Juana Rosa Pita threads together “manuscripts that appeared from dream to dream…” and the result is an ensemble of intimate pieces subtly combined in an engaging kaleidoscope of letters, narratives and poems.      A diversity of characters - George Sand, Clara Schumann, Heine, Hallé, Delacroix - parade through this audiobook and contribute to their remarkable immediacy, while poems offer a precise emotional counterpoint. A heartfelt homage to an unrivaled composer.   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maria Isabel Pita. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128882/bk_acx0_128882_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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