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    Marvel Comics: The Untold Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1072min
    The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history - Marvel Comics - and the outsized personalities who made Marvel, including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby.  “Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the world…That it’s all true is just frosting on the cake.” (Jonathan Lethem)For the first time, Marvel Comics tells the stories of the men who made Marvel: Martin Goodman, the self-made publisher who forayed into comics after a get-rich-quick tip in 1939; Stan Lee, the energetic editor who would shepherd the company through thick and thin for decades; and Jack Kirby, the WW II veteran who would co-create Captain America in 1940 and, 20 years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company’s marquee characters in a three-year frenzy. Incorporating more than 100 original interviews with those who worked behind the scenes at Marvel over a 70-year-span, Marvel Comics packs anecdotes and analysis into a gripping narrative of how a small group of people on the cusp of failure created one of the most enduring pop cultural forces in contemporary America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003247/bk_harp_003247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Fortress of Solitude , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1114min
    This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification." This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the most simple human decisions - what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money - are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is the story of 1990s America, when no one cared anymore. This is the story of punk, that easy white rebellion, and crack, that monstrous plague. This is the story of the loneliness of the avant-garde artist and the exuberance of the graffiti artist. This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: They would screw up their lives. This is the story of joyous afternoons of stickball and dreaded years of schoolyard extortion. This is the story of belonging to a society that doesn't accept you. This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption. This is the story Jonathan Lethem was born to tell. This is The Fortress of Solitude. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Aaron Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000317/bk_rand_000317_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 607min
    New York Times best-selling author But What If We're Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music 500 years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or - weirder still - widely known but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we "overrate" democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we've reached the end of knowledge? Klosterman visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We're Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers - George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others - interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It's a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It's about how we live now, once "now" has become "then".  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chuck Klosterman, Fiona Hardingham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002808/bk_peng_002808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dogfight, A Love Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 754min
    What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend. Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose—sorry, Tariq—is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now everyone thinks Alfredo snitched on his brother, which may have something to do with the fact that Alfredo is now dating Tariq’s ex-girlfriend, Isabel, who is eight months pregnant. Tariq’s violent streak is probably #1 worry on Alfredo’s list. Also, he needs to steal a pit bull. For the homecoming dogfight. Burgess brings to life the rich and vivid milieu of his hometown native Queens in all its glorious variety. Here is the real New York, a place where Pakistanis, Puerto Ricans, Haitians, An ​glos, African Americans, and West Indians scrap and mingle and love. But the real star here is Burgess’s incredible ear for language—the voices of his characters leap off the page in riotous, spot-on dialogue. The outer boroughs have their own language, where a polite greeting is fraught with menace, and an insult can be the expression of the most tender love. With a story as intricately plotted as a Shakespearean comedy—or revenge tragedy, for that matter—and an electrically col ​loquial prose style, Dogfight, a Love Story establishes Matt Burgess as an exuberant new voice in contemporary literature. The great Queens novel has arrived. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ozzie Rodriguez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002411/bk_rand_002411_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 539min
    A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip - and the life lessons it can teach us - from a stellar array of writers and artists Over the span of 50 years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture - hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some 20 years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. In The Peanuts Papers, 33 writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture. These enchanting, affecting, and often quite personal essays show just how much Peanuts means to its many admirers - and the ways it invites us to ponder, in the words of Sarah Boxer, “how to survive and still be a decent human being” in an often bewildering world. Featuring essays, memoirs, poems, and two original comic strips, here is the ultimate listener's companion for every Peanuts fan.Featuring:Jill Bialosky Lisa Birnbach Sarah BoxerJennifer Finney Boylan Ivan Brunetti Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell Rich Cohen Gerald Early Umberto EcoJonathan Franzen Ira GlassAdam Gopnik David Hajdu Bruce Handy David Kamp Maxine Hong KingstonChuck Klosterman Peter D. Kramer Jonathan Lethem Rick Moody Ann Patchett Kevin PowellJoe QueenanNicole Rudick George Saunders Elissa Schappell Janice Shapiro Mona Simpson Leslie Stein Clifford Thompson David L. Ulin Chris WarePLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Boyett, JD Jackson, Khristine Hvam, Allyson Johnson, Dina Pearlman, Bill Andrew Quinn, Richard Ferrone, Jonathan Davis, Elizabeth Evans, Steve Rimpici, Kevin T. Collins, Mack Sanderson, Josh Hurley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/055316/bk_adbl_055316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    After the Saucers Landed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
    The bastard offspring of They Live and The Day the Earth Stood Still, as told by Jean Paul Sartre. Shape-changing aliens may have landed on the White House lawn and subsequently integrated into human society, but humanity is still full of self-centered and self-absorbed individuals. Laura's just scraping by on her art teacher's salary. Donald, a best-selling author and UFOlogist who provided counseling to abductees, has tried to distance himself from the saucer landings and is looking to move on with his life. But everything changes when Shelly, an alien enrolled in Laura's art class, mysteriously switches places with Laura. Life begins to unravel. Laura then realizes this isn't the first time Shelly has moved into another person's body, and fragments of other people's memories have jumped with her, including those of Donald's wife. Laura begins to grasp that reality, or at least humanity's perception of it, may be more flexible than anyone wants to admit. And though she can't explain how or why, she suspects the aliens are behind it and will need Donald's help to stop them. In an egocentric society that sleepwalks through the rituals of daily life, would people even notice if the world around them suddenly and inexplicably changes? Part Jonathan Lethem (Amnesia Moon) and part Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five), Douglas Lain's latest novel uses science fiction's alien invasion rubric to examine and undermine the world we take for granted. This deeply unsettling satire places him alongside contemporaries like Jeff VanderMeer and Charles Yu as one of his generation's most exciting and challenging speculative fiction voices. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Udall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022808/bk_adbl_022808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wir haben schon immer im Schloss gelebt
    Merricat lebt am Rande eines Dorfes im Schloss der Familie Blackwood, nur in Gesellschaft ihrer Schwester Constance und dem wunderlichen Onkel Julian, der an den Rollstuhl gefesselt ist. Alle anderen Familienmitglieder wurden vergiftet.Merricat liebt die Ruhe im Schloss. Aber seit Constance vor Gericht freigesprochen wurde, den Rest der Familie ermordet zu haben, lässt die Welt den Blackwoods keinen Frieden mehr.Und als Cousin Charles auftaucht, voller falschem Getue und dem verzweifelten Bedürfnis, an den Inhalt des Familiensafes zu kommen, muss Merricat alles in ihrer Macht Stehende tun, um das Schloss und seine Bewohner vor Schaden zu schützen ...Selbstverständlich ist Shirley Jackson mehr als nur die "Queen of Horror" - sie ist eine der wichtigsten Autorinnen der US-amerikanischen Literatur.Frankfurter Rundschau: "Das Buch geht unter die Haut. Die gespenstische Atmosphäre, in der die beiden Schwestern und der halb verrückte Onkel leben, ist so beklemmend geschildert, dass man von der Lektüre nicht mehr loskommt."Neil Gaiman: "Eine erstaunliche Autorin ... Wenn du sie nicht gelesen hast, hast du etwas Wunderbares verpasst."Joyce Carol Oates: "Ein Meisterwerk unter den unheimlichen Thrillern. Shirley Jackson ist eine dieser höchst eigenwilligen, unnachahmlichen Schriftstellerinnen, deren Werke einen bleibenden Zauber ausüben."Donna Tartt: "Ihr bestes Buch ... zugleich skurril und erschütternd, mit der detailreichen Fantasie eines Miniaturmalers skizziert, der in einem Mausoleum sitzt ... Wir fallen in Tiefen und Tiefen und blutrote Tiefen hinab, bis von der Realität nur noch ein unheimlicher, fast vergessener Schimmer hoch oben bleibt; und je tiefer wir sinken, desto tiefer wollen wir fallen."Jonathan Lethem: "Für mich ist dieses ungewöhnliche und traumartige Buch ihr Meisterwerk."The New York Times: "Ein verblüffendes Hexengebräu voller unheimlicher Kraft." ;FESTA MUST READ: Große Erzähler ohne Tabus. Muss man gelesen haben.
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    Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts alumni
    Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts alumni ab 24.99 € als Taschenbuch: Chaz Bono Al Pacino Suzanne Vega Jennifer Aniston Paul Lansky Morton Feldman John Buscema Nicki Minaj Jonathan Lethem Sal Buscema Billy Dee Williams James Conlon Josh Neufeld Adrien Brody Joel Iskowitz Robert Greenwald. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1347min
    Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailer's most important and representative work in the form that many rank as his most electrifying. As America's foremost public intellectual, Norman Mailer was a ubiquitous presence in our national life - on the airwaves and in print - for more than sixty years. With his supple mind and pugnacious persona, he engaged society more than any other writer of his generation. The trademark Mailer swagger is much in evidence in these pages as he holds forth on culture, ideology, politics, sex, gender, and celebrity, among other topics. Here is Mailer on boxing, Mailer on Hemingway, Mailer on Marilyn Monroe, and, of course, Mailer on Mailer - the one subject that served as the beating heart of all of his nonfiction. From his early essay "A Credo for the Living," published in 1948, when the author was twenty-five, to his final writings in the year before his death, Mailer wrestled with the big themes of his times. He was one of the most astute cultural commentators of the postwar era, a swashbuckling intellectual provocateur who never pulled a punch and was rarely anything less than interesting. Mind of an Outlaw spans the full arc of Mailer's evolution as a writer, including such essential pieces as his acclaimed 1957 meditation on hipsters, "The White Negro"; multiple selections from his seminal collection Advertisements for Myself; and a never-before-published essay on Sigmund Freud. Incendiary, erudite, and unrepentantly outrageous, Norman Mailer was a dominating force on the battlefield of ideas. Featuring an incisive Introduction by Jonathan Lethem, Mind of an Outlaw forms a fascinating portrait of Mailer's intellectual development across the span of his career as well as the preoccupations of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Lane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008473/bk_brll_008473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Strange Weather: Four Short Novels , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 875min
    A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative number one New York Times best-selling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill. "One of America's finest horror writers" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Lethem. In Strange Weather, this "compelling chronicler of human nature's continual war between good and evil" (Providence Journal-Bulletin), who "pushes genre conventions to new extremes" (New York Times Book Review), deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life. Snapshot, performed by Wil Wheaton, is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by The Phoenician, a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump...and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own in Aloft, performed by Dennis Boutsikaris. On a seemingly ordinary day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails - splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. Rain, performed by Kate Mulgrew, explores this escalating apocalyptic event as the deluge of nails spreads out across the country and around the world. In Loaded, performed by Stephen Lang, a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it. When an out-of-control summer blaze approaches the town, he will reach for the gun again and embark on one last day of reckoning. With an afterword from Joe Hill, re ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Hill, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Stephen Lang, Dennis Boutsikaris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006206/bk_harp_006206_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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