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  100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write (eBook, ePUB)

  100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl. This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. A vibrant, provocative examination of the possibilities of the theater, it is also a map to a very particular artistic sensibility, and an unexpected guide for anyone who has chosen an artist's life. Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stunningly original book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture. The titles themselves speak to the volume's uniqueness: "On lice," "On sleeping in the theater," "On motherhood and stools (the furniture kind)," "Greek masks and Bell's palsy."

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  Captive Audience: On Love and Reality TV , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 473min

  An intimate portrait of a marriage intertwined with a meditation on reality TV that reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life. A Vintage original. In Lucas Mann's trademark vein - fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating - Captive Audience is an appreciation of reality television wrapped inside a love letter to his wife, with whom he shares the guilty pleasure of watching "real" people bare their souls in search of celebrity. Captive Audience resides at the intersection of popular culture with the personal; the exhibitionist impulse, with the schadenfreude of the vicarious, and in confronting some of our most suspect impulses achieves a heightened sense of what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lucas Mann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006135/bk_rand_006135_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Outliers: The Story of Success , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min

  In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malcolm Gladwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000187/bk_hach_000187_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Tall Oaks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 566min

  This brilliant debut is dark yet hilarious, suspenseful but full of joy. When three-year-old Harry goes missing, the whole of America turns its attention to one small town. Everyone is eager to help. Everyone is a suspect. Desperate mother Jess' grief is driving her to extreme measures. Newcomer Jared, with an easy charm and a string of broken hearts in his wake is also a suspect. Photographer Jerry is a suspect who is determined to break away from his controlling mother once and for all. And investigating them all is a police chief with a hidden obsession of his own.... In Chris Whitaker's brilliant and original debut novel, missing persons, secret identities and dangerous lies abound in a town as idiosyncratic as its inhabitants. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Harding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002972/bk_boli_002972_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  You Can't Say That: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1461min

  A frank, gripping and moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic and effective politicians of the last 50 years. His political convictions, his distance from New Labour, and his direct, plain-speaking style and personality have allowed him to survive longer than any of his contemporaries.From his eccentric South London working class childhood to running one of the biggest cities in the world, Livingstone is one of the very few politicians to have scored a major victory over the Thatcher Government. Written in Livingstone's unmistakable voice, by turns angrily sincere about social justice, wickedly droll and gossipy, and surprisingly wistful about people he has known and loved, this is a hugely important and remarkable book from one of the very few respected politicians at work today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cameron Stewart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005562/bk_bbcw_005562_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Outliers

  Learn what sets high achievers apart -- from Bill Gates to the Beatles -- in this #1 bestseller from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review). In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

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  How to Be Invisible: Lyrics

  Selected and arranged by the author, and with a new introduction by novelist David Mitchell, How To Be Invisible presents the lyrics of Kate Bush for the first time in a beautiful cloth-bound Faber edition.'For millions around the world, Kate is way more than another singer-songwriter: she is a creator of musical companions that travel with you through life. One paradox about Kate is that while her lyrics are proudly idiosyncratic, those same lyrics evoke emotions and sensations that feel universal. Literature works in similar mysterious ways. Kate's the opposite of a confessional singer-songwriter ... You don't learn much about Kate from her songs. She's fond of masks and costumes - lyrically and literally - and of yarns, fabulations and atypical narrative viewpoints. Yet, these fiercely singular songs, which nobody else could have authored, are also maps of the heart, the psyche, the imagination. In other words, art.' David Mitchell

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  Dinner with Dalí

  Piece together the artists, artworks and surroundings that bring Salvador Dalí's world to life in this surreal 1,000-piece puzzle.A giant grasshopper, an anteater and an ocelot named Babou - they're not your usual dinner guests. Put down your lobster telephone and experience the magic of Salvador Dalí in this 1000-piece puzzle. Join Meret Oppenheim, René Magritte and a kaleidoscope of butterflies as you piece together the artists, artworks and surroundings that bring this surrealist dream to life.When you've done the 1,000-piece puzzle, take a peek inside the lid, where you'll find 25 interesting facts to discover. For example, did you know that Dalí designed the Chupa Chups logo? Or that he once packed 500kg of cauliflower into a Rolls Royce? Both fun and informative, this puzzle is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of one of history's most idiosyncratic artists.

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  Fujita 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min

  What would you be prepared to risk to follow your conscience? How do the members of a family cope with their own personal grief when one of them dies in tragic circumstances? Should the will of the state always supersede personal morality and religious belief?It is 2004. Andrew Burke, an idiosyncratic but brilliant Irish academic, has a chance encounter with an escaped death row inmate in America’s Deep South after a devastating hurricane. He makes the momentous decision to help the injured prisoner evade his inevitable fate.The events Andrew sets in motion cause him to lock horns with a powerful politician whose family is coming to terms with the death from the drug overdose of his daughter. To help him and the prisoner, he enlists the assistance of Susan Aldershot, a veterinarian, in his scheme to get Williams across the border and into Canada. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Moran. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221979/bk_acx0_221979_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 984min

  What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture sup­posed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers.A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any he’s written, this volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring, and Marlon Brando, as well as on a shelf’s worth of his literary models and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Paula Fox, Bret Easton Ellis, James Wood, and oth­ers. And, writing about Brooklyn, his father, and his sojourn through two decades of writing, Lethem sheds an equally strong light on himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Lethem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002830/bk_rand_002830_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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