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August in Paris: And Other Travel Misadventures , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 64min
If you love David Sedaris, you'll have to listen to Marion Winik's anything-but-traditional tales of traveling with her cranky family in tow. From lost teenagers and missed connections to overpriced drinks and gambling mishaps, Winik - author of seven memoirs and a Morning Edition commentator on NPR - illuminates the unexpected pleasures of journeying out of your comfort zone. Ranging from Paris to Peru, from New Orleans to Uganda to the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, these travel essays are full of life, humor, and humanity. Whether you're hitting the road solo or with loved ones trailing behind, you'll want these before you set out. Marion Winik is the author of the new memoir Highs in the Low Fifties: How I Stumbled Through the Joys of Single Living. It joins Telling, First Comes Love, The Lunch-Box Chronicles, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, and others in the ongoing saga of her life, now seven volumes. She writes a column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com, reviews books for Newsday, and contributes to the Sun and many other magazines. She has appeared on the Today show, Oprah, and Politically Incorrect; was a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered for 15 years; and was the Answer Lady for Ladies' Home Journal. These days she is a professor in the MFA creative writing program at the University of Baltimore and lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with a couple of her kids and a miniature dachshund. This is a short audiobook published by Shebooks - high-quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sasha Dunbrooke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023620/bk_adbl_023620_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Guesswork: Essays on Forgetting and Remembering Who We Are , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 50min
Funny, thought provoking, and always entertaining, personal essayist Marion Winik is known for decades of storytelling on NPR and the stunning memoir First Comes Love. Memory and identity are the focus of this new collection, Guesswork, drawn from a column that has won "Best of Baltimore" from Baltimore magazine several years running. "The Things They Googled" looks at how search engines have changed our lives. "Love, Loss, and What I Cooked" takes autobiography to the kitchen. "What If You Were Right?" and "What If You Were Wrong?" highlight the way possibly incorrect interpretations of long-ago events subtly radiate through our lives over the years. These eight essays will inspire you to reconsider your own history and sense of self from new angles: how treasured places and objects fit in, how your life as a reader shapes who you are. A wonderful introduction to Winik's work, which now spans seven volumes chronicling her life. "Her essays are mind-blowing," according to Jane Smiley. "You can't stop reading them." Marion Winik is the author of the new memoir Highs in the Low Fifties: How I Stumbled Through the Joys of Single Living. It joins Telling, First Comes Love, The Lunch-Box Chronicles, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, and others in the ongoing saga of her life, now comprising seven volumes. She has appeared on the Today show, Oprah, and Politically Incorrect and was a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered for 15 years. This is a short audiobook published by Shebooks - high-quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sasha Dunbrooke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023621/bk_adbl_023621_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The End of the World as We Know It: Essays About Motherhood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 63min
Winner of Child magazine's Book of the Year award for her hilarious and candid book on single motherhood, The Lunch-Box Chronicles, Marion Winik returns to the topic of parenting in these nine essays. Beginning with the story of her second wedding and her move to rural Pennsylvania, she covers everything from blending families and having a child in one's 40s to dealing with the legal problems of teenage boys to the evolution of the values of a family over generations. The central essay of the group, "The Story of Laurie," focuses on Winik's profound friendship with a mom she at first believes she has little in common with. As they get to know each other, she comes to understand just how wrong she was. Marion Winik is the author of the new memoir Highs in the Low Fifties: How I Stumbled Through the Joys of Single Living. It joins Telling, First Comes Love, The Lunch-Box Chronicles, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, and others in the ongoing saga of her life, now seven volumes. She reviews books for Newsday, and contributes to the Sun and many other magazines. She has appeared on the Today show, Oprah, and Politically Incorrect, was a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered for 15 years, and was the Answer Lady for Ladies' Home Journal. These days, she is a professor in the MFA creative writing program at the University of Baltimore and lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with a couple of her kids and a miniature dachshund. This is a short audiobook published by Shebooks - high quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sasha Dunbrooke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023622/bk_adbl_023622_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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House Reunited, A: How America Survived the Civil War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 456min
The American Civil War is perhaps the greatest challenge any democratic society has ever faced. The events of the war are well known. The names of the battles - Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg - have echoed through time and resonate to the present day, as do the names of the leaders - Grant and Sherman, Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson. What is less understood is exactly how close the Union came to a permanent break. In this course, award-winning historian Jay Winik examines the climactic period near the end of this devastating conflict - a period that could have destroyed America, but saved it instead. It was a most precarious moment for the South. Atlanta had been overwhelmed, Columbia surrendered and burned, Charleston abandoned. The peace conference at Hampton Roads had been fruitless, and the British and French had refused to intervene. After striking harsh blows against the Union during the six bloodiest weeks of the war, the Army of Northern Virginia had wriggled free of its enemy's clutches and fallen back, assuming a defensive position around the cities of Petersburg and Richmond. Across the slim divide of trenches and water lay U.S. Grant's swelling and mighty Army of the Potomac. Southerners knew this was not the first time in history defenders had been cut to pieces and yet somehow found the will to prevail. They still had four armies in the field, and their guerrilla fighters and cavalry were second to none. Confronted by the prospect of losing everything, they hoped to find a leader who could rescue the south. In the trenches they believed there was such a man, and a weary Abraham Lincoln shared this thought. Robert E. Lee and the generals who looked to him for guidance were as aggressive as ever, not ready to give up or relinquish their Confederate identity. The war was not over, not by a long shot. It is the eve of April 1865. Even today, what followed in the remaining days of the Civil War seems almost miraculous. April 1865 is a month... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jay Winik. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/reco/002067/sp_reco_002067_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1873min
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully illuminates how their fates combined in one extraordinary moment to change the course of civilization. A sweeping, magisterial drama featuring the richest cast of characters ever to walk upon the world stage, including Washington, Jefferson, Louis XVI, Robespierre, and Catherine the Great, The Great Upheaval is a gripping, epic portrait of this tumultuous decade that will forever transform the way we see America's beginnings and our world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005450/bk_harp_005450_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Giving It Away, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
Gifts make slaves, like whips make dogs” is a saying from Greenland’s Inuit culture. How do you feel when someone gives you a gift? Grateful? Uncomfortable? Indebted? Our guests weigh in on how major philanthropy could change the world, and the donors themselves. And one woman's effort to learn to refuse help when she doesn't want it, and ask for it when she does. When Tracy Gary inherited a million dollars, she decided to give it all away. As a philanthropic advisory, she's now helping others do the same. She spoke with Jim Fleming about transforming the culture of the so-called one percent", and the hidden gifts of giving. Then, Ralph Nader says he knows how to fix the United States. If he could just get a few super rich people to give him $15 billion, he's got a plan for how to get it done. Next, there was an unexpected consensus among the people in Madison, Wisconsin, when we asked them whether it's better to get or to give. And then, Marion Winik muses on macaroni and cheese, and the lessons it can teach parents - and kids - about giving. Following that, David Graeber takes us on a tour of gift giving, and gift economies. He also takes a swing at the question of whether it's possible to give a truly selfless gift. Finally... It can be awkward to receive gifts. Especially if they’re gifts you don’t really want. The same goes for help. Haddayr Copley-Woods has been grappling with how to handle unwanted help since she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. [Broadcast Date: December 2, 2011] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/111202/rt_tbon_111202_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Giving It Away, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
Gifts make slaves, like whips make dogs” is a saying from Greenland’s Inuit culture. How do you feel when someone gives you a gift? Grateful? Uncomfortable? Indebted? Our guests weigh in on how major philanthropy could change the world, and the donors themselves. And one woman's effort to learn to refuse help when she doesn't want it, and ask for it when she does. When Tracy Gary inherited a million dollars, she decided to give it all away. As a philanthropic advisory, she's now helping others do the same. She spoke with Jim Fleming about transforming the culture of the so-called one percent", and the hidden gifts of giving. Then, Ralph Nader says he knows how to fix the United States. If he could just get a few super rich people to give him $15 billion, he's got a plan for how to get it done. Next, there was an unexpected consensus among the people in Madison, Wisconsin, when we asked them whether it's better to get or to give. And then, Marion Winik muses on macaroni and cheese, and the lessons it can teach parents - and kids - about giving. Following that, David Graeber takes us on a tour of gift giving, and gift economies. He also takes a swing at the question of whether it's possible to give a truly selfless gift. Finally... It can be awkward to receive gifts. Especially if they’re gifts you don’t really want. The same goes for help. Haddayr Copley-Woods has been grappling with how to handle unwanted help since she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. [Broadcast Date: October 26, 2012] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/121026/rt_tbon_121026_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Be Human: An Autistic Man's Guide to Life
A "beautiful and astonishing" (Walter Isaacson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker) narrative that examines the many ways to be fully human, told by the first young adult with autism to attend Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. As a child, Jory Fleming was wracked by uncontrollable tantrums, had no tolerance for people, and couldn't manage the outside world. Slightly more than a decade later, he was bound for England, selected to attend one of the world's premier universities. How to Be Human is a "profound, thought-provoking" (Barry M. Pizant, PhD, author of Uniquely Human) exploration of life amid a world constructed for neurotypical brains when yours is not. But the miracle of this book is that instead of dwelling on Jory's limitations, those who inhabit the neurotypical world will begin to better understand their own: they will contemplate what language cannot say, how linear thinking leads to dead ends, and how nefarious emotions can be, particularly when, in Jory's words, they are "weaponized." Through a series of deep, personal conversations with writer Lyric Winik, Jory makes a compelling case for logical empathy based on rational thought, asks why we tolerate friends who see us as a means to an end, and explains why he believes personality is a choice. Most movingly, he discusses how, after many hardships, he maintains a deep, abiding faith: "With people, I don't understand what goes in and what comes out, and how to relate," he says. "But I can always reconnect with my relationship with my Creator." Join Jory and Lyric as they examine what it means to be human and ultimately how each of us might become a better one. Jory asks us to consider: Who has value? What is a disability? And how do we correct the imbalances we see in the world? How to Be Human shows us the ways a beautifully different mind can express the very best of our shared humanity.- Shop: buecher
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