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Slow Bullets (eBook, ePUB)

From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilization itself.A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur - and for humanity - peace is not to be.On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal, and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She revives aboard a prisoner transport vessel. Something has gone terribly wrong with the ship.Passengers - combatants from both sides of the war - are waking up from hibernation far too soon. Their memories, embedded in bullets, are the only links to a world which is no longer recognizable. And Scur will be reacquainted with her old enemy, but with much higher stakes than just her own life.

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Peanuts, Pogo, and Hobbes: A Newspaper Editor's Journey through the World of Comics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 318min

In this memoir, Lockwood draws upon his forty years in the newspaper industry as a reporter and editor, offering a unique glimpse into the world of newspaper cartoon strips. He details the production and promotion of countless comic strips, while also providing his own assessments of the most iconic cartoonists of the last half-century. The book is filled with fascinating anecdotes about his relationships with some of America's greatest cartoonists and the syndicate reps who sold their cartoon strips. Peanuts, Pogo, and Hobbes uses the story of one man's obsession with comic book heroes to give voice to a larger narrative about comic strips, their creators, the newspaper industry, and the era of American history that encompassed them all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Neufeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023325/bk_acx0_023325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Grabbing Pussy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 163min

A celebrated performance artist’s mesmerizing riffs on sex in American politics.Based on her widely praised performance piece Unicorn Gratitude Mystery ("Wickedly funny", as described by The New York Times), Karen Finley’s Grabbing Pussy explores the Shakespearean dynamics that surface when libidos and loyalties clash in the public and private personas of Donald Trump, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner, and now Harvey Weinstein.Standing in the tradition of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, Finley’s words jolt the listener into new insights about the ways the darkly private can drive the public realm in dizzying twists and turns. The aggression of intimacy, the disparity of gender, and the vital importance of hair are all encompassed in Finley’s exhilarating canter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Finley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/055196/bk_adbl_055196_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Death's Driver: The Life of a Body Transporter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 109min

My career in the death care profession spanned a decade but encompassed the industry from several perspectives. What tied all these together was my role as a driver for the dead. Sometimes I was a funeral driver, other times I picked up from morgues, and in another capacity I picked up the deceased from the scenes of car accidents, shootings, hit and runs, and worse. Finally, I cleaned up after homicides, accidents, and suicides as a side business. I could have organized it in a logical, linear fashion, but that's not how I remember it. My experiences varied widely and the pacing of the job was frenetic, fascinating, heartbreaking, and strangely edifying. Like death itself, it was always unpredictable. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. Scott Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/050009/bk_acx0_050009_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of Ancient Athens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min

Dominated to this day by the sprawling white marble complex of the Acropolis, Athens is a city which is immensely and rightly proud of its past. For a period of roughly three centuries, the polis of Athens stood, if not in a position of unchallenged supremacy among the cities of Hellas, then at the very least among its three most important polities. Its fledgling Empire, though small by the standards later set by Alexander or the Romans, or even by those of its ancient enemy Persia, nonetheless encompassed cities as far afield as Asia Minor and Southern Italy, a remarkable fact considering such expansion was achieved by the inhabitants of a single city and its immediate surroundings, rather than by an entire nation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/089202/bk_acx0_089202_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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100 Quotes by Aristotle: Great Philosophers and Their Inspiring Thoughts, Hörbuch, Digital, 22min

Pupil of the great Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is a massively influential figure in Western philosophy. Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold". Modern ethics are based on his ideas about virtue; his writings literally encompassed all the scientific knowledge of the time and beyond, so much that many of his findings were still considered cutting-edge many century afterwards. Aristotle also shaped modern logic, and put his mark on all subsequent philosophy and theology. We have selected for you 100 of his most profound and influent quotes, so that you can see for yourself how modern these fundamental ideas still are. Nourish your daily life with Aristotle's Ethics, strengthen your thoughts with his Logic, and adopt his scientific ways for a clearer life. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Spera. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/000734/bk_cids_000734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Marv Levy: Where Else Would You Rather Be? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1095min

Forty-seven years of joyous celebrations after victories and crushing disappointments after defeats are encompassed in Marv Levy: Where Else Would You Rather Be?, but it is about more than just touchdowns and interceptions - it’s about how a person like Marv Levy, dedicated to his life’s work, can begin his career as the obscure assistant coach of a high school junior varsity team and decades later lead a team to the Super Bowl. Listeners will learn about the character, persistence, and personalities of those incomparable Buffalo Bills of the 1990s who so resolutely pursued their impossible dream. Sports fans will look forward to each adventure contained in this audiobook, and will no doubt agree with the sentiment of the author: “Where else would I rather be than right here - right now!” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alpha Trivette. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008723/bk_adbl_008723_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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William Blake: A Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 54min

William Blake is now considered one of the giants of poetry. During his life and for many years after he was thought of as mad. His wide ranging skills not only encompassed poetry but bestrode the visual arts too with paintings and printmaking. Unfortunately he could never fit in to what Society expected of him and his attacks on Religion would not have helped. But his work was the true measure of his worth and they, in the main, remain with us today. In our production we have extracts from 'Songs Of Experience' and 'Songs Of Innocence'. Although he lived to be 70 the great bulk of his poetry was completed by the age of 51. Our selections are read by the remarkable Sir Ralph Richardson. One of the grandees of English Film and Theatre. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sir Ralph Richardson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000055/bk_copy_000055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Infinite Fantastika , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 484min

This eclectic, wide-ranging collection of some of Di Filippo's newest stories - plus one newly excavated gem from nearly thirty years past - illustrates the enormous territory encompassed by modern fantastical fiction in general, and this writer's realm in particular.From the sheer Lovecraftian weirdness found in The Horror at Gancio Rosso to the biopunk future of The Herple is a Happy Beast; from the old-school pulp of Airboy and Vooda Visit the Jungles of the Moon to the hardcore cyberpunk of A Faster, Deeper Now, these tales chart the unexpected, the comical, the tragic, and the likely-to-happen.Whether our heroes are trying to kill God (The Trail of the Creator, the Trial of Creation) or time-travel to a happier era (I'll Follow the Sun), they exhibit all the intelligence, derring-do, resilience, and manic assaults on the multiverse found in the best classic imaginative literature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wesley Nelson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150021/bk_acx0_150021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Slow Bullets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 258min

A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur - and for humanity - peace is not to be. On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She revives aboard a prisoner transport vessel. Something has gone terribly wrong with the ship. Passengers - combatants from both sides of the war - are waking up from hibernation far too soon. Their memories, embedded in bullets, are the only links to a world that is no longer recognizable. And Scur will be reacquainted with her old enemy but with much higher stakes than just her own life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Duerden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/004827/bk_tant_004827_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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