30 Results for : honeyed
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The Plot to Save Socrates , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 528min
Paul Levinson's astonishing new science fiction novel is a surprise and a delight. In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future. Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript, with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max. The trail leads her to a time machine in a gentlemen's club in London and in New York, and into the past, and to a time traveler from her future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history, or to do so herself. And she finds that time travel raises more questions than it answers. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades (of the honeyed thighs) and Thomas Appleton, the great 19th century American publisher, to Socrates himself, appear. With surprises in every chapter, Paul Levinson has outdone himself in The Plot to Save Socrates. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Shanahan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/live/000186/bk_live_000186_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Sisters of the Winter Wood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 646min
Captivating and boldly imaginative, Rena Rossner's debut invites you to enter a magical world of secrets, family ties and fairy tales weaving through history. Perfect for fans of The Bear and the Nightingale, Uprooted and The Night Circus. Every family has a secret...and every secret tells a story. In a remote village surrounded by forests on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have been raised on the honeyed scent of their Mami's babka and the low rumble of their Tati's prayers. But when a troupe of mysterious men arrives, Laya falls under their spell - despite their mother's warning to be wary of strangers. And this is not the only danger lurking in the woods.As dark forces close in on their small village, Liba and Laya discover a family secret passed down through generations. Faced with a magical heritage they never knew existed, the sisters realise the old fairy tales are true...and could save them all.Captivating and boldly imaginative, Rena Rossner's debut invites you to enter a magical world of secrets, family ties and fairy tales weaving through history. Perfect for fans of The Bear and the Nightingale, Uprooted and The Night Circus. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ana Clements. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/002155/bk_twuk_002155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mrs. Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 304min
This book provides you with a detailed description of the eight major pagan festivals as they fall chronologically throughout the year. Each celebration leads you further into Mrs. Darley's magical world and invites you to experience the wisdom of the ancients within a modern setting. Carole Carlton brings the important days of pagan traditions together by exploring the cycle of seasonal celebrations with relevant dates. Alternate names, the folklore that has become associated with it throughout the ages and any closely associated festivals and origins are detailed, as well as how they were once celebrated. Mrs. Darley's Pagan Whispers is full of thought-provoking stories, which describe some of the experiences the author encountered during her time in Cornwall. All involve her once next-door neighbor, Mrs. Darley, a delightfully eloquent, yet mysterious lady of a certain age. This provides an insight into how Mrs. Darley encouraged her to become involved in each occasion. Have you ever longed to walk barefoot in the winter snow, greet the summer solstice dawn with drums and honeyed toast or experience the pure magic of May Eve? If so, then this book is the answer to your quest. Each festival having subsections designed to engage the listener in didactic, experiential and experimental learning, whilst simultaneously transporting them to a world of mystery and magic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Jordan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/077216/bk_acx0_077216_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Nora & Kettle: A Paper Stars Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 621min
Fans of Eleanor & Park and The Book Thief will love this startling and heart-warming take on Peter Pan. What if Peter Pan was a homeless kid just trying to survive, and Wendy flew away for a really good reason? Seventeen-year-old Kettle has had his share of adversity. As an orphaned Japanese American struggling to make a life in the aftermath of an event in history not often referred to - the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the removal of children from orphanages for having "one drop of Japanese blood in them" - things are finally looking up. He has his hideout in an abandoned subway tunnel, a job, and his gang of Lost Boys. The world outside her oppressive brownstone calls to 18-year-old Nora - the privileged daughter of a controlling and violent civil rights lawyer who is building a compensation case for the interned Japanese Americans. But she is trapped, enduring abuse to protect her younger sister Frankie and wishing on the stars every night for things to change. For months, they've lived side by side, their paths crossing yet never meeting. But when Nora is nearly killed and her sister taken away, their worlds collide as Kettle, grief stricken at the loss of a friend, angrily pulls Nora from her window. In her honeyed eyes, Kettle sees sadness and suffering. In his, Nora sees the chance to take to the window and fly away. Set in 1953, Nora and Kettle explores the collision of two teenagers facing extraordinary hardship. Their meeting is inevitable, devastating, and ultimately healing. Their stories, a collection of events, are each on their own harmless. But together, one after the other, they change the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Haley Landers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/077645/bk_acx0_077645_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Host in the Attic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 208min
The Host in the Attic by Rohan Quine is a hologram of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, digitised and reframed in cinematic style, set in London’s Docklands in a few years’ time. Brilliant software engineer Rik and executive Jaymi work at digital agencies in London (surely unaware that their fates are destined to echo those of Basil and Dorian, respectively the painter and the subject of Wilde's novel). Rik uses Jaymi’s appearance as the model or “skin” for a cutting-edge interactive hologram that navigates the Web in enhanced ways, tailored to every user. The dissolute bigwig “Champagne” Marc makes this into a business reality, and through his cynical eloquence electrifies Jaymi with the knowledge that Jaymi will hereby become the face of the Web. Throughout the film-shoot of Jaymi for the making of the skin, these honeyed words of Marc (like those of Wilde’s Lord Henry to Dorian during the portrait’s creation) light powerful fires of vanity and hubris behind Jaymi’s eyes. As this holographic Web-guide’s hold over global information grows to a near monopoly, Jaymi is lionised, finding no door closed. But he yearns for still more: to see what the hologram itself can see online. So by trickery he succeeds in getting hold of a unique copy of the prototype hologram, with all regular filters removed. In private files online he thereby discovers a not-yet-published novel that will come to be called The Imagination Thief, by Alaia Danielle, with whom he has an intense romance (echoing Wilde’s actress Sibyl Vane with Dorian). But when Jaymi brutally dumps her, triggering her suicide, he is shocked to observe, on the same evening, that the face on his private prototype hologram has become crueller. Fascinated, he realises its appearance is changing in accordance with his own behaviour - and he hides it in his attic. For years he uses his unique online access for ever more megalomaniacal ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rohan Quine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156648/bk_acx0_156648_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Honeyed Taste of Deception (Angel Lake Cozy Mystery #4)
The Honeyed Taste of Deception (Angel Lake Cozy Mystery #4): ab 2.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Take Love Easy
Popular Mainstream Jazz - Fans von Diana Krall, von Jamie Cullum, Melody Gardot oder Tierney Sutton sind hier gut aufgehoben.Produziert hat -Take Love Easy- kein geringerer als Steven MacKinnon (Molly Johnson, Marc Jordan, Natalie Cole), zu hören sind neben dem strahlenden Stern Sophie Milman: Wessell Anderson (Wynton Marsalis, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra), Guido Basso, P.J. Perry, Michael Kaeshammer und Robi Botos. Je älter Sophie Milman wird, desto abgeklärter erscheint sie, lotet ohne jede Scham ihre musikalische Grenzen neu aus. Auf -Take Love Easy- interpretiert Milman mit der ihr angeschlossenen All-Star Band Klassiker von Duke Ellington und Cole Porter über Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell bis hin zu Paul Simon. Die nordamerikanische Presse urteilt darüber: Globe and Mail : Take Love Easy, her third album, delivers the goods instantly. The very first thing we hear is her voice, dark and lustrous, over a walking bass line as she gently but decisively swings -Beautiful Love-, and it's clear that this is no pop jazz confection. Between her honeyed tone and relaxed, back-of-the-pocket phrasing, Milman sings with a maturity beyond her years Die New York Times urteilt: She could remake a T-Pain come-on into a Carmen McRae entreaty. The opener, -Beautiful Love- combines a crisply swinging tempo with a sultry minor key, -Where Do You Start?- closes things on a subtly dramatic note. ... But Ms. Milman's core philosophy might best be summed up by the Joni Mitchell tune she covers here: -Be Cool-. TRACKS: 01. Beautiful Love 02. Take Love Easy 03. I Concentrate On You 04. Day In, Day Out 05. Be Cool 06. My One And Only Love 07. I Can t Make You Love Me 08. That Is Love 09. Love For Sale 10. I m On Fire 11. Triste 12. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover 13. Where Do You Start?- Shop: odax
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In Defence of the Wild
ABOUT THE ALBUM In July 2010 Padma follows his widely acclaimed debut album Here, released on Just Music in 2008, with sophomore release, In Defence of the Wild. Inspired by Thoreau's Walden, Padma spent the winter of 2008/09 living totally off grid, in a yurt in the mountains of Spain. He kept a blog while he was there, which attracted widespread media attention and saw him interviewed on national radio shows in the UK (BBC Radio 2 and 3). Now living in a cohousing community in Vancouver, his current blog is regularly featured on The Independent (a national UK broadsheet)'s website. In Defence of the Wild is a collection of songs inspired by Padma's time in the yurt. It smells of wood fires and tastes of freedom. If his first album drew comparisons with Nick Drake, the new one is lyrically closer to the mischievous political poetry of an early Bob Dylan. Sonically, Defence draws on a much wider field of influences than Here, while still playing to the natural strengths of his immaculate vocals and sensitive acoustic guitar work. Nick Drake is still in evidence, but this time we can also hear the upbeat skank of Manu Chau and even occasional hints of Sonic Youth can be heard. With songs like 'Consumers of the World, Unite!', 'Route 666' and 'The Bloke Downstairs', Padma pulls no punches in his comments on contemporary culture. The intimacy and warmth that was characteristic of Here is still very much in evidence, albeit this time focused on issues around Padma's love of the wild places of the world, and his pain at the thought of their destruction. Though dealing with difficult subject matter, Defence is neither a judgmental preach-fest, nor an angry political rant. It is an album filled with love, humour and melancholy (and yes okay, a little bit of anger too). Padma says: 'I'm speaking up for the wilderness, because it can't speak up for itself. But I'm also advocating for that which in us - and in society - is still wild. Wild in the sense that it is untainted and untamed by the urbanisation which is sprawling across our world, suffocating our hearts, and causing so many problems for the planet. 'I like the word 'wild' because it represents a direct challenge to authority and control from outside. This has been a big part of the problem. Some people think of being 'wild' as being without concern or responsibility - like a spoilt celebrity teenager. But for me, wild suggests a natural and heartfelt morality based on true freedom, and a direct connection with both our own nature, and the Earth itself.' Although Padma only arrived in Vancouver in 2009, very quickly he has found himself at the heart of the Vancouver music scene. After seeing Padma's first Canadian show, Lauren Eldridge of Backstage Vancouver agreed to manage him. T.Nile - winner of the Canadian Music Award for Best Emerging Singer-Songwriter - adds her honeyed tones to exert a considerable presence on the album. Other contributors include organist Andy Taylor from UK-based psych-frontiersmen The Dials, and Stefano Reali of Rome's Happy Never After. ABOUT PADMA Padma was born in Sheffield, in the north of England. He likes to move around and currently lives between Vancouver Canada, the UK, and a yurt in the Spanish Pyrenees. He has been a practising Buddhist for 15 years. In 2005, after surviving a near-fatal brain haemorrhage, he decided to leave the city in favour of a more natural environment. He built a yurt and headed for the mountains of Spain. Padma's debut album Here was produced by Holy McGrail (synth and fx for Slomo, Julian Cope, Sunn0))) ). It was released on UK indie label Just Music in 2008. Here received some excellent reviews and Padma played sessions and was interviewed on BBC Radio 2 and 3, as well as touring the UK. Song for an Entryphone, the second single from Here, was Julian Lennon's Pick of the Week for Below Zero - a California radio station. It was also used in the soundtrack of the award-winning film Bigboy_74, which was shown on MTV. In 2008/09, Padma spent his second winter in the yurt. Inspired by Thoreau's Walden, he kept a weekly blog, sharing his experience of life on the mountain and his reflections on society. It was during this period that the songs for In Defence of the Wild were written or conceived. Padma currently lives in a cohousing community in Vancouver.- Shop: odax
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L'Africaine
Plácido Domingo, as Vasco da Gama, and Shirley Verrett, as the African queen whom he has enslaved, star in Meyerbeer's spectacular grand opera, in a colourfully exotic production by Lotfi Mansouri, under the sensitive musical direction of Maurizio Arena. The visual splendour of Wolfram Skalicki's designs matches the vocal distinction of the cast: "Domingo was the honeyed, ringing Gama of everyone's expectations, Verrett as lustrous and inward a Sélika as ever, Ruth Ann Swenson a gem-like Inès" (Opera Magazine).- Shop: odax
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