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Cork Boat , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 494min

In the late 1990s, John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey. Cork Boat tells the story of Pollack's improbable quest. Overcoming one obstacle after another, he convinces skeptical bartenders to save their corks, corrals a brilliant but disorganized partner, and eventually cajoles more than one hundred volunteers who help build the boat until their fingers bleed. Ultimately, Pollack completes his vessel of 165,321 corks and sets sail on a fantastic voyage down the Douro River in Portugal, where the Cork Boat becomes a national sensation. In recounting these adventures, Pollack skillfully meanders through fascinating arcana, from the cork wars to the history of rubber bands (some 15,000 of which help hold his boat together). He also offers an insider's look at the White House, where he was a presidential speechwriter and enlisted navy stewards to save corks for the boat. Written with unusual grace and disarming humor, Cork Boat is a buoyant tale of whimsy, adventure, and the power of imagination. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Marosz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000169/bk_bkot_000169_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Walkabout / Man Alone / Botanical Census

This book presents three independent bodies of work by Henry Wessel from the past five decades. Each is a precise sequence recreating the experience of passing through the territory described. "Walkabout" invites the viewer to walk with Wessel through workingclass neighborhoods and bordering urban areas. The photos show sun-soaked homes, cars, bars, alleyways, gas stations and cyclone fences, reminding us that intuition can lead to dramatic possibilities anywhere. Wessel describes his approach: "At the core of this receptivity is a process that might be called soft eyes. It is a physical sensation. You are not looking for something. You are open, receptive. At some point, you are in front of something that you cannot ignore." "Man Alone" comprises photographs Wessel made of men in San Francisco. What at first seems a study of the gesture and gait of the urban man is actually a collection of individuals: each man's singularity is described through the interrelatedness of stride, garb, facial expression and the shape of the photo. Wessel's final series "Botanical Census" meanders through city streets, parks, roadsides and open fields. Images of bushes, succulents, trees, topiary and weeds, rendered by sharp-edged light, reveal the aesthetic possibilities growing all around us.

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Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 340min

Feeling worn thin? Come find rest. The Blue Ridge Parkway meanders through miles of rolling Virginia mountains. It's a route made famous by natural beauty and the simple rhythms of rural life. And it's in this setting that Hannah Anderson began her exploration of what it means to pursue a life of peace and humility. Fighting back her own sense of restlessness and anxiety, she finds herself immersed in the world outside, discovering a classroom full of forsythia, milkweed, and a failed herb garden. Lessons about soil preparation, sour mulch, and grapevine blights reveal the truth about our dependence on God, finding rest, and fighting discontentment. Humble Roots is part theology of incarnation and part stroll through the fields and forest. Anchored in the teaching of Jesus, Anderson explores how cultivating humility - not scheduling, strict boundaries, or increased productivity - leads to peace. "Come unto me, all who labor and are heavy laden," Jesus invites us, "and you will find rest for your souls." So come. Learn humility from the lilies of the field and from the one who is humility himself. Remember who you are and who you are not, and rediscover the rest that comes from belonging to him. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carla Mercer-Meyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/002082/bk_hove_002082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Christ of the Redemption: The Leg, the Balance, the Weight and the Volume - The Mechanics of Spiritual Warfare and Energetic Alteration , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 706min

The Christ of the Redemption: The Leg, the Balance, the Weight and the Volume, the Mechanics of Spiritual Warfare and Energetic AlterationAs a soul-meanders through the spiritual life, it is inevitable that periods of persecution will come into their perimeter. This tome engages the listener to understand the mechanism by which such spiritual warfare is confronted by the heavenly powers, within the soul and without, and how the alteration of the intrinsic matter must occur in order to have a lasting peace. The Christ of the Redemption is an experiential commentary on the works of Jacob Boehme and history’s first Mystical Theologian Dionysius describing the mechanism by which God brings transformation from heaven to earth within the soul of humankind.Vicariously, the listener will then follow the road to the Flower Garland Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism. And as you follow this path, their words become ever more clear and understandable and the mechanism becomes a tangible through-way that the seeker can follow when moving through the dangerous world where spiritual warfare has entered into the physical realm and energetic alteration is the only avenue of transcendence. This book will teach you how to move properly through the warfare and into the peace that transcends all understanding; even when others are not walking the same path. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Angelo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154805/bk_acx0_154805_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Little America (Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 320min

Little America is for anyone who has ever considered just getting in the car and driving away. Here the ribbon of Western road is a metaphor for the heart's strange longings, providing hard, sometimes hilarious, lessons on the improbability of escape, the possibility of salvation, and the elusiveness of self-knowledge. In "Yukon River," young lovers with a seedy past risk everything to be purified in the Alaska outback; they encounter instead the ruthless opportunism and alluring corruption of oil boom Fairbanks. In "Suitcase," a modern "Heart of Darkness," the road meanders from California down through impoverished Mexico and then sinks into a deadly Guatemalan jungle where the idealism of an earlier era gently rots. "Roll” starts in a truck on a cliff top in Idaho, one wheel off the edge. "Little America" travels with grifters on the lam who choke up at the sight of an Oregon wheat field at sunrise; later, in Wyoming, they are made solemn by the grandeur of the world's biggest truck stop and pause to ponder: Why would anyone willingly stay in one place? With deadpan humor, perfect pitch voice, and keen love of place, Simmons's stories illuminate the abiding American desire to "light out" - if not necessarily for something better, at least for something new. The book is published by The Ohio State University Press. The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rachel Stander. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/007982/bk_acx0_007982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Finding Stillness in a Noisy World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 267min

Moving through the settings of her life - red rock canyons, aspen forests, mountains, and cities - Jana Richman probes the depths of her internal landscape and asks how we can find stillness in our noisy world. In essays both personal and profoundly universal, Richman eschews quick and easy answers for quiet reflections on the questions: In a culture demanding that every voice be heard, how do we make sense of the resulting roar? Where do we seek solace when the last quiet places are sacrificed to human hubris? How do we shed the angst thrust upon us to create lives of peace?In these wide-ranging personal essays, Richman travels interior roads through fear, kindness, ignorance, darkness, wildness, compassion, solitude, loneliness, and more - always asking how external geography informs our internal geography. From the monsoonal rains in the carved slot canyons of the Escalante to the eroticism of dirt on skin in a remote slice of the Grand Canyon; from the defiance of academic authority to the curled, arthritic fingers of her mother and grandmothers, Richman sinks into the realities that make us human and fallible and blessed. Inspired by masters of the traditional personal essay such as E. B. White and M. F. K. Fisher, Richman adds a unique, deeply intimate - and often humorous - voice to the concurrence of human experience. Like a desert stream, human meaning meanders before coming to rest. Richman’s authentic voice illuminates the place where internal and external landscapes merge into meaning. Time with these genuine, inclusive pieces is time well spent. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary McKay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/202290/bk_acx0_202290_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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