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    Hard Times (eBook, ePUB)
    Dickens's scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society. Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens's most powerful and unforgettable novels, is all brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Its emblematic citizen, the schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, lives to impose his version of education: facts and statistics that feed the mind while starving the soul and spirit. Inflexible and unyielding, he places conformity above curiosity and logic over sentiment, only to see his philosophy warp and destroy the lives of his own family. Filled with memorable characters and scenes, Hard Times is a daring novel of ideas-and, ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and imagination. With an Introduction by Frederick Busch and an Afterword by Jane Smiley
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    Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR • THE A.V. CLUB Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg delivers a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love-the best and worst thing in the universe. Featuring: *A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding. *A pair of lonely commuters who ride the subway in silence, forever, eternally failing to make that longed-for contact. *A struggling employee at a theme park of U.S. presidents who discovers that love can't be genetically modified. And fifteen more tales of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability.
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    The Custom of the Country , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 906min
    The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature, Edith Wharton stands among the finest writers of early 20th-century America. In The Custom of the Country, Wharton’s scathing social commentary is on full display through the beautiful and manipulative Undine Spragg. When Undine convinces her nouveau riche parents to move to New York, she quickly injects herself into high society. But even a well-to-do husband isn’t enough for Undine, whose overwhelming lust for wealth proves to be her undoing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Caruso. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005643/bk_reco_005643_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Live Again, Hörbuch, Digital, 103min
    Following the huge success of his sell-out 100-date UK tour, the nation's favourite deadpan stand-up returns to the Hammersmith Apollo to deliver some of his most scathing and hilarious material for years. Jack's riotous set includes blistering attacks on everything from Kendal mint cake to D.I.Y. stores, while his side-splitting observations on family life will become an instant classic. It's a wild, rude and hilarious ride... so strap yourself in for the funniest download of the year. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Dee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/univ/000016/pf_univ_000016_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Oasis (eBook, ePUB)
    Collection of the author's favorite poems, Haibun and Haiku to date, each selected by the author from her books: New Orleans Born the author's poetic homage to her childhood family influencers and he city of New Orleans, New Orleans Between Poetry and the Blues scathing humor about New Orleans to the year 2000, and My Dance With Time traversing seven decades of her life with autobiographical tales about the people, eras, and circumstances that shaped her character and life. These personal tales will surely inspire any reader who seeks a deeper understanding of their own lives to remember long forgotten memories. Phyllis Parun is a deeply honest author and a quintessential example of Cocteau's dictum that "writing should be an act of love otherwise its nothing but handwriting."
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    We Are Never Meeting in Real Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
    If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby...where have you been? Samantha Irby is your sharp-tongued best friend who can't help but tell it like it is. In We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Irby laughs her way through her ridiculous life of failed relationships, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease and more. Written with scathing wit and poignant bluntness, these essays have earned Irby a dedicated fan base, have sold over 100,000 copies in the US and are the perfect introduction to this fresh, bold voice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samantha Irby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/fabe/000177/bk_fabe_000177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    An Appeal to the Young , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 54min
    An Appeal to the Young is a passionate tract by the anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin, which was translated from the Russian in 1884 by HM Hyndman. The next year it was published in San Francisco with the title To Young People by the International Workingmans Association (IWMA) in a translation by Marie LeCompte. It would be regularly reprinted in English language pamphlets in the years that followed, including editions in Australia, India, and elsewhere. The pamphlet is imbued with a fierce morality and by times earnest, scathing, condemnatory and passionate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dave Belk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001639/bk_yurt_001639_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dr Wortle's School , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 414min
    Can it be right to persist in a bigamous marriage? Mr. Peacocke, a classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her first husband - a reprobate from Louisiana - appears at the school gates, their dreadful secret is revealed and the county is scandalised.  With its scathing depiction of American manhood, it's jousting with convention, and its amiable, egotistical protagonist, Dr Wortle's School is one of the sharpest and most engaging of Trollope's later novels. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/002715/bk_bbcw_002715_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Orson's Shadow , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 115min
    Sir Laurence Olivier. Orson Welles. Vivien Leigh. Joan Plowright. Kenneth Tynan. When these champions of the theatre get together to rehearse Ionesco's Rhinoceros, mere mortals best step aside. With lightning wit and scathing insight into the true nature of genius, Austin Pendleton's new play opens the private worlds of these very public people, exposing their warmth, their egos, and their glittering madness.Starring (in alphabetical order):Caroline Goodall as Joan PlowrightGlenne Headly as Vivien LeighMartin Jarvis as Laurence OlivierRobert Machray as Orson WellesOrlando Seale as SeanSimon Templeman as Kenneth Tynan ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000084/pf_latw_000084_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Men Explain Things to Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 167min
    In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't. The ultimate problem, she shows in her comic, scathing essay, is female self-doubt and the silencing of women. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of 14 books about civil society, popular power, uprisings, art, environment, place, pleasure, politics, hope, and memory, most recently The Faraway Nearby, a book on empathy and storytelling. She is a Harper's Magazine contributing editor. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luci Christian Bell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020025/bk_adbl_020025_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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