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  Bad Love: Jacaranda Twenty in 2020 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 496min

  Against a backdrop of enigmatic nights scattered with spoken-word poetry in London, Venice, Accra and Paris, Ekuah tries to reconcile her personal journey with the love she struggles with for Dee Emeka, a gifted musician who is both passionate and aloof in his treatment of Ekuah. After 18 months together, he disappears from her life, confirming her worst fears about the unstable foundation of their relationship. She attempts to graduate university whilst retreating into herself, searching for new validations and preoccupations from heartbreak. Life marches on and Ekuah finds personal fulfilment in her poetry and community work. But when she must choose between her first love and the promise of a new, unexpected love, in the form of Jay Stanley, can she handle the vulnerability and forgiveness required? Grappling with her examples of love, Ekuah must forge her own path. With an increasingly successful career, she finds herself travelling around the world. When her rise intersects with Dee's own fame, the two are pushed to reach a final resolution. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vivienne Acheampong. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052742/bk_adbl_052742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Calling All Angels: Taxi to a New Eden , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 118min

  These triumphant stories of everyday courage will enlighten and inspire you. Calling All Angels exemplifies how inextricably we are all linked across social and economic spectrums. You will become aware of the universe of startling connections that we often miss due to distractions and preoccupations that can occur while trying to stay in our own lane and navigate our own lives. These illustrations also show how one can choose his or her attitude in any given set of circumstances, just as Viktor Frankl demonstrated to us in his book, Man's Search for Meaning (Buccaneer Books, 1993). This audiobook is designed for anyone who has experienced, or desires to experience, angelic messages in his or her own unique way. How they appear to us and how we discern their constant and continual influence has yet to be revealed. The purpose of this book is not only to share a journey of discovery, but also to encourage others to become aware of and share similar revelations. In this book you will find unique, powerful, and uplifting stories from a variety of individuals. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Holly Parsons. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/027176/bk_acx0_027176_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Contemporary Dickens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 820min

  Contemporary Dickens is a collection of essays that presents some of the most intriguing work being undertaken in Dickens studies today. Through an emphasis on the 19th-century origins of our current critical preoccupations and ways of knowing, these essays reveal Dickens to be our contemporary. The contributors argue that such issues as gender and sexuality, environmentalism, and the construction of national identity were frequently explored and sometimes problematically resolved by Dickens himself. They also illuminate the importance of Dickens’s place in our current reassessment of critical methodologies. Drawing freely upon a variety of reading strategies (materialist, deconstructive, new historical, psychoanalytic, and feminist), the essays disclose new aspects of Dickens’s engagements with a number of Victorian concerns - moral philosophy, the psychology of the emotions, and life writing among them - that have once again emerged as significant objects of study in early-21st century criticism. Contemporary Dickens will appeal to general listeners and students of Victorian culture, as well as specialists in 19th-century literature, cultural studies, literary formalism, psychology, and gender studies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sally Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/145853/bk_acx0_145853_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Calling All Angels: Taxi to a New Eden , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 118min

  These triumphant stories of everyday courage will enlighten and inspire you. Calling All Angels exemplifies how inextricably we are all linked across social and economic spectrums. You will become aware of the universe of startling connections that we often miss due to distractions and preoccupations that can occur while trying to stay in our own lanes and navigate our own lives. These illustrations also show how one can choose his or her attitude in any given set of circumstances, just as Viktor Frankl demonstrated to us in his book, Man's Search for Meaning. This book is designed for anyone who has experienced or desires to experience angelic messages in his or her own unique way. How they appear to us and how we discern their constant and continual influence have yet to be revealed. The purpose of this book is not only to share a journey of discovery but also to encourage others to become aware of and share similar revelations. In this book you will find unique, powerful, and uplifting stories from a variety of individuals. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Cox Garner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/motv/000053/bk_motv_000053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Spy of the First Person , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 101min

  The final work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, actor, and musician, drawn from his transformative last days In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard's extraordinary narrative has tremendous immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt ears, his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes medical tests and treatments for a condition that is rendering him more and more dependent on the loved ones who are caring for him. The narrator's memories and preoccupations often echo those of our current moment - for here are stories of immigration and community, inclusion and exclusion, suspicion and trust. But at the book's core, and his, is family - his relationships with those he loved and with the natural world around him. Vivid, haunting, and deeply moving, Spy of the First Person takes us from the sculpted gardens of a renowned clinic in Arizona to the blue waters surrounding Alcatraz, from a New Mexico border town to a condemned building on New York City's Avenue C. It is an unflinching expression of the vulnerabilities that make us human - and an unbound celebration of family and life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Shannon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005414/bk_rand_005414_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Star of the Sea, Hörbuch, Digital, 400min

  In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees, some brimming with optimism, many more desperate. Among them are a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his wife and children, an aspiring novelist, and a maker of revolutionary ballads, all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home. Each is connected more deeply than they can possibly know. But a camouflaged killer is stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution. The 26-day journey will see many lives end, others begin afresh. Passionate loves are tenderly recalled, ducked responsibilities regretted too late; profound relationships shockingly unearthed where once it seemed there were none. In a spellbinding story of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the further the ship sails towards the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past which will never let them go. A novel as urgently contemporary in its preoccupations as it is historically revealing, this gripping and compassionate tale builds with the pace of a thriller to an unforgettable conclusion. Language: English. Narrator: John Kavanagh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000095/bk_rhuk_000095_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Badiou by Badiou (eBook, ePUB)

  An accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence of Truths. Taking the form of an interview and two talks and keeping in mind a broad audience without any prior knowledge of his work, the book touches upon the central concepts and major preoccupations of Badiou's philosophy: fundamental ontology, mathematics, politics, poetry, and love. Well-chosen examples illuminate his thinking in regards to being and universality, worlds and singularity, and the infinite and the absolute, among other topics. A veritable tour de force of pedagogical clarity, this new student-friendly work is perhaps the single best general introduction to the work of this prolific and committed thinker. If, for Badiou, the task of philosophy consists in thinking through the truths of our time, the texts collected in this small volume could not be timelier.

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  Hologram: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 225min

  At her kitchen table somewhere in the South, Padgett Powell's narrator embarks on a spirited and often hilarious imagining of certain historical figures and current national preoccupations. Ostensibly writing her grocery list, Mrs. Hollingsworth most happily loses her sense of herself. Her list becomes a discovery of the things she has and those she lacks, including men - even her own husband. Mrs. Hollingsworth begins her list by imagining a "lost love" story in which she is playful with and disdainful of the conventions of Southern literature. Soon tiring of that, she decides to turn up her imagination. For reasons unclear to her, the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, an icon of the Lost Cause, rides into her tired "lost love" story. He appears as a hologram created by a media giant, Roopit Mogul, who aims to find the real New Southerner - in a man who can recognize General Forrest's image. Into this surreal atmosphere enter Mrs. Hollingsworth's all too real daughters, the forgotten husband, Mr. and Mrs. Mogul, the boys of the neighborhood, and petty criminals named Oswald and Bundy. Within this singular narrative collage, strong tenderness arises, with accounts of genuine lost love, both familial and wholly romantic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marcie Millard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016158/bk_adbl_016158_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Ninety-Nine Stories of God , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 116min

  Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass - a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams' characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for him when he's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008958/bk_blak_008958_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Diary of Samuel Pepys: The BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation, Hörbuch, Digital, 734min

  Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries. Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660. For the next 10 years he faithfully recorded the day's events and confessed his innermost thoughts. That diary has since become one of our most important, and fascinating, historical documents. Pepys gave us eyewitness accounts of some of the great events of the 17th century, including the Great Fire of London and the Second Dutch War. He also told us what people ate and wore, what they did for fun, the tricks they played on each other, what they expected of marriage, and even how they conducted love affairs. He described London - the frozen river Thames, the rising crime rate and the poverty - and recorded the details of his own life: his wife, rivals, lovers and friends, his work for the Navy, his drinking and social life. Over 350 years may have passed since Pepys first put pen to paper, but the man and his preoccupations feel surprisingly familiar. In this major BBC Radio dramatisation of the journals, the sights and sounds of his world are vividly conjured. This collection comprises all 10 radio series plus a special Saturday Drama centring on the Great Fire of London. Language: English. Narrator: Kris Marshall, Katherine Jakeways, Full Cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001827/bk_rhuk_001827_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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