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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 695min
From the acclaimed number one best-selling author...a riveting journey through the world of minor-league baseball.“No one grows up playing baseball pretending that they’re pitching or hitting in Triple-A.” (Chris Schwinden, Triple-A pitcher)“If you don’t like it here, do a better job.” (Ron Johnson, Triple-A manager)John Feinstein gave readers an unprecedented view of the PGA Tour in A Good Walk Spoiled. He opened the door to an NCAA basketball locker room in his explosive best seller A Season on the Brink. Now, turning his eye to our national pastime, sports journalist John Feinstein explores the colorful and mysterious world of minor-league baseball - a gateway through which all major-league players pass in their careers...hoping never to return. Baseball’s minor leagues are a paradox. For some players, the minors are a glorious launching pad toward years of fame and fortune; for others, a crash-landing pad when injury or poor play forces a big leaguer back to a life of obscure ballparks and cramped buses instead of Fenway Park and plush charter planes. Focusing exclusively on the Triple-A level, one step beneath Major League Baseball, Feinstein introduces listeners to nine unique men: three pitchers, three position players, two managers, and an umpire. Through their compelling stories, Feinstein pulls back the veil on a league that is chock-full of gifted baseball players, managers, and umpires who are all one moment away from getting called up - or back - to the majors. The stories are hard to believe: a first-round draft pick and pitching ace who rocketed to major-league success before finding himself suddenly out of the game, hatching a presumptuous plan to get one more shot at the mound; a home run-hitting former World Series hero who lived the dream, then bounced among six teams before facing the prospects of an unceremonious end to his career; a big-league All-Star who, in the span of five months ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Feinstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003761/bk_rand_003761_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Meaning of Love
Michelle McManus is the UK's Pop Idol. Whittled down from thousands of wannabes, she survived the tantrums, the tears, the laughter & the joy to defy the bookies & take the crown. Her debut single 'All This Time' (which she performed with breathtaking brilliance on the final show) rocketed straight into number one & has built up nail-biting expectation for her album. 'The Meaning of Love' is a mix of stunning musical gems that covers the whole pop spectrum & beyond. The ace single you'll already know but it's joined here by equally compelling songs including the storming - 'When the World Is Not Enough', 'How Can Sorry Ever Mend a Broken Heart' & 'Cast the First Stone'. Michelle's album is an accomplished debut that will begin her career on the highest of notes. Stunningly produced & containing fourteen potential No.1 singles, 'The Meaning of Love' is an outstanding achievement from an outstanding new artist. BMG. 2004.- Shop: odax
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Certain Magical Index: Miracle of Endymion
Welcome to Academy City, a futuristic metropolis populated with super-powered students. As the brightest intellectual minds in the city work to complete the world's first space elevator - a towering spire capable of taking citizens into the heavens - perpetually unlucky Kamijo and nun-in training Index befriend a talented street musician named Arisa. When the beautiful singer lands a big break, her miraculous voice attracts unwanted making the songstress a target for magicians and scholars alike. As the battle between sorcery and science blasts into space, Kamijo, Index, and their allies in Academy City are rocketed to a psychedelic stadium thousands of feet above Japan in a desperate attempt to keep Arisa - and the rest of the world - safe. Science fiction and and fantasy collide in this action-packed featured film set in the shared universe of a Certain Magical Index and a Certain Scientific Railgun!- Shop: odax
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Celebration Of Rock N Roll
Music for Little Peoples Celebration Series releases are thematic compilations created to introduce children to the many genres of music. Some of the songs are the originals and some are new versions by award-winning singers arranged especially for family listening. Music for Little People is a leader in award-winning and chart-topping music for children. Time travel to a more innocent, playful time when a brand new rhythm rocketed through the soda fountains, dance halls, and airwaves of America. This re release features several new songs.- Shop: odax
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I'm Still Here
San Diego singer-songwriter Laura Roppé has released her sophomore album, "I'm Still Here." The album was produced by Matthew Embree, the frontman and lead guitarist of indie rock sensation, Rx Bandits (whose music is featured on the latest iteration of the popular video game, Guitar Hero.). Laura wrote all the songs for the album during and immediately following rigorous chemotherapy and radiation treatments for an aggressive form of breast cancer in 2009. "I'm Still Here" has received a glowing reception: Audiences are cheering for Laura's celebratory music video, "George Clooney", Billboard Magazine considers Laura "an emerging artist who has demonstrated strong online fan engagement", London radio has already begun airing tracks from "I'm Still Here", respected UK music magazine, Maverick Magazine, raves that "I'm Still Here" is a five-star, "must-have" album (February 2011 issue), and influential music blogger Wildy's World has named "I'm Still Here" as Number 13 on it's list of the Top 60 albums of 2010, saying: 'Roppe is the comeback kid, not only kicking cancer to the curb but remaking herself as an artist in one of the most brilliant and emotionally naked artistic turns of 2010. Roppe jettisons the glitz and Polish of her debut album for a depth and emotional honesty that is startling and welcome.' Back in 2008, when Laura left her successful legal career behind and rocketed onto the San Diego music scene with her first album, "Girl Like This," high-profile radio shows and a London-based record label immediately took notice. Within days of signing her record deal, however, Laura was devastated to learn she had an aggressive form of breast cancer and immediately underwent surgery and seven months of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. When Laura's cancer treatments finally ended in 2009, 'Girl Like This' was nominated for Album of the Year, and her song, 'Float Away,' won Americana Single the Year at the Los Angeles Music Awards in Hollywood, California in 2009. Laura launched a tour of the UK to promote "Girl Like This" and film a music video on the White Cliffs of Dover in England for 'Float Away' (with a renowned video director whose credits include videos for Paul McCartney, Lenny Kravitz and Annie Lennox), and her music found a home on BBC radio, including BBC Radio 2 (with Terry Wogan), BBC Merseyside (with Billy Butler), BBC Wales, Manchester, Sheffield, and many others, landing as high as No. 5 on the Amazon UK chart in 2009. In 2010, Laura wrote a memoir called Woobie about her musical life adventures, and the book has been signed by a top literary agent in the U.S. for submission to major publishing houses in early 2011.- Shop: odax
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