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U Is for Undertow: A Kinsey Millhone Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 843min
Calling T is for Trespass "taut, terrifying, transfixing and terrific", USA Today went on to ask, "What does it take to write 20 novels about the same character and manage to create a fresh, genre-bending novel every time?" It's a question worth pondering. Through 20 excursions into the dark side of the human soul, Sue Grafton has never written the same book twice. And so it is with this, her 21st. Once again, she breaks genre formulas, giving us a twisting, complex, surprise-filled, and totally satisfying thriller. It's April 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone's 38th birthday, and she's alone in her office doing paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. He has a preppy air about him and looks as if he'd be carded if he tried to buy booze, but Michael Sutton is 27, an unemployed college dropout. Twenty-one years earlier, a four-year-old girl disappeared. A recent reference to her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial when he was six years old. He wants Kinsey's help in locating the child's remains and finding the men who killed her. It's a long shot, but he's willing to pay cash up front, and Kinsey agrees to give him one day. As her investigation unfolds, she discovers Michael Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth. In essence, he's the boy who cried wolf. Is his current story true, or simply one more in a long line of fabrications? Grafton moves the narrative between the 80s and the 60s, changing points of view, building multiple subplots, and creating memorable characters. Gradually, we see how they all connect. But at the beating center of the novel is Kinsey Millhone, sharp-tongued, observant, a loner - "a heroine", said The New York Times Book Review, "with foibles you can laugh at and faults you can forgive." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Judy Kaye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002084/bk_rand_002084_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Write a Novel: Step-by-Step | Essential Romance Novel, Mystery Novel and Fantasy Novel Writing Tricks Any Writer Can Learn: Writing Best Seller Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
Struggling as an author? Do you have an amazing story in mind, but you can’t get it down on paper? You’ve got the idea and the characters but soon run out of steam? Perhaps you are a beginner and need help putting it all together. Whatever your reason, this audiobook helps to unlock the secrets of novel writing in simple-to-follow ways that will bring significant results fast. Tips to write engrossing page-turners How to Write a Novel: Step-by-Step provides a breakdown of essential aspects of writing romance, fantasy, and mystery novels and unveils crucial tips and tricks that will help flesh-out the characters in your book. Sandy Marsh assists in creating compelling plots and weaving stories that your readers will be fully immersed in. This is an audiobook that quickly gets to the heart of the matter in a clear and concise way. New and experienced authors will rapidly find answers to what they need. Content summary Each section is summarized with a series of short questions to help inspire deeper reflection. These are: The outline - How to refine major schemes and subplots that make sense to the reader and also your protagonist. The setting - The art of crafting a sense of place and how to work with multiple locations & time-periods. Point of view - Helping you to form the best character perspectives for your story. Characters - The best way to choose your central character to drive the story forward and one in whom your audience will discover a gripping read. Conflict - How and when to use struggle to keep the reader engaged. Additional tips - A final section that motivates the author to think differently to engage emotion and lose the reader in the heart of the story. Marsh helps an author to think outside of the box when faced with overused clichés. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Fossa. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118945/bk_acx0_118945_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tecate Peak: The Edge , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 508min
In this audiobook there are continuing and interwoven subplots packed full with passion, drama, love lost and regained, moral dilemma, brotherhood, and suspense, always sandwiched by more action. Tecate Peak traces the ebb and flow, the frenzy and the calm that is the day to day life of Harry Dugan, a cop from a family of cops who proves to be the epitome of the old adage “no good deed goes unpunished”, who finds himself, a middle aged man, jettisoned from a promising career in law enforcement and a 10-year happy marriage, with the requisite rose covered cottage in the New England countryside. Haunted by the appearance of wrongdoing on the job, and a one-night affair that didn't happen, banished by his wife, who says she still loves him, and betrayed by the man who was like a brother to him, his partner, his friend, Harry stumbles blindly into a world that's new to him. Now, over 40, starting from scratch in a place he's never been, 3,000 miles away from everything that is dear to him, his only lifeline is an old wrinkled slip of paper with a man's name and phone number, a man who is the cousin of his former friend and might help him find work in San Diego. There is an array of fascinating characters sprinkled throughout this audiobook. Among those are “Phil the Mill” Bradshaw, the boss and dispatcher of SCABS (Southern California Border Security,) and their co-agents, who earned the nickname by being a constant source of paperwork, a “paper mill”, and Harry's new partner, Jake McGinnis, who has the potential to form another brotherhood bond, or because of an incident he observes with an undocumented immigrant guide, to destroy what's left of Harry's honor and potential in life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Block. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124104/bk_acx0_124104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Guide for Every Screenwriter: From Synopsis to Subplots
The Guide for Every Screenwriter: From Synopsis to Subplots - The Secrets of Screenwriting Revealed: ab 7.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Complete Metropolis
Incorporating more than 25 minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang's science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz's 1927 score, the film's dazzling visual design and special effects are more striking than ever. And the integration of scenes and subplots long considered lost endows METROPOLIS with even greater tension and emotional resonance, as it dramatizes the conflict between wealthy uber-capitalists and rebellious subterranean laborers - orchestrated by a diabolical scientist capable of destroying them both.- Shop: odax
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The Cobweb
Step inside the Castle, a large private psychiatric facility. Here, Dr. Stewart McIver (Richard Widmark) devotes night and day to his profession while neglecting his pining, voluptuous wife (Gloria Grahame). A colleague (Charles Boyer) with a fondness for booze and a pretty face seeks to comfort the wife. Now add Lauren Bacall, Lillian Gish, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg, Oscar Levant and subplots of love, life and derangement and you have the entanglements of The Cobweb. Some critics gleefully skewered the film's labored storyline about patient involvement in the choice of library draperies, but pay no heed. With it's top cast and Vincente Minnelli's command of color and melodrama, this film is popcorn for fans of soaps.- Shop: odax
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Ambush
The U.S. Cavalry knows that traveling the unmapped Arizona Territory canyons and trails in search of a woman kidnapped by Apaches could mean riding into a trap. So they ask the help of Ward Kinman, a prospector and scout who knows both the terrain and the ways of the warring tribesmen. Nearly a decade after Billy the Kid, Robert Taylor saddled up a second time and portrayed Kinman in Ambush, the film that began his steady string of work in a genre that suited him like a Colt 45 tucked easy into hip leather. Marguerite Roberts (True Grit) offers a script filled with blazing action and romantic subplots. Among the co-stars: Chief Thundercloud (Tonto in the Lone Ranger serials of 1938 and 1939).- Shop: odax
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Dragon Tattoo Trilogy (Extended Edition)
The DRAGON TATTOO TRILOGY: EXTENDED EDITION contains more than two hours of additional footage not seen in the theatrical versions of the original Swedish films (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE and THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS NEST). Amassing a total of 9 hours of story content and presented in 6 parts, this complete version of the international hit series restores notable characters and subplots from Stieg Larssons best-selling novels, most significantly in the portrayal of Erika Berger (Lena Endre), the editor of MILLENNIUM magazine as well as Mikael Blomkvists friend and occasional lover. Starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist, DRAGON TATTOO TRILOGY: EXTENDED EDITION is the quintessential set for lovers of the books and a must-have for fans of the film trilogy.- Shop: odax
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What Is Truth?
Ear Candle Recordings is mighty pleased to present What Is Truth?, the second album by J Neo Marvin & the Content Providers. Expanding on the sparse, minimalist sound of the first Content Providers CD, Slowly I Turned, What Is Truth? takes it's inspiration from psychedelic classics like Their Satanic Majesties Request and Magical Mystery Tour, resulting in an anything-goes approach that stretches the music in whatever direction each song calls for, from the Dylan-goes-to-New-Zealand folk-rock of 'Primate House (1731 11th Ave)', to the darkly sad chamber-punk of 'Ex-Supernova' or 'Stick Figure', to the thumping 'Mark E. Smith in Turkey backed by a jazz combo and a Rasta drum circle' ambiance on 'Fiscal Year Zero (Charge Of The Lite Brigade)', the catchy Celtic Mariachi drone of 'Formerly Boomtown', and the full-on joyful noise of 'Kite Song'. The lyrics of What Is Truth? cover more ground than it's predecessor, too, this time dealing with the state of the country both before and after the recent events that have led us to our current path of destruction, as well as tight-focus portraits of individuals coping (or not coping) with modern life as we know it. All of which leads us back to the title question, which was first posed by Johnny Cash at the beginning of the 1970s. What Is Truth? doesn't offer any easy answers, but might help to get us started asking the hard questions. Out of the 12 songs, 10 are new original numbers by former X-tal frontman and head Content Provider J Neo Marvin, the other two, 'Kite Song' by Yoko Ono and 'Slow Drain' by Mink Deville, though not originally planned as such, function as a small salute to the creativity and resilience of the people of New York City. The expanded Content Providers lineup on What Is Truth? includes Slowly I Turned veterans Alan Korn on bass, Carrie Bradley (100 Watt Smile, Breeders, Ed's Redeeming Qualities) on violin, Rico Bell (Mekons) on accordion and Tim Ennis on percussion, plus newcomers like Diane Wallis (ex-She Mob) and Cynthia Wigginton (ex-Bedlam Rovers and occasional guest Mekon) on violins, Nik Phelps (Sprocket Ensemble, Tom Waits, ex-Club Foot Orchestra) on horns and woodwinds, Jill Fido (Holy Sisters Of The Gaga Dada) on bass, Terri Manning (sister/collaborator of Barbara Manning) on vocal harmonies, flutes and musical saw, and many more. (The total number of contributors is 28!) Recorded exactingly yet spontaneously in good old-fashioned lysergic 16-track analog by the incomparable Wally Sound, What Is Truth? will astonish you with it's musical twists and sharp songwriting. Recommended tracks for radio: 'Formerly Boomtown', 'Fiscal Year Zero', 'Ex-Supernova' Recommended track for DJs who want to get in trouble with the FCC: 'Primate House' WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING: "The former music critic (Puncture) and ex-leader of Bay Area band X-tal, Marvin is a pleasure for those who decry that lyrics are a lost art. On his LPs (see also 2001's Slowly I Turned), Marvin favors light folk-rock with elements of the New Zealand Flying Nun style, only with a chest full of Americana elements, lots of violins, accordion, background horns, tambouras, theremin, wooden flute, slide whistle, and steel drums---even musical saws, and whatever a dumbek, a pandiero, and gongokqui bells are! But it's Marvin's strummy guitar and near-spoken-word writing that's the focal point, delivered tunefully like '60s Byrds or Fairport Convention, telling whole tales in song. The best is "Primate House", with violins jawing against his catchy book-length words, describing the less than desirable behavior by anthropoid ape-like humans in one loony residence. It's the sort of LP where you put it on and hang on every word, wanting to find out what happens next. And good man that he is, Marvin records two New York covers, the dubious Yoko Ono (1973's "Kite Song"), and the unfairly forgotten Mink Deville (1980's "Slow Drain") in sympathy with us for 9/11. Thanks, guy! Now check out his album. It's even better if you listen to it around a campfire." -Jack Rabid, THE BIG TAKEOVER 'Marvin seems to be a journalist who writes for The Village Voice as well as The San Francisco Bay Guardian amongst others, but the thing that makes him hip for me is that he once interviewed Northern English legend Mark E Smith. 'What Is Truth?' is a fairly mellow mix of anti-folk and folk rock and covers the usual subjects such as capitalism, what old punks do when they calm down and why Republicans should never be allowed in Government. All subjects dear to my heart, well put and even better sung and played. Very interesting- has a whiff of old style radical Californian politics.' -AMERICANA UK 'J Neo Marvin sings with a quirky tremor (think the Waterboys), and while his voice requires meat, his lyrics fulfill all expectations. Discover cool political rhetoric and find out why 'I feel like I need to take a shower every time somebody speaks' is only the tip of the iceberg.' -Sonia Pereira, PUNK PLANET 'J Neo Marvin (X-Tal) is an underground indie/folk rock legend. He has been part of the psychedelic, the punk, and the folk rock movements since the early 80's. His sound combines the twisted feel of some Velvet Underground albums with the folk/punk feel of the Mekons, whose Rico Bell plays accordion on some tracks. All of his lyrics are simple yet tell stories with deep and intricate subplots that bring the listener into the entire story that is being told by the music. The accompanying instruments vary from harmonicas to trombones to accordions to any harmonic combination of instruments possible. The entire album has a very choral feel to it as if there is a church choir singing in the background, which there might even be , ). Credits go to Willy Deville on track 4 and Yoko Ono on track 8 Similar bands include: The Replacements, the Only Ones, Velvet Underground' -Boris Fedorov, KCSC radio 'A pretty hip new fusion of folk and indie with a punk feel. I've seen these guys live, and they're pretty good. They have a very unconventional band and sound, with multiple keyboards, hand drums, violins, and the traditional bass and guitar section. The songs are creative and a lot of attention has obviously been paid on lyrical craftsmanship. Most of the songs are very intelligent and cover a range of punk-feeling topics, from dissatisfaction with the current socio-political realities, analysis of failed friendships, to angst and bitterness with consumerism and the 'me, me, me' culture. It's not all down, though, and you may find an upbeat love song hidden in the mix. =) The music itself is often very pleasant, sometimes in stark contrast to the lyrics laid down on top of them. There's a very accoustic and folk-y sound to it. All in all, a great album and an even better live band.' -Anonymous customer review on bookworms.org.- Shop: odax
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