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Beastly Chronicles of Saki , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 109min
The stories of HH Munro – better known by his pen name of Saki – have scarcely been out of print since they were first published nearly a century ago. Yet it often seems that their particular delights are reserved for the private pleasure of his coterie of admirers. It has to be admitted that a taste for Saki is something of an addiction. And like all addictions, once acquired, it is hard to shake off.In the years since his tragic early death in the trenches at the hands of a German sniper, fellow addicts have included Graham Greene, Noel Coward, and Tom Sharpe. All of us take a slightly wicked satisfaction from his biting wit and the subversive way in which he undermines the staid Edwardian Society he purports to observe. But to a much greater extent than his near-contemporaries, Wilde and Kipling, there is something dark and menacing at the heart of Saki’s writing.Behind the refined twinkle of tea cups on an Edwardian lawn can be heard the distant howling of a wolf. Hidden among the shrubbery in a carefully manicured garden lurk all kinds of Beasts and Superbeasts, ready to wreak Nature’s revenge on an uncaring mankind with its arrogant belief in materialism, progress, and the innate respectability of middle-class values.Where Kipling’s menagerie tends to simple analogues of human types, Saki’s animals can rise up with the full power of Pan himself. This is not to ignore Saki’s ability to turn an aphorism with all the facility and wit of the divine Oscar at his best. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jermyn Street Theatre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000175/bk_copy_000175_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min
An enlightening narrative history - an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan - that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gurus, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine. Food writer Jonathan Kauffman journeys back more than half a century - to the 1960s and 1970s - to tell the story of how a coterie of unusual men and women embraced an alternative lifestyle that would ultimately change how modern Americans eat. Impeccably researched, Hippie Food chronicles how the longhairs, revolutionaries, and back-to-the-landers rejected the square establishment of President Richard Nixon's America and turned to a more idealistic and wholesome communal way of life and food. From the mystical rock-and-roll cult known as the Source Family and its legendary vegetarian restaurant in Hollywood to the Diggers' brown bread in the Summer of Love to the rise of the co-op and the origins of the organic food craze, Kauffman reveals how today's quotidian whole-foods staples - including sprouts, tofu, yogurt, brown rice, and whole-grain bread - were introduced and eventually became part of our diets. From coast to coast, through Oregon, Texas, Tennessee, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Vermont, Kauffman tracks hippie food's journey from niche oddity to a cuisine that hit every corner of this country. A slick mix of gonzo playfulness, evocative detail, skillful pacing, and elegant writing, Hippie Food is a lively, engaging, and informative listen that deepens our understanding of our culture and our lives today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006469/bk_harp_006469_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 366min
Chicana. Goth. Dykling. Desiree Garcia knows she’s weird and a weirdo magnet. To extinguish her strangeness, her parents ship her to Saint Michael’s Catholic High School, then to Mexico, but neurology can’t be snuffed out so easily: Screwy brain chemistry holds the key to Desiree’s madness. As fellow crazies sense a kinship with her, Desiree attracts a coterie of both wanted and unwanted admirers, including a pair of racist deathrock sisters, a pretty Hispanic girl who did time in California’s most infamous mental asylum, and a transnational stalker with a pronounced limp. As high school graduation nears, Desiree’s weirdness turns from charming to alarming. Plagued by increasingly bizarre thoughts and urges, Desiree convinces herself she’s schizophrenic, despite assurance otherwise. In college, she finds Rae, an ex-carnie trannyboi, who becomes the June Carter to her Johnny Cash. With Rae’s help, Desiree answers the riddle of her insanity and names her disease. Combining the spark of Michelle Tea, the comic angst of Augusten Burroughs, and the warmth of Sandra Cisneros, Mexican American author Myriam Gurba has created a territory all her own. Dahlia Season not only contains the title novella, but also several of Gurba’s acclaimed stories. Myriam Gurba is a high school teacher who lives in Long Beach, California, home of Snoop Dogg and the Queen Mary. She graduated from UC Berkeley, and her writing has appeared in anthologies like The Best American Erotica (St. Martin’s Press), Bottom’s Up (Soft Skull Press), Secrets and Confidences (Seal Press), and Tough Girls (Black Books). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marisol Ramirez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008042/bk_adbl_008042_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Spider: Spider #39 December 1936 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 200min
Up from the Devil's Coast swarmed a hooded horde, rioting to lay America under The Cobra's bondage. A frenzied, living Pharaoh raked Manhattan with madness and murder. Against a baffling human wall that dies but never betrays its menacing master, Richard Wentworth - feared Spider of the underworld - faces his fate alone. The most compelling of the classic pulp heroes, Richard Wentworth had a fiancé, a coterie of equally committed aides, and a tense relationship with New York Police Commissioner Stanley Kirkpatrick, Wentworth's best friend, but also a dedicated lawman sworn to send the Spider to the electric chair - no matter who he turns out to be. These riveting stories ran the gamut of incendiary thrillers to ultra-violent showdowns between an obsessed superhero and his depraved arch-foes. Manhattan is the backdrop for Wentworth's apocalyptic adventures. A new skyline has arisen over the penthouses, nightclubs, breadlines, and ghettos of the Big Apple. With the repeal of Prohibition, wealthy gangsters are in search for new rackets. And standing ready to keep them in check, the dreaded Spider. The stories plunge along head-first aboard an emotional roller-coaster, with scarcely a moment's pause for respite. Oriental death-traps, treacherously alluring women, and rabid, machine-gun toting gangsters are all part of a typical day for the hero; Wentworth is frequently suspected of being the dreaded Spider, his home is periodically destroyed, his servants and friends tortured. Everything Richard Wentworth holds dear is constantly at risk, yet he fights on as The Spider. Nick Santa Maria once again brings the Spider to life in "Reign of the Snake Men." Originally published in The Spider magazine, December, 1936. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Santa Maria. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094801/bk_acx0_094801_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Love of My Own, Hörbuch, Digital, 350min
Friendship. Love. Family. Best-selling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another new tale that embraces his signature themes. Zola Denise Norwood is the hot young editor in chief of Bling Bling. (The magazine "for people who want everything!") She's at the top of her game, ruling the roost in business as well as the bedroom. Having discovered "the power of three" (not tying herself down to just one guy), Zola surrounds herself with a coterie of men: her best male friend, the gay Hayden; her Monday night man, Jabar; and the married Bling Bling owner and media mogul Davis Vincent McClinton, a man who chases power at all costs. Still, Zola dreams of finding true love. Raymond Tyler, Jr., a favorite and classic Harris character, has suffered a personal loss and picks up and moves to New York to re-build his life. As CEO of Bling Bling, Raymond struggles to enjoy his newfound success in business as he searches for love and meaning in his personal life. John Basil Henderson returns with a new lady in his life, and Raymond and Basil renew a friendship that is fraught with sexual tension. As Raymond examines his life and strains to move forward, tragedy strikes, and Raymond faces his biggest challenge ever. As Zola and Raymond search for a love of their own, several characters from the past make cameo appearances and round out another E. Lynn Harris classic tale. A Love of My Own is filled with all the marvelous ingredients the author's fans the globe over have come to love. Sit back and get ready as E. Lynn Harris takes you on another satisfying and rip-roaring ride. Language: English. Narrator: E. Lynn Harris, Tamara Tunie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001406/bk_rand_001406_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Comet Seekers: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 544min
A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. Róisín and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Róisín, a daughter of Ireland and a peripatetic astronomer, joins the science team to observe the fracturing of a comet overhead. François, the base's chef, has just left his birthplace in Bayeux, France, for only the second time in his life. Yet devastating tragedy and the longing for a fresh start, which they share, as well as an indelible but unknown bond that stretches back centuries, connect them to each other. Helen Sedgwick carefully unfolds their surprisingly intertwined paths, moving forward and back through time to reveal how these lovers' destinies have long been tied to each other by the skies - the arrival of comets great and small. In telling Róisín and François' story, Sedgwick illuminates the lives of their ancestors, showing how strangers can be connected and ghosts can be real, and how the way we choose to see the world can be as desolate or as beautiful as the comets themselves. A mesmerizing, skillfully crafted, and emotionally perceptive novel that explores the choices we make, the connections we miss, and the ties that inextricably join our fates, The Comet Seekers reflects how the shifting cosmos unite us all through life, beyond death, and across the whole of time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005599/bk_harp_005599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Love @ First Site: A Novel, Hörbuch, Digital, 286min
Spunky, sweet-natured Jessica Monroe is 34 years old and perfectly happy being single. A producer at a top-rated morning show with a coterie of fun friends and a busy nightlife, she isn't in any rush to meet a man. Her girlfriends, however, disapprove. And when they secretly place a personal ad on a hot singles Web site on her behalf, Jess is reluctantly hurtled into the topsy-turvy world of online dating, where frogs masquerade as princes - but your soul mate might be just one click away. A laugh-out-loud whirlwind of disastrous dates ensues, from Simon, who seems dreamy over email but ditches her at the dinner table, leaving her with the bill, to Graham, a self-described "Ferrari driver" who turns out to be a car salesman - with several (old, fat, bald, creepy, cheap, stuck-up) men in between. When an unforeseen event turns her world upside down, Jess starts to wonder if the qualities she thinks she wants in a man are what she ultimately needs. And whether, as a new mystery suitor appears in her e-mail in-box, Cupid has other possibilities up his sleeve.With her sparkling sensibility and brilliant knack for rendering the foibles of modern love in a fresh, unforgettable way, Jane Moore has become one of the fastest-growing names in contemporary women's fiction. Told with her signature wit, wisdom, and sass, Love @ First Site is an irresistible tale about what happens when we start to look for love between the lines on a computer screen - and a winning, unputdownable look at contemporary romance. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Sastre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000626/bk_rand_000626_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fulfill My Desires Sebastian & Lola Part I: STEELE International, Inc. A Billionaires Romance Series Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 484min, (USK 18)
Fulfill My Desires Sebastian & Lola: Part I is book one in the Steele International, Inc., a billionaires romance series.Welcome to the titillating world of the multibillion-dollar global company and the love affairs of the romance series family that controls it. Lola Lewis - Independent woman. Founder of her eponymous luxury lingerie company Lola's Coterie based in Paris. She's savvy, feisty, confident, business-driven, has no time for relationships, battles her desire for punishment...wait, what?Sebastian Steele - Powerful billionaire. Heir apparent to his family's luxury real estate development and management global empire; a playboy who's never with the same woman twice until his latest hookup in a string of steamy encounters at the club is the owner of the company he's meeting with the next morning.Can they overcome the taboo: never mix business with pleasure?Travel with Sebastian and Lola from New York City to Monte Carlo to St. Barth's as their love affair sparks.Receive series prequel when you subscribe to CLBooks.Steele International, Inc. is a billionaires romance series of sizzling, contemporary romance novels in the Desire Series that follow the family’s trysts as they jet around the globe. Captivating couples of powerful billionaires, the independent women they lust after, and love that ultimately have happily ever after endings (HEA). Get ready for glitz, glamour, and steamy romance books. What's better than that? The jet-set lifestyle has never been hotter!If you enjoy sexy fantasies that immerse you in billionaire romance books with possessive male romance and strong female romance that keep you on the edge, then come along for their racy rides.Don't miss any of the sizzling romance books in the Steele International, Inc. billionaires romance series! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Logan McAllister, Sierra Kline. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/220489/bk_acx0_220489_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Love @ First Site: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 616min
Spunky, sweet-natured Jessica Monroe is 34-years-old and perfectly happy being single. A producer at a top-rated morning show with a coterie of fun friends and a busy nightlife, she isn't in any rush to meet a man. Her girlfriends, however, disapprove. And when they secretly place a personal ad on a hot singles Web site on her behalf, Jess is reluctantly hurtled into the topsy-turvy world of online dating, where frogs masquerade as princes - but your soul mate might be just one click away. A laugh-out-loud whirlwind of disastrous dates ensues, from Simon, who seems dreamy over e-mail but ditches her at the dinner table, leaving her with the bill, to Graham, a self-described "Ferrari driver" who turns out to be a car salesman - with several (old, fat, bald, creepy, cheap, stuck-up) men in between. When an unforeseen event turns her world upside down, Jess starts to wonder if the qualities she thinks she wants in a man are what she ultimately needs. And whether, as a new mystery suitor appears in her e-mail in-box, Cupid has other possibilities up his sleeve.With her sparkling sensibility and brilliant knack for rendering the foibles of modern love in a fresh, unforgettable way, Jane Moore has become one of the fastest-growing names in contemporary women's fiction. Told with her signature wit, wisdom, and sass, Love @ First Site is an irresistible tale about what happens when we start to look for love between the lines on a computer screen - and a winning, unputdownable look at contemporary romance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rosalyn Landor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000512/bk_bkot_000512_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ignite My Desires Roger & Leonie Part I: STEELE International, Inc. A Billionaires Romance Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
Ignite My Desires Roger & Leonie Part II is book three in the STEELE International, Inc. A Billionaires Romance Series Welcome to the titillating world of the multibillion-dollar, global company and the love affairs of the romance series family that controls it. Leonie the Lion Beaulieu, a stunning Parisian supermodel: fun-loving, confident, easygoing, with a budding career in residential interior design. Every man wants her. But her heart’s broken once.Roger the responsible, powerful, billionaire Steele president of his family's luxury real estate development and management empire’s residential properties: an intense, focused control freak meets bubbly supermodel who upends his structured world. He let her get away once. Not this time.A second-chance billionaire romance story takes you on their journey - Cabo San Lucas, Nice, Paris, New York.Can they reignite their coup de foudre? Or won’t lightning strike twice?Their love story is a stand-alone romance trilogy.STEELE International, Inc. A Billionaires Romance Series of sizzling contemporary romance novels follow family’s trysts as they jet around the globe. Captivating couples of powerful billionaires and independent women they lust after, and ultimately love, have happily ever after endings HEA. Get ready for these glitz-and-glamour steamy romance books. What's better than that?The Desires Series is not for the tea set; it’s for the top-shelf vodka straight-up in a pretty crystal glass coterie! So if you enjoy sexy fantasies that immerse you in billionaire romance books with possessive male romance and strong female romance that keep you on the edge, then come along for their racy rides.Don't miss the sizzling romance books in STEELE International, Inc. A Billionaires Romance Series! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sierra Kline, Logan McAllister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/236862/bk_acx0_236862_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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