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    Trout Fishing in America
    Richard Brautigan's wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel set amongst the rural waterways of America.Here's a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways and ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. With pure inventiveness and free-wheeling energy, the counterpoint to all those angry Beatniks, Brautigan tells the story of rural America, and the hunt for a bit of trout fishing. Funny, wild and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration - of a country and a mind.
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    Drumbeat - Erica , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 316min
    Protecting an actor takes Drum into the seedy underworld of psychedelia. Terminal illness and regret go hand-in-hand. Two months ago, Amos Littlejohn was in the prime of life, and had plenty of energy to be enraged when his pregnant daughter was abandoned by her husband, matinee idol Ahmed Shiraz. Now stricken with leukemia, Littlejohn is near death, and beginning to regret taking out a contract on the actor’s life. He hires international private eye Chester Drum to call off the hit and protect Shiraz until his life is safe. On his first night on the job, Drum’s partner takes a shotgun blast meant for the actor. Wanting nothing more than to wring Shiraz’s neck, Drum follows him to Europe, where he must contend with assassins, beatniks, and the powerful effects of an experimental drug called LSD. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005936/bk_adbl_005936_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Three-Martini Lunch , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1013min
    From the author of the "thrilling" (The Christian Science Monitor) novel The Other Typist comes an evocative, multilayered story of ambition, success, and secrecy in 1950s New York. In 1958, Greenwich Village buzzes with beatniks, jazz clubs, and new ideas - the ideal spot for three ambitious young people to meet. Cliff Nelson, the son of a successful book editor, is convinced he's the next Kerouac, if only his father would notice. Eden Katz dreams of being an editor but is shocked when she encounters roadblocks to that ambition. And Miles Tillman, a talented black writer from Harlem, seeks to learn the truth about his father's past, finding love in the process. Though different from one another, all three share a common goal: to succeed in the competitive and uncompromising world of book publishing. As they reach for what they want, they come to understand what they must sacrifice, conceal, and betray to achieve their goals, learning they must live with the consequences of their choices. In Three-Martini Lunch, Suzanne Rindell has written both a pause-resisting morality tale and a captivating look at a stylish, demanding era - and a world steeped in tradition that's poised for great upheaval. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will Damron, JD Jackson, Rebecca Lowman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002786/bk_peng_002786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Quanderhorn Xperimentations , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 616min
    England, 1952.Churchill is Prime Minister for the last time. Rationing is still in force. All music sounds like the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. People like living in 1952: it's familiar and reassuring, and Britain knows its place in the world.Few have noticed it's been 1952 for the past 65 years.Meet Professor Quanderhorn; a brilliant, maverick scientific genius who has absolutely no moral compass. With his Dangerous Giant Space Laser, High Rise Farm, Invisible Robot and Fleet of Monkey-driven Lorries, he's not afraid to push the boundaries of science to their very limit.Even when it's clearly insane to keep pushing.Despite the fact he's saved the world from several Martian invasions, the attacks of the Mole People, the Troglodyte Shape-shifters and the Beatniks from Under the Sea, plus countless other sinister phenomena which threatened to rend the very fabric of reality, the Government would like to close him down. Why? Because they're terrified of him. Of his reality-warping experiments, of the mysterious button on his desk which he's constantly threatening to press. Of the unearthly secret locked in his cellar. And yet they're even more terrified it might stop being 1952 and they'll be out of power.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cassie Layton, Ryan Sampson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001842/bk_orio_001842_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    James Dean: A Life from Beginning to End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 52min
    James Dean is known as the first rebel. He was a ‘50s-styled, leather-clad biker rebuking authority. With his black turtleneck and a penchant for bongo drums and poetry, he could also easily be a kind of forerunner to the beatniks. And with his unkempt, wild hair and far-reaching philosophies, he is often cited as a kind of early hippie, as well. But whatever category you put him in, James Dean was the embodiment of cool. He had a cool look, cool clothes, cool attitude, and a cool backstory that most know nothing about. James Dean began life in Indiana as the descendant of a long line of farmers. After the tragic passing of his mother at a young age and the virtual abandonment of his father, he was left to be raised by his sister and her husband on a farm in Fairmount, Indiana.   From this audiobook, you'll learn about: Losing his family  A troubled childhood  Dean’s first big breaks  Friends and lovers  Dean’s acting and car racing career  The final ride  And much more   So just how did this Indiana farm boy become a Hollywood legend and kickstart a counterculture rebellion that would last throughout the ‘50s, ‘60s, and beyond? Who was James Dean? Come along as we find out more about the man, the legend, and the eternal rebel without a cause: James Dean. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Arteaga. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116078/bk_acx0_116078_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    New York. Porträt einer Stadt
    Vertikales steingewordenes Antiidyll, Epizentrum von Kunst, Mode, Business, Medien, Werbung, Showbiz und Tourismus, multikultureller Melting Pot und Tor zum nordamerikanischen Kontinent: Anhand Hunderter von Bildern zeichnet dieser Band die epische Geschichte New Yorks nach, von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts über das Jazz Age, die Große Depression, die Zeit der Beatniks und die Disco-Ära bis zu 9/11 und in die Gegenwart. Eine fotografische Odyssee durch die Straßen und Viertel der Stadt, durch das New York der Slums und Gangs, der prachtvollen Art-déco-Wolkenkratzer und Brownstones, der Einwanderer und Stadtneurotiker, durch das New York von Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, Greenwich Village, Times Square, Central Park und Bowery. New York in seiner ganzen Komplexität, Widersprüchlichkeit und Dynamik, fotografiert von legendären Fotografinnen und Fotografen wie Berenice Abbott, Weegee, Margaret Bourke-White, William Claxton, Marvin E. Newman, Ralph Gibson, Steve Schapiro, Peter Lindbergh, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin und Ryan McGinley. Mit einer Covergrafik von Robert Nippoldt und einem umfangreichen Anhang mit rund 100 Büchern, Filmen und Schallplatten, die von der einzigartigen Metropole inspiriert wurden.
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    Jack Kerouac: Beatnik, Genie, Rebell
    Jack Kerouac ist der erste Popliterat der weltweiten Literaturgeschichte, einflussreichster Vertreter der amerikanischen Beat-Generation und zugleich ihr Namensgeber. Im Zentrum seines literarischen Schaffens stehen existentielle Rastlosigkeit, Lebenshunger, Freiheitsdrang, Visionen von und die Suche nach Erleuchtung und einem besseren und helleren Leben, das im wirklichen vom Alkohol zerstört wurde. Kerouac wurde 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, geboren und starb 1969 in Florida. Sein umfangreiches Werk umfasst Romane, Gedichte, Tagebücher, Theaterstücke, Briefe, Essays und Gemälde; seine Bedeutung für spätere Schriftsteller wie Thomas Pynchon oder T.C. Boyle und Künstler wie Patti Smith oder Johnny Depp ist noch heute groß und zeigte sich erneut besonders deutlich, als Bob Dylan 2016 mit dem Literaturnobelpreis ausgezeichnet wurde. Kerouacs erste deutschsprachige Biografie anlässlich seines 100. Geburtstages im März 2022 zeichnet nicht nur den Lebensweg des legendären Beatniks nach, sondern beschäftigt sich auch mit der ihm so eigenen Sprache, dem Misserfolg seines Debüts »The Town and the City«, den stilistischen Veränderungen vom Frühwerk hin zum Durchbruch mit »On the Road« - dem Manifest der Beat Generation - sowie seinen posthum veröffentlichten Werken.Ausstattung: mit Bildteil
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    Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 454min
    At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world.New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop - a murder The New York Times called “a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change.” The victim, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered by a sociopathic killer in plain sight of thirty-eight neighbors who “didn’t want to get involved.” Her sensational case provoked an anxious outcry and launched a sociological theory known as the “Bystander Effect.”That’s the narrative told by the Times, movies, TV programs, and countless psychology textbooks. But as award-winning author Kevin Cook reveals, the Genovese story is just that, a story. The truth is far more compelling - and so is the victim.Now, on the 50th anniversary of her murder, Cook presents the real Kitty Genovese. She was a vibrant young woman - unbeknownst to most, a lesbian - a bartender working (and dancing) her way through the colorful, fast-changing New York of the ’60s, a cultural kaleidoscope marred by the Kennedy assassination, the Cold War, and race riots. Downtown, Greenwich Village teemed with beatniks, folkies, and so-called misfits like Kitty and her lover. Kitty Genovese evokes the Village’s gay and lesbian underground with deep feeling and colorful detail.Cook also reconstructs the crime itself, tracing the movements of Genovese’s killer, Winston Moseley, whose disturbing trial testimony made him a terrifying figure to police and citizens alike, especially after his escape from Attica State Prison.Drawing on a trove of long-lost documents, plus new interviews with her lover and other key figures, Cook explores the enduring legacy of the case. His heartbreaking account of what really happened on the night Genovese died is the most accurate and chilling to date. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017895/bk_adbl_017895_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Line in Three Circles
    Robert Lax (1915 - 2000) was a close friend of Thomas Merton, Ad Reinhardt, and the beatniks. After his studies at Columbia University, he worked for Time, Parade, and The New Yorker - and then published his first book: Circus of the Sun. As Jubilee´s roving editor he travelled a lot, and finally decided to stay in Greece, where he found the quietness he needed for his poetic work. Living a solitary life on Greek islands, he became one of the great loners of American literature. The process of his mental, spiritual, and artistic development is what makes Lax´s life most interesting. ´The Inner Biography´ stresses on his search for his own way of life, with references to his texts and poems. He made his daily life a ritual, transposing his experiences into his poetry: life has something to do with art, & it´s just a matter of finding the special point at which the two of them get together. His deliberate slowness, his spirituality, his charisma, and his poetic work impressed everybody who met Robert Lax. The book also contains a short biographical synopsis of Lax´s life, and a comprehensive catalog (635 entries) of the works of Robert Lax.
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    FLUCHT INS 23. JAHRHUNDERT (eBook, ePUB)
    Als die Bevölkerungsdichte auf der Erde ein schier unerträgliches Ausmaß erreicht hat und sämtliche Appelle zur Familienplanung und Empfängnisverhütung wirkungslos bleiben, haben die Jugendlichen - und sie sind bei weitem in der Überzahl - es schließlich satt, sich von den Erwachsenenen bevormunden zu lassen: Sie übernehmen die politische Macht. Jedem Menschen wird nach der Geburt ein Kristall implantiert, der eine ganz bestimmte Lebensdauer hat. Wenn die dem Betreffenden zugemessene Lebenszeit abgelaufen ist, beginnt der Kristall zu flackern und zeigt an, dass sich sein Träger zum Tiefschlaf, zur Euthanasie zu melden hat. Doch immer wieder gibt es Ausreißer, Flüchtlinge - sogenannte Läufer -, die sich diesem Schicksal entziehen wollen. Auf solche Personen werden berufsmäßige Killer, die Sandmänner, angesetzt, die eine gnadenlose Jagd auf die Euthanasie-Kandidaten veranstalten.Logan ist einer jener Killer, aber eines Tages beginnt auch der Kristall in seiner Hand zu flackern. Er beschließt, sein Glück zu versuchen: Die Hetzjagd der Killer beginnt. Sie führt durch eine von Alpträumen gequälte Welt, durch eine Gesellschaft menschlicher Wölfe, rebellierender Beatniks, von Drogen bis zur Besessenheit vergiftet... durch eine riesige Unterwasserstadt, die allmählich unter dem Druck des Meeres zusammenbricht... durch Ruinenstädte, bewohnt von psychopathischen Wilden... immer auf der Suche nach der legendären Freistatt, einer Zuflucht, in der man weiterleben kann...Doch existiert diese Freistatt überhaupt? Flucht ins 23. Jahrhundert ist die literarische Vorlage des gleichnamigen, immens erfolgreichen Kinofilms aus dem Jahr 1976 mit Michael York als Logan, Jenny Agutter als Jessica und Richard Jordan als Francis, der heute zu Recht als Klassiker des SF-Kinos gilt. Der Roman war überdies die Vorlage für die - in Deutschland nicht ausgestrahlte - TV-Serie Logan's Run.
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