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Mark Tully's India, Hörbuch, Digital, 153min
This compilation of Mark Tully's acclaimed reports from India includes his specially recorded observations. Sir Mark Tully was the BBC's Foreign Correspondent in India from 1972 to 1994. He has become familiar to listeners around the world for his incisive and thought-provoking reports. On this special recording, he looks back at his career, which coincided with a remarkable period in Indian history. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Tully. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/bbcw/001634/rt_bbcw_001634_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Prisoner's Defence: And Other First World War Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 504min
Thousands of short stories were published during the First World War, which coincided with the heyday of the fiction magazine in Britain. Much of this material has never been republished since the end of the war and is virtually lost to the modern audience. This new collection is an important work of recovery, introducing little-known magazine short fiction - which was primarily written for a civilian readership - by major writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle as well as more neglected authors. These stories offer an unparalleled insight into everyday concerns on the home front and illustrate the humour that kept up morale as well as the impact of war on families and friends at home. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Dover, Gordon Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/003794/bk_isis_003794_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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My Purple Scented Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 28min
Random House presents the audiobook edition of My Purple Scented Novel written and read by Ian McEwan. ‘You will have heard of my friend the once celebrated novelist Jocelyn Tarbet, but I suspect his memory is beginning to fade...You’d never heard of me, the once obscure novelist Parker Sparrow, until my name was publicly connected with his. To a knowing few, our names remain rigidly attached, like the two ends of a seesaw. His rise coincided with, though did not cause, my decline...I don’t deny there was wrongdoing. I stole a life, and I don’t intend to give it back. You may treat these few pages as a confession.’ A jewel of a book: a brand new short story from the author of Atonement. My Purple Scented Novel follows the perfect crime of literary betrayal, scrupulously wrought yet unscrupulously executed, published to celebrate Ian McEwan’s 70th birthday. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ian McEwan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/003759/bk_rhuk_003759_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To Play the King: Francis Urquhart Trilogy, Book 2, Hörbuch, Digital, 180min
Newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart takes on the new King, in the controversial No 1 bestselling second volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy - now reissued in a new cover. After scheming his way to power in House of Cards, Francis Urquhart made a triumphant return in To Play the King - a Sunday Times No 1 bestseller that became a hugely successful BBC TV series, with Ian Richardson resuming his award-winning role as Francis Urquhart. Its highly controversial and uncannily topical storyline - in which the role of the monarchy in modern Britain comes under scrutiny as Prime Minister Francis Urquhart threatens to expose Royal secrets when his plans are blocked by the idealistic new King - coincided with a huge increase in public interest in the future of the Royal Family following a series of Royal scandals. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Eddington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001617/bk_hcuk_001617_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To Play the King : House of Cards, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 540min
Newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart takes on the new King in the controversial number one best-selling second volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy - now reissued in audio.After scheming his way to power in House of Cards, Francis Urquhart made a triumphant return in To Play the King - a Sunday Times number one best-seller that became a BBC TV series, with Ian Richardson resuming his award-winning role as Francis Urquhart, and a hugely successful Netflix series.Its highly controversial and uncannily topical storyline - in which the role of the monarchy in modern Britain comes under scrutiny as Prime Minister Francis Urquhart threatens to expose Royal secrets when his plans are blocked by the idealistic new King - coincided with a huge increase in public interest in the future of the Royal Family following a series of Royal scandals. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samuel West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/004024/bk_hcuk_004024_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 306min
To put it plainly then: the vast majority of people tasked with creating our media simply lack the sensibilities that have always driven artistic innovation.The 2010s have been a double-edged decade. Socioeconomic factors have led to the widespread and increased disenfranchisement of poorer people from the mainstream media and the institutions shaping it. This has coincided with a growing number of people from low income backgrounds also receiving better educations than ever before, and having the means at their disposal to both name and resent it.Steal as Much as You Can is the story of how this bright generation came to be, and what effective means are still at their disposal to challenge the establishment and ultimately win. By rejecting the established routines of achieving prosperity, and by stealing what you can from them on the way, this audiobook offers hope to anyone who feels increasingly frustrated by our increasingly unequal society. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Coleman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167688/bk_acx0_167688_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Works of Guillaume Dustan, Volume 1 (eBook, ePUB)
Guillaume Dustan' first three novels, published in French between 1996 and 1998, describing the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Paris still haunted by AIDS. This volume collects a suite of three wildly entertaining and trailblazing short novels by the legendary French anti-assimilationist LGBTQ+ writer Guillaume Dustan. Published sequentially in France between 1996 and 1998, the three novels are exuberant and deliberately affectless accounts of the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Parisian club and bath scene still haunted by AIDS. In My Room (1996) takes place almost entirely in the narrator's bedroom. The middle volume, I'm Going Out Tonight (1997) finds him venturing out onto the gay scene in one long night. Finally, in Stronger Than Me (1998) the narrator reflects on his early life, which coincided with the appearance and spread of the AIDS virus in France. A close contemporary of Dennis Cooper, Brett Easton Ellis, Kevin Killian, and Gary Indiana, Guillaume Dustan's deadpan autofiction is at once satirical and intimate, and completely contemporary.- Shop: buecher
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A Home from Home: From Immigrant Boy to English Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 651min
When George Alagiah was dropped off at a Hampshire boarding school as a child back in 1967, he was confronted with an extreme version of the private struggle faced by all immigrants - the battle to leave the past behind and fit into a new culture. His arrival in Britain coincided with the unhappy intrusion of race into politics. A key part of the ensuing fight against racism was the concept of multiculturalism. But in a closely argued and forthright chapter, Alagiah suggests that, far from improving the prospects for some immigrants, multiculturalism may be an impediment to integration. All too often these are the poor and isolated communities who most need the help of the state to break out of what is fast becoming a version of ghetto life. Above all, this book is a tender and evocative portrayal of the immigrant experience. Alagiah brings colour and life to a subject that is too often reduced to screaming tabloid headlines and he sheds light on the controversial question of British identity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Alagiah, Prasanna Puwanarajah. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052575/bk_adbl_052575_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Trying to Be Good: The Healing Powers of Lying, Cheating, Stealing, and Drugs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 577min
Trying to Be Good: The Healing Powers of Lying, Cheating, Stealing, and Drugs by popular radio host, theater maker, online personality, and storyteller Emelia Symington Fedy is her dark and comical story of her addiction to self-help and absolutely obsessive odyssey to find inner peace at all costs. A ruthless inquiry into her own demons, Emelia never lets herself off the hook on her search, and after a lifetime of misadventures - spending close to $90,000 and two decades hunting down shamans, hypnotists, soul advisors, and online gurus; turning to drugs, bad sex, vaginal weightlifting classes, crystal bowl regression ceremonies, and cosmic dolphins trying to fill the void - her spiritual reckoning finally came when the death of her mom coincided with the birth of her first child. Rocked with grief, Emelia had no choice but to quit her life-long quest for contentment. She quit drugs. She quit yoga. She quits the search. And in turning towards her pain, Emelia finally finds what she's been longing for her whole life. She can't escape. She's here. She can feel it all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emelia Symington Fedy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104372/bk_acx0_104372_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy: The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle, 1830-1853 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 701min
In Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy, historian Merina Smith explores the introduction of polygamy in Nauvoo, a development that unfolded amid scandal and resistance. Smith considers the ideological, historical, and even psychological elements of the process and captures the emotional and cultural detail of this exciting and volatile period in Mormon history. She illuminates the mystery of early adherents' acceptance of such a radical form of marriage in light of their dedication to the accepted monogamous marriage patterns of their day. When Joseph Smith began to reveal and teach the doctrine of plural marriage in 1841, even stalwart members like Brigham Young were shocked and confused. In this thoughtful study, Smith argues that the secret introduction of plural marriage among the leadership coincided with an evolving public theology that provided a contextualizing religious narrative that persuaded believers to accept the principle. This fresh interpretation draws on diaries, letters, newspapers, and other primary sources and is especially effective in its use of family narratives. It will be of great interest not only to scholars and the general public interested in Mormon history but in American history, religion, gender and sexuality, and the history of marriage and families. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Baney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017503/bk_acx0_017503_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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