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    Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s and the Arts and Crafts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
    Socialist, philosopher, and poet William Morris (1834 - 1896) was at the center of the design renaissance of the 1880s, not only because of his celebrated hostility to aspects of machine culture, but because of his success as a designer and businessman whose work had enormous influence on the next generation of artists, craftsmen, and designers."A very readable and enjoyable book. It is not so much a biography of William Morris as a consideration of him as a political and esthetic phenomenon and as the founder of a number of organizations - the Century Guild, the Arts Workers Guild, and the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Dr. Stansky examines them with a learning that is never pedantic, frequently humorous and always intelligent." (The New York Times book review)Peter Stansky is professor of history at Stanford University and the author of numerous works on British history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Bonner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209823/bk_acx0_209823_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pinocchio , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 251min
    When the old woodcarver Geppetto decides to make a puppet boy to dance and turn somersaults, he doesn't know that he has chosen a magical piece of wood. To his amazement, his puppet can talk and play just like the liveliest child. But a human soul must be earned, and thus begin the adventures of Pinocchio. A tragicomic figure, Pinocchio is a poor, illiterate peasant boy with few choices in life who usually chooses to shirk his responsibilities and get into trouble. Pinocchio plays pranks on Geppetto, is duped by Fox and Cat, smashes the pedantic talking Cricket, and narrowly escapes death with the help of the blue-haired Fairy. But he is also brave, and as he stumbles from one predicament to the next, he makes his way unsteadily toward his heart's desire. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan O’Malley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003275/bk_blak_003275_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Communication Skills: How to Master the Art of Small Talk , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 54min
    Many people find themselves uncomfortable in small talk, since they lack the communication skills necessary for meeting new people and having a conversation. This audiobook introduces you to the art of small talk through the development of communication skills necessary for you to participate in drawing room conversation. In 10 easy-to-follow chapters, this audiobook takes you through the fine points of communication skills that will teach you how to master the art of small talk. The audiobook is replete with examples from real-life situations and uses a style that is literary without being pompous, and educative without being pedantic. In this audiobook, you will find all the information you're looking for about:   Body languageListening skillsSubjects to avoidSubjects to promoteResponding to othersSo much more!When you download Communication Skills: How to Master the Art of Small Talk, you will soon begin to understand everything you need to know about the art of small talking. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lynn Longseth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104243/bk_acx0_104243_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Exciting Exploits of an Effervescent Elf: The Fabled Forest Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 131min
    Patsy, the greedy spider, is holding Emma captive in her web. While everyone in the forest has searched in vain for Emma, only the irrepressible elf, Cheets, can see her. Given his reputation, no one believes Cheets when he claims to have found her. Cheets cannot hear what Emma is trying to tell him and she must use Charades to relay vital news concerning the enchanted forest. Hazard, the Lord of the Underworld is selling the forest to developers. This fable contains lessons about greed, ecology, friendship, enduring love and justice. Most of the characters from Stanley the Stalwart Dragon return to this new fable. New characters include: Thomas, the sea turtle, pedantic but loveable. Laughter erupts when listeners realizes that he speaks only in nautical lingo. Patsy, the spider is adorable in spite of her greed. Rose, Emma's mother emphasizes maternal devotion and the ability to believe as the magical creatures of the forest reveal themselves to her. Hazard, Lord of the Underworld, reunites with a lost love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carin Gilfry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/006511/bk_acx0_006511_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Grand Sophy
    'Escapism of the highest order' DAILY MAIL 'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS 'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA ___________________________ The charming Sophia Stanton-Lacy is a force to be reckoned with. When Sophy is sent to stay with her London relatives, she finds her cousins in quite the tangle. Cecilia is besotted with an attractive but feather-brained poet, Hubert has fallen foul of a money-lender, and the ruthlessly handsome Charles is engaged to a pedantic bluestocking who seems to bring out the worst in him... Fortunately, Sophy has arrived just in time to sort them all out - but Charles is eager to rid his family of her meddlesome ways. Has the Grand Sophy finally met her match? ___________________________ 'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining' Daily Mail 'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' Harriet Evans 'Rapturously romantic' Katie Fforde
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    Stanley the Stalwart Dragon: Fabled Forest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 127min
    Stanley, a very young dragon, has run away from home. He feels that he is a failure. As dragons go, he probably is. He's kind, soft spoken, a good friend and can't for the life of him, breathe FIRE! The story is full of wonderful characters. A lady bug, named Persnickety is Stanley's best friend and side kick. Emma, a young girl who lives on a farm and plays in the forest, with her friends. The loveable villain is a raven named City Slick, the Third. Thomas, the pedantic, sea turtle, and Cheets, the elf, are just a few of Stanley's new friends. One dark night Slick lures Stanley away from the forest and sells him to the circus. He is left chained, alone in a tent, until he breathes fire. The Queen of the Faeries gives Donald and Emma a quest: To find Stanley and rescue him. While this is an adventure story full of laughter, it teaches children that no matter what, it is never a good idea to run away from home and is frequently very dangerous. The fable addresses bigotry, greed, loyalty and kindness to others. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carin Gilfry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/012681/bk_acx0_012681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Opus Magnum I: Adventures in Mystical Humour , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 236min
    What if Pinocchio and Jesus are the same?What if all that you know about Shakespeare is wrong?Is being blind and rich worth it?Is the world run by a satanic mouse cult?What is the secret link between the Grimm brothers and Nazism?This book will change your life...provided you listen to it. Why? It shall show you how humour can adopt the most bizarre shapes ever, whilst in the process helping your mind to look at the world in the most original ways. Interwoven with pearls of mystical-esoteric-alchemical wisdom, this book is an homage to the meta-loving mind, creating worlds within worlds with a common thread: humor and an irreverent attitude with the pedantic and intellectual approach to life and the universe.Like someone once never said: This is like Borges on acid. Or Rumi on nothing.A tour-de-force through the magical delirious realism that only a naturally perturbed mind can conjure. And a listen that will perfectly suit those who love to have their brains (and spirits) tickled.A smoothie made with the best (and the worst) of: Gurdjieff, Borges, Shakespeare, Brothers Grimm, Wilde, Shaw, Monty Python, Community, David Foster Wallace, Rumi, Hafiz, Sedaris, Chappelle, Lynch, Ouspensky, Bennett, Frost…and many more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Ault. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209153/bk_acx0_209153_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Britt-Marie Was Here , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
    For as long as anyone can remember, Britt-Marie has been an acquired taste. It's not that she's judgmental or fussy or difficult - she just expects things to be done in a certain way. A cutlery drawer should be arranged in the right order, for example - forks, knives, then spoons. We're not animals, are we? But behind the passive-aggressive, socially awkward, absurdly pedantic busybody is a woman who has more imagination, bigger dreams and a warmer heart than anyone around her realises. So when Britt-Marie finds herself unemployed, separated from her husband of 20 years, left to fend for herself in the miserable provincial backwater that is Borg - of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it - and somehow tasked with running the local football team, she is a little unprepared. But she will learn that life may have more to offer her than she's ever realised, and love might be found in the most unexpected of places. The number-one European best seller by the author of A Man Called Ove, Britt-Marie Was Here is a funny, poignant and uplifting tale of love, community and second chances. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joan Walker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/000936/bk_hodd_000936_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Britt-Marie Was Here
    The number 1 European bestseller by the author of New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon A Man Called Ove, Britt-Marie was Here is a funny, poignant and uplifting tale of love, community, and second chances.For as long as anyone can remember, Britt-Marie has been an acquired taste. It's not that she's judgemental, or fussy, or difficult - she just expects things to be done in a certain way. A cutlery drawer should be arranged in the right order, for example (forks, knives, then spoons). We're not animals, are we? But behind the passive-aggressive, socially awkward, absurdly pedantic busybody is a woman who has more imagination, bigger dreams and a warmer heart than anyone around her realizes.So when Britt-Marie finds herself unemployed, separated from her husband of 20 years, left to fend for herself in the miserable provincial backwater that is Borg - of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it - and somehow tasked with running the local football team, she is a little unprepared. But she will learn that life may have more to offer her that she's ever realised, and love might be found in the most unexpected of places.
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    Middlemarch , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1943min
    Exclusively from Audible George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'. Middlemarch explores nearly all matters of concern to modern life, portraying an entire community and every class within it. Full of irony and suspense and even richer in character it shows how individual lives are shaped by and shape the community. Within Middlemarch, we find Eliot's ability to expand the audience's compassion and imagination. George Eliot was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological insight. When Middlemarch was released Eliot was considered England's finest living novelist with many critics still regarding this novel as the finest in English. A BAFTA winning adaptation of Middlemarch aired as a television series in 1994. Narrator Biography Maureen is an English actress and author best known for playing the role of Vicki in Doctor Who where she starred alongside the original Doctor, William Hartnell. She then went on to appear in The Legend of King Arthur, Casualty, The Duchess of Duke Street, Taggart, Cracker, A Touch of Frost, Heartbeat and Jonathan Creek. In 1985 s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maureen O'Brien. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/002862/bk_bbcw_002862_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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