Housebound

Jagger's Eyes: A Memoir of Gratitude to All the Emotional Support Animals That Came to Rescue a Little Girl Who Was Sexually Abused: Victory over Abuse Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 210min

Marilyn Elaine Lundberg’s true crime memoir, Jagger’s Eyes, is a brutally honest account of how one unfortunate little girl turned to animals for love, safety, and comfort. The trauma of incest and neglect occurred behind closed doors in her Christian home and crippled her psychologically as a child. Her attacks produced PTSD, suicidal depression, chronic anxiety, panic attacks, agoraphobia, anorexia, plus more, and she was housebound for many years as an adult. People terrified this young child, but animals broke through her high protective walls and intervened in Marilyn’s recovery. Lost and hungry creatures appeared magically in her backyard or through open windows. There was something miraculous about the eyes of furry critters, they radiated an intense healing force that helped to reconstruct her broken heart. She welcomed loving animals because they were silent and never pointed out that she was odd and flawed. They all loved her unconditionally, just the way she was. Spiritual restoration came to her through the animal kingdom and one compassionate psychologist. This uplifting book about a wounded child’s recovery will touch your heart, and needs to be your next listen! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marilyn Elaine Lundberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/138504/bk_acx0_138504_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus - The Original 1816 Classic, Hörbuch, Digital, 187min

Housebound by inclement weather at a villa near Geneva in 1817 in what has come to be known as, "The Year Without A Summer", a gifted group of writers passed the time by reading then-popular ghost stories and contemplating "the nature of the principle of life." Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley's wife Mary, who was then only nineteen, all agreed to each compose ghost stories. Mary Shelley's story came to her during a restive night: "I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." The result of her vision, which she later published as a full length novel, became the most famous and compelling horror story of all time. This performance by Julie Harris delivers a chilling reading of the original work as told by the young Mary Shelley. Curl up on a lonely evening, with lights low and perhaps a storm raging outside and return to the 19th Century to experience the classic evocation of the macabre. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Harris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000645/bk_pnix_000645_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Lost Mother , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min

A husband deserted by his wife, two children abandoned by their mother, and a choice that may change everything. The author of Songs in Ordinary Time returns with her sixth novel, a haunting and powerful tour-de-force.The place: rural Vermont. The time: the Great Depression. Henry Talcott's beautiful wife, Irene, has recently left him. He and their two young children, Thomas and Margaret, are spending the summer in a tent on the edge of Black Pond. It's a bittersweet idyll.An itinerant butcher, Henry must often leave his children alone as he travels the country in search of work. He is devastated by the loss of his wife, and shamed by his inability to provide for his family. He hasn't yet told them why their mother left or if she'll ever return. For 11-year-old Thomas, who minds his sister while his father works, the long days throb with heat and more freedom than he has ever known.Then their prosperous neighbor, Mrs. Phyllis Farley, begins to woo Thomas and Margaret as companions for her strange, housebound son. The children set out to find their mother, only to learn that she does not wish to be found. And Henry must weigh an unusual proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Judith Ivey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000204/bk_high_000204_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 642min

The reclusive Harriet Wolf, revered author and family matriarch, has a final confession - a love story. Years after her death, as her family comes together one last time, the mystery of Harriet's life hangs in the balance. Does the truth lie in the rumored final book of the series that made Harriet a world-famous writer, or will her final confession be lost forever? Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders tells the moving story of the unforgettable Wolf women in four distinct voices: the mysterious Harriet, who, until now, has never revealed the secrets of her past; her fiery, overprotective daughter, Eleanor; and her two grown granddaughters - Tilton, the fragile yet exuberant younger sister who's become a housebound hermit, and Ruth, the older sister who ran away at 16 and never looked back. When Eleanor is hospitalized, Ruth decides it's time to do right by a pact she made with Tilton long ago: to return home and save her sister. Meanwhile Harriet whispers her true-life story to the listener. It's a story that spans the entire 20th century and is filled with mobsters, outcasts, a lonesome lion, and a home for wayward women. It's also a tribute to her lifelong love of the boy she met at the Maryland School for Feeble-Minded Children. Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders, Julianna Baggott's most sweeping and mesmerizing novel yet, offers a profound meditation on motherhood and sisterhood as well as on the central importance of stories. It is a novel that affords its characters that rare chance we all long for - the chance to reimagine the stories of our lives while there's still time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jodi Carlisle, Christine Lakin, Katie Koster, Susan Silo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002123/bk_hach_002123_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Homer & Langley: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min

“Beautiful and haunting...one of literature’s most unlikely picaresques, a road novel in which the rogue heroes can’t seem to leave home.” (The Boston Globe)Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.Named one of the best books of the year by San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Kansas City Star, and Booklist.Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers - the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley's proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers - wars, political movements, technological advances - and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.Praise for Homer & Langley:“Masterly.” (The New York Times Book Review) “Doctorow paints on a sweeping historical canvas, imagining the Collyer brothers as witness to the aspirations and transgressions of 20th century America; yet this book’s most powerfully moving moments are the quiet ones, when the brothers relish a breath of cool morning air, and each other’s tragically exclusive company.” (O: The Oprah Magazine)“A stately, beautiful performance with great resonance.... What makes this novel so striking is that it joins both blindness and insight, the sensual world and the world of the mind, to tell a story about the unfolding ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001952/bk_rand_001952_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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