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    Micromégas. Zadig. Candide
    "Il faut être très court, et un peu salé, sans quoi les ministres et madame de Pompadour, les commis et les femmes de chambre, font des papillotes du livre." Brièveté et mordant, telles sont les principales qualités de Micromégas, Zadig et Candide, les trois contes de Voltaire les plus célèbres, traversés par deux motifs: le philosophe dans le monde, le bonheur par la philosophie. Chassé de sa planète, Micromégas - un jeune géant de près de sept cents ans - entame un périple cosmique qui le mènera à ces "petites mites" qu'on appelle les hommes. En proie aux caprices du sort, l'Oriental Zadig fera la rencontre d'un ermite à la barbe blanche, détenteur du livre des destinées où tout est écrit. Quant à Candide, contraint de quitter le château de Thunder-ten-tronckh, il apprendra à ses dépens que tout n'est pas pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes.
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    Casablanca Story (eBook, ePUB)
    One morning the beautiful Ichrak is found murdered in a street in Casablanca. All the men feared her as much as they desired her . . . . In a city buffeted by the Chergui, a violent wind emanating from the Sahara, the investigation becomes a prism through which a group portrait of a working-class district emerges.In Casablanca Story, In Koli Jean Bofane trains his razor-sharp observations of a bitter reality and his mordant humor on corruption among the powerful, shady property deals, and the vulnerable situation of migrants and male sexual desire, and he succeeds in transforming a desperate contemporary reality into engrossing and entertaining fiction.Following on from Congo Inc., In Koli Jean Bofane shifts his geographical focus to outline a vision that encompasses both north and sub-Saharan Africans: Africa is moving forward and is the equal of the other continents or, to put it another way, Africa is no better than they are.
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    Byfleet to the Bush , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 260min
    The actress Jacqueline Pearce is best known to television audiences as the villainous Servalan from the fondly remembered Blake’s Seven (BBC, 1978-1981). But her career has taken her from RADA to Hollywood, via starring roles in international comedy films, Hammer Horror, BBC Shakespeare, and London’s West End. So how did she end up living in the African bush with her belongings in black bin-bags? Find out with this gripping memoir of an extraordinary life - from Byfleet to the Bush. Jacqueline’s motherless upbringing in suburban Byfleet was unconventional and her education at the hands of nuns left her emotionally scarred. Through the course of her erratic career, she found love, laughter, heartache, breakdowns, fame, obscurity, and sex drugs and rock and roll. On the way, she encountered such stars as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Sammy Davis Jr, Jerry Lewis, Alan Bates, John Hurt, Dervla Kirwan, and Rupert Penry-Jones. Candid, vivid, mordant and funny, this is an unusual and enchanting memoir. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacqueline Pearce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000382/bk_copy_000382_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication, and Music , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min
    James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward - such exquisite miracles of musical genius have helped him survive his demons and, along with a chance encounter with a stranger, inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today. This is a memoir like no other: unapologetically candid, boldly outspoken and surprisingly funny - James' prose is shot through with an unexpectedly mordant wit, even at the darkest of moments. An impassioned tribute to the therapeutic powers of music, Instrumental also weaves in fascinating facts about how classical music actually works and about the extraordinary lives of some of the great composers. It explains why and how music has the potential to transform all of our lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Meadows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029944/bk_adbl_029944_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Females , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 128min
    An exploration of gender and desire from our most exciting new public intellectual "Everyone is female, and everyone hates it." So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the punishing force of desire. Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas - the woman who wrote the SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol - Chu aims her searing wit and surgical intuition at targets ranging from performance art to psychoanalysis, incels to porn, and even feminists like herself. Each step of the way, she defends the indefensible claim that femaleness is less a biological state of women and more a fatal existential condition that afflicts the entire human race - men, women, and everyone else. Or maybe she’s just projecting. A thrilling new voice who has been credited with launching the "second wave" of trans studies, Chu shows listeners how to write for your life, baring herself with a morbid sense of humor and a mordant kind of hope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Long Chu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053366/bk_adbl_053366_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Canterbury Trail , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 653min
    It's the last ski weekend of the season and a mishmash of snow enthusiasts are on their way to a remote backwoods cabin. In an odd pilgrimage through the mountains, the townsfolk of Coalton - from the ski bum to the urbanite - embark on a bizarre adventure that walks the line between comedy and tragedy. As the rednecks mount their sleds and the hippies snowshoe through the cedar forest, we see rivals converge for the weekend. While listeners follow the characters on their voyage up and over the mountain, stereotypes of ski town culture fall away. Loco, the ski bum, is about to start his first real job; Alison, the urbanite, is forced to learn how to wield an avalanche shovel; and Michael, the real estate developer, is high on mushroom tea. In a blend of mordant humor and heartbreak, Angie Abdou chronicles a day in the life of these industrious few as they attempt to conquer the mountain. In an avalanche of action, Angie Abdou explores the way in which people treat their fellow citizens and the landscape they love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marcie Millard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014699/bk_adbl_014699_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Baby: Hommages à Alfred , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 413min
    Robert Rodi’s follow-up to The Sugarman Bootlegs once again finds him mixing lethal social satire and nail-biting suspense, in the classic Alfred Hitchcock tradition. When financial collapse hits Marcus Hyde - a fussy, high-end art dealer - he’s forced to give up his spacious apartment and move in with his sister Pamela, who's large, slovenly, and titanically pregnant. But there’s worse in store for Marcus when Baby is born. He’s never seen anything more horrifying than this scarlet, steaming, shrieking lump of raw greed and unchecked will, with yellow eyes and fingernails like teeth. And when things start happening - terrible things; deadly things - Marcus alone understands why. And Marcus alone realizes that for his own safety and sanity…Baby must go. A wry, wicked tale of psychological (and biological) horror, Baby is endlessly addictive - a postmillennial mash-up of Rosemary’s Baby and Psycho. Hommages à Alfred is a series of novels inspired by the films of Alfred Hitchcock, incorporating mystery, menace, murder, and mordant wit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Rodi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016534/bk_acx0_016534_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Lion in Winter, Hörbuch, Digital, 97min
    Insecure siblings fighting for their parents' attention; bickering spouses who can't stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family. These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman's classic play The Lion in Winter, domestic turmoil rises to an art form. Keenly self-aware and motivated as much by spite as by any sense of duty, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine maneuver against each other to position their favorite son in line for succession. By imagining the inner lives of Henry, Eleanor, and their sons, John, Geoffrey, and Richard, Goldman created the quintessential drama of family strife and competing ambitions, a work that gives visceral, modern-day relevance to the intrigues of Angevin England.Combining keen historical and psychological insight with delicious, mordant wit, the stage play has become a touchstone of today's theater scene, and Goldman's screenplay for the 1968 film adaptation won him an Academy Award. Language: English. Narrator: Alfred Molina, Kathleen Chalfant, Full Cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000076/pf_latw_000076_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
    James Sveck, 18-year-old New Yorker, charming, precocious, confused, doesn't quite fit in (doesn't really want to), If his future (i.e., college) seems completely meaningless, not to mention terrifying.... Then: he'll start anew (move to the Midwest?). James Sveck is misunderstood by a capricious mother, a self-absorbed father, a mordant older sister, his Teutonic therapist, his D-list celebrity grandmother, his unnervingly attractive art gallery colleague.... If: What one wants is enigmatic.... Then: Life can be hell. But: as the summer gets hotter, James comes to recognize the wrenching truth of his emotions. James archly comic bravado fuels this sharply observed novel of a teen adrift in an adult world, struggling to make sense of the problems of love and of lack. The engaging voice of our idiosyncratic antihero is deftly captured by the adroit prose of Peter Cameron. Often hilarious, deeply compassionate, smart, and lyrical, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is every bit as sui generis as James Sveck himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/000908/bk_lili_000908_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min
    The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn't quite working out that way. His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won't stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one he bought. And when, one night, Kugel discovers history - a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history - hiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse. The critically acclaimed writer Shalom Auslander's debut novel is a hilarious and disquieting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shalom Auslander. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001840/bk_peng_001840_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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