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    The Syrian Peddler , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 316min
    As a reader, I love historical fiction. Among my favorites is The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani. Although captivated by Trigiani’s characters, Enza and Ciro, my thoughts never veered far from my grandfather’s story as I read and reread the book. My Gidu had a similar story to tell and I only heard bits and pieces of what I believe was a fascinating life. My father’s father, Sam, arrived in the New York harbor and Ellis Island about the year 1905 from Damascus, Syria. This marked the beginning of the remarkable success of a young man who was 17 at the time. Sam began work as a peddler in the coal mining settlements during the era when men became millionaires from investments in coal, coke, and steel. He eventually becomes the proprietor of Hanna’s Department Store where he embodied the Syrian values of hard work, honesty, and trust. The central setting for The Syrian Peddler is in southwestern Pennsylvania including Pittsburgh, Uniontown, New Salem, and Masontown, spanning the years between 1905 and 1958. The story is historical fiction as not all facts were available. As much as possible, the writing is factual. My research included visits to Ellis Island, The Hotel Wolcott, New York City; The Family History Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah. I went back to places in Pennsylvania that were familiar to me: Masontown, where I went to kindergarten and St. Ellien of Homs, Syrian Orthodox Church in Brownsville. I have met several people who have emigrated from Syria. One young man came six years ago and settled in Austin, Texas, where I now live. He is saddened by the destruction of majestic buildings and the war itself. So many lives lost. I cannot begin to imagine what Sam would think today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Sears. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128921/bk_acx0_128921_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Finding Penelope , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 365min
    Thirty-three-year-old romance novelist Penelope Eames moves to Spain to avoid her oppressive father and drug-addicted brother, Dermot. When she meets Ramon, a young Spanish school teacher, she is immediately attracted to him and feels the happiness that eluded her all her life may at last be hers. However, she receives a distress call from Dermot saying he is at the mercy of Charlie Eliot, a pimp and drug dealer on the Costa. Ramon, whose mother was killed by a drug addict, tells her to have nothing to do with Charlie Eliot. Penelope must decide: Is she prepared to compromise herself with Charlie Eliot and jeopardize her chance of happiness with Ramon for the sake of her drug-addicted brother? Author's note: Apart from casting a wry glance at the phenomenon of chick-lit and treating of the role of patriarchy in a family, the novel Finding Penelope is essentially a love story marking a growth in self-realization in the protagonist Penelope Eames. It delves into the drug culture and its associated criminality in Spain (where a lot of Celtic Tiger money wound up laundered), Ireland, and the UK. The prompt for the novel was from Cervantes, and a motif may be interpreted as a sort of modern-day parallel of Don Quijote's attack on the proliferation of romance novels of that time. As 70 percent of fans are now female, I wanted to understand more of the female mindset. So I picked the brains of women of my acquaintance, including two adult daughters, and I researched contemporary women writers and books like Everywoman, and I reread with new female (or at least androgynous eyes) my well-thumbed de Beauvoir, Anna Karenina, and Portrait of a Lady. Simultaneously, I was studying the crime culture on the Costa. The result was the character Penelope Eames. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Brady. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143069/bk_acx0_143069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Winter of the Witch: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 840min
    New York Times Best SellerFollowing their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the best-selling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias, the seen and the unseen. "A tale both intimate and epic, featuring a heroine whose harrowing and wondrous journey culminates in an emotionally resonant finale." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE Vasilisa Petrovna is an unforgettable heroine determined to forge her own path. Her gifts and her courage have drawn the attention of Morozko, the winter-king, but it is too soon to know if this connection will prove a blessing or a curse.Now Moscow has been struck by disaster. Its people are searching for answers - and for someone to blame. Vasya finds herself alone, beset on all sides. The Grand Prince is in a rage, choosing allies that will lead him on a path to war and ruin. A wicked demon returns, determined to spread chaos. Caught at the center of the conflict is Vasya, who finds the fate of two worlds resting on her shoulders. Her destiny uncertain, Vasya will uncover surprising truths about herself as she desperately tries to save Russia, Morozko, and the magical world she treasures. But she may not be able to save them all.Praise for The Winter of the Witch: “Katherine Arden’s Winternight Trilogy isn’t just good - it’s hug-to-your-chest, straight-to-the-favorites-shelf, reread-immediately good, and each book just gets better. The Winter of the Witch plunges us back to fourteenth-century Moscow, where old gods and new vie for the soul of Russia and fate rests on a witch girl’s slender shoulders. Prepare to have your heart ripped out, loaned back to you full of snow and magic, and rip ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathleen Gati. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006057/bk_rand_006057_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Accelerated Learning: 2 Manuscripts: Memory Training & Accelerated Learning , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 139min
    This two-in-one book contains information about.... Memory Training We use our memories on a daily basis, and yet sometimes, they don’t always perform the way we like. Age, health conditions, and a simple lack of mental exercise can all contribute to your memory not being as efficient or productive as it could be. Naturally, you want a memory that is sharp and up to speed. You want to know that when you recall something, you are recalling the proper information and that you can have confidence in your memory. Or maybe you just want to stop misplacing your keys every time you come home, or missing important appointments because you wrote down the wrong date once again. Just because natural processes like aging and health can affect your memory doesn’t mean you are doomed. In fact, there are many things that you can do to keep your memory sharp and prevent you from having a terrible memory at any age. In this audiobook, you are going to learn some fascinating tips and techniques to help you strengthen your memory, exercise your brain, and see great improvement from your memory function. Some of the things you will learn include: Memory games (that actually work!) Accelerated learning techniques Lifestyle adjustments that can enhance your memory General tips to improve your memory How you can measure your improvements The different types of memory and which ones you want to target most And more! If you are ready to remember where you put your wallet, find your car in a parking lot the first time, and stop having to reread the “how to” section of manuals over and over, this audiobook is just for you! Dive inside and see what you can learn to help you improve your memory and become a master at accelerated learning. Accelerated Training Accelerated Learning by Jonathan Wilkens is an audiobook created ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barry Shannon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108865/bk_acx0_108865_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Memory Improvement, Accelerated Learning and Brain Training: Learn How to Optimize and Improve Your Memory and Learning Capabilities for Top Results in University and at Work , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 222min
    Do you have trouble storing and remembering information from the emails, books, or notes you are reading? Does it feel like you have to reread certain parts over and over again to get the message? Is it hard for you to remember passwords and numbers containing more than eight digits at once? Then keep on listening.Even if you are a below-average student, manager, or employee, the techniques and methods used by the memory champions of the world will help you to memorize and understand information easier, faster, and even longer than ever before.You do not have to be smart to develop a memory like the hard disk in your computer.Using the (ancient) methods applied by these memory champions to remember Pi to 10,000 digits in only 14 minutes will also help you in your day-to-day life as manager, worker, and student.Copy and learn their techniques and secrets to learn and remember faster, easier, and better. It will change your life and work for the better.In Memory Improvement, Accelerated Learning and Brain Training, you will discover:The ideal brain states and frequencies to learn and how you can trigger these frequencies yourself in three stepsLearn the seven steps, defined by eight-time memory world champion Dominic O'Brien, to memorize a presentation so you don't need PowerPoint anymore How to use emotions to improve your memory when preparing for the exam at university or the product pitch at workThe method to remember words from a foreign language way easier and faster (which they should teach you at school in the first place) How to leverage your long-term memory to improve your short-term memory to remember a large list of unrelated items (used by the ancient Greeks and Romans) Two different systems used by the great memory champions to remember a large amount of numbers only seeing or hearing them once Sixteen ingredients, available in your loca ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Seth Thompson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/140642/bk_acx0_140642_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Crying in H Mart
    THE NO. 2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, powerful, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band - and meeting the man who would become her husband - her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
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    Art and Objects (eBook, ePUB)
    In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way because they don't have direct access to their objects. Hence philosophy shares the same fate as art in being compelled to communicate indirectly, allusively, or elliptically, rather than in the clear propositional terms that are often taken - wrongly - to be the sole stuff of genuine philosophy. Conceiving of philosophy and art in this way allows us to reread key debates in aesthetic theory and to view art history in a different way. The formalist criticism of Greenberg and Fried is rejected for its refusal to embrace the innate theatricality and deep multiplicity of every artwork. This has consequences for art criticism, making pictorial content more important than formalism thinks but less entwined with the social sphere than anti-formalism holds. It has consequences for art history too, as the surrealists, David, and Poussin, among others, gain in importance. The close link between aesthetics and ontology also invites a new periodization of modern philosophy as a whole, and the habitual turn away from Kant's thing-in-itself towards an increase in philosophical "immanence" is shown to be a false dawn. This major work will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, aesthetics, art history and cultural theory.
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    Awesomely Austen: Mansfield Park
    A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout. Fanny Price is one of nine children, and her family are very poor. So when a distant relative offers to take her in - giving her the opportunity to grow up wealthy and comfortable - her parents jump at the chance. But money doesn't always bring happiness, and Fanny struggles to settle into her new home, where the family are very cold towards her. Her only friend amongst them is Edmund, who tries his best to help her be happy. As she grows up, Fanny realises that Edmund is the most important person in her life. But will he ever see her as more than the timid little girl who arrived at his home so many years before? Ayisha Malik is a British Muslim, lifelong Londoner and lover of books. She has read and reread Austen's books throughout her whole life and is perfectly placed to bring Mansfield Park to a new audience. Eglantine Ceulemans captures all of Austen's satire and wit, bringing her colourful casts to life with warm and funny black and white illustrations. Illustrated and retold editions are also available for: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey. The perfect way to discover Austen for the first time, this bright and bold collection features some of the most inspiring and famous heroines in English literature. For readers aged eight and up.
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    The Memory Keeper's Daughter (eBook, ePUB)
    The multi-million copy bestseller, Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a moving and poignant novel about grief, family and betrayal.Families have secrets they hide even from themselves...It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever.For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse.As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can.'Crafted with language so lovely you have to reread the passages just to be captivated all over again . . . this is simply a beautiful book' Jodi Picoult 'I loved this riveting story with its intricate characters and beautiful language' Sue Monk Kidd, author of the best-selling, The Secret Life of Bees Kim Edwards is the author of the short-story collection The Secrets of the Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. Her second novel, The Lake of Dreams, is available from Penguin. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky.
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    The Skeptical Yogi: Yogananda's Autobiography Under a Microscope , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 360min
    I first read Yogananda’s justly famous Autobiography of a Yogi when I was just 11 years old. In those days (circa 1967), I was a great fan of baseball, particularly the Dodgers, and when I first spotted the book at my local North Hollywood Public library, I thought it must be about Yogi Berra, the famous catcher for the New York Yankees, so I naturally picked it up for a closer reading. However, after I got home I soon realized my mistake. It was rather about an Indian mystic who had come to America in 1920 to share his views on spirituality and what he had learned from his associations with various saints and sages, particularly his own guru Sri Yukteswar of Serampore.I devoured the book in slow chunks and loved every chapter of it since it opened up a hitherto unknown world to me. Since I was raised Roman Catholic and attended St. Charles elementary school, we were not taught about other religions. Learning about Hinduism and its various practices was like opening a window on a windy Santa Ana day in December. It was both refreshing and invigorating. Yogananda’s tome transported me to another time and place and forever changed my philosophical outlook on all things religious.I guesstimate that I have reread Autobiography of a Yogi over 50 or so times, such was my fondness for its enchanting and beguiling stories of meeting the perfume yogi, the saint with two bodies, and the tiger tamer, and more. The book has gone through many editions since its first printing in 1946 and today is widely available worldwide and has been translated into over 50 languages.Steve Jobs was so taken by Yogananda’s book that he made sure that everyone attending his funeral in 2011 received a copy of it in a special brown box. Job’s biographer, Walter Isaacson, recounts that the founder of Apple had the digital version of the book downloaded on his iPad and read it at least once a year.However, as much I dearly loved reading Autobiography ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clay Lomakayu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/189262/bk_acx0_189262_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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