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Amazons: A Love Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 541min

When E.J. Levy arrived in northern Brazil on a fellowship from Yale at the age of 21, she was hoping to help save the Amazon rain forest; she didn't realize she would soon have to save herself. Amazons: A Love Story recounts an idealistic young woman's coming of age against the backdrop of the magnificent rain forest and exotic city of Salvador. This elegant and sharp-eyed memoir explores the interaction of the many forces fueling deforestation - examining the ecological, economic, social, and spiritual costs of ill-conceived development - and those that shape young women's growing up. Sent to Salvador (often called the "soul of Brazil" for its rich Afro-Brazilian culture), a city far from the rain forest, Levy befriends two young Brazilians - Nel, a brilliant economics student who is estranged from her family for mysterious reasons, and Isa, a gorgeous gold digger. When the university closes due to a strike, none of them can guess what will come of their ambitions. Levy's course of study changes: she takes up capoeira, enters cooking school (making foods praised in Brazilian literature as almost magical elixirs), gains fluency in Portuguese and the ways of street life, and learns other, more painful lessons - she is raped, and her best friend becomes a prostitute. When Levy finally reaches the Amazon, her courage - and her safety - are further tested: on a barefoot hike through the jungle one night to collect tadpoles, she encounters fist-sized spiders, swimming snakes, and crocodiles. When allergies to the antimalarial drugs meant to protect her prove life-threatening, she discovers that sometimes the greatest threat we face is ourselves. Eventually, her work as a "cartographer of loss," charting deforestation, leads her to realize that our relationships to nature and to our bodies are linked, that we must transcend the logic of commodification if we are to save both wilderness and ourselves. The Amazon is a perennially fascinat ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melissa Reizian Frank. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008407/bk_acx0_008407_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Feast Days , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 386min

Devastating, funny and wise, it's among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad. (Garth Greenwell) "One of the most memorable narrative voices in recent fiction." (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review) Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo - a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the 21st century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce while confronting the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage. In stylish prose and with piercing wit, Ian MacKenzie tells the story of Emma, a young woman who has moved from New York to Brazil just as massive demonstrations against the government are breaking out across the country amid growing economic inequality. Emma has come to Brazil for her husband's career, with no job prospects of her own, a weak grasp of the language, and a deep ambivalence about having a child. Her early days in Sao Paulo are listless but privileged; she dines at high-end restaurants, tutors wealthy Brazilians in English, and observes the city she now calls home. But when Emma volunteers at a local church to assist refugees and grows more deeply connected to the people she meets in the course of her days, she finds herself unable to resist the tug of Sao Paulo's political and social unrest. As the country moves seemingly closer to a breaking point, so does Emma's marriage, as she and her husband can no longer ignore the silent, tectonic shifts beneath the surface of their relationship. Feast Days is a sharply observed story of expatriate life as well as a meditation on the hidden costs of modern living and how easily our belief systems can collapse around us. PLEASE NOTE: When you purch ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Lakin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004258/bk_hach_004258_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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How to Be a Woman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 524min

GALAXY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2011: BOOK OF THE YEAR BRITISH PRESS AWARDS CRITIC AND INTERVIEWER OF THE YEAR 2011 BRITISH PRESS AWARDS COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR 2010 1913 - Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse. 1969 - Feminists storm Miss World. Now - Caitlin Moran rewrites "The Female Eunuch" from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller. There's never been a better time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain...Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should you get Botox? Do men secretly hate us? What should you call your vagina? Why does your bra hurt? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin Moran answers these questions and more in "How To Be A Woman" - following her from her terrible 13th birthday ('I am 13 stone, have no friends, and boys throw gravel at me when they see me') through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, fat, abortion, TopShop, motherhood and beyond. Caitlin Moran had literally no friends in 1990, and so had plenty of time to write her firstnovel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of fifteen. At sixteen she joined music weekly Melody Maker and at eighteen briefly presented the pop show 'Naked City' on Channel 4. Following this precocious start she then put in eighteen solid years as a columnist on The Times - both as a TV critic and also in the most-read part of the paper, the satirical celebrity column 'Celebrity Watch'. The eldest of eight children, home-educated in a council house in Wolverhampton, Caitlin read lots of books about feminism - mainly in an attempt to be able to prove to her brother, Eddie, that she was scientifically better than him. Caitlin isn't really her name. She was christened 'Catherine'. But she saw 'Caitlin' in a Jilly Cooper novel when she was 13 and thought ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caitlin Moran. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001241/bk_rhuk_001241_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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