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    Paterniti, Donna Valenti: Windward Manor
    Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2018, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Windward Manor, Autor: Paterniti, Donna Valenti, Verlag: iUniverse, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: FICTION // Romance // General, Rubrik: Belletristik // Romane, Erzählungen, Seiten: 278, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 354 gr, Verkäufer: averdo
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    Paterniti, Donna Valenti: Windward Manor
    Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2018, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Windward Manor, Autor: Paterniti, Donna Valenti, Verlag: iUniverse, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: FICTION // Romance // General, Rubrik: Belletristik // Romane, Erzählungen, Seiten: 278, Informationen: 22:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam, Gewicht: 352 gr, Verkäufer: averdo
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    Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 860min
    In this moving, lyrical, and ultimately uplifting collection of essays, Michael Paterniti turns a keen eye on the full range of human experience, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of everyday people. Michael Paterniti is one of the most original and empathic storytellers working today. His writing has been described as "humane, devastating, and beautiful" by Elizabeth Gilbert, "spellbinding" by Anthony Doerr, and "expansive and joyful" by George Saunders. In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge; in Dodge City, Kansas, he takes up residence at a roadside hotel and sees, firsthand, the ways in which the racial divide turns neighbor against neighbor. In each instance Paterniti illuminates the full spectrum of human experience, introducing us to unforgettable everyday people and bygone legends, exploring the big ideas and emotions that move us. Paterniti reenacts François Mitterrand's last meal in a rustic dining room in France and drives across America with Albert Einstein's brain in the trunk of his rental car, floating in a Tupperware container. He delves with heartbreaking detail into the aftermath of a plane crash off the coast of Nova Scotia, an earthquake in Haiti, and a tsunami in Japan - and, in searing swirls of language, unearths the complicated, hidden truths these moments of extremity teach us about our ability to endure and to love. Michael Paterniti has spent the past two decades grappling with some of our most powerful subjects and incomprehensible events, taking an unflinching point of view that seeks to edify as it resists easy answers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Poe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023862/bk_adbl_023862_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 809min
    Audie Award Finalist, Non-Fiction, 2014In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone chamber known as "the telling room". Containing nothing but a wooden table and two benches, this is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets - usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a larger-than-life Spanish cheesemaker named Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras as he spun an odd and compelling tale about a piece of cheese. An unusual piece of cheese. Made from an old family recipe, Ambrosio’s cheese was reputed to be among the finest in the world, and was said to hold mystical qualities. Eating it, some claimed, conjured long-lost memories. But then, Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong.... By the time the two men exited the telling room that evening, Paterniti was hooked. Soon he was fully embroiled in village life, relocating his young family to Guzmán in order to chase the truth about this cheese and explore the fairy tale-like place where the villagers conversed with farm animals, lived by an ancient Castilian code of honor, and made their wine and food by hand, from the grapes growing on a nearby hill and the flocks of sheep floating over the Meseta. What Paterniti ultimately discovers there in the highlands of Castile is nothing like the idyllic slow-food fable he first imagined. Instead, he’s sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery, a blood feud that includes accusations of betrayal and theft, death threats, and a murder plot. As the village begins to spill its long-held secrets, Paterniti finds himself implicated in the very story he is writing. Equal parts mystery and memoir, travelogue and history, The Telling Room is an astonishing work of literary nonfiction by one of our most accomplished ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L.J. Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012625/bk_adbl_012625_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 467min
    This extraordinary travel book tells the true story of how in 1997 writer Michael Paterniti agreed to take a road trip from New Jersey to California, reuniting the preserved brain of the great scientist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) with his granddaughter Evelyn. Paterniti's improbable travelling companion is 84-year-old Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who not only removed Einstein's brain from his head during the autopsy but purloined it from Princeton Hospital also! Storing the great scientist's brain in Tupperware zipped inside a grey duffel-bag, they rent a Buick Skylark, and drive from New Jersey to Ohio, Kansas City to Dodge City, Los Alamos to Las Vegas, finally achieving their bizarre reunion in Berkeley, California. A singular journey - and a unique book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Casey Jones. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012626/bk_adbl_012626_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Fermentation, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, Sauerkraut, kimchee, kefir, kombucha... Sandor Katz calls himself a "fermentation fetishist." The author of The Art of Fermentation and The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved explains what's driving today's fermentation revival.Next, every year, Reedsburg, Wisconsin hosts a giant Fermentation Fest. Ten days of workshops, classes, and art events celebrating the art of fermentation. Reporter Erik Lorenzsonn was there and filed this series of audio postcards.Then, Michael Paterniti tells the story of his epic adventure in search of one of the world's greatest cheesemakers. It's a story of love, betrayal, revenge (and cheese), called The Telling Room.After that, a short story by science fiction novelist John Scalzi, read by Adam Hirsch.Following that, what if we could harness nature to grow clothing for us? London-based fashion designer Suzanne Lee explains how she grows cloth inside giant vats of fermented tea. It's part of a future industry she calls "bio-couture".And finally, the bacteria that live in and on your body outnumber your human cells, ten to one. Microbiologist Rob Knight explains why mapping the human microbiome could revolutionize medicine. [Broadcast Date: December 4, 2013] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/131204/rt_tbon_131204_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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