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    More Napalm and Silly Putty, Hörbuch, Digital, 148min
    A companion to the best selling Napalm and Silly Putty, George Carlin's More Napalm and Silly Putty picks up where the original left off, with: More dog moments ("Life is a series of dogs.") Musings on "have a nice day" ("I'm beyond the nice day.") Questionable expressions ("Legally drunk. If it's legal, what's the problem?") Meditations on the nature of time ("We made the whole thing up.") More laser-sharp observations, tough questions, philosophical musings, linguistic legerdemain, and inspired weirdness in these unabridged excerpts from the thinking man's comic - and three-time Grammy winner! Language: English. Narrator: George Carlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000089/bk_high_000089_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sunsborne , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 215min
    Sunsborne pitches darkly into another world. Often the world and characters is hazy, but ''Sunsborne'' is a true picture of the reality, conflict, and tensions. In the midst of a conflict torn situation there is love. Robin Wyatt Dunn presents an uncanny story of past and present, darkness and light. His way with language and its thick opacity create a stunning impact on the mind. If you are looking for ''meanings'', leave it. If you are looking for legerdemain stunts, leave it. But if you are looking for a fabulous world, in mythic settings, here it is, in the manner that only Dunn can achieve - credulity climaxing into incredible and fascinating story. (Ananya S Guha Shillong, India) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Ackley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099421/bk_acx0_099421_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sleight of Hand
    Sleight of Hand ab 22.49 € als Taschenbuch: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs and Others. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    Ode To Islesboro A Laconic Lexicon
    Ode To Islesboro A Laconic Lexicon ab 34.49 € als Taschenbuch: Local language legends landmarks locales legacies and legerdemain.. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    The Emissary
    Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient - frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism. Yoshiro concentrates on nourishing Mumei, a strangely wonderful boy who offers “the beauty of the time that is yet to come.” A delightful, irrepressibly funny book, The Emissary is filled with light. Yoko Tawada, deftly turning inside-out “the curse,” defies gravity and creates a playful joyous novel out of a dystopian one, with a legerdemain uniquely her own.
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    The Emissary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 248min
    Yoko Tawada's new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her "brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness" Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient - frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism. Yoshiro concentrates on nourishing Mumei, a strangely wonderful boy who offers "the beauty of the time that is yet to come." A delightful, irrepressibly funny book, The Emissary is filled with light. Yoko Tawada, deftly turning inside-out "the curse", defies gravity and creates a playful joyous novel out of a dystopian one, with a legerdemain uniquely her own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julian Cihi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006137/bk_rand_006137_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know and How You Can Fight Back, Hörbuch, Digital, 373min
    Investors today are fed lies and distortions while being exploited and neglected. In the wake of the last decade's rush to invest by millions of households and Wall Street's obsession with short-term performance, a culture of gamesmanship has grown among corporate management, financial analysts, brokers, and fund managers, making it difficult to tell financial fantasy from reality, salesmanship from honest advice. In Take on the Street, Arthur Levitt - former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission - shows how you can take matters into your own hands. At once anecdotal (names are named), informative, and prescriptive, Take on the Street expounds on, among other subjects: the conflicts of interest inherent in buy-hold-or-sell recommendations of analysts; the "seven deadly sins" of mutual funds; how accountants engage in legerdemain to fake impressive company performance; the real reason for the Street's hostility to full disclosure; the seduction by corporate management of boards of directors; and, given these shenanigans and double-dealings, some specific steps you can take to safeguard your financial future. With integrity and authority, Levitt gives us a bracing primer on the collapse of the system that oversees our capital markets, and essential advice on a discipline we often ignore to our peril - how not to lose money. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Levitt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000240/bk_rand_000240_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Napalm and Silly Putty, Hörbuch, Digital, 148min
    He was the inventor of Past-Tense TV (featuring Got Smart, Father Knew Best, and It Was Left to Beaver); the tireless crusader for such charities as the Center for Research into the Heebie Jeebies, Children of Parents with Bad Teeth, and the State Hospital for Those Who Felt All Right About a Year Ago; founder of the George Carlin Book Club (top titles: How to Act Laid-Back During a Grease Fire, Fill Your Life with Croutons, and The Meaning of Corn); and the only social commentator with the guts to point out that "the day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life." Yes, George Carlin is here with more of what he did better than any other comic: uproarious observations, laser-targeted crankiness, linguistic legerdemain, and inspired weirdness. ("If the shoe fits, get another just like it." "When you sneeze, all the numbers in your head go up by one.") Napalm & Silly Putty is just what his fans have been waiting for—another generous helping of notions, nonsense, assertions, assumptions, mockery, merriment, silliness, sarcasm, and, to be sure, plenty of disturbing references and toxic alienation. George wouldn't have it any other way. Language: English. Narrator: George Carlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000603/bk_high_000603_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Best of Fantasy 2001 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min
    These stories are set in the familiar quasi-medieval worlds to which modern listeners are accustomed, and also stories rooted in the authentic myth-constructs of high antiquity, along with several that depend for their power on the juxtaposition of fantastic situations and terribly contemporary aspects of modern life on Earth. Together these stories make up a collection which provides reassuring proof of fantasy's eternal power in this technological age. Stories include:“Bones of the Earth” written and performed by Ursula K. LeGuin”Eternity and Afterword” written by Lucius Shepard and performed by Stefan Rudnicki”The Lady of the Wind” written by Poul Anderson and performed by Scott Brick”Legerdemain” written by Jack O’Connell and performed by William Windom“Diving the Coolidge written by Brian A. Hopkins and performed by M.E. Willis”The Mould of Form” written by Rosemary Edghill and performed by Terry Fishman”Wolves Till the World Goes Down” written by Greg Van Eeckhout and performed by Jason Cole”Ave de Paso” written and performed by Catherine Asaro”Roxanne Hernandez Grass” written by Lawrence Miles and performed by Gabrielle de Cuir and William Windom”Slipshot, at the End of the Universe” written by Robert Thurston and performed by Iris Bahr ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Cole, Terry Fishman, Gabrielle de Cuir, William Windom, Scott Brick, Catherine Asaro, Iris Bahr, M.E. Willis, Ursula K. LeGuin, Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/001520/bk_pnix_001520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Moonglow: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 882min
    Following on the heels of his New York Times best-selling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure - and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother's home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon's grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis of the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain in the ongoing magic act that is the art of Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather". It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact - and the creative power - of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies. A gripping, poignant, tragicomic, scrupulously researched, and wholly imaginary transcript of a life that spanned the dark heart of the 20th century, Moonglow is also a tour de force of speculative history in which Chabon attempts to reconstruct the mysterious origins and fate of Chabon Scientific Co., an authentic mail-order novelty company whose ads for scale models of human skeletons, combustion engines, and space rockets were once a fixture in the back pages of Esquire, Popular Mechanics, and Boy's Life. Along the way Chabon devises ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005556/bk_harp_005556_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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