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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min
A shirt-grabbing love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices. Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant - Brian is sure he loves her, only he doesn't want kids. Heather returns to California to deliver their daughter alone, buoyed by family and friends. Mere hours after Gracie's arrival, Heather's bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her: 'Get dressed. Your baby is in trouble.' This is not how Heather had imagined new motherhood - alone, heartsick, an unexpectedly solo caretaker of a baby who smelled 'like sliced apples and salted pretzels' but might be perilously ill. Brian reappears as Gracie's condition grows dire; together, Heather and Brian have to decide what they are willing to risk to ensure their girl sees adulthood. The grace and humour that ripple through Harpham's writing transform the dross of heartbreak and parental fears into a clear-eyed, warm-hearted view of the world. Profoundly moving and subtly written, Happiness radiates in many directions - new, romantic love; gratitude for a beautiful, inscrutable world; deep, abiding friendship; the passion a parent has for a child; and the many unlikely ways to build a family. Ultimately, it's a story about love and happiness in their many crooked configurations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather Harpham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028281/bk_adbl_028281_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Happiness: A Memoir: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min
A shirt-grabbing love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices. Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant - Brian is sure he loves her, only he doesn't want kids. Heather returns to California to deliver their daughter alone, buoyed by family and friends. Mere hours after Gracie's arrival, Heather's bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her: "Get dressed. Your baby is in trouble." This is not how Heather had imagined new motherhood - alone, heartsick, an unexpectedly solo caretaker of a baby who smelled "like sliced apples and salted pretzels" but might be perilously ill. Brian reappears as Gracie's condition grows dire; together, Heather and Brian have to decide what they are willing to risk to ensure their girl sees adulthood. The grace and humor that ripple through Harpham's writing transform the dross of heartbreak and parental fears into a clear-eyed, warm-hearted view of the world. Profoundly moving and subtly written, Happiness radiates in many directions - new, romantic love; gratitude for a beautiful, inscrutable world; deep, abiding friendship; the passion a parent has for a child; and the many unlikely ways to build a family. Ultimately, it's a story about love and happiness in their many crooked configurations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather Harpham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029702/bk_adbl_029702_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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New Life, No Instructions: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 255min
The Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home now gives us a stunning, exquisitely written memoir about a dramatic turning point in her life, which unexpectedly opened up a world of understanding, possibility, and connection. New Life, No Instructions is about the surprising way life can begin again, at any age. What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed. Any change that matters, or takes, begins as immeasurably small. Then it accumulates, moss on stone, and after a few thousand years of not interfering, you have a glen, or a waterfall, or a field of hope where sorrow used to be. I suppose all of us consider our loved ones extraordinary; that is one of the elixirs of attachment. But over the months of pain and disrepair of that winter, I felt something that made the grimness tolerable: I felt blessed by the tribe I was part of. Here I was, supposedly solo, and the real truth was that I had a force field of connection surrounding me. “Most of all I told this story because I wanted to say something about hope and the absence of it, and how we keep going anyway. About second chances, and how they’re sometimes buried amid the dross, even when you’re poised for the downhill grade. The narrative can always turn out to be a different story from what you expected. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gail Caldwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003797/bk_rand_003797_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse (eBook, ePUB)
In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet's workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets.This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a single community of taste, a traditional stylistic ecology that did serious political and historical work. Each chapter seeks the codes of a now-extinct verse technique. The first explores the underlying architecture of the two poetries, their irregularities of pace, startling formal conventions, and tight verbal detail work. The passage of time has worn away most of the circumstantial details that literary scholars in later periods take for granted, but the public relations savvy and aural and syntactic signals of early northern verse remain to some extent retrievable and relatable, an etiquette prized and presumably understood by its audiences. The second and longest chapter investigates the techniques used by early northern poets to retrieve and organize the symmetries of language. It illustrates how supererogatory alliteration and rhyme functioned as aural punctuation, marking off structural units and highlighting key moments in the texts. The third and final chapter describes the extent to which both corpora reveled in negations, litotes, indirection, and down-toners, modes that forced audiences to read between half-lines, to hear what was not said. By decluttering and stripping away excess, by drawing words through a tight mesh of meter, alliteration, and rhyme, the early northern poet filtered out dross and stitched together a poetics of stark contrasts and forebodings. Poets and lovers of poetry of all periods and places will find much to enjoy here. So will students in Old English and Old Norse courses.- Shop: buecher
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Golden Rosenkreuzer Wirth Tarot
DEUTSCH: Oswald Wirths Tarotbilder sind kenntnisreich durch seine tiefgehenden Studien des gesamten Spektrums der westlichen Spiritualität und gleichsam erleuchtet nicht nur von seinem Wissen und Verständnis dieser Dinge, sondern auch durch seine Kunstfertigkeit: die Verknüpfung von grafischen Fähigkeiten und die inspirierte Benutzung von Gold in der Gesamtfarbgebung.Und obwohl Wirths Karten zur Weissagung benutzt werden können, ihre goldene Anmutung weist uns in die Richtung ihres ursprünglichen Verwendungszwecks: Sie ermöglichen meditative Reflexion durch symbolträchtige Bildwelten, um die Niedrigkeit unseres materiellen Selbst in das Gold des wahren spirituellen Verstehens zu verwandeln.Dieses Buch ist Bestandteil des GOLDEN ROSENKREUZER WIRTH TAROT Sets, ISBN 978-3-943012-95-8ENGLISH: Oswald Wirth's tarot images are informed by his deep study of the whole spectrum of western esotericism, and they are also illuminated, not only by his knowledge and understanding, but also by his artistry: a combination of graphic skill and the inspired use of gold in their colouring.And although Wirth's cards can be used for divination, their golden ground points us to their primary purpose: to provide symbolic images for meditative reflection; to change the dross of our material selves into the gold of true spiritual understanding.This book is part of the GOLDEN ROSENKREUZER WIRTH TAROT Set, ISBN 978-3-943012-95-8FRANÇAIS : Les illustrations de Wirth, étayées par une étude poussée de l'ésotérisme occidental dans sa globalité, comportent des enluminures qui irradient non seulement le savoir et la compréhension autour de lui, mais également un sens artistique combinant une habileté graphique au recours inspiré à l'or pour la mise en couleurs.Même s'il est possible d'utiliser les cartes de Wirth pour la divination, leur objectif premier, accentué par l'usage de l'or, est de nous offrir un support à la méditation grâce à leur imagerie symbolique. Ce faisant, elles nous permettent de nous élever mentalement en passant de l'état de bassesse du moi matériel pour accéder au trésor véritable de la connaissance spirituelle.Ce livre fait partie du set GOLDEN ROSENKREUZER WIRTH TAROT, ISBN 978-3-943012-95-8- Shop: buecher
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Caretaker
Unitus - Caretaker (Dross: tik) The Anti-Socialite of the Toronto breakcore scene, Unitus (Daniel Ross) makes his return to fame and fortune as he delivers his much anticipated second full length album, "Caretaker". The follow up to his debut album in 2002, "Cross Contamination" (D-Trash), "Caretaker" is an evolution in the Unitus sound, experimenting further with breakbeats and melody while still preserving that familiar dirty edge. Unitus has struck a balance of deep emotional melodies, while still laying waste to everything in his path with heavy industrial-guitar drones, slower bpm jungle beats and a gritty feel. "Caretaker" is power noise with real power, industrial with an edge, techno without the presets, and breakcore with melody. Brilliant! Unitus Biography Never conceived of as an alter ego, but rather as a container in which his eclectic musical tastes and experiences could be combined, Unitus was constructed by Daniel Ross in Toronto, Canada, during the summer of 2000. Informed as much by the visceral quality of early industrial artists like The Swans, Big Black, and Godflesh as by the detailed production work of later electronic artists like Aphex Twin, and Autechre, Unitus was an ambitious project from the onset. An early three track demo received welcome attention from Canada's own digital hardcore label D-Trash Records, and laid the foundation for the release of "Cross Contamination" in early 2002. A fusion of breakcore, drum & bass, industrial, guitars, and electronics into an unrelenting wall of sound, "Cross Contamination" proved to be an underground success. Having played alongside such artist as Venetian Snares, Merzbow and Heartworm, the Unitus live act is a simultaneous action of laptop beats, live guitar riffs and various distortion pedals and effects boxes. With the release of the newest album "Caretaker", on Dross: tik Records, Unitus has positioned himself as one of the top artists in Toronto's vibrant underground music scene.- Shop: odax
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