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    Passages from Behind These Doors: A Family Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 75min
    This kaleidoscope of frank, funny, and tender tales are about sin and prayer, about good intentions and unattended sorrows, and about finding our way back home. Growing up in California in the 1950s and 60s, Catherine Clemens Sevenau was raised primarily by an older sister, survived five years living with an unhinged erratic mother, and spent summers working at her father's five-and-dime in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. This era and sense of place provide the colorful background to a soul-searching and riveting account of her early family life. Through it all, she tells her story with humor and grace. Behind These Doors is a portrait of a woman's journey to find her place in the family and to understand her troubled mother. The compelling stories create a tapestry of love, loss, hurt, and laughter. With clarity and perspective, Sevenau embraces the events of her early years, and comes to appreciate what transpired were gifts in disguise: that what occurred happened for her, not to her. Transforming a bewildering and fractured childhood into a life well lived, she has found her way back home. Catherine Sevenau is an irreverent humorist and an astute storyteller. These 20 passages from Behind These Doors are a poignant and captivating taste of her first book. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Catherine Sevenau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/028930/bk_acx0_028930_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mike and I and the Great Adventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 357min
    This true story is based on two young teenage boys who, in the summer of 1968, manage to spend an equivalent of 210,000 dollars in today's money in a few short weeks, after they ran away. This true story tells how they left Kansas City for Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco, and then fate intervened, as the adventure took on a completely different direction. In the 50s they are baby boomers and by the time they were teenagers in the 60s, juvenile delinquents. However, not violent; just knew how to manipulate the system. Therefore, it made sense that they would join the thousands of others in 1968 and dropout. However, they dropped in not out, into high dollar resorts and luxury hotels. Follow their activities as they travel around the country and Mexico, living the life. The story also involves two young female runaways. They with the two boys pull off one the most amazing trips ever taken. The military, the FBI, several states, and then Mexican officials are looking for them. However, somehow they elude them all. They were finally caught in Chicago, Illinois at the end of August 1968, during the time of the controversial Democratic convention that year. When they were caught, investigators found a plastic bag the girls had kept the hotel keys in as souvenirs. There were 32 different luxury hotel keys and airline tickets for 31 different flights, most first class. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darrell Jordan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048143/bk_acx0_048143_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
    Read the works discussed in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. Includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From. Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the "contemporary wasteland" of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in Political Fictions-on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and "compassionate conservatism," among others-show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in Where I Was From Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream.
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    Brother, Brother: A Memoir: A Brother's Search for His Lost Brother , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 494min
    Do you love road trips? Hop in the back seat of Dan's 66 GTO convertible and ride along with him as he travels cross-country in search of his missing brother. The trip is sure to blow your mind! If you are a baby boomer who came of age in the 60s, you should not pass up Dan's book. Dan's memoir; mostly truth, part fiction, is a tribute to his older brother Rich, whom he will always consider a casualty of the post-Vietnam era. Missing in America for the past 45 years, Rich mysteriously reappears along with his '66 GTO convertible and coerces Dan to retrace the cross-country route he took back in 1970 to settle in a commune in Corrales, New Mexico. With Dan taking control behind the wheel and the spirit of Rich in the passenger seat, Dan recreates some of Rich's experiences as a flower child/Jesus freak. They visit places like The Badlands, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Yellowstone, The Grand Tetons, Elko Nevada, the Haight/Ashbury District, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park in an attempt to understand the life Rich chose, which was so drastically different from Dan's. Along the way they relive memories of the brief 18 years they shared growing up in the absence of their alcoholic father in a struggling single parent household of five kids. In exploring their relationship, Dan confronts several personal issues surrounding the role Rich played in shaping who he became and the impact Rich's disappearance has had on his life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Braden Wright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/069341/bk_acx0_069341_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Seven-Inch Vinyl
    In 1953, the entire world waited for an explosion. The United States and The Soviet Union both possessed a weapon that could blow the planet to bits. But when the explosion finally did come, it wasn't from an Atom Bomb blast-but from the birth of rock and roll music. Seven-Inch Vinyl chronicles the evolution of rock and roll between the years 1953-1969. An interesting array of fictional characters takes the reader on a remarkable journey from the rural landscapes of Kentucky where Rhythm and Blues is on the rise to the juke joints of Memphis as R&B meets country to create the Rockabilly sound. From there travel north to the bustling metropolitan cities of Cleveland and New York where the vocal harmonies from singing groups seems to occupy every street corner. The British Invasion of performers in the mid-sixties threatens the very life of the American music scene. But bolstered by the founding of Motown, and the emerging folk scene from Greenwich Village to Haight-Ashbury, a rock and roll revival rejuvenates past careers and re-kindles the popularity of its early days. Told against a backdrop of racism, political unrest, war and assassination, the narrative blends actual historic events with music history to demonstrate how rock and roll changed the lives of generations of young men and women to forge the course of the nation and the world.
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    Buried Alive (eBook, ePUB)
    Electrifying, highly acclaimed, and intensely personal, this new and updated version of Myra Friedman's classic biography of Janis Joplin teems with dramatic insights into Joplin's genius and into the chaotic times that catapulted her to fame as the legendary queen of rock. It is a stunning panorama of the turbulent decade when Joplin's was the rallying voice of a generation that lost itself in her music and found itself in her words. From her small hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, from the intimate coffeehouses to the supercharged concert halls, from the glitter of worldwide fame to her tragic end in a Hollywood hotel, here is all the fire and anguish of an immortal, immensely talented, and troubled performer who devoured everything the rock scene had to offer in a fatal attempt to make peace with herself and her era. Yet, in an eloquent introduction recently written by the author, Joplin emerges from her "ugly duckling" childhood as a woman truly ahead of her time, an outrageous rebel, a defiant outcast and artist of incomparable authenticity who, almost in spite of herself, became to so many a symbol of triumph over adversity. This edition also contains an afterword detailing the whereabouts of a large and colorful cast of characters who were part of Joplin's life, as well as "We Remember Janis," a new chapter of poignant and affectionate anecdotes told by friends.
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    American Legends: The Life of Jerry Garcia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 73min
    I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves. - Jerry Garcia Despite the enormous esteem he has garnered from virtually every corner of the music world, Jerry Garcia has continued to elude both fans and music historians as they attempt to determine his origins and categorize his art and influence on American music. Part of their difficulty lies in the fact that his work as the frontman for the Grateful Dead, "one of the most prolific and iconic guitarists of the twentieth century", tended toward a blending of the traditional with the experimental. He was willing to use almost any and every available ethnic musical resource. Garcia's passionate interest in virtually every nook and cranny of American music, particularly rural music, made the task of following his concepts from moment to moment an unpredictable and inexact science. In his explorations and elaborations on old musical treasures, whether familiar or obscure, he fully indulged in almost all of them at one time or another. For Garcia, this was not a career move but a joyous personal search to create a vast palette of harmonic, rhythmic, and textural escapades. As an iconic example of the "communitarian, drug-positive hippie subculture of Haight-Ashbury", and fulfilling all the expectations of the devotees who immersed themselves in the era's music, Garcia could just as easily draw from classical music as he could from American jazz. He performed highly regionalized blues in all of their dialects, along with country music, numerous shades of rock music, and any combination of all of them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Violet Meadow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034641/bk_acx0_034641_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    1967 in the United States
    1967 in the United States ab 19.49 € als Taschenbuch: Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution Apollo 1 Summer of Love 1967 Detroit riot Monterey Pop Festival 1967 USS Forrestal fire 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak Apollo 4 Haight-Ashbury Switchboard. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    Unfatally Dead: To Thaw or Not to Thaw? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 418min
    This alternative history novel begins with a mouse trying desperately to follow an ambulance occupied by a VIP being transported into a laboratory/clinic. It's Dec. 16, 1966. The day Walt Disney's body supposedly was placed into cryonic suspension.He faces a momentous decision: a contractual provision requires a review, every five years, to assess whether enough medical advances would be feasible for reanimation. Although absent for 50 years, he has not been forgotten, figuratively or literally.This poses questions that each of us may have to answer in our own lives as we measure ourselves against the changes wrought by medical and scientific progress. Moreover, who might enjoy being the first person to be revived to a functioning life more than Walter Elias Disney?This new science fiction and fantasy novel exposes both Disney and curmudgeon mentor, celebrated icon Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain (notorious for his way of yarn spinning) to numerous time travel and enlightening experiences - some predetermined, others not so much - all to ensure a heightened awareness of the possible pitfalls or foibles experienced herein:Disney and Clemens experience San Francisco's Haight Ashbury twice, 20 years apart.They are seen by dismayed Mission Control at NASA while on the moon.They listen to famed singer Joan Baez at Woodstock.They meet Steve Jobs at a garage sale.Twain realizes there is more than one Mark Twain on the Bonanza television set.  There is a run-in with an Olympic runner and encounter an obnoxious biker with his unruly chick.They have a run-in with a bank robber, visit a nightclub, and find that an important tool is stolen.And of course, they visit both Disneyland and Disneyworld with hilarious and heartwarming outcomes.They interact with modern audiovisual technology and kitchen appliances, and anything can and does happen.They also experie ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Seybert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/172962/bk_acx0_172962_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    House of Special Purpose: A Jeannie Loomis Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 307min
    House of Special Purpose was the Bolshevik code name for the Ipatiev House, used as a place of confinement for the last czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his family, after his forced abdication of the throne. After spending 78 days in the house, during the early morning hours of April 17th, 1918, the royal family was escorted to a basement room where they were assassinated. The killing squad was shocked and horrified when the bullets from their weapons bounced off the czar’s children. Unbeknownst to them, the royal jewels of the Romanoff dynasty had been sewn into their undergarments. Finding the jewelry, Cheka, the secret police, confiscated the property and placed it in a vault, only to discover items missing during an audit in 1925.While Special Agent Jeannie Loomis and her partner, Ismail Flores, attend Super Bowl LIV in Florida, Ricky Pinheiro, Jeannie’s love interest, attends a high-level briefing at the NSA where he is informed that the possible location of the missing Romanoff jewelry lies in the hands of a Russian oligarch living in San Francisco. He is using the jewelry as collateral to fund left-wing anarchy.In Dallas, the FBI is closing in on a lone-wolf jihadist desiring another 9/11-type attack on the United States. Before his capture, he flees to the underbelly of the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco and becomes the focus of Loomis and her team. As their search for the jihadist intensifies, the former sergeant-at-arms of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty (the execution arm of the secretive court called the Star Chamber) and his assassins begin killing off the remaining justices of the secret court as an act of revenge. They also orchestrate the kidnapping of a wealthy family’s teenage girl, mimicking the exploits of the former Symbionese Liberation Army. It will take all of Loomis’ experience and skills to focus her team on the tasks at hand. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Holloway. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231689/bk_acx0_231689_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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