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  Overlay: ATale of One Girl's Life in 1970s Las Vegas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 736min

  My mother's backstory is available! Miss Perris Valley does justice to the lives that women of my mother and grandmother's era lived. Get it today.In the best-selling vein of memoirists Jeannette Walls and Frank McCourt, the award-winning author delivers her addicting breakout novel - a mesmerizing memoir epic destined to become a classic. Set in transient 1970s Las Vegas, Overlay is the fighting-to-come-of-age story of a resilient child born into a cycle of alcoholism and abandonment. The author develops a powerful sense of self-preservation in contrast to the fallen adults entrusted with her care. Her profound story explores the characters and events populating her life as she moved from home to home, parent to parents, family to family, ultimately becoming homeless at 14. Out of the resources of her remarkable childhood emerges a gripping inner strength that will charm and captivate listeners and remain in their consciousness long after the last page of her story has been turned. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Abby Elvidge. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026446/bk_acx0_026446_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  'Tis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 845min

  The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured our hearts in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes comes of age in 'Tis. Listen as Frank tells in his own inimitable voice his story of how at the age of 19 he traveled from Limerick to New York in pursuit of the American dream. Despite the abundance of unsolicited advice he gets to "join the cops" and "stick to his own kind", Frank knows that he should educate himself and somehow rise above his circumstances. And though he left school at 14, he talks his way into New York University, falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blond, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach - and to write - that Frank finds his place in the world. And for those of us who are lucky enough to come across his writings - and captivating readings - 'Tis a wonderful thing that he did. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank McCourt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000044/bk_sans_000044_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  'Tis, Hörbuch, Digital, 389min

  The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured our hearts in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes comes of age in 'Tis. Listen as Frank tells in his own inimitable voice his story of how at the age of 19 he traveled from Limerick to New York in pursuit of the American dream. Despite the abundance of unsolicited advice he gets to "join the cops" and "stick to his own kind", Frank knows that he should educate himself and somehow rise above his circumstances. And though he left school at 14, he talks his way into New York University, falls in love with the quintessential Yankee, long-legged and blond, and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach - and to write - that Frank finds his place in the world. And for those of us who are lucky enough to come across his writings - and captivating readings - 'Tis a wonderful thing that he did. Language: English. Narrator: Frank McCourt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000043/bk_sans_000043_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Taming Molly: Heroes of Henderson , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 112min

  Henderson's infamous Molly DuVal is desperate to move back home. Banished for the past five years, she plans to use her aunt's wedding to show the Henderson elite that she is no longer the boy crazy, wild, party-girl exhibitionist they all loved to gossip about. Yeah. Good luck with that. Josh McCourt, mild-mannered AP Computer Science teacher and newest assistant coach to Henderson High's football team, is ready to break away from his low-key image and take a walk on the wild side. He's looking for the type of girl who'd sneak into the boys locker room after practice and let him chase her around. He's looking for Molly. When the bad-girl-turned-good faces off with the good-boy-looking-for-bad at the town's biggest wedding, all of Henderson is watching from the sidelines. This is one game both Molly and Josh are determined to win. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Lawrence. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/057734/bk_acx0_057734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  On Writing Well: Audio Collection, Hörbuch, Digital, 143min

  This expanded audio collection presents William Zinsser's On Writing Well, the classic teaching book that has sold more than 1 million copies, together with a new 90-minute section that tells you how to write a memoir. Based on a course that Zinsser taught at Yale, On Writing Well has long been praised by writers, teachers, and students for its sound advice, its clarity, and the warmth of its style. It's for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day. Whether you want to write about people and places, science and technology, business, sports, or the arts, this is the definitive guide to the craft of nonfiction.Part II of this collection, on memoir, personal history, and family history, tells you in helpful detail how to write the story of your life: who you are, who you once were, and what heritage you come from. Throughout, Zinsser refers to the work of many successful memoir writers, including Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, Russell Baker, and Eudora Welty, to demonstrate how they solved the problems of selection, compression, focus, and tone that every memoir writer struggles with.  Language: English. Narrator: William Zinsser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000912/bk_harp_000912_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Divinely Designed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 235min

  Before we can progress or even start on our own spiritual path, we must understand the nature of things as they are in this world, in this universe and in the entire cosmos. We must understand and accept the reason we are here, yet again, at this point in time in the history of humanity. Without an understanding of the nature of things, we are like blind sheep, just following on after equally blind self-proclaimed leaders. We must understand that we are spiritual beings, free travellers across time and space, inter-dimensional, inter-galactic. This audiobook explains in very simple terms the answers to many of our questions about the nature of God; the nature of life and death; the nature of spirituality; the nature of religion; the nature of Christianity; the nature of eternity, and much more. The truth will set us free. And this audiobook, like all of Eileen McCourt's previous books, presents the truth. Hard-hitting in places, it nevertheless opens our eyes yet again, to the reality of the oneness of the totality of all that is. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eileen McCourt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/152629/bk_acx0_152629_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Angela's Ashes

  Imbued with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, Angela's Ashes is a glorious Pulitzer Prize-winner that bears all the marks of a classic."When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story.Perhaps it is a story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing shoes repaired with tires, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner, and searching the pubs for his father, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation, and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors-yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.

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  Veni, Vidi, Vero (eBook, ePUB)

  Smart and wickedly funny … a ribald, rollicking mid-life coming-of-age story. When Tara discovers that her husband's late nights in the city are hiding an affair with a younger woman, the illusion of her perfect little world is shattered in an instant. Determined to reclaim her dreams, she relocates to Vero Beach, a posh seaside community abutting the Atlantic. There, she purchases an older home on the barrier island, never imagining that this charming enclave hides a seamy underbelly where dark intrigue lurks. ... an intricately woven story of love, friendship, and metamorphosis Retained as piano instructor to young Harry, Tara soon finds herself entangled in the affairs of his mysterious father, the wealthy tycoon, Nathan McCourt. As Tara's home is being renovated, a strange thing happens: she undergoes a transformation of her own. She is stronger, more confident, and happier than she ever imagined possible. Only one thing is missing from this rosy picture: the man of her dreams. It isn't until a category 4 hurricane blows into town, that all the divergent plot lines are knit up, and Tara finally gets her happily ever after.

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  Major League Baseball owners

  Major League Baseball owners ab 29.99 € als Taschenbuch: Bing Crosby Danny Kaye Bud Selig Gene Autry Walter O'Malley George Steinbrenner Tom Hicks Connie Mack Sargent Shriver Charlie Finley Powel Crosley Jr. Frank McCourt Hiroshi Yamauchi Tom Monaghan Mike Ilitch Marge Schott. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,

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  Northern Ireland international footballers

  Northern Ireland international footballers ab 33.99 € als Taschenbuch: Michael Ingham George Best Lee McEvilly David Healy Willie Irvine Martin O'Neill James Lawrie Iain Dowie Neil Lennon Roy Carroll Jimmy Quinn Danny Sonner Keith Gillespie Craig Cathcart George McCartney Paddy McCourt. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,

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