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How to Read Donald Duck (eBook, ePUB)

First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney-curiously parentless, marginalized, always short of cash-Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart dissect the narratives of dependency and social aspiration that define the Disney corpus. Disney recognized the challenge, and when the book was translated and imported into the U.S. in 1975, managed to have all 4,000 copies impounded. Ultimately, 1,500 copies of the book were allowed into the country, the rest of the shipment was blocked, and until now no American publisher has dared re-release the book, which sold over a million copies worldwide and has been translated into seventeen languages. A devastating indictment of a media giant, a document of twentieth-century political upheaval, and a reminder of the dark undercurrent of pop culture, How to Read Donald Duck is once again available, together with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman.

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Holding on to the Past - Life Bite Series, Hörbuch, Digital, 4min

It's good to have nice memories, and with them often comes a few not-so-nice events, too, that linger in our mind - it's just the way it is. Time for most of us heals the past so that it is way down the pecking order of our thoughts and thus more recent events keep us bouyant and bright. Certain people and certain events for some however hold on to the past as if it is some kind of justification for life and gives them credibility, etc. Politically correct morons often do this as they are held back in the undercurrent of low life and worthlessness. Life moves forward, we don't have to look back because we don't go that way. Life is where we are now and we hopefully step into a better tomorrow because of that. Don't let past events weigh you down; there is nothing you can do whatsoever as the past cannot be changed. Never feel guilty as that emotion does nothing but internally crucify you and stops you going forward. Language: English. Narrator: Mr John Stewart Rushton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lfal/000058/bk_lfal_000058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Thalia Book Club: Edwidge Danticat's 'Brother, I'm Dying', Hörbuch, Digital, 93min

Edwidge Danticat discusses her deeply personal new memoir, a National Book Award finalist for 2007, with her friend, director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs). Danticat, the acclaimed author of fiction, including Krik? Krak! and The Dew Breaker, wrote Brother, I'm Dying after a period of upheaval in her life, having lost her father and her uncle and given birth to her first child. She focuses her family story around her father and his brother Joseph, who took care of her in Haiti until she joined her parents in Brooklyn at age 12. It concludes with a well-researched account of Joseph Danticat's tragic death in the custody of U.S. immigration officials in 2004. The New York Times called Brother, I'm Dying "a memoir whose clear-eyed prose and unflinching adherence to the facts conceal an astringent undercurrent of melancholy, a mixture of homesickness and homelessness". This special event was recorded live as part of the Thalia Book Club series at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Demme. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/thal/000010/sp_thal_000010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Chasing Days , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min

Two weeks until Willa Wohlbreuk graduates. Fourteen days left for exams and senior pranks. Three hundred thirty-six hours for friendships to unravel and to fall in and out of love. Twenty thousand, one hundred sixty minutes left to go wild and grow up. And 1,209,600 seconds to figure out what freedom really means. Willa faces her best friend Teddy - Theo now - as he defies his parents and reveals something about himself she never expected. Joss appears with blue hair and stirs things up. And Grady, finally, after four years, suddenly knows Willa’s name. Meanwhile, the undercurrent of uncertainty about the future dredges up the possibility Willa isn’t even sure who she is. All she knows is life is about to change in an epic way. A story of identity and fitting in, friendship and love, and living with uncertainty and sexual awakening. For fans of Keeping you a Secret by Julie Anne Peters, Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour, The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson, and I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Shank. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117693/bk_acx0_117693_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Thirty-One and a Half Regrets: Rose Gardner Mystery, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 572min

While Rose recovers from a broken heart, she finds herself at odds with her sister and business partner, Violet. Rose buries herself in her landscaping work but becomes worried when her employee and friend, Bruce Wayne Decker, goes missing. In the meantime Fenton County Assistant DA Mason Deveraux has been patiently waiting to begin a relationship with Rose, but she realizes she needs to confront the demons of her past before she can embrace a new future. She needs to find out the truth about her birth mother. But her past isn't her only demon. An undercurrent of tension has been spreading through Henryetta, Arkansas, since drug lord Daniel Crocker's arrest six months ago. Still, she's not prepared for a nightmare come true: Crocker's escape from prison. Crocker carries a grudge, and he's determined to make Rose pay. But he plays a game of cat and mouse, forcing Mason and the Fenton County Sheriff's department to hide Rose on her birth mother's farm. But will it be enough to save her? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shannon McManus. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034197/bk_acx0_034197_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Off with Her Heart , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 330min

Before there was an Alice, there was a Queen of Hearts. And before there was a Queen of Hearts, there was a girl who lost all heart. This is her story. Katy has spent the first twelve years of her life wishing time away. Until she finds herself sucked in a world completely out of time, a literal wonderland bursting with wild magic, beauty and technicolor dreams come to life. But this land also surges with an undercurrent of poisonous spells, dark forests, and deep evil. A place one could quite literally lose her head. It's a world at once familiar yet radically distinct. Wonderland before Alice first arrived. A place where the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter roam alongside creatures such as a snake named Waith and a stuttering lizard known as Lutwidge. Katy never asked to be there - or for the life-or-death adventure she finds herself in. Yet in a kingdom where almost anything can happen, Katy must somehow awaken the one thing that's impossible for her to live with or without...her heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014976/bk_acx0_014976_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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East Beach: A Mystery Featuring Jake Sands, Hörbuch, Digital, 153min

With the double murder of his wife and child, Jake Sands gave up his lucrative career as a "recoverer" of stolen or missing objects and people. Hoping to escape his past ties to Los Angeles, he has moved to Santa Barbara, spending his days trying to avoid past friends and future decisions, and his nights awake with his memories. Jake, however, is not the sort of man who can stay retired for long. When Julie Price, a beach volleyball groupie, not to mention his favorite his favorite waitress, turns up dead, Jake ventures into the East Beach volleyball culture to get an inside at her friends and her life. Soon enough Jas has traded in his jogging sweats for neon shorts and finds himself matched against the king of the beach, Collin Fraser, an Australian who is popular with the women as he is ruthlessly cruel. A loose 40 million dollars and a string of prominent businessman who seem to have trouble staying alive add spice to the game. Jake soon discovers there is a deadly undercurrent as he gets closer to finding answers - someone is after him. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Ely. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000339/bk_pnix_000339_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Redeeming River Rancher: Landscapes of Mercy, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 385min

Where only the bond of love can make redemption possibleLacey Woodhouse arrives at River Ranch to deliver the bank’s notice of default for unmade mortgage payments, but plunges into a horse trough and meets the struggling owner, rancher Wray Benson, up close and personal. When a bouquet of field daisies finds its way to her car windshield weeks later, she decides to throw caution — and conflict of interest — to the wind. Time in the country charms Lacey and when she learns of Wray’s support of an ailing family member, it softens her heart, leading to sweet romance. Soon destruction of his perimeter fence during the foreclosure countdown hints of coercion within her REO unit at the bank. An investigation launches with Lacey at the helm, but she has problems navigating the sole condition mandated by the bank president — she can’t see Wray until the foreclosure process concludes. The brutal foreclosure clock ticks down to the final hour. In the end, will Lacey be able to reach out to downtrodden Wray and reconnect heart-to-heart? A troubled undercurrent runs through the flower-strewn meadow of their relationship, one that the redemptive river of love must overcome. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Effie Bradley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201469/bk_acx0_201469_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Speech , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 821min

His words threatened rivers of blood...and they fought him with hope.... April 20th, 1968: Enoch Powell, MP for Wolverhampton South West, gives a speech that shakes a community and Britain to its very core. Words that provoke, that divide...that profoundly affect the lives of those they touch.Mrs. Georgina Verington-Delaunay is an administrator working in the Conservative riding office of Enoch Powell. Frank and Christine are art students inadvertently caught in an undercurrent of intolerance. Nelson and his aunt Irene are Jamaican immigrants striving to make a life for themselves in a turbulent atmosphere. In the shadow of Powell's speech, a violent crime brings these disparate characters together as they struggle to find their places in the swiftly changing society of 1960s Britain. Set against a background of subversive music, radical fashions and profound change in moral values, they attempt against all odds to bring a fair conclusion to an unjust investigation. As they work together against murky elements of self-interest and bigotry, they're forced to confront their own consciences and prejudices, and the listener is taken on a compelling journey into the beating heart of a community in turmoil. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ben Onwukwe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033791/bk_adbl_033791_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Phoenix: Ashes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 410min

A snowflake can start an avalanche, as one act of compassion can change the world.Under the brutal oppression of the Empire, a new era of repression is to begin. The show trials will cease, and the bloody massacre of those deemed unclean or unholy will commence. Calidus Squad of the Imperial Guard has been recalled to Earth, the very seat of the Empire and is tasked with transporting these prisoners to their final destination, where they assume the prisoners will stand trial. Calidus Squad are among 7,000 Imperial Guardsmen assigned to this task by Investigator Celeris.The convoy starts at Jerusalem and ends in Rome. Lieutenant Gratius and Sergeant Curtius are all too aware that the involvement of an Imperial Investigator, the Empire’s trained killing machines, heralds a dark undercurrent to this mission, but other members of the Squad, such as Guardsman Amatius Balbus, have much to learn about the Empire that they serve.The one light in the dark is Mya, a small child who attaches herself to Calidius Squad, and she may just change the course of the Empire. This prequel to Phoenix: Rising is the story of the 7,000, worshipped as Demi-gods in the Empire of Phoenix: Rising. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166527/bk_acx0_166527_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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