29 Results for : unspools
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White Coat and Sneakers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 366min
A fascinating and thought-provoking journey from modern Los Angeles to turn-of-the-century Louisiana, Hillary Chollet’s debut explores the infinite nature of the human soul. His felicity for time and place - for portraying vastly different cultures, life views, and societal constructs - is nothing short of a revelation, while bristling dialogue and a keen eye for detail serve only to add greater depth and complexity. A moving novel of insight and raw emotion, White Coat and Sneakers exposes the core of our being with delicacy and reverence as it unspools the mysteries of life as we know it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lee Goettl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201750/bk_acx0_201750_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blindsight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 67min
In March of 1994, Simon Lewis was a Hollywood man on the rise. He had started in the film industry as a lawyer and worked his way up to become a big-budget studio producer. He'd helped shepherd one of the most successful comedies in film history. He'd married the love of his life. And then one night, in a few seconds, everything changed. In Blindsight, author Chris Colin unspools the remarkable true story of a horrific accident and the life that followed it. A killer at large. Unlikely twists of fate. Miraculous medical oddities. Otherworldly perceptions. Lewis's is a tale of one man's love and loss, and of the strange turns awaiting a life remade. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Colin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004001/bk_acx0_004001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Instigators , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 61min
In 2008, a small band of political activists in Egypt led by a young engineer named Ahmed Maher began organizing on Facebook under the moniker April 6 Youth. Dodging the secret police both online and off, they built a Web page into a movement. Then, in January 2011, they helped architect a final showdown with the country's dictator. David Wolman unspools the riveting behind-the-scenes story of these daring activists and how they planted the digital seeds of a revolution. Award-winning journalist and author David Wolman is a contributing editor at Wired, a former Fulbright journalism fellow and a winner of the 2011 Oregon Arts Commission individual artists fellowship. He is the author of two works of nonfiction. His third book, The End of Money, will be published in February. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Wolman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003107/bk_acx0_003107_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ground Up , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 529min
Light streams through the windows as the espresso machine roars; a gorgeous, rich scent fills the air; and witty conversation unspools over the porcelain cups. That's the caf dream. Mark and Nina are about to experience the reality. Determined to re-create the perfect Viennese coffeehouse, they descend on New York's gritty but hip Lower East Side to educate the locals on authentic caf culture. Soon Mark and Nina are in a downward spiral that will strip them of money, friends, sex life, status, shelter, and, finally, sanity and offer salvation through something they have never experienced: disaster.Inspired by the authors own coffeehouse hell, Ground Up is a sharp and funny portrait of a New York constantly reinventing itself, and a surprisingly tender story of falling out of love and back in it again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001761/bk_adbl_001761_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Right to Kill: Nathan McBride, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 607min
When a team of commandos - highly skilled and armed to the teeth - tries to kidnap retired CIA station chief Linda Genneken from her home, trained marine Nathan McBride and his partner, Harvey Fontana, arrive just in time to join the fight. But their well-honed CIA instincts tell them this is only the beginning. McBride and Fontana set out to learn who ordered the midnight raid and why. Is it connected to a rescue mission they conducted with Genneken in South America - a mission that nearly killed McBride? Is it related to the string of assassinations happening simultaneously in that area of the world? Or both? With the help of their CIA contacts and aided by Genneken, the two men unravel a criminal plot with global implications. And as their race to find answers unspools in six supercharged hours, McBride and his team will be tested like never before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dick Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025035/bk_adbl_025035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Facing Fortune: Guardians of Terath, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 560min
A new manahi. A new military. A famous bard who suddenly resurfaces after a decade of hiding. A lot of changes have taken place on Terath, and an ecological crisis has raised tensions to the breaking point. Kassimeigh and Arc must work with Luc and the scientists in the Capital to determine whether the discovery is a threat to the planet. Each discovery unspools more questions, as they question the nature of mana and what it means to Terath. At the same time, they must try to calm an increasingly nervous population. Will and Izzy offer their help in that regard, but the newly-formed Guard has never been called into action before. Meanwhile, Kassimeigh must deal with a shocking change in her own circumstances, which forces her to rethink her place in the world. Life, death, mana, and chaos rival one another for supremacy. How can Kassimeigh help protect the world when she has no idea where she belongs in it? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Linda Bruno. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078716/bk_acx0_078716_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Bourbon Thief , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 709min
Betrayal, revenge, and a family scandal that bore a 150-year-old mystery. When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolen: a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers. After all, the label itself says it's property of the Maddox family, who owned and operated Red Thread Bourbon distillery since the last days of the Civil War, until the company went out of business for reasons no one knows...no one except Paris. In the small hours of a Louisville morning, Paris unspools the lurid tale of Tamara Maddox, heiress to the distillery that became an empire. Theirs is a legacy of wealth and power but also of lies, secrets, and sins of omission. Why Paris wants the bottle of Red Thread remains a secret until the truth of her identity is at last revealed, and the century-old vengeance Tamara vowed against her family can finally be completed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kim Staunton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005268/bk_harp_005268_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Panorama City , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min
With its blend of fool’s wisdom and deeply felt humanity, Panorama City is heir to Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Steve Martin’s The Jerk.From his deathbed*, 28-year-old Oppen Porter - an openhearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-toting, self-described “slow absorber” - unspools into a cassette recorder his tale of self-determination, from “village idiot” to “man of the world”, for the benefit of his unborn son.Told in an astonishingly charming and wise voice, Oppen’s account traces 40 days and nights navigating the fast-food joints, storefront churches, and home-office psychologists of the San Fernando Valley. Ping-ponging between his watchful, sharp-tongued aunt and an outlaw philosopher with the face “of a newly hatched crocodile”, Oppen finds himself constantly in the sights of people who believe that their way is the only way for him.Oppen Porter is “an American original” (Stewart O’Nan) for whom finding one’s own way is both a delightful art and a painstaking science. Disarmingly funny and surreptitiously moving, Panorama City makes us see the world, and our place in it, with new eyes.*Not really ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Powers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005294/bk_blak_005294_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture: What the World's Wildest Trade Show Can Tell Us About the Future of Entertainment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 392min
Welcome to Comic-Con: where the future of pop culture comes to life. Every summer more than 130,000 comic fans, gamers, cosplay enthusiasts, and nerds of all stripes descend on San Diego to mingle with the top entertainment celebrities and creative-industry professionals in an unprecedented celebration of popular culture in all its forms. From humble beginnings, Comic-Con has mutated into an electrifying, exhausting galaxy of movies, TV, video games, art, fashion, toys, merchandise, and buzz. It's where the future of entertainment unspools in real time, and everyone wants to be there. In Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture, author Rob Salkowitz, a recognized expert in digital media and the global digital generation (and an unabashed comics enthusiast), explores how the humble art form of comics ended up at the center of the 21st-century media universe. From Comic-Con's massive exhibit hall and panels to its exclusive parties and business suites, Salkowitz peels back the layers to show how comics culture is influencing communications, entertainment, digital technology, marketing, education, and storytelling. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colby Elliott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/last/000013/bk_last_000013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 436min
First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home: home as place, community, bodies, identity, and activism. Here listeners will find an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root of Clare's exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism, sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic, is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to everyone. With heart and hammer, Exile and Pride pries open a window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their complexity, can be realized, loved, and embraced. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maxwell Glick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027011/bk_adbl_027011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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