Grackle

Der Barkeeper

Justin Chase ist der perfekte Barkeeper, der sein Leben mit der Gelassenheit des Zen lebt. Zumindest bis Birdie Grackle, ein vulgärer, gelbhaariger Alkoholiker aus Texas in seine Bar marschiert, einen Mojito bestellt und ihm ein erschreckendes Geständnis macht.Sechs Jahre zuvor war Justins Leben völlig aus den Fugen geraten, als er seine Mutter erschlagen in der Einganghalle des Familienanwesens gefunden hatte. Nun sitzt Justins Vater eine lebenslange Haftstrafe ab und Justin ertränkt seine Gefühle.Aber als Birdie Grackle behauptet, Justins Mutter als Auftragskiller für Geld ermordet zu haben, wird Justin zurück in das überwunden geglaubte Chaos der Vergangenheit und seiner Gefühle geworfen. Und was noch schlimmer ist, auch sein Vater, den er endgültig hinter sich lassen wollte, tritt wieder in sein Leben.Wer hat Birdie Grackle angeheuert, um Justins Mutter zu töten? Während Justin versucht, alle Puzzleteile zusammenzusetzen, um der Wahrheit auf die Spur zu kommen, verfolgt ihn eine gnadenlose Killermaschine und zieht eine Spur von Leichen hinter sich her. Irgendjemand will die Wahrheit für immer begraben und vielleicht Justin gleich mit.

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Half-a-Moon Inn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 105min

Long ago, in a land by the sea, 12-year-old Aaron lives with his mother in the wooded countryside. Because the boy is mute, he depends on his mother completely. But when a sudden blizzard strands his mother in a distant town, Aaron finds himself alone for the first time in his life. Setting out in the snow to look for his mother, the boy embarks on a perilous, silent journey that will carry him to the eerie Half-a-Moon Inn. There, held captive by the sharp-eyed Miss Grackle, Aaron will discover her wicked powers - ones that Aaron must destroy if he is ever to see his mother again. Paul Fleischman, an award-winning author of children’s books, writes stories that capture the attention of even the most reluctant listeners. Throughout Aaron’s exciting adventure, the Half-a-Moon Inn fills with the sights and sounds of a magical, medieval world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Crossley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005826/bk_reco_005826_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Whitemud Walking (eBook, ePUB)

An Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive







 Whitemud Walking is about the land Matthew Weigel was born on and the institutions that occupy that land. It is about the interrelatedness of his own story with that of the colonial history of Canada, which considers the numbered treaties of the North-West to be historical and completed events. But they are eternal agreements that entail complex reciprocity and obligations. The state and archival institutions work together to sequester documents and knowledge in ways that resonate violently in people's lives, including the dispossession and extinguishment of Indigenous title to land.







Using photos, documents, and recordings that are about or involve his ancestors, but are kept in archives, Weigel examines the consequences of this erasure and sequestration. Memories cling to documents and sometimes this palimpsest can be read, other times the margins must be centered to gain a fuller picture. Whitemud Walking is a genre-bending work of visual and lyric poetry, non-fiction prose, photography, and digital art and design. "Whitemud Walking is so smart and so ceaselessly innovative. It represents for me a fully assured instantiation of the Indigenous literary project: a confrontation of history's terrors head on and an articulation in the present of our beauty and indomitability. Weigel refuses the archive's efforts to flatten Indigenous subjectivity and, in so doing, opens up a kind of boundless space to remember and grieve but also to hope and imagine otherwise. A deeply felt accomplishment." -Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of A History of My Brief Body"Whitemud Walking is a testament to the power of grief and outrage that so much theft has been allowed to bulldoze Indigenous land rights. Matthew James Weigel's passion for research both honours and mourns what has been trampled and lied about. This is a devastating read but one to learn from. Mahsi cho, Matthew. Your grief is our call to action to learn our own histories and build upon our own Indigenous testimonies of what really happened and when and who was there to witness it. Mahsi cho." -Richard Van Camp, Tlicho Dene author of The Lesser Blessed and Moccasin Square Gardens"Whitemud Walking is a textual ecology, that through archival troubling, sampling, and reframing, allows the material, human, truly cellular historicity of treaty to enter as a living presence in our contemporary moment. Weigel writes, 'Here treaty means reciprocity and obligation. Here, treaty lasts forever'. This book is not the document you may hold in your hands but the shift in consciousness it foments within you. It is a gift." -Liz Howard, author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent"Echoing the caw and grackle of magpies, Matthew James Weigel's Whitemud Walking lives the sound of Treaty 6. Voices whisper sanctuary in creekbeds, papers rustle precedence in archives; there's a buzz in your ear, a catch in your throat - listen." -Derek Beaulieu, Banff Poet Laureate

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Whitemud Walking (eBook, PDF)

An Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive







 Whitemud Walking is about the land Matthew Weigel was born on and the institutions that occupy that land. It is about the interrelatedness of his own story with that of the colonial history of Canada, which considers the numbered treaties of the North-West to be historical and completed events. But they are eternal agreements that entail complex reciprocity and obligations. The state and archival institutions work together to sequester documents and knowledge in ways that resonate violently in people's lives, including the dispossession and extinguishment of Indigenous title to land.







Using photos, documents, and recordings that are about or involve his ancestors, but are kept in archives, Weigel examines the consequences of this erasure and sequestration. Memories cling to documents and sometimes this palimpsest can be read, other times the margins must be centered to gain a fuller picture. Whitemud Walking is a genre-bending work of visual and lyric poetry, non-fiction prose, photography, and digital art and design. "Whitemud Walking is so smart and so ceaselessly innovative. It represents for me a fully assured instantiation of the Indigenous literary project: a confrontation of history's terrors head on and an articulation in the present of our beauty and indomitability. Weigel refuses the archive's efforts to flatten Indigenous subjectivity and, in so doing, opens up a kind of boundless space to remember and grieve but also to hope and imagine otherwise. A deeply felt accomplishment." -Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of A History of My Brief Body"Whitemud Walking is a testament to the power of grief and outrage that so much theft has been allowed to bulldoze Indigenous land rights. Matthew James Weigel's passion for research both honours and mourns what has been trampled and lied about. This is a devastating read but one to learn from. Mahsi cho, Matthew. Your grief is our call to action to learn our own histories and build upon our own Indigenous testimonies of what really happened and when and who was there to witness it. Mahsi cho." -Richard Van Camp, Tlicho Dene author of The Lesser Blessed and Moccasin Square Gardens"Whitemud Walking is a textual ecology, that through archival troubling, sampling, and reframing, allows the material, human, truly cellular historicity of treaty to enter as a living presence in our contemporary moment. Weigel writes, 'Here treaty means reciprocity and obligation. Here, treaty lasts forever'. This book is not the document you may hold in your hands but the shift in consciousness it foments within you. It is a gift." -Liz Howard, author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent"Echoing the caw and grackle of magpies, Matthew James Weigel's Whitemud Walking lives the sound of Treaty 6. Voices whisper sanctuary in creekbeds, papers rustle precedence in archives; there's a buzz in your ear, a catch in your throat - listen." -Derek Beaulieu, Banff Poet Laureate

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