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Crying in H Mart
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band-and meeting the man who would become her husband-her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.- Shop: buecher
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Ten Natural Remedies that Can Save Your Life, Hörbuch, Digital, 180min
Dr. James F. Balch's book Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A-to-Z Guide to Supplements established him as one of the most trusted authorities in the fields of alternative and homeopathic medicine. Now, in a groundbreaking new volume that may well revolutionize the way Americans think about their health, his potentially life-saving wisdom is more accessible than ever before.In 10 Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life, Dr. Balch empowers listeners to take action to protect their own health. He provides them with a better understanding of the healthy body and suggests natural remedies for medical problems, including:Barley grass, one of the richest sources of nutrients on earth, which has been shown in laboratory studies to prevent and successfully treat both breast and prostate cancer.Full-spectrum light and a change of habit, which in some cases can cure depression just as well as a drug.Dietary supplements. People need adequate levels of vitamins C and E to defend against harmful agents.The Three G's - garlic, ginseng, and ginkgo - which have well-known beneficial properties. Dr. Balch shows listeners how to achieve the best results.Using plainspoken common sense and anecdotal examples featuring his own patients, Dr. Balch demystifies the language of health, providing important and readily available remedies that can literally save lives. Language: English. Narrator: James F. Balch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bant/000233/bk_bant_000233_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Fortune Hunter: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 856min
Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi", is the Princess Diana of 19th-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman in England. He is also impoverished, with no hope of buying the horse needed to win the Grand National - until he meets Charlotte Baird. A clever, plainspoken heiress whose money gives her a choice among suitors, Charlotte falls in love with Bay, the first man to really notice her, for his vulnerability as well as his glamour. When Sisi joins the legendary hunt organized by Earl Spencer in England, Bay is asked to guide her on the treacherous course. Their shared passion for riding leads to an infatuation that threatens the growing bond between Bay and Charlotte, and all of their futures. The Fortune Hunter, the brilliant new novel by Daisy Goodwin, is a lush, irresistible story of the public lives and private longings of grand historical figures. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clare Corbett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001828/bk_aren_001828_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 425min
In a collection of original essays, the venerated television journalist, Dan Rather, celebrates our shared values and what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like. Writing about the institutions that sustain us, such as public libraries, public schools, and national parks; the values that have transformed us, such as the struggle for civil rights; and the drive toward science and innovation that has made the United States great, Rather brings to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world's biggest stories, and offers listeners a way forward. After a career spent as reporter and anchor for CBS News, where he interviewed every living president since Eisenhower and was on the ground for every major event, from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to Watergate to 9/11, Rather has also become a hugely popular voice of reason on social media, with nearly two million Facebook followers and an engaged new audience who help to make many of his posts go viral. With his famously plainspoken voice and a fundamental sense of hope, Rather has written the book to inspire conversation and listening, and to remind us all how we are ultimately united. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Rather. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001423/bk_high_001423_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kappy King and the Puppy Kaper , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 489min
Content to be unmarried and plainspoken, Kathryn "Kappy" King is an odd woman out in the Amish community of Blue Sky, Pennsylvania. But she's skilled at making the special kapps local women need to cover their hair. And she might be the only one who can unearth the danger hiding in this peaceful valley.... When Kappy's neighbor Ruth Peachey turns up dead in her yard, everyone in Blue Sky believes it's a tragic accident. Until the Englisch police find the gentle dog breeder was deliberately struck down - and arrest her mentally challenged son, Jimmy, for the crime. Jimmy's sister, Edie, returns to Blue Sky to clear his name, yet no one will speak to a shunned former Amish woman, much less give her information. Determined to help, Kappy starts digging for the truth among her seemingly innocent neighbors. But suddenly a series of suspicious "accidents" threatens Edie and the Peachey farm property Edie is determined to protect for her brother's future. Now, as danger looms large in the small community, Kappy must bait a trap for a killer snapping hard at her heels. And Edie must decide whether to make a home once more in the town she thought she'd left behind.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stina Nielsen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/012170/bk_reco_012170_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 344min
He was the plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president, yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri. Many believed he would be overmatched by the job, but Harry S. Truman would surprise them all. Few chief executives have had so lasting an impact. Truman ushered America into the nuclear age, established the alliances and principles that would define the cold war and the national-security state, started the nation on the road to civil rights, and won the most dramatic election of the 20th century - his 1948 "whistlestop campaign" against Thomas E. Dewey. Robert Dallek, the best-selling biographer of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, shows how this unassuming yet supremely confident man rose to the occasion. Truman clashed with Southerners over civil rights, with organized labor over the right to strike, and with General Douglas MacArthur over the conduct of the Korean War. He personified Thomas Jefferson's observation that the presidency is a "splendid misery", but it was during his tenure that the United States truly came of age. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dufris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000828/bk_aren_000828_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Crying in H Mart
THE NO. 2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, powerful, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band - and meeting the man who would become her husband - her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.- Shop: buecher
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Fiddlefoot , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 345min
A hard-charging tale of oppression and revenge by an award-winning author who helped define the western genre. Frank Chess didn’t care for much in this world. Especially himself. So taking a job for local big shot Rhino Hulst was an easy choice. Each day drifted into the next: running Rhino’s crooked errands, blowing his meager pay in the nearest poker game, drinking it down in the closest saloon, and handing it over to the next soiled dove. All because Rhino killed a man in cold blood, pinned it on Frank, and now holds the hangman’s rope over him. And who would give a damn? Frank came into town a drifter - a fiddlefoot, they called him - worth nothing to no one. He didn’t matter. But none of the townspeople know Frank. Where he came from. What he’s done. And when he finally remembers what it’s like to care about something, they have no idea how much hell he’s about to bring down on them all. Along with legendary authors like Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour, Luke Short helped transform the stories of the American West from dime-store pulp into a respected and immensely popular literary genre. Originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, Fiddlefoot combines Short’s plainspoken style with the hard-edged authenticity that marks his novels as true classics of western adventure. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kyle Tait. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053560/bk_adbl_053560_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: A Biography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis' eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book. George Marsden describes how Lewis gradually went from being an atheist to a committed Anglican - famously converting to Christianity in 1931 after conversing into the night with his friends, J. R. R. Tolkien and Hugh Dyson - and how Lewis delivered his wartime talks to a traumatized British nation in the midst of an all-out war for survival. Marsden recounts how versions of those talks were collected together in 1952 under the title Mere Christianity, and how the book went on to become one of the most widely read presentations of essential Christianity ever published, particularly among American evangelicals. He examines its role in the conversion experiences of such figures as Charles Colson, who read the book while facing arrest for his role in the Watergate scandal. Marsden explores its relationship with Lewis' Narnia books and other writings and explains why Lewis' plainspoken case for Christianity continues to have its critics and ardent admirers to this day. With uncommon clarity and grace, Marsden provides invaluable new insights into this modern spiritual classic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Ian Mackenzie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009291/bk_reco_009291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Anarchy of the Mice: Third Chance Enterprises, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 867min
From Jeff Bond, author of Blackquest 40 and The Pinebox Vendetta, comes Anarchy of the Mice, book one in an epic new series starring Quaid Rafferty, Durwood Oak Jones, and Molly McGill: the trio of freelance operatives known collectively as Third Chance Enterprises.How far could society fall without data? Account balances, property lines, government ID records - if it all vanished, if everyone’s scorecard reset to zero, how might the world look?The Blind Mice are going to show us.Molly McGill is fighting it. Her teenage son has come downstairs in a T-shirt from these “hacktivists” dominating the news. Her daughter’s bus is canceled - too many stoplights out - and school is in the opposite direction of the temp job she’s supposed to be starting this morning. She is twice-divorced; her PI business, McGill Investigators, is on the rocks; what kind of life is this for a woman a mere 12 credit-hours shy of her PhD?Then the doorbell rings.It’s Quaid Rafferty, the charming - but disgraced - former governor of Massachusetts, and his plainspoken partner, Durwood Oak Jones. The guys have an assignment for Molly. It sounds risky, but the pay sure beats switchboard work.They need her to infiltrate the Blind Mice.Danger, romance, intrigue, action for miles - whatever you listen to, Anarchy of the Mice is coming for you. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jarret Lemaster, Natalie Duke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/217573/bk_acx0_217573_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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