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  Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1100min

  Award-winning, best-selling author, evolutionary biologist, and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould takes the art of the essay to an unprecedented height of excellence in this vibrant collection of writings on science and natural history. From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying listeners home to the centering theme of evolution. These unabridged selections were originally published in Natural History magazine. In April 2000, the US Library of Congress named Gould a "Living Legend". He died of cancer two years later at the age of 60. In 2008 he was posthumously awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal along with 12 other recipients. Until 2008 this medal had been awarded only every 50 years by the Linnean Society of London. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meredith MacRae, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000800/bk_pnix_000800_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Stone Soup for the World: Life-Changing Stories of Everyday Heroes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 188min

  These stories help us to see the best in others and inspire us to be the best we can be." From the youngest child to the oldest senior, each of us wants to help, to give back, to make a difference. We want to feed the hungry, care for the elderly, and teach the children. These heartwarming stories feature ordinary people doing extraordinary things. They show us that greatness grows out of simple acts of giving. For the last 20 years, Marianne Larned has been a traveler, living and working in communities across the country and around the world. She heard people everywhere express a common logic: a better life for their families and a greater sense of community. Stone Soup for the World reminds us that we can make the world a better place. A toolbox full of ideas and a resource guide, this book gives each and every one of us hope and direction for how to build a better world. One day at a time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Anspach, Ernie Hudson, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000179/bk_pnix_000179_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Vengeance: Vendetta Trifecta, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 928min

  The enemy of her enemy is...still her enemy.All Cyn wants is justice. Kolya Kurev murdered her family in cold blood and got away with it. Single-minded in her determination, Cyn becomes the killer she needs to be. Until she meets Lee, a man also deeply wronged by Kurev. Cyn's new problem? Lee.Lee is stealing her revenge and screwing with the carefully carved life she’s made for herself. As if his mere presence and counter-productive ambitions weren’t enough, he’s going to get her caught.The FBI has been on her tail for several years now, but they haven’t even come close to finding her. Cyn has been leaving fake evidence at her crime scenes and counting on the one thing the FBI hasn’t figured out yet: Their most-wanted criminal is just a girl. Vengeance is the first book in the Vendetta Trifecta. While it can be listened to as a stand-alone, be prepared to reach for book two as you finish this one. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kristoffer Tabori, Stephanie Zimbalist, Don Leslie, Richard Brewer, Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Tom Schiff, Judy Young, Harlan Ellison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/177209/bk_acx0_177209_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Girls, Hörbuch, Digital, 364min

  Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as "the girls". They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their dreams. But the Darlens are special. Now nearing their 30th birthday, they are history's oldest craniopagus twins, joined at the head by a pot the size of a bread plate. When Rose, the bookish sister, sets out to write her autobiography, it inevitably becomes the story of her short but extraordinary life with Ruby, the beautiful one. From their awkward first steps, Ruby's arm curled around Rose's neck, her foreshortened legs wrapped around Rose's hips, to the friendships they gradually build for themselves in the small town of Leaford, this is the profoundly affecting chronicle of an incomparable life journey. As Rose and Ruby's story builds to an unforgettable conclusion, Lansens aims at the heart of human experience, the hardship of loss and struggles for independence, and the fundamental joy of simply living a life. This is a breathtaking novel, one that no reader will soon forget, a heartrending story of love between sisters. Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Zimbalist, Lolita Davidovich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/time/000453/bk_time_000453_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Turn of the Century, Hörbuch, Digital, 336min

  As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow - an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs into the twenty-first.George Mactier and Lizzie Zimbalist, ten years married, are caught up in the whirl of their accelerating lives. George is a TV producer launching a groundbreaking new show. Lizzie is a software entrepreneur running her own company. However, after Lizzie becomes an adviser to George's boss, billionaire media mogul Harold Mose, the couple discovers that no amount of sophisticated spin can obscure basic instincts: envy, greed, suspicion, sexual temptation - and, maybe, love.Like Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, Kurt Andersen's novel lays bare the follies of our age with laser-beam precision, creating memorable characters and dissecting the ways we think, speak, and navigate this new era of extreme capitalism and mind-boggling technology. Entertaining, imaginative, knowing, and wise, Turn of the Century is a richly plotted comedy of manners about the way we live now. Language: English. Narrator: John Rubinstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000208/bk_rand_000208_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Janine Jansen Falling for Stradivari

  Directed by PRIX ITALIA winning documentary maker Gerry Fox, and accompanied in her quest by legendary Sir Antonio Pappano, the documentary will follow Janine fl y- on-the wall from her home town of Stockholm to research in Stradivarius' home town of Cremona, where she will meet world leading luthiers, to a hectic ten day period in London. She will become acquainted with each of the violins, select works that fi t them best, learn about their histories and particular foibles and rehearse and record this astonishing album. It will be nerve-wracking, intense, and hugely exciting. Finally, at Christmas, we will follow Janine home to the chamber music festival she has established in Utrecht, where accompanied by Pappano, she will play the pieces for a public audience.This is the fi rst time ever that so many of the greatest Strads have been gathered together in one place, and the camera will accompany Janine at every step. As a violinist with phenomenal bowing technique, she is uniquely qualifi ed to bring out the character of each violin, rather than impose her character on the instruments. In a series of up close and personal interviews with both Janine and others, we will capture the diffi culties and joys of playing these phenomenally diffi cult but rewarding instruments.Interweaving though Janine's story, we will also for the fi rst time, trace the stunning history of the Stradivarius as an emblem of affl uence, ambition and power. These violins have essentially been witnesses to history, containing within them the rise and decline of empires, as well as the evolution of classical and western music into a major part of global culture.This fi lm will continue to explore the Strad's ever-growing mastery through archive footage of some of the fi nest luminaries ever: Fritz Kreisler, Marius Casadesus, Bronislaw Huberman, Efrem Zimbalist, Zino Francescatti, Nathan Milstein, ArthurGrumiaux and Cho- Liang Lin, all played regularly on one of these Strads.Including FULL CONCERT with 12 different StradivarisWorks by Manuel de Falla, Tchaikovsky, Kreisler, Schumann, Brahms, Elgar, Vieuxtemps, Rachmaninov, Szymanovski, Ravel, Suk, HeubergerUnter der Regie des mit dem PRIX ITALIA ausgezeichneten Dokumentarfi lmers Gerald Fox, begleitet vom legendären Sir Antonio Pappano, folgt der Film Janine Jansen auf der Reise von ihrer Heimatstadt Stockholm zu Recherchen in Stradivarius' Heimatstadt Cremona, wo sie die weltweit führenden Geigenbauer treffen wird, bis hin zu einem hektischen zehntägigen Aufenthalt in London. Sie wird jede der einzelnen Violinen kennenlernen, Werke auswählen, die am besten zum Instrument passen, ihre Geschichten und besonderen Eigenheiten kennenlernen und ein erstaunliches Album einstudieren und aufführen. Es wird nervenaufreibend, intensiv und sehr spannend. An Weihnachten schließlich folgen wir Janine zu dem von ihr ins Leben gerufene Kammermusikfestival in Utrecht, wo sie in Begleitung von Pappano die Stücke vor Publikum präsentieren wird. Das ist das erste Mal, dass so viele der größten Stradivaris an einem Ort versammelt sind. Die Kamera verfolgt Janine auf Schritt und Tritt. Als Violinistin mit einer phänomenalen Bogentechnik ist sie die einzige qualifi zierte Solistin, um den Charakter eines jeden Instruments zum Vorschein zu bringen ohne ihren eigenen Charakter dem Instrument aufzudrängen. In einer Reihe von persönlichen Interviews mit Janine und anderen werden sowohl die Schwierigkeiten als auch die Freude beim Spielen dieser unglaublich schwierigen aber bereichernden Instrumente festgehalten.Erstmals wird auch die atemberaubende Geschichte der Stradivari als Symbol für Wohlstand, Ehrgeiz und Macht anhand der Verfl echtung von Janines Geschichte nachgezeichnet. Der Film erforscht überdies das kontinuierliche und stets wachsende Bestreben, Stradivaris beherrschen zu können, und stellt dies anhand von Archivmaterialien der größten Koryphäen aller Zeiten wie Fritz Kreisler, Marius Casadesus, Bronislaw Huberman, Efrem Zimbalist, Zino Francescatti, Nathan Milstein, Arthur Grumiaux und Cho-Liang Lin dar. Alle spielen regelmäßig auf einen dieser Stradivaris.Inklusive KONZERT mit 12 verschiedenen StradivarisWerke von Manuel de Falla, Tchaikovsky, Kreisler, Schumann, Brahms, Elgar, Vieuxtemps, Rachmaninov, Szymanovski, Ravel, Suk, Heuberger

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  Tales of The Grand Tour, Hörbuch, Digital, 192min

  Six-time Hugo Award winner Bova likes to tell big stories in a small way. This approach both helps and hurts in this collection of stories, excerpts and outtakes from his "Grand Tour" novels (Saturn, etc.), which explore the colonization of the solar system. Despite his vast subject, Bova focuses tightly on the heroes and villains whose striving makes up his future history. While some characters are standards of the SF genre (megalomaniac capitalist, lone-wolf entrepreneur, love object caught between them), Bova imbues each with Homeric virtues and flaws. Plus, he can slip convention to present a tale of a crippled circus performer regaining his balance from a visit to the lower-gravity moon ("The Man Who Hated Gravity"), or an account of unrequited love of a stunt double about to free-fall through Venus's skies ("High Jump"). Like a folksy astrophysicist, Bova delights in talking about outer space, from the surface of Venus (hot enough to melt aluminum!) through the asteroid belt (four times farther from the sun than Earth!) to the depths of Jupiter (a beach ball squashed down by an invisible child!). His excitement at being there matches his gusto for the dirty deeds done in the name of love, honor and duty. Less happily, the volume reveals his occasional repetitive prose, hidden across the novels. Similarly, the differing backstories of the novels sit uneasily next to each other. Still, his stories offer glimpses of the human side of space, the heroic grins and tragic grimaces alike. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye, Stephan Rudnicki, Margy Moore, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000518/bk_pnix_000518_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Queen of the Underworld: A Novel, Hörbuch, Digital, 339min

  Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times best-selling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers.In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and belief in herself are set against the stories swirling around her, both at the newspaper office and in her downtown Miami hotel, which is filling up with refugees.Emma's avid curiosity about life thrives amid the tropical charms and intrigues of Miami. While toiling at the news desk, she plans the fictional stories she will write in her spare time. She spends her nights getting to know the Cuban families in her hotel, and rendezvousing with her married lover, Paul Nightingale, owner of a private Miami Beach club.As Emma experiences the historical events enveloping the city, she trains her perceptive eye on the people surrounding her: a newfound Cuban friend who joins the covert anti-Castro training brigade, a gambling racketeer who poses a grave threat to Paul, and a former madam, still in her 20s, who becomes both Emma's obsession and her alter ego. Emma's life, like a complicated dance that keeps sweeping her off her balance, is suddenly filled with divided loyalties, shady dealings, romantic and professional setbacks, and, throughout, her adamant determination to avoid "usurpation" by others and remain the protagonist of her own quest. Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Zimbalist. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000766/bk_rand_000766_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  VIOLIN CONCERTO

  Efrem Zimbalist (Vl), SO Boston, Serge Koussevitzky (Dir) 30.03.1946, Harry Kaufman (Pno) 1930

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  Angels We Have Heard on High

  Sharen Camille SOPRANO '�her soaring soprano imbues the lush Bernstein melodies'- The Baltimore Sun 'Her voice is pure, powerful, and meltingly tender'- The Connecticut Post '�seems like a porcelain doll with a heaven-sent voice'- The News-Journal in Daytona Beach Audiences may remember Miss Camille when she played Maria in West Side Story in the final National Tour overseen by Jerome Robbins (with the honored distinction of being the last Maria he ever cast) performing in more than 25 cities across America in over 400 performances. She also appeared as Maria throughout European opera houses, including Paris, Baden Baden, Dusseldorf, and Hamburg. Some of her other tours include: Ellie in Showboat, Louisa in The Sound of Music, and Lucy in A Christmas Carol. Off-Broadway she joined the historical ranks of New York´s longest running musical by appearing as Luisa in The Fantasticks. Some of her Regional credits include: Marian in The Music Man, The Mistress in Evita, Cinderella in Cinderella with Zsa Zsa Gabor, Louise in Carousel, Agnes in George M, and Godspell. In Los Angeles Miss Camille appeared with the Attic Theatre in The Frogs, the Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera in Showboat, the Open Fist Theatre in the world premiere of Feets! Don't fail me now, and the Garden Grove Theatre in the Los Angeles premiere of Lovesong. Since returning to her hometown of St. Louis Miss Camille has been seen at the St. Louis Art Museum in the title role of Alice in Wonder.com (the World Premiere), Evita at the Muny Opera, Carousel and Annie get your gun with Stages St. Louis, and received kudos for her performances of It's All True as Olive with the Hothouse Theatre Company, and as the Narrator in As the Eagle Flies with Historyonics. At home on the classical stage as well as the musical theatre stage some of her other appearances include: The Magic Flute with the Orlando Opera, solo performances of opera highlights with the Belleville Philharmonic, Opera at Florham Park, and the Los Angeles Premiere Chorale. Miss Camille made her Powell Hall debut as the soprano soloist in Messiah with the Bach Society of St. Louis, has performed the Brahms Requiem and Faure Requiem as the soprano soloist, and appeared in Kirkwood in An Evening of Victor Herbert. She was a regional finalist in the MacAllister vocal competition and appeared as the soprano Young Artist with the Bach Society of St. Louis. As an accomplished actor on the screen Miss Camille´s Film and TV credits include: Co-Starring in Death Benefit (USA) with Peter Horton, Stop the World, I want to get off (A&E) as the daughter of Peter Scolari and Stephanie Zimbalist, Co-Starring with Henry Thomas in Psycho IV (Showtime), appearing in Dave's World (CBS), The Other Side (Syndicated), Superboy (Syndicated) and Superforce (Syndicated) and Feature releases of Why do Fools fall in Love, Tom Hanks' That Thing You Do, and the Independent short parody Greased to Kill.

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