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    Moldy Strawberries (eBook, ePUB)
    Caio Fernando Abreu is one of those authors who is picked up by every generation. Surreal and gripping stories about desire, tyranny, fear, and love, from one of Brazil's greatest queer writers, whose work is appearing in English for the first time. In 18 gripping and daring stories filled with tension and intimacy, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the 80s. Tenderly suspended between fear and longing, Abreu's characters grasp for connection: • A man speckled with Carnival glitter crosses a crowded dance floor and seeks the warmth and beauty of another body. • A budding office friendship between two young men turns into a surprising love, "a strange and secret harmony." One man desires another but fears a clumsy word or gesture might tear their plot to pieces. After so many precarious offerings--a salvaged cigarette, a knock on the door from withing the downpour of a dream, or a tight-lipped smile--Abreu's schemes explode and implode. Junkies, failed revolutionaries, poets, and conflicted artists face threats at every turn. But, inwardly ferocious and secretly resilient, they heal. For Caio Fernando Abreu there is beauty on the horizon, mingled with luminous memory and decay. Translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato, currently an Iowa Arts Fellow and MFA candidate in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa.
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    Moldy Strawberries: Stories
    Caio Fernando Abreu is one of those authors who is picked up by every generation. Surreal and gripping stories about desire, tyranny, fear, and love, from one of Brazil's greatest queer writers, whose work is appearing in English for the first time. In 18 gripping and daring stories filled with tension and intimacy, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the 80s. Tenderly suspended between fear and longing, Abreu's characters grasp for connection: • A man speckled with Carnival glitter crosses a crowded dance floor and seeks the warmth and beauty of another body. • A budding office friendship between two young men turns into a surprising love, "a strange and secret harmony." One man desires another but fears a clumsy word or gesture might tear their plot to pieces. After so many precarious offerings--a salvaged cigarette, a knock on the door from withing the downpour of a dream, or a tight-lipped smile--Abreu's schemes explode and implode. Junkies, failed revolutionaries, poets, and conflicted artists face threats at every turn. But, inwardly ferocious and secretly resilient, they heal. For Caio Fernando Abreu there is beauty on the horizon, mingled with luminous memory and decay. Translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato, currently an Iowa Arts Fellow and MFA candidate in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa.
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    Affinities
    An exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, celebrating ten years of The Public Domain Review.Gathering a remarkable collection of over 500 public domain images, Affinities is a carefully curated visual journey illuminating connections across more than two thousand years of image-making. Drawing on a decade of archival immersion at The Public Domain Review, the book has been assembled from a vast array of sources: from manuscripts to museum catalogues, ship logs to primers on Victorian magic. The images are arranged in a single captivating sequence which unfurls according to a dreamlike logic, through a play of visual echoes and evolving thematic threads - hatching eggs twin with early Burmese world maps, marbled endpapers meet tattooed stowaways, and fireworks explode beside deep-sea coral.At once an art book, a sourcebook, and a kaleidoscopic visual poem, Affinities is a unique and enthralling publication that will offer something different on each visit. Its playful and imaginative space invites the reader to transcend familiar categories of epoch, style, or historical theme, and to instead revel in a new world of creative possibilities played out between the images - opening up new connections, ways of seeing, and forms of knowledge.Praise for The Public Domain Review 'An Aladdin's cave of curiosity ... the best thing on the web' Guardian 'A gold mine of fantastic images and stories' The New York Times
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    Spark: One of Us Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min
    Lightning can bring out the darkness in all of us...The ticking in my head won’t stop. Like a bomb ready to explode. My dad has called me Spark since the day they found me wandering down a dark country road when I was nine years old. I was raised with questions.Why does lightning strike when I’m around? But my parents aren’t just any parents. My mother becomes a senator, and starts asking questions.They don’t want her. They want me...And as the storm gathers outside, I fight with everything I have. Until the unthinkable happens. The ticking in my head stops. And death comes for those I love. I’m on the run now, hunted by the things I’ve done. Until I’m found by three men. Three that carry the same kind of marks inside of their wrists. Three who will fight to the death to protect me. And I’ll tear power from the sky to protect them, as well. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Harmon Gamble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181707/bk_acx0_181707_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bronco Strong: A Memoir of the Last Deployed Personnel Services Battalion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
    An army veteran's memoir tells the story of army life in a combat zone for her human resources troops.Imagine being at work, or lying in your bed, or even sitting wherever you are right now and knowing that at any moment the world could literally explode around you. Without warning.In her stirring memoir, Bronco Strong, Angela M. Odom, a personnel services battalion commander, recounts daily life as a soldier in an active war zone during Operation Iraqi Freedom.Odom came into command of the 15th Personnel Services Battalion in 2006, and immediately they were deployed to Baghdad via Kuwait. The soldiers under her command had proven themselves before, in the same theater of war. But things had changed during their time at home, and now they found themselves walking into a living nightmare.The soldiers of Task Force Bronco bravely endured, fulfilling their monumentally difficult tasks throughout a grueling 15-month extended deployment. But things didn’t always go according to plan.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Monica Pryce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156862/bk_acx0_156862_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Diary of a Friendly Creeper 2: School Daze , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 30min
    “I want to meet new people and make friends,” said no Creeper ever - up until Friendly Creeper came along. Unlike other Creepers, the Friendly Creeper wanted to be nice to people rather than explode and hiss at them. He wants to help the friends who saved him from the villagers. However, the other Creepers shun his idea because Creepers are supposed to be mean and hurt people rather than help them. They, therefore, force him to attend Creeper School. Listen to this short story to find out how he manages to survive in a school that teaches everything he doesn’t want to learn. Can he learn to use his Creeper skills to help his friends, or will he be forced to become just like a regular Creeper?ACT NOW! Click the BUY button at the top of this page, so that you can enjoy this delightful short story from the comfort of your own home today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacob McNatt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170119/bk_acx0_170119_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Black Rock: An Eddie Dougherty Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 546min
    An artfully told police procedural set in an explosive era in recent history Montreal, 1970. The "Vampire Killer" has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University, and houses in Westmount. Riots break out at the St. Jean Baptiste parade and at Sir George Williams University. James Cross and Pierre Laporte are kidnapped and the Canadian army moves onto the streets of Montreal. A young beat cop working out of Station 10 finds himself almost alone hunting the serial killer, as the rest of the force focuses on the FLQ crisis. Constable Eddie Dougherty, the son of a French mother and an Irish-Canadian father, decides to take matters into his own hands to catch the killer before he strikes again. Set against actual historical events, Black Rock is both a compelling thriller and an accomplished novel in the style of Dennis Lehane. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicolas Van Burek. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ecwp/000023/bk_ecwp_000023_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Summer of the Dead: Bell Elkins, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 652min
    High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia - but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley - who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past. In Summer of the Dead, the third Julia Keller mystery chronicling the journey of Bell Elkins and her return to her Appalachian hometown, we also meet Lindy Crabtree - a coal miner's daughter with dark secrets of her own, secrets that threaten to explode into even more violence. Acker's Gap is a place of loveliness and brutality, of isolation and fierce attachments - a place where the dead rub shoulders with the living, and demand their due. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shannon McManus. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006311/bk_brll_006311_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hong Kong, Hörbuch, Digital, 328min
    Admiral Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the American consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and the consul-general is a friend from those days. The Graftons quickly discover, however, that Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode. A political murder and the closure of a foreign bank by the communist government are the sparks that light the fuse. When Callie is kidnapped by a rebel faction, Jake finds himself drawn into the vortex of a high-tech civil war. To save his wife, he must figure out whom he can trust, both among the Western factions vying for control of the volatile situation, and among the Chinese patriots fighting for their nation's future, and make sure the right side wins. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Cumpsty. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001220/bk_harp_001220_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Teacher: In Their Shoes, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 325min
    Rachel was one of the high school's best teachers and got on well with everyone. The kids got good grades and everyone liked her. Recently she had become increasingly ambivalent toward the profession and felt she was going nowhere. Her managers were grinding her down. The students began to irritate her with their juvenile behavior. The needlessly excessive paperwork, marking, and time-consuming training sessions were starting to make Rachel wonder if she should just leave and pursue her dreams. Then fresh-faced and eager journalist Joy Attwood spent the day with her to discover what being a high school teacher was really like. Unbeknownst to Joy, however, was that she had chosen one of the worst days of Rachel's professional life; she was hungover, impatient, and ready to explode. Joy wanted to investigate the teaching profession and spend the day in their shoes to understand what their professional lives were really like. Rachel made sure it was a day neither of them would forget. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suzanna Kempner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/083615/bk_acx0_083615_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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