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    The Great Wave
    The Great Wave ab 12.99 € als epub eBook: Gilded Age Misfits Japanese Eccentrics and the Opening of Old Japan. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,
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    That Mitchell and Webb Sound: Radio Series 1, Hörbuch, Digital, 164min
    More sketches from the inside-out world of David Mitchell and Robert Webb, including what James Bond is really like as a party guest, and the rather too exciting world of Rabbit Newsnight. Their distinctive and lopsided view of the world includes the worst possible name for a dry cleaning shop; the brave and dangerous work of Hairdressers Sans Frontiers; and the tragic consequences when a stray piece of ham goes unchecked. Mitchell and Webb's gallery of peculiar characters is populated by misfits, eccentrics, the occasional talking animal, and a few stray Radio 4 arts programme presenters. Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, with Olivia Colman and James Bachman. Language: English. Narrator: David Mitchell, Robert Webb. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/bbcw/001155/rt_bbcw_001155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Big Get-Even , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
    A disbarred lawyer and an ex-arsonist cross paths and find themselves organizing an elaborate real estate scam to bilk a shady rich speculator out of 20 million dollars. The sting is personal for ex-arsonist Stan and for a woman named Vee, who plays an essential role in the caper. Glen, the narrator and former lawyer, finds himself at first just along for the money. Eventually, as bonds deepen among the conspirators, Glen too discovers he has a lot more at stake than simply the loot. This cast of lively eccentrics discovers along the way that getting to the big payoff might just be more scary fun than the monetary prize itself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Szarabajka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010732/bk_blak_010732_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Potatoes on the Moon: I Spent a Week Probing the Alien Landscape of Idaho , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 56min
    What do most people think of Idaho? Well, see, that's the problem - they don't think of Idaho. Despite its breathtaking natural beauty and the fact that it's crammed to the gills with eccentrics and freethinkers, Idaho may as well be the moon as far as the rest of America is concerned. Jim Goad recently spent a week in Idaho mingling with state troopers, political extremists, collegiate progressives, and heartbreakingly friendly locals. Spending most of the week in the wilderness allowed him to examine one of the most pervasive yet ignored forms of cultural bigotry - the endless disdain that "urban supremacists" have for rural people. In this case, the countryside wins by a landslide. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Goad. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026109/bk_adbl_026109_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of The Devils , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 300min
    From exclusive interviews with director Ken Russell and new interviews with cast, crew, and historians, comes this examination of the beautifully blasphemous film The Devils. Based on historical fact, this controversial 1971 film is about an oversexed priest and a group of sexually repressed nuns in 17th-century France and the ensuing trials and exorcisms that followed. Detailing the production and the personalities of two of cinema’s great eccentrics, director Ken Russell and star Oliver Reed, Crouse delves deeper to explore the aftermath of the film. Chiefly, the question asked is: How can a movie by one of the most famous filmmakers in the world end up banned, edited, and ignored by the company that owns it? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Loza. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008082/bk_adbl_008082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    History's Most Insane Rulers: Lunatics, Eccentrics, and Megalomaniacs From Emperor Caligula to Kim Jong Il , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 109min
    Few mixtures are as toxic as absolute power and insanity. When nothing stands between a leader's delusion whims and seeing them carried them out, all sorts of bizarre outcomes are possible. Whether it is Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I practicing archery on palace servants and sending out his advisers to find the fattest woman in the empire for his wife or Turkmenistan President Turkmenbashi renaming the days of the week after himself and constructing an 80-foot golden statue that revolves to face the sun, crazed leaders have plagued society for millenia. This audiobook will look at the lives of the ten most mentally unbalanced figures in history. Some suffered from genetic disorders that led to schizophrenia, such as French King Charles VI, who thought he was made of glass. Others believed themselves to be God's representatives on earth and wrote religious writings that they guaranteed to the reader would get them into heaven, even if they were barely literate. Whatever their background, these rulers show that dynastic politics made sure that a rightful heir always got on the throne - despite that heir's mental condition - and that power can destroy a mind worse than any mental illness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/006955/bk_acx0_006955_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Men Who Stare at Hens
    The Men Who Stare at Hens ab 8.99 € als epub eBook: Great Irish Eccentrics from WB Yeats to Brendan Behan. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,
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    The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 504min
    This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America's press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting helped elevate sportswriting to art. The brilliant W. C. Heinz called Lardner "the best of us." This book shows why. Lardner applied his singular touch not only to his era's icons - Joe Louis, Ted Williams, Satchel Paige - but to the scamps, eccentrics, hustlers, and con men in the shadow of sports. Whether in snappy columns or leisurely magazine pieces, Lardner held sport of every description up to the light, forever changing the way people wrote, read, and thought about their heroes, from superstars to scrappers. These forty-nine pieces represent sportswriting at the top of its game. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019513/bk_adbl_019513_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Families and Other Nonreturnable Gifts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 556min
    Despite her name, Keats Sedlak is the sanest person in her large, nutty family of brilliant eccentrics. Her parents, both brainy academics, are barely capable of looking after themselves, let alone anyone else, and her two uber-intelligent siblings live on their own planets. At least she can count on one person in her life, her devoted boyfriend Tom. Down-to-earth and loving, he's the one thing that's kept Keats grounded for the last decade. But when Keats's mother makes a surprise announcement, the entire family is sent into a tailspin. For the first time, Keats can't pick up the pieces by herself. Now she must reevaluate everything she's ever assumed about herself and her family - and make the biggest decision of her life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tessa Auberjonois. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/001286/bk_hach_001286_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Die for Love: A Jacqueline Kirby Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min
    The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a gossip columnist seems anything but. And when she's approached by a popular genre star who fears for her own life, the resourceful Ms. Kirby quickly goes back to work...as a sleuth. There's a sinister scenario being penned at this purple prose congregation. And when jealousy and passion are released from the boundaries of the printed page, the result can be murder. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grace Conlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002766/bk_blak_002766_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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