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    Family: A Writing Bloc Anthology (eBook, ePUB)
    FAMILY. Everybody has one. In 2022, families come in all shapes and sizes: blended, same-sex parented, nuclear, chosen. Some are estranged, strained, and some merely strange. Some run on love and some are fueled by resentment. Some are constructed through painstaking perseverance and acceptance; others are built without much thought of consequence. But we all have one thing in common - we all came from someone, and we all consider someone to be our family, related or not. These twenty-one tales portray aspects of the family unit through the lenses of literary fiction, horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Writing Bloc is proud to feature a roster of diverse, up-and-coming, talented authors at their best, and to shine a light on that which ultimately binds us together. Twenty-one authors offer their perspectives on what some consider to be the most important thing in the world, and what others would give the world to have. Featuring stories from David Lee, Jane-Holly Meissner, Jason Pomerance, Kelsey Rae Barthel, Estelle Wardrip, Deborah Munro, Aly Welch, Evan Graham, S.E. Soldwedel, Jason Chestnut, T.C.C. Edwards, Susan K. Hamilton, Daniel Lee, R.H. Webster, Peter L. Harmon, Byron Gillan, Kaytalin Platt, Durena Burns, Jenn Newman, Cari Dubiel, and Mike X Welch.
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    Fastest Indoor Marijuana Growing Handbook: From Seed to Harvest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
    How to clone cannabis plants. Growing marijuana indoors has become a very popular trend among marijuana enthusiasts. It is mostly because of the superior quality and higher potency of the organically grown cannabis. Is it possible to grow marijuana indoors even if I am a beginner? This is a very valid question if you are a first-time grower. Well, yes! It is entirely possible, and it can also be learned. Everyone starts somewhere. You don't start as an expert in these things. You may have already heard of other people talking about how painstaking the process is, but the reality is that growing your own marijuana is relatively easy to do as long as you have the right information, tools, and resources at your fingertip. All you need is the willingness and determination to go on with this project, also with little free time and space ready for your indoor marijuana setup. In this book, I show you an easy to follow, step-by-step process of growing cannabis from seeds to harvest in the comfort of your home in just 8-10 weeks. I also show you a simple, easy to follow, step-by-step process to clone your marijuana plants. So you will never have to start from the seeds again. Lastly, I will show you how to hide that strong marijuana odor from your home. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clay Willison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/089278/bk_acx0_089278_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism  , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1219min
    The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, A High Price offers a nuanced, definitive historical account of Israel's bold but often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. Beginning with the violent border disputes that emerged after Israel's founding in 1948, Daniel Byman charts the rise of Yasser Arafat's Fatah and leftist groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine--organizations that ushered in the era of international terrorism epitomized by the 1972 hostage-taking at the Munich Olympics. Byman reveals how Israel fought these groups and others, such as Hamas, in the decades that follow, with particular attention to the grinding and painful struggle during the second intifada. Israel's debacles in Lebanon against groups like the Lebanese Hizballah are examined in-depth, as is the country's problematic response to Jewish terrorist groups that have struck at Arabs and Israelis seeking peace. In surveying Israel's response to terror, the author points to the coups of shadowy Israeli intelligence services, the much-emulated use of defensive measures such as sky marshals on airplanes, and the role of controversial techniques such as targeted killings and the security barrier that separates Israel from Palestinian areas. Equally instructive are the shortcomings that have undermined Israel's counterterrorism goals, including a disregard for long-term planning and a failure to recognize the long-term political repercussions of counterterrorism tactics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luke Truan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011543/bk_adbl_011543_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Science of Yoga: The Risks and Rewards , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 542min
    In this remarkable book about yoga, William Broad, a lifelong practitioner, shows us that uncommon states are integral to a hidden world of risk and reward that lies beneath clouds of myth, superstition, and hype. Five years in the making, The Science of Yoga draws on more than a century of painstaking research to present the first impartial evaluation of a practice thousands of years old. It celebrates what’s real and shows what’s illusory, describes what’s uplifting and beneficial and what’s flaky and dangerous—and why. Broad illuminates how yoga can lift moods and inspire creativity. He exposes moves that can cripple and kill. As science often does, this groundbreaking book also reveals mysteries. It presents a fascinating body of evidence that raises questions about whether humans have latent capabilities for entering states of suspended animation and unremitting sexual bliss. The Science of Yoga takes us on a riveting tour of unknown yoga that goes from old archives in Calcutta to the world capitals of medical research, from storied ashrams to spotless laboratories, from sweaty yoga studios with master teachers to the cozy offices of yoga healers. Broad unveils a burgeoning global industry that attracts not only curious scientists but true believers and charismatic hustlers. In the end, he shatters myths, lays out unexpected benefits, and offers a compelling vision of how the ancient practice can be improved. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Boston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003890/bk_adbl_003890_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    If the North Had Won the Civil War: An Alternate History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 570min
    From the author of the best-selling alternate histories Gray Tide in the East and Tidal Effects comes a unique look at the American Civil War.  If the North Had Won the Civil War is two alternate history novels in one. The modern story follows Stonewall Jackson "Jack" Sawyer, a history professor in the modern-day Confederate States of America, and his alternate history "If the North Had Won the Civil War" in a nation where publication of his book is a criminal offense. The story gives the listener a look at a nightmarish modern-day Confederacy where any person with a drop of black blood in his veins is denied basic human rights and confined to a "Preserve". Interwoven with the adventures of Jack, his fiancée, Annabelle Parkins, his friend and fellow history professor, Buzz Hanson, and Buzz's girlfriend, a biracial escort, Lydia Starkwell, is Jack's book.  This is an alternate history of the Civil War written with the painstaking historical authenticity and attention to detail that Mr. Heller's fans have come to expect. The characters in this book-within-an-audiobook are actual figures in the Civil War, and the military tactics and strategies are based on those of the historical war. The fiction is followed by a lively and informative factual discussion of the Civil War, and a bibliographic essay. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kristen S. Osborne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118221/bk_acx0_118221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Five Days in May (Dramatised), Hörbuch, Digital, 56min
    Written by Matthew Solon. This play tells the story of the tense negotiation that followed the 2010 general election, which led to the country's first post-war coalition. Based on interviews with those who were at the meetings, political journalists and on published material - and using actors to play all the key characters - this is a compelling account of those five momentous days in May. Under extreme pressure and suffering from lack of sleep, the politicians argued and negotiated. There was nothing inevitable about a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. Revealing key moments of the negotiations, the drama unpicks what went on behind closed doors and shows how an alliance between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats gradually formed, and how it withstood the resignation of Gordon Brown. Based on painstaking research, this is a must-listen 60-minute play. It’s a compelling and entertaining account by award-winning writer Matthew Solon of the most extraordinary British election outcome in 70 years.Cast:David Cameron ..... Samuel WestNick Clegg ..... Nicholas BoultonGordon Brown ..... Gerard KellyPeter Mandelson ..... Henry GoodmanEd Balls ..... John SessionsWilliam Hague ..... Philip JacksonDanny Alexander ..... Emun ElliotDavid Laws ..... Anthony CalfChris Huhne ..... Rupert FrazerGeorge Osborne ..... Ian HughesOther parts are played by Charlotte Longfield, Wilf Gilmour and members of the cast. Producer/Director: John Dryden. A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. Language: English. Narrator: Samuel West, Nicholas Boulton, Gerard Kelly, Henry Goodman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/004459/bk_bbcw_004459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The 50 Year Seduction: How Television Manipulated College Football, from the Birth of the Modern NCAA to the Creation of the BCS , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 563min
    For more than a half century, television has played a primary role in securing college football's place as one of America's most popular spectator sports. But it has also been the common denominator in the sport's rise as a big business. Television, which multiplied the number of people who cared about the game, simultaneously increased the stakes.The colleges, who once feared television's ability to create free tickets, gradually became addicted to its charms. Through the years, the medium manufactured money, greed, dependence, and envy; altered the recruiting process, eventually forcing the colleges to compete with the irresistible force of National Football League riches; aided the National Collegiate Athletic Association's explosion from impotent union to massive bureaucracy; manipulated the rise and fall of the College Football Association; fomented the realignment of conferences; and seized control of the post-season bowl games, including the formation of the lucrative and controversial Bowl Championship Series.In The Fifty-Year Seduction, Keith Dunnavant shows how television helped shape the modern sport - on and off the field. In painstaking detail, the author chronicles five decades of tension and conflict, from the 1951 television dispute that empowered the modern NCAA to the inevitable backlash, culminating with the landmark Supreme Court decision that set the stage for the conference-swapping machinations of the 1990s and beyond. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jay Snyder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010756/bk_adbl_010756_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    French Braid
    The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won't allow any family clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades, whether that's a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming. And it all begins in 1959, with a family holiday to a cabin by a lake. It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations. 'Exquisitely crafted, tender, hilarious, devastatingly precise, I loved this powerful meditation on the small and often unvoiced moments that can make up a life' RACHEL JOYCE 'Such joyous immersion, I lost myself, and loved this superbly imperfect family' TESSA HADLEY 'A faultless novel, effortlessly profound. I read it in two sittings, totally immersed' VICTORIA HISLOP 'If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR 4 WOMAN'S HOUR
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    A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy (eBook, ePUB)
    A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy is the third novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.For Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar's wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than any other. It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy was strangled.As the small town of Otterbridge prepares for its summer carnival, Inspector Stephen Ramsay begins a painstaking reconstruction of Dorothea's last hours. He soon discovers that she had taken on a number of deserving cases - a sick and lonely old woman, a disturbed adolescent, a compulsive gambler, a single mother with a violent boyfriend and a child in care - and even her close family have their secrets to hide. All these people are haunted, in one way or another, by Dorothea's goodness. But which of them could have possibly wanted her dead?It is not until a second body is discovered that Ramsay starts to understand how Dorothea lived - and why she died. With the carnival festivities in full swing and dusk falling in Otterbridge, Ramsay's murder investigation reaches its chilling climax . . .'Nobody does unsettling undercurrents better than Ann Cleeves' - Val McDermid, author of The Mermaids Singing
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    Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 923min
    The next best thing to having a room key to the Chelsea Hotel during each of its famous - and infamous - decades The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention: a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing building. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a masterful and endlessly entertaining history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them John Sloan, Edgar Lee Masters, Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Sam Shepard, Sid Vicious, and Dee Dee Ramone. Now as legendary as the artists it has housed and the countless creative collaborations it has sparked, the Chelsea has always stood as a mystery as well: Why and how did this hotel become the largest and longest-lived artists’ community in the known world? Inside the Dream Palace is the intimate and definitive story. Today the Chelsea stands poised in limbo between two futures: Will this symbol of New York's artistic invention be converted to a profit-driven business catering to the top one percent? Or will the Chelsea be given a rebirth through painstaking effort by the community that loves it? Set against these two competing possibilities, Inside the Dream Palace could not be more fascinating or timely. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carol Monda. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018509/bk_adbl_018509_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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