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    How to write one song
    One of the century's most feted singer-songwriters, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, digs deep into his own creative process to share his unique perspective about song-writing and offers a warm, accessible guide to writing your first song.
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    Without a Hero: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 544min
    T. C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical", he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America today. Without a Hero zooms in on American phenomena such as a center for the treatment of acquisitive disorders; a couple in search of the last toads on Earth; and a real estate wonder boy on a dude safari near convenient Bakerfield, California. Sharp, guileful, and malevolently funny, Boyle's stories are "more than funny, better than wicked," says The Philadelphia Inquirer. "They make you cringe with their clarity." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Reese. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003458/bk_rand_003458_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins, Hörbuch, Digital, 367min
    Heroes or villains? You decide.... In the 1960s, London’s gangland was ruled by two men: Reggie and Ronnie Kray. Building an empire of crime by intimidation, extortion, and terror on a scale never seen before or since, they feted stars of stage and screen, sportsmen, and even politicians to gain the respectability they craved. On the March 17, 1995, Ronnie Kray died suddenly of a heart attack while serving a life sentence for murder. His funeral was watched by over 50,000 people. Five years later, Reggie Kray died of cancer, thus closing a particularly dark chapter in the history of London's underworld. Read by acclaimed actor Martin Shaw, this is the true story of their rise and fall. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Shaw. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000349/bk_copy_000349_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tales of Terror: Robert Louis Stevenson , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 159min
    In the Scottish canon, to be placed alongside Burns is high praise indeed, but it’s a rightful place for Robert Louis Stevenson, one of Scotland’s finest novelists. Born in 1850, he managed to cram much into his 44 years travelling widely to France, the United States, Samoa, and the South Seas. Of course he is widely feted for his classics Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, and poetry volumes such as A Child’s Garden Of Verses. Here we concentrate on his short stories "Olliah" and "The Body Snatchers". Both offer compelling examples of narration and suspense superbly reduced to their essence. This volume is brought to your ears by Richard Mitchley and Robbie McNab. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Mitchley, Robbie McNab. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000360/bk_copy_000360_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Orlando, Hörbuch, Digital, 149min
    Orlando is one of the most unforgettable creations of twentieth-century literature. He emerges as a young man at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and progresses, with breathtaking ease, through three centuries until, by now a woman, she arrives in the bustle and diversion of the 1920's. For Virginia Woolf, a leading figure of the Bloomsbury Group, Orlando was more than a fantastic flight of imagination. It was a roman à clef, a love letter for her lover, the charismatic, eccentric, bisexual Vita Sackville West. Orlando's journey, from wondrous youth barbed by love, to feted writer, settled in her femininity, is a wild and curiously relevant fable for our times. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Paton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000077/bk_naxo_000077_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Fine Point of His Soul , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 331min
    He was the shameful cause of his sister Elena's death, and he stole state papers from England, yet Adrian Hart is feted by the best of society in Rome and boldly dubs himself "Iago". Determined to avenge Elena, his unrequited love, Lieutenant Andrew Sullivan asks the advice of poet and Shakespearean John Keats and his artist friend, Severn. Soon, Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley join them, then Lord Byron and his servant, Fletcher. But how can the seven of them work against this man when they can't even agree what he is? The atheist, Shelley, insists that Hart is an ordinary man, while Byron becomes convinced he's the devil incarnate, and Keats flirts with the idea that he's Dionysius.... As death and despair follow in Hart's wake, Sullivan knows he must do something to stop Hart before even Sullivan himself succumbs - but what? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Micklem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105388/bk_acx0_105388_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 839min
    This book contains the selected Andersen’s best fairy tales and stories in audio format.Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, a literary genre he so mastered that he himself has become as mythical as the tales he wrote. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories — called eventyrs, or "fantastic tales" — express themes that transcend age and nationality.During his lifetime, he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide and was feted by royalty. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films.Let's bring the best of Anderson to life with this audiobook edition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph Bevilacqua. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223961/bk_acx0_223961_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tiger Hills, Hörbuch, Digital, 476min
    Tiger Hills is a sweeping multigenerational story set in a coffee plantation in Coorg, southern India, in the 19th Century. The novel begins with the birth of Devi, a special child, who befriends a young boy whose mother has died in tragic circumstances. Devi and Devanna become inseparable as they go to school together and learn more about the extended family that surrounds them. Things change when Devi meets Muthi, a young man who has killed a tiger and is feted as a hero. Although she is still a child and Muthi is a man, Devi vows that one day she will marry him. This love gradually drives a wedge between her and her friend Devanna, who has been taken under the wing of a local missionary. She is blind to the fact that Devanna himself has fallen for her. He leaves the village to study medicine, in the hope that when he returns she will see his worth and return his love, but then a tragedy changes the fate of all three, with far-reaching consequences for the generations to come. Language: English. Narrator: Ayesha Dharker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000381/bk_orio_000381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Charles Dickens & Jane Austen: The Lives and Legacies of Britain's Two Famous Novelists , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 128min
    Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still being one of the most popular writers today. Dickens' upbringing was a mixture of happy times and sad: when he recalled his father being sent to debtor's prison in his memoirs, his tears actually left marks on the page. His childhood experiences eventually forged him into the man many regard as the greatest Victorian era novelist - the author of remarkable fictional characters who retain tremendous staying power to this day, including Fagin, Peepy, David Copperfield, and Oliver Twist, to name just a few. Unlike other great writers and artists, during his own lifetime Dickens' works enjoyed remarkable popularity and renown, to such an extent that even Queen Victoria and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli felicitated and feted Dickens. In the 20th century, well after Dickens' passing, his literary genius was truly and completely appreciated by ordinary readers as well as critics and scholars. Dickens' novels, novellas, and short stories retain powerful and enduring popularity among the public, largely because Dickens connected history with the present through universal bridges. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diane Lehman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035687/bk_acx0_035687_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
    Audie Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2013 Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it's sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. But in the modern world, the breast is changing. Breasts are getting bigger, arriving earlier, and attracting newfangled chemicals. Increasingly, the odds are stacked against us in the struggle with breast cancer, even among men. What makes breasts so mercurial - and so vulnerable? In this informative and highly entertaining account, intrepid science reporter Florence Williams sets out to uncover the latest scientific findings from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine. Her investigation follows the life cycle of the breast from puberty to pregnancy to menopause, taking her from a plastic surgeon's office, where she learns about the importance of cup size in Texas, to the laboratory, where she discovers the presence of environmental toxins in her own breast milk. The result is a fascinating exploration of where breasts came from, where they have ended up, and what we can do to save them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Reading. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/002507/bk_tant_002507_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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