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  • Maybe Esther: A Family Story Audiobook by Katja Petrowskaja

    Maybe Esther: A Family Story Audiobook by Katja Petrowskaja
    2018/01/30
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    ID: 323739
    Title: Maybe Esther: A Family Story
    Author: Katja Petrowskaja
    Narrator: Emma Gregory
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 07:29:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-30-2018
    Publisher: HarperAudio
    Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Religious Fiction

    Summary:
    An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving literary debut that pieces together the fascinating story of one womans family across twentieth-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents. Her idea blossomed into this striking and highly original work of narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning within the stories of her ancestors. In a series of short meditations, Petrowskaja delves into family legends, introducing a remarkable cast of characters: Judas Stern, her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomatic attaché in 1932 and was sentenced to death; her grandfather Semyon, who went underground with a new name during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, forever splitting their branch of the family from the rest; her grandmother Rosa, who ran an orphanage in the Urals for deaf-mute Jewish children; her Ukrainian grandfather Vasily, who disappeared during World War II and reappeared without explanation forty-one years laterand settled back into the family as if hed never been gone; and her great-grandmother, whose name may have been Esther, who alone remained in Kiev and was killed by the Nazis. How do you talk about what you cant know, how do you bring the past to life? To answer this complex question, Petrowskaja visits the scenes of these events, reflecting on a fragmented and traumatized century and bringing to light family figures who threaten to drift into obscurity. A true search for the past reminiscent of Jonathan Safran Foers Everything Is Illuminated, Daniel Mendelsohns The Lost, and Michael Chabons Moonglow, Maybe Esther is a poignant, haunting investigation of the effects of history on one family.

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    7 時間 29 分
  • Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines Audiobook by Nick Nolte

    Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines Audiobook by Nick Nolte
    2018/01/23
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    ID: 323226
    Title: Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines
    Author: Nick Nolte
    Narrator: Christian Baskous, Nick Nolte
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 07:48:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-23-2018
    Publisher: HarperAudio
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

    Summary:
    The legendary icon tells his storya tale of art, passion, commitment, addiction, as intense and hypnotic as the man himself. In a career spanning five decades, Nick Nolte has endured the rites of Hollywood celebrity. Rising from obscurity to leading roles and Oscar nominations, he has been both celebrated and vilified in the media; survived marriages, divorces, and a string of romances; was named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine; and suffered public humiliation over his drug and alcohol issues, including a drug-fueled trip down a long road of nothingness that ended in arrest. Despite these ups and downs, Nolte has remained true to the craft he loves, portraying a diverse range of characters with his trademark physicality and indelible gravelly voice. Already 35 when his performance in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man launched him to stardom, Nolte never learned to play by Hollywoods rules. A rebel who defies expectations, an obsessive method actor who will go to extremes for a role (he lived among the homeless to prepare for Down and Out in Beverly Hills), Nolte is motivated more by edgier, more personal projects than by box office success. Today he is clean yet still driven, juggling a number of upcoming works and raising his young daughter. A man who refuses to hide his mistakes, Nolte now delivers his most revealing performance yet. His revealing memoir offers a candid, unvarnished close-up look at the man, the career, the loves, and the life.

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    7 時間 48 分
  • About That Kiss Audiobook by Jill Shalvis

    About That Kiss Audiobook by Jill Shalvis
    2018/01/23
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    ID: 323230
    Title: About That Kiss
    Author: Jill Shalvis
    Narrator: Karen White
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 09:27:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-23-2018
    Publisher: HarperAudio
    Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Rom-Com, Contemporary Women

    Summary:
    When love drives you crazy . . . When sexy Joe Malone never calls after their explosive kiss, Kylie shoves him out of her mind. Until she needs a favor, and its a doozy. Something precious to her has been stolen and theres only one person with unique finder-and-fixer skills that can helpJoe. It means swallowing her pride and somehow trying to avoid the temptation to throttle himor seduce him. the best thing to do . . . No, Joe didnt call after the kiss. Hes the fun time guy, not the forever guy. And Kylie, after all shes been through, deserves a good man who will stay. But everything about Kylie makes it damned hard to focus, and though his brain knows what he has to do, his heart isnt getting the memo. is enjoy the ride. As Kylie and Joe go on the scavenger hunt of their lives, they discover surprising things about each other. Now, the best way for them to get over that kiss might just be to replace it with a hundred more.

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    9 時間 27 分
  • Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat Audiobook by Jonathan Kauffman

    Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat Audiobook by Jonathan Kauffman
    2018/01/23
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    ID: 323229
    Title: Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat
    Author: Jonathan Kauffman
    Narrator: George Newbern
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 09:14:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-23-2018
    Publisher: HarperAudio
    Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, Social Science

    Summary:
    An enlightening narrative historyan entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollanthat traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gurus, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine. Food writer Jonathan Kauffman journeys back more than half a centuryto the 1960s and 1970sto tell the story of how a coterie of unusual men and women embraced an alternative lifestyle that would ultimately change how modern Americans eat. Impeccably researched, Hippie Food chronicles how the longhairs, revolutionaries, and back-to-the-landers rejected the square establishment of President Richard Nixons America and turned to a more idealistic and wholesome communal way of life and food. From the mystical rock-and-roll cult known as the Source Family and its legendary vegetarian restaurant in Hollywood to the Diggers brown bread in the Summer of Love to the rise of the co-op and the origins of the organic food craze, Kauffman reveals how todays quotidian whole-foods staplesincluding sprouts, tofu, yogurt, brown rice, and whole-grain breadwere introduced and eventually became part of our diets. From coast to coast, through Oregon, Texas, Tennessee, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Vermont, Kauffman tracks hippie foods journey from niche oddity to a cuisine that hit every corner of this country. A slick mix of gonzo playfulness, evocative detail, skillful pacing, and elegant writing, Hippie Food is a lively, engaging, and informative read that deepens our understanding of our culture and our lives today.

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    9 時間 14 分
  • Sinless Audiobook by Sarah Tarkoff

    Sinless Audiobook by Sarah Tarkoff
    2018/01/09
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    ID: 320966
    Title: Sinless
    Author: Sarah Tarkoff
    Narrator: Stephanie Einstein
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 07:07:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-09-2018
    Publisher: HarperAudio
    Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Apocalyptic & Dystopian, Coming of Age

    Summary:
    With shades of Scott Westerfelds Uglies and Ally Condies Matched, this dark, cinematic dystopian novelthe first in the thrilling Eye of the Beholder seriesis set in a near future society in which ''right'' and ''wrong'' are manifested by beauty and ugliness. In Grace Luthers world, morality is physically enforced. Those who are ''good'' are blessed with beauty, while those who are not suffer horrifying consequencesdisfigurement, or even death. When the clerics daughter stumbles onto information that proves her world is more complicated than it seems, she finds herself at the center of an epic battle where good and evil are not so easily distinguished. Despite all her efforts to live a normal teenage life, Grace is faced with a series of decisions that will risk the lives of everyone she loves. With each minute, Sarah Tarkoff masterfully tightens the screws in this electrifying debut novel that plunges us into a nightmarish and all too plausible future. Full of high-drama and pulsating tension, Sinless explores essential questions teenagers wrestle with every day: What is beauty? What is faith? Where does friendship end and love begin? Do we take our world at face value and accept all that we have been taughtor do we question the mores of the society into which we are born? Chilling and thought-provoking, Sinless is essential listening for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner, The Giver, and Delirium.

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    7 時間 7 分
  • Paddington on Top Audiobook by Michael Bond

    Paddington on Top Audiobook by Michael Bond
    2018/01/02
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    ID: 313117
    Title: Paddington on Top
    Author: Michael Bond
    Narrator: Hugh Bonneville
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 02:35:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-02-2018
    Publisher: HarperFestival
    Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature, Classics

    Summary:
    Paddington has warmed the hearts of generations of readers with his earnest good intentions and humorous misadventures. This new edition of the classic novel contains the original text by Michael Bond. What other bear but Paddington could find himself sent home on his first day of school? Or questioned as a prime witness in court? Or taking a crash course in water-skiing? Trust Paddington to follow his nose for adventure, with a suitcase full of marmalade sandwiches in tow! First published in 1974, Paddington on Top is the tenth classic novel about Michael Bonds beloved classic character, Paddington Bear.

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    2 時間 35 分
  • Beneath the Mountain: A Novel Audiobook by Luca D'Andrea

    Beneath the Mountain: A Novel Audiobook by Luca D'Andrea
    2018/01/02
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    ID: 313119
    Title: Beneath the Mountain: A Novel
    Author: Luca D'Andrea
    Narrator: Charles Constant
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 13:22:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-02-2018
    Publisher: HarperAudio
    Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror

    Summary:
    In Luca DAndreas atmospheric and brilliant thriller, set in a small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, an outsider must uncover the truth about a triple murder that has gone unsolved for thirty years. New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot documentary-making team. He and his partner, Mike, made a reality show about roadies that skyrocketed them to fame. But now Salingers left that all behind, to move with his wife, Annelise, and young daughter, Clara, to the remote part of Italy where Annelise grew upthe Alto Adige. Nestled in the Dolomites, this breathtaking, rural region that was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire remains more Austro than Italian. Locals speak a strange, ancient dialectLadinoand root for Germany (against Italy) in the world cup. Annelises small townSiebenhochis close-knit to say the least and does not take kindly to out-of-towners. When Salinger decides to make a documentary about the mountain rescue group, the mission goes horribly awry, leaving him the only survivor. He blames himself, and soit seemsdoes everyone else in Siebenhoch. Spiraling into a deep depression, he begins having terrible, recurrent nightmares. Only his little girl Clara can put a smile on his face. But when he takes Clara to the Bletterbach Gorgea canyon rich in fossil remainshe accidentally overhears a conversation that gives his life renewed focus. In 1985, three students were murdered there, their bodies savaged, limbs severed and strewn by a killer who was never found. Although Salinger knows this is a tightlipped community, one where he is definitely persona non grata, he becomes obsessed with solving this mystery and is convinced it is all that can keep him sane. And as Salinger unearths the long kept secrets of this small town, one by one, the terrifying truth is eventually revealed about the horrifying crime that marked an entire village. Completely engrossing and deeply atmospheric, Beneath The Mountain is a thriller par excellence. Can be compared (with no fear of hyperbole) to Stephen King and Jo Nesbø.La Repubblica

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    13 時間 22 分
  • Beautiful Lawman: A Devil's Rock Novel Audiobook by Sophie Jordan

    Beautiful Lawman: A Devil's Rock Novel Audiobook by Sophie Jordan
    2017/12/26
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    ID: 312641
    Title: Beautiful Lawman: A Devil's Rock Novel
    Author: Sophie Jordan
    Narrator: Christian Fox
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 06:24:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 12-26-2017
    Publisher: HarperAudio
    Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, Contemporary Women

    Summary:
    From the wrong side of the tracks and with most of her family in jail or dead, Piper Walsh is used to everyone in town thinking the worst about her. It doesnt seem to matter that shes worked hard to build a good life for herself. So she isnt surprised that when she comes into contact with Sweet Hills wildly irresistible, arrogant sheriff, Hale Walters, theyre instant adversaries. Piper has nothing in common with the town golden-boy-turned-lawmanand she refuses to be a notch on his bedpost. Despite rumors, Hale avoids fooling around with the women of Sweet Hill, many of whom are hoping to get him to the altar. But staying out of Pipers path is proving near impossible. The infuriating troublemaker clearly has no respect for his badge. As she continues to push his buttons, it becomes clear to Hale that he must either arrest Piperor claim her as his own.

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    6 時間 24 分