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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704179 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Trost der Schönheit - Eine Suche (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung) Author: Gabriele Von Arnim Narrator: Gabriele Von Arnim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 8, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Trost finden. In einer Welt, die so überwältigend, ängstigend, fordernd sein kann. Trost finden im Empfinden von Schönheit, weil das, so Gabriele von Arnim, nicht weniger ist als Selbsterhalt. 'Ich brauche Schönheit. Den Trost der Schönheit. Denn wenn ich Schönheit sehe, höre, lese, spüre, dann glaube ich an Möglichkeiten. An Wege, Räume, Purzelbäume.' Der Trost der Schönheit ist eine schillernde Verbindung aus autobiografischem und essayistischem Erzählen: keine Kulturgeschichte, die ihren Gegenstand mit Theorie einhegen will, sondern eine literarische Spurensuche. Gabriele von Arnim fragt nach den Formen und Wirkungen dessen, was wir schön nennen; nach dem Glück und den dunklen Seiten der Empfindsamkeit. Die Suche führt zurück in die Kindheit, zu einem Mädchen aus kühl geführtem Haus, das erst lernen muss, zu fühlen, um Schönheit - einen tröstlichen Moment lang - in all ihrer endlichen Fülle wahrnehmen zu können. Ein Hörbuch, das den Blick weitet für die Welt um uns und ihre Vergänglichkeit, das Mut macht zum Aushalten von Ambivalenz.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Beyond the Story (edición en español): Crónica de 10 años de BTS Author: Bts, Myeongseok Kang Narrator: Manuel Chávez, Raúl Leonel De Cervantes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 7, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: EL PRIMER LIBRO OFICIAL Publicado para celebrar el 10.º aniversario de BTS, contiene historias que van mucho más allá de lo que ya sabes sobre el grupo. Tras darse a conocer al mundo el 13 de junio de 2013, BTS celebra el 10.º aniversario de su debut en junio de 2023. Sus integrantes se han situado en lo más alto como artistas icónicos globales y, aprovechando este importante hito, repasan su trayectoria en su primer libro oficial. De este modo, BTS afianza su potencial para construir un futuro aún más brillante y da un paso más en un camino que nadie ha transitado antes. BTS comparte las historias más personales detrás de los focos de su trayectoria hasta la fecha a través de entrevistas y de más de tres años de cobertura en profundidad por parte de Myeongseok Kang, quien ha escrito sobre K-pop y cultura pop coreana en diversos medios. Presentado de forma cronológica en siete capítulos desde antes del debut de BTS hasta el presente, en el libro sus vívidas voces y opiniones se entrelazan para contar una historia sincera, ágil e intensa. En entrevistas individuales hechas sin cámara ni maquillaje, arrojan luz sobre su trayectoria musical desde múltiples ángulos y abordan su trascendencia. BEYOND THE STORY es un archivo extraordinario: todo el universo de BTS en un solo volumen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra Author: Dan Callahan Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride that gains momentum through the 1930s and '40s, reaches a crest of magical creativity in the 1950s and early '60s, and then crashes down by the early 1970s, a half century when the great American songbook dominated the airwaves and the fight for racial equality came to the forefront. Ella was beloved in her time, and she is still beloved. Frank is still the king of the songbook, but Bing's legacy is just as vital once you start listening to his unprecedented 1930s output. The best songs from Judy's greatest triumph, her 1963–64 TV series, are shared endlessly online. The legend of Billie grows by the year, and the basis of this should be appreciation and wonder for her own great artistry in the 1930s. Barbra is a living legend and still a commercial force to be reckoned with, the last exemplar of the songbook and its glories. All six of these singers reach out to us and show us new ways of expression and new ways to dream. Their song is largely ended but the melody lingers on.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Dance, to Live: A Biography of Thalia Mara Author: Carolyn J. Brown Narrator: Rebecca Avery Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Thalia Mara's story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi. As an adolescent Mara (1911–2003) studied with renowned Russian teacher Adolph Bolm, who recommended she go at age sixteen to Paris for further study. During a tour in Europe and South America, she met her partner in dance and life, Arthur Mahoney, and they dazzled the world with their breathtaking performances during the 1930s and '40s. The two were named codirectors of Jacob's Pillow in 1947, gracing the cover of Life magazine that year. Later they started two schools of dance in New York City, but despite much success, they closed due to lack of funding. That misfortune, however, was Jackson's boon as it led Mara to the second phase of her career: reviving the Jackson Ballet Company and bringing the USA International Ballet Competition (IBC) to the state. Thalia Mara was recognized at the end of her life not only for the USA IBC's decision to locate in Jackson, but also for her efforts as a patron of the arts. Her extraordinary fundraising and planning attracted international performers to the city in the 1980s and '90s. To Dance, to Live: A Biography of Thalia Mara gives the first full account of a life devoted to the arts.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Vorhang auf und durch: ...von einem, der es nicht geschafft hat Author: David Berlin Narrator: David Berlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 1, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Die Geschichte von David Berlin, einem der größten Schauspieler, den die Welt nie gesehen hat. David Berlin war immer zur richtigen Zeit am falschen Ort. Kurzweilig, humorvoll, selbstironisch, mit einer Prise Melancholie, aber immer gerade heraus. Das Hörbuch ist ein Spielfilm für die Ohren.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Blues: A Very Short Introduction Author: Elijah Wald Narrator: Brian Telestai Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Praised as 'suave, soulful, ebullient' (Tom Waits), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a progression of chords, or as a set of practices reflecting West African 'tonal and rhythmic approaches,' using a five-note 'blues scale.' He traces its roots in work and praise songs, and shows how it was transformed by such professional performers as W. C. Handy, who first popularized the blues a century ago. He follows its evolution from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith through Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix; identifies the impact of rural field recordings of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, and others; explores the role of blues in the development of both country music and jazz; and looks at the popular rhythm and blues trends of the 1940s and 1950s, from the uptown West Coast style of T-Bone Walker to the 'down home' Chicago sound of Muddy Waters. Wald brings the story up to the present, touching on the effects of blues on American poetry, and its connection to modern styles such as rap. As with all of Oxford's Very Short Introductions, The Blues tells you—with insight, clarity, and wit—everything you need to know to understand this quintessentially American musical genre.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699538 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holler Rat: A Memoir Author: Anya Liftig Narrator: Anya Liftig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Anya Liftig grew up with a foot in two very different worlds: While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her 'holler rat,' her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent school years in affluent Connecticut and summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship to Yale and become an acclaimed artist, using provocative performances to explore the contradictions and unanswered questions of her life. But when the world Anya was building for herself shattered, she was forced to reconcile where she'd come from with who she was and who she wanted to be. In Holler Rat, Liftig masterfully interweaves family lore from her Appalachian childhood with her performance art pieces and scenes of the yearlong period in which her life fell apart, and plumbs the cathartic self-reckoning that followed. She takes us from her Mamaw's porch to Yale; from the site of a violent family land feud to a pre-gentrified Bushwick loft; and from a devastating childhood leg injury to having 243 raw eggs pelted at her in the name of art. In visceral, beautiful prose that ranges from raunchy and outrageous to sobering and tragic, Holler Rat is the origin story of an unconventional artistic life and a captivating account of the stumbling blocks, sacrifices, and discoveries along the way.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700067 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - 114 Etagen (Deluxe Edition) Author: Henrike Tönnes, Kim Jens Witzenleiter, Thomas Plum Narrator: Thomas Hünefeld, Jonas Wiedehage, Jörg Schürgers, Mariano Skroce, Ron Kliehm, Marc Chardon, Nina-Carissima Schönrock, Saskia Haisch, Henrike Tönnes, Pia-Rhona Saxe, Lisa Cardinale, Chiara Haurand, Kim Jens Witzenleiter, Sara Wegner, Philip Bösand, Christo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 25, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Exklusiv für die Deluxe Edition: 2 Bonustracks mit den jeweiligen 'One-Take-Improvisationsaufnahmen'. Ungekürzt und Unbearbeitet! Präsentationstag in der Firma 'Wolfy-Office'. Zwei Teams, zwei mögliche Projekte. Nur ein Team bekommt die Zusage vom CEO und beide Teams sind bestens vorbereitet um ihr Projekt durchzuboxen. Der Aufzug zur Chefetage in der 114. Etage wird betreten und alles ist vorbereitet. Es kann nichts mehr schiefgehen… oder? Verbraucher Hinweis; Harte Texte - Dieses Hörspiel wurde On-Location aufgenommen. Die Handlung ist improvisiert.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Paris. Mein Leben Author: Paris Hilton Narrator: Viola Müller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 24, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Die Wahrheit hinter der glamourösen Fassade Als eine junge, rebellische Hotelerbin Anfang der 2000er Jahre mit Partyexzessen und frechen Sprüchen die Klatschspalten und das Programm der Jugendsender bestimmte, rollten Eltern allerorts mit den Augen: Was war das schon wieder für ein schlechtes Vorbild für die Jugend? Zwanzig Jahre später gibt Paris Hilton selbst eine Antwort, die viele überraschen wird. Denn schon als Teenagerin erfuhr sie die disziplinierende Gewalt einer frauenfeindlichen Gesellschaft: Paris nimmt ihre Leser*innen mit zu Flirts, die bald kein Spiel mehr waren; in finstere Erziehungsheime, in die ihre Eltern sie steckten, weil sie sonst nirgends reinpasste; auf die Bühne der Öffentlichkeit, auf der ihr, kaum hatte sie diese betreten, Spott und Häme entgegenschlugen. Doch anders als viele Stars ihrer Zeit erlangte Paris wieder Kontrolle über ihr Leben und erfüllte sich ihre Träume. Und während die Jugendsender und Klatschspalten von damals kaum noch existieren, wird Paris von ihren Fans mehr geliebt denn je.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hollywood Stuntwoman: Follow Your Dreams…Overcome Your Fears… Author: Diane Peterson Narrator: Diane Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Take an exciting journey with professional stuntwoman, Diane Peterson, into the amazing world of action stunts, adventure, joy, heartbreak, injury, death, and her uncanny desire to overcome her fears and follow her dreams. Diane has been a professional stuntwoman for over forty years. She has worked on over two hundred movies and television shows including Titanic, Laundromat, Green Hornet, Batman Forever, Marked for Death, Out for Justice, Robocop II, Airplane, and many, many others. Television shows she has worked on include Walker, Texas Ranger, Fall Guy, MacGyver, Magnum P.I., and many others. Diane has film credits as double for: Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Faye Dunaway, Diane Keaton, Heather Locklear, Heather Thomas, Farrah Fawcett, Michele Pfeiffer, Kate Capshaw, and hundreds of other actresses. Diane encourages all to overcome your fears and follow your dreams! Sit back and enjoy the ride!