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Title: Christmas

Subtitle: Are We Nearly There Yet?

Author: Hannah McBride, Alex Perkins

Narrator: Alex Perkins, Hannah McBride

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-10

Publisher: Create Digital Publishing

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Are we nearly there yet? is here is make your Christmas journies less boring, whether your a car, a boat, a plane or a sleigh! It's packed full of games, jokes, facts and stories to keep you entertained on the way! We'll also give you some great ideas of Christmas things to do when you get to your destination!

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Title: Are We Nearly There Yet?: France

Author: Hannah McBride, Alex Perkins

Narrator: Hannah McBride, Alex Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-30-10

Publisher: Create Digital Publishing

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Are we nearly there yet? is here is make your journey to France less boring, whether you're in a car, a ferry, a plane, or a swimming your way across the channel! It's packed full of games, jokes, facts, and stories to keep you entertained on the way! We'll also give you some great ideas of French things to do when you get to your destination!

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Title: Itasca State Park, Minnesota

Subtitle: Headwaters of the Mississippi River

Author: Patricia L Lawrence

Narrator: J. D. Streeter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-10

Publisher: Big Happy Family, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Lake Itasca is the undisputed headwaters of the Mississippi River Itasca State Park, Minnesota. Native Americans living in the pine forests, led white explores to the source of the mighty Mississippi River. It was a European explorer that named the source or headwaters of the Mississippi in Latin, it was the Native Americans who named the Mississippi River in their own language. Find out how, at the Grand Opening of the Jacob Brower Visitor Center celebration in Itasca State Park.

Editorial Reviews:

This audiobook takes listeners on a journey to Itasca State Park in Minnesota, the location of headwaters of the Mississippi River. J. D. Streeter frames the material with his stately narration, while travel journalist Patricia L. Lawrence visits with Joe Day of Minnesota Indian Affairs Council on the occasion of the opening of the Jacob Brower Visitor Center. She captures field recordings and interviews, which creates a nuanced audio atmosphere. In her friendly and inquisitive manner, she uncovers the history of the park, which was established in 1891, and discovers its main attractions.

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Title: Underground Railroad New York Part 2

Subtitle: A Railroad to Freedom

Author: Patricia L Lawrence

Narrator: Patricia L Lawrence

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-10

Publisher: Big Happy Family, LLC

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Underground Railroad Circle of Hope. Our exploration of the Undergound Railroad continues in Auburn, and includes Harriet Tubman's Home, now a museum. In Auburn New Yorks capital, Harriet Tubman lived her older less dangerous years. During the dangerous years, Harriet Tubman was a major part of the Underground Railroad; she helped at last one thousand enslaved people escape to freedom.

Editorial Reviews:

A Railroad to Freedom, narrated in compassionate, journalistic tones by Patricia L. Lawrence, takes listeners on an in-depth tour of Auburn, New York, where Harriet Tubman spent her later years. With her home now operating as a museum, the city is a treasure trove of information on the Underground Railroad, in which Tubman played in instrumental role in helping slaves escape to freedom. An interview with the museum curator adds important historical context to this tour, making this a fascinating listen for anyone with an interest in historical tourism and Harriet Tubman's life.

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Title: Coco Chanel

Subtitle: The Legend and the Life

Author: Justine Picardie

Narrator: Cassandra Harwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. In this full-scale biography we finally discover the history of the incredible woman who created the way we look now.

Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor - she conjured up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, best-selling perfumes, and the most successful fashion brand of all time - but she also invented herself, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture.

While Chanel was supreme innovator and vendor of all things elegant and beautiful, what lies beneath her own glossy myth is far darker. Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at how Coco Chanel made herself into her own most powerful creation.

Justine Picardie brings the mysterious Gabrielle Chanel out of hiding, to celebrate her great achievements. She examines Chanel's enduring afterlife, as well as her remarkable life, uncovering the consequences of what she covered up, unpicking the seams between truth and legend, yet keeping intact the real fabric of her past.

Members Reviews:

Excellent biography of a facinating woman

I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this very well researched biography of a facinating woman. Justine Picardie has obviously worked really hard to paint a balanced picture of this woman of great contrasts and in such facinating detail that she brings to life the complex personality that was Coco Chanel. You get a strong sense of an extraordinary, ambitious and determind woman, of great sensuality and of vunerability. Chanel was a woman who did much good but who also had a dark side. Picardie tells Chanel's story from her earliest roots, living with her family in grinding povery in the late 19th century and then from the age of eleven at the Aubazine convent orphanage. She contrasts this with the great wealth and success that was to follow.

Particularly interesting are Chanel's romantic relationships and friendships with many leading figures from twentieth century history.

Through Justine Picardie's extensive research and feel for her subject you get a real sense of the woman, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel. Picardie was given access to Chanel archives and met people who remembered Chanel, including her great-niece. She stayed at the convent where Chanel grew up, slept in Chanel's room at The Ritz and wrote some of the biography in Chanel's apartment at Rue Cambon.

Justine Picardie has written an interesting and hugely enjoyable book. I listened to it twice and there is such a lot in this audiobook that I enjoyed it just as much - if not more the second time.

Very highly recommended.

interesting, if reverential

A very interesting 'life' but the worshipping at the shrine of the Chanel 'Legend' did get a little tiresome at times. Picardie detours from the biography off onto her own experiences of sitting in Chanel's appartment, Ritz room etc. etc. Plus a rather less relevant chapter on Jackie Kennedy

Picardie shows a tendancy to find influences and inspirations from Chanel's childhood which are perhaps a little far-fetched- or at least overworked.

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Title: Johannesburg

Subtitle: Holiday FM Travel Guide

Author: Holiday FM

Narrator: James Beckingham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-10

Publisher: Create Digital Publishing

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

This is the Official Holiday FM Travel Guide to Johannesburg, including information from the Foreign and Commonwealth Offices Know Before You Go campaign.

Jo'burg: The beating heart of Southern Africa. Pulsating, vibrant, and stirring with a wealth of modern spoils, a gilded history and gushing veins of indigenous culture. Economic powerhouse of the continent, Johannesburg burst from its gold rush settlement status, having been built on the richest known gold reef in the world, to one of the largest urban spaces in the womb of mankind. Downtown Jo'burg is a cacophony of traders, artists, and merchants encircled by big city delights and roaring wild landscapes on a blazing horizon that mesmerises travellers from across the world. This audiobook is designed to be listened to before you go, on the plane or whilst you are walking around town. It features eight tracks you can listen to when youre out and about, including:

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Title: The Hilliker Curse

Subtitle: My Pursuit of Women

Author: James Ellroy

Narrator: James Ellroy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-10

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoiras high intensity and as riveting as any of his novelsabout his obsessive search for atonement in women.

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was 10 years old. He hated and lusted after his mother and summoned her dead. She was murdered three months later.

The Hilliker Curse is a predators confession, a treatise on guilt and on the power of malediction, and above all, a cri de cœur. James Ellroy unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her.

A layered narrative of time and place, emotion and insight, sexuality and spiritual quest, The Hilliker Curse is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. It is unlike any memoir you have ever read.

Members Reviews:

Jim, Hire an Actor

I am a tremendous fan of James Ellroy. I've read all the books and have others from Audible so that I can enjoy them in that format as well. LA Confidential and American Tabloid are two of the great crime novels of the century. When Ellroy writes about himself it is frank to the point of giving us a lot more information than anyone really wants to learn, but I still looked forward to the chance to hear Ellroy read his own work. I have seen him in person at The Mysterious Bookshop in NYC and found him to be a fascinating speaker--delightfully candid. So when I started listening, I was shocked at how weak an entry this was. Much of the book rehashes ground he has covered much more successfully before, but that aside, Ellroy suffers from an incredible fault of overacting. His delivery of this audio book would be overacted in a football stadium. In the confines of one's home or automobile, it is a boring, grating mess.

Some authors are brilliant readers of their own work--Amy Tan, early Tony Hillerman, for example. Ellroy, who turns out a new novel every 5 to 10 years these days, needs to focus on writing and leave the reading of his books to someone who knows what he is doing. Check out the brilliant Blood's a Rover instead.

Horrible reading job

If you're considering this book, you're probably a fan of Ellroy, like I am. And the book is mildly interesting -- his difficulties in relating to women throughout his life. But the book is read by the author, and he's just not good at all. I've been listening to it while driving to work for three weeks, and it's all I can do to avoid driving over a bridge to end it. Ellroy has a certain rhythm in how he processes prose. Perhaps it helps him to be a genius writer. But the reading aloud -- must stop.

It's bad enough that I would advise against getting this. Just read this book in print if you're interested.

Veering toward Vacancy

"The word MORE summarized my private agenda. It was sexual compulsion fueled by a terror of human contact and the forfeit of mental control. I could brood, peep, stalk, think and self-narrate. I could not act."

- James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse

Probably 3.5 stars. It is funky, narcissistic, bizarre, transgressive, beautiful and brutal.

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Title: London

Author: Vegetarian Travel Guide

Format: Original Recording

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-10

Publisher: Puttenham Ltd

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Come and explore the mouth-watering vegetarian side of London. You can GRAB a bite from the famous red London bus turned into a vegan restaurant, SAMPLE some all-natural world food in the Covent Garden area, SHOP for special animal-friendly clothes and footwear, and TREAT yourself to the most decadent vegan cupcakes in town.

The Vegetarian Travel Guides are comprehensive audio tours recorded right on the scene by writer and veggie food lover Rachel Fryer. They are some of the internet's most popular vegetarian guides, and for everybody who loves to eat great food.

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Title: New York City

Subtitle: Green Travel Guide

Author: Green Travel Guide

Narrator: Green Travel Guide

Format: Abridged

Length: 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-09-10

Publisher: Puttenham Ltd

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Come on an eco-journey to the Big Apple. The Green Travel Guide is a comprehensive audio tour recorded right on the scene.

You can SHOP at an achingly cool eco-friendly shoe shop, EXPLORE some of the green spaces of Central Park, STROLL around eco-friendly boutiques in the East Village, and EAT at Manhattan's top organic raw-food restaurant.

Why not make your next holiday a green one? Have a holiday, have a conscience, and most of all, have fun.

The Green Travel Guide donates 10 percent of all profits to charities.

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Titel: China hören

Autor:: Antje Hinz

Erzähler: Rolf Becker

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 20 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-17-10

Herausgeber: Silberfuchs Verlag

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

China ist eine der ältesten, geheimnisvollsten und faszinierendsten Kulturnationen. Bis zum 19. Jahrhundert war der Lebensstandard im "Reich der Mitte" höher als in jeder anderen Gesellschaft. Die Chinesen erfanden das Papier und die Druckkunst, das Schießpulver und den Kompass und stiegen lange vor Kolumbus zur größten Seemacht der Welt auf. Chinas über 4000 Jahre alte Kultur beeinflusst unsere moderne Welt bis heute. Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin und Kampfkünste finden weltweit Beachtung, ebenso die geistigen und philosophischen Strömungen Chinas, die dem Westen Denkanstöße geben: Der Daoismus empfiehlt ein Leben im Einklang mit der Natur. Konfuzius lehrt moralische Grundsätze, wie Pflichtgefühl, Loyalität, Respekt und Gehorsam.

Das Hörbuch liefert fesselnde Einblicke in chinesische Traditionen - von den ersten Mythen der Vorgeschichte bis in die Gegenwart. Der Schauspieler Rolf Becker erzählt von Priestern, die den Willen der Götter mit Orakeln erkundeten, von gottgleichen Herrschern, die Paläste, Mauern und Grabkammern für die Ewigkeit errichteten, von weltentrückten Beamten, die die Natur in Gedichten, Tuschebildern und Kalligrafien festhielten, und von Mönchen, die unlösbare Rätsel aufgaben.

Zu diesem Hörbuch erhalten Sie das Booklet als pdf-Datei. Es wird nach dem Kauf Ihrer Bibliothek hinzugefügt.

Kritik Bewertungen:

China hören heißt das Sachbuch für die Ohren, das auf Spurensuche ins "Reich der Mitte" führt, in eine mehr als 4000 Jahre alte Kultur. Es liest der Schauspieler Rolf Becker...die Geschichten um Kampf- und Dichtkünste, Hofmusik und Peking-Oper, Daoismus und Konfuzianismus... Der Hörer kann im Kopf auf Reisen gehen...

--Rundfunkjournalistin Antje Hinz bringt Chinas (Kultur-)Geschichte auf den Punkt - und auf CD.

Das Hörbuch "China hören" ist eine sprachästhetisch elegante und von Originalmusik begleitete Gesamtdarstellung der Kulturgeschichte des Reichs der Mitte.

--Buchkultur

Der Hörer taucht in der aufwändig recherchierten, von Rolf Becker wunderbar gesprochenen und musikalisch abgerundeten CD in eine faszinierende Kulturgeschichte ein...Eine Reise, die hilft, das Kaiserreich China auch in der Gegenwart besser zu verstehen.

--NDR Kultur

Jedem, der China verstehen will, sei dieses Hörbuch nachdrücklich empfohlen.

--dpa - Deutsche Presseagentur