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American Legends: The Life of Etta James , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min

Etta James, the legendary jazz, gospel, rhythm & blues, and soul singer, was perfectly positioned to reign as the supreme artist in the emerging soul genre of the '40s and '50s in America. No one ever doubted her talent, the highly distinctive and versatile nature of her voice, or her drive to succeed, and yet, she has been "woefully overlooked" in the history of indigenous rock and blues music in the United States. She is famous and recognized for several iconic hits with which she is eternally associated, such as "I'd Rather Go Blind" and "At Last", but her place in the pantheon of great soul artists is unsteady and not always instantly recognizable by those outside of a knowledgeable group of devotees. For the rest of soul music's listeners, mention of her name will result in a hasty inclusion into the inner circle of leading artists, as though James had been momentarily forgotten. Once the object of focus, however, she is revered as one of the titans of the genre, and those who had allowed her to slip from their minds are immediately reawakened to her powerful vocal and interpretive gifts. Such a vague position within the history of the form is partly due to a difficulty James experienced in crossing over to the white audience when others of the same genre were succeeding brilliantly at garnering a new, mixed race fan base. Further, her own abilities may have contributed to the phenomenon; Etta James excelled at almost everything she touched, from gospel and blues, to soul and pop. She could wound the listener with a ballad yet in the same evening "rock a house". In her various vocal incarnations, she triumphed as "a rhythm and blues belter, a blues crooner, and a rock-and-roll screamer" who could tailor her voice and her stage persona to seduce or abuse the listener. James' larger than life and highly forceful personality may have had a downside as well, as she searched for cross-over acceptance by doing everything that her colleag ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex L. Vincent. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035622/bk_acx0_035622_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Raptures

'ORIGINAL and COMPELLING...CHEF'S KISS!' MARIAN KEYES'I gobbled up The Raptures . . . packed with wit and heart, and always utterly absorbing.' LISA MCINERNEYWhen several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences.It is late June in Ballylack. Hannah Adger anticipates eight long weeks' reprieve from school, but when her classmate Ross succumbs to a violent and mysterious illness, it marks the beginning of a summer like no other.As others fall ill, questions about what - or who - is responsible pitch the village into conflict and fearful disarray. Hannah is haunted by guilt as she remains healthy while her friends are struck down. Isolated and afraid, she prays for help. Elsewhere in the village, tempers simmer, panic escalates and long-buried secrets threaten to emerge. Bursting with Carson's trademark wit, profound empathy and soaring imagination, The Raptures explores how tragedy can unite a small community - and tear it apart. At its heart is the extraordinary resilience of one young girl. As the world crumbles around her, she must find the courage to be different in a place where conforming feels like the only option available.'Utterly compulsive and gripping . . . Jan Carson is a true original. An absolute must read. Outstanding.' ELAINE FEENEY'Heart-rending, hilarious . . . it's a belter' LOUISE KENNEDY'Blistering...glorious...written from the guts and from the heart.' LUCY CALDWELL'One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation' SUNDAY TIMESDarkly funny, highly inventive and deeply moving, The Raptures is an unmissable novel of 2022.

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The Case for Love

An exhilarating journey into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, from the acclaimed author of Let Me Not Be Mad.What does it take to care for a stranger? Really care.The Case for Love is a reflection on a career treating patients with brain trauma - people whose thoughts and feelings are largely unknowable - and how and why those treatments failed.It is a reconstruction of three haunting cases in which the patients were tragically misunderstood - and an attempt through the power of the imagination to understand and make amends.It then describes the author's abandonment of his career and his tumultuous quest for healing and redemption.It is also a story of intimate relationships, pets, fatherhood and heartbreak, culminating in a moment of psychedelic transcendence and rebirth.It is about the overpowering need for connection - and how, increasingly, we are trapped in ourselves.It is a meditation on empathy and an act of atonement.It is a unique, hybrid work of clinical case study and pure invention that destroys the boundary between fact and fiction in order to bring us face-to-face with the shocking, liberating truth.__________Praise for Let Me Not Be Mad'Imagine a gonzo Oliver Sacks communing with Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose, R.D. Laing and the spirit of Kafka's 'The Country Doctor', and you still won't quite have the flavour of this wild and strikingly original book' William Fiennes'Stunning: clever, troubling, restless, honest, dishonest; one of the best portraits of madness and clinical practice I've read' Olivia Laing'A perfectly extraordinary - not to mention extraordinarily perfect - tense Hitchcockian psychodrama. I have rarely read a more haunting and enthralling account of a descent into madness. An important, profound and fascinating book' Stephen Fry'Blackly comic, warmly compassionate, a unique take on the human mind offering uncomfortable universal truths' Stewart Lee'A slow-burn belter of a book ... terrific ... so finely described, the result has the terse force of a classic short story' Roddy Doyle'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat' Guardian

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Do No Harm

'Probably the fastest thriller and most unrelentingly tense thriller I've read since The Chain' 4 star reader review 'Absolutely phenomenal' 5 star reader review 'Kept me hooked from the very start!' 5 star reader review 'Believe me, you'll not want to put this down' 5 star reader review 'Everything about Do No Harm was absolutely brilliant' 5 star reader review 'Had me GRIPPED!' 4 star reader review 'So full of tension and twists!' 5 star reader review'It gripped me from page 1' Reader review'An absolute edge of your seat belter. I urge you to pre-order it now' Reader review'Let me be the first one to call it: Do No Harm is going to be HUGE!' Reader review'Thriller fans will be in heaven' Louise Candlish 'Chilling and perfectly paced, one to put on the very top of your TBR!' Sarah Pearse My child has been taken. And I've been given a choice... Kill a patient on the operating table. Or never see my son again.The man lies on the table in front of me. As a surgeon, it's my job to save him. As a mother, I know I must kill him. You might think that I'm a monster. But there really is only one choice. I must get away with murder. Or I will never see my son again.I'VE SAVED MANY LIVES. WOULD YOU TRUST ME WITH YOURS?DON'T MISS THE HEART-STOPPING THRILLER OF 2022 #DONOHARM'With proper breath-taking, pulse-racing levels of tension. Tracking heart surgeon Anna as she grapples with an impossible moral dilemma, I almost felt I was going under the knife myself' LOUISE CANDLISH'When you pick up a book to read the first page and then can't put it down . . . ' SARAH PEARSE 'Utterly gripping, addictive and brilliantly tense' KAREN HAMILTON 'Do No Harm hooked me . . . What a terrifying ride!' GILLY MACMILLAN'With an agonising dilemma at its heart and a pace that never lets up . . . A corker of a thriller' KATE RIORDAN'Had me on the edge of my seat . . . Do No Harm is brilliantly thrilling' NADINE MATHESON 'Seriously terrifying, chilling and unputdownable' EMMA CURTIS'An edge-of-your-seat, head-spinning thriller with emotion and depth woven through its heart' LAUREN NORTH 'A brilliant example of psychological crime writing at its very best' KATE RHODES'The ultimate page turning edge-of-your-seat thriller. Loved it' NIKKI SMITH'The most nail biting book I've read this year. . . An absolute rollercoaster, you won't be able to put it down' HOLLY SEDDON

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Do No Harm (eBook, ePUB)

'Probably the fastest thriller and most unrelentingly tense thriller I've read since The Chain' 4 star reader review 'Absolutely phenomenal' 5 star reader review 'Kept me hooked from the very start!' 5 star reader review 'Believe me, you'll not want to put this down' 5 star reader review 'Everything about Do No Harm was absolutely brilliant' 5 star reader review 'Had me GRIPPED!' 4 star reader review 'So full of tension and twists!' 5 star reader review 'It gripped me from page 1' Reader review 'An absolute edge of your seat belter. I urge you to pre-order it now' Reader review 'Let me be the first one to call it: Do No Harm is going to be HUGE!' Reader review ? 'Thriller fans will be in heaven' Louise Candlish 'Chilling and perfectly paced, one to put on the very top of your TBR!' Sarah Pearse My child has been taken. And I've been given a choice… Kill a patient on the operating table. Or never see my son again. The man lies on the table in front of me. As a surgeon, it's my job to save him. As a mother, I know I must kill him. You might think that I'm a monster. But there really is only one choice. I must get away with murder. Or I will never see my son again. I'VE SAVED MANY LIVES. WOULD YOU TRUST ME WITH YOURS? DON'T MISS THE HEART-STOPPING THRILLER OF 2022 #DONOHARM 'With proper breath-taking, pulse-racing levels of tension. Tracking heart surgeon Anna as she grapples with an impossible moral dilemma, I almost felt I was going under the knife myself' LOUISE CANDLISH 'When you pick up a book to read the first page and then can't put it down . . . ' SARAH PEARSE 'Brilliant. Relentlessly tense. This thriller gave me palpitations' ?LESLEY KARA 'Utterly gripping, addictive and brilliantly tense' KAREN HAMILTON 'Do No Harm hooked me . . . What a terrifying ride!' GILLY MACMILLAN 'With an agonising dilemma at its heart and a pace that never lets up . . . A corker of a thriller' KATE RIORDAN 'Had me on the edge of my seat . . . Do No Harm is brilliantly thrilling' NADINE MATHESON 'Seriously terrifying, chilling and unputdownable' EMMA CURTIS 'An edge-of-your-seat, head-spinning thriller with emotion and depth woven through its heart' LAUREN NORTH 'A brilliant example of psychological crime writing at its very best' KATE RHODES 'The ultimate page turning edge-of-your-seat thriller. Loved it' NIKKI SMITH 'A real winner: gut-wrenching, nail-biting and thought-provoking' ROBIN MORGAN-BENTLEY 'The most nail biting book I've read this year' HOLLY SEDDON

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The Drowning Girls (eBook, ePUB)

In the thin glow of moonlight, a mess of auburn curls gleams against the rocks. Hands bound, the girl's fragile body is limp and still. Seconds later, a wall of raging white water crashes down, swallowing her whole… A knock on the door late in the evening can only mean trouble for Detective Josie Quinn, but fear chokes her at the news that the one of her own team is missing. No one has seen Denton PD's beautiful Press Liaison Amber for days. Sweet-natured and totally dedicated to the job, she'd never let her colleagues down. A message scrawled on the frosted windscreen of Amber's car leads Josie to a nearby dam. But the body they pull from the water is not Amber… Josie won't sleep until she finds a name for the innocent girl left to drown, and the meaning of the numbers scribbled in a tattered pink diary found on Amber's desk. But when the trail leads her to a twisted truth about Amber's family, Josie wonders if anyone really knew her at all? Her team crumbling around her, Josie must stay strong and focused to get the job done. But as prime suspects start going missing, and rumors of an argument the night Amber disappeared surface, could one of her own staff be to blame? Finding Amber alive is Josie's only chance of knowing the truth and stopping a dangerous killer in their tracks. But as a blizzard closes in, how many more precious lives will be snatched before she can? An absolutely astounding crime thriller that will keep you up all night and leave you sleeping with the lights on. This gripping rollercoaster ride, perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni and Rachel Caine, will have you TOTALLY HOOKED! Everyone is talking about Lisa Regan: "BUCKLE UP… never-ending twists and turns. You think you know what to expect… and then BAM she hits you with something so out of the blue that you can't help but gasp." Katie Mettner Books, 5 stars "Absofrickenloutly amazing… fantastic start to finish… one of those books that you stay up way too late to read… pick up this book ASAP… be prepared to be hooked." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "Love, love, loved this book… fantastic… kept me guessing till the end." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "Brilliant… my goodness it's a real belter of a read!… I just couldn't put down… loved everything… not to be missed." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "I. Don't. Know. How. She. Does. It… My heart pounded in my chest, my pulse raced, I shed some tears, and my hands shook… absolutely incredible…

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