• Starry, Starry Night

  'We'll always be together, won't we?' Childhood friends and cousins Leo and Alice had imagined their whole lives playing out on their beloved Devon beach. But one night when they are teens, sitting on the sand beneath the stars, Alice tells Leo a secret that must never be shared with anybody else . . . then packs her bag and flees. Leo is left to build his own life - without Alice. He surrounds himself with other family and friends and on the whole is content and fulfilled. But he is left with a sense of what - or who - is missing. So decades later, when he receives a note from Alice asking if she can come home, he doesn't hesitate to agree. But as the stars align and their reunion draws near, Leo is left to consider their separation and what so many years apart means for a relationship solidified in youth and a secret which could affect the whole family. Praise for Marcia Willett: 'A warm and engaging read.' Trisha Ashley 'A beautifully woven tale of families and their secrets...' Liz Fenwick, bestselling author of The Cornish House 'Riveting, moving and utterly feel-good.' Daily Mail 'Sweeping powers of description transport her readers to another time and place.' Rosanna Ley Readers love Starry, Starry Night: 'Perfect comfort reading' ***** 'A very absorbing tale with lovely descriptions of the West Country' ***** 'Like meeting an old friend' *****

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  The Geographies of African American Short Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

  Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African American Short Fiction seeks to fill this gap by analyzing the ways African American short story writers plotted a diverse range of characters across multiple locations-small towns, a famous metropolis, city sidewalks, a rural wooded area, apartment buildings, a pond, a general store, a prison, and more. In the process, these writers highlighted the extents to which places and spaces shaped or situated racial representations. Presenting African American short story writers as cultural cartographers, author Kenton Rambsy documents the variety of geographical references within their short stories to show how these authors make cultural spaces integral to their artwork and inscribe their stories with layered and resonant social histories. The history of these short stories also documents the circulation of compositions across dozens of literary collections for nearly a century. Anthology editors solidified the significance of a core group of short story authors including James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, Charles Chesnutt, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Using quantitative information and an extensive literary dataset, The Geographies of African American Short Fiction explores how editorial practices shaped the canon of African American short fiction.

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  U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 336min

  A fascinating and insightful examination of the life and times of the victorious Civil War general who became a controversial American president. In U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bruce Catton explores the life and legacy of one of the nation's greatest and most misunderstood heroes before, during, and after the terrible War Between the States that violently split the country in two. Beginning with Ulysses S. Grant's youth in Ohio and his service as a young lieutenant under General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican-American War, the story continues through Grant's postwar disgrace, his forced resignation for drinking, and his failures as a citizen farmer and salesman. But after the Civil War broke out, Grant rose from the rank of an unknown solider to commanding general of the US Army, finding redemption as the military savior of the embattled Union. Proving his reputation as America's premiere expert on the Civil War, Catton examines Grant's campaigns in enthralling detail, including Fort Henry; Shiloh; the Siege of Vicksburg, which set the Confederate enemy on the inevitable road to defeat; and Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, which solidified Grant as a figure of national acclaim. Catton then explores Grant's two-term presidency and final years, casting an illuminating new light on a complex and controversial national figure whose great accomplishments have all too often been downplayed or overlooked. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Fass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026016/bk_adbl_026016_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  History in 30: The Life of Andrew Jackson , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 46min

  Citizens of the United States of America are very proud of their heritage; the country is known as the "land of opportunity" because of some self-made men who made a go of themselves in the country. When comparing the country to other places in the world, the United States is still a young country and was built on immigrants and disadvantaged people rising to the top and shaping the country into what it is today. Many of the early "founding fathers" and the subsequent two generations that followed solidified this belief that America was a place where a man could redefine himself and make himself into somebody great. "Great" is obviously a relative term; one person may see greatness in a historical figure, while others may see infamy. The topic of this essay fits that mold - a man who was great because of the accomplishments he managed to obtain in his lifetime, but was also infamous for many of the decisions he made while in power. Historical figures often fall in this gray area; no person is without their skeletons in their respective closets. Andrew Jackson committed many acts that today would be viewed as borderline evil, but he also embodied the early republic and was living proof of the American story. History in 30: The Life of Andrew Jackson provides a quick but comprehensive look at the life of one of America's most controversial presidents. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095132/bk_acx0_095132_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Wild Wastes: Southern Storm , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 809min

  Before World War II could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm. Now, Yosemite city stands as the gateway between two worlds and an equal power in the continent. Unfortunately, it’s surrounded on all sides by those who would love to see them fail: the empire in the west, a king to the east, and the tri-lliance of the wastes to the south.Standing at the top of Yosemite is the warrior king Vince, a ranger turned city state ruler. Supporting him in his endeavors is his inner circle. With a firm grasp on Yosemite, Vince has solidified his borders. He’s gotten the army trained to an elite status. He’s given his people a peaceful lifestyle with an economy that grows year over year. Yosemite is well and truly prospering.There is a delicate balance between nations in military and trade, however. One that is going to be upended with a skirmish in the lands of southern Yosemite.The bullseye Vince had worked so hard to remove is back, and bigger than ever. All anyone can do now is prepare for the storm.Warning: This novel contains adult themes and moral ambiguities. The main character is portrayed as a real person in an apocalypse and will not make choices that line up with society and cultural norms.This story contains a harem and is an Adult Fantasy novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Parsneau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/125371/bk_acx0_125371_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Storm Before the Calm

  *One of Bloomberg's Best Books of the Year*The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of American government, foreign policy, economics, and culture. In his riveting new book, noted forecaster and bestselling author George Friedman turns to the future of the United States. Examining the clear cycles through which the United States has developed, upheaved, matured, and solidified, Friedman breaks down the coming years and decades in thrilling detail. American history must be viewed in cycles particularly, an eighty-year "institutional cycle" that has defined us (there are three such examples the Revolutionary War/founding, the Civil War, and World War II), and a fifty-year "socio-economic cycle" that has seen the formation of the industrial classes, baby boomers, and the middle classes. These two major cycles are both converging on the late 2020s a time in which many of these foundations will change. The United States will have to endure upheaval and possible conflict, but also, ultimately, increased strength, stability, and power in the world. Friedman's analysis is detailed and fascinating, and covers issues such as the size and scope of the federal government, the future of marriage and the social contract, shifts in corporate structures, and new cultural trends that will react to longer life expectancies. This new book is both provocative and entertaining.

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  The Storm Before the Calm

  The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of American government, foreign policy, economics, and culture. In his riveting new book, noted forecaster and bestselling author George Friedman turns to the future of the United States. Examining the clear cycles through which the United States has developed, upheaved, matured, and solidified, Friedman breaks down the coming years and decades in thrilling detail. American history must be viewed in cycles-particularly, an eighty-year "institutional cycle" that has defined us (there are three such examples-the Revolutionary War/founding, the Civil War, and World War II), and a fifty-year "socio-economic cycle" that has seen the formation of the industrial classes, baby boomers, and the middle classes. These two major cycles are both converging on the late 2020s-a time in which many of these foundations will change. The United States will have to endure upheaval and possible conflict, but also, ultimately, increased strength, stability, and power in the world. Friedman's analysis is detailed and fascinating, and covers issues such as the size and scope of the federal government, the future of marriage and the social contract, shifts in corporate structures, and new cultural trends that will react to longer life expectancies. This new book is both provocative and entertaining.

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  Representing Justice: Stories of Law and Literature, Hörbuch, Digital, 720min

  What is the dynamic relationship between our culture's written and unwritten laws and its literature? How is that relationship evolving? How do law and literature influence or reflect one other? And what lessons might we draw from their symbiotic relationship? This 24-lecture series from a much-honored teacher approaches these questions with provocation and passion as it explores the rhetorical and philosophical connections that link these two disciplines, moving through ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, England's experience of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Focusing on individual works of literature where law - implicit or explicit - is a central theme, as well as on the overall relationship between law and literature in society, Professor Heinzelman shows how that relationship gradually transformed, from the astoundingly intricate cross-connections between law and literature still present during the time of Shakespeare, to a point in the mid-18th century when the two disciplines separated more clearly into the distinct realms we recognize today. The crucial period from the late 17th to the 19th century - during which that separation evolved and solidified - draws her sharpest focus, with the literature of the time, including some of the most famous and influential works ever put to paper, offering a profound perspective on that era's structures and values as well as an enduring impact we still feel today. 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: Susan Sage Heinzelman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000254/bk_tcco_000254_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  God at the Speed of Light: The Melding of Science and Spirituality , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 355min

  Respected television producer Barbara Hall cited God at the Speed of Light as one of the inspirations for her creation of the CBS TV series Joan of Arcadia (2003-05). The unique and supernatural characteristics of light that influenced Hall have equally served to inspire the likes of Copernicus, Ole Romer, Michelson/Morley, Sir Edwin Hubble, and Albert Einstein. Einstein, for instance, frequently envisioned what it would be like to ride on the back of a photon as it sped across the universe at the speed of light - a speed at which he calculated that time ceased to exist. Since Einstein first entertained his special theory, science has repeatedly verified the cessation of time at this singular velocity. The term light speed has paradoxically become the ultimate oxymoron: a velocity of 186,000 miles per second in a setting where time doesn't exist. The ramifications are profound and are the topic of this book - ramifications so profound, in fact, as to convince this author, an ultimate skeptic, that an eternal intelligent power must exist. Once Lee Baumann came to accept fully these scientifically proven yet supernatural qualities of light, his further research only solidified the truly metaphysical nature of this ubiquitous form of universal energy. Suddenly descriptions of "the light" in the near-death experience and the Earth's sacred texts (e.g., "I am the light of the world") required no further explanation. God shares an intimate relationship with light. Baumann's God at the Speed of Light will complement and strengthen the spiritual foundation of any religious view. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: T. Lee Baumann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/031600/bk_acx0_031600_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Billionaire's Secretary: Billionaire's Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 238min

  As Guyton Industry's senior executive assistant, Aurora Aldridge has been privy to all the goings on in the company for years. Her boss, John Guyton is an aging tycoon with three sons and is seriously considering retiring to his Florida mansion. For years Aurora has been at her boss's side; she has been everything he needed when he needed it, and her career and influence in the company has grown and solidified. But with Mr. Guyton's looming departure, what does the future hold for her? Guyton's sons converge in the firm's headquarters in Georgia to hear the old man's decision on their future roles with the company. Despite his many sincere warnings, Aurora is immediately taken with his youngest son, Zach. When things go awry on a weekend trip to Bermuda she finds herself at Zach's mercy. To Aurora's dismay, it's Will, Guyton's prodigal first-born son, who comes immediately to her aid. He's arrogant, judgmental, and makes it extremely clear that he doesn't think she is as talented in her work as she is in her bra. Yet for reasons she can't explain, Aurora feels challenged to prove herself to him. When Mr. Guyton pairs them up to recover a deal about to go wrong with some Hong Kong acquisitions, the two find themselves at each other's throats but also gaining a mutual respect for their unique capabilities. With an undeniable attraction growing between them, Aurora is torn between her values and her desires while Will fears he may just have finally met his match. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caitlin Moreland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035388/bk_acx0_035388_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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