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Heinrich Heine wurde am 13. Dezember 1797 in Düsseldorf geboren. Gemäß der Familientradition begann er eine kaufmännische Laufbahn, in der er allerdings scheiterte; schließlich studierte er Jura und promovierte. Mit seiner Lyrik und seinen Reisebildern (Die Harzreise) wurde er schnell überaus populär, musste aber, angefeindet wegen seiner politischen Ansichten und der Zensur in Deutschland überdrüssig, 1831 nach Paris emigrieren.

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

Ein TV-Bericht über den rätselhaften Fall eines Komapatienten erinnert Jochen an die Ereignisse in der Grafschaft Arnstein. Der 16-jährige Sebastian war in der Nähe von Mordians Gruft, die vor fünf Jahren zerstört wurde, leblos aufgefunden worden. Jochen verfolgt eine Spur, die ihn mitten ins Moor, zum Kloster "Heilig Blut" führt. Dort trifft er auf den seltsamen Pater Philippe Lemarque, der ihm erklärt, dass sein Vorfahre Mordian Treskow zurückgekehrt sei.

She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry’s eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Caroline Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman’s life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life’s journey.

Lilia Liska is 81. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the arrival of 17 grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.

La maggioranza delle persone cerca all'esterno la felicità. La realtà è che la felicità non è ritrovabile da nessuna parte se non in noi stessi. In questo audiolibro l'autrice passa in rassegna 9 argomenti in 9 capitoli, attraverso la descrizione della propria esperienza personale e strumenti scientifi ci utili per raggiungere il proprio "brillio interiore". Impreziosiscono il volume le interviste a personaggi di spicco: dagli autori di best seller Paolo Borzacchiello e Simone Tempia, ad uno dei maggiori esperti di mindfulness e presidente della Unione Buddhista italiana Filippo Scianna.

"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door." A new crop of writers emerged from the dawning of the nuclear age, grappling with humankind's place in the universe. While imagining the wonders of space exploration and the rise of technological advancements, they questioned whether we were prepared to encounter aliens, or even control the machines and weapons we'd built ourselves.

Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of 17 grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different version of events, revealing the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. 

Nachdem Ivonne van der Burg, wie sich herausstellt, eine Viren und Genforscherin ist, dem Privatermittler Jan Hendrickson endlich die Wahrheit erzählt, wendet sich der Fall. Ivonne van der Burg hat Ihrem Mann Ronald einen Virus getestet. Dieser Virus verhält sich aber nicht wie gedacht. Ronald van der Burg verändert sich dramatisch. Er wird gefährlich. Nur mit Hilfe von Kriminalkommissar Martin Ziehkraut gelingt es, eine Katastrophe zu verhindern.

A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists.

A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own. Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career, ahead of his time, he grew fascinated with identifying the biochemical root of manic depression, just as he began to suffer from it himself.

An extraordinary work of history and original reporting that reveals the ways in which presidential marriages have affected the tone, character, and policies of twelve administrations, from Woodrow and Edith Wilson to George W. and Laura Bush.

A selection from the John Updike audio collection. These extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful.

A selection from the John Updike audio collection. These extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful.

America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.

A selection from the John Updike audio collection.

A selection from the John Updike audio collection

A selection from the John Updike audio collection.

Set in New York at the turn of the century, the story centers on a young couple that sacrifices their dearest possessions to buy each other Christmas gifts.

In Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little fir tree realizes too late that it did not appreciate the grand moments of life - the majesty of the forest, the dazzling grandeur of its night as a Christmas tree - while they were happening...