Audiobooks
Deadlock Rebels
Summary
In the years after the Omnic Crisis, the American Southwest is ruled by vultures looking to profit off the chaos. The West is ripe for the taking, and Elizabeth Caledonia Ashe intends to write her name across it. When Ashe is arrested yet again on the morning of her high school graduation, her aloof, old-money parents decide to disinherit her from the family fortune. To steal back what's rightfully hers, Ashe teams up with her omnic butler, B.O.B., and local ruffian Jesse McCree for a series of heists, catapulting the trio into a game of fast money and dangerous alliances. Along the way, Ashe discovers that family isn't just about blood. It's about the people who've got your back when your back's against the wall. Full of high-octane chases and action-packed stand-offs, the second novel for Overwatch explores the founding of the Deadlock Gang and the origins of fan-favorite heroes Ashe and McCree. Don't miss this incredible, original story straight from the Overwatch game team and critically acclaimed author Lyndsay Ely.
©2020 Blizzard Entertainment. (P)2021 Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved.
A Tribute to Hip-Hop and Shakespeare's Othello: "When the Knight Fell" - Part - 1: Clear's Rise
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When the Knight Fell is a literary version of the modern musical. Follow characters Clear, Ego, Cash, and Diamond on a theatrical odyssey inspired by the fictional tragedies of the Shakespeare cast Othello, Iago, Michael Cassio and Desdemona. Perceptions of race, class, and societal norms are all challenged here. Imagine Othello reincarnated as a white minority navigating through the predominantly African American hip-hop community and culture of today. This audiobook pays homage to a classic piece of literature by sparking our imagination and expanding our perspective. Author Christopher Gary Simmons elevates his unique style of spoken-word poetics by combining the story telling of William Shakespeare with the broken English of Langston Hughes. The rhythmic production used throughout the audiobook enhances the listening experience, creating a profound tribute to lyricists everywhere and our memory of the character Othello. This innovative project will move listeners to connect with Shakespeare's dramatic tale while being transported blissfully to a new level of melodic expression.
©2020 Christopher Gary Simmons (P)2021 Christopher Gary Simmons
The Anatomy of Melancholy
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The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the most remarkable books ever written. First published in 1621, and hardly ever out of print since, it is a huge, varied, idiosyncratic, entertaining and learned survey of the experience of melancholy, seen from just about every possible angle that could be imagined. Its subtitle explains much: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of It. In Three Maine Partitions with their Several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up. But despite the subtitle’s length, it does not do justice to the immense scope of the study. Nor to its oddness. Robert Burton (1577-1640) was an Oxford scholar, a vicar and a mathematician with a stupendously wide reading habit which was supported by an exceptional memory: he remembered virtually everything he read. However, throughout his life he suffered from depression and was therefore able to bring personal experience to what could have been a dry, if gargantuan academic study. According to traditional medicine, accepted generally by Jacobeans, melancholy was caused by ‘black bile’. But for Burton psychology underpinned all. He divides his book into three Partitions. In 'The First Partition' he looks at causes of melancholy. He addresses diet (good and bad) and appetite; he considers witches and magicians; he surveys any number of physical maladies from ‘phrenzy’ to ‘lycanthropia’. The soul – sensible and rational – is investigated; the passions (envy, malice, anger, discontent, covetousness, love of gaming, pride, overmuch joy) are intricately examined. 'The Second Partition' is dedicated to ‘The Cure of Melancholy’, and Burton discusses physical issues and social positions, while dealing meticulously with such emotional states as envy, ambition, self-love and more. 'The Third Partition' is dedicated to an examination of ‘Love-Melancholy’: beauty, lust, music, amorous tales, bawds – and also religious melancholy. All this hardly reflects the experience of listening to The Anatomy of Melancholy. Burton’s fertile and curious mind dips here, there and everywhere. Classical references abound; the text teems with obscure references to scientists, doctors, philosophers, writers, musicians and politicians from all ages. They are invariably fascinating and in some cases astounding. He is equally fluent in investigating the diaphragm, the pleura, the vena cava, the bladder, the gall and the spleen as he is in acknowledging the role of hypochondria and psychosomatic ailments. In one sentence he refers to the excess habits of Alcibiades, in the next he is evoking Chaucer’s Wife of Bath. In fact quotations from Chaucer and Shakespeare, Juvenal, Lucretius, the Bible, Ariosto and Virgil tumble over one another in a glorious cornucopia. This great text, a monument to English knowledge and invention, once approached is never forgotten. It has informed, delighted and infuriated generations of great men of all disciplines (including Samuel Johnson) down the centuries. It must also be acknowledged that it is as challenging a task to record as exists in English literature. Peter Wickham, no stranger to tough texts, proves undaunted by it: he brings Robert Burton magnificently to the 21st century ear, rendering the Jacobean language, the abstruse references and the unbelievable detail, with a remarkable ease and familiarity. The Anatomy of Melancholy, presented here with all the original quotations in English, is, at last, available on audiobook in its entirety. An accompanying PDF is available with this recording, presenting the famous frontispiece which opens the work and Burton’s verse explanation of it: 'The Argument of the Frontispiece'. Also included are the 'Contents' in full form, giving a helpful overview of this unique and detailed book. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our Desktop Site.
Public Domain (P)2020 Ukemi Productions Ltd
Dropshipping Shopify 2021
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Build your dream business and achieve financial freedom with this ultimate dropshipping guide! Do you want to take advantage of the incredibly lucrative world of dropshipping? Want to generate tons of passive income, create a versatile business, and achieve financial freedom and security? Are you looking for a step-by-step guide to kickstart your dropshipping career? Then this is the audiobook for you. Whether you want to build a full-time job, a side-hustle, or simply make some extra money, dropshipping is a powerful and surprisingly simple way of making big money. It has the potential to create a lucrative business that will help you achieve financial freedom and become your dream job. But to succeed, you need the right knowledge. This ultimate beginner’s guide explores the world of dropshipping, uncovering exactly how you can take advantage of this incredible passive income stream. Using step-by-step advice and easy-to-follow instructions, you’ll learn how to create the right mindset for dropshipping success, how to avoid all the common beginner mistakes, and how you can start making big money - even if you start with a low budget. Here’s just a little of what you’ll discover inside: How to cultivate the mindset for dropshipping success 5 brilliant money-saving tips for starting out (and how to begin dropshipping on a tiny budget) 6 beginner mistakes to avoid at all costs! How to find the perfect niche and capitalize on gaps in the market Tips and tricks for finding the perfect supplier and setting up your ecommerce store Step-by-step instructions for dropshipping with Amazon and eBay SEO strategies for drastically boosting your exposure
©2020 John Wright (P)2020 John Wright
Cyrano de Bergerac
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Cyrano de Bergerac, pièce écrite par Edmond Rostand en 1897, a renouvelé le théâtre d'alors. Certains ont voulu y voir le romantisme de "cape et d'épée", le panache, le courage qui stimulent un "renouveau moral", d'autres y ont vu la réconciliation des vertus du courage et de l'abnégation, sources "d'une force morale" qui prône la responsabilité de l'homme et de son destin... Mais par-delà tous ces débats, la clef du succès de Cyrano, comme celle d'ailleurs de toutes les "bonnes" pièces ne repose-t-elle pas dans cette constatation émerveillée de Jack London, qui en 1898 assistait à la première américaine de Cyrano, loin des états d'âme français : "Plusieurs morceaux semblent contenir mes propres pensées, mes propres sentiments." Cet enregistrement historique de 1955 présente une mise en scène de Pierre Hiegel, interprétée par les comédiens de la Comédie-Française en 1955. Le rôle de Cyrano y est tenu par Jean-Paul Coquelin, petit-fils de Constant Coquelin, premier interprète de Cyrano. Acte I : Une présentation à l'Hôtel de Bourgogne; Acte II : La rôtisserie des poètes; Acte III : Le baiser de Roxane; Acte IV : Les cadets de Gascogne; Acte V : La gazette de Cyrano. Lorsque vous achetez ce titre, le fichier PDF qui l'accompagne sera disponible dans votre confirmation d'achat envoyée par mail ainsi que dans votre bibliothèque, depuis votre ordinateur.
©domaine public (P)2018 Frémeaux & Associés
Social Media Marketing All-in-One for Dummies (4th Edition)
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The best-selling social media marketing guide. Marketing your business through social media isn't an option these days - it's absolutely imperative. In this new edition of the best-selling Social Media Marketing All-in-One for Dummies, you'll get comprehensive, expert guidance on how to use the latest social media platforms to promote your business, reach customers, and thrive in the global marketplace. Social media continues to evolve at breakneck speed, and with the help of this guide, you'll discover how to devise and maintain a successful social media strategy, use the latest tactics for reaching your customers, and utilize data to make adjustments to future campaigns and activities. Plus, you'll find out how to apply the marketing savvy you already have to the social media your prospects are using, helping you to reach - and keep - more customers, make more sales, and boost your bottom line. This audiobook: includes the latest changes to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more; offers tips for engaging your community and measuring your efforts; explains how to blend social media with your other online and offline marketing efforts; and shows you how to leverage data to learn more about your community.
©2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (P)2020 Tantor
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Other Stories
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The warmth, whimsy and charm of these animal stories by Beatrix Potter and T. Burgess have made them favorites with generations of children and adults. The stories included on this collection are The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Potter); The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (Potter); The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Burgess); The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (Potter); The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (Potter); The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (Burgess); The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse (Potter); The Tale of Two Bad Mice (Potter); and The Adventures of Reddy Fox (Burgess).
©2011 Listening Library
Fight No More
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In her first story collection since Love in Infant Monkeys, which became a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Lydia Millet explores what it means to be home. Nina, a lonely real-estate broker estranged from her only relative, is at the center of a web of stories connecting fractured communities and families. She moves through the houses of L.A.'s wealthy and elite and finds men and women both crass and tender, vicious, and desperate. With wit and intellect, Millet offers profound insight into human behavior from the ordinary to the bizarre: strong-minded girls are beset by the helpless; myopic executives are tormented by their employees; and beastly men do beastly things. Fresh off the critical triumph of Sweet Lamb of Heaven (longlisted for the National Book Award), Millet is pioneering a new kind of satire - compassionate toward its victims and hilariously brutal in its depiction of modern American life.
©2018 Lydia Millet (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
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Being the new kid in town isn't easy for Elizabeth until she meets Jennifer, an honest-to-goodness witch! From the moment Jennifer starts sharing her powers with Elizabeth, their secret friendship is sealed. Each Saturday they meet in the park to cast spells and work on their witchcraft. Then, just when they think they've perfected their special flying potion, Jennifer and Elizabeth quarrel over the main ingredient. Will it take a magic spell to make them friends again?
©1967 E.L. Konigsburg (P)1998 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
The Inimitable Jeeves
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A hilarious romp from start to finish, with a lord and his man having a rollicking good time with subtlety of all kinds.
Public Domain (P)2019 Deaver Brown
Deep Blue
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For those who dare, things often go wrong on the sea. Deep Blue offers some of literature's greatest stories about the ocean and the people who risk its wrath. Castaways, pirates, and victims of shipwreck all fight to survive in far-flung places and under harrowing circumstances. Together, these works offer a convincing reminder of the sea's dangers and mysteries.
©2001 by Nate Hardcastle (P)2002 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.
Shakespeare's The Life and Death of King John - Abridged, Full Cast, Plain English (Adaptation)
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The Life and Death of King John tells the story of the reign of King John of England (1199-1216). The story is about ongoing tensions that spill over into war between England and France, while King John deals faces consistent palace intrigue. This play has been adapted into plain English and is performed as a theatrical full-cast production. At just over 20 minutes long, it is an abridged and adapted version of one of the relatively underperformed works in Shakespeare's canon. The plan opens with a threat from the French. Negotiations, conflict, and palace intrigue follow, as King John works his way through many issues of war and diplomacy in classic Shakespearean fashion.
©2020 Charlie Creed (P)2021 Historical Audiobooks
Gone to the Woods
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A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving listeners a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories. His name is synonymous with high-stakes wilderness survival stories. Now, beloved author Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life-altering moments from his turbulent childhood as his own original survival story. If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead at age five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed him his first book at age 13, he may never have become a reader. And without his desperate teenage enlistment in the army, he would not have discovered his true calling as a storyteller. A moving and enthralling story of grit and growing up, Gone to the Woods is perfect for newcomers to the voice and lifelong fans alike, from the acclaimed author at his rawest and realest. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
©2021 Gary Paulsen (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells like cookies. She was even married to a pirate once. Most of all, she knows everything about children. She can cure them of any ailment. Patsy hates baths. Hubert never puts anything away. Allen eats v-e-r-y slowly. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a treatment for all of them.
©1954 Betty MacDonald (P)2012 Listening Library
The Hamptons
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Halloween. Such a great time of year for all children. All but one. A great tragedy occurred that night. The last night he saw his parents. It was a night that haunted him well into adulthood. However, those happenings, like all things, happened for a reason...and tradition goes so much farther beyond ceremony. Tradition must be honored. No matter the cost.
©2020 Billie Dean Shoemate III (P)2021 Billie Dean Shoemate III
Going Postal
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Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets though - come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too. Maybe it'll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it's a death sentence either way. Or perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope.
© Terry and Lyn Pratchett; (P) Corgi Audio
Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted
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A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the best-selling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish, and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he's lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish mom, Gitl, losing himself in the masculine fantasy world of cowboy novels by writers like Karl May - novels equally loved by Hitler, whose troops have just invaded Lithuania and are out to exterminate people like Motl. In his dreams, Motl is a fast-talking, rugged, expert gunslinger capable of dealing with the Nazi threat. But only in his dreams. As friends and neighbors are killed around them, Motl and Gitl escape from Vilnius, saving their own skins. But they immediately risk everything to try rescue relatives they hope are still alive. With death all around him, Motl decides that a Jew's best revenge is not only to live, but to procreate. In order to achieve this, though, he must relocate those most crucial pieces of his anatomy lost to him in a glacier in the Swiss Alps in the previous war. It's an absurd yet life-affirming mission, made even more urgent when he's separated from his mother and isn't sure whether she's alive or dead. Joining forces, and eventually hearts, with Esther, a Jewish woman whose family has been killed, Motl ventures across Europe, a kaleidoscope of narrow escapes and close encounters with everyone from Himmler, to circus performers, double agents, quislings, fake "Indians", and real ones. Motl at last figures out that he has more connection to the Indigenous characters in Western novels than the cowboys. An imaginative and deeply felt exploration of genocide, persecution, colonialism, and masculinity - saturated in Gary Barwin's sharp wit and perfect pun-play - Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy is a one-of-a-kind novel of sheer genius.
©2021 Gary Barwin (P)2021 Penguin Random House Canada
Humour - A Short Story Collection
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Humour - A Short Story Collection. The British, it is often said, have a stiff upper lip and a dry sense of humour. It's true, we usually do, and in the case of this perfect compendium of short stories we absolutely do. Listen to our Scottish raconteur J. M. Barrie and English wits Jerome K. Jerome and Edward Lear for perfect proof of that. But humour is many things and from many places, so we also feature Mark Twain, our very talented American friend, to complete this rather witty and clever volume of short stories. Our readers include Richard Mitchley and James Taylor.
©2018 Deadtree Publishing (P)2018 The Copyright Group
The Story of Sha'el
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Sha'el wanted to live a simple life, but with his tribe faced with extortion by a greedy king after narrowly escaping a wintry death, he did what was necessary to protect his people. From the camps' best blacksmith to possibly being their only hope of survival, this is the story heralded by most in Crestahn, for it signified the beginning of Crestonian rule. Follow Sha'el on his journey to becoming the first Crestonian king of Feldentus!
©2020 Dartanyan Johnson (P)2021 Dartanyan Johnson
Insel der blauen Delfine
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Die Insel, auf der das Mädchen Won-a-pa-lei lebt, sieht aus wie ein auf der Seite liegender Delfin. Seitdem ihr Stamm sie nach einem Überfall fremder Jäger hier zurückgelassen hat, ist Won-a-pa-lei die einzige Bewohnerin dieses Fleckchens Erde mitten im Pazifik. Ganz auf sich allein gestellt, baut sie sich eine Hütte, erbeutet Nahrung und schafft es, die Insel zu ihrem Zuhause werden zu lassen. Doch der Kampf ums Überleben ist hart: Sturmfluten, Erdbeben und Angriffe wilder Tiere fordern sie jeden Tag aufs Neue heraus. Erst viele abenteuerliche Jahre später hat Won-a-pa-lei wieder Kontakt mit Menschen, als am Horizont plötzlich ein Schiff vor Anker geht... Spannend und mit viel Einfühlungsvermögen schildert Scott O'Dell den Überlebenskampf des weiblichen Pendants zu Robinson Crusoe. Der große Klassiker jetzt neu eingelesen! Wenn jemand die Einsamkeit der Insel, die gleißende Sonne und den unbedingten Willen zu überleben stimmlich einfangen kann, ist das Sascha Icks. Die Lesung der Theaterschauspielerin und Hörbuchsprecherin verleiht dem Text genau das richtige Maß an herber, aber hoffnungsvoller Stimmung.
©2018 S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (P)2018 S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main