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Universal Harvester: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min

Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's a small town in the center of the state - the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. This is the late 1990s, and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut, there are still regular customers, a rush in the late afternoon. It's good enough for Jeremy: It's a job, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a car wreck. But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets - an old movie, starring Boris Karloff, one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store - she has an odd complaint: "There's something on it," she says, but doesn't elaborate. Two days later a different customer returns a different tape, a new release, and says it's not defective, exactly, but altered: "There's another movie on this tape." Jeremy doesn't want to be curious, but he brings the movies home to take a look. And indeed, in the middle of each movie, the screen blinks dark for a moment, and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged, poorly lit home video. The scenes are odd and sometimes violent, dark, and deeply disquieting. There are no identifiable faces, no dialogue or explanation - the first video has just the faint sound of someone breathing - but there are some recognizable landmarks. These have been shot just outside of town. So begins John Darnielle's haunting and masterfully unsettling Universal Harvester: the once placid Iowa fields and farmhouses now sinister and imbued with loss and instability and profound foreboding. The audiobook will take Jeremy and those around him deeper into this landscape than they have ever expected to go. They will become part of a story that unfolds years into the past and years into the future, part of an impossible search for something someone once lost that they would do anything ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Darnielle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002434/bk_aren_002434_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world." --John Brunner THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . . Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results. "[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from." --Paul Williams Rolling StoneA masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They've even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and "retire" them. But when cornered, androids fight back-with lethal force. Praise for Philip K. Dick "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."-John Brunner "A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet."-The New York Times "[Philip K. Dick] sees all the sparkling-and terrifying-possibilities . . . that other authors shy away from."-Rolling Stone

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Longshadow (eBook, ePUB)

'Smart and subversive, these charming romances will ignite your heart-and your hope' Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the SunProper Regency ladies are not supposed to become magicians - but Miss Abigail Wilder is far from proper.The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends to discover why. Abigail's father, the Lord Sorcier of England, believes that a dark lord of faerie is involved - but while Abigail is willing to match her magic against Lord Longshadow, neither her father nor high society believe that she is capable of doing so.Thankfully, Abigail is not the only one investigating the terrible events in London. Mercy, a street rat and self-taught magician, insists on joining Abigail to unravel the mystery. But while Mercy's own magic is strange and foreboding, she may well post an even greater danger to Abigail's heart. From the author of HALF A SOUL comes a queer faerie tale romance full of love and defiant hope. Pick up LONGSHADOW, and return once more to Olivia Atwater's charming, magical version of Regency England.Praise for Olivia Atwater:'Half a Soul is the perfect balm for these bad times. It's whimsical but never frivolous, sweet but not sugary, deeply kind rather than merely nice. I loved it' Alix E. Harrow on Half a Soul'A delightful, romantic romp that also deftly examines class and privilege, Half a Soul is the definition of a comfort read' Hannah Whitten on Half a Soul'A perfect historical fantasy romance: warm, sparkling with magic, dangerous and delightful. I absolutely adored it.' Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne on Half a Soul'A hugely enjoyable take on the Regency. . . I wolfed this down with great pleasure' KJ Charles on Half a Soul'Whimsical, witty, and brimming over with charm. . . Dora and the Lord Sorcier have a place amongst my favourite fantasy romance couples ever' India Holton, author of The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels on Half a Soul'Half a Soul is exactly the comfort read we all need. This winsome, whimsical fantasy romance has much to say about privilege, justice, and the power of empathy, even as it sweeps you off your feet in the swooniest way possible' Megan Bannen, author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

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Rich Man's Sky

A NEW NOVEL OF REAL SF FROM WIL McCARTHY When billionaires control the space program, where does that leave the rest of us? Space: a tycoon's playground. From a space station full of women to a monastery on the Moon, from a Martian reality-TV contest to a solar shade large enough to cool the Earth, the dreams of a handful of trillionaires dictate the future of humanity. Outside the reach of Earthly law and with the vast resources of the inner solar system at their disposal, the "Four Horsemen" do exactly as they please. The governments of Earth are not amused; an international team of elite military women, masquerading as space colonists, are set to infiltrate and neutralize the largest and most dangerous project in human history. But nothing is that simple when rich men control the sky, as everyone involved is about to discover. About Rich Man's Sky: "Action SF built on a hard foundation of cutting-edge science."-Walter Jon Williams "An action-crammed story that darts at hyper-speed from Burning Man, Nevada to Suriname to a convent on the Moon to an orbiting colony that's clearly up to something. A jam-packed adventure fizzing with mind-blowing concepts, and a great read!"-Connie Willis "A hard science fiction tour de force, populated by memorable characters in a tale of intrigue, adventure, and irresistible market forces."-Linda Nagata About Antediluvian: ". . . gripping and . . . grounded in archaeology."-Publishers Weekly ". . . plenty of verisimilitude . . . superbly intriguing and captivating . . . bravura historical recreations, full of conjectural material. . . . Presenting us with a colorful cast of characters from across the millennia who have thick and rich existences, and affirming that the cosmic stream of life flows forcefully despite all small blockades, McCarthy has written a novel that looks both forwards and backwards, thus making a stellar return to the field."-Locus About Wil McCarthy: "McCarthy is an entertaining, intelligent, amusing writer, with Heinlein's knack for breakneck plotting and, at the same time, Clarke's thoughtfulness."-Booklist "Imagination really is the only limit."-The New York Times "The future as McCarthy sees it is a wondrous place."-Publishers Weekly "A bright light on the SF horizon."-David Brin "Wil McCarthy demonstrates that he has a sharp intelligence, a galaxy-spanning imagination, and the solid scientific background to make it all work."-Connie Willis "In nearly every passage, we get another slice of the science of McCarthy's construction, and a deeper sense of danger and foreboding . . . McCarthy develops considerable tension."-San Diego Union-Tribune "An ingenious yarn with challenging ideas, well-handled technical details, and plenty of twists and turns."-Kirkus

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Permission to Dream

In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents BIG ideas for turning your ?one day? into today, including the generational transfer of a dream and a powerful blueprint for a masterpiece life?from the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness. On a winter's day, Chris Gardner set off with his nine-year-old granddaughter Brooke to find the harmonica of her dreams. The search sends them North ?beyond the wall? into a foreboding Chicago neighborhood and, soon, on a harrowing adventure that will change both of their lives?and ours. Chris is still mourning the loss of his girlfriend to brain cancer. Her question haunts him: ?Now that we know how short life can be, what will you do with the time you have left?? After five years, he feels an urgency?what he calls, ?Atomic Time? in which every second counts?to find an answer, but is stuck. Even while giving Brooke permission to aspire to one day become President of the United States, he knows it's time to reclaim his own permission to dream. Lost, Chris and his granddaughter board a bus, reminding him of earlier rides through dark times when dreams of a better life kept him alive. As the two wind through a changing cityscape, Chris reflects on past lessons that offer powerful guidance for dreaming your way to monumental success. At its heart, this book lays out a blueprint for building a dream-come-true life?even during uncertainty. Gardner delivers the secrets to achieving a prosperous career?from a method for identifying your ultimate dream to a playbook for becoming world class at it. His tools include the ?new 3 R's??or the Rep, the Rap and the Rolodex?which reveal how to earn a stellar reputation, develop a rap for marketing yourself, and amass a Rolodex of rewarding relationships. No matter how much wealth you achieve, Chris notes, true success comes from enriching the lives of others?so all can still have access to the American Dream. Toward the end, Brooke observes that in Atomic Time it's never too late for anyone to reinvent themselves and change their fortune. Chris, hearing her, realizes what his next pursuit will be?to go back to high school and give permission to dream to the next generation of problem solvers and change makers. A true fable, Permission to Dream is a timeless and timely manifesto for turning dreams into action?beginning right now.

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Permission to Dream

In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents BIG ideas for turning your "one day" into today, including the generational transfer of a dream and a powerful blueprint for a masterpiece life-from the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness.On a winter's day, Chris Gardner set off with his nine-year-old granddaughter Brooke to find the harmonica of her dreams. The search sends them North "beyond the wall" into a foreboding Chicago neighborhood and, soon, on a harrowing adventure that will change both of their lives-and ours. Chris is still mourning the loss of his girlfriend to brain cancer. Her question haunts him: "Now that we know how short life can be, what will you do with the time you have left?" After five years, he feels an urgency-what he calls, "Atomic Time" in which every second counts-to find an answer, but is stuck. Even while giving Brooke permission to aspire to one day become President of the United States, he knows it's time to reclaim his own permission to dream.Lost, Chris and his granddaughter board a bus, reminding him of earlier rides through dark times when dreams of a better life kept him alive. As the two wind through a changing cityscape, Chris reflects on past lessons that offer powerful guidance for dreaming your way to monumental success. At its heart, this book lays out a blueprint for building a dream-come-true life-even during uncertainty. Gardner delivers the secrets to achieving a prosperous career-from a method for identifying your ultimate dream to a playbook for becoming world class at it. His tools include the "new 3 R's"-or the Rep, the Rap and the Rolodex-which reveal how to earn a stellar reputation, develop a rap for marketing yourself, and amass a Rolodex of rewarding relationships. No matter how much wealth you achieve, Chris notes, true success comes from enriching the lives of others-so all can still have access to the American Dream. Toward the end, Brooke observes that in Atomic Time it's never too late for anyone to reinvent themselves and change their fortune. Chris, hearing her, realizes what his next pursuit will be-to go back to high school and give permission to dream to the next generation of problem solvers and change makers. A true fable, Permission to Dream is a timeless and timely manifesto for turning dreams into action-beginning right now.

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Weyes Blood: Front Row Seat To Earth

Natalie Mering verzückt mit ihren 60ies-Folk-angehauchten Melodien, klirrenden Gitarren, Orgeln und rasselnden Trommeln. Emotional, herzzerreißend, sirenenhaft... Ein sehr stringenter Entwurf, der den Westcoast-Sound der 70ies durch eine wirklich individuelle Künstlerin direkt in die Gegenwart bringt und dennoch die Patina des Originals trägt. Das Songwriting ist komplex, aber dennoch nicht sperrig, sondern zugänglich. Ein schönes und surreales Video: https://player.vimeo.com/video/178103466 Natalie Mering, the being behind Weyes Blood, embeds her sublime song in a harmonic gauze of arpeggiated piano, acoustic guitar, druggy horns, &amp, outer space electronics. Propulsive, spare drums carry us across the album's course. There is a faded California beauty to Front Row. A gentle honesty that recalls the finest folk music made on the West Coast of the '70s. The hue hangs in the sweet-spooky harmonies, the pulsing sway of the vibrato &amp, the ecstatic chord resolves. But this beauty is scratched with shadow, with dark foreboding, alienation, &amp, acceptance of change. Love &amp, loss balance together in suspended alchemy, as the earthiness of the singer-songwriter tradition wears digital sounds like feathers in its hair. Mering, together with co-producer Chris Cohen contrasts live band intimacy with the post-modern electric sheen of A.M. radio atmospherics. The experimental flourishes sparkle amid the succinct, thoughtful arrangements. The closeness of this record - how personal, alone, &amp, frank it feels - conceals its aspirations to the outside, to the "Earth" of its title. Weyes Blood harbors devastating weight while also universalizing the strange ways of identity &amp, relationships. These are not typical love songs or protest songs -- they are painful, poignant riddles that celebrate the ambiguity of love &amp, affirm the conflict of harmonious life within a disharmonic world.

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All Is Water

A project that started from the Easter chant of Vidi Aquam (I saw water), and quickly developed into a set of contemplations on Water in different metaphors. From the foreboding and exhultand Vidi aquam, with countertenor added to the children's choir, to the more contemplative Rain of Buddhist thought, to the vernacular passions of eyes dried up of tears and the infinite water puddle of Stevenson. This cantata for solo baritone, children's choir, two trombones, bassoon, soprano saxophone, and harp, is ideal to complement a program with Britten's Symphony of Carols, or similar works.

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Love You Too

CD review: 'The Blanks Love You Too' by The Blanks Group brings style, substance to second album By Chris Rietz | For the Lansing State Journal In the year since their CD debut, the below-low-budget 'The Blanks Kiss You On The Mouth,' they've morphed into the self-proclaimed 'world's greatest (albeit it's only) rockity roll band,' and blossomed into surprisingly ambitious songsmiths. It was clear from 'Mouth' that The Blanks were graduates of the no-frills post-punk school of rock, but in 'Love You Too' they've taken the next step: harnessing all that energy into fueling songs, with all the elements of pop songcraft intact - witty lyrics, hummable melodies and - most of all - strong hooks. But if rock were still Mods vs. Rockers - and a British Invasion current runs strongly through 'Love You Too' - the Blanks would fall into the latter camp, pointedly distinguishing themselves from those posturing, overcultivated Mods. They love the energy rock releases in it's primordial state and, youthful zealots that they are, they pursue it like the Holy Grail. 'Love You Too' was recorded at Jim Diamond's proudly analog Ghetto Recorders in Detroit, a good fit - it's becoming a Mecca for artists who want nothing to do with that shiny, digital sound. If Dan Nordheim's guitar technique were any more primitive, he wouldn't be able to play at all - but he has an uncanny knack for inventing just the right power riff, and in achieving a different tone on every track. Lead singer James Peterson seems way more confident on 'Love You Too,' not only in riff-rockers like the Kinks- flavored 'Evening Time' or the roaring 'Hey Little Blues,' but in the neo-rockabilly venture 'Home,' balladry in the poignant 'Married Young,' even a screamed narration on the foreboding 'Ain't It Time.' The Blanks' wedding of uncouth energy with serious, pop-informed songwriting isn't new, but in an era in which style rules and substance is in shorter supply, it almost seems that way.

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Espana de Mi Corazon

It was a warm and balmy Mediterranean night as I walked down Las Ramblas, a famous walking promenade that stretches from the harbor of Barcelona into the city. It was my first night in Spain and I was thrilled in the early hours of the morning to see a group of Catalans promenading arm-in-arm singing their native Catalonian folk songs. Out of the night came the haunting sounds of Romanza de Amor, one of Spain's most famous melodies... and a song all guitarists learn. That night sealed my fate. Spain would remain a land of enchantment for me. The origins of Romanza de Amor are lost in time. Miguel Liobet, a famous guitarist of the early 1900's, was the first to write it down. It has since become popular world-wide with many nations writing their own words to the melody. Another love song, La Paloma (The Dove) also has an international history. Using the Cuban habanera rhythm made famous by Bizet in Carmen, the Spaniard Sebastian Yradier wrote what is often thought of by norte americanos as a Mexican song. A few years later, the Mexican Agustin Lara wrote a very 'Mexican' song about a town in Spain he had never seen. It eventually became the second most performed work in the world. When he later occasioned a visit to Granada, he said that everything he wrote about it was true. De Mi Corazón (From My Heart) was written by me in that same tradition of great Latin love ballads, inspired by a longing for my loved ones while on a protracted concert tour. Andalusia is the home of flamenco music (the music of the gypsies of Spain). It defies real understanding, according to the gypsies, unless you are one of them! The bravura, rhythms and raw passion of that music have gained a world-wide audience that may not understand the nuances of every little detail but they do respond to the immediacy of it's fetching songs and dances. On a train ride from Madrid to the south of Spain I met a couple of 'gypsies'. After drinking a little vino tinto with them and summoning up enough courage to play the Malagueña I had learned in my studies, I was politely told I had a lot to learn and they proceeded to start me on my way to 'authentic' flamenco. A number of works included here pay homage to those rascals the gypsies of Spain. Malagueñas come from the area of Malaga. The most famous was written by the Cuban Ernesto Lucuona. There is an ongoing debate whether he lifted his melodies from the gypsies or vice-versa. The Guajiras is a Cuban folk song that the gypsies took and made their own. It uses the hemiola effect of alternating 3/4 and 6/8 rhythm that is prevalent in much Latin music. The Gypsy Serenade that I wrote also uses the hemiola effect. It was written while I was in Zanzibar, which isn't as far fetched as it may seem since it, like Spain, was under Arabic rule for much of it's history. Zambra Gitana, another very 'Arabic' sounding work, comes from the caves of La Sacramonte. In them the gypsies danced with their bare feet on the hard dirt floors. Bullfight Flamenco pays homage to the Spanish national pastime, the bullfight. With it's pomp and impending doom (especially for the bull) it is the modern equivalent of ancient Greek tragedy, it's outcome seemingly preordained except for ... fate. The Aragon, located between Barcelona and Madrid, is famous for it's music and politicians (many of it's princes and princesses have become kings and queens). In the mid 1800's the guitar virtuoso Julian Arcas immortalized many of Aragon's melodies in the Jota Aragonesa. Clavelitos is a truly happy piece of music expressing the joy of being alive, of drinking sweet water, of feeling the life-giving warmth of the sun and of smelling the--ah, yes---the clavelitos (little pink carnations)! The Alhambra, the last palace of the Caliphs of Granada, is the most beautiful Arabic structure in Europe (in my opinion one of the most beautiful in the world). Washington Irving wrote his Tales of the Alhambra while actually staying there. And, every guitarist cherishes Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Remembrances of theAlhambra) written by Francisco Tárrega, the father of the modern classical guitar. I was trained by the American guitarist Guy Horn who was taught by his father, who was in turn taught by a protege of Tárrega's. I am always touched when I play this mesmerizing work inspired by the Alhambra's waters (fountains and pools), the imitation of which melds together a nostalgic picture of a Spain long since forgotten. The Aranjuez de Amor was written during the Spanish Civil War by the blind composer Joaquin Rodrigo. The Aranjuez was the summer playground of kings and queens during the twilight years of the Spanish empire in the 17th and 18th centuries. Rodrigo, repulsed by the carnage of modern war, hearkened back to an era that, at least on the surface, seemed more civilized. Leyenda, more than any other work, drew me to the classical guitar. My parents had a recording by the great Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia. The album is older than I and I can say with Segovian understatement, 'I haf beean lisnink to theese music longk before I hwas bourn'. It is about the Austurias, a wild and foreboding place where the harsh Atlantic meets the Iberian peninsula. It has all the fire and passion we think of as being Spanish. Even it's title Leyenda (The Legend) is filled with mystery.

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