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  A Line Above the Sky (eBook, ePUB)

  Guardian Books to Watch 2022Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022Bookseller Editor's Choice'A wonderful book - exhilarating and taut, fearless in its explorations of wildness, risk, motherhood, and the inner and outer worlds of the writer' Jon McGregor'This book is beautiful' Emma Jane UnsworthClimbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death. Helen Mort has always been drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing: the tension between human and rockface, and the climber's powerful connection to the elemental world. But when she becomes a mother for the first time, she finds herself re-examining her relationship with both the natural world and herself, as well as the way the world views women who aren't afraid to take risks. A Line Above the Sky melds memoir and nature writing to ask why humans are drawn to danger, and how we can find freedom in pushing our limits. It is a visceral love letter to losing oneself in physicality, whether climbing a mountain or bringing a child into the world, and an unforgettable celebration of womanhood in all its forms.

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  Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 467min

  The legendary icon tells his story - a tale of art, passion, commitment, and addiction, as intense and hypnotic as the man himself. In a career spanning five decades, Nick Nolte has endured the rites of Hollywood celebrity. Rising from obscurity to leading roles and Oscar nominations, he has been both celebrated and vilified in the media; survived marriages, divorces, and a string of romances; was named the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine; and suffered public humiliation over his drug and alcohol issues, including a drug-fueled trip down a "long road of nothingness" that ended in arrest. Despite these ups and downs, Nolte has remained true to the craft he loves, portraying a diverse range of characters with his trademark physicality and indelible gravelly voice. Already 35 when his performance in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man launched him to stardom, Nolte never learned to play by Hollywood's rules. A rebel who defies expectations, an obsessive method actor who will go to extremes for a role (he lived among the homeless to prepare for Down and Out in Beverly Hills), Nolte is motivated more by edgier, more personal projects than by box office success. Today he is clean yet still driven, juggling a number of upcoming works and raising his young daughter. A man who refuses to hide his mistakes, Nolte now delivers his most revealing performance yet. His revealing memoir offers a candid, unvarnished close-up look at the man, the career, the loves, and the life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Nolte, Christian Baskous. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006468/bk_harp_006468_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Coaching the a Gap Power for Spread Offenses: Ignite Your Offense with the Most Physical Blocking Scheme in Football , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min

  Teams that run spread offenses have a long history for being known as teams that lack physicality. In Coaching the A Gap Power you will learn how to bring a physical running style to your spread offense that makes defenses put more defenders in the box.  Besides the inside zone, the power blocking scheme is one of the most universal running plays in football.  In Coaching the A Gap Power you will learn how this blocking scheme utilizes angles to create double teams at the point of attack while bringing an extra blocker to lead the runner through the hole.  Coaching the A Gap Power will give you all of the tools to implement this powerful blocking scheme into your offense. With sections focusing on all of the different roles, this book has information for both the veteran coach, who is looking for a few ideas, to the beginning coach, who is seeking a powerful blocking scheme they can base their run game off of.  One of the most appealing parts of the A gap power is the adaptability to meet the skill sets of the players in the offense. In Coaching the A Gap Power the play is packaged in a way that makes it easy for the coach to highlight the strengths of his or her players. In the Variations section you can see all the different ways that the play can be run and the strengths and weaknesses of each of these styles. Make the investment to ignite your offense and become a physical running team. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Meysenburg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114656/bk_acx0_114656_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Jane Eyre

  "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!"Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane's new life at Thornfield Hall is broken up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. Routine at the mansion is further disrupted bymysterious incidents that draw the pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Jane's happiness and integrity.A flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre draws the reader in by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion. The emotional charge of Jane's story is as strong today as it was more than 150 years ago, as she seeks dignity and freedom on her own terms.In this new edition, Juliette Atkinson explores the power of narrative voice and looks at the striking physicality of the novel, which is both shocking and romantic.

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  Jane Eyre (eBook, PDF)

  "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane's new life at Thornfield Hall is broken up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. Routine at the mansion is further disrupted by mysterious incidents that draw the pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Jane's happiness and integrity. A flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre draws the reader in by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion. The emotional charge of Jane's story is as strong today as it was more than 150 years ago, as she seeks dignity and freedom on her own terms. In this new edition, Juliette Atkinson explores the power of narrative voice and looks at the striking physicality of the novel, which is both shocking and romantic.

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  Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 694min

  Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award  “Everything that’s rousing and distressing about block-and-tackle football is encompassed in Tropic of Football...illuminating.” (Newsday) How a tiny Pacific archipelago is producing more players - from Troy Polamalu to Marcus Mariota - for the NFL than anywhere else in the world, by an award-winning sports historian Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass roots - high school and youth travel program - are withering. But players from the small South Pacific American territory of Samoa are bucking that trend, quietly becoming the most disproportionately overrepresented culture in the sport. Jesse Sapolu, Junior Seau, Troy Polamalu, and Marcus Mariota are among the star players to emerge from the Samoan islands, and more of their brethren suit up every season. The very thing that makes them so good at football - their extraordinary internalization of discipline and warrior self-image - makes them especially vulnerable to its pitfalls, including concussions and brain injuries. Award-winning sports historian Rob Ruck travels to the South Seas to unravel American Samoa’s complex ties with the United States. He finds an island blighted by obesity, where boys train on fields blistered with volcanic pebbles wearing helmets that should have been discarded long ago, incurring far more neurological damage than their stateside counterparts and haunted by Junior Seau, who committed suicide after a vaunted 20-year NFL career, unable to live with the demons that resulted from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Tropic of Football is a gripping, bittersweet history of what may be football’s last frontier. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Heitsch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051448/bk_adbl_051448_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  American Legends: The Life of Tony Curtis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 70min

  If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time. - Tony Curtis A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. At the height of Hollywood's golden age; of the 1940s through the early 60s, many of the industry's brightest stars could boast of unique stories describing how they were discovered. Their distinctiveness as on-screen personalities was an important part of that stardom, but one unlikely actor, a mismatch of contrasts, dialects, looks, and personal behavior, was to become an icon of the age, revered and disdained, but in the end, fondly remembered by the movie industry and fan base. Tony Curtis was, in the beginning, considered by most of his colleagues as a hack actor, but in time, one who took it upon himself to develop into a true screen artist. At his height as a matinee idol, Curtis was blessed with piercing blue eyes and good looks, a physicality described as classically handsome. He was to set a new criteria in place for male beauty in his era, a feminized but rugged heroism, able to portray grisly scenes with a pretty boy appearance, then immediately turn cute and excel in light comedy. Off-screen, Curtis was one of Hollywood's most prodigious womanizers, with a predatory sexual magnetism that was both alluring and feared. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/091390/bk_acx0_091390_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Meditation for Daily Stress (eBook, ePUB)

  Declutter your mind and break the cycle of stress addiction with this simple, innovative meditation method. Drawing on his experience living at the Kopan Monastery in Nepal, meditation teacher Michel Pascal shares his easy new method of meditating in the moment to calm the mind and break the cycle of stress addiction. Meditation for Daily Stress is a guide to a revolutionary technique for finding peace, quiet, mindfulness, and centeredness in our daily lives and fending off anxiety and depression. Pascal prescribes a series of visualization and breathing practices that can be used throughout the day to unplug in the moment, before stress takes hold. Learn ten simple practices you can do even for just a minute at a time, including: - Meditate Like the Horizon to unplug your brain when it is running all the time. - Meditate Like a Dolphin to discover your inner peace in high-stress moments. - Meditate Like a Mountain to feel more grounded when your mood is up and down. - Meditate Like a Wave to help you deal with difficult people and difficult interactions. - Meditate Like a Kiss to feel less stress in a romantic relationship. Exploring both spirituality and physicality, mind and body,this is an essential read for busy people who want to start a daily practice right away for a healthier, happier life.

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  Heart of the Pride (Reverse Harem Urban Fantasy): Gesa's Menagerie, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 246min

  When Gesa escaped her oppressive clan to become a bounty hunter in a growing backwater city, she never imagined she would end up dating a fae. She might try her best to deny Oisin’s jokes about her starting a pride - a harem reserved for male gryphons - but Gesa is growing dangerously fond of their roommate and secretary, the unassuming human, Con.  But romantic issues are the least of Gesa’s worries. Her ancient, deadly fae lover is hiding something. And a spate of animal killings leads the amateur detectives right to a murderer who hides in the open, sure of his supremacy over those he hunts. When Gesa and Oisin are wounded and nearly killed, Con has no choice to take matters into his own hands to protect the pride, putting the breakable - and idiotically reckless - human right in the way of a killer.  Author’s Note:I was tired of reading the same old thing over and over again in reverse harem. Sick of all alpha male and fainting female all the time - and desperate to be able to tell the male characters apart - I tried to infuse some variety into my story. Gesa might not be your cup of tea, and that’s okay - she doesn’t care. Her lovers are as varied in physicality and personality as they are in supernatural race. And the characters all have their own definition of sexuality. I know reverse harem is all about the fantasy, and my fantasy is a bit outside the norm. You’ve been warned. This is a series. There will be unresolved plot threads at times/occasional cliff-hangers.Do not listen to this series if you are easily offended. Contains: Mentions of past trauma/rape, adult language (that’s cursing kids, lots of it), and sexual content (including male/female, male/male, female/female, male/male/female, female/female/male and any other combination you can think of. Oh, and probably some tentacles and diphallia). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kaye Draper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175459/bk_acx0_175459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Gryphon's Pride (Reverse Harem Urban Fantasy): Gesa's Menagerie, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 219min

  Not your typical reverse harem....Gryphon shifter Gesa Lionheart isn’t your typical heroine. Screwed over by her family - a stunningly medieval gryphon clan that is supposed to value loyalty and truth - the former bodyguard sets out on her own to a remote city growing in the Michigan wilderness. With little in the way of life skills outside her clan training, and no one to depend on, she becomes a bounty hunter - chasing down low-level supernatural criminals for the local human police department. Gesa knew life would be hard outside the clan, but she had no way of predicting just how strange her life would become, all thanks to a beautiful but dangerous male fae and a simple missing person’s case. Now, she’s over her head in a world that isn’t what it seems, where humans can almost see the truth, rich supe philanthropists make people disappear with ease, and harem lion prides aren’t just for males....Gryphon’s Pride is a reverse harem romance novella with an urban fantasy feel. Suitable for mature listening (and those with a sense of humor) only. If swearing, sex, or talk of past trauma are offensive to you, this might not be your thing. Author’s Note:I was tired of reading the same old thing over and over again in reverse harem. Sick of all alpha male and fainting female all the time - and desperate to be able to tell the male characters apart - I tried to infuse some variety into my story. Gesa might not be your cup of tea, and that’s okay - she doesn’t care. Her lovers are as varied in physicality and personality as they are in supernatural race. And the characters all have their own definition of sexuality. I know reverse harem is all about the fantasy, and my fantasy is a bit outside the norm. You’ve been warned. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kaye Draper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161033/bk_acx0_161033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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