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Sigrid sover på soffan är två berättelser som är en enda berättelse - Sigrids. Den lilla Sigrid är sju år gammal och flyr från det fysiska och psykiska våldet hemma till bästisen Lillis i huset intill, där alla alltid är fulla men glada och varma och där ingen slår. Den stora Sigrid är gift med en alkoholiserad äldre man och medberoende. För att inte bli galen och gå sönder tröstar hon sig med andra män och biter ihop. Tills makens missbruk börjar gå ut över de gemensamma barnen. Sigrid sover på soffan handlar om vår tids stora folksjukdom - alkoholism. En miljon svenskar lider av sjukdomen, var och en omgiven av minst 4-5 anhöriga som måste förhålla sig till problematiken utan att få den hjälp som missbrukaren får. De medberoende får ingen hjälp utan måste hjälpa sig själva. Trots att deras historia bara kan sluta på två sätt: Antingen lämnar de eller så dör de. Sigrids historia är med andra ord långt ifrån unik. Men relativt få överlevare orkar ens berätta om vad de varit med om, och verkligen inte med hennes utlämnande, brutalt ärliga och suggestiva språk. Sigrid lyckades lämna. Nu hoppas hon kunna använda sina erfarenheter för att hjälpa andra drabbade och visa dem att det går att försonas och förlåta - om inte med missbrukaren så i alla fall med sig själv.

Sigrid Klang (Author), Viktoria Flodström (Narrator)

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Sigmund Freud - Ein Leben (Feature)

Der Psychoanalytiker und Kulturphilosoph Sigmund Freud machte zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts eine unglaubliche Entdeckung: Gegen Neurosen half vor allem eine Kur mittels Gesprächen und die Deutung von Träumen. Was so einfach klingt, erwies sich als Jahrhundertidee und genialischer Coup. 'Dr. Sex', wie er liebevoll genannt wurde, formulierte einige Begriffe zur Beschreibung der menschlichen Seele, die heute nichts an Wichtigkeit eingebüßt haben. 'Ich, Es und Über-Ich', der 'Ödipus-Komplex' und der 'Freudsche Versprecher' entstammen seinen Visionen eines sich selbst erkennenden Subjekts und verhalfen vielen zu einem selbstbewußteren Dasein. Wie das Leben dieses Gurus der Psyche verlief und was genau seine Entdeckungen waren, erzählt diese Hörbiografie.

Ralph Gerstenberg (Author), Ingo Hülsmann, Max Volkert Martens (Narrator)

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Siete vidas y media: Recuerdos

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Las memorias de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa demuestran que su vida está a la altura de cualquiera de sus novelas. En una conversación desenfadada e íntima, el autor hace un repaso de su vida, desde sus tiempos de corresponsal de guerra a sus colaboraciones con Jacques Cousteau, pasando por sus experiencias en la caza de elefantes o como viajero a través de todo el mundo, sin olvidar su proceso de creación como autor. Un relato apasionante de una vida dedicada a contar historias.

Alberto Vázquez Figueroa (Author), Nacho Béjar (Narrator)

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Siegerlächeln: Sebastian Vettel - Das Leben eines Formel 1-Idols

Mach's noch einmal, Seb! Sebastian Vettel hat als jUngster Weltmeister der Geschichte die Formel 1 im Rekordtempo erobert und er ist mehr als entschlossen, seine Ausnahmestellung zu verteidigen. So macht er schon jetzt die ganze Welt rasend. Schon jetzt muss er den Vergleich mit Michael Schumacher, seinem Freund und Vorbild, nicht scheuen. Da schickt sich einer an, alle Rekorde zu brechen und der nAchste deutsche Mega-Star zu werden. All das schafft der Red-Bull-Pilot mit ungeheurem Talent und einem enormen Willen, stets begleitet von einem charmanten LAcheln. Dem besten Beweis, wie gut der junge Mann drauf ist und wie viel Spaß ihm sein Tun macht. Das ist selten geworden im harten Sport-Business. Und es zeigt, dass Sebastian Vettel ein Sportler ist, der sich nicht verbiegen lassen, sondern seinen eigenen Weg gehen will. Autor Elmar BrUmmer und die Fotografen Ferdi und Bodo KrAling begleiten Sebastian Vettel seit Beginn seiner einmaligen Motorsport-Karriere, erlebten die großen Stunden und auch einige bittere Momente hautnah mit. Davon erzAhlen sie mit und fesselnden Texten in diesem HOrbuch. Ein besonderer, ein sehr persOnlicher Blick. Sie tun dies in sehr persOnlichen Momentaufnahmen, die den Werdegang, den Charakter und die Erfolgsgeschichte von Sebastian Vettel in all seinen Facetten sichtbar machen. Strukturiert ist das HOrbuch in Kapitel, die jeweils den Namen einer Formel 1-Rennstrecke tragen und zugleich Orte sind, die fUr die Vita Vettels sehr wichtig waren. Ob Indianapolis, wo Vettel sein erstes F1-Rennen bestritt, oder das finale Kapitel New York, das einen Ausblick wagt auf die Zukunft des Ausnahmefahrers aus Deutschland. Allen Kapiteln liegen Begegnungen mit Sebastian Vettel zugrunde. Momente, die Elmar BrUmmer sehr persOnlich beschreibt und dem Leser so einen wirklichen, sehr individuellen Blick hinter die Kulissen der Formel 1-Welt erlaubt, und sogar noch mehr, er blickt zuweilen recht tief hinein in die PersOnlichkeit des Sebastian Vettel.

Elmar Brummer, Elmar Brümmer (Author), Matthias Luhn, Matthias Lühn (Narrator)

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Sicilia, o cara

Ogni volta che torno in Sicilia da qualche parte dentro di me continuo ad arrivare in Sicilia per la prima volta, bambino, negli anni settanta.'. Sicilia, o cara è il viaggio del Culicchia bambino, un viaggio che prepara mesi prima, dopo aver 'ascoltato' la Sicilia attraverso le favole - 'la favola del nonno, la favola della nonna, la favola dei cavalli da corsa, la favola della maestra severa, la favola delle sfilate in uniforme da Ballila. E poi c'era la mia favola preferita, e cioè la favola dei due soldati dell'Afrikakorps' - e averla 'vista' dalle sbiadite foto in bianco e nero. Ed ecco allora l'arrivo alla stazione di Porta Nuova, dove Giuseppe prende il treno che taglia di netto l'Italia, la nebbia si dirada, scorrono paesaggi inediti, si assaporano le prime avvisaglie di odori e colori siciliani grazie ai compagni di viaggio anche loro diretti a Sud. Quando Giuseppe arriva in Sicilia, le fiabe prendono vita, i racconti si cristallizzano in volti, città, parole. Palermo, Marsala, Trapani, tutto è a portata di mano, i parenti lo accolgono con una frase che diventa formula di rito -'Ma tu Peppe sei! Peppe come tuo nonno Giuseppe Culicchia! Pippinu! Pippinu Piruzzu!'-, l'orizzonte si allarga sul mare e Torino sembra appartenere a un'altra vita. E poi c'è il ritorno a casa, che prelude a un altro viaggio, a un'altra attraversata dell'Italia per raggiungere la cara Sicilia.

Giuseppe Culicchia (Author), Oliviero Corbetta (Narrator)

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Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope

As her Pappi fights to save his family during the Holocaust, Irene's childhood is lost. Play is restricted. Family and friends disappear. Finally, with the Dutch police at their door comes the reality that Irene's father has not moved his family far enough from Hitler's Germany. By January 1945, the family is struggling to survive a death camp. Irene tends her ailing parents, cares for starving kids, and even helps bring clothes to her Amsterdam neighbor Anne Frank, before her family is offered a singular chance for freedom . . . providing the Nazi doctor says they are healthy enough. After two weeks of heart-lifting miracles and heart-breaking tragedies, Irene arrives in the Algerian desert to journey into redemption and womanhood, without her parents or brother. Irene's first person memoir, Shores Beyond Shores, is an account of how the heart keeps its common humanity in the most inhumane and turbulent of times. Irene's hard-earned lessons are a timeless inspiration.

Irene Butter (Author), Elizabeth Wiley (Narrator)

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Shooting History: A Personal Journey

The compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow's memoirs are as revealing about the great and the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs Read by the author. Jon Snow is perhaps the most highly regarded newsman of our time; his qualities as a journalist and as a human being - his passion, warmth, intelligence, frankness and humour - are widely recognised and evident for all to see most nights on television [Channel 4 News] and now by his own voice in the pages of his first book. His vivid personal chronicle is filled with anecdotes and pithy observations, and delightfully records his life and times since becoming a journalist in the early 1970s. He reported widely on Cold War conflicts in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Angola and Central America before becoming a resident correspondent in Washington D.C. in the 1980s, and has met and interviewed most of the world's leaders. Drawing lessons from these experiences, he has sharp things to say about how the increasing world disorder came about following the fall of the Berlin Wall; how the West's constant search for an enemy has helped unhinge the world; and how and why the media have, in general, been less than helpful in drawing attention to key political and global developments.

Jon Snow (Author), Jon Snow (Narrator)

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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front

On June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings "MJ" Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she fought the enemy and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she would face a new battle: to give women who serve on the front lines the credit they deserve. . . . After being commissioned into the U.S. Air Force, MJ Hegar was selected for pilot training by the Air National Guard, finished at the top of her class, then served three tours in Afghanistan flying combat search and rescue missions, culminating in a harrowing rescue attempt that would earn MJ the Purple Heart as well as the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device. But it was on American soil that Hegar would embark on her greatest challenge-to eliminate the military's Ground Combat Exclusion Policy, which kept female armed service members from officially serving in combat roles despite their long-standing record of doing so with honor. In Shoot like A Girl, MJ takes the reader on a dramatic journey through her military career: an inspiring, humorous, and thrilling true story of a brave, high-spirited, and unforgettable woman who has spent much of her life ready to sacrifice everything for her country, her fellow man, and her sense of justice.

Major Mary Jennings Hegar, Mary Jennings Hegar (Author), Cynthia Farrell (Narrator)

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Shockaholic

Bad news . . . . . . for anyone who thought Carrie Fisher had finally stopped talking about herself: Sorry, but after all of her seemingly endless blathering on about her nose-bleedhigh- class problems, it appears she has yet another brand-new problem to overshare about (though don't expect to relate to it). This time, the electro-convulsive shock therapy she's been regularly undergoing is threatening to wipe out (what's left of) her memory. But get ready for a shock of your own. Not only doesn't she mind paying the second electric bill, but she loves the high-voltage treatments. In fact, she gets a real charge out of them. She can't get enough. In fact, this might even be a brand-new addiction for her. But before she can truly commit herself to it in the long term, she'd better get some of those more nagging memories of hers on paper. It's been a roller coaster of a few years for Carrie since her Tony- and Emmy-nominated, one-woman Broadway show and New York Times bestselling book Wishful Drinking. She not only lost her beloved father, but also her once-upon-a-very-brief-time stepmother, Elizabeth Taylor. And as if all that weren't enough, she also managed to lose over forty pounds of unwanted flesh'not by sawing off a leg (though that did cross her zapped mind) but by doing what might be termed "wishful shrinking," all the while staying sober and sane-ish. And she wants to tell you, dear reader, all about it . . . and more. Why? Because she wants you to someday be able to remind her about how Elizabeth Taylor settles a score and the scatological wonders of shoe tycoons. She doesn't want to forget about how she and Michael Jackson became friends or how she ended up sparring with none other than Ted Kennedy on a dinner date. And she especially wants to preserve her memories of Eddie Fisher'what their relationship really was and the beautiful story it turned out to be in the end. Yes, of course, Shockaholic is laugh-out-loud funny, acerbic, and witty as hell. But it also reveals a new side of Carrie Fisher that may even bring a pleasant shock your way: it is contemplative, vulnerable, and ultimately quite tender.

Carrie Fisher (Author), Carrie Fisher (Narrator)

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Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade

Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith's case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give listeners a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era.

Jonathan W. White (Author), Al Kessel (Narrator)

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Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man

A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia's vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some sixty others,heading to Kenya. On the way, death squads hunted them and they daily faced violence, danger and starvation. After almost four months, they arrived in at refugee camps in Kenya - of the group he'd set out with, only five had survived. All alone in the world and desperate to find his family, Abdi couldn't stay in Kenya, so he turned around and undertook the dangerous journey back to Mogadishu. But the search was fruitless, and eventually Abdi made his way - alone, with no money in his pockets - to Romania, then to Germany, completely dependent on the kindess of strangers. He was just seventeen years old when he arrived in Melbourne. He had no English, no family or friends, no money, no home. Yet, against the odds, he not only survived, he thrived. Abdi went on to complete secondary education and later university. He became a youth worker, was acknowledged with the 2007 Victorian Refugee Recognition Award and was featured in the SBS second series of Go Back to Where You Came From. Despite what he has gone through, Abdi is a most inspiring man, who is constantly thankful for his life and what he has. Everything he has endured and achieved is testament to his quiet strength and courage, his resilience and most of all, his warm-hearted, shining and enduring optimism. "Powerful and uplifting" Bookseller + Publisher "Aden's odyssey belongs to our time ... Here is a man who counts his blessings and has an inspiring story to tell.'" Sydney Morning Herald

Abdi Aden, Robert Hillman (Author), Abdi Aden, Jacob Warner, Jacob Warner; Abdi Aden (Narrator)

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Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man

A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia's vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some sixty others,heading to Kenya. On the way, death squads hunted them and they daily faced violence, danger and starvation. After almost four months, they arrived in at refugee camps in Kenya - of the group he'd set out with, only five had survived. All alone in the world and desperate to find his family, Abdi couldn't stay in Kenya, so he turned around and undertook the dangerous journey back to Mogadishu. But the search was fruitless, and eventually Abdi made his way - alone, with no money in his pockets - to Romania, then to Germany, completely dependent on the kindess of strangers. He was just seventeen years old when he arrived in Melbourne. He had no English, no family or friends, no money, no home. Yet, against the odds, he not only survived, he thrived. Abdi went on to complete secondary education and later university. He became a youth worker, was acknowledged with the 2007 Victorian Refugee Recognition Award and was featured in the SBS second series of Go Back to Where You Came From. Despite what he has gone through, Abdi is a most inspiring man, who is constantly thankful for his life and what he has. Everything he has endured and achieved is testament to his quiet strength and courage, his resilience and most of all, his warm-hearted, shining and enduring optimism. 'Powerful and uplifting' Bookseller + Publisher 'Aden's odyssey belongs to our time ... Here is a man who counts his blessings and has an inspiring story to tell.' Sydney Morning Herald

Abdi Aden, Robert Hillman (Author), Abdi Aden, Jacob Warner (Narrator)

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