Der Luftballon von Dietrich von Plettenberg
(geschrieben 1999)
Die Mutter findet beim Saubermachen im Bücherregal ein altes verstaubtes Tagebuch von ihrem Sohn.
Vollkommen verwundert blättert sie darin herum und beschließt, es im Garten zu lesen.
Es ist die verworrene Geschichte um einen Luftballon, der in falsche Hände gerät.
Dabei war er doch extra mit soviel Liebe für jemand ganz bestimmten bemalt worden.
Ein persönliches Wort des Autors:
Die Kinder-Liebesgeschichte 'Der Luftballon' ist ein spontanes Nebenprodukt aus dem Jahr 1999.
Eine frei erzählte Geschichte, dessen Örtlichkeiten und Namen allerdings teilweise authentisch zu meiner Jugend gehören. Wenn als Kind - in diesem Fall des Jungen - die ersten Gefühle der Anziehungskraft zum anderen Geschlecht auftreten, ist es alles andere als leicht, damit umgehen zu können. Zumal sich Enttäuschungen wie ein spitzer Pfeil sehr schmerzhaft in das kleine Herz bohren können. Und tatsächlich gab es ja auch einmal eine Brigitte, die hier als 'Briggi' die Hauptrolle in dieser kleinen Episode spielt. Vati ist tot, Mutti muß für uns beide sorgen und sie weiß
gar nicht, was ich durchmache. Ich habe ganz einfach den Erinnerungen freien Lauf gelassen und über etwas geschrieben, das anderen in diesem Alter vielleicht ähnlich passiert ist.
Dietrich Alexander von Plettenberg
Linda Olson and her husband, Dave Hodgens, were young doctors whose story had all the makings of a fairy tale. But then, while they were vacationing in Germany, a train hit their van, shattering their lives-and Linda's body. When Linda saw Dave for the first time after losing her right arm and both of her legs, she told him she would understand if he left. His response: 'I didn't marry your arms or your legs. If you can do it, I can do it.'
In order to protect their loved ones, they decided to hide the truth about what really happened on those train tracks, and they kept their secret for thirty-five years. As a triple amputee, Linda learned to walk with prostheses and change diapers and insert IVs with one hand. She finished her residency while pregnant and living on her own. And she and Dave went on to pursue their dream careers, raise two children, and travel the world.
Inspiring and deeply moving, Gone asks listeners to find not only courage but also laughter in the unexpected challenges we all face. The day of the accident, no one envied Linda and Dave. Today, many do.
A heartbreaking true story of a broken family and the foster carer who wants to keep them together…
The Watsons are no strangers to sibling placements but when Casey takes the call from her supervising social worker one frosty January morning, she can instantly tell from the tone of her colleague’s voice that there’s a complicated case ahead.
And she’s right. A four-day-old baby boy called Tommy – born in prison – plus his four-year-old half-brother, the lively Seth. A month later, the very moment she gets out of prison, the boys’ mother – a 19-year-old called Jenna – also follows.
For Casey, it would it be a difficult scenario on several levels. Caring for a new born in her fifties with a pre-schooler who has spent most of his young life without boundaries tearing around her ankles, while also looking out for his drug-addicted mum who is ill-equipped to parent.
It’s an unusual situation but one that has arisen in a bid to keep the family together. Can Casey find the energy and strength needed to rise to the challenge? Casey believes she can but when baby Tommy and Seth arrive, she falters. Seth is not so much a pocket rocket as a seek and destroy missile with a whole other agenda…
The first in a series of books, I Somehow Survived is an extraordinary collection of true stories giving testimony to those who survived World War II. Based on interviews with numerous veterans from across the spectrum of wartime experience, the book documents and reflects upon one of the most gruesome times in history.
From anti-partisan warfare in the French mountains and atrocities in East Prussia to the experience of a Norwegian concentration camp, the accounts include rarely heard stories from a range of people caught up in the war. With the distance of time, these survivors have been able to offer new perspectives on their experiences and expose truths they would not have dared admit several decades ago.
German Army officers reveal their role in the Vercors and Kiev massacres. A Luftwaffe officer-applicant who never flew describes service on the ground. And a Norwegian woman writes of marrying a German Kriegsmarine while her mother was in a Norwegian concentration camp for political activity and her father was in hiding from the Gestapo. 'I have no objection to your marrying him,' her father told her, 'I just want them to give us our country back.'
When three-year-old Joshua Gortler and his family were forced from their hometown in Poland during World War II, they scrambled for safety across border after border, finding refuge at last in Europe's Displaced Persons Camps.
Undocumented and unschooled, Gortler spent his adolescence learning to survive. When his family eventually relocated to the United States, he found himself starting over as teenager in a foreign land with only his spunk and sharp wits to rely on.
After teaching himself English, Gortler managed to complete high school in three years, earn a master's degree in social work, and begin what would become a distinguished career in the field of eldercare. Acknowledged as a leading pioneer in his field, Gortler dedicated his professional life to helping others stitch their torn lives back together.
As a sought-after speaker, he has made it his personal mission to bring the lessons of his unique personal experiences-the value of perseverance, humor, ambition, faith, and the paramount importance education-to audiences as diverse as Rotary clubs, at-risk high schoolers, prisoners, and university students.
The Author Robert J Ott along with his Co-Author Bob Olson and Narrator Wayne June shares his amazing story of how a will to live, a love for life can overcome unthinkable trauma and deep despair.
Robert was a young man struggling to make it on his own when in 1990 he suffered a violent and traumatic experience when someone put a bullet through his brain.
Robert tells the amazing story of survival during a time when life shriveled to dark emptiness and his future seemed hopeless.
He introduces us to a world normally reserved for those who have been victimized or who battle disabilities: a world of loneliness, depression, denial, anger, embarrassment and despair. The coup de grâce which brought Robert to his knees: the loss of his cherished martial arts studio.
No income. No job opportunities. No formal education. Instead of breaking boards and flying through the air with high kick precision. Robert’s life was now rendered to a bed, encapsulated by doctors, bill collectors and lawyers.
Robert reveals how the philosophies and principles of Martial Arts became the tools that allowed him to overcome the terrifying challenges he now faced.
Robert discusses his battle with the Social Security Administration and State agencies. He shares with us his lowest moments when exposed to crassness, ignorance, discrimination and prejudice.
Robert shares with readers how he turned a horrifying incident into a positive outcome that inspires and helps heal wounds suffered by others.
Robert took his anger and turned it into a determination that has brought him success in business, love and purpose in life.
The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns.
In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA.
Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. It has already been deployed to cure deadly diseases, fight the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, and make inheritable changes in the genes of babies.
But what does that mean for humanity? Should we be hacking our own DNA to make us less susceptible to disease? Should we democratise the technology that would allow parents to enhance their kids?
After discovering this CRISPR, Doudna is now wrestling these even bigger issues.
THE CODE BREAKERS is an examination of how life as we know it is about to change - and a brilliant portrayal of the woman leading the way.
The Cleveland Street scandal, involving a homosexual brothel reputedly visited by the Queen's grandson, shocked Victorian Britain in 1889. This is the first full-length account of one of its key players, Jack Saul, a working class Irish Catholic rent boy who worked his way into the upper echelons of the aristocracy, and wrote the notorious pornographic memoir The Sins of the Cities of the Plain. Glenn Chandler, creator of Taggart, explores his colorful but tragic life and reveals for the first time the true story about what really went on behind the velvet curtains of Number 19 Cleveland Street.
Posiblemente uno de los ensayos científicos más conocidos y con más predicamento en todo el planeta, El origen de las especies es un texto capital a la hora de entender la teoría de la evolución y la selección natural tal y como las conocemos hoy en día. En él, Charles Darwin recogió sus conclusiones a través de pruebas fósiles encontradas a lo largo de un extenso viaje a bordo de la expedición del HMS Beagle. El resultado fue una de las teorías científicas más asentadas en el mundo hoy en día.
Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.
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Charles Darwin fue un naturalista y ensayista inglés navido en Shrewsbury en 1809 y fallecido en Down House en 1882. Se le considera el científico más importante en el desarrollo de la teoría de la evolución y la selección natural, cuyas bases asentó su obra El origen de las especies. Sus teorías siguen asentadas en la comunidad científica a día de hoy.
“Thursday, June 15, 2017, will be embedded in my memory forever,” says author Iain MacLeod. “I greeted the summer day eager to face the world with my usual free-spirited independence, and ended the day lying in the Intensive Care unit of a hospital in Aberdeen, Scotland, with a ventilating tube down my throat. Billions of people get out of bed every day without any problem, and that had been true my entire life despite being a wheelchair user with Cerebral Palsy since the age of three. But when I got out of bed that fateful morning, everything went horribly wrong.” In his book 10 Seconds That Changed My Life, Iain inspires with his realistic, heartfelt writing and original poems of his beloved Scotland. He captures the various stages of his hospital experience as well as his personal journey through joy and sorrow, frustration and elation, and the reality of coming home to a new normal. By writing and publishing this book, he hopes to encourage those with special needs to never give up, and to always remember that they are able, not disabled, and have unique abilities to share with the world.
Susan Casserfelts kriminalromaner i Höga kusten-serien har lovprisats och blivit riktiga ljudbokssuccéer. Men medan hennes författarkarriär tog fart brottades hon med svårigheter på det privata planet.
När sonen Hugo föddes förstod Susan ganska snart att han var annorlunda, men det dröjde mer än fem år och många läkarbesök innan han slutligen fick sin diagnos: autism. Med hjälp av bildstöd och teckenspråk försöker föräldrarna hantera Hugos många utmaningar. Samtidigt kämpar Susan med att få hjälp för sin egen utmattning.
I “Dit orden inte når” berättar Susan öppenhjärtigt och engagerat om hur det är att leva med ett barn som inte är som alla andra. Om problem och svårigheter, sorg och smärta. Men också om den glädje och kärlek som Hugo skänker dem.
“Dit orden inte når” är inläst av Susan Casserfelt själv.
