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Every novelist dreams of it--writing the book that rockets to the top of the bestseller lists. Now, they can see how it's done, up close, in an audiobook by an agent who has sold manuscripts that turned into hits. Here Albert Zuckerman covers the essential elements of the blockbuster novel and...

Erfahren Sie in der Ausgabe 2/21 von Spotlight Audio, dass höfliche Ausdrucksweise genau das Richtige ist. Key West ist ein tropisches Paradies an der Landspitze von Florida. Erkunden Sie die Insel im Reiseteil. Treffen Sie einen Oldtimer-Händler aus Kalifornien in A Day in My Life. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio". Inhalt: Audio-Download inkl. 24-seitigem Booklet mit allen gesprochenen Texten zum Nachlesen und zweisprachigem Glossar (PDF-Format), Sprache: Englisch. Hören und Verstehen ist der beste Weg zum perfekten Englisch.

New Yorks touristische Sehenswürdigkeiten sind allgemein bekannt. In der Januar-Ausgabe von "Spotlight Audio" geht es zu ganz besonderen und ungewöhnlichen Plätzen in New York City. Außerdem: Spotlights beliebte Detektivin, Ms Dorothy Winslow, ist wieder da - freuen Sie sich auf einen spannenden dreiteiligen Krimi. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio"! Inhalt: Audio-Download inkl. 28-seitigem Booklet mit allen gesprochenen Texten zum Nachlesen und zweisprachigem Glossar (PDF-Format), Sprache: Englisch, Erscheinungsweise: monatlich.

Es ist vielleicht nicht so allgemein bekannt, aber es gibt lebendige britische Gemeinschaften in Deutschland. In der Februar-Ausgabe von "Spotlight Audio" treffen Sie eine dieser traditionsreichen Expat-Gemeinschaften. Ebenfalls in diesem Monat: die Schönheit der walisischen Landschaft und außerdem die Frage, ob soziale Netzwerke wie Facebook und Twitter genügend Verantwortung für die Inhalte ihrer Seiten übernehmen. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio"!

In the wake of World War I, the German army lay in ruins - defeated in the war, sundered by domestic upheaval, and punished by the Treaty of Versailles. A mere 20 years later, Germany possessed one of the finest military machines in the world, capable of launching a stunning blitzkrieg attack against Poland in 1939. Well-known military historian Robert M. Citino shows how Germany accomplished this astonishing reversal and developed the doctrine, tactics, and technologies that its military would use to devastating effect in World War II.

The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris. On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light. Many...

As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durtscher fancies himself the Federico Fellini of television journalism. For who else can draw 50 million viewers, satisfy the network's gluttony for profits, and advance the cause of social justice? The only problem is that no one else...

A bold, arresting new work of fiction from the acclaimed author of Everything Matters! and the forthcoming novel The One-Eyed Man (March 2017) In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel...

From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera--one of history's most disruptive and deadly...

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high...

The first English translation of celebrated Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg, Grime is a manifesto for fury, escape, and individual...

A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism. The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision...

With Culturally Sustaining Practice as its foundation, Textured Teaching helps secondary teachers in any school setting stop wondering and guessing how to implement teaching and learning that leads to social justice. Lorena shares her framework for creating a classroom environment that is highly rigorous and engaging, and that reflects the core traits of Textured Teaching: student-driven, community centered, interdisciplinary, experiential, and flexible.

After her mother’s passing, Aldona finds a tin filled with old letters from a prisoner at Ravensbrück, a women’s concentration camp in northern Germany. Amid the descriptions of daily deprivations and humiliations at the camp, she uncovers the heart-wrenching story of a small circle of women who risked their lives to hide a baby girl from the guards. Aldona is rocked to the core by this record of courage and sisterhood during one of the grimmest chapters of human history.

While watching her Chinese immigrant son-in-law learn the English language, it became apparent to the author that prepositions are one of the most difficult concepts to comprehend. Therefore, The Dance of the Caterpillars was written as a fun way to teach prepositions. This exciting bilingual German-English children's book contains 22 prepositions, one two-word multiple, and two three-word multiples. It is destined to become a valuable learning tool for children as well as English as a second language students.

A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry In Venomous, the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can revolutionize biochemistry and medicine today...

“Friendship takes a dark turn in this sexy, seductive thriller.” —People Two couples. One dark, twisted game of love and obsession. Suspend your disbelief on this roller-coaster ride of a domestic thriller about the dangerous secrets that come to light when a wild fantasy turns sinister...

Focus your English learning on the most frequently used verbs. Learn just the 100 verbs you need for everyday life to talk about the past, the present, and the future. One of the usual mistakes when learning a foreign language is that the student has no priorities. All the unknown verbs get the same attention. Actually, to communicate you need only 100 verbs in any language. These verbs are the most frequently used and can be defined using an algorithm that provides the ranking.

Mistress Simone is over on an exchange visit, but the fifty-year-old German femdom isn’t exactly what husband and wife duo Andrew and Charlotte were expecting. Listen as Simone takes control, dominating submissive Charlotte while she gives Andrew the racy pleasure that his wife is too timid to dole out in this cuckquean, ffm, bdsm, anal sex story that sees wifey Charlotte degraded and humiliated.

Experience the fourth episode of the Baumgartner & Momsen detective story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration style and speed of this audio book is aimed at providing learners with real-world spoken German which is clearly understandable, not too fast, but also not too slow.