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    One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, USA Today National Bestseller A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. Four friends traveling to the moon in a rocketship built in the backyard. These are just some of the stories that Tom Hanks captures in his first work of fiction: a collection of shorts that explore-with great affection, humor, and insight-the human condition in all its foibles. The stories are linked by one thing: in each of them, a typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, sometimes central. To many, typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship, beauty, and individuality that is harder and harder to find in the modern world. In these stories, Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level. By turns whimsical, witty, and moving, Uncommon Type establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction.
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    It was a junket, a freebie. A 'team-building' weekend in the highlands for lawyers, advertising execs, businessmen, even the head of a charity. Oh, and a journalist, specially solicited for his renowned and voluble scepticism - Jack Parlabane. Amid the flying paintballs and flowing Shiraz even the most cynical admit the organisers have pulled some surprises - stalkers in the forest, power cuts in the night, mass mobile phone thefts, disappearing staff, disappearing guests: there's nothing can bring out people's hidden strengths or break down interpersonal barriers quite like not having a clue what's going on and being scared out of your wits. However, when the only vehicular access for thirty miles is cut off, it seems that events are being orchestrated not just for pleasure.... And that's before they find the first body. Thereafter, 'finding out who your colleagues really are' is not so much an end product as the key to reaching Monday morning alive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angus King. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/002435/bk_howe_002435_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the public, they are all-American actors; one in film, the other on a popular television series. To Sonja Love, sex columnist extraordinaire, they are her lovers. Together, they are a threesome, and what they do behind closed doors no one can know about. Ever. Sonja Love, PhD, writes an advice column for the Cali Chronicle, a popular print and online magazine. Her main goal: to get an interview with the object of her obsession, one Mr. Jacob Brandon, hot new Hollywood hunk dejour. Thanks to a highly controversial film, she is able to get to the press junket and finally meet the man she masturbates to regularly. The first time they meet is on an elevator during a thunderstorm. When Jacob invites his best friend and fellow actor, Henry Dare, to hide out a week or so with them, things heat up in a new direction. Sonja can feel the heat between the two actors as much as she can feel their attraction to her. A triangle forms, toys are tested, boundaries broken, and three people find freedom at last. However, things are not always as good as they seem. Warning: May induce tears. Contains M/F/M, F/M/M, M/M scenes. Includes alternate ending. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelly Rose Kuhl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105710/bk_acx0_105710_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Anna Fortune is a government intelligence analyst who longs for tropical sunsets, early morning beach walks, and a man bold enough to steal her heart. Sonny Cay is a large, lumbering toilet paper salesman with a terminal disease, unpaid medical bills and the haunting memory of a girl he lost years ago. She knows the location of terrorist cells, corrupt politicians and that no man can be trusted to keep his word, wedding date or promise to love forever. He knows life is for the taking, love for the making and both end all too soon. So when Anna is ordered to protect a presidential candidate polling in the single digits on a fund-raising junket in the Bahamas, both get a second chance at true love. He came because he loved her, because all those years ago, she'd stirred him the way no woman ever had. She was his Mt. Everest, the pinnacle of his small world. His head told him to run; his heart made him stay. Now only the gale force winds of a "Bahama Breeze" can cool the white-hot embers of old flames erupting. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face and twang the strings of your heart. If you enjoy the Bahamas and sailing the Windex waters of the Abacos and Exumas, you'll love Bahama Breeze. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004873/bk_acx0_004873_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A three day excursion turns into a nightmare when a rogue wave washes the passengers overboard, leaving Ian and Sierra scrambling for survival. Sparks ignite as they wait for a rescue, but will a secret keep them apart? Billionaire Ian Shaw can have everything he wants - except a happy ending. Or at least that's what it feels like with his fortune recently liquidated, his niece, Esme, still missing, and the woman he loves refusing to speak to him. In fact, he doubts she would date him even if they were stranded on a deserted island. Despite her love for Ian, Sierra Rose knows he has no room in his life for her as long as the mystery of his missing niece goes unsolved. The only problem is, Sierra has solved it, but a promise to Esme to keep her whereabouts secret has made it impossible to be around Ian. When the PEAK chopper is damaged and Sierra lacks the funds to repair it, Ian offers a fundraising junket for large donors on his yacht in the Caribbean. But the three-day excursion turns into a nightmare when a rogue wave cripples the yacht and sends the passengers overboard. Shaken up and soaked to the bone, Ian finally has a chance to test his theory when he and Sierra do indeed find themselves washed up on a strange, empty shore. It will take guts and gumption for the PEAK team to rescue the duo. But it will take a miracle to rescue Ian and Sierra's relationship. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cynthia Farrell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/011775/bk_reco_011775_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In the formidable Colonel Garrison's updated version of the old Redskins program, operatives actually have and maintain an authentic identity very different from that of spy. As Colonel Garrison likes to say, "It is easier to make an agent out of a real person than a real person out of an agent." Dan O'Donovan, former Marine, partner in and heir to a local family department store chain, is one such operative. This mission actually starts by accident when Pres Hooper, who has been dating a Senator's daughter, is on a junket to Peru with the Senator and their plane crashes. For Colonel Garrison this is a perfect opportunity to put into action his plan to topple both the corrupt government and replace the inept "puppet" that the US Embassy and the CIA have selected with a man he has found. Now is the time for his man to start playing a role on a larger stage. So, while finding out what has happened to Pres, Dan is to meet, assess, and if all goes well develop a plan of events that will lead up to Garrison's Grand Plan, the details of which are shrouded in secrecy. Meanwhile Mary Sue flies to Lima to find out what she can about her brother's fate. At first this third mission appears to be going very well. Note: The Grand Plan actually did take place; my interpretation of people actually involved is simply my own, based on their actions and statements. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beverly Enwall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/007195/bk_acx0_007195_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hildegarde Withers heads down Mexico way where the death in the afternoon involves neither a matador nor a bull. Inspector Oscar Piper is off on a junket to Mexico in the summer of 1937 (surrounded by a bunch of Democrats, huffed Miss Withers) when a customs inspector on a train headed for Mexico City sniffs a very potent bottle of cheap perfume and promptly drops dead. Quite naturally, Oscar telegraphs Hildegarde in Manhattan about the perfume and quite naturally Miss Withers packs her bags and heads south of the border, figuring Oscar is out of his depth if he has to rely on deductive reasoning rather than a rubber hose. Why any of the occupants of the train should want to kill a harmless Mexican customs inspector is so puzzling that everyone assumes that the real intended victim is a self-made rich american woman who seemingly has rededicated her life to shopping. Her husband ought to be the prime suspect but he seems devoted to her, although he was spotted giving cash to a pretty young redhead when he thought no one was looking. Then there were the two American fast buck artists who figured they could get rich buying up all the gasoline-powered generators in Mexico on the eve of a strike by utility workers. They looked especially guilty when their shady, double-crossing associate - a somewhat accomplished ladies' man - becomes the second person to die. A blue banderilla, usually used to slow bulls down, is driven through his back during a Sunday afternoon bullfight in Mexico City. Miss Withers borrows a technique from Sherlock Holmes himself to show that a banderilla makes for a lousy murder weapon, a conclusion also reached by a rather odd young Mexican man whose English seems to come and go. First published in 1937, this lighthearted mystery displays all the charm that made Miss Withers Anthony Boucher's favorite female sleuth as well as a favorite of moviegoers during the early days of the talkies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie McKay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007869/bk_adbl_007869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Resurrection Junket: ab 3.49 €
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    On a research junket to Oxford, Yale professor Diane Bishop (Teresa Palmer) was hoping to put her problems-including her disavowed heritage as a witch-behind her. However, she stumbled on an arcane manuscript that the darkest of mystical forces covet... and finds an improbable ally for it's safekeeping in geneticist (and vampire) Matthew Clairmont (Matthew Goode). Series adaptation of the Deborah Harkness novel co-stars Malin Buska, Owen Teale, Aiysha Hart, Alex Kingston, Valarie Pettiford.10 episodes on 2 discs. 10 hrs. Widescreen, Soundtrack: English.
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