143 Results for : monotony
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Hostage Situation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 30min
Celeste is bored in her small town. The daily monotony is clearly wearing on her after her boss tells her to strike a pose for "customer service" every morning. But as she settles in for another dull day at the bank, a group of men barge in and hold up the bank. Recognizing the hold-up men as "Satan's Soldiers", the local motorcycle gang, Celeste does whatever she can to keep herself and her co-workers alive during the siege. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jon Louis Chaus. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/036319/bk_acx0_036319_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Beginning Place (eBook, ePUB)
From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Beginning Place.Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place"-a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle inhabitants of Tembreabrezi, or Mountaintown, and she sees Hugh as a trespasser.But then a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are they on their way to a new beginning...or a fateful end?At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.- Shop: buecher
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Surviving Quarantine: How to Deal with the Isolation Due to a Global Pandemic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
The year of 2020 has been a wild ride for all of us. International tensions, wildfires, and a global pandemic have ravaged the first half of the year. The most notable occurrence, a global pandemic, has left millions of people without jobs and having to be stuck at home "quarantining".The quarantine can get quite boring, and people are trying new things and learning new skills to cope with the monotony. This audiobook will show you some of the many ways you can improve yourself mentally and physically. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kasey Ellacott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209582/bk_acx0_209582_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Disparities Are Just Deserts: 1844 Couplets in Contention , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 293min
Disparities are just deserts, between the good and bad in competition seen. 1844 maxims of rhythmic justice and assertive rhyme, carried forward in the cause of human dissimilarity upon competitive pretensions for rewards, merciless poetry manifest. Successful emulation in enterprise these unemasculated couplets may inspire. Book One enlarges on justice, maintaining that disparities justly may flourish where no monopolistic state or centralized monotony prevents them. In Book Two, the undigested individual is regarded as the likeliest exemplar of fulfilled attainments. At large egalitarian larceny Leaves Shakespeare no distinguished property. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Nolan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014200/bk_acx0_014200_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Long March to Freedom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1264min
Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom is a record of his 11 months as a hostage of Colombian guerillas and was the basis for the recent movie hit Proof of Life that starred Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, and David Morse. While the movie invented a fictitious romantic angle, Long March to Freedom is the actual journal Hargrove kept in captivity, and the listener gets a sense of the intense emotions and the tension caused by bouts of monotony broken by sudden brutality, as well as the strength, wit, and personality through which Hargrove kept himself alive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Sklar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000984/bk_blak_000984_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Lie , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 33min
This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker. Lonnie is tired. He's tired of his job, the monotony of it, and tired of the predictability ofhis home life now that he's a father. It's a day like every other day, and hecan't face the inevitability of it all. So he lies. It's a small lie, but heknows small lies become big ones. He knows it as soon as he says his daughteris in the hospital. But he can't stop himself, and he can't stop the lie fromtaking on a life of its own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: T. C. Boyle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006080/bk_blak_006080_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Year Without Make-Up: Tales of a 20-Something Traveler , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 125min
Have you ever wanted to quit your job and go travel the world? At 25 years old Stephanie Yoder was already fed up with the monotony of 9-5 life. After much agonizing, she quit her stable desk job to backpack around Asia. During a year of travel through Japan, China and South East Asia she became a minor Chinese celebrity, was attacked by giant parrots and met the love of her life. In A Year Without Make-Up, Yoder chronicles some of her craziest adventures along with providing helpful tips and encouragement for others looking to make a life change. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie McKay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016593/bk_adbl_016593_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Warrior's Bride: Biblical Strategies to Help the Military Spouse Thrive , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 579min
The call came down from Command, and your warrior husband is out the door, leaving you behind to handle whatever he has left undone. Whether it’s the day-to-day monotony, the inevitable appliance that breaks, or the months without his presence beside you, being a military spouse brings challenges few appreciate. Yet God sees you and longs for you to boldly step into his plan. He purposely chose you for this moment - for your man. He wants to give you abundantly more than what you have right now and desires you to thrive as your warrior’s bride. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Hogan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/120954/bk_acx0_120954_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Iliad , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1021min
The Iliad - attributed to Homer - is the most famous ancient Greek epic poem. It recounts the struggle between King Agamemnon and the hero Achilles during the final months of the Trojan War, with frequent detours into earlier legends and myths. In its portrayal of battle scenes and the constant interventions of the gods, The Iliad explores themes of wrath, glory, and fate, and has provided the subject matter for many later Greek, Roman, and Renaissance writings. Consisting of 15,693 lines of dactylic hexameter verse, the entire poem has a formal rhythm with slight variations, which makes easy to memorize while preventing monotony. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Giordani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001264/bk_yurt_001264_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Never Say Never: Tips, Tricks, and Erotic Inspiration for Lovers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min, (USK 18)
Monogamy does not have to equal monotony and eroticist author Alison Tyler has made it her life's mission to make sure it never is with Never Say Never! Half of a very happily married duo, Tyler's advice is that couples can build a trust level that makes experimentation truly possible and posits that uninhibited, really exciting, and highly imaginative sex happens best with lovers who just happen to be couples, too. This follow up to Tyler's best-selling Never Have the Same Sex Twice blends her wisdom, expert advice, and favorite erotic scenarios illustrating myriad sexual techniques and fantasies designed to liven up the bedroom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jullian Kline. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023186/bk_acx0_023186_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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