181 Results for : acerbic

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    Slam , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 405min
    Slam is a bright and acerbic depiction of the slacker culture of Texas and a testament to a lost and found generation. Dave stepped out of Bastrop Federal Prison after a six-month stretch for tax evasion and into the home of one Margueritte Johnson, a.k.a. the Old Lady. The Old Lady passed on, leaving her house and her fortune to her twenty-three cats. But the cats need a caretaker - or so he thinks. There are others with an eye on the Johnson estate, and soon Dave is caught up in a whirlwind of anarchists, gold diggers, skateboard punks, lawyers, hackers, and arsonists - a population of dropouts and misfits who willdo anything to avoid doing anything. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005968/bk_blak_005968_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Red Files , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 677min
    Ambitious Daily Sentinel journalist Lauren King is chaffing on LA’s vapid social circuit, reporting on glamorous A-list parties while sparring with her rival - the formidable, icy Catherine Ayers. Ayers is an ex-Washington political correspondent who suffered a humiliating fall from grace, and her acerbic, vicious tongue keeps everyone at bay. Everyone, that is, except knockabout Iowa girl King, who is undaunted and unimpressed and gives as good as she gets.One night a curious story unfolds before their eyes: one political launch, 34 prostitutes and a palette of missing pink champagne. Can the warring pair work together to unravel an incredible story? This is a lesbian fiction with more than a few mysterious twists. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Victoria Mei. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131810/bk_acx0_131810_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pretending to Be Me: Philp Larkin, a Portrait , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min
    Pretending to Be Me is an intimate, acerbic, and occasionally scurrilous show about the poet, jazz aficionado, and Hull University librarian Philip Larkin. Larkin has moved home: surrounded by packing cases, playing selections from his favourite jazz LPs, and making himself cups of tea, and later whiskies, he reflects wryly on writing and life. Hilarious and moving, the narrative shifts seamlessly between Larkin's outrageous wit and the poems, which Courtenay reads with powerful directness and simplicity. Philip Larkin, one of the foremost figures in 20th-Century English poetry, feared his epitaph would be: "They f*** you up, your mum and dad". This, and other familiar poems, including "An Arundel Tomb", "The Whitsun Weddings", and "High Windows". are included in Pretending to Be Me. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Courtenay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000027/bk_twuk_000027_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Complete Short Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1044min
    From the cruel irony of A Member of the Family to the fateful echoes of The Go-Away Bird and the unexpectedly sinister The Girl I Left Behind Me, in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her unique talent. The Complete Short Stories is a collection to be loved and cherished, from one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, rediscover it on the 100th anniversary of Muriel Spark's birth with outstanding performances by Emilia Fox, Richard E. Grant and Juliet Stevenson. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Juliet Stevenson, Emilia Fox, Richard E. Grant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cnon/000048/bk_cnon_000048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Always Happy Hour: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 382min
    Always Happy Hour weaves tales of young women who are deeply flawed, intensely real, and who struggle to get out of their own way. These women love to drink and have sex; they make bad decisions with men who love them too much or too little; they haunt gas stations, public pools, and dive bars, seeking understanding in the most unlikely of places; and, although each shoulders the weight of different baggage, they all suspect they deserve better. In this collection of acerbic and ruefully funny stories, Miller takes a microscope to love and intimacy, evoking the reticence of love among the misunderstood, the grit and comfort of bad habits that can't be broken, and the beat-by-beat minutiae of ill-fated relationships. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Madeleine Lambert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/001700/bk_drms_001700_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Candide (AmazonClassics Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 234min
    Candide, the illegitimate nephew of a German baron and student of eternal optimist Pangloss, is living a simple and sheltered life in "the best of all possible worlds." But when Candide falls in love with the wrong woman, his uncle's young daughter, he is exiled from the baron's castle and suffers great tragedy and catastrophe, which leaves him disillusioned and questioning the goodness of the universe. Penned in just three days - and published in secret because of its blasphemous and seditious nature - Voltaire's legendary satire deftly skewers religious, romantic, and political naïveté with an acerbic and ribald wit that delights to this day. Revised edition: Previously published as Candide, this edition of Candide (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Langton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009795/bk_brll_009795_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dark Places (eBook, ePUB)
    THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON 'Eerily macabre... Wonderful' Guardian'A nerve-fraying thriller' New York Times'Every bit as horribly fascinating as In Cold Blood' Daily MailLibby Day was seven when her family was murdered: she survived by hiding in a closet - and famously testified that her older brother Ben was the killer. Twenty-five years later the Kill Club - a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes - gets in touch with Libby to try to discover proof that may free Ben. Almost broke, Libby agrees to go back to her hometown to investigate - for a fee. But when Libby's search uncovers an unimaginable truth, she finds herself right back where she started: on the run from a killer. THE ORIGINAL #1 BESTSELLER, BY THE AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL 'I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer' Kate Atkinson'Gillian Flynn is the real deal: a sharp, acerbic and compelling storyteller' Stephen King'An extraordinarily good writer' Observer
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    99 Percent Kill: A Lucky Dey Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 630min
    When the real enemy is closer than you think....Lucky Dey is at it again. This time, the on-again/off-again Los Angeles cop is more willful and acerbic than he's ever been before. Awaiting his official reinstatement, Lucky accepts a one-time gig to track down the missing teenage daughter of a Midwestern millionaire. Determined to find the girl, Lucky tangles with Tinseltown’s dark underbelly to locate the millionaire's daughter. Winding his way through an L.A. landscape where the lights are bright but reality can be murky and perilous, Lucky is trapped in a trafficking web, entangled with vile human predators. But bringing the girl home safely becomes more dangerous than he expects. For the first time ever, the payoff might not be worth the price.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim DeKay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157014/bk_acx0_157014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dusk Gate: Soul Bound, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 598min
    What should you do when you're dragged to the hells?As a holy maiden of the Phoenix Queen, Jasmine was a prize of immense value to the demons. To their shock, she and her nearly defeated rescuers are rescued by the beautiful but scathing Xandra, an enslaved elven sorceress who’d been damned for over a millennium. Once they escape, Xandra and the others soon go their separate ways, thinking that their brief meeting would be their last, for they had little in common.Little did Jasmine know that the fickle hand of fate would reunite her with Xandra when darkness shrouds her homeland and all the other holy maidens are captured. Nor did she know that acerbic, destructive sorceress will provide her only source of hope for the future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jess Nahikian. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231469/bk_acx0_231469_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Will Save the Galaxy for Food , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 620min
    A not-quite epic science fiction adventure about a down-on-his luck galactic pilot caught in a cross-galaxy struggle for survival! Space travel just isn't what it used to be. With the invention of quantum teleportation, space heroes aren't needed anymore. When one particularly unlucky ex-adventurer masquerades as famous pilot and hate figure Jacques McKeown, he's sucked into an ever-deepening corporate and political intrigue. Between space pirates, adorable deadly creatures, and a missing fortune in royalties, saving the universe was never this difficult! From the creator of Mogworld and Jam! Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw is a British Australian comedic writer, video game journalist, author, and video game developer. He is perhaps best known for his acerbic video game review series, Zero Punctuation, for The Escapist.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yahtzee Croshaw. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023528/bk_adbl_023528_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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