12 Results for : gawk
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Conflicting Hearts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min
Rachel Hayward hoped to have a quiet thirtieth birthday alone. Instead, fate had different plans. Caught in traffic and late for work, she can do nothing except wait for the freeway gridlock to ease. A three-car pileup has caused the snarl. Just as cars begin to move at a faster clip, Rachel takes her eyes off the road to gawk at the accident and rear-ends the car in front of her. Sick over having ruined her day, she lowers her head onto the steering wheel and waits for the driver to begin a tirade over her stupidity. Instead, a kind man taps on her window showing genuine concern about her welfare. The brief colliding encounter suddenly starts a relationship between two strangers that takes off under odd circumstances. When the couple gets to know each other on a more intimate level, their relationship turns into a conflicting set of desires and needs. Rachel is bound by a shameful, dark childhood. After she falls in love with the handsome Ian Richards, she is faced with the decision to leave him or finally confront her demons to obtain the one thing in life she's always needed - healing from the sexual abuse she endured as a little girl. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andi Arndt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015671/bk_acx0_015671_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Flanagan: A Short Filibustering Adventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 36min
Flanagan is a story not dissimilar from "The Open Boat", except that the captain dies in "Flanagan" but not in the "Open Boat". Flanagan is hired to take a ship, aptly named the Foundling, down to Cuba to run guns and people into that country. He does so in a rickety old boat and does a good job. A gun boat finds them and barrels at them at top speed. Rather than just running, the natural instinct, Flanagan turns his ship towards the small gun boat, an unexpected chess move, and runs down the surprised small gun boat and sinks her. Afterward, his men make sure to gun down the survivors in their life boats to assure no followup. After this great victory, Flanagan sees a storm whirling up in the distance. It comes upon him and is about to destroy his ship, even after they try heading as far towards the Florida coast as possible. They can't make it and so abandon ship. This is during a great party on shore, at which people, upon hearing of the shipwreck, come down to the shore to gawk. "Later there floated to them a body with a calm Irish face (presumably Flanagan). The expedition of the Foundling will never be historic." The story ends in a dull thud, exhibiting the classic irony of a Crane short story. Every bit as interesting as "The Open Boat", this is a companion piece with somewhat similar results. As with all Simply audio books, we provide a commentary in an afterword for those interested. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deaver Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smag/000091/bk_smag_000091_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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