13 Results for : sobered
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The Candlestickmaker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 744min
Aboard the spy ship U.S.S. Argosy in the war-tossed waters off the coast of Vietnam, three young American sailors form an unlikely bond. Each has fled an America they were raised to love but somehow no longer understand. When forced to choose whether to face combat or stay and fight the war in the streets, they sign up for a war that reflects the conflict that raged inside each of them. The one thing of which they were certain was that the only people in the world they could depend on were each other. As their friendship deepens in the bars and brothels from Hong Kong to Subic Bay, Ernie Brigham and his companions slowly become aware of a dark secret aboard the U.S.S. Argosy. Upon their return to the America they left behind, they are changed at best, lost and damaged at worst, but ultimately sobered by a war that never should have been fought. In the tradition of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke, and Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War, The Candlestickmaker recalls a Vietnam that seared disenchantment into a post-World War II generation who learned to question authority at all levels. A coming-of-age story bookended by revelations that shatter readers' illusions about patriotism, government, and the nature of modern warfare, The Candlestickmaker takes listeners on a voyage that will guarantee they never read the Mother Goose nursery rhyme to their children in quite the same way again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Meenan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/012107/bk_acx0_012107_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Legacies of Brigadier Station: Brigadier Station Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 318min
Can Lachie be the father Emma needs? And the man Abbie deserves? Lachie McGuire is trying to make a fresh start. He’s sobered up and is making amends for all the people he has hurt and the pain he has caused. But some of his past actions have consequences. Even if he doesn’t remember them.Needing her independence, single-mum Abbie Forsyth accepted a nursing position in the small outback town of Julia Creek and uprooted her daughter, Emma, from the only life she had ever known. Now, in the dusty, sun burned land they are creating a life together, just the two of them.When Lachie is injured and needs medical assistance, Abbie is there for him. She’s by his side every step of the way, including letting him stay with them while he recovers from surgery. But Abbie knows how volatile life with an addict can be and she has to think about her daughter’s safety above her own growing affection for the handsome grazier. Then tragedy strikes the small rural town and secrets begin to unravel...The Legacies of Brigadier Station is the third in the Brigadier Station series which is set near Julia Creek in the isolated Queensland Outback of Australia.Each book in the Brigadier Station series can be read as a standalone:The Brothers of Brigadier StationThe Sky over Brigadier StationThe Legacies of Brigadier StationChristmas at Brigadier StationEach of Sarah's stories are linked so you can find out what happens to the other brothers and your favourite characters in future books. ”For more information about Sarah and her new releases, please visit: sarahwilliamsauthor.com and check out her YouTube channel and podcast Write with Love to find your next favourite author.If you like small town, country and rural romance from authors like Bella Andre, Melody Grace, Maisey Yates, Johanna Lyndsey, Nora Roberts, and Diana Palmer then you'll love this short ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Myles Pollard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168278/bk_acx0_168278_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life - His Own , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 803min
Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In The Night of the Gun, David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The New York Times. Built on 60 videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, The Night of the Gun is a ferocious tale that uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. Carr's investigation of his own history reveals that his odyssey through addiction, recovery, cancer, and life as a single parent was far more harrowing - and, in the end, more miraculous - than he allowed himself to remember. Over the course of the book, he digs his way through a past that continues to evolve as he reports it. That long-ago night when he was so out of his mind that his best friend had to pull a gun on him to make him go away? A visit to the friend 20 years later reveals that Carr was pointing the gun. His lucrative side business as a cocaine dealer? Not all that lucrative, as it turned out, and filled with peril. His belief that after his twins were born, he quickly sobered up to become a parent? Nice story, if he could prove it. The notion that he was an easy choice as a custodial parent once he finally was sober? His lawyer pulls out the old file and gently explains it was a little more complicated than that. In one sense, the story of The Night of the Gun is a common one: a white-boy misdemeanant lands in a ditch and is restored to sanity through the love of his family, a God of his understanding, and a support group that will go unnamed. But when the whole truth is told, it does not end there. Ferocious and eloquent, courageous and bitingly funny, The Night of the Gun unravels the ways memory helps us not only create our lives, but survive them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Leggett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/001529/bk_sans_001529_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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