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Persuasion: An Accurate Retelling of Jane Austen's Timeless Classic, Hörbuch, Digital, 38min
Persuasion is one of a series of retellings of classic literature by publisher Real Reads. True to the original plot, characters and themes, Real Reads also imitate the original author's style. An intelligent, lively and enjoyable introduction to this classic tale. Eight years ago, Anne Elliott was persuaded that her family's honour was more important than her own happiness. She has suffered ever since. Now the man she turned away has returned. Can Captain Wentworth forgive Anne, or will he be charmed instead by the beautiful Louisa? Will Anne be persuaded to marry her cousin, or will she find the strength to follow her heart? The extravagance of Anne's foolish father, the greedy plotting of false friends, and a near-fatal accident bring danger into Anne's safe world. Their hearts assailed by resentment, regrets and rivals, can Anne and Captain Wentworth now reach across the void that separates them to love each other again? Language: English. Narrator: Sally Lewis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rlrd/000019/bk_rlrd_000019_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 99min
Washington Irving's two most famous stories are combined here. One tells of Rip Van Winkle who escaped the dreadful life of a hen-pecked husband by magical means and the other of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman on their midnight ride. Experience the fright of poor Ichabod when assailed by the headless horseman and laugh at poor Rip who spends a lot of time sleeping to try to escape the headache of a nagging and ungrateful wife. Washington Irving (1783–1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, magazine editor and diplomat. Born in Manhattan at the end of the American Revolution, he was named for George Washington, whom he met as a child of six. As a teenager, Irving lived further upstate and became familiar with the surroundings that provided the setting for his best known works, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bobbie Frohman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/alca/000043/bk_alca_000043_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Last Regret Or The Power Of Divine Regeneration
The Last Regret Or The Power Of Divine Regeneration ab 19.49 € als Taschenbuch: A Poem Illustrative Of Truths Of Inspiration Assailed In A Late Work Entitled Essays And Reviews (1861). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,- Shop: hugendubel
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Exit Strategy: The Ghetto Girl Romance Quadrilogy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 550min
The highly anticipated follow-up to Fifty Shades of Jungle Fever! Exit Strategy (noun) 1. A preplanned means of extricating oneself from a situation that is likely to become difficult or unpleasant. 2. The method by which a venture capitalist or business owner intends to get out of an investment that he or she has made in the past. Will Keisha and Tristan exercise their elaborate exit strategy and end their unorthodox arrangement? Assailed by demons she thought she had conquered, Keisha Beale has uttered the words to end her tumultuous relationship with Tristan White. Separated, they grapple for a time with their personal demons. However, when their lives apart become unbearable, a credible threat brings them back together prematurely. As they seek to discover who is responsible for the threats, several seemingly unrelated incidents throw them into a tailspin. Will Keisha's youthful indiscretions or Tristan's un-reconciled feelings for a former sub derail their tenuous arrangement? In the meantime, trouble in Nathan and Jada's paradise send dramatic ripples that hint of future difficulties in the idyllic pairing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marie Hélène. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014127/bk_acx0_014127_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Try the Morgue , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min
From a real-life female gunrunner comes this international best seller and unforgettable literary debut. Ten years ago, “Eva Maria Staal” kept a gun in her purse. It was a present from her boss, Jimmy Liu, the international arms dealer extraordinaire with a taste for high-class male escorts. Together, Jimmy and his devoted assistant traveled the world’s most dangerous hotspots, closing deals with ruthless warlords and corrupt generals, and trading Stinger missiles in Karachi, AK-47s in Chechnya, and hollow-point bullets in Islamabad. But burdened by her conscience, Eva Maria finally got out, married an optometrist, and had a baby. Now, assailed with memories of her secret life, she must reconcile her suburban present with a repressed but ineradicable past, one that blasts a hole so deep she doesn’t know how to love her own daughter. Writing with a knowing intelligence only an insider could provide, this pseudonymous author has created a debut with remarkable intensity that examines the razor-thin line separating those who are drowned from those who are saved. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diane Piron-Gelman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012402/bk_adbl_012402_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 998min
Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father? Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery and effete, Adams nevertheless recovered from the malodorous 1828 presidential election to lead the nation as a lonely Massachusetts congressman in the fight against slavery. Now, award-winning historian William J. Cooper insightfully demonstrates that Adams should be considered our lost Founding Father, his moral and political vision the final link to the great visionaries who created our nation. With his heroic arguments in the Amistad trial forever memorialized, a fearless Adams stood strong against the Jacksonian tide, the Gag Rule, and the expansion of slavery that would send the nation hurtling into war. This game-changing biography reveals Adams to be one of the most battered but courageous and inspirational politicians in American history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Poe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/010448/bk_reco_010448_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mirror Mirror , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 530min
Voted the world's most beautiful woman, 23-year-old Mira Roskova is admired, envied and desired. With a world-famous footballer for a boyfriend, plus top modelling and endorsement deals, Mira's meteoric rise to fame comes with what her millions of Facebook and Instagram followers imagine to be a perfect life. But celebrity extracts its pound of flesh. Threatened and harassed online, stalked by besotted fans, beaten up by a man who claims to love her, Mira is assailed on all sides. Home isn't safe, friends can't be trusted, freedoms melt away. Where does the image end and the real person begin? As the threats multiply, the biggest danger is overlooked. In Broadmoor, Britain's most notorious psychiatric hospital, one man has long been obsessed with this most perfect beauty. His crimes are so awful that a judge ruled they must never be revealed to the public. But his plans to possess Mira are well advanced, and he has the charm and the cunning to make them work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hozayz Gomá. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/004742/bk_howe_004742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Sacco Gang , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 211min
A "wild west" tale of two brothers who battle both the state and a mafia empire in 1920s Italy, from famed Italian author Andrea Camilleri. Raffadali, province of Agrigento, 1920s. The Sacco brothers are free men with strong ideas about socialism and the state. Their lives change radically one morning when their father, Luigi Sacco, receives an anonymous letter from the local Mafia demanding protection money and is the victim of a robbery attempt. Luigi tells the police of the extortion letters he received, but the police don't know what to do: no one in the village has ever dared denounce the Mafia before. From that moment on, the Sacco brothers must defend themselves-from the Mafia and the forces of order, from their collaborators, traitors, and from the village's leaders- as they are assailed by murder attempts, false accusations, and false testimony. Through the tale of the Sacco brothers and what happens to the town of Raffadali, The Sacco Gang makes clear that not only does the Mafia kill people, but it can also condition and irreparably devastate people's lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grover Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011626/bk_blak_011626_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ms. Susanna, The Road to Real (The Gift, #1) (eBook, ePUB)
Ms. Susanna, The Road to RealSusanna Masters thought teaching had been tough! Retirement arrives with multiple catastrophes, trials, and sorrows as she races headlong into more trouble than she could have ever imagined. Living in rural Georgia her entire life had not prepared Ms. Susanna for interacting with the elegant business mogul, Vladimir Kasun. As one of many potential buyers for her property, he takes personal interest in protecting her from the threats that have assailed her. Susanna's immediate fascination with her 'soul mate' throws her entire family into dangerous adventures and a new life. Life's delights surprise her as she falls in love faster than any heroine whose life she had crafted in her unpublished novels.Will Susanna find happy-ever-after is a perfect storyline ending or "just a sweet, stay tuned" saga? Caveat EmptorBooks by KB may contain a few naughty words, occasional, mildly inappropriate behaviors, conservative viewpoints, religious ideologies, 'politically incorrect' scenarios, activities beyond 'neuro normal', and plain old imagination.If any of these things would cause offense, feel free to keep on walkin' down the line and buy someone else's books.If you want a fun read, come on, grab a glass of iced tea, pull up a chair, sit a spell, and enjoy.- Shop: buecher
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The Storyteller (eBook, ePUB)
The award-winning YA author weaves "an unsettling tapestry of ugly secrets, violence, suspense, twisted motives and love's unfathomable ways" (Kirkus). Anna and Abel couldn't be more different. They are both seventeen and in their last year of school, but while Anna lives in a nice old town house and comes from a well-to-do family, Abel, the school drug dealer, lives in a grim tower block at the edge of town. Anna naturally keeps her distance from Abel. But when she discovers that he is the only one caring for his six-year-old sister, her fear turns to fascination. Anna follows the two, listening as Abel tells little Micha the story of a tiny queen assailed by dark forces. It's a beautiful fairy tale that lets Anna see Abel's reality. Unable to make ends meet, he's in danger of losing Micha to their abusive father. Anna gradually falls in love with Abel, but when his "enemies" begin to turn up dead, she fears she has fallen for a murderer. Antonia Michaelis, the Batchelder Honor Award-winning author of Tiger Moon, moves in a bold new direction with her latest novel: a dark, haunting, contemporary story that is part mystery, part melodrama, and part dark romance.- Shop: buecher
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