71 Results for : rapacious
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An Unfolding Soul: A Tale of Bath , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 717min
From the bestselling author Douglas Westcott comes An Unfolding Soul - A tale of Bath; an inspiring novel of resilience and reinvention, set in Britain's finest Georgian city. Ian Morris lies in a coma in Bath's Royal United hospital, mind and body shattered, with nothing remaining of his hard-earned fortune...can he recover to re-build his property empire? Will he be part of the greed-driven destruction gripping historical Bath in the swinging 60s? Or will he soften his rapacious desire for profit and recognize how to change his own destiny and restore the city's fortunes? An Unfolding Soul continues Wescott's sweeping, coming of age saga, painting a shocking portrait of Bath, and shining a spotlight on little-known aspects of the city's colorful past. Business, politics, and history are interwoven in this pause-resisting tale, with Westcott's engaging prose filled with moments of cultural interest, humor, and ultimately, hope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Cleary. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160008/bk_acx0_160008_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dog Days in Saigon, Hörbuch, Digital, 366min
Stephen McAllister was a grunt, a dog handler in Vietnam, tasked not only with fighting what was by then an unwinnable war but with rehabilitating a scout dog named Big Mike whose trauma ran even deeper than his own. McAllister's voice has an abundance of heart and humor, but the laughter has a catch in its throat. For all the ingenuity and camaraderie, a dark and suspenseful melody plays behind the adventures of McAllister and his unforgettable constellation of young characters, American and Vietnamese.Plunged into an endless nightmare against their will, McAllister and his fellow soldiers must rapidly master the art of creative resistance: finding comfort in each other when they could split along countless lines of race, class, and region; standing up to the rapacious and ridiculous powers that be when blind obedience would be so much easier; and staying alive, when giving up seems like the only option. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/000887/or_orig_000887_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Who Killed Joy Murder Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min
This humorous mystery unfolds as a group of rapacious cable-show producers meet at an isolated retreat to determine which shows will be renewed and which will be cancelled. Caustic struggles ensue among the producers of such shows as 600 Pound Fatties, Naked Survivors in Borneo, The Love Life of Little People, and other shows. The intensity of the infighting increases with the advent of Tattoo Man pitching his show. The humorous struggles continue as the narrator constructs a weekend murder mystery play to serve as a diversion for the producers during the retreat. The weekend mystery play stars, as the victim, a beautiful, empty-headed 19-year-old waitress named Joy. Unfortunately, she is actually murdered by one of the retreat’s participants. Everyone refuses to believe a murder was committed, thinking Joy’s death was merely part of the weekend mystery play. Confusion abounds as the narrator continually tries to unsuccessfully convince the producers that an actual murder has occurred. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Doug MacKechnie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205386/bk_acx0_205386_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Stage-Door , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 206min
We have thirty days to write, rehearse, and stage a theatrical adaptation of the Odyssey, people have been promised a show that will blow their minds, and the budget is gratis. With these words estranged friends from New York, Chicago, and San Francisco theaters descend on a small theater in Denver to try and save a kid's after-school program. In a frantic haze they tear down most of the performance space, rebuild it, bicker with locals and each other alike, fall in love, in lust, out of love, and ultimately the twenty and thirty-something's have to answer the question of whether or not this is what they really want to still be doing now that they're grown up, or if they're grown up at all. A quick novella, Stage-Door darts along at a rapacious pace with blasts of wit and occasionally clumsier language, with a cluster of disparate people competing as much a cooperating. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlie James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008429/bk_acx0_008429_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Computing: A Business History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 237min
Noted systems developer, Lars Nielsen reveals the dynamic combination of innovation, competition and, often eccentric, entrepreneurship that went to shape today's tech landscape. From the military's ENIAC of 1946 to the ripening of the Web and e-commerce, Nielsen's Computing: A Business History details the evolution of computing as it has impacted the models and practices of markets and professional services around the globe. Nielsen explains not only the development of technologies, but the ongoing saga of strategic rivalries between such tech firms as IBM, Cisco, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.He surveys the rise and fall of companies and platforms from the early days of the mainframe when the likes of Sperry Rand and DEC laid unsuccessful siege to IBM's market-share, through the era of Windows vs. Mac and beyond. And he vividly depicts the brilliant, but often rapacious, personalities behind the competition that shaped the business computing environment we know today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Smokey Rivers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008685/bk_acx0_008685_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy: A Satire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min
Come along with Governor Mike Huckleberry as he seeks the Republican nomination for president and thereby also seeks to deliver America from what he sees as its current death spiral into religious, moral, economic, and racial decay. Huckleberry is the one, the only chosen one, who can--with none other than Jesus himself whispering advice in his ear--rescue America from a gruesome army of gay, drug-addicted, taco-chomping deviants, rabble herds of "junior scholars" who run wild in urban jungles, and entitled, abortion-loving America haters who broadcast treason from deep within the Satanic labyrinth of MSNBC. In this candid first-person memoir, Huckleberry gives you an insider's view of his beleaguered campaign, such as it is: a hilarious clown car packed with an astonishing array of fear-mongering grotesques, xenophobic paranoids, closeted bigots, and rapacious, self-promoting Conservative pundits, all of them poised to commandeer America's future in the name of God and unrestrained capitalism (not necessarily in that order). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Curt Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029119/bk_acx0_029119_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beauty Is a Wound , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 988min
The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star. The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past: the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders of perhaps a million "Communists", followed by three decades of Suharto's despotic rule. Beauty Is a Wound astonishes from its opening line: "One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for 21 years...." Drawing on local sources - folktales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit and epic scope - and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Kurniawan's distinctive voice brings something luscious yet astringent to contemporary literature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025959/bk_adbl_025959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Eighth God: The Orcslayers, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 392min
For thousands of years, five great fortresses have stood sentinel between the Borderlands and the rapacious Orcs. But the Orcs have allies and these allies are about to set a chain of events in motion that will lead to war. Heroes will rise to answer the call.Saethryth has just returned from the Orc Lands where he has been killing them for over twenty years. He is one of the last Orcslayers left alive.Melress is a Half-Elven Battle Mage, recently promoted to Captain and sent to the fortress of Knight's Perch, where there are rumours of a traitor.Tierra has been sleeping with the enemy and now she wants revenge.And Bazak-Kul, well he just wants to get home alive.They, and others, will face the onslaught at Knight's Perch, but battle is the least of anyone's problems, because The Eighth God is on the rise and everything can change when the Gods are playing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Damien Brunetto. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100368/bk_acx0_100368_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ways to Disappear , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 271min
A debut novel about the disappearance of a famous Brazilian novelist and the young translator who turns her life upside down to follow her author's trail. Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator, Emma, hears the news and, against the wishes of her boyfriend and Beatriz's two grown children, flies immediately to Brazil. There, in the sticky, sugary heat of Rio, Emma and her author's children conspire to solve the mystery of Yagoda's curious disappearance and staunch the colorful demands of her various outstanding affairs: the rapacious loan shark with a zeal for severing body parts and the washed-up and disillusioned editor who launched Yagoda's career years earlier. Idra Novey's exhilarating debut is an international romp: a madcap blend of mystery, romance, noir, and humor. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Hanfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002403/bk_hach_002403_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 484min, (USK 18)
The supernatural: Think vampires, werewolves, ghosts...eerie sounds in the night, impassioned whispers teasing at the depths of sleep.... Think red velvet, flickering candles, love and lust with otherworldly partners who unleash passion and desire far beyond that inspired by simple mortals. Editor Mitzi Szereto's sensual stories provide thrills and chills of telltale hearts, redolent with romance and danger. Red Velvet and Absinthe will carry you away, conjuring up the romantic spirit of classic Gothic fiction with a generous dose of eroticism. A lusty lady, ravaged, seeks comfort in the arms of her maidservent in Giselle Renarde's rapacious "Milady's Bath", while bondage and desire enslave a wolf girl to her master in "Snowlight, Moonlight" by Rose de Fer. Janine Ashbless' "Cover Him with Darkness" is an exquisite tale of secret love between an imprisoned fallen angel and the girl he seduces. Editor Mitzi Szereto's vampire romance "The Blood Moon Kiss" is sexy Southern Gothic at its finest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chandra Skyye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbca/001195/bk_bbca_001195_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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