35 Results for : shuttled
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The Wrong Girl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 800min
Award-winning and Boston Globe best-selling author Hank Phillippi Ryan presents a spine-chilling, heart-wrenching suspense novel that explores a terrifying scenario striking at the heart of every family. Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret? Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the ultimate betrayal - reuniting birth parents with the wrong children. For detective Jake Brogan and his partner, a young woman’s brutal murder seems a sadly predictable case of domestic violence, one that results in two toddlers being shuttled into the foster care system. Then Jake finds an empty cradle at the murder scene. Where is the baby who should have been sleeping there? Jane and Jake are soon on a trail full of twists and turns that takes them deep into the heart of a foster care system in crisis and threatens to blow the lid off an adoption agency scandal. When the threatening phone calls start, Jane knows she is on the right track... but with both a killer at large and an infant missing, time is running out... The Wrong Girl is a riveting novel of familial relationships - both known and unknown - vile greed, senseless murder, and the ultimate in deception. What if you didn’t know the truth about your own family? Includes a bonus interview with Hank Phillippi Ryan ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ilyana Kadushin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001646/bk_aren_001646_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Freud's Sister: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 562min
The award-winning international sensation that poses the question: Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the death of his sister in a Nazi concentration camp? The boy in her memories who strokes her with the apple, who whispers to her the fairy tale, who gives her the knife, is her brother Sigmund. Vienna, 1938: With the Nazis closing in, Sigmund Freud is granted an exit visa and allowed to list the names of people to take with him. He lists his doctor and maids, his dog, and his wife's sister, but not any of his own sisters. The four Freud sisters are shuttled to the Terezín concentration camp, while their brother lives out his last days in London. Based on a true story, this searing novel gives haunting voice to Freud's sister Adolfina - "the sweetest and best of my sisters" - a gifted, sensitive woman who was spurned by her mother and never married. A witness to her brother's genius and to the cultural and artistic splendor of Vienna in the early 20th century, she aspired to a life few women of her time could attain. From Adolfina's closeness with her brother in childhood, to her love for a fellow student, to her time with Gustav Klimt's sister in a Vienna psychiatric hospital, to her dream of one day living in Venice and having a family, Freud's Sister imagines with astonishing insight and deep feeling the life of a woman lost to the shadows of history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001940/bk_peng_001940_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fresh Perspectives - Bible Stories Voiced by the Voiceless: Ground Beneath the Feet of the Adulterous Woman: Endless Book Series 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 14min
The Bible is chock full of stories and object lessons that we can apply to our daily lives. And, there are a great many incredible commentaries, storybooks, Bible study aids, and other resource material that help elucidate what has been written. However, there are few, if any, that give voice to the voiceless in these stories. For example, have you ever wondered how the story of Jesus' birth would have been understood if the manger where he was swaddled were given a voice with which to speak? How would it have described the scene of the very weary Mary, having been shuttled from place-to-place in need of rest, as she and Joseph were shown the only place available for the birth of Jesus? How would it have described the privilege it had to cradle the King of the universe in contrast with the water and animal feed it had been accustomed to containing? Would it have had an opinion concerning the fact that the most honored child was dishonored by being relegated to a place designated to shelter beasts? Fresh Perspectives: Bible Stories Voiced by the Voiceless, Volume 2, part of the Endless Book Series, takes on the perspective of the "ground beneath the feet of the adulterous woman" written of in John 8:1-11. The Lord has much to say to all in the story of an adulteress, and the ground can give us a fresh perspective. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L. David Harris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044838/bk_acx0_044838_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Buffalo Soldier , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 734min
In northern Vermont, a raging river overflows its banks and sweeps the nine-year-old twin daughters of Terry and Laura Sheldon to their deaths. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the highway patrolman and his wife, unable to have more children, take in a foster child: a 10-year-old African-American boy who has been shuttled for years between foster families and group homes. Young Alfred cautiously enters the Sheldon family circle, barely willing to hope that he might find a permanent home among these kind people still distracted by grief. Across the street from the Sheldons live an older couple who take Alfred under their wing, and it is they who introduce him to the history of the buffalo soldiers - African-American cavalry troopers whose reputation for integrity, honor, and personal responsibility inspires the child.Before life has a chance to settle down, however, Terry, who has never been unfaithful to Laura, finds himself attracted to the solace offered by another woman. Their encounter, brief as it is, leaves her pregnant with his baby - a child Terry suddenly realizes he urgently wants.From these fitful lives emerges a lyrical and richly textured story, one that explores the meaning of marriage, the bonds between parents and children, and the relationships that cause a community to become a family. But The Buffalo Soldier is also a tale of breathtaking power and profound moral complexity - and exactly the sort of novel readers have come to expect from Chris Bohjalian. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alison Fraser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000186/bk_rand_000186_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fresh Perspectives: Bible Stories Voiced by the Voiceless: Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil: Endless Book Series 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 18min
The Bible is chock full of stories and object lessons that we can apply to our daily lives. And there are a great many incredible commentaries, storybooks, Bible study aids, and other resource material that help elucidate what has been written. However, there are few, if any, that give voice to the voiceless in these stories. For example, have you ever wondered how the story of Jesus' birth would have read if the manger where He was swaddled were given a voice with which to speak? How would it have described the scene of the very weary Mary, having been shuttled from place-to-place in need of rest, as she and Joseph were shown the only place available for the birth of Jesus? How would it have described the privilege it had to cradle the King of the universe in contrast with the water and animal feed it had been accustomed to containing? Would it have had an opinion concerning the fact that the most honored child was dishonored by being relegated to a place designated to shelter beasts? Fresh Perspectives: Bible Stories Voiced by the Voiceless, Volume 1 (Part of the Endless Book Series) is written from the perspective of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil written of in Genesis 2:16-17. The Lord has much to say to all in the story of Adam and Eve's encounter with sin, and the Tree can give us a fresh perspective. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L. David Harris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044839/bk_acx0_044839_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 701min
Rosie Perez first caught our attention with her fierce dance in the title sequence of Do the Right Thing and has since defined herself as a funny and talented actress who broke boundaries for Latinas in the film industry. What most people would be surprised to learn is that the woman with the big, effervescent personality has a secret straight out of a Dickens novel. At the age of three, Rosie’s life was turned upside down when her mentally ill mother tore her away from the only family she knew and placed her in a Catholic children’s home in New York’s Westchester County. Thus began her crazily discombobulated childhood of being shuttled between “the Home,” where she and other kids suffered all manners of cruelty from nuns, and various relatives’ apartments in Brooklyn. Many in her circumstances would have been defined by these harrowing experiences, but with the intense determination that became her trademark, Rosie overcame the odds and made an incredible life for herself. She brings her journey vividly to life in this memoir - from the vibrant streets of Brooklyn to her turbulent years in the Catholic home, and finally to film and TV sets and the LA and New York City hip-hop scenes of the 1980s and ‘90s. More than a pause-resisting listen, Handbook for an Unpredictable Life is a story of survival. By turns heartbreaking and funny, it is ultimately the inspirational story of a woman who has found a hard-won place of strength and peace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rosie Perez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003773/bk_rand_003773_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 800min
In the vein of best-selling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola's Blackout, and Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor's edge of panic. The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern - how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise, gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to? Deep down, she knows that there's something horribly wrong with her, some defect that her siblings and friends don't have to cope with. Growing up in the 1970s and '80s in New York, Amanda experiences the magic and madness of life through the filter of unrelenting panic. Plagued with fear that her friends and family will be taken from her if she's not watching - that her mother will die, or forget she has children and just move away - Amanda treats every parting as her last. Shuttled between a barefoot bohemian life with her mother in Greenwich Village, and a sanitized, stricter world of affluence uptown with her father, Amanda has little she can depend on. And when Etan Patz disappears down the block from their MacDougal Street home, she can't help but believe that all her worst fears are about to come true. Tenderly delivered and expertly structured, Amanda Stern's memoir is a document of the transformation of New York City and a deep, personal, and comedic account of the trials and errors of seeing life through a very unusual lens. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brittany Pressley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004525/bk_hach_004525_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman: Hollywood Legends , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 663min
Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women-and America's highest paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes as a child, she took a number of low-wage jobs while she determinedly made the connections that landed her in successful Broadway productions. Stanwyck then acted in a stream of high-quality films from the 1930s through the 1950s. Directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra treasured her particular magic. A four-time Academy Award nominee, winner of three Emmys and a Golden Globe, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy. Dan Callahan considers both Stanwyck's life and her art, exploring her seminal collaborations with Capra in such great films as Ladies of Leisure, The Miracle Woman, and The Bitter Tea of General Yen; her Pre-Code movies Night Nurse and Baby Face; and her classic roles in Stella Dallas, Remember the Night, The Lady Eve, and Double Indemnity. After making more than eighty films in Hollywood, she revived her career by turning to television, where her role in the 1960s series The Big Valley renewed her immense popularity. Callahan examines Stanwyck's career in relation to the directors she worked with and the genres she worked in, leading up to her late-career triumphs in two films directed by Douglas Sirk, All I Desire and There's Always Tomorrow, and two outrageous westerns, The Furies and Forty Guns. The book positions Stanwyck where she belongs-at the very top of her profession-and offers a close, sympathetic reading of her performances in all their range and complexity. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colleen Patrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004690/bk_acx0_004690_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea
A childhood in the 1950s and '60s among grifters, show girls, and mob enforcers who embraced the boy and made him who he is. "These stories make for one of the most important and moving American bildungsromans of all time." -William Boyle, The Southwest Review Roy tells it the way he sees it, shuttled between Chicago to Key West and Tampa, Havana and Jackson MS, usually with his mother Kitty, often in the company of lip-sticked women and fast men. Roy is the muse of Gifford's hardboiled style, a precocious child, watching the grown-ups try hard to save themselves, only to screw up again and again. He takes it all in, every waft of perfume and cigar smoke, every missed opportunity to do the right thing. And then there are the good things too. A fishing trip with Uncle Buck, a mother's love, advice from Rudy, Roy's father: "Roy means king. Be the king of your own country. Don't depend on anyone to do your thinking for you." The stories in The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea are together a love letter and a tribute to the childhood experiences that ground a life. In the Author's note, Gifford writes, "I have often been asked if I were interested in writing my memoirs or an autobiography. Given that the Roy stories come as close as I care to come regarding certain circumstances, I remain comfortable with their verisimilitude. They all dwell within the boundary of fiction. As I have explained elsewhere, these are stories, I made them up. Roy ages from about five years old to late adolescence. After that, with the exception of a sighting in Veracruz, I have no idea what happened to him." "The way Barry Gifford lets people talk articulates everything about their unfamiliar inner lives, and ours." -Boston Globe- Shop: buecher
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Babes, Booze & Biceps , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 565min
An impressive follow-up to Slayback’s (Boys, Bumps & Blood, 2013) debut memoir.The author picks up right where his first autobiography left off, in the fall of 1952. At the age of 14, he was shuttled from Duluth, Minnesota, to Lansing, Michigan, while his father headed to Florida. Such trips had been part of their regular routine ever since the author’s mother died; this time, he was left in the care of his married older sister, Lorna. Yet as heartbreaking as it was for the author to hear his father abruptly tell him to "learn to be happy on your own," it hardly sets the tone for the remainder of the memoir. Instead, the author was resilient, throwing himself into a quest for happiness and contentment; he immersed himself in archery, bodybuilding, and bow-hunting, among other things. His diligence with schoolwork eventually allowed him to go to college. There, he enjoyed, for a short time, pole vaulting, spent productive time on a horse ranch, and met a steady procession of women.This improved effort is sure to delight listeners of heartfelt, folksy autobiographies. Slayback writes with sincerity, imparting vignettes from his life with urgency, as if committing them to paper might relieve the pain or sorrow he encountered in his early youth. His love of Michigan particularly shines through ("Fall in Michigan is football season.... In every city, town, or village, it’s in the air, the fresh, brisk, warm, sunny air of day, coupled with the slight bite of cool air in the evening."). He just as clearly describes his time spent learning to rope calves in a rodeo as he does a spicy boat trip to Cuba. The memoir’s cheeky title, though, belies the emotional, introspective landscape of the author’s life. Overall, Slayback relates his adventuresome life with gusto and reflection.A delightful second memoir that’s more engaging and contemplative than the first. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: e-AudioProductions.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160616/bk_acx0_160616_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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