60 Results for : evacuees
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Storm Shelter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 577min
Dr. Persephone (Seph) Smith is a psychologist with enhanced empathy, allowing her to feel the emotions of others. But her gift comes with a price. Plagued by nightmares and insecure in her work, Seph absorbs the suffering of her patients by day and swills tequila by night.When Seph is deployed to an abandoned air hangar turned medical shelter during a massive hurricane, one by one, as the wind howls overhead, staff and evacuees disappear into the dark recesses of the vast space. The missing return as mutilated corpses. The living, trapped in the shrieking metal structure by the storm, descend into varying levels of paranoia and madness.Seph, as both counselor and detective, must determine who, or what, is preying on them. Is the panic and mayhem "shelter shock", as the lead physician, Anne Parrish, insists? Or is everyone, Seph included, in danger of losing their minds - and their lives? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Brannan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203451/bk_acx0_203451_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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War Brides , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 816min
As war moves ever closer, the sleepy English village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. The nightly German air raids become grimly mundane. Rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. And five women forge a bond of friendship that will change their lives forever in this engrossing novel of loyalty, loss, and love in the shadow of World War II. With the hardships of war intensifying every day, the women band together to defeat formidable enemies and find remarkable strength within themselves to help one another. It is a war-forged loyalty certain to endure years and distance. When four of the women return for a celebration 50 years later, their mission is not simply to commemorate or remember. They’ve returned to confront a traitor whose actions cost countless lives — and to avenge one of their own at last. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tavia Gilbert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003903/bk_brll_003903_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rooftop Diva: A Novel of Triumph After Katrina , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 467min
Author D.T. Pollard is a rising voice in contemporary fiction. In this Essence best seller, he cleverly tackles a sensitive subject, following the fortunes of a woman who survived 2005's Hurricane Katrina and was forever changed by the event.After losing her grandmother, her home, and all her worldly possessions in the storm, Monique Deveraux has all but given up on life. Then at an evacuee shelter, a wealthy woman takes her in and introduces her to a billionaire businessman, starting Monique on a whirlwind of success. But something is lurking in the shadows that could take everything away again. In the chaos after the storm, a convict walked out of jail and blended in with the dishevelled evacuees - and she was looking for revenge when she met Monique.Monique's story is not just about the storm, but about how an event can change lives - for better or for worse. Susan Spain narrates Monique's story of the far-reaching effects of Hurricane Katrina. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Spain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/002133/bk_reco_002133_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min
It is June 13th, 1940. Terry, seven, and his brother Jack, eleven, stand in a crowd of children on the platform at Welling station. Wearing labels, carrying gas masks and small suitcases, they are evacuees, awaiting the train which will take them to their unknown destination and new lives. In the tiny Cornish hamlet of Doublebois, the woods and river become their playground; rabbit-catching and night-fishing their new pastimes. But it is the railway, above all, which delights them. It is the richest of childhoods, full of colour, humour and the unselfish love that Uncle Jack, a Welsh ex-miner, and his wife, Auntie Rose, offer without reserve to the two young strangers. And despite fierce rivalry between local kids and the ‘vackies’, village life seems wonderful to the boys. Warm-hearted and moving, Kisses on a Postcard is a vivid and intimate portrait of a neglected part of our wartime history; a compelling and uplifting memoir of growing up in an extraordinary time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Terence Frisby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003267/bk_bbcw_003267_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 279min
For fifty years Mollie Panter-Downes' name was associated with The New Yorker, for which she wrote a regular 'Letter from London', book reviews and over thirty short stories; of the twenty-one in Good Evening, Mrs Craven, written between 1939 and 1944, only two had ever been reprinted - these very English stories have, until now, been unavailable to English readers. Exploring most aspects of English domestic life during the war, they are about separation, sewing parties, fear, evacuees sent to the country, obsession with food, the social revolutions of wartime. In the Daily Mail Angela Huth called Good Evening, Mrs Craven 'my especial find' and Ruth Gorb in the Ham & High contrasted the humour of some of the stories with the desolation of others: 'The mistress, unlike the wife, has to worry and mourn in secret for her man; a middle-aged spinster finds herself alone again when the camaraderie of the air-raids is over...' The stories read by English actress Lucy Scott beautifully re-create this tumultuous period. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lucy Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/psph/000004/bk_psph_000004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Driving Towards Disaster: The Story Thus Far , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 163min
Most people run from disasters, but for people like Jake it's your job to get to one as fast as you can. This time he is not so sure he wants to go. A major global pandemic is going on and a major hurricane has just hit the Gulf Coast. To make matters worse, the government is forcing the evacuees back to the storm stricken cities or placing them in isolation and quarantine. His chances of helping others or becoming a casualty himself have just taken a turn for the worse as the U.S. declares martial law for a storm ravaged coast. Follow this short tale of bad government policy and impending apocalypse. A few simple bottles sitting in a window and a few silver coins. Can this be all that can be offered as a remedy to the virus that plagues mankind? Will the view of the back garden ever get back to the same? Or will it become a graveyard for memories? A post apocalyptic tale of what might be foretold for America's future, the economy and mankind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014125/bk_acx0_014125_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Map of Stars , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 608min
A heartbreaking Second World War love story.Love and duty, codes and spies - a tear-jerking wartime saga. Kent, 1939. Eliza is to be married to Nicholas, her companion since she was a child. But when the pair are involved in a car crash, Eliza is rescued by a stranger, Lewis Harper, whose stunning blue eyes she will never forget. As the war begins, Eliza's world begins to fall apart: her beloved brother Martyn is killed in action, and her once-beloved husband grows increasingly distant. And then, when her efforts to help the Dunkirk evacuees take her to the south coast, she spots a familiar pair of eyes. Torn between passion and duty, Eliza must choose whether to follow her conscience or her heart. But wartime has plenty of its own dangers, and with spies infiltrating even the country houses of Kent, Eliza must find the courage to serve her country in even the most heart-breaking circumstances. A beautiful story of star-crossed lovers, Map of Stars is another brilliant wartime saga from Catherine Law. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clare Corbett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002804/bk_boli_002804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Evergreen: Evergreen, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
Harper Cody used to worry about the SATs or a getting a new laptop for Christmas...but now, she only wants to keep her little sister alive.At 5:59 a.m. early in September, life as she knew it came to an end with a nuclear flash ninety miles away in Colorado Springs. For two months, her family sheltered in the basement of their home, surviving on whatever canned goods Dad could scavenge. Passing evacuees told of a safe haven in the mountains, but her father refused to leave. He thought their home was safe...until a gang of looters kicked in the door.Four years ago at 13, Harper won trophies for competition shooting, but killing a man pointing a gun at her is nothing like nailing targets at a range. Hesitation cost her parents’ lives. With no other options, she grabbed her little sister and ran away from the only home she’d ever known into a world she no longer recognized.The promise of safety in Evergreen gives her hope, but unless the girl voted sweetest in her class can find the nerve to kill, Harper - and her kid sister - are as good as dead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154929/bk_acx0_154929_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rising Summer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 579min
Tim Parkes was three when his parents were killed in a train crash and he went to live with his aunt May, first in New Cross and then to Walworth, where the living was cheaper. They managed splendidly - and then came the war. Tim Parkes became Gunner Parkes and Aunt May spent most of her nights in the Walworth air raid shelters with Tim keeping an eye on her whenever he was able.When he got posted to Suffolk he wasn't too pleased - Suffolk was country, not like London at all. But in fact there were a lot of things about Sheldham that reminded him of home - the Walworth evacuees for a start. Those of them that weren't creating havoc in the Suffolk village were creating havoc in Tim's life. Minnie Beavers - ex-Camberwell - was 15, pert, pretty, and wildly in love with Tim. She was determined to inveigle him into marriage the minute she was old enough. Tim was equally determined to escape and choose his own girl.By the time Tim had gone away to fight the war and Minnie had joined the WAAF, a great many things had changed in both their lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Madeleine Leslay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/057252/bk_adbl_057252_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 177min
It's 1943 and Lily Tregenza lives on a farm in the idyllic seaside village of Slapton. Apart from her father being away, and the 'townie' evacuees at school, her life is scarcely touched by the war. Until one day, when Lily and her family, along with 3000 other villagers, are told to move out of their homes: lock, stock, and barrel. Soon, the whole area is out of bounds, as the Allied forces practise their landings for D-day, preparing to invade France. But Tips, Lily's adored cat, has other ideas; barbed wire and keep-out signs mean nothing to her, nor does the danger of guns and bombs. Frantic to find her, Lily makes friends with two young American soldiers, who promise to help her. But will she ever see her cat again? Lily decides to cross the wire into the danger zone to look for Tips herself. Now, many years later, as Michael is reading his Grandma Lily's diary, he learns about The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, and wonders how one adventurous cat could still affect their lives 60 years later. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jenny Agutter, Michael Morpurgo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001271/bk_hcuk_001271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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