46 Results for : holdup
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Then Came Violence: Virgil Tibbs, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 362min
Virgil Tibbs, the cool, highly competent black detective of the Pasadena Police Department, returns one day to his bachelor apartment to find that it has been expertly stripped to the bare walls - not a thing remains to show that he has ever lived there. At headquarters he is given a cryptic note from Police Chief McGowan, sending him to a certain address in the better section of Pasadena. When he arrives he finds his possessions carefully installed in a fine new home. But that's not all. The door is opened by a very attractive young woman who informs him that she is Mrs. Virgil Tibbs. He has never seen her before, and he certainly isn't responsible for the two children who greet him as their father. Meanwhile a brutal holdup is followed by an execution-type hanging of one of the bandits. More violence follows, and Pasadena's ace homicide investigator is tested to the limits by a double assignment calling for every bit of his tact, skill, and discipline. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dion Graham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/007324/bk_brll_007324_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ticklers: Short Stories with a Comical Bent , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 284min
A chance to laugh is a way to enjoy the absurdities of life whenever they occur. It is the quick mind that is ever alert to those situations that are laughable. Come listen to the following stories: In "Landshark", see what happens after thieves break into a laboratory and inject experimental shark serum into the hapless researcher; In "Smarter", see how the gift of an alien changes the life of a dumb country person; In "Fatter", the quest for a way to easily lose weight produces paradoxical results; In "The Stiff Arm War", a third-party combatant comes up with a unique way to stop hostilities; In "Roids", the possibilities of androids are explored; In "Cave Canem", the name of the dog may be dangerous to ignore; In "The Naked Truth", a holdup in a bar on a Friday night leads to revealing insights; In "Stick", two brothers invent a special rod out of a fairy tale; And lastly, "Aleph": The first Dog recounts his time in the Garden of Eden. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John E. Christ. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/120403/bk_acx0_120403_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Perform Better: Sharpen Your Mind and Develop a Supercharged Work Ethic with Hypnosis and Affirmations , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min
Have you reached a plateau with the project you’ve been working on? Maybe you’re struggling to organize your ideas or turn them into action. Or maybe you’ve found that you’re not working as hard as you were at the beginning. Whatever the holdup is, you can learn to overcome it so you can get back on track. This program has been designed to ramp up your performance and make you work harder and smarter. This program can help you: Sharpen your mind Supercharge your work ethic Perform better in the workplace The audiobook includes: Chapters 1 and 2: Two hypnosis sessions for an enhanced memory. Listen with your eyes closed. Chapters 3 to 10: Affirmations for high productivity. Listen during any part of the day or evening. Chapters 11 to 14: Listen to these nightly affirmations on a low volume either before or during sleep. They are designed to help you achieve higher performance in a natural way. Gain both mental clarity and willpower to push through and persevere with that project. Before you know it, you’ll reach your destination and be better equipped for the next big challenge. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Self Expansion Studios. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114999/bk_acx0_114999_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 454min
It was the most famous bank robbery of all time, involving the legendary James-Younger gang's final shocking holdup - the infamous Northfield Raid - and the thrilling two-week chase that followed. Mark Lee Gardner, author of the critically acclaimed To Hell on a Fast Horse, takes us inside Northfield's First National Bank and outside to the streets as Jesse James and his band of outlaws square off against the heroic citizens who risked their lives to defeat America's most daring criminals. With vivid detail and novelistic verve, Gardner follows the James brothers as they elude both the authorities and the furious citizen posses hell-bent on capturing them in one of the largest manhunts in the history of the United States. He reveals the serendipitous endings of the Younger brothers - Cole, Jim, and Bob - and explores the James brothers' fates after the dust settled, solving mysteries about the raid that have been hotly debated for more than 130 years. A galloping true tale of frontier justice featuring audacious outlaws and intrepid heroes, Shot All to Hell is a riveting slice of Wild West history that continues to fascinate today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johnny Heller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003544/bk_harp_003544_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Guilty Gucci , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min
The Red Bottom Bandits may be the world's most fashion-forward gang of masked outlaws. They're the talk of DC for their daring robberies and fly gear. And their latest caper is penned by Ashley Antoinette (of Ashley & JaQuavis) at her sultry, streetwise best. When the innocent, naïve Gucci recognizes ringleader Sunny Raegan during a holdup, that's her "in" with the Bandits. Knowing she's got a lot more beauty than brains, Gucci sees the gang as her meal ticket. More likely, they'll be her ticket to the morgue! The Bandits may be lawless, but they play by a few simple rules: Get in and get out, shoot first and ask questions later, never leave without the money, and innocent people don't get hurt. But it's only a matter of time before all these rules get broken - and that's when Gucci gets caught! If there's one thing a girl needs, it's a little help from her friends. But her "friends" have skipped town without giving her a second thought. And Sunny is distracted by her new baby and her violent ex-lover. So Gucci's on her own. She's on trial for her life, and she must decide whether to snitch on the girls - or take the fall all by herself. Whichever she chooses, it may be her death sentence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: iiKane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010048/bk_blak_010048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dream Wheels , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 817min
Rodeo cowboy Joe Willie Wolfchild, riding an explosive bull called See Four and moments away from becoming World Champion, suffers a devastating accident. His parents and grandparents use all their native wisdom to ease him out of his subsequent bitter depression, but without success. Meanwhile, in a distant city, a troubled young kid named Aiden plans a holdup that goes wrong and lands himself in jail. When he emerges, a sympathetic police officer arranges a job at a ranch, where his mother Claire will accompany him in an attempt to restore their relationship. It is the Wolfchild ranch. Supported by the ferocious strength and native spirituality of the Wolfchild women, Joe Willie and Aiden fight through painful transformations, and their physical and mental rehabilitations are mirrored in the age-worn chrome of an ancient pickup truck they restore together. As the two men first clash and then come together in a friendship that helps each overcome the challenge of reentering a world that's forever changed, Claire's eyes are opened to a life she has never hoped for and opens her heart to a love she still can't convince herself she deserves. Written with lyric intensity and a great respect for native teachings, Dream Wheels announces the presence of a major new literary talent, sure to take his rightful place alongside writers like Cormac McCarthy and Jim Harrison as a gifted chronicler of the modern West. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Stechshulte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009386/bk_reco_009386_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Golden Prey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 666min
The man was smart, and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Lucas Davenport's first case as a US marshal sends him into uncharted territory in the thrilling new novel in the number one New York Times best-selling series. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension but for the US Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. He gets to pick his own cases, whatever they are, wherever they lead him. And where they've led him this time is into real trouble. A Biloxi, Mississippi, drug-cartel counting house gets robbed, and suitcases full of cash disappear, leaving behind five bodies, including that of a six-year-old girl. Davenport takes the case, which quickly spirals out of control as cartel assassins, including a torturer known as the "queen of home-improvement tools", compete with Davenport to find the Dixie Hicks shooters who knocked over the counting house. Things get ugly real fast, and neither the cartel killers nor the holdup men give a damn about whose lives Davenport might have saved; to them he's just another large target. Filled with his trademark razor-sharp plotting and some of the best characters in suspense fiction, Golden Prey is further reason why "Sandford has always been at the top of any list of great mystery writers" (The Huffington Post). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Ferrone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003013/bk_peng_003013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 610min
From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilarious investigation into future technologies - from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3-D organ printing. What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the holdup? In this smart and funny book, celebrated cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and noted researcher Dr. Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of what's coming next - from robot swarms to nuclear fusion powered-toasters. By weaving their own research and interviews with the scientists who are making these advances happen, the Weinersmiths investigate why these technologies are needed, how they would work, and what is standing in their way. New technologies are almost never the work of isolated geniuses with a neat idea. A given future technology may need any number of intermediate technologies to develop first, and many of these critical advances may appear to be irrelevant when they are first discovered. The journey to progress is full of strange detours and blind alleys that tell us so much about the human mind and the march of civilization. To this end, Soonish investigates 10 different emerging fields, from programmable matter to augmented reality, from space elevators to robotic construction, to show us the amazing world we will have, you know, soonish. 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: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026681/bk_adbl_026681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sins of the Sons: A Gripping Hard-Boiled Mystery : PI Jack Marconi, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 315min
Can you ever really bury the past? On a cold November evening back in 1982, real estate lawyer Marty Finnegan and socialite Tracy Reynolds were seen fighting outside the dining room of the Wolforts Roost Country Club. Unbeknownst to them, three drunken teenage boys who attend the same prep school were witnessing their bitter exchange under the cover of darkness. When the boys decide to head out on a joyride that includes holding up Finnegan at gunpoint, their lives take a turn for the worse. Less than 24 hours later, the lawyer will be discovered dead in a patch of woods near his home. He died in subzero temperatures, without having worn a coat or boots, his car parked miles away in an airport parking garage.Now, it’s 35 years later, and one of the “boys” involved in the original 1982 holdup has found God, and he is about to confess their story to the whole world. But another one of the now middle-aged boys is bent on doing everything in his power to stop the confession. Enter Keeper Marconi, PI, who will reluctantly take on the job of persuading the confessor to keep his mouth shut. But at the same time, the police hire Marconi to delve deeper into the Marty Finnegan cold case file. They want him to determine once and for all if the lawyer simply died while out for a walk in the freezing cold, or was he murdered in cold blood? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew B. Wehrlen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/145044/bk_acx0_145044_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Man Who Moiled for Gold , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1013min
The Man Who Moiled for Gold draws its title from the Robert W. Service poem: "The Cremation of Sam McGee". This popular work portrays the lust for gold, the passion for the search, and the elusive success that brought men and women to remote areas without laws or justice. The poem also tells of suffering, loneliness, frustration, and ultimately death. Charley Martin experienced all of these emotions along with love and success while becoming the man who moiled for gold. Charley Martin, in 1912, is found mining the hard rock of Butte, Montana. Years of breathing the fine quartz dust in the pits have given Charley silicosis. Discovery of this incurable condition, by the mine super, brought an abrupt change to the 69-year old miner's life. Change began with the decision to move to his mountain cabin, which involved a weekend stay with Kathleen, his eldest daughter. Kathleen held a secret hurt and bitterness, causing an estrangement between father and daughter. Delighted by his teenaged grandson's insistence to know his grandfather's pioneer adventures Charley recounts events that began 50 years earlier with the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. Charley realizes that revealing family history might bring to surface Kathleen's resentments so he continues to tell details past the romantic parts. Successful mining ventures are overshadowed by the murder of Charley's cousin Joe during a holdup. Kind and happy Charley becomes obsessed with finding the road agent who killed Joe. Other incidents of robbery and murder inflame the Montana/Idaho mining camps into vigilante actions. Charley joins the Bannack Vigilance Committee and participates in the historic hangings of the Sheriff and his deputies. He then travels with the Alder Gulch vigilantes to hang most of the remainder of the Sheriff's road agent gang, including the man Charley considers to be Joe's killer. Charley had never before revealed to family that he had been an active vigilante who h ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David G. Rasmussen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115321/bk_acx0_115321_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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