115 Results for : effervescent
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Mail Order Bride - Sarah's Destiny: Faith Creek Brides, Book 9 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 98min
Sarah Clinton has lived in Faith Creek her entire life. Her family were among the very first people to arrive and settle in the then wild and untamed land. Quiet and shy, she finds her place working for Maeve Fountain and begins to wish she had the feisty woman's determination and spirit. Taking her destiny in her own hands, she responds to an advertisement, hoping to find the happiness so many around her in Faith Creek have done, but can she trust that he truly wants her and not her effervescent and amiable employer? Wilbur Franklin has always wanted a simple life. As a Montana banking clerk he can understand what draws people to up sticks and change everything in their lives, but has always felt he lacked the courage to do something so drastic, so brave, so reckless himself. But a friendship made as he tried to find himself a bride leads him to do just that. But, will his gamble pay off? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100584/bk_acx0_100584_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 192min
From Newbery Medalist Lynne Rae Perkins, this effervescent story introduces two sisters - Alix and Jools - and takes listeners on an unforgettable journey to the beach. In the style of the author’s acclaimed Nuts to You, this is a joyful celebration of sisters, family, and the ocean. Fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Raymie Nightingale and Rebecca Stead’s Liar and Spy will love this engaging family story. Alix and her sister, Jools, have never seen the ocean. When their parents pack them up for a week at the shore, Alix is nervous about leaving home, but excited, too. At the beach, the girls make friends, go exploring, and have adventures both big and small. They pick periwinkles, spot crabs, and discover that the beach is full of endless possibilities. As the week comes to an end, Alix is surprised to find she doesn’t want to leave! Award-winning author Lynne Rae Perkins has beautifully crafted a genuine and engaging novel about sisters, family, and exploration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brittany Pressley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007347/bk_harp_007347_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Grumble Monkey and the Department Store Elf , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 139min
Kit Jefferies, a part-time department store Christmas elf, is an artist who loves life and his family. Unfortunately, his car dies at a rest stop in the middle of nowhere as he is heading home for Christmas. Enter Nick St. George. Nick is a very unhappy man - he's achieved his professional goals only to find the rest of his life bleak and empty. Deciding there was only one way to make everything right, he is on his way to San Francisco on a dark mission, and even the horrible sleet storm that blocked his path won't deter him. That's when he found Kit. At first, Nick is pretty sure rescuing Kit was a big mistake. Kit's personality is just too, well, effervescent. But as the miles go by, Kit begins to bring light to his dark heart. It might even be bright enough to illuminate a Christmas miracle. A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2013 Advent Calendar package "Heartwarming". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Tursman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022144/bk_acx0_022144_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 990min
A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? The Age of Acquiescence seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser's account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, The Age of Acquiescence will be one of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/001941/bk_hach_001941_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Worth the Weight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 568min
How much weight is too much for one romance to bear? When Kate Richards, the effervescent host of television's KidFit and the author of kid-friendly diet cookbooks, runs into Jack Moskowitz at a dog park, sparks fly. He's attractive, charming, and single. She has no idea that he's also the one man who could cost Kate her career - the CEO of Considerable Carriages, a company that profits from childhood obesity. Jack knows exactly who Kate is, though. She tore his company apart on television only the day before! Seeing an opportunity, Jack starts digging up dirt on his nemesis, to put her crusade on ice once and for all. But the more time the two spend together, the more his lie - and his feelings for Kate - spiral out of control. When Jack and Kate try to tip the scales of romance it brings chaos, heartbreak, and hilarity and more than a few laps around love’s track. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018484/bk_adbl_018484_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 779min
Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment. After two rollicking New York Times best-selling adventures through Western literature, resourceful literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books—like the one she has taken up residence in—are scrapped for salvage. To make matters worse, a murderer is stalking the personnel of Jurisfiction and it’s up to Thursday to save the day. A brilliant feat of literary showmanship filled with wit, fantasy, and effervescent originality, this Ffordian tour de force is the most exciting Thursday Next adventure yet. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Gray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001873/bk_peng_001873_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (eBook, ePUB)
An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose.Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. Exuberant, scandalous and exceptionally discerning, The Bonfire of the Vanities was Tom Wolfe's first venture into fiction and cemented his reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.'The air of New York crackles with an energy that causes the adrenalin to pump... The feeling is perfectly reproduced in Wolfe's novel... Electric' Sunday Times'The quintessential novel of The Eighties' The Guardian- Shop: buecher
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Jimmy Neurosis: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 595min
From a celebrated figure of the food world comes a poignant, provocative memoir about being young and gay during the 1970s punk revolution in America.Long before James Oseland was a judge on Top Chef Masters, he was a teenage rebel growing up in the pre-Silicon Valley, California, suburbs, yearning for a taste of something wild. Diving headfirst into the churning mayhem of the punk movement, he renamed himself Jimmy Neurosis and embarked on a journey into a vibrant underground world populated by visionary musicians and artists. In a quest that led him from the mosh pits of San Francisco to the pop world of Andy Warhol’s Manhattan, he learned firsthand about friendship of all stripes and what comes of testing the limits - both the joyous glories and the unanticipated, dangerous consequences. With humor and verve, Oseland brings to life the effervescent cocktail of music, art, drugs, and sexual adventure that characterized the end of the '70s. Through his account of how discovering his own creativity saved his life, he tells a thrilling and uniquely American coming-of-age story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Oseland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/008436/bk_harp_008436_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cruising for Love: The Escape Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 279min
A reality TV show looking for ratings. Kardashian wannabes on a cruise ship. What could possibly go wrong? Get swept away with Ruthie Rose as she searches for true love on the reality show, Cruising for Love!It is a dream come true for effervescent Ruthie when she is selected to star on a hot, new reality television show. Without bothering to read the pesky contract, Ruthie signs on the dotted line and sets sail on her high-seas adventure. Join Ruthie as she navigates the many twists, turns, and crushing tidal waves of drama the producers have in store for her on the not-so-real, reality show, Cruising for Love.This novel is part of the Escape series, which includes the Kindle Scout-winning book, Getting Lei'd, Aloha, Baby!, and Island Hopping. You can enjoy these in any order.Sail away with Cruising for Love now, because you deserve an escape into Ruthie's exciting adventure!Fans of Melissa Foster and Bella Andre are sure to be delighted with this lighthearted, fun, and humorous second-chance romance novel. Dive in now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ann Omasta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167720/bk_acx0_167720_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 379min
From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter - the social media platform that singlehandedly changed the way the world works. Now, Biz tells fascinating, pivotal, and personal stories from his early life and his careers at Google and Twitter, sharing his knowledge about the nature and importance of ingenuity today. In Biz's world: Opportunity can be manufactured Great work comes from abandoning a linear way of thinking Creativity never runs out Asking questions is free Empathy is core to personal and global success In this book, Biz also addresses failure, the value of vulnerability, ambition, and corporate culture. Whether seeking behind-the-scenes stories, advice, or wisdom and principles from one of the most successful businessmen of the new century, Things a Little Bird Told Me will satisfy every listener. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/001561/bk_hach_001561_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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