61 Results for : meire
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Untouchable , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min
It's Maya and Jamie's anniversary, and she waits with excitement for him to return home for a celebratory dinner. There's a knock at the door. It's the police. Jamie has been found hanging in a local wood. His death is ruled a suicide, but Maya doesn't believe Jamie would take his own life. Something isn't right. Someone has broken into her house. Someone is watching her. And someone has gone to great lengths to cover up what Jamie was doing before he died. Maya's grief turns to suspicion, and as she begins to investigate the weeks leading up to Jamie's death, her trail leads her to a place known as "The Big House" and the horrific secrets within. Secrets people will stop at nothing to keep hidden. People linked to the heart of the Establishment who think they're untouchable. Now Maya has a dangerous decision to make. How far is she prepared to go to reveal the truth? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shaun Grindell, Henrietta Meire, Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/006947/bk_tant_006947_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 218min
There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. More than 150 million copies of her books have sold worldwide, and interest in her work and life remains high. And her characters - Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest - exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens. Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is the first work to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter's love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work. The audiobook begins with a gardener's biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her, including her home Hill Top Farm in England's Lake District. Next, the listener follows Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season overview of what is blooming that truly brings her gardens alive. The audiobook culminates in a traveler's guide, with information on how and where to visit Potter's gardens today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henrietta Meire. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/013992/bk_tant_013992_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Silver Skull: Elemental Steampunk Chronicle Series #2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 677min
Lady Olivia is not all she seems. Trained for marriage to an assigned political target, her skills lie in programming household steambots to serve tea, dress her hair...and sound the alarm while she picks locks and listens at doors. Humiliated by a failed assignment, she decides to redeem herself by tailing a suspected double agent. Lord Rathsburn must flirt with treason. Struggles to cure a horrible disease have met with unexpected complications. The cells he engineered can make a man's bones unbreakable, but the side effects are fatal. He believed the research terminated...until his sister was kidnapped by a German count. Her ransom? A cure. Piloting a stolen dirigible, he uncovers an unlikely stowaway, Lady Olivia. Arriving together at a crumbling castle, an impossible task is set before them: cure the count's guardsmen. Amidst their fake marriage, a very real growing attraction, dying guardsmen, and escalating hostilities, Lady Olivia and Lord Rathsburn are thrust deep into the world of international medical espionage from which there may be no return. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henrietta Meire. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008038/bk_tant_008038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Northanger Abbey (AmazonClassics Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min
Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland excitedly accepts an offer to accompany family friends on a trip to Bath. There, Catherine makes new acquaintances who invite her to Northanger Abbey, and she encounters a world she’d only glimpsed in the pages of her beloved gothic novels. Through Catherine’s eyes, the Abbey is full of mystery, suspense, and adventure; and she is the heroine at the center of it all. As her imagination begins to run wild, she imperils her summer, her new friendships, and her burgeoning relationship with the charming Henry Tilney. Both a satire of gothic fiction and a coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is widely regarded as one of Jane Austen’s most comedic works. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to hear a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds. Revised edition: Previously published as Northanger Abbey, this edition of Northanger Abbey (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henrietta Meire. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010580/bk_brll_010580_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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No Turning Back: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 521min
Anna Graves' whole life has recently been turned upside down. A new mother, she's just gone back to her job as a radio presenter and is busy navigating a new schedule of late-night feeding and early morning wake ups while also dealing with her newly separated husband. Then the worst happens. While Anna is walking on the beach with her daughter, she's attacked by a crazed teenager. Terrified, Anna reacts instinctively to protect her baby. But her life falls apart when the schoolboy dies from his injuries. The police believe Anna's story - until the autopsy results reveal something more sinister. A frenzied media attack sends Anna into a spiral of self-doubt. Her precarious mental state is further threatened when she receives a chilling message from someone claiming to be the "Ophelia Killer", a serial killer who preyed on the town 20 years ago - and who abruptly stopped when Anna's father committed suicide. Is Anna as innocent as she claims? And is murder forgivable if committed to save your child's life? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henrietta Meire. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007859/bk_tant_007859_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Postcards from a Stranger , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 611min
A secret lies buried at the heart of her family - but it can’t stay hidden forever.When Cara stumbles across a stash of old postcards in the attic, their contents make her question everything she thought she knew.The story she pieces together is confusing and unsettling, and appears to have been patched over with lies. But who can tell her the truth? With her father sinking into Alzheimer’s and her brother reluctant to help, it seems Cara will never find the answers to her questions. One thing is clear, though: someone knows more than they’re letting on.Torn between loyalty to her family and dread of what she might find, Cara digs into the early years of her parents’ troubled marriage, hunting down long-lost relatives who might help unravel the mystery. But the picture that begins to emerge is not at all the one she’d expected - because as she soon discovers, lies have a habit of multiplying....Revised edition: This edition of Postcards from a Stranger includes editorial revisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henrietta Meire. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010808/bk_brll_010808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Incite: Adam: Sphere of Irony Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 524min
Adam Reynolds is an impoverished teen raised by neglectful parents in one of London's most dangerous boroughs. He turns to his love of music and countless girls to escape his sad reality. Beautiful and naïve Ellie Palmer comes from a well-off family that suddenly finds themselves living in one of the poorest neighborhoods in London. Alone in a frightening new place, Ellie is afraid to leave the safety of her home, only going out to walk to school and back. When Adam prevents Ellie from becoming the victim of a horrific sexual assault, they discover something that two teenagers never thought they would find in such a depressing place. Each other. After tragedy, lies, and distance tear their future away from them; they each wander through life empty and hopeless no matter who or what they use to replace the feelings of loss. From the crime-ridden streets of London's East End to the over-the-top display of wealth in LA, can two broken souls conquer their demons in order to find true happiness? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henrietta Meire, Adam Croasdell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/040557/bk_acx0_040557_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Lioness of Morocco , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 774min
Independent-minded Sibylla Spencer feels trapped in 19th-century London, where her strong will and progressive views have rendered her unmarriageable. Still single at 23, she is treated like a child and feels stifled in her controlling father's house. When Benjamin Hopkins, an ambitious employee of her father's trading company, shows an interest in her, she realizes marriage is her only chance to escape. As Benjamin's rising career whisks them both away to exotic Morocco, Sibylla is at last a citizen of the world, reveling in her newfound freedom by striking her first business deals, befriending locals - and falling in love for the first time with a charismatic and handsome Frenchman. But Benjamin's lust for money and influence draws him into dark dealings, pulling him ever further from Sibylla and their two young sons. When he's arrested on horrible charges, the fate of Sibylla's family rests on her shoulders, as she must decide whether she'll leave him to his fate or help him fight for his life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henrietta Meire. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008648/bk_brll_008648_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Golden Spider: Elemental Steampunk Chronicle Series #1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 620min
Lady Amanda is tired of having both her intelligence and her work dismissed. After blackmailing her way into medical school, she catches the eye of her anatomy professor from the moment she walks into his lecture hall. Is he interested in her? Or only her invention - a clockwork spider that can spin artificial nerves? Lord Thornton, a prominent neurobiologist, has been betrayed. Secret government technology has been stolen from his laboratory, and a foreign spy is attempting to perfect it via a grisly procedure...using gypsies as test subjects. The last thing he needs is the distraction of a beautiful - and brilliant - new student, even if her spider could heal a deteriorating personal injury. Until her device is stolen and used in the latest murder. Lord Thornton has no option but to bring her into his laboratory as well as the investigation, where they must fight their growing yet forbidden attraction. Bodies accumulate, and fragile bonds are tested as they race across London, trying to catch the spy before it's too late. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henrietta Meire. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007752/bk_tant_007752_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Deadly Fashion : The Deadly Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min
Why would a man, knowing his life was in danger, turn his back on his killer?In pre-war London, Olivia Denis wins a plum assignment from her newspaper when she meets the glamorous French fashion designer, Mimi Mareau. Mimi has it all - wealth, talent, acclaim, and a British duke for a lover. But on her first visit to Mimi's new Mayfair house of haute couture, Olivia finds something else - the body of an unknown man.Mimi and her three French assistants say they don't know the man, but is that true? As Olivia spends time around the salon, she learns at least one of the women knew the dead man and all four women are lying.A British agent in possession of a terrible secret, an attempt on the life of a British leader, a fashion house in the middle of it all, while war marches closer. Can Olivia stop a murderer before he or she strikes again, or will time run out on the fragile peace and Olivia's efforts?"If you are a fan of Jacqueline Winspear, Susan Elia MacNeal, or Rhys Bowen, you are going to love Kate Parker's Deadly series." (Andrea Guy) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henrietta Meire. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173709/bk_acx0_173709_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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