91 Results for : rapturous
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Paris in the Present Tense , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 875min
The New York Times best-selling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin reveals a powerful, rapturous novel set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour - a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust - must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present. In the midst of what should be an effulgent time of life, with its days bright with music, family, and rowing on the Seine, Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist who is a third his age. Against the backdrop of an exquisite and knowing vision of Paris and the way it can uniquely shape a life, he forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth. In the intoxicating beauty of its prose and emotional amplitude of its storytelling, Mark Helprin's Paris in the Present Tense is a soaring achievement, a deep, dizzying look at a life through the purifying lenses of art and memory. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010157/bk_blak_010157_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Chronic City: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 899min
The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth's stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties.Into Chase's cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus' countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth.Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem's masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Deakins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002048/bk_rand_002048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Visions of Isabelle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 585min
In 1903, a tall woman with flashing Tartar eyes was the talk of military circles, newspaper offices, and salons. Her name was Isabelle Eberhardt, and the life she actually led made her justifiably the object of the most scandalous gossip in Paris as well as in North Africa. This compelling novel, a fictionalized biography, tells her story - the story of a brave, self-destructive and sensual being with an irrepressible rage to live. Isabelle came to Tunis when she was 17, longing for fame as an author and discovering that her life could be the inspiration for her art. She converted to Islam and dressed as a man chiefly because it allowed her to wander freely and taste the delicacies of a forbidden existence. Her brief life encompassed an enormous range of experience. She joined a mystic religious sect and was nearly assassinated because of it, went to trial over the scandal and was forced to leave the country. She followed the French army into the Sahara as a journalist, insulted the great and the famous, spent sleepless nights in rapturous mystical prayer. When she died, at the age of 27, she was reputed to have slept with most of the Foreign Legion. Isabelle's goal was to rediscover herself through her excesses, her fears and her joys, so that perhaps one day she might rend the veil which hid from her the secrets of eternity. This fascinating novel about her life proves admirably that the best of Isabelle Eberhardt lay in her energy and determination to dive into the midst of maelstrom and ride out the fury of her existence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martha Mellinger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002175/bk_acx0_002175_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Forever and Always: Passion Down Under Sassy Short Stories, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 47min
Will Lily and Leonardo end up giving their hearts to the wrong person?Still reeling following her malicious sacking, family therapist Lily Rose is feeling rejected and low in spirits. Even worse, she’s broke. The last thing she needs is more money woes. Which is exactly what happens when she collides with billionaire water magnate Leonardo Ermenegildo Bressolini’s mint-condition Lamborghini.Having found a place to retreat from the madness, greed, and malevolence of his ex-wife, the last thing Leonardo wants is complications. But he is a man in need of a housekeeper. And Lily Rose owes him. Big time.What they both don’t know is just what a massive impact the crash will have on their lives. Sparks heat into a collision of powerful forces that can't be dampened.Spontaneous love on the beach sends deep passions and emotional connection - more heartfelt than either has ever known - steaming to the surface.When Leonardo’s past comes careering into his future, will both Lily and Lorenzo end up giving their hearts to the wrong person?Forever and Always is a short, clean romance, full of quirky humor and the promise of a happily ever after. Set in The Bay of Islands, New Zealand - one of the most beautiful, unspoiled, and sensuous places in the world. Forever and Always is part of Mollie Mathew’s best-selling series Passion Down Under Sassy Short Stories. It can easily be listened to as a stand-alone story, but you’ll love listening to the other books, too.Bonus content: Enjoy the first three chapters from Mollie's most popular books: Married by Christmas - animosity and undeniable attraction that make the tension soar, Flight of Passion - a rapturous tale of love and obsession, and Claimed by the Sheikh - discover the secret the world was never meant to know.Curl up with romance and savor these delicious, clean, sweet, and tender love stories. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mollie Mathews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/187951/bk_acx0_187951_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Flight of Passion: Love Amongst the Butterflies: True Love, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 234min
Past love and passionate obsessions. What will you do when love flies back into your life?Oliver Hart is used to getting what he wants. Single, 35 and a committed bachelor, he plays by his own rules. On a personal quest to catch a rare, elusive, and very valuable butterfly, he's unwittingly distracted by a former flame, Ruby Diaz - a woman who callously abandoned him eight years earlier.Deciding he wants to reclaim the beauty as his own, in his mind, it's as good as done.But Ruby is not his for the taking. Promised to the son of a wealthy landowner, she refuses to succumb to his charms. On a quest to save her family’s land, Ruby knows she must put duty first, and silence the passionate stirrings of her heart.But Oliver's not taking no for an answer. Risking everything to help the woman he loves to gain her freedom, Oliver entangles himself in an emotional net that alters his life forever.Sacrificing his own selfish pursuit to help Ruby, he realizes that you may be able to own something, but you can never own someone - especially the women you love.Have you ever wanted to be with someone who sent your heart soaring but threatens your sense of security? Someone who lifts you clear out of the water, but you’re not sure will be around to catch you when you fall head over heels in love? Then you'll love this heart-warming romance. Flight of Passion is a rapturous tale of beauty, obsession, and the transformational power of unconditional love.This is a standalone clean and wholesome romance novel. It contains a guaranteed HEA, and a tale of romance that will capture your heart. As an added gift, it also includes the first chapters of Mollie Mathews' next novel Claimed by the Sheikh.Curl up with this beautiful romance. Get your copy now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mollie Mathews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192006/bk_acx0_192006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dealer to Healer: A Modern Tale of A F--cked Up Male , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 954min
Do you want to find the inspiration to make positive changes? Want to overcome obstacles? Want to figure out what you're supposed to be doing with your life? Are you suffering from depression, and want a way out? Are you looking for some quirky inspiration? Then keep reading!During this rapturous adventure, you will become empowered to take that step you have been putting off for so long. Let the true you step forward and dazzle the world. Become what you were born to be. The story follows my journey from being a football-mad, lager-drinking, drug-taking, drug-dealing atheist in 2011 to, 12 months later, being in Guatemala for the end of the Mayan calendar and heading to Peru. Ayahuasca was calling me to the Amazon. The book interweaves my spiritual travels in the Americas and pivotal life events, like the death of my mother, domestic abuse, and dealing with depression. Suicide seemed the only option as my depression intensified. I thought drugs would be the best option, taking a large overdose of something. I didn't want to jump in front of a train or a car and ruin people's commute and cause disruption, and I didn't want to make a mess of it and end up a cabbage.I said to my body and my mind, "I’m gonna give you three years to sort this out and try everything to get better. I’d have either happiness or death. If that meant becoming a monk, I’d do it; if it meant getting a sex change, I’d do it. I needed a path and direction. I needed something to live for. I wasn't going to loaf around. If I really wanted to die, I had to prove it to myself, and I had three years to do it." Here we go.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liam Browne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227982/bk_acx0_227982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Collected Mythic Erotica, Volume One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 568min, (USK 18)
Sizzling erotic tales from around the world!These scorching-hot mythic tales from around the world have been collected into one volume for your pleasure! Delve into the "1001 Erotic Nights" with sexy Scheherazade! Hear of the beautiful fox-wives of the Orient! Come to the Ice Palace with the luscious snow queen!This erotic bundle contains myths retold from a more sensual point of view. It contains mostly m/f interaction, but also contains bisexuality, lesbian, light BDSM, menage, and so much more! "1001 Erotic Nights"When the sultan finds his wife in the arms of another man, he executes her, beginning a brutal domination of the virgin women in his kingdom. Only beautiful, wanton, and wise Scheherazade knows how to stop his wicked ways...by turning the tables on him and dominating the sultan."Fox Tales: Erotic Tales of the Kitsune""Fox Tales: Erotic Tales of the Kitsune" contains several adult fairy tales based on the myths of the kitsune, or fox-wives, from Japan and China. According to legend, foxes are sexy, beautiful, trickster spirits who would steal in to consume a man's essence. Each of these tales has been updated with steamy encounters and presented for your listening pleasure."The Coming of the Snow Queen"In a modern-day fantasy land, Kai and Gerta are sweethearts who are very much in love. When Kai is infected with a devilish malady and can only see the worst in people, he breaks up with Gerta and throws himself into the arms of the sensuous, sultry snow queen. Gerta goes on a quest of sexual awakening, learning about desire and ecstasy as she searches for her one true love. Will her quest end in rapturous happiness, or will Kai refuse her for the cold, lust-filled embrace of the snow queen? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sierra Kline. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136862/bk_acx0_136862_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 659min
Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven’t felt for years. It’s a modern classic. (Pico Iyer)A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road - an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to challenge the limits we place on ourselves and the natural world.As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved - to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician - had gone extinct. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth; there was nothing left to be discovered. Looking beyond this planet, she decided to become a scientist and go to Mars.In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle down the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel. Pedaling mile upon mile in some of the remotest places on earth, she realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. Forget charting maps, naming peaks: What she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. The farther she traveled, the closer she came to a world as wild as she felt within.Lands of Lost Borders is the chronicle of Harris’ odyssey and an exploration of the importance of breaking the boundaries we set ourselves; an examination of the stories borders tell and the restrictions they place on nature and humanity; and a meditation on the existential need to explore - the essential longing to discover what in the universe we are doing here.Like Rebecca Solnit and Pico Iyer, Kate Harris offers a travel account at once exuberant and reflective, wry and rapturous. Lands of Lost Borders expl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy Landon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007563/bk_harp_007563_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Basket of Deplorables , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 240min
Critics hailed Tom Rachman's smash debut and New York Times best seller, The Imperfectionists, as "spectacular" (New York Times), "superb" (The Plain Dealer), and "magnificent" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Reviews for his second novel, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, were no less rapturous, with the New York Times calling it "ingenious". Now, in the shadows of a seismic shift in American politics, comes his timely and hilarious new work. Basket of Deplorables takes an incisive and satirical look at the United States in the era of Trump data breaches, liberal self-righteousness, red-hat rancor, Starbucks macchiatos, Ultimate Fighting factories, and Internet sinkholes. Written for Audible and featuring a shifting array of disparate voices, the five intricately linked stories take listeners from an Election Night party in Manhattan to a funeral populated by fake mourners in Lansing, Michigan, to an online date in an era when every email platform in the world has been hacked and, ultimately, to a reality where the impossible, the unthinkable, becomes all too real. In Basket of Deplorables, Rachman has created an urgent and deeply satisfying work that will continue to cement his place among the great literary stylists and cultural observers of our time. "Tom Rachman’s masterful collection provides an early literary look at Trump-era America…. These bang-up-to-the-minute stories feel like essential reading as we get to grips with a bizarre new era." (The Guardian) "Rachman’s deft cultural references and his acute skewering of American culture make for uncomfortably precise satire. (The Atlantic) "Hilariously funny and blackly despairing, often at the same time." (The Sydney Morning Herald) "These five linked stories share the same deft characterization, buoyant wit and imaginative richness of Rachman’s lauded nov ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Miles, Jonathan Davis, Oliver Wyman, Allyson Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/000035/or_orig_000035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Insane Clown President , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 559min
Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. The 2016 presidential contest as told by Matt Taibbi, from its tragicomic beginnings to its apocalyptic conclusion, is in fact the story of Western civilization's very own train wreck. Years before the clown car of candidates was fully loaded, Taibbi grasped the essential themes of the story: the power of spectacle over substance or even truth; the absence of a shared reality; the nihilistic rebellion of the white working class; the death of the political establishment; and the emergence of a new explicit form of white nationalism that would destroy what was left of the Kingian dream of a successful pluralistic society. Taibbi captures, with dead-on, real-time analysis, the failures of the right and the left, from the thwarted Bernie Sanders insurgency to the flawed and aimless Hillary Clinton campaign; the rise of the "dangerously bright" alt-right with its wall-loving identity politics and its rapturous view of the racial "holy war" to come; and the giant fail of a flailing, reactive political media that fed a ravenous news cycle not with reporting on political ideology but with undigested propaganda served straight from the campaign bubble. At the center of it all stands Donald J. Trump, leading a historic revolt against his own party, "bloviating and farting his way" through the campaign, "saying outrageous things, acting like Hitler one minute and Andrew Dice Clay the next." For Taibbi, the stunning rise of Trump marks the apotheosis of the new postfactual movement. Taibbi frames the reporting with original essays that explore the seismic shift in how we perceive our national institutions, the democratic process, and the future of the country. Insane Clown President is not just a postmortem on the collapse and failure of American democracy. It o ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Shapiro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004923/bk_rand_004923_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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