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    The Rarified Air of the Modern
    The Rarified Air of the Modern ab 81.49 € als epub eBook: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    The Rarified Air of the Modern
    The Rarified Air of the Modern ab 79.99 € als pdf eBook: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    His Majesty's Dragon: Temeraire, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
    Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain's defense by taking to the skies - not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo - an unhatched dragon egg - fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France's own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte's boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into a baptism of fire. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/001010/bk_bkot_001010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Last Heir: A Jack MacTaggart Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 572min
    An intriguing new case lures attorney Jack MacTaggart to the rarified air of California wine country in order to investigate the death of an heir to a Napa Valley empire. Monsieur Giroux is not a happy man. Of course, who could be happy while discussing the death of their son? Without an heir, his Château Giroux winery will be inherited by another family member, its grapes plowed under to make way for a lucrative real-estate deal. Yet Giroux believes that his son may still be alive and hires MacTaggart to investigate. In the third entry in his Shamus Award-nominated series of legal mysteries, author - and sometimes vigneron - Chuck Greaves blends themes of greed and vanity, rivalry and revenge, bottles them with an unexpected murder, and pours forth a plummy magnum of pause-resistant mystery about a privileged but deeply dysfunctional American family. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Butler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006657/bk_blak_006657_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blue Marble: Love Bears All Things , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 573min
    In Blue Marble, you are a feisty and fetching woman in the richest decade of American history. Every man in Marble, Colorado exhales vocally at your provocative 1910 fashions. And it doesn’t hurt that there are 50 strapping men for every female in this booming quarry camp in the rarified mountains of Colorado. Or...perhaps...you’re the man who practically invented modern marble extraction. Every day you’re pulling out a hundred tons of the finest statuary marble the world has ever seen. The Lincoln Memorial and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier are your finest achievements.Or...maybe...you are just a broken widower looking for the most remote place on Earth to hide. You could lose the next decade to misery and grinding depression without notice. It would be just fine if you never spoke to another human being, ever. Until your eyes landed on her. Blue Marble promises the most satisfying love story you’ve heard in a while. When you’re finished, you’ll ask for the prequels, Swallow the Dog and If Only For a Season. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liz Porter, Ray White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225068/bk_acx0_225068_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: Power, Profits, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min
    A smart, sexy business book for the readers and listeners who made Trading Up a best seller: the tale of a London society girl who built one of the most talked-about shoe brands in the world. The Towering World of Jimmy Choo examines the worlds seemingly insatiable appetite for luxury goods by telling the behind-the-scenes tale of one of the most talked-about brands of our age. Jimmy Choo was a London shoemaker with a few famous clients when Tamara Yeardye, a London society girl, convinced him to launch a factory-produced luxury shoe line. Twelve years later, Jimmy Choo is a household name, and Tamara still presides over what is now one of the most successful luxury brands in the world, worth some $350 million. But along the way she was tested at every turn. The story of how the Jimmy Choo brand got to where it is today is one of love, hate, sex, fashion, finance, drugs, celebrity, power, intrigue, and ambition. And every word of it is true. Compelling to followers of both fashion and business, The Towering World of Jimmy Choo takes readers into a complex and rarified world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rosalyn Landor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001463/bk_adbl_001463_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 683min
    Conceived in love and possibility, Bonaventure Arrow didn't make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. No one knows that Bonaventure's silence is filled with resonance - a miraculous gift of rarified hearing that encompasses the Universe of Every Single Sound. Growing up in the big house on Christopher Street in Bayou Cymbaline, Bonaventure can hear flowers grow, a thousand shades of blue, and the miniature tempests that rage inside raindrops. He can also hear the gentle voice of his father, William Arrow, shot dead before Bonaventure was born by a mysterious stranger known only as the Wanderer. Bonaventure's remarkable gift of listening promises salvation to the souls who love him: his beautiful young mother, Dancy, haunted by the death of her husband; his Grand-mere Letice, plagued by grief and a long-buried guilt she locks away in a chapel; and his father, William, whose roaming spirit must fix the wreckage of the past. With the help of Trinidad Prefontaine, a Creole housekeeper endowed with her own special gifts, Bonaventure will find the key to long-buried mysteries and soothe a chorus of family secrets clamoring to be healed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maggi-Meg Reed. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003436/bk_harp_003436_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sophia of Silicon Valley: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 659min
    Sharp, dramatic, and full of insider dish, Sophia of Silicon Valley is one woman's story of a career storming the corridors of geek power and living in the shadow of its outrageous cast of maestros. During the heady years of the tech boom, incorrigibly frank Sophia Young lucks into a job that puts her directly in the path of Scott Kraft, the eccentric CEO of Treehouse, a studio whose animated films are transforming movies forever. Overnight, Sophia becomes an unlikely nerd whisperer. Whether her success is due to dumb luck, savage assertiveness, insightful finesse (learned by dealing with her irrational Chinese immigrant mother), or a combination of all three, in her rarified position she finds she can truly shine. As Scott Kraft's right-hand woman, whip-smart Sophia is in the eye of the storm, sometimes floundering, sometimes nearly losing relationships and her health, but ultimately learning what it means to take charge of her own future the way the men around her do. But when engineer/inventor Andre Stark hires her to run his company's investor relations, Sophia discovers that the big paycheck and high-status career she's created for herself may not be worth living in the toxic environment of a boys' club gone bad. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007085/bk_harp_007085_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 567min
    When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson's parents sold his childhood home a few years ago, he rediscovered a prized boyhood possession: his baseball card collection. Now was the time to cash in on the investments of his youth. But all the card shops had closed, and cards were selling for next to nothing online. What had happened? In Mint Condition, his fascinating, eye-opening, endlessly entertaining book, Jamieson finds the answer by tracing the complete story of this beloved piece of American childhood. Picture cards had long been used for advertising, but after the Civil War, tobacco companies started slipping them into cigarette packs as collector's items. Before long the cards were wagging the cigarettes. In the 1930s cards helped gum and candy makers survive the Great Depression. In the 1960s royalties from cards helped transform the baseball players' association into one of the country's most powerful unions, dramatically altering the game. In the '80s and '90s, cards went through a spectacular bubble, becoming a billion-dollar-a-year industry before all but disappearing, surviving today as the rarified preserve of adult collectors. Mint Condition is charming original history brimming with colorful characters, sure to delight baseball fans and collectors. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Young. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021830/bk_adbl_021830_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mr. Collins's Last Supper: A Short Story Inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 33min
    William Collins, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, is a man upon whom the face of undeserved fortune has smiled. Despite his notable shortcomings of mind and character, he has secured for himself a comfortable living as the rector of Hunsford parish, and a humane and sensible wife. He also looks forward to the day when he shall inherit a tidy estate in Hertfordshire. Until then, he basks in the rarified light of Lady Catherine de Bourgh's patronage, a place where he can sample, albeit vicariously, the wealth and consequence he secretly yearns for. Perhaps Mr. Collins should be satisfied, yet he cannot help hungering for a slightly higher style of living than his pocket currently supports. After all, a simple country parson cannot afford to put a fine cut of meat on his table every day, but his esteemed patroness can. When, over the strenuous objections of his wife Charlotte, Mr. Collins induces Lady Catherine to send a joint of mutton to the parsonage, little does he suspect that tasty meal will be his last. Mr. Collins's Last Supper: A Short Story Inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is the tongue-in-cheek tale of how a pompous clergyman discovers too late why gluttony is considered one of the seven deadly sins. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chandler Craig. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008003/bk_acx0_008003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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