182 Results for : cramped
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Transport: A Prison Inmate Transfer Tale , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min
In what is supposed to be a quick, direct delivery from one state to another, a county jail inmate is taken all over the Midwest in a cramped van with a bunch of guys he has nothing in common with but for two things: They're all facing fugitive charges, and they're all a little bit normal, actually, though they come from all backgrounds and parts of the Midwest. A tale that is hard, funny, and reflective. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey W. Goodrich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/050424/bk_acx0_050424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Lover's Discourse
'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' GuardianA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch.Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their future together.Playing with language and the cultural differences that our narrator encounters as she settles into her new life, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped apartment in east London. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate novel asks what it means to make a home and a family in a new land.- Shop: buecher
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.'Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey down the Mississippi River. Raising the timeless and universal l issues of prejudice, bravery and hope, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was and still is considered the great American novel.- Shop: buecher
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The Pearl in the Attic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 314min
When her grandma goes into a retirement home, Scarlet must sort through her belongings in the cramped flat above a shop in London. Here Scarlet comes across a real treasure: a novel that Gran wrote, about the life of a girl just like Scarlet, who lived in the flat and worked in a cake shop downstairs. But as Scarlet reads about Ruby's life in Victorian London, she realises this is not a piece of fiction - Ruby was real, facing real danger and a mystery that unravels to the present day. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clare Corbett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000808/bk_oakh_000808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Squandered Prayers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 45min
Coming of age in a cramped New York tenement, with a mentally-damaged mother who continually threatens to kill herself, is not easy for 19-year-old Dean Cassidy. Having a hot-headed father who goes berserk every time he throws one of his frequent maniacal tirades doesn't help either. Nevertheless, Dean is deeply in love with his girlfriend, and he wants so badly to show her off to his parents. Twice he brings her home, and both times the two kids witness scenes they will never forget. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander MacDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/045357/bk_acx0_045357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Out of Sight: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min
World-class gentleman felon Jack Foley is busting out of Florida's Glades Prison when he runs head on into a shotgun-wielding Karen Sisco. Suddenly, he's sharing a cramped car trunk with the classy, disarmed federal marshal, and the chemistry is working overtime - and as soon as she escapes, he's already missing her. But there are bad men and a major score waiting for Jack in Motown. And the next time his path crosses Karen's, chances are she's going to be there for business, not pleasure. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002289/bk_harp_002289_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Starter Marriage , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 839min
Tess believed matrimonywasis for life - until her husband decided that their marriage was the relationship equivalent of a starter home: cramped, claustrophobic, and something he'd definitely outgrown. Now, at thirty-five, Tess is in the biggest mess of her life. Known to her friends as "Tip-Top Tess" because of her pursuit of the perfect home, perfect marriage, and perfect career, she's now a candidate for How Clean is Your House? But there's a life raft on the horizon: the Divorce Survival Class - a boot camp for the broken-hearted. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jilly Bond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005518/bk_bbcw_005518_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sacred Hunger , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1336min
1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseyside. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains across the Atlantic. But aboard ship disease thrives in the cramped hold, killing men and eating into profit. Captain Thurso insists on throwing the sick overboard, to the horror of Matthew Paris, ship's surgeon, who determines to prevent such barbarity. Meanwhile, back home, Erasmus Kemp, cousin of Paris and son of the Liverpool Merchant's owner, finds his fortune hanging in the balance: dependent on the success or failure of a single voyage.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Rintoul. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005472/bk_bbcw_005472_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Burning Bright , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 562min
London, 1792: The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem and Maggie navigate the unpredictable, exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their journey influences one of Blake's most entrancing works. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cornelius Garrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006760/bk_bbcw_006760_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
'We said there¿warn't¿no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft¿don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.'¿ ¿ Miserable and down on his luck, young Huck Finn escapes his drunken father by faking his own death - and so begins his¿life-changing¿journey through the Deep South. On his travels Huck meets Jim, a runaway slave, and together they form a close friendship as they journey down the Mississippi River on their individual quests for independence and freedom.¿ ¿ First published in 1884, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains a defining classic, grappling with issues of prejudice, morality and religion, with bravery and hope at its heart. Today, the tale of Huck Finn and Jim is considered one of first Great American novels.- Shop: buecher
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