15 Results for : dealer’s
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Stories for Winter Evenings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1267min
A haunting collection of strange and macabre short stories, ideal for listening to around the fire on a cold winter evening.... 'The Last Leaf' by O. Henry 'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie 'The Fire' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne 'The Tiger' by Hugh Walpole 'Cool Air' by H. P. Lovecraft 'The Missing Model' by Lettice Galbraith 'The Cold Embrace' by Mary E. Braddon 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole 'Over an Absinthe Bottle' by W. C. Morrow 'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton 'The Fiddler of the Reels' by Thomas Hardy 'From the Loom of the Dead' by Elia W. Peattie 'The Lost Ghost' by Mary Wilkins-Freeman 'Let Loose' by Mary Cholmondeley 'The Horse Dealer’s Daughter' by D. H. Lawrence 'Seashore Macabre' by Hugh Walpole 'The Ticking of the Clock' by Louisa Baldwin 'The Missing Model' by Lettice Galbraith 'A Child of the Rain' by Elia W. Peattie 'The Cold Embrace' by Mary E. Braddon 'The Gull' by F. Anstey 'Room Number Ten' by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor 'A Study in Murder' by Vincent O'Sullivan 'The Return' by R. Murray Gilchrist 'Pomegranate Seed' by Edith Wharton 'Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith 'Kerfol' by Edith Wharton 'An Original Revenge' by W. C. Morrow 'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray 'The Vampire' by Jan Neruda Plus many more macabre gothic tales.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000741/bk_redd_000741_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Under the Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
Under the Sea is Mark Leidner’s debut story collection published by Tyrant Books in 2018 and named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed, Spinoff, and The New Statesman. In the gripping opener “Bad-Asses”, a naive drug dealer’s stash is stolen, leading her to unleash her inner bad-ass as she tries to recover it. In the bizarre and hilarious “21 Extremely Bad Breakups”, each breakup is more absurd than the last: lovers get side-swiped by speeding busses, play paper-rock-scissors with each others lives, cause an asteroid to destroy the planet, and more. In “Under the Sea”, a woman with one day to live has an affair with a loser she picks up at a video game arcade. In the unbelievably epic “Avern-Y6”, a despondent insect gets shitfaced at the brink of a colony-wide civil war, only to learn he has an role to play in history after all. A social outcast going off on some teens in a bougie café, a depressed man in a physical fight with an interdimensional void, a middle-school student waxing memoiristic about heartbreak, a self-defeating academic sending a career-ending email - indelible characters are the heart of every story’s wild ride in Under the Sea. Praise:“Equal parts hilarity and horror…virtuosic.” (New York Times)“Poetic and extraordinarily strange.” (Buzzfeed)“An intriguing literary page-turner.” (Curator)About the author: Mark Leidner is is a Georgia-born writer of books and films. His latest book is 2018’s Under the Sea, and his latest film is the 2019 sci-fi thriller Empathy, Inc. He resides in Atlanta and is @markleidner on Twitter and Instagram. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luna Cross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139619/bk_acx0_139619_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bluffing Texas Style: The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 462min
In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her “catch” was the corpse of Johnny Jenkins, shot in the head. His death was as dramatic as the rare book dealer’s life, which read, as the Austin American-Statesman declared, “like a best seller”.At the time of his death, Jenkins was about to be indicted by the ATF for the arson of his rare books, warehouse, and offices. Another investigation implicated Jenkins in forgeries of historical documents, including the Texas Declaration of Independence. Rumors of million-dollar gambling debts at mob-connected casinos circulated, along with the rumblings of irate mafia figures he’d fingered and eccentric Texas collectors he’d cheated. Had he been murdered? Or was his death a suicide, staged to look like a murder?His undercover work for the FBI, recovering rare books stolen by mafia figures, had also earned him headlines coast to coast, as had his exploits as “Austin Squatty”, playing high stakes poker in Las Vegas. But beneath such public triumphs lay darker secrets.How Jenkins, a onetime president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, came to such an unseemly end is one of the mysteries Michael Vinson pursues in this spirited account of a tragic American life.The book is published by University of Oklahoma Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.“Michael Vinson has told Johnny’s tragic story in amazing detail and with astonishing candor.” (Ron Tyler, former director of the Texas State Historical Association)“Brilliant, entertaining, and troubling, this book will keep you engaged from first page to last...." (J. P. Bryan, lifetime board member of the Texas State Historical Association)“A lively account of a renegade bookseller and a wild period that might otherwise have been forgotten.” (David Streitfeld, Pulitzer Prize - winning reporter for the New York Times) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Lerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/190325/bk_acx0_190325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rake: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 274min
The landscape of contemporary Paris, replete with the best restaurants, the trendiest bars and clubs, is usually filled with the wealthy, the famous, and le rake or le rou, the charming, educated sophisticate with little or no conscience. Into this cushy world bursts Dr. Crandall Taylor - or rather the actor who plays him, the star of a dated American soap opera that is now one of the hottest prime-time shows in France. And this newfound fame, as enriching as it is unexpected, is not wasted on Crandall, eager to put his dark and often violent American past behind him and enjoy all the fruits and the women that Paris and fame have to offer him. But TV fame isn’t enough. Randall wants a feature film. Every actor wants a feature film, and so Crandall uses his charm and intellect to draw into his narcissistic web four different women: an executive at the network that runs his show; an American porn star reaching new heights on the Internet; a bookish university student with a slightly nasty bent; and the beautiful would-be actress wife of an arms dealer. Against his better judgment, Crandall accepts both the arms dealer’s cash and his beautiful wife’s advances. Soon, Crandall is on the run through the alleys and streets of Paris, trying not only to fund a film but simply to stay alive. But this is no ordinary chase and Crandall is no ordinary mouse and soon his penchant for violence, sex, and megalomania erupts into full-blown war. Rake is the latest noir classic from the author of The Ice Harvest. It features a charming, despicable antihero and a funny, satiric take on modern entertainment culture. Phillips turns his gimlet eye on the lush life of an actor who, on his destructive tour through Paris, crosses the line from garden variety narcissism into full-fledged psycopathy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christian Rummel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012817/bk_adbl_012817_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Island Dwellers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 562min
For listeners of Miranda July, Rebecca Lee, and Mary Gaitskill, a debut short-story collection that is a mesmerizing blend of wit, transgression, and heart. A passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over whose new fling is more exotic. A Russian migrant in Tokyo agonizes over the money her lover accepts from a yakuza. A dead body on a drug dealer’s floor leads to the strangest first date ever. In this razor-sharp debut collection, Jen Silverman delivers 11 interconnected stories that take place in expat bars, artist colonies, train stations, and matchbox apartments in the United States and Japan. Unforgettable characters crisscross through these transient spaces, loving, hurting, and leaving each other as they experience the loneliness and dangerous freedom that comes with being an outsider. In “Maria of the Grapes”, a pair of damaged runaways get lost in the seductive underworld beneath Tokyo’s clean streets; in “Pretoria”, a South African expatriate longs for the chaos of her homeland as she contemplates a marriage proposal; in “Girl Canadian Shipwreck”, a young woman in Brooklyn seeks permission to flee from her boyfriend and his terrible performance art; in “Maureen”, an aspiring writer realizes that her beautiful, neurotic boss is lonelier than she lets on.The Island Dwellers ranges near and far in its exploration of solitude and reinvention, identity and sexuality, family and home. Jen Silverman is the rare talent who can evoke the landscape of a whole life in a single subtle phrase - vital, human truths that you may find yourself using as a map to your own heart.Read by Kristen Sieh, Saskia Maarleveld, Cassandra Campbell, Soneela Nankani, Rebecca Lowman, Brittany Pressley, Alex McKenna, Vikas Adam, Renata Friedman, Hannah Cabell, and Julia Whelan Praise for The Island Dwellers:“Reading these stories feels like spying on lives you might never admit to living - hilario ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006155/bk_rand_006155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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