28 Results for : dorrie
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Dark Lie , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 512min
In this gripping psychological thriller - smart, chilling, and unrelenting Nancy Springer establishes herself as an exciting new suspense writer with a distinctive voice and some surprises up her sleeve.... To their neighbors, Dorrie and Sam White are a contented couple in America's heartland, with steady jobs, a suburban home, and plenty of community activities to keep them busy. But they're not quite what they seem. For plain, hard-working Sam hides a depth of devotion for his wife that no one would suspect. And Dorrie is living a lie - beset by physical ailments, alone within herself...and secretly following the comings and goings of the 16-year-old daughter, Juliet, she gave up for adoption when she was hardly more than a child herself. Then one day at the mall, Dorrie watches horror-stricken as Juliet is abducted; forced into a van that drives away. Instinctively, Dorrie sends her own car speeding after it - an act of reckless courage that puts her on a collision course with a depraved killer...and draws Sam into a dogged, desperate search to save his wife. As mother and daughter unite in a terrifying struggle to survive, to what extremes will Dorrie go in overcoming her own limitations...and in confronting her dark, tormented past? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Levy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004974/bk_adbl_004974_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Ninja Librarians: Sword in the Stacks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
As the newest apprentices to Petrarch's Library, Dorrie and her brother are determined to help search for the missing key that could destroy their beloved library. On a training mission to 1912England, Dorrie sees her chance to help. All she needs to do is get close to a lord with a connection to the Lybrarians' enemy - the Stronghold. If Dorrie can earn the lord's trust, she might be able to get the Lybrariad just what they've been searching for. But if she arouses his suspicion, she could lead the Strongholders right to Petrarch's Library...and everyone she cares about. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laural Merlington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/001136/bk_drms_001136_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Unforgettable , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 511min
The year is 1947. Kindly, unassuming widow Dorrie Resterick continually finds herself confidante to others' troubles. She would prefer to keep in the background, but life throws her many a mystery, and once she even found a scrap of evidence in a dreadful local crime - the double murder of two villagers. While the police decided the scrap of paper Dorrie brought to them solved the case, Dorrie was never sure - and when new tenants arrive at the long-abandoned creepy cottage of Merrivale, the site of the murders, their actions inadvertently plunge the whole village into danger. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Franklin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001681/bk_isis_001681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Real Life: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 562min
Dorrie Gilbert, a potter who lives alone, is completely unprepared for motherhood when her oddball, overweight, and orphaned nephew Hugo comes to live with her, demanding to know the truth about his parents and horrified that she doesn't own a television so he can watch the soap opera he's devoted to. As Dorrie and Hugo attempt to work things out, each learns some hard and surprising, but deeply satisfying, truths about real life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kristin Kalbli. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020437/bk_adbl_020437_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Calling Me Home , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 816min
A stunning, moving tale of forbidden love in segregated 1930s Kentucky, perfect for fans of The Help. Love doesn't play by the rules… Shalerville, Kentucky, 1939. A world where black maids and handymen are trusted to raise white children and tend to white houses, but from which they are banished after dark. Sixteen-year-old Isabelle McAllister, born into wealth and privilege, finds her ordered life turned upside down when she becomes attracted to Robert, the ambitious black son of her family’s housekeeper. Before long Isabelle and Robert are crossing extraordinary, dangerous boundaries and falling deeply in love. Many years later, eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle will travel from her home in Arlington, Texas, to Ohio for a funeral. With Isabelle is her hairstylist and friend, Dorrie Curtis – a black single mother with her own problems. Along the way, Isabelle will finally reveal to Dorrie the truth of her painful past: a tale of forbidden love, the consequences of which will resound for decades… ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bahni Turpin, Lorna Raver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000657/bk_macm_000657_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Heart of Danger, Hörbuch, Digital, 186min
A thrilling classic from a master of the genre. In a wrecked Croat village, a mass grave is uncovered and the mutilated body of a young Englishwoman, Dorrie Mowat, is exhumed. Her mother, who loathed Dorrie in life, becomes obsessed by the need to find out about her death. But with civil war tearing apart the former Yugoslavia, none of the authorities there or in Britain are interested in a ‘minor’ war crime. So she turns to Bill Penn, private investigator, MI5 reject. For him this looks like a quick trip to safe Zagreb, the writing of a useless report and a good fee at the end of it. But once there he finds himself drawn inexorably towards the killing ground behind the lines, to find the truth of the young woman’s death and, perhaps, the truth of himself.Penn’s search for evidence that could, one day, convict a war criminal in a court of law becomes an epic journey into a merciless war where the odds are stacked high against him. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Cox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000869/bk_hcuk_000869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Spinster Wife , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 695min
In this suspenseful novel, bestselling author Christina McKenna questions whether anyone can ever truly be free of the darkness within us all. Rita-Mae has lived in fear for as long as she can remember. Fear of being alone, fear of her past and, above all, fear of her husband, Harry. Until she spots an advertisement for a vacant cottage in a small town in Northern Ireland. She makes her escape filled with hope, ready to start a new life in a new home, free from the pain of her past. But her place of refuge may not be as safe - or as anonymous - as she thought. In another small town, Dorrie wakes up unaware of where she is or how she got there. Adrift in a world for which she has no explanation, she needs to find answers quickly - before her shadowy past catches up with her. Walled in by secrets and with no one to trust, both Rita-Mae and Dorrie are unsure how to move forward. Can each woman face her inner demons and confront a menacing presence from the past once and for all? Or will the past unravel their second chance at life? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alana Kerr Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009476/bk_brll_009476_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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World-Tree's End : World-Tree Trilogy, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 869min
Old Man Vincent is heading for the top of the World-Tree and beyond in the final installment of the World-Tree Trilogy. To get there, he's going to have to overcome titan-sized bosses, strange new worlds, an army of angels, and a seemingly invincible final boss. And yes, he's looking forward to the challenge. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justin Thomas James, Jeff Hays, Dorrie Sacks, Laurie Catherine Winkel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229709/bk_acx0_229709_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Killing Cure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 581min
After 75 years of high-minded respectability, the Amelia Gower Women's Club is in trouble. One distinguished director has been strangled. Another has taken a fatal plunge down the club's elegant staircase. As soon as restaurateur-sleuth Jane Lawless begins investigating these murders, wheels within wheels start to turn, meshing private lives with the club's inner workings. Even Jane's new lover, Dorrie, is somehow involved in the diabolical proceedings.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aimee Jolson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012673/bk_adbl_012673_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Zu zweit tut das Herz nur halb so weh
Kentucky, Ende der 1930er Jahre: Isabelle wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als aus dem engen Korsett ihrer Familie auszubrechen. Ausgerechnet der Sohn der farbigen Hausangestellten eröffnet ihr eine vollkommen neue Welt. Eine Welt allerdings, die sich für eine junge Frau ihres Standes nicht schickt. Doch Isabelle ist entschlossen, ihre verbotene Liebe zu leben ...Jahre später chauffiert die farbige Friseurin Dorrie ihre ältere Stammkundin Isabelle zu einer Beerdigung. Sie kommen sich näher und Isabelle lüftet erstmals ihr lang gehütetes Geheimnis.- Shop: Audible
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