378 Results for : inexorably
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Moby Dick, Hörbuch, Digital, 283min
The Nantucket whaling ship, the Pequod, spirals the globe in search of Moby Dick, the mythical white whale of the Southern Oceans. Driven on by the obsessive revenge of Captain Ahab, the crew and the outcast Ishmael find themselves caught up in a demonic pursuit which leads inexorably to an apocalyptic climax. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Bailey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000135/bk_naxo_000135_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Termination Shock
'Stephenson's reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved' Sunday Times'His most visionary, and timely, book yet' Chicago Review of Books'Absorbing speculative fiction' Guardian'Brilliantly entertaining... at science fiction's cutting edge' SFX'Ingenious and sometimes prophetic' TelegraphNeal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemental." But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?As only Stephenson can, Termination Shock sounds a clarion alarm, ponders potential solutions and dire risks, and wraps it all together in an exhilarating, witty, mind-expanding speculative adventure.- Shop: buecher
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Fatal Remedies (eBook, ePUB)
'Donna Leon has established Commissario Guido Brunetti as one of the most engaging of fictional detectives ... Brunetti is ... back on track, sadder perhaps, but wiser and wittier than ever.' Sunday Times__________________________________A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Commissario Guido Brunetti soon finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.As Paola's actions provoke a crisis in the Brunetti household, Brunetti himself is under increasing pressure at work: a daring robbery with Mafia connections is linked to a suspicious death and his superiors need quick results. As his professional and personal lives clash, Brunetti's own career is under threat - and the conspiracy which Paola had risked everything to expose draws him inexorably to the brink ...- Shop: buecher
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Laughing: The Morrow Family Saga, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 155min
Natalia continues her journey through the 1950s with a trip to Broadway and Washington, DC.The year 1952 started off with the realization that what had been was now no longer. The world had inexorably changed and left Natalia stranded. Everything had grown darker. Daddy was now embroiled in a battle to save his business and his reputation. Part of this battle was also to keep the family together. He struggled to prevent their being shipped off piece by piece. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lydia McCloskey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230360/bk_acx0_230360_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Women , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 171min
'I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.' A young woman moves from the countryside to the city. Inexplicably, inexorably and immediately, she falls in love with another woman for the first time in her life. Finn is 19 years older than her, wears men's clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile - and a long-term girlfriend. With precision, wit and tenderness, Women charts the frenzy and the fall out of love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelly Burke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003341/bk_hcuk_003341_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Emperor Expects: Warhammer 40,000: The Beast Arises, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 330min
As ork ships lay waste to world after world, heading inexorably towards Terra, Imperial citizens despair. The High Lords become desperate to prove that victory is possible, no matter the cost. A massive navy fleet is assembled - their mission to make a definitive strike against the orks at Port Sanctus, an area of enemy-held space. But when the Imperial armada arrives, they find themselves outclassed and outmanoeuvred. Can human courage and faith possibly prevail against such terrible odds? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gareth Armstrong. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gawo/000010/bk_gawo_000010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Gemini Contenders , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 890min
Dead of night. Salonika, Greece, December 1939. A clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. Its sinister contents, concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, good men and evil will be drawn into a violent and deadly hunt, sparking a relentless struggle that could forever change the world as we know it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grover Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003290/bk_rand_003290_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Time for Sherlock Holmes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 456min
When Holmes gives up the adventurous life of a consulting detective and retires to the Sussex countryside to raise bees, little does he or his old friend Dr. John Watson realize that their greatest adventures lies ahead - an adventure spanning centuries and extending across the solar system.... For nothing less than human civilization lies at state as Sherlock Holmes finds himself moving inexorably toward the final and most terrible confrontation with his ancient enemy, the time-jumping Napoleon of crime, professor Moriarty! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Perkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003589/bk_acx0_003589_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Lucifer Directive
Years after hijackers killed his father, an ordinary college student gets a chance to fight terrorists who have hatched a plan to destroy the United States A ringing phone awakes Dan Lennigin, college student, in the middle of the night, and the caller baffles him with a stream of panicked gibberish. It is a code, meant for someone else's ears, and it draws Dan inexorably into a tangled international conspiracy. Minutes after the call, an operative for antiterrorist agency Lucifer is killed, and his superiors come for Dan. He is the only one who heard the warning, and now that he knows what is happening, he can't say no. Ever since his vacationing father was murdered by hijackers, Dan has dreamed about taking revenge on the world's terrorists. But this threat is no fantasy. It has already claimed the lives of several professional terrorist hunters, and Dan is no professional.- Shop: buecher
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Termination Shock
'Stephenson's reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved' Sunday Times 'His most visionary, and timely, book yet' Chicago Review of Books 'Absorbing speculative fiction' Guardian 'Brilliantly entertaining... at science fiction's cutting edge' SFX 'Ingenious and sometimes prophetic' Telegraph Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemental." But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?As only Stephenson can, Termination Shock sounds a clarion alarm, ponders potential solutions and dire risks, and wraps it all together in an exhilarating, witty, mind-expanding speculative adventure.- Shop: buecher
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