214 Results for : infatuated
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Better Luck Next Time: Asheville Brewing, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 678min
The second book in the Asheville Brewing series by A.R. Casella and Denise Grover Swank Standalone book with HEAAdalia Buchanan has always poured her soul into her art, but after a horrible betrayal by her mentor, she can no longer bring herself to do it. Instead, she’s designing merch and marketing materials for her family brewery in Asheville, hoping it’ll satisfy her urge to create. It doesn’t, of course, and her worst nightmare comes to pass when an arrogant yet attractive acquaintance witnesses her tearing up one of her own paintings. Selling Big Catch Brewing was supposed to lead to big things for Finn Hamilton, but it didn’t. Worse, it strained his relationship with his best friend, River, and turned the local community against him. For someone who’s used to being liked, it’s a humbling experience — much like watching Adalia engage in an act of creation and destruction. Before, he only knew her as the intriguingly sassy sister of River’s girlfriend, but what he witnessed changes everything. It also sparks an idea.When Finn asks her to help him launch a charity art show, Adalia immediately refuses — and then surprises herself by changing her mind. Because the man she wrote off as an arrogant jerk is anything but. He’s a modern-day Mr. Darcy, and she’s infatuated with Pride and Prejudice. If they can survive an evil cat, a psychic, a goat-obsessed artist, and their meddling families, they might just get their own happily-ever-after. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joy Nash. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228219/bk_acx0_228219_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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On Old Olympus Towering Top: Coping with Four Decades of Privation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 516min
This audiobook describes the lives of persons from three separate cultures persevering during WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII.The central character is Louis, the only son of Lourdes and Joseph. Lourdes is the oldest daughter of an opulent Mexican landowner during the Mexican Revolution. Her family flees to the border town of Paso del Notre. Lourdes’ father dies suddenly. The family is saved from ruin because Lourdes smuggled 50 gold coins hidden under her skirt.Lourdes falls in love with Joseph, a Tigua Indian who previously served in the Army during WWI. Joseph’s sister, Flor, is married to the governor of the Tigua Indian Community and they have a daughter, Rosalia, who is very close to Joseph.Rosalia abandons the Tigua community. Louis’ family survives the depression years and he finishes college. Louis meets a friend, Manfred, who introduces him to his father, a physician. Manfred teaches Louis mnemonics as a memory tool.Louis is accepted to medical school. In medical school during WWII, Louis befriends Izzy Schefter who introduces him to his family. Izzy’s father, Arthur, is a Jewish forensic pathologist who emigrated from Germany after being imprisoned in Russia during WWI. His wife, Madeline, is a doctoral student and their daughter, Anne, is a violist who is a senior in high school. She is infatuated with Louis but the feeling is not reciprocated. Both struggle with a fragile liaison stifled by too many cultural and philosophical differences and they decide to go their separate ways. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: e-AudioProductions.com, Jim Cooper, Daniella Agitelli, Layla Rhodes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232742/bk_acx0_232742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bad Habit , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 474min
BRIAR - I was infatuated with Asher Kelley the moment he came tumbling through my brother’s window five years ago. Even bruised and bloodied, he was the most beautiful boy I'd ever seen. We couldn't ever be together. I was too young, and he was too untouchable. He was too troubled, and I was too naive. But the heart is rebellious, and mine decided it didn’t care about any of those things. As I got older, harmless flirting turned to stolen moments in dark corners. Until one day, he was gone without a trace. Now, three years later, he’s back. Callous and cruel. He’s my brother’s best friend. My parents’ worst nightmare. I should hate him. But like a bad habit, I can’t quit him. ASHER - I was drawn to Briar Vale from the first time she looked up at me with stars in her big, blue eyes. She was just a kid, nothing but elbows and knees, but she was the most beautiful creature I'd ever seen. We could never be together. I was too old and she was too off limits. She was too good and I was too fucked up. Eventually, the temptation became too much to resist. I risked everything for a kiss and she betrayed me. Three years have passed and I’m forced to see her again, but now she's all grown up. She’s my best friend’s baby sister. My downfall. I hate her for what she did. But she's always been my drug of choice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lexy Richmond, Roberto Scarlato. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033968/bk_adbl_033968_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Talisman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 763min
The Talisman revolves around the Third Crusader's camp in the Holy Land whereby there exists a truce between the Christians and the Muslims. The camp, which is led by King Richard I of England (the Lion-heart) who is grievously ill, is being torn apart by tensions between rival leaders. Sir Kenneth, the Knight of the Couchant Leopard, is one of the knights who follow King Richard to the Holy Land of Jerusalem during the Crusade. He is sent on a mission to the desert far from the camp where he stumbles upon Muslim leader Salah-ed-Din Yusef ibn Ayub or Saladin disguised as a Saracen Emir and the two engage in battle whereby none of them is injured. Since a truce is in existence between the two conflicting factions, they strike up a friendship and continue their journey together. Sir Kenneth helps Saladin gain entry into the Christian camp posing as a physician and he helps cure King Richard of his ailment. The King is pleased with Kenneth and he entrusts him to guard the banner of England which he does unsuccessfully after Richard's wife Queen Berengaria distracts him with a message from Lady Edith Plantaget who the knight is infatuated with. Sir Kenneth is dishonored and only escapes execution after the Emir agrees to take him as a slave and the events that follow shape the story that is full of deceit and high handedness as King Richard struggles to maintain control of the camp while also focusing his crusade of the Holy Land. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David McCallion. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070249/bk_acx0_070249_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Visegrad (eBook, ePUB)
Visegrad is a satirical comedy set in a budding Eastern European autocracy. Its setting, the titular Visegrad, is an expatriate Mecca, a post-Soviet capital where the national sport is appearing to work as hard as possible while doing nothing at all. It is the story of Rye, an American millennial who becomes infatuated with a young couple in debt to a local bookie who has developed a secret method of purchasing outstanding student loans from the United States. Things get complicated when Rye agrees to work off the debt and signs on a battery of clients, including Colin Having, who believes that the world's dogs are in a conspiracy against him; H. Defer, an academic wunderkind who is developing a universal theory based on the wetness of feet; and the SEC man, who has been sent to Visegrad to determine how Rye and his boss acquire individual debts. Soon, Rye learns he is being followed. Customers start to disappear and he discovers he is no longer free to leave the country. Now he must sabotage the lucrative business he has helped build, or else abandon his friends to the machinations of a shady cabal within the Visegrad government. A series of comic digressions that branch from the central, tragic digression of choosing to live in a foreign country, Visegrad presents world at once familiar and preposterous--a world that is even historically accurate in its an amalgamation of Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Krakow, and Berlin, even though it is a place that does not exist and therefore has no history. It is about getting away with something--being young, being cruel, falling in love. Of particular interest to readers who have travelled extensively or lived abroad, it is a must for fans of Prague (Arthur Phillips); The Sellout (Paul Beatty); Necessary Errors (Caleb Crain); All That Man Is (David Szalay); and Temporary People (Deepak Unnikrishnan).- Shop: buecher
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White Dove: Adventures of Madam Mollie Teal: The Doughnut Tree Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 705min
In an adventurous, whimsical romance novel comes the prequel to The Doughnut Tree. Catherine L. Knowles has written White Dove, an epic story of love, betrayal, hate, and survival set against the tumultuous background of the Civil War and General Sherman’s Scorch the Earth campaign. At the center of the tale is a former bordello business manager Mollie “Sissy” Greenleaf, a “spitfire” loud, outspoken woman. Sissy finds herself in the middle of a heated courtroom battle to defend the honor of her deceased best friend and confidant Mollie Teal and her estate. Forced into the life of prostitution at a very young age, Mollie Teal grows up in the midst of the Civil War and quickly learns that the Union soldiers aren’t always the good guys. Enter Union Brigadier General John Basil Turchin, a battle-hardened former Russian who becomes infatuated with the beautiful young Mollie Teal, aka White Dove, and fights to capture her love at all costs.Mollie's friends - Herman Deeley, a young former black slave and her guardian angel and confidant sworn to protect Mollie and C.C. Taylor, a wounded Confederate soldier who gets his dying wish to return to his burned plantation - both, find an unexpected life adventure with the to-be-notorious Madam Mollie Teal. Against all odds, this group of companions find many twists and turns in this romantic tale of love affairs fraught with danger and compromised by the epic and grim events of the Civil War and its destructive realities that can turn love into hate and romance into revenge. White Dove is a heart-warming historical fiction novel that’s sure to entertain and touch your heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lily Sage. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175422/bk_acx0_175422_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Intern: A BDSM Romance: Scarlett and Her Master, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 255min, (USK 18)
Ruby Webb is infatuated with her coworker’s boss. She’s only an intern, and Eve’s stories about what a huge jerk Jasper Cain is to work for don’t deter her at all.Ruby is not the only woman at the office interested in Jasper. A coworker is called to Jasper’s office about a stalking issue. She doesn’t close the door when asked and Eve hears everything. Eve tries to deter Ruby’s crush by telling her all the things Courtney found stalking and hacking Jasper’s accounts. Things like secret clubs and spanking women.This only intrigues Ruby. The idea of Jasper spanking her keeps replaying in her mind. But she is not Courtney, and she’s not a stalker. She’s going to find a way into that secret club the legitimate way and not get banned at the door and marched out the building with a restraining order like Courtney. Ruby’s journey to get into a top secret BDSM club named Jasmine’s with no location or rules on their website leads her to a fetish website. Suddenly, Jasper Cain seems a little less interesting. Master559, who she has been messaging with seems like he could make her new, dark fantasies come true. And he’s willing to work with her being new. He wants to build trust first.Master559 has only given her one rule. Leave Jasmine’s alone, and don’t go there. Ruby has already broken his rules. She’s attended a munch, and she intends to attend a training class. She just wants to watch. There are some warning signs, but Ruby thinks she has a handle on it.Ruby is about to learn things are not what they seem. People are not who they seem. Trust is everything in this new lifestyle she jumped head first into. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Nurse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160587/bk_acx0_160587_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Enlightened Despots , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 286min
From the death of Louis XIV in 1715 until the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, there occurred a profound evolution in the thinking of political philosophers, whose epoch is known as The Enlightenment. There were three men whose writings were to be most responsible for this intellectual whirlwind: Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. And there were to be three rulers whose absorption of this new thinking actually resulted in an attempt to put many of those ideas into practice: Frederick the Great of Prussia, Joseph II of Austria, and Catherine the Great of Russia. Naturally, there were other thinkers, collectively known as the "Philosophes". And there were other, lesser rulers who would also reflect this new intellectual and spiritual glory. But where did it come from? How, in the middle of one of the most corrupt centuries of all time, could a small group of monarchs suddenly become infatuated with the thinking of an even smaller group of eccentric intellectuals? On the face of it, it seems highly improbable. At the beginning of the 18th century, kings ruled by the divine right of God Almighty, and were answerable only to God. Near the end of the same century, they still ruled by the grace of God...but now they were answerable to the people they ruled. This was the era of the Great Awakening of the common man. The consequences were to be momentous for the world. For it was from the works of the Philosophes that the French Revolution would germinate, and it was from the French Revolution that the ultimate Enlightened Despot would emerge...Napoleon Bonaparte. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000055/bk_acon_000055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Breaker: A Brother's Best Friend Standalone Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 582min
Grady and Sutton's love story is one you won't be able to forget. A childhood crush that turned into so much more. The journey. The angst. The heartache. This is Harloe Rae at her very best! (LJ Shen, USA Today best-selling author) "Tell me a happy something, Sutton."I was only seven the first time Grady Bowen whispered those words to me. Cloaked by the black sky under a blanket of stars, it was easy to get lost. He didn't have any good memories of his own and needed to borrow mine. I would willingly give him anything. Being infatuated with that boy was a beautiful curse. What could have been special didn't get the chance to bloom. He'd never see me as more than his best friend's kid sister. That was a hard lesson to learn, but not the most difficult. Grady had always been struggling against the odds. Eventually he quit fighting and let his family's reputation own him. Try as I might, those influences were beyond my reach. He didn't mean to break my heart. Or maybe he did. I shouldn't have made it so easy for him. Either way, our wrongs against each other carved new lines between us. I went four years without seeing Grady - each one more painful than the last. That distance did nothing to dull my feelings toward him. But things are different now. Most noticeably is Grady. I barely recognize this man he's become. And that's the way he intends to keep it. Not that it really matters. Grady Bowen stopped being my happy something long ago. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wen Ross, Kai Kennicott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/189819/bk_acx0_189819_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ghostly Asylum: A Harper Harlow Mystery, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 437min
Something haunted this way comes...and it means big things for Ghost Hunters, Inc. It seems Phantoms, one of the most popular shows on the Independent Ghost Hunting Network, is interested in doing a location shoot at Ludington Asylum, which just happens to be located on a small island near Whisper Cove. Since childhood, Harper Harlow has been infatuated with the story of a crazy doctor gone rogue and the resulting investigation that found numerous missing patients (but no bodies) at the former institution. Producers want to feature Harper and Zander on their show, and Zander is happy to oblige despite Harper's reticence. Sensing his girlfriend is struggling under the weight of her worry, Jared Monroe takes some vacation time and decides to tag along on what's supposed to be a three-day excursion full of mayhem and madcap adventure. Not long after landing, people start disappearing and Harper's not convinced it's the ghosts running roughshod over the group. It seems they might have a killer in their midst, although unraveling the hows and the whys of an old mystery overlapping with a new one is anything but easy. It's a race to the finish for Whisper Cove's favorite ghost hunter. She has to solve a mystery with ties to the past, save her friends and the man she loves in the present, and find a way to help the trapped spirits so they can look forward to a different future. Of course, Harper has to survive herself to do it. Someone is bound and determined to make sure that doesn't happen, and it's going to take everyone working together to survive until the final day. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angel Clark. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096784/bk_acx0_096784_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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