29 Results for : agonized
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The White Thread: The Gateway Chronicles, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 640min
Winner of the 2016 Literary Classics Gold Book Award for YA Series.Recipient of the Literary Classics Seal of Approval.For the duration of her freshman year, Darcy Pennington agonized over the fate of her dear friend - the nark Yahto Veli - who sacrificed himself to the Oracle to set her free. As her third trip to camp, and to the magical land, approaches, Darcy wonders if she's capable of the daring rescue she wants to embark upon. But soon, she realizes there's much more at stake. Her return to Cedar Cove Family Camp is marked by a mysterious disappearance, and in Alitheia, a new message from the Oracle adds to the riddles that must be deciphered if they are to expel the dark evil that hovers over the land. The six friends and the alchemist Rubidius plan a sea journey that will take them beyond the borders of Alitheia and into the realm of a legendary archipelago. Tellius winds up joining them, as well. The foes they meet along the way are both deceptive and charming, while the Oracle's riddles seem to dog them at every turn. Darcy is also hiding a secret from her best friend Sam that could test their friendship beyond the breaking point, and there's an unexpected development in her relationship with Tellius that changes everything and makes her understand that the deepest scars sometimes cannot be seen. Darcy isn't sure if she's prepared for another meeting with the Oracle, but if she wants to have any chance of saving her friend, she must try. To complicate matters, the evil they left behind in Alitheia has not remained dormant. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dollcie Webb. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181483/bk_acx0_181483_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dying to Exist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 193min
Dying to Exist offers 104 uplifting stories of women and men who planned on aborting their babies when they found out they were pregnant but changed their minds and had them. These true, heartwarming and inspiring stories share how the abortions had been planned but were not carried through; all had considered abortions but changed their minds. Some women decided on abortions quickly due to an unplanned teenage pregnancy while others thought about it for a while or were pressured into it. Some told close friends and families about their pregnancies when they first discovered they were pregnant; others didn't tell anyone or told only one person - the father, a parent or friend. Some agonized over whether to go through with an abortion due to their beliefs while others considered abortion because they did not have the financial resources to raise a child. Still others weighed both physical and psychological effects of abortion as they struggled with thoughts of terminating their pregnancies. You'll hear stories of mothers and fathers who live with the regret, shame, and guilt of considering abortion. Some parents who chose not to abort say their babies are gifts from God or that having their babies was something that was meant to be. All look at their babies today and say how they have turned into the biggest blessings of their lives. They all knew their lives would change if they had an abortion - and if they did not have an abortion. You'll hear touching stories from women who had support from their families and the fathers, and others who did not. While most of the mothers and fathers chose to raise their babies, some decided on giving up baby for adoption. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Galvez II. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/083843/bk_acx0_083843_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 366min
Mendel (Manny) Steinberg spent his teens in Nazi extermination camps in Germany and Poland, miraculously surviving while millions perished. This is his story. Born in 1925 in the Jewish ghetto in Radom, Poland, Manny soon realized that people of Jewish faith were increasingly being regarded as outsiders. In September 1939 the Nazis invaded, and the nightmare started. The city's Jewish population had no chance of escaping and was faced with starvation, torture, sexual abuse and ultimately deportation. Outcry is the candid and moving account of a teenager who survived four Nazi camps: Dachau, Auschwitz, Vaihingen and Neckagerach. While being subjected to torture and degradation, he agonized over two haunting questions: "Why the Jews?" and "How can the world let this happen?" These questions remain hard to answer. Manny's brother Stanley had jumped off the cattle wagon on the way to the extermination camp where his mother and younger brother were to perish. Desperately lonely and hungry, Stanley stood outside the compound hoping to catch a glimpse of Manny and their father. Once he discovered that they were among the prisoners, he turned himself in. The days were marked by hunger, cold, hard labor, and fear. Knowing that other members of the family were in the same camp kept them alive. Since acknowledging each other would have meant death, they pretended to be complete strangers. Manny relates how he was served human flesh and was forced to shave the heads of female corpses and pull out their teeth. Cherishing a picture of his beloved mother in his wooden shoe, he miraculously survived the terror of the Polish and German concentration camps together with his father and brother. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Steinberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/041685/bk_acx0_041685_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Project Seven Alpha: American Airlines in Burma 1942 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonized over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia. They seemed unstoppable. He foresaw their intentions of taking India and linking up with the two other Axis powers, Germany and Italy, in an attempt to conquer the Eastern Hemisphere. US naval forces had been severely surprised and diminished in Pearl Harbor, and the army was outnumbered and ill prepared to take on the invading hoards. One of his few options was to form a defensive line on the eastern side of the Patkai and Himalayan ranges. There he could look for support from the Chinese and Burmese. It was to be the only defense against a Japanese invasion of India. To support and supply these troops, fighting in hostile jungle terrain where overland routes had been cut off, he desperately needed to set up an air supply from Eastern India. His problem was lack of aircraft and experienced pilots to fly the dangerous "Hump" over the world's highest mountains. Hence came Operation Seven Alpha, a plan to enlist the aircraft (DC-3s) and pilots (veterans of World War One) of American Airlines. This newly formed squadron would fly these medium-range aircraft in a series of long-distance hops across the Pacific and Southern Asia to the Assam Valley in India. They would then create and operate the vital supply route carrying arms, ammunition, and food eastward to the Allied bases and return with wounded personnel. This is the story of this little-known operation in the early days of the Burma campaign. This book is based on the true experiences of those who were involved and is a fitting tribute to the bravery and inventiveness of a band of men who answered their country's desperate call at the outset of the war against Japan in Asia. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Block. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/086125/bk_acx0_086125_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 770min
A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The Divide NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk after a police officer put him in what has been described as an illegal chokehold during an arrest for selling bootleg cigarettes. The final moments of Garner’s life were captured on video and seen by millions. His agonized last words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry for the nascent Black Lives Matter protest movement. A grand jury ultimately declined to indict the officer who wrestled Garner to the pavement. Matt Taibbi’s deeply reported retelling of these events liberates Eric Garner from the abstractions of newspaper accounts and lets us see the man in full—with all his flaws and contradictions intact. A husband and father with a complicated personal history, Garner was neither villain nor victim, but a fiercely proud individual determined to do the best he could for his family, bedeviled by bad luck, and ultimately subdued by forces beyond his control. In America, no miscarriage of justice exists in isolation, of course, and in I Can’t Breathe, Taibbi also examines the conditions that made this tragedy possible. Featuring vivid vignettes of life on the street and inside our Kafkaesque court system, Taibbi’s kaleidoscopic account illuminates issues around policing, mass incarceration, the underground economy, and racial disparity in law enforcement. No one emerges unsullied, from the conservative district attorney who half-heartedly prosecutes the case to the progressive mayor caught between the demands of outraged activists and the foot-dragging of recalcitrant police officials. A masterly narrative of urban America and a scathing indictme ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Hoffman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005256/bk_rand_005256_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Glazov's Legacy: Born Bratva, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 315min, (USK 18)
The Born Bratva legacy continues. Glazov remains obsessed with his Ptichka in this dark, twisted romance of unconventional love. His children have only served to bring out his dangerous nature as he continues to fight to remain on top as the feared Pakhan. "Daddy! Daddy!" I have faced every terror known to man. Every blood-curdling scream for mercy only sent me deeper into my dark state of being. Their agonized screams never moved me to feel pity, nor have they ever struck fear in my heart. This, though... this was different. The cry of a child, terrified and begging for a father who could no longer help him, raised my hackles for the first time in my screwed-up life. Somehow, I know that breaking through the barriers of fire and smoke and saving this boy will avenge me, and I will finally find the redemption I so desperately need. As if they have been summoned from the very portals of hell, flames are licking at us from every angle, but I will never forgive myself if I leave this boy to be swallowed up by the inferno. A wooden beam crashes down beside me and pulls me back into the moment. Quickly, I bend over and lift the child from a pile of soot-blackened debris to heave him over my shoulder. Once the boy is secure in my arms, I turn and immediately run toward the door. With every step, my lungs scream for the life-giving fresh air that looks so close, yet feels so far away. The boy's tiny fingers grip me tightly; one hand is hanging onto my leather gun holster, and the other is wrapped in the fabric of my shirt. When I dressed this morning, I certainly never anticipated this could be the day I die. The fire has burned through the walls in places, and sunlight beckons me through the cracks. The entire building threatens to cave in on us before we have the opportunity to crash through the door separating life from death. I will not die today. I plow through the wooden door, instinctively know ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samuel Valor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116633/bk_acx0_116633_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Haunted Forests: Hunted in the Undergrowth: Haunted Woods You Should Never Enter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 91min
Hunted in the Undergrowth: Haunted Woods You Should Never Enter. Forests and woods have been around for centuries. Simply look up at the trees themselves - notice how round they are, and think about how old they must be. Each of the trees that is reaching high into the sky has been standing in place for hundreds of years, and each one has seen more than you could ever hope to. But have these trees always witnessed good things? Have they always shared the air with things that we would want to know? Are there things they would tell us, but can't? And that is where this audiobook comes in. I want to take you on a journey through some of the most haunted woods on Earth. I want to show you some of the secrets that have been locked away for centuries, and I want to open the door, and shed light on some of the things you have only dreamt about in your nightmares. It's okay if you are skeptical, and it's okay if you aren't sure that you believe in the spirits of those who have passed and are still wandering on the planet today. By the time you reach the end of this audiobook, you will be certain, and you are going to know without a doubt, that there are entities on this planet that are trapped in space. I am going to show you another side to your weekend getaway, and you are going to come out of it with a new perspective on just what happens in the darkness of the forest. You might think you are standing in the middle of peace and quiet, when in fact you may be standing in the middle of the most agonized screams that continue to ring throughout history. Here's a preview of what's in this audiobook: The True Terror Behind Bloody Acres Little Demons of the Pryor Mountains The Eternal Prisoners of Freetown State Forest The Haunted Child of the Woods The Hidden Haunted Mine Shaft The Living Cemeteries of the Smokey Mountains And much, much more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Gilmore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/093538/bk_acx0_093538_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Redemption: The Protectors, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 487min, (USK 18)
My job is to save lives. But what if the one that needs saving is the one I was sent to take?At 33 years old, Phoenix Jones once had a stellar military career ahead of him. But when tragedy struck his family, he walked away from the path he’d chosen to be there for the one who needed him most. Except fate is a bitch and when she once again takes Phoenix’s future in the cruelest of ways, he must find a new path.When a former army buddy introduces him to Ronan Grisham, the leader of an underground vigilante group, Phoenix knows he’s found a new family and nothing and no one is going to take that from him again. So when Ronan asks him to shadow a young man who participated in a brutal crime against Ronan’s husband, Seth, when he was a child and appears to be targeting him again, Phoenix doesn’t even hesitate for a second.Even knowing what he must do if the young man proves to have gone back to his old ways.Because family is everything...I can’t come back from what I did. I’m not sure I even want to...An ugly childhood left Levi Deming with little to do but dream of a day when he’d be free of his tormenters so he could carve out a simple life for himself, preferably somewhere far away from the family who never let him forget he was less than human. But one terrible choice at the tender age of 16 changed everything...Wracked with guilt for the role he played during a home invasion gone horribly wrong, a now 24-year-old Levi is trying to piece together a life where he can maybe do a little bit of good, even knowing it won’t make up for the lives he helped take and it definitely won’t give back the future he stole from the young man whose agonized screams still haunt him night after night. If it were only about him, he’d walk into the nearest police station and happily tell them to lock him up and throw away the key.But it isn’t just about him anymore...I expected to find a hardened criminal. What I found wa ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Dean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/216240/bk_acx0_216240_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Piano Quartet/Trio
The Piano Quartet 'Beyond the Misty Doors of Memory' is about images from the past. In the first movement "The Old and Grey", the image is evoked of old people literally moving in the mists of their own memories while walking on a misty morning among big old trees, sitting down on a bench, wondering how it all used to be, and how it all came to be as it is. The second-part 'The Green-Walled Garden' is a homage to Zwaag's former home and childhood, memories of a child, and nostalgia over his lost youth. The third-part 'Variations' is on the theme of longing, recalling former times. It begins quietly, building up dramatically in tempo and through several 'variations' towards the end when the atmosphere becomes lighter, culminating in a resolute coda in which memories of the past re-emerge. The Piano Quartet was written as a counterpart of the Piano Trio. While the Piano Trio "Requiem" is about death, the Quartet is about life and memories of life. Life versus Death, are an important theme in the Zwaag's music, which can also be found in his compositions "The Pity of War", and in his First Symphony. In the summer of 2003 American troops under the command of President Bush attacked to depose the dictatorship of Sadam Hussain. Television screens were full of images of wounded and dying men, women, and children. With these images, the "Piano Trio Requiem" was composed. The opening melody is born out of Zwaag's aversion to the suffering of others. The hesitant, mourning tones of the violin are supported by the cello, plaintively finding their way, and climaxing together in an agonized cry, after which they die away to make place for the piano's death march. This is followed by a new theme, the main theme of the piece, which reappears in every movement. The repeat of the piano's death march brings the first movement to an end. The next movement starts as an explosion of outrage, we hear the main theme re-emerge in different moods, the desolate theme of the first movement reappears, followed by the renewed feelings of outrage. Implicit in the return of the theme are feelings of grief at the amount of injustice in the world. The dreamy third movement (andante sostenuto), is a song full of hope with some re-emergence of the main theme. The last movement gives the impression that Zwaag is looking for an optimistic conclusion, but the plaintive tones of the beginning demand to be heard and it is on this theme that the piece dies away. The circle is complete.- Shop: odax
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