30 Results for : elopes
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The Purple Land 1927 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 720min
First published in 1885, The Purple Land is a novel by Argentinian naturalist and author William Henry Hudson. It tells the story of a young Englishman called Richard Lamb who elopes with a teenage Argentinian girl to Uruguay. Once there, Lamb sets off to find work, but instead finds himself at the center of an epic adventure.This exciting and beautifully written pause-resister is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Hudson's wonderful work, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection.AWilliam Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an Argentinian naturalist, author, and ornithologist. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and is best known for his novel Green Mansions (1904). Other notable works include A Crystal Age (1887) and Far Away and Long Ago (1918), which has since been adapted into a film.Many vintage books, such as this, are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality audio edition, complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Larry Hughson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203372/bk_acx0_203372_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Legend , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 901min
A.D. 1270: An epic story of loss, love, and redemption. On the Seventh Crusade, Sir Alec Summerlin makes a horrible mistake that costs him everything. Once the greatest swordsman in the realm, he lays his weapon down and refuses to ever wield a broadsword again. Surrendering his spurs, he retires to his father's castle in self-imposed exile. His father, however, has other ideas for his greatest son and betroths him to a local ale heiress. The Lady Peyton de Fluornoy is as resistant to marriage as Alec is, but she gradually begins to warm to the man who has given up on life. Alec comes to know a lady of spirit, beauty, and intelligence. Before their marriage can happen, however, Alec's father is blackmailed by a neighbor who wants Peyton for his own son. Now deeply in love, Alec elopes with Peyton and an entirely new world of danger and passion opens up for them both. As the conflict with the neighbor heats up, deep and horrific secrets are revealed, and Peyton ends up in grave danger. Alec must recant his vow and draw his sword again to save the woman that he loves as The Legend is once again reborn. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian J. Gill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/018799/bk_acx0_018799_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Emerald Fire: The Jewel Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 372min
A terrifying past imprisoned Maxine Bartlett all her adult life, shackling her with fear anytime a man even touched her. In a spontaneous weekend, she unintentionally elopes with an unlikely groom. After a magical wedding night filled with love and passion, "Maxi" finally discards her dreadful chains. She doesn't know that her new husband has turned his back on God. Worried over how the world might see the completely unexpected - and some would certainly say inappropriate - marriage, in his pride, he promises Maxine a quiet annulment. Unwilling to let their marriage disappear as if it never happened, Maxine refuses to cooperate. Seeking God's will, she moves in with him and informs him that when he decides to act like her husband again, he will find his loving wife waiting for him right there in their home. As the days stretch into weeks, the newlyweds slowly begin to trust and even love each other. Then, just as they begin to live the happily ever after love story that neither of them ever dreamed could come true, a sudden and nightmarish catastrophe strikes that could wreck everything. Will her husband realize that he must trust God once more? Can he find peace and strength enough to carry them through the flames? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gene Rowley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106305/bk_acx0_106305_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Until You (eBook, ePUB)
Let New York Times bestselling author Judith McNaught who is in a class by herself (USA TODAY) sweep you off your feet and into another time with her sensual, passionate, and spellbinding historical romance classics, featuring her unique magic (RT Book Reviews)now available for the first time on ebook.In this unforgettable romantic adventure, a teacher of wealthy young ladies finds her life changed forever when she travels from the wilds of America to elegant London. Sheridan Bromleigh is hired to accompany one of her students, heiress Charise Lancaster, to England to meet her fiancé. But when her charge elopes with a stranger, Sheridan wonders how she will ever explain it to Charise's intended, Lord Burleton. Standing on the pier, Stephen Westmoreland, the Earl of Langford, assumes the young woman coming toward him is Charise Lancaster and reluctantly informs her of his inadvertent role in a fatal accident involving Lord Burleton the night before. And just as the young woman is about to speak, she steps into the path of a cargo net loaded with crates. Sheridan awakens in Westmoreland's mansion with no memory of who she is; the only hint of her past is the puzzling fact that everyone calls her Miss Lancaster. All she truly knows is that she is falling in love with a handsome English earl, and that the life unfolding before her seems full of wondrous possibilities.- Shop: buecher
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Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 526min
A wildly inventive new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates that charts the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours.... The New York Times has hailed Joyce Carol Oates as "a dangerous writer in the best sense of the word, one who takes risks almost obsessively with energy and relish."Black Dahlia & White Rose, a collection of 11 previously uncollected stories, showcases the keen rewards of Oates's relentless brio and invention. In one beautifully honed story after another, Oates explores the menace that lurks at the edges of and intrudes upon even the seemingly safest of lives - and maps with rare emotional acuity the transformational cost of such intrusions. Unafraid to venture into no-man's-lands both real and surreal, Oates takes readers deep into dangerous territory, from a maximum-security prison - vividly delineating the heartbreaking and unexpected atmosphere of such an institution - to the inner landscapes of two beautiful and mysteriously doomed young women in 1940s Los Angeles: Elizabeth Short, otherwise known as the Black Dahlia, victim of a long-unsolved and particularly brutal murder, and her roommate Norma Jeane Baker, soon to become Marilyn Monroe. Whether exploring the psychological compulsion of the wife of a well-to-do businessman who is ravished by, and elopes with, a lover who is not what he seems, or the uneasily duplicitous relationships between young women and their parents, Black Dahlia & White Rose explores the compelling intertwining of dread and desire, the psychic pull and trauma of domestic life, and resonates at every turn with Oates's mordant humor and her trenchant observation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia, Coleen Marlo, Tavia Gilbert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003104/bk_harp_003104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Three Women , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1032min
With its multiple first-person perspectives in the form of letters and journal entries, Three Women portrays the inner workings of a modern African family as they face common relationship, love, family, and life problems. A strong and reflective soul, Aduke is ostracized from her family when she is accused of witchcraft. Her daughter, Ibidun, confused and rebellious, is raised to distrust her, but after getting pregnant as a teenager, she is forced to seek out her mother for help. Compelled by circumstances, Ibidun is forced to leave her infant daughter in her mother’s care. The years pass as Aduke and her granddaughter, Oyinkan, two outcasts haunted by the fact they were born outside wedlock, become so close that it appears they merge into one being, governed by seemingly synchronic movements. However, as Oyinkan is on the threshold of adulthood at 12 years of age, her precarious world is shattered by the death of her beloved grandmother. Left bereft and alone in the world, Oyinkan must return to live with Ibidun, her mother, after more than a decade without her. Ibidun, now a self-effacing “new Nigerian woman” struggles to figure out how to introduce her illegitimate daughter into life with her new family. Her husband, Tonye, barely condones Oyinkan’s presence, and the young girl must learn how to live among half-siblings whom she’s never met and who do not even know she is their sister. Finally driven into the arms of the first man who finds her attractive, Kole, by constant neglect and abuse at her new family’s hands, Oyinkan elopes, but their lives are gradually dominated by Kole’s psychological baggage stemming from a childhood dominated by an abusive stepmother. Oyinkan’s hopes for a fresh start with her young son and husband does not materialize into the happiness for which she has always longed. Marriage only further compounds Oyinkan’s life. Exhausted and betrayed when her husband, Kole, like her grandfather and ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bunmi Oyinsan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131571/bk_acx0_131571_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lum & Abner, Volume 4, Hörbuch, Digital, 492min
I-grannies, Abner, I believe that's our ring. "I-doggies, Lum, I believe you're right." It's time for Lum 'n' Abner! Chester Lauck and Norris Goff are doin' the talkin' as Lum Edwards and Abner Peabody in 36 more digitally restored and remastered episodes. Their continuing escapades find friends getting cultured, getting sued, and getting drafted! How will the fellers pay the bills from their failed rocket project? Who did Cedric get himself engaged to? What is the Golden Era Discussion Club? Why are so many people leaving town? Come find out. Let's see what's going on down in Pine Ridge. Episodes include: Why Squire Was Arrested 11-19-42; Top Ten Chumps of 1942 11-23-42; Article on Rocket Project 11-24-42; Photos for Magazine Article 11-25-42; Lum Deposits Article Money 11-26-42; Mousey Gray Is Drafted 11-30-42; Preparing for Physical 12-01-42; Going-Away Party for Mousey 12-02-42; Mousey's Going-Away Party 12-03-42; Golden Era Discussion Club 12-07-42; First Discussion: Beethoven 12-08-42; Is Cedric Engaged? 12-09-42; Worried About Marriage 12-10-42; Club List and Wedding Mix-Up 12-14-42; Club Meets at Grandpap's 12-15-42; Cedric to Marry Tomorrow 12-16-42; Cedric Kidnapped at Wedding 12-17-42; Cedric Returns 12-21-42; Club Discusses Spinoza 12-22-42; Breach of Promise Suit 12-23-42; Special Christmas Story 12-24-42; Cedric's Trial Begins 12-28-42; Discussion of Mona Lisa 12-29-42,;Redfield's Testimony 12-30-42; Patriotic Speech at Trial 12-31-42; Wimpy Foster's Testimony 01-04-43; Club Discusses Garters 01-05-43; Wimpy Foster Is Drafted 01-06-43; Winifred Elopes with Doctor 01-07-43; Grand Prize on Pinball 01-11-43; Club at Cedric's House 01-12-43; Abner's Trading Fever 01-13-43; A Job for Pearl 01-14-43; Ulysses S. Quincy 01-18-43; Has Lum Gone Crazy? 01-19-43; Jot 'em Down Store History 01-20-43. Language: English. Narrator: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/001197/rt_radi_001197_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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