23 Results for : lurching
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This Dark Earth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 554min
The land is contaminated, electronics are defunct, the ravenous undead remain, and life has fallen into a nasty and brutish state of nature. Welcome to Bridge City, in what was once Arkansas: part medieval fortress, part Western outpost, and the precarious last stand for civilization.A 10-year-old prodigy when the world ended, Gus is now a battle-hardened young man. He designed Bridge City to protect the living few from the shamblers eternally at the gates. Now, he's being groomed by his physician mother, Lucy, and the gentle giant, Knock-Out, to become the next leader of men. But an army of slavers is on its way, and the war they'll wage for the city's resources could mean the end of mankind as we know it.Can Gus become humanity's savior? And if so, will it mean becoming a dictator, a martyr...or maybe something far worse than even the zombies that plague the land?"This smart addition to the zombie genre is heroic and strangely hopeful, championing the unyielding human drive for justice and civilization." (Publishers Weekly)"This Dark Earth is a smart, thoughtful look at the end of humanity that delivers horrifying detail packed with an emotional resonance. It's The Road meets World War Z. Deftly written, with eloquent prose peppered with crisp, dark humor, Jacobs crafts a chillingly believable tale that transcends genre fiction and manages to do what I long for whenever I sit down to read a book: make me wish I'd written it." (Scott G. Browne, author of Breathers and Lucky Bastard)"A savage gut-punch of a tale, lurching hellbent to a spectacular showdown ending unparalleled in the zombie canon." (Sophie Littlefield, author of Aftertime and Rebirth)"This Dark Earth is, quite simply, the best zombie novel I've read in years. Breathes some much-needed new life into the dead." (Brian Keene, best-selling author of The Rising and Ghoul)/ ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167434/bk_acx0_167434_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Splinters in Time: The Time Bubble, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min
Getting lost in the wrong time was bad enough. But things get far worse for Josh Gardner when he can't even find his way back to his own universe. When his ex-girlfriend, Lauren, starts having recurring nightmares about a strange alternate reality in which she was murdered, Josh becomes interested in proving the existence of other universes. Finding a focal point in the past from which thousands of new universes seem to stem, he travels back in time to find out how they were created. Unfortunately, he ends up causing the very event that he went back to investigate. Cast adrift in the multiverse, he no longer has any control over where and when he will end up. With each jump sending him further and further back in time, he finds himself lurching from one alternate universe to another, some similar to his own, others drastically different. He has but one hope - to find an alter ego in another universe to help him find his way home. But in worlds ravaged by wars and diseases, in many cases it becomes a battle just to stay alive.Splinters in Time is the fourth novel in The Time Bubble series. The story continues in the fifth volume, Class of '92. A spin-off series, Second Chances, is also available.Want to know more about the author? You can find him at:Website: jasonayres.co.ukFacebook: facebook.com/TheTimeBubble/Twitter @TheTimeBubble ***What listeners are saying about Splinters in Time...."Superb series seems to get better the longer it goes." (Ozzie2920 on Amazon UK)"Really enjoyable addition to the series. If you like time travel books this is as good as it gets. And more to come hopefully." (itjustmyopinion on Amazon UK)"I've read all of these books and I think it's remarkable how Jason tied it all together. The way he manages to write them all as stand alone books and for together in this way is pure genius. Thanks Jason for writi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karena Gregory. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194582/bk_acx0_194582_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1135min
Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of the event that changed 20th-century America - Pearl Harbor - based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times best-selling author. The America we live in today was born not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when almost 400 Japanese planes attacked the US Pacific Fleet, killing 2,400 men and sinking or damaging 16 ships. In Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness, Craig Nelson follows, moment by moment, the sailors, soldiers, pilots, admirals, generals, emperors, and presidents, all starting with a pre-polio assistant secretary of the navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, attending the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, against the backdrop of the imperial, military, and civilian leaders of Japan lurching into ultranationalist fascism, all culminating in an insanely daring scheme to shock the Allies with a technologically revolutionary mission in one of the boldest military stories ever told - one with consequences that continue to echo in our lives today. Besides the little-understood history of how and why Japan attacked America, we can hear the abandoned record player endlessly repeating "Sunrise Serenade" as the Japanese bombs hit the deck of the California; we feel terror as navy wives, helped by their Japanese maids, upturn couches for cover and hide with their children in caves from a rumored invasion; and we understand the mix of frustration and triumph as a lone American teenager shoots down a Japanese bomber. Backed by a research team's five years of efforts with archives and interviews, producing nearly a million pages of documents, as well as a thorough reexamination of the original evidence produced by federal investigators, this definitive history provides a blow-by-blow account from both the Japanese and American perspectives and is a historical drama on the gre ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007624/bk_sans_007624_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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