63 Results for : naivety
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The Omega Hunt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 524min
I thought the she-wolf games couldn’t get worse....But I was wrong. Extremely wrong.I feel as if I know nothing. Hell, half of the wolves of Lulupoterra know nothing. Our naivety will leave us weak, broken, and at the mercy of powerful witches. Our species will be collared or killed off until only those compliant to the five covens that have been protecting the wolf packs for over a century remain.I can’t fathom the thought. I will not let everything my dad sacrificed for me to rise up and fight to go to waste. Now, with our enemies in plain sight, my pack mates and I will show them we won’t be broken. I will not participate in these twisted games of control. No witch can turn me into someone else’s prey.So bring on The Omega Hunt. I’m ready to show all of the wolves who I am. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Auri Alden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226788/bk_acx0_226788_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Debt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 512min
Sally was drowning in debt, the type of debt with no way out. Her naivety and kind nature had led to her being taken advantage of at every turn. The lawyer for the card company added to her debt before pursuing her. He had his own secrets and issues, but he made her heart race and her body respond. Should she choose him, or his bitter rival, a complex and fascinating man who'd take great delight in breaking up her burgeoning romance, convincing Sally he was the better man? She had to learn the hard way that rich men are ruthless; play in their world at your own risk. Sometimes, when your back's against the wall, being a good girl is a luxury. Which one is a knight in shining armor and which one is the devil incarnate? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nina Nato. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062600/bk_acx0_062600_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Delphine and the Dangerous Arrangement , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 353min
Delphine Delacroix has lived the life of bird in a gilded cage, kept in a stately home with only her cold autocratic mother for company. At her mother’s death, she finds herself to be a wealthy woman and comes to London to be fretted over by her three maternal aunts determined to have her marry well. But Delphine feels she is once more having to hand herself over to another’s will and seeks to be the mistress of her own destiny. But she recognizes she has none of the skills needed to steer herself through the shoals of fortune hunters who wish to marry her. Aware of her own naivety and not trusting her aunts, she recruits a rake to help her. Viscount Titus Gascoigne is her choice, and he agrees, but will their dangerous agreement prosper? Or will it be discovered and prove scandalous? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rafe Beckley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118813/bk_acx0_118813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Feast Days , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 370min
So. We were Americans abroad. We weren’t the doomed travellers in a Paul Bowles novel, and we weren’t the idealists or the malarial, religion-damaged burnouts in something by Greene; but we were people far from home nevertheless. Our naivety didn’t have political consequences. We had GPS in our smartphones. I don’t think we were alcoholics. Our passports were in the same drawer as our collection of international adapters, none of which seemed to fit in Brazilian wall sockets. My husband was in the chrysalis stage of becoming a rich man, and idealism was never my vice.I was ancillary - a word that comes from the Latin for ‘having the status of a female slave’. That’s the sort of thing I know, and it tells you something about how I misspent my education. The term among expats for people like me was ‘trailing spouse’.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/004022/bk_hcuk_004022_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Exiled Otherkin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 360min
Staying on the move is all half-Fae Ember can think about when she is stripped of her magic and exiled from Faerie. The human realm is completely foreign to the home she had known centuries before. Her new job on the merchant airship is dangerous, but not nearly as life-threatening as staying within reach of the queen of Faerie. Besides, she’s always been able to handle any trouble thrown her way with a snide comment, a swift kick, and an apathy that protects her from caring about anyone or anything. When the optimistic Reilley follows her, she tries to ditch the bothersome man. But it isn’t long before his naivety, and his own penchant for trouble, makes her feel responsible for him. Faeries, pirates, and traveling players meet in this steampunk fantasy adventure as Ember tries to cope with feelings long forgotten and a past that pursues her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tristan Wright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105883/bk_acx0_105883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Who You Think I Am , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 329min
In a vertiginous play of mirrors between fantasy and virtual reality, Camille Laurens relates the dangerous liaisons of a woman who refuses to give up on desire. This is the story of Claire Millecam, a 48 year-old teacher and divorcee, who creates a fake social media profile to try to keep tabs on Jo, her occasional, elusive, and inconstant lover. Under the false identity of Claire Antunes, a young and beautiful 24 year-old, she starts a correspondence with Chris - pseudonym KissChris - which soon turns into an Internet love affair. Who You Think I Am is a true novel of our times that brilliantly exposes the disconnect between desire and fantasy. Social media allows us to put ourselves on display, to indulge in secrets, but above all it allows us to lie, to recreate a life, to become our own fiction - a mixture of sentimental naivety and manipulative perversity which echoes the libertine novels of the 18th century. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eileen Stevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029103/bk_adbl_029103_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fiestas and Siestas Miles Apart , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 386min
Ever wondered how easy it would be to start new life in a different country? Fiestas and Siestas Miles Apart is a humorous look at what happened to the Cuthbertson family, Alan and Heather along with daughters Stacey and Ashlie when they decide to sell everything, including the family stationery business, load the family car and move from England to Spain. Unfortunately half way through the process the girls have other ideas and take off on their own adventure across Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand. The naivety of the un-streetwise pair is shown in the emails and texts received by their parents, who themselves are finding Spanish life a very steep learning curve. Who knew fried sparrow was a delicacy? And Alan's first hunting trip is not a completely successful expedition, but a very funny one. Eventually the Cuthbertson family finds the house and village of their dreams, but this is just the beginning of their adventures in Spain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Southworth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/061980/bk_acx0_061980_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Challenge , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 615min
He's her patient. She's his doctor. They shouldn't. But God, do they want to. Camden Harris, the famously hot, hulk of a footballer is laid up in a London hospital. But his busted knee doesn't stop him from running his well-practiced game on Indie Porter - his redheaded spitfire of a doctor. She's not his type, not even close. But she could be the perfect distraction from the soul-crushing damage this injury could cost him. Indie's tired of her naivety putting a target on her back. As a gifted child, she's let her education take the front seat her whole life. But a fling with a footballer like Camden might be just what she needs to grab life by the balls. And he could be the perfect guy for the plan she's been sitting on for over two years. But when feelings make a final play, there's no amount of medicine that can heal the damage to their hearts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will M. Watt, Charlotte Cole, Martin Foster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078365/bk_acx0_078365_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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My Name Was Mickey Mantle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 457min
For boys and girls growing up playing baseball in the 50s and 60s, one player stood out above all others - Mickey Mantle. Millions of kids copied his batting stance, ran the bases like he did, and pretended to be him on the sandlot, schoolyards, and Little League fields all across the country. But for one young boy that fantasy went far beyond just pretending and believing - convincing himself that indeed, he was, Mickey Mantle. My Name Was Mickey Mantle is a coming-of-age story highlighting the naivety of youth, the trials and tribulations in growing up, and the realization that our bigger-than-life heroes may not be heroes at all. With far-reaching implications spread over 50 years, My Name Was Mickey Mantle takes the listener on an engaging and sometimes unbelievable journey from the sandlots of Binghamton, New York, and ending on the hallowed grounds of the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marlin May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116359/bk_acx0_116359_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Risk Management in Turbulent Times (eBook, PDF)
The subprime crisis has shown that the sophisticated risk management models used by banks and insurance companies had serious flaws. Some people even suggest that these models are completely useless. Others claim that the crisis was just an unpredictable accident that was largely amplified by the lack of expertise and even naivety of many investors. This book takes the middle view. It shows that these models have been designed for "tranquil times", when financial markets behave smoothly and efficiently. However, we are living in more and more "turbulent times": large risks materialize much more often than predicted by "normal" models, financial models periodically go through bubbles and crashes. Moreover, financial risks result from the decisions of economic actors who can have incentives to take excessive risks, especially when their remunerations are ill designed. The book provides a clear account of the fundamental hypotheses underlying the most popular models of risk management and show that these hypotheses are flawed. However it shows that simple models can still be useful, provided they are well understood and used with caution.- Shop: buecher
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