38 Results for : outstretched
-
A Zoo in My Luggage , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min
A Zoo in My Luggage is the colorful, first-hand account of Gerald Durrell's six-month animal-collecting trip in British Cameroon, and his attempts to create his own zoo. Motivated by a passion for wildlife, and a desire to save endangered species from extinction, Durrell assembles a glorious panoply of exotic animals - including a female baboon called Georgina, who later runs amok in a department store; a black-eared squirrel, who tries to bury nuts in his ear; and a gentlemanly chimpanzee named Chumly, who greets him with an outstretched hand. Aided by the Fon of Bafut, who houses the collection (and hosts many long and lively parties), Durrell amasses more than 250 animals. He struggles to find a home for the animals back in England, until a stroke of luck leads him to Jersey, and the eventual founding of Durrell Wildlife Park (now Jersey Zoo).PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rupert Degas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/001953/bk_naxo_001953_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Letters from the Ledge , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 603min
Still reeling from the suicide of his best friend Tess, seventeen-year old Brendan struggles to overcome addiction and identity issues. Walking the ledge outside his Manhattan apartment has become its own sort of drug, as he stands night after night with his arms outstretched, ready to fly away. Sarah can see him from her window, and begins journaling about a boy on a ledge. Paige and Nate, a young couple in another building, can see both teens from their fire escape. None of them know the others are watching, but a strong desire for freedom resides in each of them, and as their lives begin to intertwine, that desire will be tested. Three buildings. One city block. Three stories. One common thread. Sharp, humorous, and deeply layered, this chronicle of a suicidal teen's survival explores the reality of addiction and other tough issues, but does so easily, through the use of multiple perspectives, intelligent dialogue and authentic characters. Equal parts romance, contemporary drama, and coming of age, this highly engaging and intensely beautiful novel challenges our cultural perceptions in the battle for balance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jessica Lindsay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/018287/bk_acx0_018287_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Don McCullin: Through the Lens: Studies of Photographers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 13min
Armed American soldiers stand in the stone window frames of a ruined building in Berlin, curious and disturbing echoes of those classical statues that so often were used to add portentous significance to a facade; but here in a 1961 photograph by Don McCullin, they are overlooking, with some intensity, the East German military on the other side - the Wall has just been built. Chronicling another painful divide in 1964, McCullin photographed a distraught, silently screaming widow, a Turkish Cypriot victim of that civil war, restrained and held by other women, in an oddly dignified frozen tableau. In a 1968 photograph a US Marine pauses for thought, inadvertently echoing those renaissance paintings of meditating scholars, holding his helmet rather than a book - but this is a quiet moment in the battle for Hue. It is McCullin's photographs which helped to define the savage war in Vietnam for Britain, and beyond. Some is unbearably sad: a young North Vietnamese soldier, a casualty of Hue, stares sightlessly at the photographer, his hands outstretched to the detritus of his pockets, scattered on the earth beside the body - bullets and photographs of his family, wife, and babies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dana Brewer Harris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094728/bk_acx0_094728_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
The Friendship Upgrade: Trade Clickable Connections for Friendships That Matter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min
We've grown disconnected. Many of us live amidst strangers as we tally up Facebook friends - the new collectible you don't have to dust and settle for "soon"! It's often easier for an adult woman to find an online date than a real-life friend in her own neighborhood. The Friendship Upgrade illuminates the growing issue of personal isolation and equips women to exchange clickable connection for real time, face-to-face friendships. Through the deeply personal stories of real women, it examines our varied routes to isolation - divorce, an emptied nest, increased mobility - as well as the impact of technology, over-efficient living, and the patterned choices that can root us in chronic loneliness. More importantly, this book provides both a road map to create anchoring connections and a model for building community with the disconnected "you go first" women around us who are silently hoping for the same outstretched hand. Women need friendship - not in an unhealthy, life-preserver sort of way but in the organically good capacity of illuminating growth lights. In the right light, solid female friendships counterbalance the uneven weight of major life transitions and help us be our best selves, and often, better people than we dreamed we might be. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather Dugan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164968/bk_acx0_164968_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Hands: What We Do with Them - and Why , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 194min
Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Hands, written and read by Darian Leader. A fresh, thought-provoking and wide-ranging study of how mankind uses its hands. Why do zombies walk with their arms outstretched? How can newborn babies grip an adult finger tightly enough to dangle unsupported from it? And why is everyone constantly texting, tapping and scrolling? For anyone curious about how human beings work, the answers are hidden in plain sight: in our hands. From early tools to machinery, from fists to knives to guns, from papyrus to QWERTY to a swipeable screen, the history of civilisation is a history of what humans do with their hands. We have always kept our hands occupied, and if mankind's story is marked out by profound changes in how we use our hands, it is also marked by underlying patterns that never change. And as much as the things we do with our hands reflect our psychological state, they can also change that state profoundly.... Drawing examples from popular culture, art history, psychoanalysis, modern technology and clinical research, Darian Leader presents a unique and fascinating odyssey through the history of what human beings do with their hands - and why. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darian Leader. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000765/bk_pauk_000765_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Leg Lover , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min, (USK 18)
Peering at me through her smoky veil, she raised one imperious eyebrow. 'I have a hunch you are eager to touch my legs.'I sunk to my knees before her outstretched foot. I watched my hands approach the delicate black nylon on her slick legs and the shiny onyx of her patent shoes. Gently, I stroked four finger tips down the seam at the back of her calf muscle to the round, slippery heel of her stiletto. Then I opened my palm and cupped her lower leg. Stroked it and inhaled the perfume she had sprayed down her shin."This, the first novel written exclusively about a male leg fetish, is the intense story of one man's total and lifelong enthusiasm for women's legs, feet, and their accessories. A highly detailed and intensely erotic love story about shapely legs, painted toenails, sheer hosiery, high heels, and the women who enchant and tease while presenting their legs to catch the eye and arouse the helpless devotee.This is not only an epic journey to the extremities of leg adoration, but the very first book in the new Nexus Enthusiast imprint - an original series that will explore, reveal, and tantalise the reader with the most highly detailed fetish fiction actually written by genuine enthusiasts for genuine enthusiasts. This is as kinky as fiction can possibly get! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nelson J. Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/virg/000010/bk_virg_000010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Lone Stars , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 366min
An uplifting story about role models, football, and tackling fear set in the heart of Friday Night Lights country - from the best-selling author of Heat, Travel Team, and Fantasy League. Clay is a quarterback's dream. When he zips across the field, arms outstretched, waiting for the ball to sail into his hands, there's no denying him the catch. Like most Texans, Clay is never more at home than when playing football. And his coach, a former star player for the Dallas Cowboys, is just like a second father. But as the football season kicks off, Clay begins to notice some odd behavior from his coach - lapses in his memory and strange mood swings. The conclusion is painful, but obvious: Coach Cooper is showing side effects of the many concussions he sustained during his playing days. As Clay's season wears on, it becomes clear that the real victory will be to help his coach walk onto that famous star logo in the middle of Cowboys Field one last time - during a Thanksgiving Day ceremony honoring him and his former Super Bowl-winning teammates. In Lone Stars, number-one New York Times best seller Mike Lupica demonstrates once again that there is no children's sports novelist today who can match his ability to weave a story of vivid sports action and heartfelt emotion. A touching story that proves life is bigger than a game. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Stechschulte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/002349/bk_lili_002349_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Stephanie: One of God's Wonder Kids , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 152min
A young girl. A shocking and terrible illness. An emotional roller-coaster that has a community holding on for dear life.Stephanie: One of God’s Wonder Kids is the story of a young girl suddenly afflicted by that most pernicious and arbitrary ailment: cancer. It is the story of her family, who hold on to her, hold on to each other, and hold on to God throughout the most painful ordeal that any parent has faced. It is the story of her friends and community who love and support her as she struggles to understand what is happening to her and why. Listen to the inspirational story of Stephanie’s life, told in the words of her mother, family, and other friends. How do we hold on through the worst storms the devil can throw at us? Where do we go for solace? To whom can we cling? The Leber family had to face these questions and others, and they are not alone. If you have struggled with finding meaning and solace in the face of overwhelming trials, may this story bless and encourage you to always hold on to the outstretched hand of Jesus.This audiobook in your hands is not about death. This audiobook is about life. This audiobook is about faith. This audiobook is about a family that held on to God and to a young girl through the worst tragedy that can possibly strike humans. This audiobook is about love. This audiobook is about hope. This audiobook is about Stephanie. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: April McIntire Barrow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144377/bk_acx0_144377_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 764min
From the best-selling author of 1177 B.C., a comprehensive history of archaeology - from its amateur beginnings to the cutting-edge science it is today. In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, "I see wonderful things". Carter's fabulous discovery is just one of the many spellbinding stories told in Three Stones Make a Wall. Written by Eric Cline, an archaeologist with more than 30 seasons of excavation experience, Three Stones Make a Wall traces the history of archaeology from an amateur pursuit to the cutting-edge science it is today by taking the listener on a tour of major archaeological sites and discoveries, from Pompeii to Petra, Troy to the Terracotta Warriors, and Mycenae to Megiddo and Masada. Cline brings to life the personalities behind these digs, including Heinrich Schliemann, the former businessman who excavated Troy, and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries advanced our understanding of human origins. The discovery of the peoples and civilizations of the past is presented in vivid detail, from the Hittites and Minoans to the Inca, Aztec, and Moche. Along the way, the book addresses the questions archaeologists are asked most often: How do you know where to dig? How are excavations actually done? How do you know how old something is? Who gets to keep what is found? Taking listeners from the pioneering digs of the 18th century to the exciting new discoveries being made today, Three Stones Make a Wall is a lively and essential introduction to the story of archaeology. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: LJ Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031165/bk_adbl_031165_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
-
Blade of Empire (eBook, ePUB)
FROM THE AUTHORS OF NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS WHEN DARKNESS FALLS AND THE PHOENIX TRANSFORMED, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER TO LIGHT A CANDLEThey thought the war was over. They were wrong.Runacarendalur Caerthalien has been a master of battle for hundreds of years, but he found himself on the wrong side-the losing side-in the last war. Betrayed by his brother, trapped in a prophecy he does not understand, Runacar flees the battlefield.Yet Runacar is no coward. In a twist he could never have imagined, the Elven War-Prince finds himself leading a new army into battle-a force of centaurs, merfolk, gryphons, minotaurs, and talking bears who can perform magic. For centuries they have been trying to reclaim their lands from Elven invaders. With Runacar at the helm, they just might manage it. Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory's first collaboration, the Obsidian Mountain trilogy, introduced readers to a brilliant, continent-spanning fantasy world of high adventure and epic battle. Civilization shimmered with magic while in the nooks and crannies of the world, dragons and unicorns hid from people who believed them to be nothing more than legends.The Dragon Prophecy, set thousands of years before that story, illuminates a time when long-lived Elves rule the Fortunate Lands. It is a time of dire prophecy, of battle and bloodshed, of great magics unlike any the Elvenkind have seen before. It is the story of the end of one world and the beginning of the next.The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy#1 The Outstretched Shadow#2 To Light a Candle#3 When Darkness FallsThe Enduring Flame Trilogy#1 The Phoenix Unchained#2 The Phoenix Endangered#3 The Phoenix Transformed The Dragon Prophecy Trilogy#1 Crown of Vengeance#2 Blade of EmpireAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.- Shop: buecher
- Price: 4.99 EUR excl. shipping