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Perfect Timing: Cutter's Creek, Book 17 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 286min
The Pershing sisters expected to have made good matches for themselves by now. Being daughters of the mayor should have put them in good position to snag the most eligible and promising young men in Cutter's Creek. So far, their prospects look slim. Mary was determined to marry before her younger sister. She couldn't allow the disgrace of being second choice when she was the oldest, prettiest, and most stylish of the two. This spring would be the perfect time to get her future set with the appropriate husband to give her the life she deserved.June's concern about getting married had waned. She no longer thought that a husband was her ticket to a happy and successful life. While she wasn't closed to love, she just didn't expect to find it - especially when her dreams were starting to drift toward a career that her family wasn't supportive of.Zeke Miller has just come back to Cutter's Creek. He's finished college and decided it was time to go back home to be with his widowed mother - even if it was just for a short time. He knew he'd be able to find some sort of work to help him make a little money to set him up for the next phase of his life.Zeke finds himself in quite a unique situation. Meeting beautiful sisters from a prominent family was causing him joy and pain. How would he handle this situation delicately and still get what he wanted? And was he really sure Cutter's Creek was the place for him? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: HotGhost Productions. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179145/bk_acx0_179145_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Golden Sky , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 504min
The night I met Cade I never would've thought that two years later, after we were homeless street musicians in Hawaii, we would have a little girl and another baby on the way. Our son was born with the type of birth defects that make televangelists cringe. As his health waned, my own breath evaded me, as if I was the one who needed the ventilator for life support. The death home gave him a really nice funeral, the kind I'd never wished to attend. When they tried closing his casket, I nearly fell on my face, not wanting them to shut the lid on my baby. We lost it after that, totally cemented in our grief. Cade got into drugs, joined a rock and roll band, and even grew out his damn hair. At the time, I was sick of the oatmeal option (the only food we had), so I kicked Cade out of the house, and started modeling and working as a diesel mechanic. That was how I met Earl, an old man and unlikely best friend; the "Big Sag," a middle aged woman who still flashed folks; and "The Cowboy" a man who fell in love with me. It was slow at first, but Cade reverted to the man I'd busked with years before. It wasn't until I killed a rogue skunk, and my daughter nearly choked on a fry, that I gave my husband another chance. But could our marriage recover from the death of our son? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexandra G. Haag. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/007843/bk_acx0_007843_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Abydos: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian Holy City and Burial Site , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 105min
The city of Abydos was the most important political city in ancient Egypt’s “Archaic” or Early Dynastic Period, which encompassed the first two dynasties of Egyptian history (ca. 3100-2650 BC). All of the kings of the First Dynasty and two of the kings of the Second Dynasty are believed to have resided in the nearby, but as of yet unlocated, city of Thinis and were buried in the necropolis of Abydos, making it one of the holiest sites in early pharaonic history. After the Archaic Period, Abydos lost much of its political influence to Memphis, Thebes, and other cities, but retained its significance by becoming an important religious center. Beginning in the Old Kingdom (ca. 2686-2181 BC), the first major temples were built near the city, attracting priests and pilgrims alike, but it was in the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2055-1650 BC) when Abydos became the center of the Osiris cult. As the importance and popularity of Osiris grew throughout Egypt, so too did the city. Several kings in the New Kingdom (ca. 1550-1069 BC) and Late Period built mortuary temples to their own cults and added to the existing monuments to Osiris in order to ensure their immortality and to prove their piousness to their people. Eventually, though, when the Greeks took control of Egypt, the importance of Abydos waned and so too did its size.Abydos: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian Holy City and Burial Site examines the history of the city, and what life and death were like there. You will learn about Abydos like never before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143739/bk_acx0_143739_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sandcastles: A Novel, Hörbuch, Digital, 304min
Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters, Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia, at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent school's beautiful seaside campus, over which Honor's sister-in-law, mother superior Bernadette Ignatius, keeps a benevolent and watchful eye. No one could have foreseen the day rebellious Regis would come home with the stunning news that she was getting married. Nor could anyone have guessed how that sudden announcement would soon change all their lives forever. Eleven years ago, Honor thought she had the perfect home, the perfect love, the perfect life. Then her husband, brilliant photographer and sculptor John Sullivan, broke her heart, and tore their little family apart. Now, hearing of Regis's impending marriage, John has ended his self-imposed exile and returned to the family he's always loved more than anything on earth. What he finds is one daughter still hurting over his abandonment, another who barely remembers him, and a third who may be in more trouble than anyone knows. And then there is Honor herself, and a passion that may have been interrupted but that has never waned. Some things, like sandcastles, don't survive the changing tides. But love, family, and friendship, just as fragile, have a way of standing against anything. It will take nothing short of a miracle to heal the rift between father and daughter, husband and wife, the past and the present, but a miracle is exactly what is in the works at Star of the Sea Academy. The only question is: Do you believe? Language: English. Narrator: Blair Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000851/bk_rand_000851_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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What I Had Before I Had You: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min
Written in radiant prose and with stunning psychological acuity, award-winning author Sarah Cornwell's What I Had Before I Had You is a deeply poignant story that captures the joys and sorrows of growing up and learning to let go. Olivia Reed was fifteen when she left her hometown of Ocean Vista on the Jersey Shore. Two decades later, divorced and unstrung, she returns with her teenage daughter, Carrie, and nine-year-old son, Daniel, recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Distracted by thoughts of the past, Olivia fails to notice when Daniel disappears from her side. Her frantic search for him sparks memories of the summer of 1987, when she exploded out of the cocoon of her mother's fierce, smothering love and into a sudden, full-throttle adolescence, complete with dangerous new friends, first love, and a rebellion so intense that it utterly recharted the course of her life. Olivia's mother, Myla, was a practicing psychic whose powers waxed and waned along with her mercurial moods. Myla raised Olivia to be a guarded child, and also to believe in the ever-present infant ghosts of her twin sisters, whom Myla took care of as if they were alive - diapers, baby food, an empty nursery kept like a shrine. At fifteen, Olivia saw her sisters for the first time, not as ghostly infants but as teenagers on the beach. But when Myla denied her vision, Olivia set out to learn the truth - a journey that led to shattering discoveries about herself and her family. Sarah Cornwell seamlessly weaves together the past and the present in this riveting debut novel, as she examines the relationships between mothers and daughters, and the powerful forces of loss, family history, and magical thinking. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003802/bk_harp_003802_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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American Legends: The Life of John Wayne , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 86min
Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West - the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it. - John Wayne A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Hollywood has produced no shortage of famous movie stars, but none have been as culturally significant as John Wayne. Marion Morrison was born in a quintessentially quaint Midwestern town, but he eventually grew up to become John Wayne, the legend of the silver screen who embodied the Western frontier. Wayne starred in so many movies (nearly 150 in all) that when asked to name his worst, he joked that 50 of them were tied, but the excessive number allowed Wayne to portray heroes of all stripes, from cowboys to soldiers, and he was invariably charming, courageous, and full of rugged, masculine swagger. Even as Westerns have certainly waned in popularity, Wayne himself has remained immensely popular, in part because he set the prototype for the heroic character, regardless of genre. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. Keith Miles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032951/bk_acx0_032951_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1319min
For decades, hidden from the public eye, William Morris agents made the deals that determined the fate of stars, studios, and networks alike. Mae West, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Danny Thomas, Steve McQueen--the Morris Agency sold talent to anyone in the market for it, from the Hollywood studios to the mobsters who ran Vegas to the Madison Avenue admen who controlled television. While the clients took the spotlight, the agency operated behind the scenes, providing the grease that made show business what it's become. The story begins more than a century ago, when a fiery young immigrant named William Morris opened a vaudeville-booking office on New York's Fourteenth Street and went up against the trust that ruled the leading entertainment medium of the day. Led after Morris's death by the legendary Abe Lastfogel, a cherubic little man who treated agents and clients alike as family, the firm transformed the agent's image from garish flesh-peddler to smooth-talking professional. But when Lastfogel's successor brutally sacrificed his best friend--the man who'd brought Barry Diller and Michael Ovitz out of the mail room--William Morris gave birth to its own nemesis: Ovitz's new firm, CAA. Throughout the '80s and '90s, as the Morris Agency made, and lost, such stars as Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Kevin Costner and Tom Hanks, Ovitz's power grew inexorably as Morris's waned. Lulled by the phenomenal success of Bill Cosby and the upward spiral of the Beverly Hills real estate market, Morris's board failed to act as death and defection thinned its ranks. Finally, with its flagship motion-picture department on the brink of collapse, the board was faced with the stark reality of having to buy its way back into the business it had once owned. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marlin May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013337/bk_acx0_013337_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mao Zedong: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Chairman of the Communist Party of China, the Cultural Revolution and the Political Theory of Maoism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 122min
Explore the captivating life of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong is recognized alongside Chiang Kai-Shek and Sun Yat-Sen as one of the most influential figures of modern Chinese history. His political control of the nation waned during his later years, but he remained the Chairman of the Community Party of China since it was established in 1949 to the day he died on September 9, 1976. As the founding father of the People’s Republic of China and the centerpiece of one of the world’s most intense personality cults, the extent of his influence is difficult to understate. Today, Mao’s legacy can inspire slavish devotion, outright condemnation, as well as, a hesitance to look too closely at the negative aspects of his legacy. The fact that his influence spanned over nearly three decades also makes it difficult to arrive at a holistic understanding of his impact on China. The official line from the Community Party of China, which was popularized by Deng Xiaoping, is that Mao was “70 percent correct and 30 percent wrong”. This biography details Mao’s remarkable journey from being the son of a peasant to one of modern history’s greatest - and highly polarizing - leaders. It aims to provide a better understanding of Mao as a person and to try to unpack the personality traits and personal experiences that shaped his worldview and actions. Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include: Early life Political awakenings Beijing May Fourth and the New Culture Movement The Communist Party of China’s growing pains The Northern expedition Communists at large The Long March The People’s Republic of China The Great Leap Forward The Cultural Revolution What Did Maoism stand for? And much more! Get the audiobook now and learn more about Mao Zedong! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Duke Holm. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114484/bk_acx0_114484_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Poisoned Wells (eBook, ePUB)
Between 1348 and 1350, Jews throughout Europe were accused of having caused the spread of the Black Death by poisoning the wells from which the entire population drank. Hundreds if not thousands were executed from Aragon and southern France into the eastern regions of the German-speaking lands. But if the well-poisoning accusations against the Jews during these plague years are the most frequently cited of such cases, they were not unique. The first major wave of accusations came in France and Aragon in 1321, and it was lepers, not Jews, who were the initial targets. Local authorities, and especially municipal councils, promoted these charges so as to be able to seize the property of the leprosaria, Tzafrir Barzilay contends. The allegations eventually expanded to describe an international conspiracy organized by Muslims, and only then, after months of persecution of the lepers, did some nobles of central France implicate the Jews, convincing the king to expel them from the realm.In Poisoned Wells Barzilay explores the origins of these charges of well poisoning, asks how the fear took root and moved across Europe, which groups it targeted, why it held in certain areas and not others, and why it waned in the fifteenth century. He argues that many of the social, political, and environmental factors that fed the rise of the mass poisoning accusations had already appeared during the thirteenth century, a period of increased urbanization, of criminal poisoning charges, and of the proliferation of medical texts on toxins. In studying the narratives that were presented to convince officials that certain groups committed well poisoning and the legal and bureaucratic mechanisms that moved rumors into officially accepted and prosecutable crimes, Barzilay has written a crucial chapter in the long history of the persecution of European minorities.- Shop: buecher
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Double or Nothing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 666min, (USK 18)
There’s something about the LaVignes....From the outside looking in, they seemingly have it all....The perfect house.The perfect family.The perfect life....Until Solana McBride’s body is found, and they’re the only suspects.The wife.Marcombi “Mars” LaVigne, a quirky artist teetering on the edge of reclusion, has managed to turn her slew of odd hobbies into a lucrative career. Recognized for her creative free hand and unique eye, Mars’ innate ability to bring “art to life” has rewarded her with accolades unimaginable until a new project places a microscope over her past. The talent Mars considers a blessing turns into a curse overnight when she’s forced to confront her fears. A deeper look reveals a new perspective that may put her conscience at ease, but after being blindsided by the train wreck in her marriage, she’s left wondering if her husband was ever the man he claimed to be.The husband.Passionate and supportive, Dreux LaVigne is the knight in shining armor every girl dreams of and the man every woman wants. Indebted to the oath he exchanged at the altar, Dreux’s love for Mars has never waned. Impulsive and overly ambitious at times, Dreux finds purpose in providing for his family and is willing to do anything to keep a smile on his wife’s face...even if it's at the expense of hurting others.Every marriage has its ebbs and flows, but after five long years, Marcombi and Dreux are finally at peace, despite the turbulence around them. Relationships have always been a gamble for Mars, but her love and honor go unquestioned when Dreux decides to venture into murky waters....“For better or worse...for richer or poorer.” Will the LaVigne’s vows remain unbroken once Mars’ secrets emerge from the shadows and Dreux’s bad habits resurface at a deadly cost? What happens when you look the love of your life in the eyes and there’s a stranger staring back at you?In Double or Nothing ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tisha Larice. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213275/bk_acx0_213275_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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