181 Results for : crackling
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D-Day Broadcast: 24-Hour Continuous Broadcast Day on June 6, 1944, Hörbuch, Digital, 1327min
Relive D-day for the first time! From the opening reports of paratroop landings by German broadcasters to the evening prayer of President Roosevelt, listen to each heart-stopping hour of live broadcasting from one of the most momentous days of the 20th century. The Allies have landed at Normandy! A 4,000-ship armada! Heavy bombardments! Paratroopers! You will hear 24 full hours of crackling reports from London Radio; Eisenhower's Order of the Day and his personal message to the troops; the King of England; live recordings from troop boats, reconnaissance planes, paratroop transport planes, and the signal bridge of a naval vessel; live reports from the House of Representatives and the White House; and more! It's all here - the complete broadcast day of June 6, 1944. Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009997/bk_blak_009997_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Burned , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 197min
Join London's hottest martial arts gym now! Every girl needs some self-defense. But at Fit and Physical, you'll learn martial arts and get fit at the same time. Look great, feel better, and kick a little butt! Check out one-on-one personal training with our favorite karate black belt, Rosie Miller. She loves her job and the world of martial arts, and her life is just...well, brilliant. Trainer and martial artist Rosie Miller's zen is seriously compromised when Hunter Black - her former coach and lover - becomes her new boss. With all the sexual energy still crackling between them, her poor little zen doesn't stand a chance. So this time Rosie is determined to do more than put up self-defense. She and Hunter are going to play by her rules.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harl/001804/bk_harl_001804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sunset Limited, Hörbuch, Digital, 321min
The forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader named Jack Flynn remains an unsolved atrocity that has never been forgotten in New Iberia, Louisiana. When Flynn's daughter Megan, a photojournalist drawn to controversial subjects, returns to the site of her father's murder, it quickly becomes clear that her family's bloodstained past will not stay buried. Megan gives her old friend Dave Robicheaux a tip about a small-time criminal named Cool Breeze Broussard, scarcely suspecting that the seemingly innocuous case will lead Robicheaux and his partner into the midst of deadly conspiracy. Combining brilliant prose, crackling suspense, and an exquisite sense of character and place, Sunset Limited is a wrenching tale of historic violence and soiled redemption that reveals America's finest novelist at his masterful best. Language: English. Narrator: Will Patton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000100/bk_sans_000100_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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One Night with the Wealthy Rancher , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 230min
Sometimes a knight in shining armor wears a Stetson Seven years ago, as a young cop, Darius Franklin saved a vulnerable woman from a violent situation. They shared one night of pure passion before she walked away. Now Darius is a wealthy rancher and security contractor working at a women's shelter. And he's shocked to meet the new social worker: Summer Martindale, a beautiful damsel no longer in distress. Darius has never been able to forget that night - or forgive Summer for the pain she caused him when she left. And he's suspicious of why she's suddenly in his part of Texas. But neither can deny the desire still crackling between them. When Summer's life is once again threatened, Darius knows he can protect her only if he stays very close to her.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Crisden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004701/bk_harp_004701_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Wrong Heaven , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 377min
In The Wrong Heaven, Amy Bonnaffons draws us into a delightfully strange universe, in which her conflicted characters seek to solve their sexual and spiritual dilemmas in all the wrong places. The title story's heroine reckons with grief while arguing with Jesus and Mary lawn ornaments that come to life when she plugs them in. In 'Horse', we enter a world in which women transform themselves into animals through a series of medical injections. In 'Alternate', a young woman convinces herself that all she needs to revive a stagnant relationship is the perfect poster of the Dalai Lama.Intelligent, wry and crackling with energy, The Wrong Heaven is a stunning debut collection about the subtle mysteries beneath the surface of our lives and our power to transform.Read by Alex Vaillant. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Vaillant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001885/bk_orio_001885_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections from the Crime Stories: Volume 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 193min
Traversing a vivid landscape, from sunblasted hills and canyons to the nighttime streets of America's greatest cities, some of Louis L'Amour's most compelling fiction was set in his own time. Here are tales of innocents caught in the schemes of criminals, detectives hunting down truths that hide more lies, gangsters and beauties, private investigators and cops. Here is a world populated by the kinds of people who risk their lives to right a wrong, make a buck, or save a friend. Included here is this collection are "Police Band", "Dead Man's Trail", "The Hills of Homicide", and "The Sucker Switch". Written and performed in the crackling pulp fiction style of the 1940's and 50's, these thrilling, atmospheric stories course with authenticity and bear the mark of a timeless master. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Mendel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001600/bk_rand_001600_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Since We Fell (eBook, ePUB)
'Complex, tense, compelling' Lee Child'Hitchcockian...with characteristically twisty action and crackling dialogue' Guardian Best Crime & Thriller Books of 2017On a Tuesday in May, in her thirty-fifth year, Rachel shot her husband dead. He stumbled backward with an odd look of confirmation on his face, as if some part of him had always known she'd do it.Rachel's husband adores her. When she hit rock bottom, he was there with her every step of the way as she slowly regained her confidence, and her sanity. But his mysterious behaviour forces her to probe for the truth about her beloved husband.How can she feel certain that she ever knew him?And was she right to ever trust him?Bringing together Dennis Lehane's trademark insightful and emphathetic characterisation, razor-sharp dialogue, stunning atmosphere and breakneck twists and turns, Since We Fell is a true masterpiece that will keep you in suspense until the very end.- Shop: buecher
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Norse Mythology
Bestselling and much loved author Neil Gaiman, whose novel American Gods has been adapted into a major television series, brings vividly to life the stories of Norse mythology that have inspired his own extraordinary writing in this number one Sunday Times Bestseller. The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling - from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for Neil Gaiman's own award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. Now he reaches back through time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the great Norse tales. Gaiman's gods are thoroughly alive on the page - irascible, visceral, playful, passionate - and the tales carry us from the beginning of everything to Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Galvanised by Gaiman's prose, Thor, Loki, Odin and Freya are irresistible forces for modern readers and the crackling, brilliant writing demands to be read aloud around an open fire on a freezing, starlit night- Shop: buecher
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Jackdaws , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1030min
Two weeks before D-day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded, and the attack fails disastrously.Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the Jackdaws, and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick's trail....From Ken Follett, the master storyteller and best-selling author of Eye of the Needle and Code to Zero, comes this exciting thriller, set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action.Jackdaws is an irresistible novel of the Resistance and of love, courage and revenge. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emilia Fox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001882/bk_macm_001882_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Wiseguy, Hörbuch, Digital, 184min
Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill - the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the gangster’s life - has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan). This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds... with Henry Hill’s crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action. Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob - from one who’s lived it. Now with an introduction by Martin Scorcese. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Pileggi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005678/bk_sans_005678_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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