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Aspen Falls Complete Series, Books 1-9: Box Set Complete Series, Volume 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
Aspen Falls, tucked into the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of 1870s Northern Colorado Territory, is the home of the Hart family, founders of the growing town. Aspen Falls Complete Series romance collection in one bundle! By best-selling authors Ellen Anderson and Katie Wyatt.Follow Rachael Hart as she must face an unforeseeable tragedy that nearly crushes her spirit. Benjamin Hart wants nothing more than to explore the world beyond Aspen Falls, while his father wants him to take over the family's sawmill. Jason, the youngest son, wants to take over the business and expand it, but his father hasn't even considered that. Then there's Miriam, the youngest Hart daughter, the tomboy, flouting convention and prompting her mother's apoplectic fits.Listen to all the stories by best-selling authors Ellen Anderson and Katie Wyatt.Aspen Fall series:New BeginningsBlind FaithStarry NightBucking TraditionSmoldering FuryDreams Come TrueWild MustangsThe OutbreakJason’s ChallengeChristmas in Red Rock:Catching Christmas SpiritThe Spark of ChristmasSeeing Christmas SpiritChristmas Spirit ReturnsHarvey House series:A Love So LegendaryA Love So UntamedA Love So FaithfulA Love So UnstagedA Love So MiraculousA Love So HealingA Love So BoldA Love So TrueA Love So DevotedA Love So EternalA Love So CourageousA Love So EnchantingMega Box Set series:51 Inspirational Sweet Western Romances Box Set (Mega Box Set Series, Book 11)31 ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arwa Hezzah. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/217704/bk_acx0_217704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Gold!: The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 417min
A riveting true account of gold rush fever in mid-19th-century America, rich with the thrilling exploits of daring fortune seekers and dangerous outlaws. America was never the same after January 24, 1848. It was on that day that a carpenter named James Marshall discovered a tiny nugget of gold while building a sawmill at Sutter's Fort, just east of Sacramento, California. Marshall's find ignited a fever the nation had never known before, drawing people from all over the country to the West Coast with high hopes of getting rich quick. Over the next six years, 300,000 prospectors raced to the California gold fields to make their fortunes, leaving their lands and families behind in order to chase a dream of easy wealth but all too often encountering a reality of lawlessness, disease, cruelty, and death. A former columnist for the New York Times, author Fred Rosen takes listeners back to the seminal moment when the American dream exploded. Chock full of fascinating details, unforgettable characters, and shocking real-life events, the captivating true story of the California gold rush brings an era of unparalleled change to breathtaking life. Rosen's enthralling history of the gold rush of 1848 demonstrates how this golden ideal was supplanted by a culture of selfishness and greed that endures in America to this very day. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: A. Smith Harrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026017/bk_adbl_026017_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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First Shot: A Grant Fletcher Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 667min
Fans of high-octane action and unforgettable heroes like Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne, and David Baldacci’s Amos Decker will love First Shot.“When girls go missing here, no one says a word”...Twenty-four year old Lila has disappeared without trace. It’s the kind of case that ex-military loner Grant Fletcher would normally be happy to take on - he will always seek justice if someone has the money to pay him. But this one he’s doing for free. This one’s personal.Because Fletcher owes his life to Lila’s father. And Fletcher knows that returning Lila safe and sound is the only thing that matters to his wheelchair-bound friend.She last called her father from a small town called Daversville, in rural Georgia. A place - Fletcher discovers as he checks into the only motel - where folks are proud to keep themselves to themselves, and almost all the business comes from the giant sawmill that looms large over the town.Before he’s even started looking for Lila, Fletcher finds trouble. But he also discovers that his friend’s daughter wasn’t the first girl to go missing there. Not the first by far.Then the last person to have seen Lila before she disappeared is murdered. With Fletcher on the scene when her body is found, he becomes the local deputy’s only suspect, leaving him no choice but to go on the run. Because he knows someone’s abducting girls in this town. And he also knows he’s the only one who can find them... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Landrum. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/198239/bk_acx0_198239_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Essay: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio. It is the poorest road, in the poorest county, in the poorest region of the state. To make things worse, the name Hickam is synonymous with trouble. Jimmy Lee hails from a heathen mix of thieves, moonshiners, drunkards, and general anti-socials that for decades have clung to both the hardscrabble hills and the iron bars of every jail cell in the region. This life, Jimmy Lee believes, is his destiny, someday working with his drunkard father at the sawmill, or sitting next to his arsonist brother in the penitentiary. There aren’t many options if your last name is Hickam. An inspiring coach and Jimmy Lee's ability to play football are the only things motivating him to return for his junior year of high school - until his visionary English teacher cuts him a break and preserves his eligibility for the coming football season. To thank her, Jimmy Lee writes a winning essay in the high school writing contest. When irate parents and the baffled administration claim he has cheated, his teacher is inspired to take his writing talent as far as it can go, showing him the path out of the hills of Appalachia. Terrific characterizations, surprising revelations, gut-wrenching past betrayals, and an unforgettable cast of characters born of the dusty, worn-out landscape of southeastern Ohio make The Essay a powerful, evocative, and incredibly moving novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fleet Cooper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008644/bk_adbl_008644_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Bride for Sam: The Proxy Brides, Book 11 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 336min
Rugged lumberjack and sawmill owner, Sam Maynard, enjoys a happy-go-lucky life in the 1870s small town of Brownville, Nebraska. Seeking out a wife of his own is the farthest thing from his mind until he sees his brother, Finn, so blissfully happy with his new proxy bride, and it sparks a desire within his own soul to find a mate. The girl he might have been able to love, sadly, is already promised to someone else, so he turns down the same avenue his brother had taken - the matrimonial advertisements.After multiple replies fail to generate any interest, however, he is about to chuck the whole idea...Tired of living in an apartment all alone, Beth Ann Gilmore looks forward to having her own hearth, home, husband, and children, but when she finds herself unexpectedly jilted by Stanley, her longtime beau, all her dreams go up in smoke. Refusing to rest on her laurels, she ponders the fact that her best friend, Charise, found happiness through mail-order-bride notices - so why couldn’t she? For good measure, she visits a local marriage broker as well. Soon, however, circumstances take a drastic turn and in fear for her life, she wires her friends in Nebraska for help.The return telegram contains a shocking idea. Can she go through with it? Should she? Could a man she only met once be her salvation...in more ways than one?Beth knows it’s a gamble, but faced with no other choice, it’s a chance she can’t afford to pass up.This is a clean, inspirational romance. The story contains themes of real life, but is suitable for all ages, as it contains no illicit sex or profanity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory Lioi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197818/bk_acx0_197818_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The California Gold Rush: The History and Legacy of the Forty-Niners and America's Golden Dream , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min
As the spring and summer of 1848 advanced, the reports came faster and faster from the gold-mines at Sutter's sawmill. Stories reached us of fabulous discoveries, and spread throughout the land. Everybody was talking of Gold! gold!!" until it assumed the character of a fever. Some of our soldiers began to desert; citizens were fitting out trains of wagons and pack-mules to go to the mines. We heard of men earning fifty, five hundred, and thousands of dollars per day..." - William Tecumseh Sherman One of the most important and memorable events of the United States' westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January, 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country's power centers on the east coast at the time, the announcement came a month before the Mexican-American War had ended, and among the very few Americans that were near the region at the time, many of them were Army soldiers who were participating in the war and garrisoned there. San Francisco was still best known for being a Spanish military and missionary outpost during the colonial era, and only a few hundred called it home. Mexico's independence, and its possession of those lands, had come only a generation earlier. Everything changed almost literally overnight. While the Mexican-American War technically concluded with a treaty in February 1948, the announcement brought an influx of an estimated 90,000 "Forty-Niners" to the region in 1849, hailing from other parts of America and even as far away as Asia. All told, an estimated 300,000 people would come to California over the next few years. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis E. Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038820/bk_acx0_038820_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1468min
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious 12-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the 12-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto, pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving's 12th novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United States as "a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course". From the novel's taut opening sentence - "The young Canadian, who could not have been more than 15, had hesitated too long" - to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving's breakthrough best seller The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice - the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: "We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly - as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth - the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002056/bk_rand_002056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Wildflower Trilogy: Southern Historical Fiction Box Set , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1620min
Three audiobooks in one volume. This family saga follows three generations of 13-year-old girls and their families from 1941 to 1982 Appalachia.The Secret Sense of WildflowerNamed a Best Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews. Over 250 reviews!Small southern towns have few secrets. But when a grieving daughter confronts the local bad boy, she exposes a dark history. Appalachia, 1941. Thirteen-year-old Louisa May "Wildflower" McAllister's heart still aches for her father. A year after her dad's tragic sawmill accident, she relies on her strength of spirit and her heightened intuition to deal with a critical mother and cope with the aftermath.But when she's targeted by the town's teenage bully, she may need more than her "secret sense" to survive. With prose as lush and colorful as the American south, The Secret Sense of Wildflower is powerful and poignant, brimming with energy and angst, humor and hope.Lily’s SongA mother’s secrets, a daughter’s dream, and a family’s loyalty are masterfully interwoven in this much-anticipated sequel. With her signature metaphors, Gabriel weaves a compelling tale that captures the resilience and strength of both mother and daughter, as secrets revealed test their strong bond and ultimately change their lives forever.Daisy’s FortuneShe must return to the place that twice brought her shame. She’ll have one final chance to save someone else. Tennessee, 1982. Wildflower McAllister thought she’d put the past behind her. But when she learns her mother is dying, she digs deep and returns to the small mountain town that stole her innocence and cast her out. And she has no choice but to pull her 13-year-old granddaughter Daisy right back into the ghosts of her painful history.Daisy’s Fortune is the emotional conclusion to the Wildflower Trilogy. If you like strong women, generational tales, and the power of family and t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Holly Adams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/189083/bk_acx0_189083_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sunset and Sawdust , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 786min
He has been called “hilarious...refreshing...a terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country-boy wit” (Washington Post Book World), and praised for his “folklorist’s eye for telling detail and [his] front-porch raconteur’s sense of pace” (New York Times Book Review). Now, Joe R. Landsdale gives us a fast-moving, electrifying new novel: a murder mystery set in a steamy backwater of Depression-era East Texas. It begins with an explosion: Sunset Jones kills her husband with a bullet to the brain. Never mind that he was raping her. Pete Jones was constable of the small sawmill town of Camp Rapture (“Camp Rupture” to the local blacks), where no woman, least of all Pete's, refuses her husband what he wants. So most everyone is surprised and angry when, thanks to the unexpected understanding of her mother-in-law - three-quarter owner of the mill - Sunset is named the new constable. And they're even more surprised when she dares to take the job seriously: beginning an investigation into the murder of a woman and an unborn baby whose oil-drenched bodies are discovered buried on land belonging to the only black landowner in town. Yet no one is more surprised than Sunset herself when the murders lead her - through a labyrinth of greed, corruption, and unspeakable malice - not only to the shocking conclusion of the case, but to a well of inner strength she never knew she had. Landsdale brings the thick backwoods and swamps of East Texas vividly to life, and he paints a powerfully evocative picture of a time when Jim Crow and the Klan ruled virtually unopposed, when the oil boom was rolling into and over Texas, when any woman who didn't know her place was considered a threat and a target. In Sunset, he gives us a woman who defies all expectations, wrestling a different place for herself with spirit and spit, cunning and courage. And in Sunset and Sawdust he gives us a wildly energetic novel - ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deborah Marlow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000187/bk_bkot_000187_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Conjure Woman's Cat , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 237min
Winner of the prestigious AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award.Lena, a shamanistic cat, and her conjure woman Eulalie live in a small town near the Apalachicola River in Florida’s lightly populated Liberty County, where longleaf pines own the world. In Eulalie’s time, women of color look after white children in the homes of white families and are respected, even loved, but distrusted and kept separated as a group. A palpable gloss, sweeter than the state’s prized tupelo honey, holds their worlds firmly apart. When that gloss fails, the Klan restores its own brand of order. When some white boys rape and murder a black girl named Mattie near the sawmill, the police have no suspects and don’t intend to find any. Eulalie, who sees conjure as a way of helping the good Lord work His will, intends to set things right by “laying tricks.” But Eulalie has secrets of her own, and it’s hard not to look back on her own life and ponder how the decisions she made while drinking and singing at the local juke were, perhaps, the beginning of Mattie’s ending. UNKNOWN N N ©2015 Malcolm R. Campbell;(P)2016 Malcolm R. Campbell http://www.audible.de/pd/B01EXN2NUY?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B01EXN2NUY?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Ruins of Camelot (Unabridged) 20.95 AVAILABLE Ruins of Camelot (Unabridged) Ruins of Camelot (Unabridged) G. Norman Lippert As the kingdom of Camelot descends into complacency, an ambitiously sadistic madman known as Merodach advances his rogue armies, recruiting by the sword and threatening revolt.... Jus Sargeant Aleron Books 2016-04-28 17:07:22 572 B01EXNQFVW English - Science Fiction & Fantasy English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/058265de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/058265/bk_acx0_058265_sample.mp3 As the kingdom of Camelot descends into complacency, an ambitiously sadistic madman known as Merodach advances his rogue armies, recruiting by the sword and threatening revolt. Eighteen-year-old Princess Gabriella is the only one who understands the severity of the threat, but she is powerless to convince her father or her brave commoner husband, Darrick. With defeat all but certain, Gabriella sets out on a final, desperate quest. Her plan: to confront and defeat the madman, Merodach, before his armies can destroy everything she loves. Alone and on foot, she must cross the haunted magical wasteland known as the Tempest Barrens, where she is beset by mutant beasts, capricious magical creatures, and even the walking dead. In the end, wounded and hopeless, Gabriella finally confronts her nemesis and learns his final, horrible secret: He is not alone, and the forces he has allied with are far more powerful than anyone could have imagined. UNKNOWN N N ©2013 G. Norman Lippert;(P)2016 Living Audio & G. Norman Lippert http://www.audible.de/pd/B01EXNQFVW?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B01EXNQFVW?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Churchill in Africa: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (Unabridged) 20.95 AVAILABLE Churchill in Africa: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (Unabridged) Churchill in Africa (Unabridged) Winston Spencer Churchill This small book is mainly a personal record of my adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War.... Nigel Carrington MSAC Philosophy Group 2016-04-28 10:39:06 527 B01EX84H3U English - Biographies & Memoirs English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/058212de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/058212/bk_acx0_058212_sample.mp3 This small book is mainly a personal record of my adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War. It may also be found to give a tolerably coherent account of the operations conducted by Sir Redvers Buller for the Relief of Ladysmith. The correspondence of which it is mainly composed appeared in the columns of the Morning Post newspaper, and I propose, if I am not interrupted by the accidents of war, to continue the series of letters. The stir and tumult of a camp do not favour calm or sustained thought, and whatever is written herein must be regarded simply as the immediate effect produced by men powerfully moved, and scenes swiftly changing upon what I hope is a truth-seeking mind. The fact that a man's life depends upon my discretion compels me to omit an essential part of the story of my escape from the Boers; but if the book and its author survive the war, and when the British flag is firmly planted at Bloemfontein and Pretoria, I shall hasten to fill the gap in the narrative. UNKNOWN N N ©2008, 2016 MSAC Philosophy Group;(P)2016 David Christopher Lane http://www.audible.de/pd/B01EX84H3U?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B01EX84H3U?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Boy Erased: A Memoir (Unabridged) 30.95 AVAILABLE Boy Erased: A Memoir (Unabridged) Boy Erased (Unabridged) Garrard Conley The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small-town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality.... Michael Crouch Penguin Audio 2016-05-10 07:00:00 493 B01EXASCDE English - Biographies & Memoirs English 2016-04-26 05:00:00 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/peng/002830de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002830/bk_peng_002830_sample.mp3 The New York Times best-selling memoir about identity, love, and understanding. Now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, directed by Joel Edgerton. Every sentence of the story will stir your soul" (O Magazine).The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality.When Garrard was a 19-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to “cure” him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an institutionalized 12-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out in search of his true self and forgiveness. By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community. At times heart-breaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wanda J. Dixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/058274/bk_acx0_058274_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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