73 Results for : straddles
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The Dread Line , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 453min
The Dread Line: the latest Liam Mulligan novel from award-winning author Bruce DeSilva. Since he got fired in spectacular fashion from his newspaper job last year, former investigative reporter Liam Mulligan has been piecing together a new life - one that straddles both sides of the law. He's getting some part-time work with his friend McCracken's detective agency. He's picking up beer money by freelancing for a local news website. And he's looking after his semi-retired mobster friend's bookmaking business. But Mulligan still manages to find trouble. He's feuding with a cat that keeps leaving its kills on his porch. He's obsessed with a baffling jewelry heist. And he's enraged that someone in town is torturing animals. All this keeps distracting him from a big case that needs his full attention. The New England Patriots, shaken by a series of murder charges against a star player, have hired Mulligan and McCracken to investigate the background of a college athlete they're thinking of drafting. At first, the job seems routine, but as soon as they begin asking questions, they get push-back. The player, it seems, has something to hide - and someone is willing to kill to make sure it remains secret. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Frangione. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029100/bk_adbl_029100_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Wrong Heaven , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 377min
Including the story "Horse," as heard on This American Life.For fans of George Saunders and Karen Russell, an "amazing, wildly inventive"* collection of stories that straddles the line between the real and the fantastical. (*Kevin Wilson)In The Wrong Heaven, anything is possible: bodies can transform, inanimate objects come to life, angels appear and disappear.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 loquacious 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.While some of the worlds to which Bonnaffons transports us are more recognizable than others, all of them uncover the mysteries beneath the mundane surfaces of our lives. Enormously funny, boldly inventive, and as provocative as they are deeply affecting, these stories lay bare the heart of our deepest longings. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Vaillant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004548/bk_hach_004548_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Breaking Fate: Fallen Guardians, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min
An immortal without a soul is bad enough. But when his only tether to remaining honorable is his addiction to bone-crushing pain, it makes Blaéz a dangerously loose cannon. A Guardian sworn to protect mortals from supernatural evil, Blaéz straddles the edge of darkness as his needs grow. When a good deed brings him to the doorstep of a female unlike any other, one whose touch ignites emotions long lost in the hellish pits of Tartarus, he's determined not to lose her. She belongs to him. But she's human. Forbidden. And bringing her into his life may just destroy them both. Darci Callahan has given up on love. When a lethally handsome stranger suddenly appears late one night, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the captivating man with the pale, empty eyes - a man who awakens in her a desire she never believed possible. Except Blaéz brings more than unexpected passion to her life, he brings danger. In this treacherous new world of gods and demons, Darci soon discovers a heart-shattering truth and the twisted games the gods play. Caught in the crosshairs, she's forced to accept that, sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, you have to love them enough to let them go.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Janet King. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/inbl/000225/bk_inbl_000225_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 459min
Sayed Kashua has been praised by The New York Times as "a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society". An Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist together. He devoted his novels and his satirical weekly column published in Haaretz to telling the Palestinian story and exploring the contradictions of modern Israel while also capturing the nuances of everyday family life in all its tenderness and chaos. With an intimate tone fueled by deep-seated apprehension and razor-sharp ironic wit, Kashua has been documenting his own life as well as that of society at large: He writes about his children's upbringing and encounters with racism, about fatherhood and married life, the Jewish-Arab conflict, his professional ambitions, travels around the world as an author, and - more than anything - his love of books and literature. He brings forth a series of brilliant, caustic, wry, and fearless reflections on social and cultural dynamics as experienced by someone who straddles two societies. Written between 2006 and 2014, Native is like an unrestrained, profoundly thoughtful personal journal. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026412/bk_adbl_026412_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Girl in Translation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 545min
Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life--like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition--Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles. Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant--a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grayce Wey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001460/bk_peng_001460_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Shashi Kapoor: The Householder, The Star , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 302min
India's first biography of Shashi Kapoor sheds light on one of the country's most enigmatic personalities - an actor who straddles the worlds of commercial Hindi cinema, theatre and small-budget art movies; who is, at once, an earnest householder and a committed star. In this rare book, we are offered glimpses of Shashi Kapoor, the family man - son of Prithviraj Kapoor, husband of Jennifer Kendal, and father to Kunal, Karan and Sanjna. We are led through Shashi Kapoor's film career - his debut as a bright-eyed child-actor in Awara; his emergence, in the hectic 1970s, as India's busiest performer - with a slew of hits including Deewaar and Trishul; and his rise to international prominence with Merchant-Ivory's The Householder and a 'trilogy' of films on older men with fading pasts. Equally, we are provided with an astute analysis of Shashi Kapoor, the businessman - the proprietor of Film-Valas; the producer of Shyam Benegal films; and the distributor of Bobby. With luminous and thus-far undisclosed stories by the actor's family (Neetu Singh, Rishi, Sanjna and Kunal Kapoor), co-stars (Shabana Azmi, Simi Garewal, Sharmila Tagore), colleagues (Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, James Ivory, Hanif Kureishi, Aparna Sen), and friends; Shashi Kapoor, the biography - by one of India's best-known film journalists - is as captivating as Shashi Kapoor, the star. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sagar Arya. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029036/bk_adbl_029036_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Good Guys, Hörbuch, Digital, 368min
Hundreds of writers have tried to capture life inside the mob, but no one has ever had the inside access to write a book like this one. Drawing on the firsthand experience of former undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone, aka Donny Brasco, as well as former Mafia prince Bill Bonanno, The Good Guys straddles both sides of the law, races relentlessly through the New York City underworld, and crackles with characters and moments so vivid they will never let you go. At Columbia University, a professor of Russian literature has gone missing. A few miles and light-years away, Little Eddie LaRocca and Bobby San Filippo are on the move, dealing in everything from hot-sheet hotels to bootleg Fuji film. When the hoods are sent to find the professor, they find out that someone else is looking, too. Beautiful FBI agent Laura Russo is making her preppy partner's head spin. She knows the missing man is important, and somehow connected to a recent mob hit. While Eddie and Bobby are fighting their way through ugly deeds and pretty coeds, these feds will cook up some business of their own, turning a little disagreement among criminals into an all-out war. Capturing the organized crime world of the go-go '80s, Pistone and Bonanno's one-of-a-kind collaboration is bad to the bone, and as marvelously authentic as it gets. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Pistone, Bill Bonanno. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/time/000371/bk_time_000371_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Good Dream , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 545min
From the New York Times best-selling author comes a poignant, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel about an unlikely path to motherhood, and of two lost souls healing each other. Tennessee, 1950: a time and place that straddles the past and present. Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid by the town (though she’s only in her early 30s), and she takes that label with good humor and a grain of salt. Ever since her parents passed away, she has hidden her loneliness behind a fierce independence and a claim of not needing anyone. But her mother’s death hit her harder than anyone suspects, and Ivorie wonders if she will be alone forever. When she realizes that someone has been stealing vegetables from her garden - a feral, dirty-faced boy who disappears into the hills - something about him haunts Ivorie. She can’t imagine what would make him desperate enough to steal and eat from her garden. But what she truly can’t imagine is what the boy faces, each day and night, in a filthy lean-to hut miles up in the hills. Who is he? How did he come to live in the hills? Where did he come from? And, more importantly, can she save him? As Ivorie steps out of her comfort zone to uncover the answers, she unleashes a firestorm in the town - a community that would rather let secrets stay secret. The Good Dream is Donna VanLiere is at her absolute best. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donna VanLiere. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001451/bk_aren_001451_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Otters' Tale , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 593min
Otters hold an almost unique place in the animal kingdom of the British Isles, being one of the very few creatures that give birth once every two years. They are the most secretive yet also the most popular mammals - they are found in every county but are so rarely seen that they have been raised to mythical status. When Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill that straddles a small chalkstream in Southern England, little did he know that he would come to share the mill with a family of wild otters. Yet move in they did, allowing him to begin to observe them, soon immersing himself in their daily routines and movements. He developed an extraordinarily close relationship with the family, which in turn gave him a unique insight into the life of these fascinating creatures. Cooper interweaves the personal story of the female otter, Kuschta, with the natural history of the otter in the British Isles, only recently brought back from the brink of extinction through tireless conservation efforts. Following in the footsteps of Henry Williamson's classic 1920s tale Tarka the Otter, readers are taken on a journey through the calendar year, learning the most intimate details of this most beautiful of British mammals. Cooper brings these beloved animals to life in all their wondrous complexity, revealing the previously hidden secrets of their lives in this beautifully told tale of the otter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saul Reichlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002808/bk_hcuk_002808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Options Trading: Strategies: Best Options Trading Strategies for High Profit & Reduced Risk , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
Learn How to Make Money with Options Trading Today! In this book I'll teach you the basics of options trading, including vocabulary terms, the basic bullish and bearish strategies, the neutral strategies, and the volatile strategies. We'll also discuss margin requirements, spreads, straddles, puts, calls, exit strategies, and entry points. We advise upon risk management and keeping your capital account safe. Furthermore, you'll learn the basics of entering a trade, calculating the maximum profit and the maximum loss, and how to figure the profit from a trade. We'll discuss the brokerage requirements for margin trades. Finally, we will detail information about rescuing a stock to move it to the breakeven point, free trades that incorporate the entry fees in the puts and sells, and tips and strategies from experienced traders willing to share their wisdom. What you'll learn in this book: What are bullish trades, and why do we want those trades? Bull call spread Bull put spread Covered call Out-of-the-money covered call Covered call in the money Married put Long synthetic Put-Call parity What is bearish, and why do I want to trade bearish? Covered put Bull ratio spread Put backspread What is a neutral trade? What does nonvolatile mean? Call ratio spread Long iron butterfly Short iron butterfly Common mistakes to avoid Option strategy rules, tips, and notes Stock repair strategy Winning strategies in the option world And much, much more! This is the ultimate guide for beginner, intermediate, and advanced traders to make a lot of money with options trading. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Shumka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/064456/bk_acx0_064456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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