94 Results for : loathed
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Life After Truth: An Audible Original, Hörbuch, Digital, 528min
Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they’ve wasted their youthful opportunities. Jules, already a famous actor when she arrived on campus, is changing in mysterious ways but won’t share what is haunting her. Mariam and Rowan, who married young, are struggling with the demands of family life and starting to regret prioritising meaning over wealth in their careers. Eloise, now a professor who studies the psychology of happiness, is troubled by her younger wife’s radical politics. And Jomo, founder of a luxury jewellery company, has been carrying an engagement ring around for months, unsure whether his girlfriend is the one. The soul searching begins in earnest at their much-anticipated college reunion weekend on the Harvard campus, when the most infamous member of their class, Frederick - senior advisor and son of the recently elected and loathed US President - turns up dead. Old friends often think they know everything about one another, but time has a way of making us strangers to those we love - and to ourselves.... Language: English. Narrator: Rachel Butera. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/000893/or_orig_000893_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Pearl Thief , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min
From the internationally acclaimed best-selling author of Code Name Verity comes a stunning new story of pearls, love and murder. Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. It is not an idyllic return to childhood. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate, and this will be a summer of good-byes. Not least to the McEwen family - Highland travellers who have been part of the landscape for as long as anyone can remember, loved by the family, loathed by the authorities. Tensions are already high when a respected London archivist goes missing, presumed murdered. Suspicion quickly falls on the McEwens, but Julie knows not one of them would do such a thing and is determined to prove everyone wrong. And then she notices the family's treasure trove of pearls is missing. This beautiful and evocative novel is the story of the irrepressible and unforgettable Julie, set in the year before the Second World War and the events of Code Name Verity. It is also a powerful portrayal of a community under pressure and one girl's determination for justice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maggie Service. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/003055/bk_boli_003055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Escape from Bythos , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 91min
While listed as book 6, Escape from Bythos is actually the prequel novella to the series and can be enjoyed at any point. How did Asho end up as Lord Kyferin's squire? Escape from Bythos leads seamlessly into the novel The Path of Flames, detailing how Asho acquired his freedom against all odds and escaped the slave city of Bythos. All Ennoian knights must sacrifice a single year of their lives to garrison the subterranean city of Bythos. Known as their Black Year, it is a time both loathed and dreaded. Lord Kyferin, the infamous leader of the Black Wolves, is down in the depths with six of his knights. Biding his time. Whoring. Dreaming of bloody invasions he'll launch when he is free to return to Ennoia. Then a Bythian slave brings word of dangerous prey. A legendary monster. A cavekiller. Kyferin chooses to mount a hunt, taking a fraction of the men needed so as to increase his glory. This cavekiller, however, is different. More lethal. Ferocious. And the Bythian slave that Kyferin brings as a guide is none other than Asho's father.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noah Michael Levine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032611/bk_adbl_032611_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Peer Through Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 771min
2015 San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention In 2079, a time travel experiment sends physicist Carmela Akronfleck further back in time than she'd intended. Though she's still in her small northern California town, the year is 1936 and she must learn to live without the technology she's come to rely on. Her neurological implants should be dormant, but she receives a cryptic message, periodically accompanied by an audio transmission from the future. It's the voice of her former psychotherapist, an android named Kass, stating his innocence in a series of murders occurring in 2079. When Carmela deciphers the code as a hit list, she's shocked to discover her mother and sister are among the intended targets. Further evidence reveals the killer's true identity, but the inoperative time portal prevents her from returning to save her family and vindicate Kass. She considers another option: hunt down the killer's ancestors and avert his existence without radically changing history. She devises a plan to protect her family, haunted by doubts that she's becoming the kind of person she's always loathed - one willing to take another's life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: April Barrow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/071563/bk_acx0_071563_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Love Thy Enemy: Red Stone Security Series, Book 13 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min
She refuses to trust him. Red Stone Security employee Dominique Castle knows all too well that there are people in this world she just can't trust. After losing both her parents, Dominique keeps her distance from anyone tied to her past - especially the man she's hated for years. And Viktor Ivanov isn't going to change her mind about who he really is - no matter how determined the infuriatingly sexy Russian is. He's determined to win her over. She may hate him and not trust him, but Viktor is determined to crack through Dominique's icy exterior one way or another - even if it means taking the game into his own hands. With a past like Viktor's, he's made more than a few enemies along the way - enemies who'll stop at nothing to take him down. When Viktor realizes Dominique's life is in danger because of him, he'll stop at nothing to protect her - whether she likes it or not. Now it's up to Dominique to trust the one man who's linked to the agony of her past. Can she find a way to love the enemy she always loathed? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sophie Eastlake. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063725/bk_acx0_063725_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Winning Season , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 560min
Kelly Maxwell has finally landed her dream job as publicist for the San Francisco Blaze. But the team's newest member, handsome bad boy catcher Matt Scanlon, is refusing every interview. She's got to get him to open up before the season ends, or she may not be back next year. And after everything she overcame to achieve her dream, Kelly's not about to let that happen. Matt Scanlon just wants to be left alone to rebuild his life and his career. After a year of masking the pain of a recent loss with hard partying and fast women, he finally hit rock bottom and was traded to a team he's loathed his entire life - a team with little to no chance at the post-season. Butting heads is getting Kelly and Matt nowhere but annoyed, and with the team's schedule on the road, they can't avoid close quarters - or their surprising attraction to each other. As the season winds down, Matt finds his growing feelings for Kelly have brought his numbed emotions back to life. But when betrayal shatters their fragile trust, winning it all seems more impossible than ever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane Pfitsch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harl/001445/bk_harl_001445_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Idaho Winter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 188min
Idaho Winter is a boy who, through no fault of his own, is loathed by everyone in the town where he lives - his father feeds him roadkill for breakfast, the crossing guard steers cars toward him as he crosses the road, and parents encourage their children to plot cruelly against him. Then he meets a young girl named Madison who empathizes with his suffering, opening a terrible world of pain in him. When Madison is attacked by dogs meant to harm Idaho, Idaho gets up and runs home, changing the course of the entire story. Idaho soon learns that his suffering has been cruelly designed by a clumsy writer who has made his book meaner than all the others to make it stand out. With this information, Idaho locks the author in a closet and runs off, armed with the knowledge that the entire world is invented and that he now has the power to imagine it differently. When the author emerges from the closet and discovers that Idaho has made a mess of the novel, he sets out to find a cure to the story and bring its heart and mind together. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tristan Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008072/bk_adbl_008072_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Banshee , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 177min
The Banshee: Is she to be feared, loathed, or is she simply misunderstood? Barry Fitzgerald and Cormac Strain explore some of the history of this very famous entity of myth and legend to reveal things are not possibly what they seem. They speak to people from all over the island of Ireland who have come face to face with this messenger of death and share their encounters. These encounters are not from the dark regions of Irish history but rather happened within the last 50 years. "The electric light killed the fairy" was the old saying, but this is not exactly true. As they explore the nature and history of the Banshee within this publication it becomes apparent that she is not simply an element of our imagination, but rather an element of ancient Ireland which still walks among us today, right into our cities. Banshee recounts these modern-day encounters in the old style of Irish storytelling and delivers a book that will make you question your own beliefs, and as the wind howls in the light of the full moon, pray that’s all you hear. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barry Fitzgerald, Cormac Strain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000610/bk_bigh_000610_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Highland Yearning: Scottish Highland Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 127min
Bethia became betrothed to Ivar, successor to the Lairdship of Caithness, when they were younger. She dislikes Ivar immensely as he is jealous, possessive and arrogant. When he is sent away for many years by his father, Bethia rejoices. But 10 years later, Ivar is back, having grown into a handsome leader, preparing to take over the lairdship. As the clan gathers for Ivar's return, Bethia does not want to see him. But when she sets eyes on him, her heart is taken aback. But Ivar wants nothing to do with her. As time goes by and Ivar turns his affections to other women, Bethia loses hope, scolding herself for falling in love with a man who does not want her. Bethia's feelings for Ivar soon turn her into a jealous and possessive woman, traits she had loathed in Ivar years ago. But when Ivar is sent back to the new lands to do battle, a terrified Bethia realizes that Ivar might not come back to her, and vows to do what it takes to win Ivar back, before it is too late. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: N. E. Bates. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111255/bk_acx0_111255_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min
In Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom, Christopher S. Wren overturns the myth of Ethan Allen as a legendary hero of the American Revolution and a patriotic son of Vermont and offers a different portrait of Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. They were ruffians who joined the rush for cheap land on the northern frontier of the colonies in the years before the American Revolution. Allen did not serve in the Continental Army but he raced Benedict Arnold for the famous seizure of Britain's Fort Ticonderoga. Allen and Arnold loathed each other. General George Washington, leery of Allen, refused to give him troops. In a botched attempt to capture Montreal against specific orders of the commanding American general, Allen was captured in 1775 and shipped to England to be hanged. Freed in 1778, he spent the rest of his time negotiating with the British but failing to bring Vermont back under British rule. Based on original archival research, this is a groundbreaking account of an important and little-known front of the Revolutionary War, of George Washington (and his good sense), and of a major American myth. Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom is an important contribution to the history of the American Revolution. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Berkrot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/011173/bk_tant_011173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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