57 Results for : naively
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Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 542min
A new deluxe edition of the international best seller by Heather O'Neill, the Giller-shortlisted author of Daydreams of Angels and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night. Featuring an original foreword from the author, this edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the coming-of-age story that People describes as "a vivid portrait of life on skid row." Baby, all of 13 years old, is lost in the gangly, coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father, Jules, is scarcely more than a child himself and is always on the lookout for his next score. Baby knows that "chocolate milk" is Jules' slang for heroin and sees a lot more of that in her house than the real article. But she takes vivid delight in the scrappy bits of happiness and beauty that find their way to her, and moves through the threat of the streets as if she's been choreographed in a dance. Soon, though, a hazard emerges that is bigger than even her hard-won survival skills can handle. Alphonse, the local pimp, has his eye on her for his new girl; he wants her body and soul - and what the johns don't take he covets for himself. At the same time, a tender and naively passionate friendship unfolds with a boy from her class at school, who has no notion of the dark claims on her - which even her father, lost on the nod, cannot totally ignore. Jules consigns her to a stint in juvie hall, and for the moment this perceived betrayal preserves Baby from terrible harm - but after that, her salvation has to be her own invention. Channeling the artlessly affecting voice of her 13-year-old heroine with extraordinary accuracy and power, Heather O'Neill's heartbreaking and wholly original debut novel blew readers away when it was first published 10 years ago. Now it is sure to capture its next decade of readers and listeners as Baby picks her pathway along the edge of the abyss to arrive at a place of rede ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Miriam McDonald, Heather O'Neill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005231/bk_harp_005231_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cottage on Gooseberry Bay: Halloween Moon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 250min
USA Today best-selling author Kathi Daley brings you a heartwarming mystery series about finding answers and fostering hope while building friendships and embracing the magic of life by the sea and small town holidays.Ainsley Holloway had come to Gooseberry Bay to find answers about her past. She’d come to find an explanation for the dreams that haunted her after the death of the cop who’d both rescued and raised her. And she’d come to identify the family she couldn’t remember but knew in her heart she’d once belonged to.Ainsley hoped that by finding these answers, she’d also find healing. She hoped that once she’d resurrected the memories buried deep in her mind, she’d find peace.The Cottage at Gooseberry Bay is a series about, not only finding answers, but finding hope.It’s a series about family and friendship.It’s a series about shared holidays, festivals, and celebrations.It’s a series about shared heartbreak and hardship.And it’s a series about the bond that can be forged amongst strangers when tragedy binds two or more individuals with a common goal.In book one in the series, Ainsley arrives in Gooseberry Bay only to find there will be no easy answers as she’d so naively hoped. Unwilling to leave before she gets what she came for, she rents a cottage on the sea where she and her dogs, Kai and Kallie, can settle in and wait.Her first night in town she meets a young woman who is later found dead. The local sheriff has labeled the death of this young woman a suicide based on a text message she’d sent before she died. But Ainsley, who’d spoken to the victim only hours before the text was sent, isn’t quite as sure of the easy answer the sheriff would like everyone to believe.An investigative journalist by trade and cops daughter by upbringing, Ainsley never had been the sort to walk away from unanswered questions, so with the help of new friends she meets along the way, she initiates a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angel Clark. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/216237/bk_acx0_216237_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mark of the Apple: Chapter 3: Coding Humans, Book 13 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 50min
First VisitElla is all suited up and feeling great about her day. She takes one last look at her phone using the facetime camera as a mirror. She smiles and checks to make sure she looks proper. Then, she heads out of her dorm room and off to get a quick breakfast.Breakfast “Today is the day I will have my first kiss,” Ella naively thought while she walks through the dorm halls to the kitchenette. She is submerged with emotions and fantasy, finding herself walking at a faster pace than normal. The thought of her tender lips touching the boy she had been dreaming about since the playgrounds is making her tingle all over. She has a tutoring session with him today and has every intention of inconspicuously resting her leg against his, then making eye contact with the same innocent tilt of the head she practiced earlier. She plays out the scenario in her head over and over.Ella continues fantasizing about the day until she recalls the quiz that is afoot. She has a quiz in first semester calculus and reminds herself what JF, her tutor, had told her about being successful on college quizzes and exams: “Remember - Most of what the professor goes over in class, is just gibberish, but any questions they solve during lecture will likely be on the exam only with a slight twist from what they did in class. Also, in your textbook, any of the theorems or highlighted equations will have to be known in order to solve the problems on said exam or quiz.”Ella is now sitting at the counter of her dorm’s kitchen contemplating what she will have for breakfast. She decides she will have a piece of cranberry walnut toast smothered with mascarpone cheese and topped with sliced strawberries. She requests the food replicator to make her breakfast by activating the app on her phone, “Hey Siri, activate replicator ‘dorm dining'. I will have one slice of cranberry walnut sourdough bread. Please toast it to an almost burnt state, and then add a whipped mascar ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Sitter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221408/bk_acx0_221408_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cottage on Gooseberry Bay Books 1-3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 761min
USA Today best-selling author Kathi Daley brings you a heartwarming mystery series about finding answers and fostering hope while building friendships and embracing the magic of life by the sea and small town holidays. Ainsley Holloway had come to Gooseberry Bay to find answers about her past. She’d come to find an explanation for the dreams that haunted her after the death of the cop who’d both rescued and raised her. And she’d come to identify the family she couldn’t remember but knew in her heart she’d once belonged to. Ainsley hoped that by finding these answers, she’d also find healing. She hoped that once she’d resurrected the memories buried deep in her mind, she’d find peace. The Cottage at Gooseberry Bay is a series about not only finding answers, but finding hope. It’s a series about family and friendship. It’s a series about shared holidays, festivals, and celebrations. It’s a series about shared heartbreak and hardship. And it’s a series about the bond that can be forged amongst strangers when tragedy binds two or more individuals with a common goal. In book one in the series, Ainsley arrives in Gooseberry Bay only to find there will be no easy answers as she’d so naively hoped. Unwilling to leave before she gets what she came for, she rents a cottage on the sea where she and her dogs, Kai and Kallie, can settle in and wait. Her first night in town, she meets a young woman who is later found dead. The local sheriff has labeled the death of this young woman a suicide based on a text message she’d sent before she died. But Ainsley, who’d spoken to the victim only hours before the text was sent, isn’t quite as sure of the easy answer the sheriff would like everyone to believe. An investigative journalist by trade and cops daughter by upbringing, Ainsley never had been the sort to walk away from unanswered questions, so with the help of new friends she meets along the way, she initiates a par ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angel Clark. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233653/bk_acx0_233653_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 428min
Whitney Johnson, popular Harvard Business Review blogger, has a goal: to help us identify and achieve our dreams. Her belief is that we can each achieve greater happiness when focusing both on our dreams and on other people in our lives. In this inspiring book, Johnson directs her attention to teaching women, in particular, a three-step model for personal advancement and happiness. She first encourages us to DARE to boldly step out, to consider disrupting life as we know it. Then she teaches us how to DREAM, to give life to the many possibilities available, whether to start a business, run a marathon, or travel the world. She shows us how to "date" our dreams (no need to commit!) and how to make space for dreams. Finally, Whitney's model brings out the businesswoman in her; she teaches us to DO, to execute our dreams. She showcases the importance of sharing dreams with others to give them life, creating your own "dream team". Rich with real stories of women who have dared to dream, Dare, Dream, Do offers a practical framework to realize one's true potential. In her mid-twenties, Whitney found herself in New York, where she landed a secretarial job on Wall Street. With no relevant experience, and a bit shy on confidence, she contemplated her future and her dreams. Through determination and hard work, Whitney became an investment banker, moving to the analyst side of the business, executing the plans she'd laid out for herself. Naively, she thought most women were following similar paths until she started talking and found that many women were not daring to dream at all. It was because of these conversations that she started a blog in 2006, which became the inspiration for this book. Dare, Dream, Do is full of remarkable stories of women, which will no doubt inspire others to follow suit. Although Whitney focuses on the stories of women, her blog is popular with men as well, and her advice speaks to either gender. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Saltus. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001206/bk_gdan_001206_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Last POW , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 73min
How did an 85-year old grandfather from Palo Alto, California, end up a prisoner in North Korea? The Last POW is the true story of Merrill Newman, a retired Silicon Valley executive and Korean War veteran who was hauled off his plane at Pyongyang airport as he was about to return home at the end of a tourist trip in late 2013. For nearly two months, he was held by North Korea's fearsome security services, subjected to intensive interrogation, and repeatedly warned that if he did not confess his "crimes", he might never be allowed to return home. In visiting the North, Newman was returning for a final glimpse of the country where he had served a half century earlier. Perhaps naively - and in sharp contrast to America's former enemies, Japan, Germany, and Vietnam - he did not realize that for the North Koreans, the war had never ended. His role in 1953 as a US military adviser to the "Kuwol Comrades" - anti-communist Korean guerrillas who fought behind North Korean lines - convinced a paranoid North Korean regime that despite his age, his heart condition, and the passage of time, Newman was a dangerous "enemy" agent. The Last POW is the exclusive account of Newman's ordeal - how the North Koreans tried, without success, to break his will; his interactions with his sinister interrogator and the other North Koreans involved in his detention; the "confession" he was forced to broadcast; and how he tried to signal he was being coerced. While Merrill was detained in Pyongyang, his family - his wife, Lee, living in a retirement home in Palo Alto; and his son and daughter-in-law in Pasadena - were frantically trying to determine what had happened to him and what they could do to secure his freedom. Newman's detention became a symbol of the seemingly irreconcilable differences that keep North Korea and the US in a permanent state of tension and revealed the inner workings of the security apparatus of one of the world's most totalitarian states ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noah Michael Levine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023319/bk_adbl_023319_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Waterfront Lady
A man is pursued by the police after he naively tries to cover-up a murder.- Shop: odax
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