336 Results for : abandons

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    The Setting Sun: New Directions Book , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 268min
    This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956 - and now, for the first time, is available in audio, with the spellbinding narration of June Angela.Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: June Angela. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211027/bk_acx0_211027_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heading for a Total Eclipse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 48min
    In this touching and humorous essay, John Philip Drury recounts coming of age during the Vietnam era. With a low draft number and an exit from college looming, Drury faces the imminent possibility of fighting in a war that he opposes. In the meantime he tries and abandons a dream to become a songwriter, labors mightily to lose his virginity, and looks to the adult world around him for models of what he most wants to be - an artist. Heading for a Total Eclipse takes a look at a young man's attempt to maintain his integrity during a turbulent era and in the face of impossible choices. Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/024856/bk_adbl_024856_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    For the Love of Samuel: A Story of Love Lost and Love Found , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 333min, (USK 18)
    New Yorker and aging gay man Billy Veleber, who abhors growing old, has lost Mitch, his former meth head lover, to his habit, and Gus, the older man in his life and mentor, to despair. He is confronted with the chance to become 21 all over again through the magical prowess of the dog tag of a long dead Civil War soldier, Samuel Evans.  Young again, Billy abandons Manhattan for Fort Lauderdale, where he meets Dare, the love of his life. Dare's clever, quick, rich venture first bonds them and then threatens to end their idyllic lives together forever. Billy also faces the reality of having to tell Dare the truth about himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: RP Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116342/bk_acx0_116342_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Horse: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 467min
    When Teagan's father abruptly abandons his family and his farm, Teagan finds herself wading through the wreckage of what was once an idyllic life, searching for something - or someone - to hold on to. What she finds is Ian, short for Obsidian: the magnificent but dangerously headstrong horse her father left behind. But even as she grows close to Ian, patiently training him, trying to overcome her fear of him, Teagan is learning that life and love are fragile. With an unflinching eye and remarkable restraint, Talley English tells a piercing story about how families hold together and fall apart; about loss and grief; about friendship; about the blunt cruelty of chance; and, finally, about forgiveness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ashly Burch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006294/bk_rand_006294_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    All Through the Night: A Suspense Story, Hörbuch, Digital, 177min
    All of Alvirah's deductive powers and Willy's world-class common sense are called upon as the two stumble into a Christmas mystery. A woman abandons her newborn at a Manhattan church. Simultaneously, a thief is absconding with a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a star-shaped diamond. To elude police, he grabs the stroller and disappears. Seven years later, the mother returns to the scene and finds Alvirah and Willy helping neighborhood kids prepare for a Christmas pageant at an after-school shelter. Soon the savvy sleuths set out to solve the puzzle of the missing child and chalice - and to unmask scam artists threatening to shut down the shelter. Language: English. Narrator: Carol Higgins Clark. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/001724/bk_sans_001724_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Winter's Salvation: A Zombie Apocalypse Book , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 589min
    Machinery Technician Third Class Eric Hagen of the US Coast Guard abandons his post out of Jacksonville, Florida, after his whole world is transformed. The streets are teeming with crazed people, possessed by an insatiable appetite for human flesh. He soon learns that these manic people are not what they appear - they are undead. Traveling north in a post-apocalyptic world, Eric leads a team of four to Baltimore, Maryland, in search of his family, and in the process forms a family of his own. The cold winter months provide some relief from the undead, but Eric soon realizes that dangers from within his newly-formed family are just as deadly as the perils outside. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joshua Story. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/077541/bk_acx0_077541_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Earthbow: The Narentan Tumults , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1166min
    And so begins the warleader's descent into darkness... Cenoc, the self-styled Lord of Latimus, learns of hidden treasures that can make him even more powerful. Few dare oppose his will, even as they witness his growing madness. However, a remnant stands in his way: a newly knighted young man who is torn between his mission and an overwhelming desire for revenge; an enchanter-initiate who finds himself facing terrors even greater than the danger of opposing Cenoc; a teen Outworlder from Earth who has been gifted with the Earthbow and told he will learn its purpose - just before his mentor abandons him. Return to the world of Narenta in Earthbow, the second of Sherry Thompson's Earthbow. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dickie Thomas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013867/bk_acx0_013867_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Jilted Bride: A Footnote to Cinderella's Happiness: Fairetellings, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 121min
    Sometimes one woman's happily ever after is another woman's misery. When the charming Prince Caspar abandons his bride Demetria at the altar to sweep Cinderella off her feet, the duke's daughter is left humiliated and heartbroken. Desperate to lift their daughter's spirits, Demetria's parents introduce her to a new suitor from a foreign land. Jaded by being jilted, she questions the very thing she has built her life around and searches for new meaning and healing with two unlikely companions. The Jilted Bride takes listeners on a heartfelt journey as it explores the aftermath of the Cinderella's happy ending in a world where there are no fairy godmothers to magically heal a devastated young woman's broken heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marnye Young. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/083642/bk_acx0_083642_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Palace of Impossible Dreams: Tide Lords, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1018min
    Just remember, eternity is a long time to be watching over your shoulder.... Branded and sold into slavery in Senestra, Arkady holds out little hope of being rescued. She turns to her new owner for help...but learning the truth about him may cost both their lives. Jaxyn's plans hit a snag when he realises the one man who can challenge him for the Glabaen throne, Stellan Desean, has sought asylum in Caelum. Strangely enough, the Empress of the Five Realms, and the Tide Lords Tryan and Elyssa, seem to be on Stellan's side.... And Declan Hawkes, struggling with his transformation, abandons the Cabal, and flees to Glaeba in search of some trace of Arkady. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Telfer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016280/bk_adbl_016280_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Mother's Hope , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 710min
    Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying, a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bombs crash down, she is filled with panic and, with a heavy heart, abandons her burden in a sheltered doorway, meaning to return later. Even as she disappears in the resulting chaos, the bundle in the basket begins to wail. Years later, two young unfortunates meet on a November day. Martin has been desperately trying to hitch a lift along the lonely windswept road and when he sees a weeping girl in front of him, he hurries to catch her up. Rose and Martin become unlikely companions until they go their separate ways, not expecting to meet again. However, fate decrees otherwise... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Dover. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/000953/bk_isis_000953_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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