214 Results for : infatuated
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The Lead Miner's Daughter: A Story of Life, Love and Crime , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
Amazon UK Number-One Best Seller"An outstanding author whose debut novel The Lead Miner’s Daughter is the most authentic historical novel I’ve read in a long long time." (Phil Mews, author)A story of love, life and crime. It is 1872 when Mary Watson leaves her childhood home to work at Springbank Farm. She soon meets a handsome farmer, Joe Milburn, and becomes infatuated with him, but is he the right man for her? What will her future hold? Mary’s story is woven into a background of rural life and crime. What happens in this remote valley leaves the community reeling in shock and seeking justice. Find yourself in the secluded valley of Weardale on the wide open moors and in the deep mines of the North Pennines as this intriguing and dramatic story unfolds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kim Bretton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165375/bk_acx0_165375_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Courting Justice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 518min
Winning a high-profile case has given a huge boost to New York attorney DeAngelo Di Meglio's career - and his love life. Too bad fame hasn't helped him win the woman he's been infatuated with for years. Tired of waiting and wondering, Angelo books a trip to the singles-only Bahamas resort where Peyton Mahoney is celebrating her thirtieth birthday. And just as he hoped, when they finally connect, the chemistry is mind-blowing.... Two weeks in paradise has given Peyton some sizzling memories. That's all she expects - or wants - from a legendary player like Angelo. Having grown up on Chicago's South Side, she is worlds away from his life of privilege. Then a controversial case puts them on opposing sides. And as sexual tension spills over from the courtroom to the bedroom, there's no way they can ignore the undeniable attraction.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Ohms. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010782/bk_adbl_010782_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Autograph Seeker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 679min
During the colonial rule in India, fate throws together a diverse cast onto the San Souci Theatre stage - Esther Leech, the Kohinoor of Bengal theatre; James Barry, the theatre manager facing bankruptcy; Alice Anderson, the enchanting English woman estranged from her husband, Thomas Anderson; and Baboo Bustomchurn Addy, the dark Bengali actor infatuated with Alice and ready to kill for her. Yet, history has forgotten this cast who perished with the San Souci Theatre until it’s discovered by a school boy in Calcutta desperate to tell their story. To help him is an effervescent Anglo Indian beauty. She’s mute. It was the end of innocence and the dawn of a glorious institution. Unearth the story of the greatest theatre in colonial India hidden for the last 150 years inside this epic school-age novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tavish Bhattacharya. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051008/bk_adbl_051008_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Walk a Black Wind: A Dan Fortune Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 351min
Francesca Crawford is sleeping when the murderer enters her apartment. The door is locked, but the killer is agile, climbing down from the roof, knife in hand. The killer is expert, stabbing Francesca only once, straight through the heart. She doesn't even wake up. John Andera comes to Dan Fortune, the one-armed private investigator, begging him to find justice for Francesca. Andera is a salesman, an ordinary fellow who met the girl - who turns out to be the high-class daughter of an upstate mayor - a few weeks before her death. He was instantly infatuated, so he offers Fortune $2,000 to find the man who killed his young love. But to understand her death, Fortune must learn who she was in life, and this girl will prove one of the most perplexing mysteries he has ever faced. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Lawlor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000785/bk_high_000785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Secret Seduction: Secret Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 295min
To Katie, life was simple. She wanted a little house in upper Boston, and four kids fathered by her best friend Jason, who she's been infatuated with since she was eight. After a devastating family secret is exposed, all she wants now is to escape the media hype that follows her everywhere she turns. Leaving her family, friends, and Jason behind, she travels to places she's only read about, to find a father she's never known. Jason is on a mission and he's come halfway around the world to complete it. Despite his feelings for Katie, he won't let her resistance deter him, even if it means she'll never trust him again. As their world spirals out of control, their relationship will be tested and changed forever. If he can keep them alive and out of harm's way, he may have a chance to make everything right. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Lawrence. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029500/bk_acx0_029500_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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He Knew He Was Right, Hörbuch, Digital, 1786min
He Knew He Was Right is an 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband worsened by the stubbornness of a willful wife. A wealthy young English gentleman, Louis Trevelyan, visits the fictional Mandarin Islands, and becomes infatuated with Emily Rowley, the eldest daughter of the governor, Sir Marmaduke Rowley. The Rowleys accompany Trevelyan to London, where he marries Emily.The marriage is initially a happy one and the couple have a baby boy. Then a seemingly minor matter undermines their marriage. Colonel Osborne, an old friend of Sir Marmaduke’s, visits Emily much too frequently for her husband’s taste. Though nothing improper occurs, Trevelyan orders his wife to avoid the man in future. Emily resents his lack of trust and does not attempt to hide it. Their relationship deteriorates to the point that they separate... Language: English. Narrator: Harriet Reese. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/009878/bk_edel_009878_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Disbanded Kingdom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min
Twenty-two-year-old Oscar is a lost cause. He roams central London, looking for love and distraction. But this isn't quite Bright Lights, Big City: Oscar is gay but feels disconnected from London's gay scene. He is naive and rootless, an emotionally stunted young man who lives in upscale Kensington with his foster mother, novelist Charlotte Fontaine. But all of this changes when he meets Tim, Charlotte's 3--something literary agent with whom Oscar becomes hopelessly infatuated. While he struggles to understand Tim's politics and his rejection of religion, Oscar's developing friendship with Tim affects a profound change in the young man, making him want to understand the world and his place in it. Disbanded Kingdom is a brilliantly written 21st-century coming-of-age story, set against the emotive backdrop of the United Kingdom's breakaway from the European Union and its threatened rupture with Scotland. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Lyon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108639/bk_acx0_108639_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Ghost Writer: The Nathan Zuckerman Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 271min
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the great books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former student of Lonoff's and who may also have been his mistress. Zuckerman, with his active, youthful imagination, wonders if she could be the paradigmatic victim of Nazi persecution. If she were, it might change his life. The first volume in the Zuckerman Bound trilogy and epilogue, The Ghost Writer is about the tensions between literature and life, artistic truthfulness and conventional decency - and about those implacable practitioners who live with the consequences of sacrificing one for the other. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008734/bk_blak_008734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Death in the Clouds: A Hercule Poirot Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 378min
From seat number nine, Hercule Poirot is almost ideally placed to observe his fellow air travelers on this short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sits a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite. Ahead, in seat number 13, is the Countess of Horbury, horribly addicted to cocaine and not doing too good a job of concealing it. Across the gangway in seat number eight, a writer of detective fiction is being troubled by an aggressive wasp. Yes, Poirot is almost ideally placed to take it all in - except that the passenger in the seat directly behind him has slumped over in the course of the flight ... dead. Murdered. By someone in Poirot's immediate proximity. And Poirot himself must number among the suspects. This title was previously published as Death in the Air. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Fraser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002952/bk_harp_002952_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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And Playing the Role of Herself , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 899min, (USK 18)
Actress Caidence Harris is living her dreams after landing a leading role among the star-studded, veteran cast of Ninth Precinct, a hot new police drama shot on location in glitzy LA. Her sometimes-costar Robyn Ward is magnetic, glamorous, and devastatingly beautiful, the quintessential A-List celebrity on the fast-track to super-stardom. When the two meet on the set of Ninth Precinct, Caid is instantly infatuated but settles for friendship, positive that Robyn is both unavailable and uninterested. Soon Caid sees that all is not as it appears, but can she take a chance and risk her heart when the outcome is so uncertain? The leading ladies and the supporting cast of this debut novel by newcomer K.E Lane will charm you, entertain you, and leave you with a smile on your face. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Cordileone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099832/bk_acx0_099832_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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