123 Results for : tortures
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Two Heads Equal Two Hands: The Story of the Chatsworth Killer in His Own Words , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 296min
The murders must be random, highly simplified, with no elaborate tortures, no exotic locations, no manipulated crime scenes or messages left behind for the cops and media. Every murder must occur inside the residence of the murder victim. (The words of the infamous Chatsworth Killer) From 2003 to 2006, a series of 14 brutal murders summoned the deepest fears in the hearts of everyone living in California's San Fernando Valley. The killer behind the murders would become known only when he turned himself in to authorities in 2006, confessing to the murders and declaring he had "proof" that "emptiness" and "informational symmetry" made random crime impossible to prevent in modern-day society. While the subsequent investigation and trial that led to the Chatsworth Killer's life imprisonment have been well documented, the man-monster himself has remained silent - until now. With elaborate legal agreements in place to ensure the killer cannot profit from the resulting book, writer-philosopher Emericus Durden undertook a series of interviews with the man over several months in 2010. The result is Two Heads Equal Two Hands, the first and only account by the serial killer himself of what he did and why he did it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Clawitter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/040147/bk_acx0_040147_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Minor Demons: Angels and Demons, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
The devil made a big mistake. Years ago he branded Shadow's father, Abaddon, a traitor, guilty of conspiring with the angels, and currently tortures him in the lowest circle of hell. The demon Shadow vows to rescue his father but has always wondered if the rumors were true. After all, his father did give him Michael the Archangel's short blade before he was dragged off by the devil's army. Leech has always been picked on and bullied by the other demons. His father is a lowly minor demon in General Cain's armies and has little hope of advancing. Despite his small size, Leech knows he was meant for great things and refuses to let larger demons get in the way of his ambition and hunger for power. Denied a life of ease and luxury, Lilith trained herself to fight with a single goal in mind: killing her mother. Lilith was raised by the minor demon Panic, despite the general consensus that she was actually the daughter of the major demon of lust, Vixen. Vixen refuses to acknowledge her, and Lilith plans on making her pay for it. Follow Shadow, Leech, and Lilith on their journey to become minor demons. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Pelletier. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065354/bk_acx0_065354_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2254min
The gripping finale to Robin Hobb’s classic Farseer trilogy. Keystone. Gate. Crossroads. Catalyst. Fitz is about to discover the truth about the Fool's prophecy. Having been resurrected from his fatal tortures in Regal's dungeons, Fitz has once more foiled Regal's attempts to be rid of him. Now, back in his own body, and after months of rehabilitation, Fitz begins the painful and slow process of learning the ways of a man again. Under the watchful eye of Burrich, old King Shrewd's Stablemaster, Fitz must learn to cast off the wild but carefree ways of the wolf and enter once more the human world: a world beset ever more viciously by the relentless Red Ship Raiders who are now left free to plunder any coastal town they please. But more immediately, a world in which he finds he is utterly alone. Regal has stripped the kingdom of its riches and retired to the inland city of Tradeford. Of Verity, on his quest to find the legendary Elderings, there has been no word; Molly, Kettricken, and the Fool have all vanished. Unless Fitz can find Verity and help him in his quest, the Six Duchies will perish and there will be no safe place to live. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Boehmer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001098/bk_hcuk_001098_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Absolution: A Frank Renzi Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 711min
A twisted serial killer preys on young women in New Orleans. They let him into their homes because they trust him. But he tortures them, then kills them. Is the killer a priest? Everyone has something to hide. Some of the darkest secrets reside in a parish church. When a black journalist denounces police for unfairly targeting black male suspects, racial tensions boil over. A tip from a prostitute leads NOPD Homicide Detective Frank Renzi to believe the killer may be a white priest. Renzi is hot on the killer's trail, but the seductive psychopath persuades a teenage girl to help him escape. Will Renzi be able to save her? *Warning: contains profanity, violence and sexual situations*Publisher's summary: This book was inspired by an actual serial killer who was brutally murdering young women in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, soon after I moved to New Orleans. Some Baton Rouge residents believed the killer was black, but an FBI profiler had pegged him as white. However, the serial killer in ABSOLUTION is very different, and the setting is the ever-seductive New Orleans. This is the first book in my award-winning crime thriller series featuring NOPD Detective Frank Renzi. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rich Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051943/bk_acx0_051943_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Where Tyndra Turns to Ardnyt: The Norn Novellas, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 200min
In the center of a magical world there grows a beautiful and terrible chasm of climbing plants. On one side of the Ivy Wall we find the hell-of-Tyndra, on the other, the heaven-of-Ardnyt. But legend has it that in the middle…lives a preternatural beast that imprisons and tortures the children from both sides. When the war against time begins, Azza will have to cross over the Ivy Wall, something that has never been done before by a living being. But if she does make it through, she just might discover who she really is and how she became trapped in this alternate reality. A fairytale at heart, this is the first chapter in the epic saga of the youngest and most fickle of the four Norn Sisters. The same feisty immortal creature who must escape her inherent inner darkness to learn the meaning of love. A veritable palindrome from start to finish, the narrative of Where Tyndra Turns to Ardnyt journeys through duality to discover what shocking truths emerge when up becomes down, life becomes death, suffering becomes release, and the most unexpected endings become the most surprising beginnings. Welcome to a place where forwards and backwards are exactly the same direction. Here Where Tyndra Turns to Ardnyt. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sara Reid. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/153819/bk_acx0_153819_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Borne , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 729min
A novel that is simultaneously harrowing, dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting from the author of the Southern Reach trilogy. 'Am I a person?' Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. 'Yes, you are a person,' Rachel tells him. 'But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.' A ruined city of the future lives in fear of a despotic, gigantic flying bear, driven mad by the tortures inflicted on him by the Company, a mysterious biotech firm. A scavenger, Rachel, finds a creature entangled in his fur. She names it Borne. At first Borne looks like nothing at all - a green lump that might be a discard from the Company. But he reminds Rachel of her homeland, an island nation long lost to rising seas, and she prevents her lover, Wick, from rendering down Borne as raw genetic material for the special kind of drugs he sells. But nothing is quite the way it seems: not the past, not the present, not the future. If Wick is hiding secrets, so is Rachel - and Borne most of all. What Rachel finds hidden deep within the Company will change everything and everyone. There, lost and forgotten things have lingered and grown. What they have grown into is mighty indeed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bahni Turpin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002955/bk_hcuk_002955_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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People from Bloomington (eBook, ePUB)
An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia's most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan Paramaditha A Penguin Classic In these seven stories of The People from Bloomington our peculiar narrators find themselves in the most peculiar of circumstances and encounter the most peculiar of people. Set in Bloomington, Indiana, where the author lived as a graduate student in the 1970s, this is far from the idyllic portrait of small-town America. Rather, sectioned into apartment units and rented rooms, and gridded by long empty streets and distances traversable only by car, it's a place where the solitary can all too easily remain solitary; where people can at once be obsessively curious about others, yet fail to form genuine connections with anyone. The characters feel their loneliness acutely and yet deliberately estrange others. Budi Darma paints a realist world portrayed through an absurdist frame, morbid and funny at the same time. For decades, Budi Darma has influenced and inspired many writers, artists, filmmakers, and readers in Indonesia, yet his stories also transcend time and place. With The People from Bloomington, Budi Darma draws us to a universality recognized by readers around the world-the cruelty of life and the difficulties that people face in relating to each other while negotiating their own identities. The stories are not about "strangeness" in the sense of culture, race, and nationality. Instead, they are a statement about how everyone, regardless of nationality or race, is strange, and subject to the same tortures, suspicions, yearnings, and peculiarities of the mind.- Shop: buecher
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People from Bloomington
An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia's most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan Paramaditha A Penguin Classic In these seven stories of The People from Bloomington our peculiar narrators find themselves in the most peculiar of circumstances and encounter the most peculiar of people. Set in Bloomington, Indiana, where the author lived as a graduate student in the 1970s, this is far from the idyllic portrait of small-town America. Rather, sectioned into apartment units and rented rooms, and gridded by long empty streets and distances traversable only by car, it's a place where the solitary can all too easily remain solitary; where people can at once be obsessively curious about others, yet fail to form genuine connections with anyone. The characters feel their loneliness acutely and yet deliberately estrange others. Budi Darma paints a realist world portrayed through an absurdist frame, morbid and funny at the same time. For decades, Budi Darma has influenced and inspired many writers, artists, filmmakers, and readers in Indonesia, yet his stories also transcend time and place. With The People from Bloomington, Budi Darma draws us to a universality recognized by readers around the world-the cruelty of life and the difficulties that people face in relating to each other while negotiating their own identities. The stories are not about "strangeness" in the sense of culture, race, and nationality. Instead, they are a statement about how everyone, regardless of nationality or race, is strange, and subject to the same tortures, suspicions, yearnings, and peculiarities of the mind.- Shop: buecher
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Wilberforce: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1066min
At St. Stephen's Academy, the students are on the verge of revolt. While the younger boys plot an insurrection, the older ones are preoccupied with sneaking out of bounds, thrashing each other, tearing each other's clothes off - or some combination of the three. Morgan Wilberforce, for one, can't take it any longer. Everything Wilberforce touches turns to disaster in his desperate attempts to fight off desire, boredom, and angst. He knocks himself unconscious tackling the unattainable Spaulding on the rugby pitch, his headmaster detests him for crimes committed years ago, and even his closest friends are subjecting him to physical tortures normally reserved for juniors. When an accident at the boarding school leaves him with more suffering than he could have fathomed, he finds himself alone and adrift. And the workaday charms of cricket practice, Victorian pornography, canings from classmates, and fumbling with the pub keeper's daughter can do only so much to mend a broken body and a restless heart. Stylishly inventive, H. S. Cross has crafted an imaginative, ritualistic world of men and boys narrowly confined by tradition and authority. Wilberforce is an indelible portrait of a young man caught between lust and cruelty, grief and God, frustrated love and abject longing - and a tour de force that heralds the arrival of a brilliant new novelist. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Bloch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023753/bk_adbl_023753_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beautiful Children: A Novel, Hörbuch, Digital, 545min
One Saturday night in Las Vegas, 12-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy.As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what's become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell's vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator in town for a weekend of debauchery; a painfully shy and possibly disturbed young artist; a stripper who imagines moments from her life as if they were movie scenes; a bubbly teenage Wiccan anarchist; a dangerous and scheming gutter punk; and a band of misfit runaways. These "urban nomads", each with a past to hide and a pain to nurture, weave their way through a neon underworld of sex, drugs, and the spinning wheels of chance.In this masterly debut novel, Charles Bock captures Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance, providing a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America. Beautiful Children is an odyssey of heartache and redemption, heralding the arrival of a major new writer. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Deakins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001347/bk_rand_001347_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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