197 Results for : distracts
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Bedside Manners: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 514min
As Joyce Novak’s daughter, Marnie, completes medical school and looks ahead to a surgical internship, her wedding, and a future filled with promise, a breast cancer diagnosis throws Joyce’s own future into doubt. Always the caregiver, Joyce feels uncomfortable in the patient role, especially with her husband and daughter. As she progresses through a daunting treatment regimen including a biopsy, lumpectomy, and radiation, she distracts herself by planning Marnie’s wedding.When the sudden death of a young heroin addict in Marnie’s care forces Marnie to come face-to-face with mortality and her professional inadequacies, she also realizes she must strike a new balance between her identity as a doctor and her role as a supportive daughter. At the same time, she struggles with the stark differences between her fiancé’s family background and her own and comes to understand the importance of being with someone who shares her values and experiences.Amid this profound soul-searching, both Joyce and Marnie’s futures change in ways they never would have expected. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randye Kaye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160153/bk_acx0_160153_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sweet and Low: Booktrack Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 324min
Sweet and Low: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!*This is the 15th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A nonprofit trust controls the for-profit Dreyer Chocolate Bar company with conflicts in purpose, with a nonprofit trustee clashing with for-profit executives. You'll find excitement, humor, and Lathen's ever-present wit with the usual charming group of Sloan people, as John Putnam Thatcher again solves the mystery.*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.Please note: The audio for this title has noise issues at the beginning and end of each file/chapter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deaver Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smag/000851/bk_smag_000851_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Vampire's Bite , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 71min
After saving up to visit New York City for the New Year, Dana finds herself exploring the city’s dangerous night life. Unintentionally stumbling into a vampire bistro, Dana meets a handsome young French waiter. She takes the waiter back to her hotel room. Their encounter is cut short, however, when he takes a bite of her. Dana begins suffering strange symptoms from the bite she receives on her neck. In an attempt to understand what is happening, Dana becomes involved with a wealthy vampire named Laurent. Spending her evenings exploring the city in style, Dana’s symptoms worsen. Laurent distracts Dana with the high life, French poetry, and passionate sex. As the New Year approaches, she struggles against primal urges which surface in her. Her sensations more sensitive than ever, Dana knows that, one way or the other, the New Year will change her forever.... Content warning (+18 years only): This audiobook has explicit love scenes, naughty language, and tons of sexy shifter secrets. This is an adult-only shifter romance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ashlynn Brooks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105714/bk_acx0_105714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Children of Odin (Booktrack Edition): The Book of Northern Myths , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 381min
The Children of Odin: Booktrack Edition is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience!*Before time as we know it began, gods and goddesses lived in the city of Asgard. Odin All Father crossed the Rainbow Bridge to walk among men in Midgard. Thor defended Asgard with his mighty hammer. Mischievous Loki was constantly getting into trouble with the other gods, and dragons and giants walked free. This collection of Norse sagas retold by author Padraic Colum gives us a sense of that magical time when the world was filled with powers and wonders we can hardly imagine. *Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/novl/000539/bk_novl_000539_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Come to Dust: Booktrack Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 436min
Come to Dust: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!*This the eighth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. This time involves fundraising for the old Ivy league college, Dartmouth in fact, with various goings-on related to missing checks, possible embezzlement, and more. It's windy twisty road to the solution made by John Putnam Thatcher. Good fun, witty, and informative.*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout. Please note: The audio for this title has noise issues at the beginning and end of each file/chapter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deaver Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smag/000845/bk_smag_000845_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Witch Hearts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 419min
How does a witch stay safe if a killer can get through her protection spells? Witches like Ruby and Courtney can take care of themselves. So when Courtney is murdered, Ruby's world crashes to a halt. The only thing keeping her grounded is the return of Courtney's brother, Cooper. He seeks revenge, but Ruby wants to help other witches stay alive. To do that, she'll have to reunite with her old coven's High Priest, who also happens to be her cheating ex-boyfriend. If that wasn't awkward enough, when the killer gets too close, Cooper temporarily moves into Ruby's place while a police officer tails her every move. Cooper's presence distracts Ruby as they fight their desire against their need to stay safe. Then Courtney begins to haunt Ruby's dreams and secrets are spilled, things from Cooper's past that could get them both killed. The killer continues to stalk Ruby and the more she discovers, the more she fears she won't be able to keep her heart in her chest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Emmes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025296/bk_acx0_025296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Adrift on the Sea of Rains: Apollo Quartet, Book 1: Booktrack Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 114min
Adrift on the Sea of Rains: Apollo Quartet, Book 1: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!* Winner of the 2013 BSFA AwardWhen nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of nine US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to find an alternate Earth that did not suffer nuclear armageddon. But once they do discover one, how will they return to the planet? They have a single lunar module, which can carry only four astronauts into lunar orbit....*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Schmidt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/novl/000544/bk_novl_000544_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Longer the Thread: Booktrack Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 371min
The Longer the Thread: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!*This is the 13th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. An American company has trouble in its Puerto Rican plant when a foreman is murdered and only management could have done it. Thatcher figures it out, rescues the $3 million loan for the Sloan, and helps everyone recover.*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.Please note: The audio for this title has noise issues at the beginning and end of each file/chapter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deaver Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smag/000849/bk_smag_000849_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Way Back , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 289min
After losing his home and savings to his lying son, widower Robin Bentley has a breakdown and is consigned to a care home for the elderly. He’s deeply depressed and has lost himself. As his health improves, he feels imprisoned and decides he must escape. While sneaking away, his path is blocked by a scary, battle-worn bull terrier, which is being hunted by the police. Very frightened, Robin distracts its attention with food from his rucksack, and then hurriedly makes the long walk to his planned hideaway at a seaside caravan park. But the fearsome beast follows him relentlessly...He curses his luck, but in time, realises the dog is a fellow fugitive and takes pity on it. At great sacrifice, he takes care of it and grows to love his ugly companion.An elderly Chinese widow, living with her cat in an adjacent caravan, is very alarmed by the arrival of her scary-looking new neighbours. Many trials and misfortunes follow, and the dark side of life battles with love and companionship, to shape their future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Carroll. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/142295/bk_acx0_142295_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Split Second: Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, Book 1, Hörbuch, Digital, 210min
When something distracts Secret Service agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him his career - and presidential candidate Clyde Ritter his life. What stole his attention? Why was Ritter shot? Where were the other detail leaders? Eight years later, Michelle Maxwell is on the fast track through the ranks of the Secret Service when her career receives a lethal blow: presidential candidate John Bruno is abducted from a funeral home while under her protection. The similarity between the two cases drives Michelle to re-open investigations into the Ritter fiasco and join forces with attractive ex-agent King. The pair are determined to get to the bottom of what happened in those critical moments. Meanwhile, high-ranking members of the legal system and key witnesses from both cases are going missing. King is losing friends, colleagues, and clients fast, and his ex-lover, Joan Dillinger, a hard-biting, widely respected agent, is playing curious games. She wants Sean back and resents his growing relationship with Michelle, but she also owes him for something. Language: English. Narrator: Damian Lewis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000034/bk_macm_000034_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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