24 Results for : bleakness
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The Call of the Wild , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 150min
The Call of the Wild takes the listener on an epic adventure during the Klondike Gold Rush during the 1890s. Buck, a four-year-old St. Bernard and Scotch sheppard crossbreed, is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. Then he is kidnapped and shipped to the cold bleakness of the Arctic to work with Klondike gold miners. Passed from master to master, Buck embarks on an extraordinary journey that tells the tale of his unbreakable spirit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Lord. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001407/bk_mike_001407_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Judas Iscariot , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 208min
The collection consists of three stories related to the Gospel narrative."Judas Iscariot" - a retelling of the most famous betrayal is history and the sad fate of the traitor"Ben Tobit" - a sardonic little tale about a pious man suffering a severe toothache on the day of Jesus' crucifixion"Eleazar" - a story built on the raising of Lazarus recounted in the Gospel of John.All three stories feature the writer's characteristic view of the bleakness of human endeavor in an uncaring world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Richcreek. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/003095/bk_mike_003095_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Alpha Male Sub: What Happens When a Dominant Submits? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 149min, (USK 18)
David's life is well sorted. A professor of English literature, he is chasing the ever-elusive best seller of his dreams in his spare waking moments while living a private life that many men and their girlfriends would only choose to fantasize about. We meet David when tragedy tosses him into an angry paralysis of existence. Poised to lose more than he already has, David desperately seeks to escape what happened. Eventually he must somehow stem the emotional bleakness poisoning him in order to reestablish a balance in his life. When asked to consider an unconventional approach to striking that balance, David embarks on a journey he could not have predicted. What happens when a dominant man submits? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darren Homewood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/055674/bk_acx0_055674_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Inch Levels , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 576min
A haunting debut set in the harsh, beautiful landscape of Ireland's north coast. Patrick Jackson lies on his deathbed in Derry and recalls a family history marked by secrecy and silence and a striking absence of conventional pieties. He remembers the death of an eight-year-old girl whose body was found on reclaimed land called Inch Levels on the shoreline of Lough Swilly. And he is visited by his beloved but troubled sister, Margaret, and by his despised brother-in-law, Robert, and by Sarah, his hard, unchallengeable mother. Each of them could talk about events in the past that might explain the bleakness of their relationships, but leaving things unsaid has become a way of life. Guilt and memory beat against them as shock waves from bombs in Derry travel down the river to shake the windows of those who have escaped the city. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liam Houricane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028129/bk_adbl_028129_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Brummstein , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 105min
This astonishing novel begins in 1907, when Josef Siedler, a science-fiction devotee, ventures deep into a series of caves in search of an entrance to the underworld. Disappointed in his quest, he nonetheless returns with a peculiar souvenir: a small rock sample that emits a strange humming sound. Upon Siedler’s death, the rock is bequeathed to his nephew, a significant step in what will become an extraordinary journey through the arc of history. For as the stone passes through the hands of a series of owners, we are told their stories: from pre-World War I ambitions and inter-war anarchism to conditions during World War II, the bleakness of life in postwar East Germany, the German art scene of the 1960s, and more. These snapshots of the 20th century serve to chronicle the continuity of humanity, with all its strengths and weaknesses. In The Brummstein, Danish author Peter Adolphsen has spun a mystical - and movingly memorable - exploration of the meaning of life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004535/bk_brll_004535_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Under Handicap (eBook, ePUB)
'Under Handicap' is a tale of character-building, grit and gumption in the desert of Southwest. Two young men, Tommy Garton and Conniston, struggle to overcome their respective handicaps-the former is disabled while the other lacks tolerance and integrity being the spoilt son of a multi-millionaire father! What is in store for these unusual pair of "friends" in an unforgiving ranch lifestyle? Will they succeed or lose irrevocably? Excerpt: "Outside there was shimmering heat and dry, thirsty sand, miles upon miles of it flashing by in a gray, barren blur. A flat, arid, monotonous land, vast, threatening, waterless, treeless. Its immensity awed, its bleakness depressed. Man's work here seemed but to accentuate the puny insignificance of man. Man had come upon the desert and had gone, leaving only a line of telegraph-poles with their glistening wires, two gleaming parallel rails of burning steel to mark his passing."- Shop: buecher
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Dark County , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 303min
The author of Beneath takes you on a journey into the dark heart of rural England Lincolnshire, a place of beauty and peace, but also a place of bleakness and violence. In this collection of short stories, Amazon best-selling horror writer, Kit Tinsley explores the darkness at the center of the countryside. The 10 tales within cover many aspects of the horror genre, from the supernatural to all too human evil. Included stories: "A Drive in the Country" - A troubled, married couple seek a pleasant day out, but it goes very wrong when they have an accident on the isolated, country road. "Tracks" - A young, deaf boy tries to prove his bravery by exploring a ghostly local legend, but will he survive the tracks? "The House by the Marsh" - A group of childhood friends find their whole lives haunted by a chance encounter with a derelict old house. "The Crows" - A career criminal takes on one last job too many. "Fear and Loathing in Skeg Vegas" - A young man with a gambling addiction owes money to a very dangerous man. Will a meeting with a strange old man save him, or damn him? These stories and more will open your eyes to what is hidden under the surface of the Dark County. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Goll. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051995/bk_acx0_051995_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Into the Light: Book Three of the Into the Mists Trilogy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 827min
When her parents died in a tragic accident and her life in Australia fell apart, Carlie was sent across the ocean to live with a stranger. After a harrowing journey through the mists, she finally found peace with her grandmother, magic with her new friend, and first love with her druidic soul mate. But then she was plunged back into the darkness. Now, haunted by loss and betrayal, and worried that her shattered heart is beyond repair, she must decide whether she has it in her to find her way back into the light. In the stunning conclusion to the Into the Mists Trilogy, the wheel of the year turns from the bleakness of midwinter to the new hope of spring. Can Carlie break a decades-long curse and save the person she's closest to? Will she unlock the mystery of the sad woman she meets late one night? Which of the shadowy Otherworldly beings can she trust? Who is the man with the raven tattoo? And how far is she willing to go to forgive and be forgiven? For a chance at happiness, she must challenge the wise priestess and embrace her darkest fears. But is she already fated to echo the lonely life of her grandmother, or can she find the courage to open her heart again? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gabrielle Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/097493/bk_acx0_097493_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mannequin Girl: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 569min
A heartfelt and deftly told coming-of-age story, Mannequin Girl captures the bleakness of Soviet Russia and the hopeful turmoil of adolescence. "A perfect little figure," he says. "Our mannequin girl." She knows who mannequin girls are. They are in her grandmother's Working Woman magazines, modeling flouncy dresses and berets. "Bend," he tells her, and she does, so pliant, so obedient. Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, temperamental Anechka and soft-hearted, absent-minded Misha. Young Jewish intellectuals, they teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political radicalism. Kat sees herself as their heir and ally. But when she's diagnosed with rapidly-progressing scoliosis, the trajectory of her life changes, and she finds herself at a different institution - a school-sanatorium for children with spinal ailments. Confined to a brace, surrounded by unsympathetic peers, Kat embarks on a quest to prove that she can be as exceptional as her parents: a beauty, an intellect, and free spirit despite her physical limitations, her Jewishness, and her suspicion that her beloved parents are in fact flawed. Can a girl with a crooked spine really be a mannequin girl, her parents' pride and her doctors' and teachers' glory? Or will she prove to be something far more ordinary - and, thereby, more her own? An unforgettable heroine, Kat will have to find the courage to face the world and break free, not only of her metal brace but of all the constraints that bind her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Evans. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016867/bk_adbl_016867_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Finding Nirvana: Black Shamrocks MC, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min
It's said that only in our darkest hour do we find light. That may be true for the lucky ones. When your light has been extinguished and pitch-black bleakness has taken hold, you could be excused for doubting that it will ever be reignited. In the past when people mentioned Joel O'Brien, they talked about "the quiet one". The boy who was the family's voice of reason and their go-to guy for wisdom well beyond his years. Nowadays, they whisper about the "crippled one". The man who radiates darkness, who wallows in his self-pity, and refuses to find a way to deal with the injuries he sustained at the beginning of the war that's threatening to engulf the Black Shamrocks MC. Sascha Koswalski is the light of her family's life. With a smile that could brighten the day of the most hard-hearted, the single mother's innate exuberance lessens the pain of her physiotherapy clients. She's yet to find a patient who doesn't respond to her sunny nature and skilled hands. Until Joel. The stubborn, angry man might be the one patient she fails. Unable to crack his protective shell, Sascha is on the verge of giving up when Joel shows her another side of himself. Buoyed by the knowledge that there is a man filled with hope hiding beneath his cold veneer, can she rehabilitate more than his broken body? Will she be the light that reignites his belief in himself and sets them both on the path to Finding Nirvana? Disclaimer: This book contains depictions of graphic situations and is not suitable for all readers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liv Rose, Jake Hudson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/inbl/000763/bk_inbl_000763_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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