37 Results for : portends
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What Fate Portends: The Frost Arcana, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 393min
Faeries liked to tease the weak, but they loved to annihilate the strong.Seven years ago, the exposure of the paranormal led to the tumultuous downfall of human society. Now, the legions of the fae rule the broken world, and humanity has nothing left but a handful of protected cities and a heaping helping of regret.Enter Vincent Whelan. Half fae and former cop, he's become the best known stretch scavenger in Kinsale, North Carolina, braving the "stretches" outside his city to recover precious items lost in the collapse. He makes good money. Lives the good life. Has a good future in store. As long as he can ignore his traumatic memories of the past.But when a new job with an odd twist blows onto his doorstep, Vince finds himself unwittingly drawn into a vast conspiracy lurking underneath Kinsale's thin veneer of civilization. Old friends suddenly return to haunt him. New enemies appear at every turn. And Vince fears he isn't prepared to confront either one.But if he doesn't put his detective hat back on and solve this case on a tight deadline, then what's left of the city he calls home might just crumble to dust. What Fate Portends is the first novel of The Frost Arcana, an action-packed urban fantasy series set in a postapocalyptic world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pavi Proczko. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133092/bk_acx0_133092_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rome and America
Rome and America ab 62.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: the Great Republics: What the Fall of the Roman Republic Portends for the United States. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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Rome and America
Rome and America ab 48.99 € als Taschenbuch: the Great Republics: What the Fall of the Roman Republic Portends for the United States. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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Jennet: Now She Wants the Children: Ghosts of Thores-Cross, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 320min
Yorkshire is in the grip of a heatwave, and Thruscross Reservoir has dried up to reveal the remains of the drowned village of Thores-Cross beneath.Playing in the mud which coats the valley floor, four-year-old Clare Wainwright finds an old inkpot, and she can’t wait to show it to her best friend, Louise. But when Louise’s mother Emma sees it, her reaction is shocking, and both families are plunged into their worst nightmares. Emma knows what the inkpot portends: Jennet has woken. Now she wants the children.Jennet will have your heart and your fear in equal measure. Through Jennet, we find how cruelty can drive even the most ordinary people to hatred and, in Jennet's case, evil. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Perkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157263/bk_acx0_157263_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Nightmare Flower : Monster, She Wrote, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min
This collection of 18 short tales, a novelette, and a short novel takes the listener inside the dark imagination of Elizabeth Engstrom, author of acclaimed horror classics like When Darkness Loves Us.In these stories, you will hear about a woman asked to be complicit in her own mother’s death, a grandmother with a macabre hobby, a bizarre, phallic-shaped flower that portends evil for a married couple, a father whose son is caught up in a sinister government experiment. These are weird and unsettling tales that will linger with the listener.In her introduction to this new edition, Lisa Kröger declares, “There are true horrors that await readers in all of Engstrom’s works...reminds me of another giant of horror literature, Shirley Jackson.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karly Hutchins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228086/bk_acx0_228086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Warning Call: The Black Pages Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 757min
Elana Black. Saving the day even if she has to tear a hole in the universe to do it. An unbeatable mythological horror has its sights set on Elana, and that's not the worst of her problems. Gods want to use her, shadowy agents want to eliminate her, and a powerful sorcerer wants to kill her; all as she rushes to stop an event that portends the death of her best friend, Olivia. It's all catching up with her, and just in time for Christmas. Elana is going to have to figure out how all of it is connected but she's in over her head, outnumbered, and running out of time. And she always thought magic would make her life easier. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Whitton A. Frank. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/122362/bk_acx0_122362_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Information, Democracy, and Autocracy (eBook, PDF)
Advocates for economic development often call for greater transparency. But what does transparency really mean? What are its consequences? This breakthrough book demonstrates how information impacts major political phenomena, including mass protest, the survival of dictatorships, democratic stability, as well as economic performance. The book introduces a new measure of a specific facet of transparency: the dissemination of economic data. Analysis shows that democracies make economic data more available than do similarly developed autocracies. Transparency attracts investment and makes democracies more resilient to breakdown. But transparency has a dubious consequence under autocracy: political instability. Mass-unrest becomes more likely, and transparency can facilitate democratic transition - but most often a new despotic regime displaces the old. Autocratic leaders may also turn these threats to their advantage, using the risk of mass-unrest that transparency portends to unify the ruling elite. Policy-makers must recognize the trade-offs transparency entails.- Shop: buecher
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Lyon's Bride: The Chattan Curse (eBook, ePUB)
Maxwell mixes humor with meticulous characterization to create memorable stories.Publishers WeeklyWith Lyon's Bride, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cathy Maxwell kicks off a wonderful historical romance series, The Chattan Curseconcerning a generational bane that ominously portends, When a Chattan male falls in love, strike his heart with fire from above. In this sensational marriage of convenience tale with a delightful twist, the so-called Lord Lyon is the latest family member cursed to eschew love or die. So he seeks a bride he does not love, only to be smitten by an English duke's headstrong daughter, who compels him to dangerously tempt fate. Lyon's Bride is the kind of lush and sensuous love story that will appeal not only to RITA Award nominee Cathy Maxwell's legion of fans, but to the many devoted readers of Christina Dodd and Victoria Alexander as well.- Shop: buecher
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The Wine-Dark Sea
At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.- Shop: buecher
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The Curse of Misty Wayfair , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 813min
Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, in 1908. When clues lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a postmortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However, she never expected her personal quest would reawaken the legend of Misty Wayfair, a murdered woman who allegedly haunts the area and whose appearance portends death. A century later, Heidi Lane receives a troubling letter from her mother - who is battling dementia - compelling her to travel to Pleasant Valley for answers to her own questions of identity. When she catches sight of a ghostly woman who haunts the asylum ruins in the woods, the long-standing story of Misty Wayfair returns - and with it, Heidi's fear for her own life. As two women across time seek answers about their identities and heritage, can they overcome the threat of the mysterious curse that has them inextricably intertwined? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pilar Witherspoon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/012722/bk_reco_012722_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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