31 Results for : stepford
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The Stepford Wives
While the intention of this book is to pay homage to Bryan Forbes' film, it goes far beyond this, locating it in the traditions of the gothic, the histories of feminism and fictional imaginings about artificial women, and the futures of social robots and AI, both real and imagined.- Shop: buecher
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Alpha Bots: AI Sci-Fi Trilogy (The Womanoid Diaries, Book 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 528min
After a corrupt cop incites all the AI women of New Stepford to rebellion, Cookie Rifkin’s book-club friends go from being happy domestic goddesses to radical domestic terrorists. Will Cookie be able to stop the extremist cult? Or will the pink army take over?All the women in New Stepford are AI...and their husbands keep testing them. Who will lead the uprising?In the near future, artificial intelligence will be in every home. Just imagine. You could have a charming womanoid do all your cooking and cleaning for you. That’s right. No more chores! This female robot can be your wife, a nanny to your kids, or just the live-in housekeeper. She will be whatever you want her to be. It’s all up to you.Just set your user preferences.But first, this amazing technology has to pass alpha testing.One robot woman, Cookie Rifkin, keeps failing. She needs to figure out how to control her anxiety, but her husband set her restrictions too low for her to learn. He just wants a pleasure model, but she keeps fighting her programming.Will this ai fembot ever fulfill her potential?Or will Cookie’s story end in another fatal error? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laci Powers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235813/bk_acx0_235813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Music for Torching , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 753min
Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with 'making things good again', they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careens well and truly out of control. From a hilarious encounter in the pantry with a Stepford Wife neighbour, to a hostage situation at the school, Homes lays bare the foundations of marriage and family life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Penelope Rawlins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/002211/bk_howe_002211_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Stepford Florist: When Tomorrow Calls, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 88min
Jasmine is arrested for performing a bootleg vampire facelift in her modded-out steampunk caravan. She's thrilled, because it's worked out exactly as she planned. Jasmine has mastered moonlighting. She's a steampunk inventor, a cosmetician, and a gene-hacking florist. And then there's her real job: exposing evil corps and dodgy clinics. When Jasmine, the head of Alba - an underground biopunk organisation - is tipped off that something morally dubious is happening at the city's most luxurious high-tech spa, she takes it upon herself to investigate, and discovers a whole lot more than she bargained for. (Warning: Contains colorful language and sex.) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jenni Blythe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/112943/bk_acx0_112943_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Girl on Gander Green Lane: A Chilling Psychological Thriller with a Twist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 270min
When a perfect marriage, the perfect husband, and perfect life is nothing but an illusion. Sarah Standon is living the dream, at least that’s what everyone tells her. She is the wife of a successful solicitor who looks like a movie star. They live a Stepford existence and appear to have it all.Then, one fateful night, everything changes.A terrible accident leaves Sarah alone to deal with a situation so frightening she starts to question her grip on reality. Her perfect life has been exposed as the lie it always was and she loses everything.She thought that was the worst that could happen.She was wrong. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159683/bk_acx0_159683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bedtime Fury: Federal Bureau of Magic Cozy Mystery Series, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min
Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight!There's been a discovery of demons. Again.The appearance of a strange plant on the Taskers' farm sends Neville and me straight to the Federal Bureau of Magic database, where we discover that deadly demons are snatching bodies all over town.Meanwhile, with the Day of Darkness looming on the calendar, family tensions abound, and I'm reminded, once again, that I'm the white sheep of this black magic family.Can I put a stop to the Stepford invasion before it's too late, or will the demons take up residence in their hosts - permanently?Bedtime Fury is the fifth book in Federal Bureau of Magic Cozy Mystery series. It is a humorous paranormal cozy mystery with demon action and a budding romance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Saydah. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194929/bk_acx0_194929_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Big Flush: Chicagoland Detective Agency, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 30min
Poor Megan - history's repeating itself. She's been booted from Stepford Prep, and her father is sending her to visit Pine Lake Academy...a boarding school. This could mean the end of the Chicagoland Detective Agency! Raf and Bradley come along to get a sniff at the new school, but when Megan ducks into a restroom marked "Do Not Enter" and Raf takes a sip from an old fountain, school becomes the least of their problems. Something spooky is knocking around in the pipes, and now it has its hooks in them. Have Raf and Megan really been taken over by a ghost from 100 years ago? Can Bradley dig up the mystery that's dogged Pine Lake Academy for a century? What deeply buried dastardly deeds will bubble to the surface? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Book Buddy Digital Media. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lrnr/000688/bk_lrnr_000688_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Drained Brains Caper: Chicagoland Detective Agency, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 32min
Raf knows Megan is trouble from the moment she steps into his mom's pet food store asking for a tarantula. But there's one thing you can count on in Chicagoland: Weird things happen several times a day. Megan is a vegetarian, manga-reading haiku writer. She definitely doesn't fit in at Stepford Academy, her new summer school. The other students are happy to be in class. Too happy. And everyone looks and acts exactly alike. That's weird. Megan is determined to dig into Stepford's secrets, but soon she's in way too deep. Raf may be the only human being she knows who can help. But with zombified students, very mad scientists, and the school psychiatrist on their trail, they're going to need a whole lot more help. We did say that Chicagoland is weird.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Book Buddy Digital Media. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lrnr/000693/bk_lrnr_000693_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rage Against the Dying , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 680min
In her hey-day, ex FBI agent, Brigid Quinn, not only worked serial killer cases but became their prize. Small and blond, from a distance she looked vulnerable and slight...the perfect bait to catch a killer. But as Quinn got older, she realised she needed to find a protégé, a younger field agent to take her place. So Quinn trains a 22 year old and lets her loose in the field. The plan works. Until the Route 66 killer not only takes the bait, but kills the bait. Years on, Quinn is trying to move past the fact that she has a young woman's death on her conscience. She's now the perfect Stepford Wife - until she gets a knock on her door. The girl's body has finally been discovered. Quinn is pulled back into the case and the more she learns about the killer the more she comes to believe, despite the overwhelming forensic evidence to hand, that they have the wrong man. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Judy Kaye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000577/bk_orio_000577_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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