56 Results for : encircled
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The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Clashes of Kings and Emperors Claiming the Crown , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 261min
On the horizons of many warring tribes, Roman warriors, knights from chivalric orders, and the devoted penniless appeared on a divine mission ready to conquer with an appetite for destruction, salvation, and a higher purpose. Pax Romana. Had the world ever seen the magnitude of empires as it did in the Roman Empires that would unhinge themselves from their very foundation in their attempt to dominate over kings, lords, and tribes? What caused the Romans to proclaim themselves worthy of answering a seemingly providential call to spread the Roman way? This is the story of their shifting identity over the course of a mind-boggling history in their steep ascents and defiant schisms transfixed with glory and virtue that lasted for thousands of years. It is the story of Rome's lingering origin and Rome's spirit of conquest as their enemies encircled them. The perilous protection they would offer to a papacy, besieged by perpetual land grabs of powerful nobles and distant tribes, was often compromised by their own faults, negligence and the nature of where their empire stopped and their Romanness began. They fought their own with just as much fervor as those who appeared at their fronts. Did their very spirit and ascent imperil that which united them, dividing them, as the world around them embraced or rejected their very foundation? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth Maxon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068279/bk_acx0_068279_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Flashback , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 947min
When Sheriff Paul Davidson proposes marriage to Anna Pigeon, he doesn't get the reaction a man might hope for. Intrepid park ranger Anna runs all the way to the furthest scrape of American ground not found in Alaska or Hawaii. How's that for a no? Anna takes a new post as temporary supervisory ranger in Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles off Key West. Dry Tortugas is the site of the former prison for Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War. One of the seven islands in the chain is completely encircled by the massive stone walls of Fort Jefferson, a crumbling reminder of the site's gritty past. Now, the park looks like an island paradise. But as Anna quickly discovers, even the most picturesque and seemingly peaceful places have more than their share of shady goings-on. An exploding boat, the discovery of unidentifiable body parts, and the emergence of secrets both past and present put Anna's life in danger. Cut off from the modern world by poor communications and miles of water, she's developing a nasty case of cabin fever, one that just might pry her fingers from their tenuous grip on sanity. Full of stunning scenery and packed with breathtaking suspense, Flashback is everything a mystery fan could ask for and more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/002636/bk_reco_002636_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Named and Shamed (Pony Girl Training Begins) : Pony Tales, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 390min, (USK 18)
Gritting her teeth Jenny grimaced and gave him what he wanted; the lewd sight of her backside jiggling this way and that as he continued to spank it. His hand now felt like sandpaper on the sensitised flesh. How much longer would she have to endure this? The clamps continued to bite into her tender nipples, and as she swayed to and fro she could feel them moving with her, the ache increasing with each passing second....If Jenny thought life was hard under the expert tutelage of Mark, being faced with a stable full of sex-starved pony girls poses several more challenges. For instance, how do you bring 11 young women to orgasm in a timely fashion? But to her surprise, tackling the problem with experimentation and enthusiasm, she finds herself enjoying the experience.When training begins it is anything but enjoyable, however. Harnessed in pony girl tack, her body is encircled with leather, rubber and steel. It nips, chafes, and rubs cruelly, especially when she's faced with a morning of naughty games in the exercise yard.In book four of Pony Tales, Jenny earns herself several punishments, and is subjected to some very thorough sex indoctrination she has to submit to the whims of her groom, trainers and even the stable-hands. Will rescue arrive or will she have to beg to be released, with nothing more than her body as currency? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deanna Delaney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180920/bk_acx0_180920_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Vineyard Christmas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 656min
In the midst of a Christmas blizzard: a baby on the doorstep. It's taken a long time and a little heartache, but Annie Sutton is finally following her dream of living on Martha's Vineyard. She fell in love with the island's singular beauty while using it as a setting for two of her novels. In her cozy rented cottage on Chappaquiddick, she's settling in for her first Vineyard winter - complete with a fierce nor'easter on the way, forecast to bring high winds and deep snow. But the blizzard also brings something unexpected to Annie's front porch: a basket, encircled by a ribbon, containing a baby girl. The note reads: "I named her Bella, after my grandmother. Please help her, because I can't." Adopted as a child, Annie is grateful for wonderful parents who raised her as their own. Yet she also hopes to spare little Bella the feelings of abandonment that still haunt her. And so, rather than take the baby to the police, Annie decides to keep her and try to find the birth mother, giving her a chance to change her mind. But it's not easy keeping a secret in a close-knit, island community, especially amid the bustle of Christmas. Before the holiday ends, there will be revelations, rekindled hope, and proof that families - the ones we are born into and the ones we claim for ourselves - are the gifts that truly matter.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/012536/bk_reco_012536_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Adventures in Forgiveness: An Autobiography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 908min
Linda Shelton is the cofounder of Three Angels Broadcasting Network and the Founder of 3ABN Radio. Her songwriting abilities have been recognized by the Gospel Music Industry with a number of Telly Awards for the production of her music videos. Many remember her presenting the heartwarming devotionals on the front porch with her dogs by her side. Now Linda opens her heart to reveal her life story. Discover how God took a shy young woman and prepared her for a life of public ministry, one that reached around the world. The mega-media tools of television, radio, the Internet, and the printed page launched Linda to the heights of success and recognition. Yet when the venomous actions of a few people targeted this dedicated televangelist, defamation and slander ignited a scandal that encircled the globe. The events that followed brought huge levels of disappointment and tragedy into her life which included stalking, break-ins, and personal attack. This resulted in her quest to reexamine and glean deeper insights of truth from her belief system, including those in the area of forgiveness. Adventures in Forgiveness will take you on the journey of a woman who has experienced the heights of success and also the depths of sorrow and disappointment. Experience Linda's joys, blessings, and her tears as she shares her story with you. Discover how the lord has turned her sorrow into joy and how he has taught her the true meaning of forgiveness. He'll do the same for you too! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joanna May Riley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/084210/bk_acx0_084210_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Short, Sharp Shock , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 256min
Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of the best-selling trilogy Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, was called “a literary landscape artist, creating breathtaking vistas” by the Detroit Metro News. Now he confirms his reputation for brilliance and for the unexpected in this luminous short work.A man tumbles through wild surf, half drowned, to collapse on a moonlit beach. When he regains consciousness, he has no memory of who he is or where he came from. He knows only that the woman who washed ashore with him has disappeared sometime in the night and that he has awakened in a surreal landscape of savage beauty - a mysterious watery world encircled by a thin spine of land. Aided by strange tribesmen, he journeys to the cove of the spine kings, a brutal race that has enslaved the woman and several of the tribesmen. That is only the beginning of his quest, as he struggles to find her identity in this wondrous and cruel land - and seeks out the woman whose hold on his imagination is both unfathomable and unshakable. Haunting and lyrical, filled with uncommon beauty and terrible peril, A Short, Sharp Shock is an ambitious and enthralling story by one of science fiction’s most respected talents. Kim Stanley Robinson is noted for the verisimilitude of his characters and for the meticulously researched hard-science basis of his work. His works contain ecological themes and emphasize the strong link between the human characters and the natural world. He has won both the Nebula and Hugo awards. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Powers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004903/bk_blak_004903_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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I Flow: 738+ Words Toward Awareness and Mental Freedom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 86min
Our world reflects our inner reality. Each person moves through life, encircled by a self-constructed strongbox of beliefs which have been created over the years by their own thoughts. It is through the lenses of those guarded beliefs that we make meaning of our current reality. The problem is that, many times, those beliefs are outdated, obsolete, inaccurate, and simply do not relate to the situation at hand. When we find ourselves confronted with fear, indecision, and negative emotions, we often place all the blame on life’s circumstances, and we think we have no control over our negative emotional states. This is a terrible illusion to live by, as it leads us into giving away our personal power and responsibility. We must realize that our thinking is not a passive process, and that ultimately, we create our own thoughts and have complete authority over them. Many people downplay the power of their minds and fail to see that thoughts regulate emotions and behaviors. Yet, there is a higher goal - one toward mental freedom, awareness, fulfillment, happiness, harmony, and inner peace. My objective is simply to initiate you into the process of optimizing your mental faculties to where you will move away from atomicity and flow into more conscious thinking. You will also begin to master your emotional field so exterior circumstances will have no control over you. This structured method will help you counter your negative beliefs and attitudes. You will learn how to refocus your thoughts by giving attention to the various essential elements that make the self. The words in the list were designed to help you declutter the mind from the pessimism, fear, and mental and emotional incongruousness that have been holding you back for so long.Each word within this system was intended to introduce new concepts that disrupt the most binding limitations, allowing you to move forward with energy and confidence. It will help you to restore your ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Leonard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180062/bk_acx0_180062_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Parthenon Enigma , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 730min
Built in the fifth century BC., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own? And apart from the significance with which we have invested it, what exactly did this marvel of human hands mean to those who made it? In this revolutionary book, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis - the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state - from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular, she probes the Parthenon’s legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the 17th century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the 19th century) among the Elgin marbles. The frieze’s vast enigmatic procession - a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders, musicians and maidens - has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy, is only one of this book’s intriguing adventures), Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning, a story of human sacrifice set during the city’s mythic founding. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019786/bk_adbl_019786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War: In Search of the World Before the Great War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1193min
Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features last summers in grand aristocratic residences or its most destructive ones: the unresolved rivalries of the great European powers, the fear of revolution, violence in the Balkans. In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this prelude to war” narrative, and explores it as it was, in all its richness and complexity. Traveling from Europe’s capitals, then at the height of their global reach, to the emerging metropolises of Canada and the United States, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, and the boomtowns of Australia and South America, he provides a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, its future still undecided, its outlook still open. The world in 1913 was more modern than we remember, more similar to our own times than we expect, more globalized than ever before. The Gold Standard underpinned global flows of goods and money, while mass migration reshaped the world’s human geography. Steamships and sub-sea cables encircled the earth, along with new technologies and new ideas. Ford’s first assembly line cranked to life in 1913 in Detroit. The Woolworth Building went up in New York. While Mexico was in the midst of bloody revolution, Winnipeg and Buenos Aires boomed. An era of petro-geopolitics opened in Iran. China appeared to be awaking from its imperial slumber. Paris celebrated itself as the city of light, Berlin as the city of electricity. Full of fascinating characters, stories, and insights, 1913: In Search of the World before the Great War brings a lost world vividly back to life, with provocative implications for how we understand our past and how we think about our future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Stillwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012609/bk_adbl_012609_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blue Seagull , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 167min
A 10-year-old American boy named Jack, who loves airplanes and knows a great deal about them, finds himself in a world that has just emerged from World War II. Jack's favorite military plane is the Navy Corsair. Since the need for warplanes no longer existed, they were taken by flatbed railcars to a salvage depot called a boneyard where the planes were stacked one upon the other, resulting in a mountain of aluminum. Those aircrafts would eventually be recycled. A boneyard was conveniently located adjacent to an air base near Jack's home. During summer school vacation, Jack went to the boneyard daily and then sat under a cottonwood tree that stood outside a chain link fence which encircled the military base and the boneyard. While there, Jack drew pictures in a sketchbook of things he observed in the boneyard; he also wrote narratives about his visual and intuitive experiences. He recognized a similarity between the boneyard and humanity. Jack hoped a Corsair would someday be brought to the boneyard for him to study. Meanwhile, a boy named Eddie, who was Jack's age, had recently moved into Jack's neighborhood. Eddie was a needy dullard who clung to Jack. Eddie possessed multiple character flaws. Jack believed Eddie exemplified the apparent nature of a humanity that had caused the boneyard to emerge and to trumpet a warning of a recurring future. Jack was very troubled by Eddie's intrusion, but he could not remove himself from that unfortunate situation. Jack possessed many abilities; one was an ability to express his thoughts and visual observations into his sketchpad. While at the boneyard, Jack encountered two mysterious military policemen who were perhaps more than what they appeared to be. The passage of time seemed to favor Jack in a most unusual manner. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Julius Candelaria. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098986/bk_acx0_098986_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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