48 Results for : courteous
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Gentleman Robber: Billy Miner (Forgotten Heroes) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 167min
A cunning and formidable lawbreaker, Bill Miner spent half his life behind bars and the other half planning ways to execute his crimes. Billy used his robberies to fuel his love of fancy clothes, expensive restaurants, and wild nights in brothels. Or to fund his version of the high life he enjoyed, when he could play the role of a wealthy mining mogul lavishly entertaining, enticing, and seducing young men. Famous for being a courteous thief and feathering his assaults with polite apologies, he was identified by his Pinkerton Detective Agency pursuers as the “master criminal of the American West” and the "Gentleman Robber". Although Billy could be easily identified by his jailhouse tattoos, he managed to hide himself completely even in high society. He was deliberate and careful but eventually let his libido and the romantic distraction for a young cowboy lover tear away his freedom on a rainy, isolated stretch of railway track in Canada. Bill wasn’t easily confined, however. He had too many years of experience with prisons. After mysteriously escaping from his Canadian prison cell, his nefarious life finally simmered to a quiet conclusion in Georgia. Billy Miner, the dashing thief who carried out Canada’s first train robbery in 1904, died in the tiny American prison town of Milledgeville, Georgia. The townspeople gave him a parade to the cemetery in the new suit they bought just for him, and they buried him there with honor. Or did they? Find out in this fast-paced romp through a master thief’s life. Gentleman Robber is book one in the Forgotten Heroes series of historical biographies. It is an intriguing glimpse at the life of a fascinating individual. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stanley Sauerwein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/236216/bk_acx0_236216_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Little Powell: The Life and Career of A.P. Hill , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 205min
Of all the eccentric and enigmatic men who led during the Civil War, perhaps none had as mixed a record as Confederate Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill, better known as A.P. Hill. Hill was a well known and highly respected general on both sides, particularly for his command of "Hill's Light Division" under Stonewall Jackson, which arrived just in time to save Lee's army during the Battle of Antietam. He continued to be Jackson's most capable subordinate until Jackson's death, when Lee gave him command of the III Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia just before the Pennsylvania campaign that climaxed at Gettysburg. Known affectionately to his soldiers as Little Powell, Hill was considered courageous and courteous, a fitting representative of his native Virginia. But after the defeat at Gettysburg and in the wake of his death during the final week of the war, Hill's reputation was somewhat tarnished. Hill was frequently sick to the point of being unfit for command during crucial times like the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg, either because of nerves or the lingering effects of gonorrhea, which he contracted decades earlier around the time he became a West Point cadet in the fabled Class of 1846. He is perhaps best remembered for being engaged to Ellen B. Marcy, the future wife of Hill's West Point friend George B. McClellan, before her parents pressured her to break off the engagement. Little Powell: The Life and Career of A.P. Hill profiles the famous general and examines his Civil War record, analyzing the legacy he's left behind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maxwell Zener. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/036292/bk_acx0_036292_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Is This Suitcase Taken?: Sweetfern Harbor Mystery, Book 13 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 205min
An amateur sleuth B&B owner, a weekend wedding, and a dead body in a suitcase. Another murder mystery in the cozy beach town of Sweetfern Harbor....Brenda Rivers welcomes guests to Sheffield Bed and Breakfast with her reservationist, Allie Williams. In the meantime, everyone is excited for the wedding of Brenda’s father and her chef scheduled for that afternoon. Allie greets the booked guests and takes note of one who hits her the wrong way. Patrick Anderson is outspoken and rude. Few if any in his life like him.Most of the weekenders decide to attend the wedding except for Patrick, Rick Dawson, Carrie Porter, and Daniel Swift. Each voices courteous reasons, and they leave to pursue interests along the shoreline below the bed-and-breakfast or in Sweetfern Harbor shops. As the wedding celebrations begin after the ceremony, Detective Mac Rivers is called to the precinct. A dead body has been left at the back door of the police station. Inside the oversized footlocker are the remains of Patrick Anderson.It doesn’t take Brenda long to discover one of her guests, Alexandra Cornell, possesses fleeting personalities. Alexandra finally admits she witnessed Patrick’s murder from her perch on the seawall during the celebrations. Brenda decides that Alexandra’s changeable moods is the culprit of Brenda’s doubts about her story. When Daniel Swift is fingered in the crime, he must prove his vowed innocence against someone who vouches seeing him commit the murder. Just as Brenda and Mac begin to hone in on the true killer, they discover one guest is missing. Alexandra mentions he is running away but gives no reason.Brenda must decide who killed Patrick and who assisted in the deed. Rick Dawson is missing, Daniel swears he is innocent, and Alexandra is too fragile to win against an athletic man like Patrick Anderson. Above all, the questions become who to believe and where will the evidence lead them in solving this crime. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kasey Logan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/237073/bk_acx0_237073_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Build your own Future (eBook, ePUB)
As long as we live, the future is coming to pass. There it is, a promise or a specter. To one man it brings joy and the realization of his dreams-to another, tragedy. All your life you have seen such futures happening. Years ago, some intimate of yours gave evidence of splendid possibilities. Now he is a broken man, sick and discredited. An acquaintance you believed had little promise is wealthy and revered. How did it happen? No question is more important than this, none upon which you and I need more light. Here we are, working at our tasks, trying to save a little money, giving what love we have to our intimates, and hoping, always hoping, for a better tomorrow. But suppose we are working, saving, struggling to no avail? We need to do something about tomorrow NOW. What if we discover, years from now, that ignorance of certain laws and the neglect of important methods compromised our efforts and left us disappointed? That is our fear. You can't build the future in the future. You can only plan for it by constructive programs and positive actions today. There is now something for you to take, and something for you to give. Your giving may be only a courteous attention to another man's ideas, but that is something-in fact, much. When this act of giving and taking is wisely repeated you learn not only that you can produce a constantly unfolding life, but how-which is to some point. We must be ready to meet the ever changing scene. Surely this has always been true. Does not the art of planning one's future begin with alert interest in how to overcome the obstacles of today? Tomorrow is new. New ways are necessary in the now if we are to be ready for the time to come. Suppose, instead of living in this century, you were a primitive man trying to lift a massive stone, tearing your bleeding fingers. Suppose someone came along with a crowbar, crying "Here, I've a lever, I'll pry the rock out for you." What would you do: go on tugging, or stand back and let him use his bar? If you saw him accomplish the task with ease would you let the man go away, leaving you to struggle with other rocks, or would you ask him how such levers work? Suppose that then, after you had learned all about this easier way of moving rocks, you discovered this stranger used other methods new to you. He could move things around on what he called "wheels." He knew how to harness a waterfall and make it work for you. He could hollow out a log so that, in it, you could travel with ease on the water. Wouldn't you become a little excited and want to find out more of what he knew? I have been excited a good many years now over what seems to me a most amazing fact. The discovery of how to control matter, to make physical life easier, came to mankind slowly. Insight into how a like transformation may take place in a man's handling of his own life has come in one generation. Most people are not yet aware of it. Few realize what has been happening, for millions are toiling greedily and fighting bitterly everywhere. They know that science and mechanics have made over the face of the earth. They do not know that psychology and its sister sciences are making a like change for man's handling of his own nature.- Shop: buecher
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Courteous Kurt (MOM'S CHOICE AWARDS Honoring excellence)
Courteous Kurt (MOM'S CHOICE AWARDS Honoring excellence): ab 3.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Be Courteous or Religion the True Refiner
Be Courteous or Religion the True Refiner: ab 1.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Anger Management For Parents
Anger Management For Parents - How to Raise Courteous Kids Without Breaking Glasses: ab 10.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Awake the Courteous Echo
Awake the Courteous Echo - The Themes Prosody of Comus Lycidas and Paradise Regained in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues: ab 64.95 €- Shop: ebook.de
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