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The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 642min

Following the phenomenal success of Marley & Me, John Grogan's memoir is a warm and moving tribute to the power of family and love which will delight John's fans and has all the ingredients to become the same word-of-mouth bestseller. In his debut bestseller Marley & Me, John Grogan showed how a dog can become an extraordinary presence in the life of one family. Now in his highly anticipated follow-up, Grogan again works his magic, bringing us the true story of what came first. Before there was Marley, there was a gleefully mischievous boy growing up in a devout Catholic home outside Detroit in the 1960s and 70s. Despite his loving parents' best efforts, John's attempts to meet their expectations failed spectacularly. Whether it was his disastrous first confession, his use of his hobby telescope to take in the bronzed Mrs. Selahowski sunbathing next door, the purloined swigs of sacramental wine, or as he got older, the fumbled attempts to sneak contraband past his father and score with girls beneath his mother's vigilant radar, John was figuring out that the faith and fervor that came so effortlessly to his parents somehow had eluded him. And then one day, a strong-willed young woman named Jenny walked into his life. As their romance grew, John began the painful, funny, and poignant journey into adulthood - away from his parents' orbit and into a life of his own. It would take a fateful call and the onset of illness to lead him on the final leg of his journey - the trip home again. The Longest Trip Home is a book for any son or daughter who has sought to forge an identity at odds with their parents', and for every parent who has struggled to understand the values of their children. With his trademark blend of humor and pathos that made Marley & Me beloved by millions, John Grogan traces the universal journey each of us must take to find our place in the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Grogan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/000191/bk_hodd_000191_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Players: The Complete Series (Springville Rockets Sports Romance Books 1-3) (eBook, ePUB)

Three cocky players. Ready to score.Three feisty women, who aren't about to fall for arrogant, womanizing jocks.Or are they? A deliciously hot trio of stories by USA Today best-selling author Daphne Loveling. A must-read collection -- all together in one HUGE package! This collection contains: REDEEMING THE PLAYER Rinn I've worked my a** off for years to get where I am. And I'm not about to let douchebag extraordinaire Jake Ryland screw it up for me.I'm this close to a huge promotion at the foundation I work for. It's so close I can taste it - until the cocky, uncontrollable quarterback for the Springville Rockets comes crashing into my life. My entire future depends on keeping Jake on the straight and narrow, and keeping my brain in the driver's seat.But Jake Ryland makes me want to lose control. Every time he looks my way -- eyes raking down my body like he owns it - I feel like I'm going to burst into flames.He makes me want to risk everything to feel his heat. Even if letting go ends up destroying everything I've ever worked for. THE PLAYER NEXT DOOR Jake I just moved to Springville to start my first season as wide receiver for the Rockets.As luck would have it, the condo I'm renting is right next door to a straight-laced grad student who hardly ever pulls her nose out of a book. Ivy Kincaide. I'm pretty sure our first meeting was a hell of a lot more fun for me than it was for her.And ever since then, she looks at me like she wishes I'd spontaneously combust in front of her eyes. I get more than enough of female attention.I know I should just ignore her.But there's something about Ivy - and not just her smoking hot body.It's like I'm eight years old and wanna pull her pigtails just to see her stomp her feet at me. She's wound up tighter than a rubber band.But the way her ass shimmies when she stalks away from me tells me there's a completely different girl underneath. And nothing's gonna stop me from finding out. FAKE-DATING THE PLAYER Mason They think they know who I am.They don't know the half of it,And I can't even broadcast the truth.I just have to run with it,And rebuild my reputation,From the ashes up. The feisty, gorgeous journalist is my ticket to success.Being my fiancée is her ticket to fame and fortune. She'll have job offers left and right.Anna just has to agree to it all.Trouble is, she hates my guts.And if I can't convince her to take me up on my offer,It'll just be another fumbled ball,A defeat that I can't recover. But as things heat up, one thing is clear:This is a game I'm not about to let myself lose.Anna's body, her taste, her touch:I'm playing for keeps. Each of the three books in PLAYERS is a STANDALONE, full-length novel with no cheating, no cliffhanger, and GUARANTEED HEA!

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Sazerac Blues (eBook, ePUB)

First in an all-new suspense series! Here's an excerpt: Around the sides of the thick brown leather, Ash O'Malley made out a fleshy chin and thinning, brown hair threaded with gray covered in a thin layer of dirt and debris. She back-pedaled along the narrow strip of the path shed just traipsed down, losing her balance as she registered her boot print on the poor man's now-crushed his nose. She made a noise that sounded somewhere between a gag and a scream as she clutched her chest. This could not be happening. Not today. Then, his image clicked in her mind. She recognized the man, and her midsection rolled, pitched, and somersaulted over itself. She rose from her rump and crab-crawled, her hands plopping into her own footfalls, clearly visible next to several other tracks in the boggy soil. The man…the obviously dead man was Dr. Cockcroft, director of the Audubon Society. And now she'd stepped on her dead almost boss. "Nope, this cannot be happening," she whispered. She closed her eyes and pinched herself. A soft breeze brushed her overheated skin and the faint sounds of sluggish water siphoned through the tangled thoughts careening through Ash's head, bringing a much-needed stillness. She forced herself to look at the scene in front of her. Dr. Cockcroft lay half-buried in a slight ditch just off the pathway. Besides his trodden face-she winced and suppressed the urge to gag-he was bruised and bloody. Like he'd fallen from a great height. And his scalp, mangled…Ash stumbled even as her gaze searched out more potential cottonmouths. Seeing none, she gave in to her desire and fell forward to retch up the gumbo she'd eaten that morning-the gumbo she'd saved so she'd have a good meal to start her day.She kicked her feet into the dirt, struggling for purchase before she shot back the way she'd come, not unlike a sprinter. She fumbled for her phone, dirt and grit coating her hip as she struggled to pull it from her pants pocket.Her fingers shook but she managed to press 9-1-1. Her breath broke in a sob as the operator answered."A-a b-body. There's a dead body."She slid down the mangrove's trunk, heedless of its short, painful barbs digging through her blouse and into her skin. Her butt hit the boggy soil and harder roots and she winced, unable to take her eyes off the man. Ash forced herself to listen to the dispatcher's questions. She ignored the faint hum of gathering insects as they closed in around her sweat-drenched form. She closed her burning, too-dry eyes, unwilling to watch the bugs land on Dr. Cockcroft's exposed face. Ash understood the circle of life but that didn't mean she wanted to witness it this close up. She gave her location, head bent, forehead to her knees, phone mashed to her ear. Her fingertips tingled and her body felt heavy, biological responses to the scare. She stared at a leaf, a perfect specimen, and wondered idly if she was going into shock.

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