45 Results for : overhear
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Emma Winberry and the Evil Eye: A Prequel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 465min
While 60-ish Emma Winberry and her friend, Gladys Foster, are enjoying a tour of southern Italy, they overhear a conversation by two members of the opera chorus. One of them shows his hatred of the famous tenor, Marcantonio Speranza. When Emma returns to her home in Brookfield, IL, she reads a notice in the newspaper reporting an accident to Speranza during a rehearsal. Another report of a near miss accident to Speranza convinces Emma that someone is attempting to harm the tenor. She remembers the two men in Sicily and begins investigating which singers appeared in the productions when the accidents occurred. Two names in the chorus stand out, Bruno Gentile and Gerard Torano. Emma becomes a supernumerary (extra) for the Midwest Opera Company where she becomes romantically involved with a fellow super, Nate Sandler. Speranza is scheduled to sing at the Midwest and both these men are in the chorus. Emma is convinced that one of them will again attempt to harm the tenor. On opening night, Bruno Gentile, who has a personal vendetta against Speranza, lets a mouse out of his pocket, disrupting the chorus and dancers. Emma is jostled by other cast members and, when she sees a shiny object in Gentile's hand, knocks into him. He pushes her out of the way directly onto the body of the fallen tenor who is singing a farewell to his subjects. No one believes Emma when she reports the incident until the soprano corroborates her story. When the police try to find Gentile, he has gone back to Sicily. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Betsy Grisard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067464/bk_acx0_067464_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Christmas Carol , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 182min
The timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his adventures on Christmas Eve continue to teach an important lesson, even to this day. Author Charles Dickens introduces us to the main character by painting him in a negative light, a selfish and miserly old man who will barely pay enough money to keep his office heated. When Scrooge returns home after work, the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, visits him and tells him that because of the wrongdoing he had done during his life, he has been condemned to walk in his ghost years shackled by chains. He warns Scrooge that the same fate might await him. The ghost leaves, allowing Scrooge to fall asleep. Scrooge is then visited by three different ghosts: first comes the Ghost of Christmas Past, who takes him to revisit various scenarios from his past Christmases, including one event that makes Scrooge shed tears. Next he is taken around by the Ghost of Christmas Present, who shows Scrooge what Christmas will look like this year, and he sees scenes of the Christmas dinner held by his clerk, Bob Cratchit, who has a crippled son. The final visitor is the Ghost of Christmas Yet, and while the two of them are on their journey, they overhear people speaking about a dead man and his assets. Scrooge yearns to know who has passed away, finally figuring out that the deceased man is himself. After the initial shock and a promise to change his ways, Scrooge finds himself back in his bed with a brand-new outlook on life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Benjamin May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044042/bk_acx0_044042_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Scots, Spies & Salacious Lies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 467min
Scots, Spies and Salacious Lies is a compilation of three Regency Novellas. The first, "Compromised at Christmas" was the beginning of the Tenacious Trents Series. "Compromised at Christmas..." Miss Elizabeth Whitton craved excitement and adventure. Unwilling to endure one boring season after another, she convinces her uncle in the Home Office to let her work for him. John Phillip Trent has been spying for the Home Office in the stables of Tuileries as Jean Pierre Bouvier for more than two years, his only English contact - Lisette Renard a servant girl inside the palace. When a summons from the Duke of Danby slips through the proper channels, both Elizabeth and John's covers are compromised. To escape the palace and France with their lives, they'll have to depend on each other and the miracle of Christmas. ("Compromised at Christmas" was original published in A Summons from His Grace and is the first story in the Tenacious Trents Series.) "Landing a Laird" Heiress Lady Moira Kirkwood will do anything it takes to marry a laird to take her north - far, far away from London and her domineering mother. Unfortunately, a pair of gentlemen overhear her jest about Scotland and compromising a fellow if she has to. Before the sun has risen the next day, Moira's name and a scandalous wager have found themselves inside the infamous betting book at White's. One penniless gentleman after another begs Gideon Baxter, Viscount Ainsely, for his assistance in wooing Lady Moira. Unfortunately, Gideon would like to woo the charming lady himself. If only she cared more for him than for the location of his estate, he'd could be assured of where her true feelings lie. ("Landing a Laird" was originally published in The Betting Season) "Devil in My Dreams..." Devlin Bartlett was never meant to be Viscount Marston, yet he has inherited not only the title but three younger sisters, all of marriageable ages. H ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marian Hussey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/006999/bk_acx0_006999_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Faith in the Living God, 2nd Edition
In this book John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker explain how they understand faith in the living God. Between them, they offer a ""binocular vision from [their] twin perspectives to yield helpful insight in relation to the important issues."" Part of the fascination of this book is how two people with such different backgrounds approach central theological questions relating to the faith they both share. Their concerns are truth rather than polemics, reliability rather than simple certainty. They seek to anchor their thought in concrete particulars rather than abstract generalizations. They ask the questions that trouble the inquiring mind, and meet head-on the challenge as well as the reassurances of belief. This second edition provides a new Preface and updated bibliographies. ""Two leading Christian thinkers, a physicist and a theologian, engage here in a truth-seeking conversation about their common faith in the living God. The book is short but its content is profound: a compelling witness to both the reasonableness and substantive richness of the Christian faith written for its troubled friends and its educated despisers alike."" --Miroslav Volf, director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture ""Here is a stimulating dialogue on the articles of faith from two of the most gifted theologians of our time. Polkinghorne speaks in conversation with science and Welker with philosophical and cultural challenges. Though different in some ways, they are both convinced that a biblically informed faith invites us to speak of God in the midst of life as it actually exists in all of its complex possibilities and dangers. This is much more of an invitation to join a conversation than it is a system of thought. I found it compelling."" --Frank D. Macchia, Vanguard University ""This book's genre makes it unique and exceptional--a conversation between friends, although from diverse backgrounds, both of them informed and inspiring. There are many other books on these themes, even these two have published on many of these topics, but there is nothing like this book. Readers are privileged almost to overhear while two major public intellectuals of our time engage--personally, respectfully, honestly--in serious dialogue on questions of truth and understanding."" --Dirk J. Smit, Princeton Theological Seminary John Polkinghorne, KBE FRS (born in 1930) is an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion, he was professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, became an ordained Anglican priest in 1982 and served as the president of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1988 to 1996. Michael Welker, (born in 1947) was a professor of theology at the German universities of Tubingen, Munster, and Heidelberg and frequently a guest professor in the Anglo-American world (McMaster, Princeton, Harvard, Emory, and Cambridge). He is an honorary professor at Seoul Theological University, senior professor at the University of Heidelberg, and director of its Research Center International and Interdisciplinary Theology (FIIT). He has organized many international and interdisciplinary research projects that related theology and science, theology and law, theology and economy.- Shop: buecher
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We Only Dated for 11 Instagrams
We Only Dated for 11 Instagrams - And Other Things You'll Overhear in L. A.: ab 4.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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