81 Results for : hotel's
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Blood Horizon: Sharks in the Water: The Dark Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 128min, (USK 18)
The hotel's private beach was pristine; its waters a deep turquoise and its guests comprised of the beautiful people for whom money was no object. It was an atmosphere of luxury; where time was measured in intervals until the next meal and afternoon siestas became gatherings for exotic sex with a myriad of partners. The sands were dotted with clusters of chairs, cushioned deeply and monogrammed with "E" - the logo for the resort Estrella, or star. Latino music subtly drifted amongst the gatherings while the undercurrent of conversation took place in a dozen languages. High above the beach, a drone fitted with a long-range lens and camera lofted over the Estrella resort. It had a mission, but that would only be known by its owner. If it was taken down, there would be no trail, no identity. It was programmed to identify a specific set of facial features, and once identified, the drone would fly out over the Gulf of Mexico and self-destruct, having sent the images it sought by satellite to home base. Perhaps the most unique feature of the drone was that it wore a disguise. Those who happened to look up as it passed would only see the gentle, flapping wings of a seagull. This sort of technology came at a price, but then so did the information it sought. There was only one man willing to pay for this, but for him, there was no price too high. He would give his very life to know. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Phillips. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063802/bk_acx0_063802_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Stand-Up Guy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 650min
Oliver Miles is a stand-up comedian who makes his real living as a third-shift security guard at an historic Nashville hotel. Every morning on his way home from work, he stops to have breakfast with his mother, although it's been six years since she's recognized her only son. In search of his true comic voice, Oliver experiments with the juxtaposition of both highbrow and lowbrow humor, alternating between the cerebral, sarcastic, surreal, and inane. One night, an impromptu rant on relationships turns excruciatingly personal and Oliver finds himself reduced to quiet tears onstage. The crowd finds this hilarious. Oliver finds it embarrassing, yet cathartic; then later resolves to only tell the truth in his act. As he becomes more enamored with Mattie Holmgren, the hotel's night auditor, he discovers her sneaking into guest rooms in the middle of the night. Eventually, his infatuation for the adorable kleptomaniac haunting the very hotel he's been hired to protect becomes fodder for his stand-up act. His lack of sleep, combined with the realization that the only place he can be totally honest is in a room full of strangers, combine to stoke his greatest fear: Oliver is turning into his mother. As his relationship with Mattie begins to blossom, it becomes clear he won't be able to keep her away from his shows forever. Oliver must eventually come clean - to see if the truth really will set him free. As usual, he decides to do it from the stage... on the biggest night of his career... and with Mattie Holmgren watching. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Black. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/zond/001080/bk_zond_001080_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Eleven Pipers Piping: A Father Christmas Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1020min
The welcome return of C. C. Benison's delectable series featuring Father Tom Christmas - "an irresistible addition to the ranks of clerical sleuths" (Julia Spencer-Fleming). Father Tom Christmas, the recently widowed vicar adjusting to life in the English village of Thornford Regis, would do almost anything to avoid attending the annual Robert Burns Supper at the local hotel. But as chaplain to a traditional Scottish pipe band, Father Tom must deliver the grace - and contend with wailing bagpipes, whiskey-laced parishioners reciting poetry, and the culinary abomination that is haggis. As snow falls to unprecedented depths, the revelers carry on - briefly interrupted by an enigmatic stranger seeking shelter. Then Will Moir, proprietor of the hotel and a dedicated piper, inexplicably goes missing - only to be found later in the hotel's dark tower, alone and dead from what appears to be a heart attack. Father Tom's own heart sinks when he learns the actual cause of Will's demise. When word gets out, the flurry of innocent speculation descends into outlandish gossip. And, for all its tranquil charm, Thornford Regis has plenty to gossip about - illicit trysts, muted violence, private sorrows, and old, unresolved tragedies. The question is: Who would benefit most from the piper's death? Suspicion swirls around many, including Will's beautiful widow, their shadowy son, Will's obnoxious brother-in-law, and even the mysterious party crasher, who knows more than she lets on about the grudges she left behind - but never forgot. Brimming with wit, full of genuine surprise, and featuring one of the most memorable (and unlikely) detectives in mystery fiction, C. C. Benison's second Father Christmas mystery will delight listeners with a puzzle that truly defies solution. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve West, Jean Gilpin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003296/bk_rand_003296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blame It on the Champagne: A Collection of Five Erotic Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min, (USK 18)
A collection of five erotic stories with mixed and varied themes. 'Blame it on the Champagne' by Gwen Masters: She didn't fall for him - she fell on him. Literally. They were both wet from the champagne that she'd tossed over them, but by the time they'd finished in the ladies room, they'd both be a lot wetter. 'The Hotel Room' by Dianne Cross: It wasn't like Mark to be late. He enjoyed the sessions in the hotel room with Alexa as much as she did. They forgot about their everyday lives there, where what happened was separate from the real world. It was all about the sex. 'Playing to the Camera' by Stephen Albrow: She knew that Big brother was watching, and she was determined to give him something to watch. Out there on the High Street with the CCTV trained on her, she performed for the camera and the guy that would be watching it. If she was lucky, she might even get the reaction she wanted. 'Open Bottle Policy' by Jeremy Edwards: The hotel's open bottle policy said that Dave's waitress had to escort him and his half-drunk bottle of wine to the lift, but she didn't stop until they were on the other side of his bedroom door. But there would be no extra payment for this room service. 'Buccaneering Blarney' by Jim Baker. Sarah went along on the cruise in the hope of a good time, but she was disappointed. However, when the yacht is boarded by pirates, that all changes. Jolly Roger takes on a whole new meaning. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katy Anderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/summ/000272/bk_summ_000272_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Winter at Death's Hotel: A Louisa Conan Doyle Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 932min
New York, January 1896: Arthur Conan Doyle, the renowned creator of Sherlock Holmes, arrives at the Britannic Hotel with his wife, Louisa, ready to begin his first American tour. While he prepares his lectures, Louisa becomes mesmerised by this brash, vibrant, dangerous city, especially when a woman's brutally butchered corpse is found in a Bowery alley and Louisa is convinced from the artist's sketch in the paper that she'd seen the victim at the hotel. Arthur is patronisingly sceptical about her womanly "fantasies" but when she sprains her ankle and is forced to remain at the hotel while Arthur goes on tour, Louisa cannot resist pursuing her intuitions. And when more bodies start appearing, she's convinced that she holds the key to the killings. With the help of the hotel's hard-bitten detective and an ambitious female news reporter, Louisa starts to piece together a story of madness, murder, and depravity - a story that leads inexorably back to the hotel itself, the strange story of its unique construction, and a madman who is watching her every move. Read by Jane McDowell. Jane McDowell's work spans theatre, film, television and radio. Screen work includes a leading role in the award winning British feature film Twelve In A Box, major roles in several Bollywood films, numerous short films, and the BBC dramas Dustbin Baby and Daughters. She has recorded plays and poetry readings for BBC radio, works regularly for BBC Audio Books and Calibre Audio Library and for Interact, a company of actors who read to stroke patients in London hospital. Jane holds an MA in Performance Studies from Central School of Speech and Drama. She lives in London with her daughter Antonia. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane McDowell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000562/bk_orio_000562_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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L'Affaire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 767min
When Amy Hawkins, a young dot-com executive from California who has made her fortune at the top of NASDAQ, overhears a pair of elderly and thus much wiser socialites decry the new generation for their incompetence in all things worldly, she sets off for Europe to find culture, her roots, and maybe a cause to devote her considerable fortune to. Amy starts her quest at one of the finest small hotels in the French Alps (a hotel noted for skiing and its famous cooking lessons) in the town of Valmeri.A few days into her trip, Amy is nearly swept away by an avalanche (started, some say, by low-American warplanes). Two of the hotel's guests, esteemed English publisher Adrian Venn and his much younger American wife, Kerry, were not as fortunate as Amy. Both lie comatose in a nearby hospital. Learning that French and English law dictate a very different division of money depending on where Adrian dies, Adrian's children (young, old, legitimate, and illegitimate) assemble in Valmeri to protect their interests should he not pull through. Amy, already suspect as an American, finds that her nationality freezes the social climate as she steps in to assist the family. In her innocence, Amy sets in motion a series of events in France and England that spotlight ancient national differences, customs, and laws. Add one or two small affairs that may topple carefully balanced alliances, and soon it is as the French say, a situation. Hailed as witty, delicious, nuanced and fresh by book critics across the country, Diane Johnson has composed her most amusing and insightful character to date in young Amy Hawkins. A contemporary masterpiece sure to entertain, L'Affaire is a perfectly drawn comedy of manners abroad. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Reading. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000109/bk_bkot_000109_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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What She Saw: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 499min
A taut, stylish thriller set over the course of 24 hours in Paris - perfect for fans of Chris Pavone's The Expats and Olen Steinhauer's The Tourist. The storied Hotel Chevalier on Paris' ritzy Right Bank hosts celebrities, dignitaries, and - for one night - Lana Gibson, an American woman who's escaped the monotony of her staid married life for a cultural jaunt to the City of Light. As long as she takes her meds, she promises herself, her heightened curiosity and manic elation will stay under control. But when that curiosity leads her to the hotel's private elevator that serves only the ultra-elite penthouse Suite Imperial, she spies much more than plush carpets and gilt chandeliers: a young woman caught in the clutches of a threatening-looking older man. Unable to erase the image of the girl in danger from her mind, Lana alerts the police, plunging herself into a firestorm of intrigue and becoming a target. As she engages in a cat-and-mouse game that plays out across the streets of Paris, it emerges that the older man is a prominent public figure, and the murky situation only offers more questions. Is he being set up? Who stands to gain the most from his downfall? Not knowing who has her best interests at heart, Lana will need to use every ounce of strength and guile as she races to discover the relationship between the truth and what she saw. Set against the glittering city of Paris, What She Saw is a hypnotic, thoroughly compelling thriller that will leave listeners guessing until the end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld, Gerard Stembridge. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006059/bk_harp_006059_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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On Gin Lane (eBook, ePUB)
After her fiancé whisks her off to the glistening shores of Southampton in June of 1957, one young socialite begins to realize that her glamorous summer is giving her everything—except what she really wants—in this new novel from the author of Summer Darlings, "one terrific summer read" ​(Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author). Everleigh "Lee" Farrows thinks she finally has life all figured out: a handsome fiancé named Roland, a trust in her name, and a house in Bronxville waiting for her to fill it with three adorable children. That is, until Roland brings her out to the Hamptons for a summer that will change everything. Most women could only dream of the engagement present Roland unexpectedly bestows on Lee—a beachside hotel on the prized Gin Lane—but Lee's delight is clouded by unpleasant memories of another hotel, the Plaza, where she grew up in the shadow of her mother's mental illness. Shaking off flashbacks, Lee resolves to dive into an unforgettable summer with poolside Bellinis, daily tennis matches, luncheons with her Manhattan circle, and her beloved camera in tow. But when tragedy strikes on the hotel's opening weekend, the cracks in Lee's picture-perfect future slowly begin to reveal themselves, and Lee must look deep within herself to determine if the life she's always wanted will ever truly be enough. From the regal inns to the farmland, the well-heeled New Yorkers to the Bohemian artists, the East End of Long Island is a hodge-podge of the changing American landscape in the late 1950s—and the perfect place for Lee to discover who she really is.- Shop: buecher
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The Body in the Bed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 294min
A suspenseful, gripping yarn. (The New York Times)It was just another busy day at the Plaza Royale - until a pretty hotel manicurist, white with terror, suddenly fled through the lobby and disappeared into the crowded Manhattan streets. Her unexplained flight, and the discovery of some bloodstained pillowslips, gave Gil Vine, the hotel's detective, the tipoff that trouble was brewing. Its source turned out to be the suite of a secretive South American mogul and his entourage including a beautiful señorita, a vicious monkey, a muscular valet, and an elusive character known as Miguel. When Gil investigated, he walked into one of the most explosive situations in his career. For the Latin was really an ousted dictator, loaded with stolen money and jewels, and with a host of assassins pledged to kill him! The Body in the Bed is one of the most exciting of the classic 1950s Gil Vine mystery novels. "Plenty of action . . . never fails to be interesting." (San Francisco Chronicle) Stewart Sterling is credited by leading reviewers with having been one of the originators of the "specialized" or modus operandi school of detective story writers as opposed to the private investigator who has no background in any particular field of criminal activity. His Special Squad stories in Black Mask were the first to make use of inside techniques as used by the Loft Squad, the Bomb and Forgery Squad, the Criminal Identification Bureau, and the Stolen Property Bureau of the New York Police Department. His Fire Marshal Pedley stories were acclaimed by Thomas Brophy, New York City's most celebrated Fire Marshal, as being true to the modern methods employed in the detection of arsonists. His hotel detective tales, with Gil Vine as Chief Security Officer of a swank Fifth Avenue hotel, have been published in many foreign countries - and Sterling received letters from all over the world, with the Oliver Twist request for "more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Vasicek. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158718/bk_acx0_158718_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Next Song I Sing: Next Time Around, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min
Book One of the Next Time Around Series Freshly divorced at 40 yrs old, Chloe Zanders has few illusions left about her ability to make her dreams come true. She is never going to be thin, never going to be a famous singer, and never going to be sexy enough to keep a man like her handsome ex-football player husband from cheating. While the first two dreams might continue to flicker hopefully inside her, Chloe now accepts the last one had been doomed from the start. All her ex ever did in their marriage was find fault with her. After learning about the latest twenty-something in his life, divorcing Aaron is just a relief because it means Chloe can finally stop trying to save a relationship so obviously not worth saving. With her friends encouraging her to move on, Chloe secretly vows to herself that next time around, she is going to look for a man who will love her just as she is. Hoping distance will help, Chloe gladly returns to Laguna Nigel in sunny California, happy to be living closer to her college roommates slash best-friends-in-the-world. Celebrating her return with a long weekend at the 5-star rated Blue Skies Hotel and Spa seems like just the thing Chloe needs to jump start her "do over" life. How much she ends up instantly liking the hotel's sexy, 45 yr owner/manager, Jasper Wade, is a surprise though. So is the way Jasper's unrestrained kisses send lust and renewed hope singing through Chloe. What she feels for Jasper is disturbingly too much too soon, and God knows she can't compete with his super model ex-wife. But how can Chloe turn away from a man who keeps insisting she's his every fantasy come true? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Johnstonbrown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/006885/bk_acx0_006885_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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