150 Results for : imperiled
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Beasts of Tabat: The Tabat Quartet, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 824min
When countryboy Teo arrives in the coastal city of Tabat, he finds it a hostile place, particularly to a boy hiding an enormous secret. It’s also a city in turmoil, thanks to an ancient accord to change governments and the rising demands of Beasts, the Unicorns, Dryads, Minotaurs, and other magical creature on whose labor and bodies Tabat depends. And worst of all, it’s a city dedicated to killing Shifters, the race whose blood Teo bears. When his fate becomes woven with that of Tabat’s most famous gladiator, Bella Kanto, his existence becomes even more imperiled. Kanto’s magical battle determines the weather each year, and the wealthy merchants are tired of the long winters she’s brought. Can Teo and Bella save each other from the plots that are closing in on them from all sides?"A fascinating world of magic, intrigue, and revolution." (Publisher’s Weekly) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Devon Enyedy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175477/bk_acx0_175477_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mirage of Victory , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 714min
It is May of 1863, and the Civil War in North America has entered its third year. Facing a range of enemy threats, Southern Commander General Robert E. Lee proposes an invasion of the Northern states. That would help supply his army, relieve pressure on other imperiled fronts, and seek decisive victory on enemy territory that could end the war.Irish immigrant Daniel Ryan serves with his comrades of a Georgian regiment as the campaign unfolds, with Lee's army maneuvering northward through Virginia and across the Potomac River into Maryland and Pennsylvania, moving toward a fateful encounter with the Union army around the market town of Gettysburg.Martin Hicks lives in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He began writing after a career in education. Mirage of Victory is his sixth book, based on the experiences of Daniel Ryan in the American Civil War of 1861-65. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Delino Ziegler, Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180647/bk_acx0_180647_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Closer to Home: Valdemar: The Herald Spy, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 716min
Mags was once an enslaved orphan living a harsh life in the mines, until the King's Own Herald discovered his talent and trained him as a spy. Now a Herald in his own right, at the newly established Heralds' Collegium, Mags has found a supportive family, including his Companion Dallen. Although normally a Herald in his first year of Whites would be sent off on circuit, Mags is needed close to home for his abilities as a spy and his powerful Mindspeech gift. There is a secret, treacherous plot within the royal court to destroy the Heralds. The situation becomes dire after the life of Mags' mentor, King's Own Nikolas, is imperiled. His daughter, Amily, is chosen as the new King's Own, a complicated and dangerous job that is made more so by this perilous time. Can Mags and Amily save the court, the Heralds, and the Collegium itself? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Podehl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019346/bk_adbl_019346_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Prescription for Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
Flannery Rivers is content to let her sister, Harper, carry on the family dynasty - at the Rivers hospital where they both work and on the home front. Now that Harper is settled and soon to be happily married, Flannery can ease back into her life of casual flirtations and find all the excitement she needs in the ER. She's even got her next playmate all lined up, or so she thinks. Abigail Remy is a city girl who accepts a position at the imperiled country hospital in the hope of finding a stable, safe community for her teenaged trans son. Unfortunately, when she arrives to work, she discovers the current ER chief is less than happy to be replaced by a fresh-out-of-residency newcomer. Add unexpected attraction to the incendiary mix of city and country, fire and ice, tradition and change - and the prescription is combustible. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Abby Craden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/024597/bk_adbl_024597_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Altar: A Novel of Horror , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 638min
When a new strip mall and housing development are built near a small New England town, tearing through untouched forest, a 300-year-old grave is uncovered, thereby setting loose an ancient evil from its eternal prison. Science fiction writer Erik Hunter soon finds himself the target of a near-immortal horror that feeds on human suffering. In order to save his family and his town, he must make the harrowing trip into the underworld of another reality, one filled with pain and terror - and there make the ultimate sacrifice to facilitate the return of his imperiled wife and young children to the "real" world. But even giving up his life and soul may not be enough to keep an evil spirit from escaping its natural home, and returning to earth to destroy and infect the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Bice. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/010020/bk_acx0_010020_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Whisper in the Dark: Turbulent Tales from Louisa May Alcott , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 644min
From the author of Little Women comes a collection of gothic, romantic, and spellbinding tales guaranteed to surprise and delight. This collection represents the best of Alcott's adult oeuvre. The stories in this volume display dramatic intensity and thrilling, suspenseful plots that show Alcott to be a complex and passionate writer. Listeners will discover within this maelstrom of murder, deceit, obsessive desire, treachery, duplicity, and betrayal that love and honor can still conquer all. The book takes its title from the tale "A Whisper in the Dark", arguably Alcott's gothic masterpiece, a story of imperiled innocence. Also featured are "The Abbot's Ghost", one of Alcott's few supernatural thrillers; "Perilous Play", a sensationalist story in which she suggests that with the appropriate stimulation - in this case hashish - even the innocent reveal a dark side; and "V. V.; or Plots and Counterplots", which introduces the mysterious Virginie Varens, the darkest heroine in all her work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Susan Hanfield, Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007208/bk_blak_007208_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Paradise Close: A Novel (eBook, ePUB)
The paths of an orphaned girl in 1971 and a sixty-something recluse in 2016 entwine in a novel of damaged souls and salvaged hope. In 1971, orphan Marlise Schadefourteen, anorectic, and evicted from the psychiatric hospital her trust fund can no longer supportfinds herself alone in an ancestral home during a blizzard. Marlise's struggles to survive there become the focal point for a host of imperiled figures, living and dead, whose stories intersect with hers and with forces roiling the U.S. in the '70s. Decades later, on the brink of Trump's America, sixty-something Tee Handel is shaken by an inexplicable visitation. For years he's nursed a deep hurt over his breakup with a captivating artist, spending his days and nights in solitude tinkering with antique clocks. What's become of the artist, and how Tee reacts to his mysterious guest, testifies to the risk and inexorability of change. These two seemingly unrelated tales entwine to show how the wages of the past are always with us, as are the dangerous and redemptive consequences of secrets confided and withheld.- Shop: buecher
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In the Labyrinth of Drakes: A Memoir by Lady Trent , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 631min
In the Labyrinth of Drakes: the thrilling new audiobook in the acclaimed fantasy series from Marie Brennan, as the glamorous Lady Trent takes her adventurous explorations to the deserts of Akhia. Even those who take no interest in the field of dragon naturalism have heard of Lady Trent's expedition to the inhospitable deserts of Akhia. Her discoveries there are the stuff of romantic legend, catapulting her from scholarly obscurity to worldwide fame. The details of her personal life during that time are hardly less private, having provided fodder for gossips in several countries. As is so often the case in the career of this illustrious woman, the public story is far from complete. In this, the fourth volume of her memoirs, Lady Trent relates how she acquired her position with the Royal Scirling Army; how foreign saboteurs imperiled both her work and her well-being; and how her determined pursuit of knowledge took her into the deepest reaches of the Labyrinth of Drakes, where the chance action of a dragon set the stage for her greatest achievement yet. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Reading. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002237/bk_aren_002237_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Trapped by Scandal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 669min
New York Times best-selling author Jane Feather returns to the Regency with a passionate tale that sweeps the listener from the dangerous streets of Paris to the glittering ballrooms of London. Lady Hero Fanshawe has chafed at society's dictates since the death of her fiancé taught her that joy can be fleeting. When her brother disappears in Paris at the height of the Terror, she has no hesitation in disguising herself as a boy and risking her life to find him - or in joining forces with a chance-met ally, the enigmatic William Ducasse, viscount St. Aubrey. And she has no regrets in indulging in a passionate affair with the dangerously handsome stranger in the shadow of the guillotine.... Half French, half English, William is committed to his shadow life, flirting with death to rescue imperiled aristocrats. Marriage is an indulgence he cannot afford. Once Hero returns to London, he refuses to risk her good name by continuing their liaison. But he has reckoned without the determined Hero's disregard for propriety...or the dictates of his own heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jill Tanner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/008670/bk_reco_008670_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Winds of Change: Valdemar: The Mage Winds, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1168min
In The Mage Winds trilogy, which began with the best-selling novel Winds of Fate, author Mercedes Lackey continues the epic that started with her first published book. Arrows of the Queen introduced listeners to the remarkable land of Valdemar, the kingdom protected by its Heralds - men and women gifted with extraordinary mind powers - aided and served by their mysterious Companions - horselike beings who know the many secrets of Valdemar's magical heritage. None but the Companions remember the long-ago age when high magic was lost to Valdemar as the last Herald-Mage gave his life to protect his kingdom from destruction by dark sorceries. But now the protective barrier set so long ago over Valdemar is crumbling, and with the realm imperiled by the dark magic of Ancar of Hardorn, Princess Elspeth, Herald and heir to the throne, has gone on a desperate quest in search of a mentor who can teach her to wield her fledgling mage-powers and help her to defend her threatened kingdom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005772/bk_adbl_005772_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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