18 Results for : sanctimonious
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Night Magic: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance : Savior City Witches Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 269min, (USK 18)
Mixing magic and street smarts, bounty hunter and P.I. Aster Night always gets her man. Except when it comes to... literally getting a man. Thanks to a curse placed on the Chastity coven centuries ago, she can't get busy with anyone until she marries a man from the sanctimonious, boring, holier-than-thou Koda coven. Yeah, no thanks. Instead, she finds a way out of the curse on her own, breaking it with such a bang that she ends up naked with one sexy as sin man and making some major emotional and physical connections with his two, oh-so-alpha clan brothers. Brooding, secretly sensitive Rake brings her body savagely to life, bad boy Finn awakens her darkest fantasies, and deeply loyal Damon makes her want to believe in happily ever after. Her love life is looking up, until she's hired to track down a serial killer preying on witches, and learns her three new boyfriends were once romantically involved with one of the victims. Now, she has to choose - her heart or her career. Yes, Rake makes her laugh, Finn makes her knees weak, and Damon makes her feel safe in a way she never has before, but these men are too close to her case. So close she's afraid one of them might become a killer's next victim... Contains mature themes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollie Jackson, Aiden Snow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/011635/bk_tant_011635_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Yankee Problem: An American Dilemma , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 229min
Granny Clampett, on the TV sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, described the War Between the States as "when the Yankees invaded America" and, indeed, it was! Their invasion of America, however, goes back much farther than the conflict of 1861-1865. It began as soon as they dropped their anchor in Plymouth Bay. Since that time, they have meddled, cheated, and lied their way into every nook and cranny of American life. The Southern people warned others about the radical utopians of New England, and even went to war to get away from them, but to no avail. Now all Americans, not just Southerners, are subject to the whims of "those people" and their never ending mission to recreate, not only America, but the entire world in their bizarre, sanctimonious image. Dr. Clyde Wilson, in this first installment of The Wilson Files, takes the Yankee problem head on. After decades of historical research and personal observation, he exposes and explains these pesky purveyors of mischief and mayhem! If you want to understand America, American History, and the upside-down dystopian nightmare in which we all live, you have to understand the problem. We do not have an economic problem, a race problem, a class problem, a gender problem, a toilet access problem, a drug problem, a gun problem, or any other ideological or social problem at the root of America's dysfunctional anticulture; we have a Yankee problem! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: K.W. Keene. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088418/bk_acx0_088418_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1022min
In his widely acclaimed volume Our Undemocratic Constitution, Sanford Levinson boldly argued that our Constitution should not be treated with "sanctimonious reverence," but as a badly flawed document deserving revision. Now Levinson takes us deeper, asking what were the original assumptions underlying our institutions, and whether we accept those assumptions 225 years later. In Framed, Levinson challenges our belief that the most important features of our constitutions concern what rights they protect. Instead, he focuses on the fundamental procedures of governance such as congressional bicameralism; the selection of the President by the electoral college, or the dimensions of the President's veto power - not to mention the near impossibility of amending the United States Constitution. These seemingly "settled" and "hardwired" structures contribute to the now almost universally recognized "dysfunctionality" of American politics. Levinson argues that we should stop treating the United States Constitution as uniquely exemplifying the American constitutional tradition. We should be aware of the 50 state constitutions, often interestingly different - and perhaps better - than the national model. Many states have updated their constitutions by frequent amendment or by complete replacement via state constitutional conventions. California's ungovernable condition has prompted serious calls for a constitutional convention. This constant churn indicates that basic law often reaches the point where it fails and becomes obsolete. Given the experience of so many states, he writes, surely it is reasonable to believe that the U.S. Constitution merits its own updating. Whether we are concerned about making America more genuinely democratic or only about creating a system of government that can more effectively respond to contemporary challenges, we must confront the ways our constitutions, especially the United States Constitution, mu ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: A. T. Chandler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011563/bk_adbl_011563_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Floating Theatre , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 731min
1838. A divided nation. To save the lives of others May Bedloe must risk her own.... The Ohio River. May Bedloe is a seamstress to her cousin, the flamboyant actress Comfort Virtue. When they board the doomed Moselle their paths cross with Mrs Flora Howard, a wealthy abolitionist and notorious opportunist. Mrs Howard is quick to lure Comfort to her cause - a cause, it seems, that has no use for quiet little May. Casting out on her own for the first time, May lands a job on Hugo Cushin's wondrous Floating Theatre - a flatboat that sails the Ohio performing plays to the townsfolk along the way. Though shy at first, May quickly finds herself drawn into the eccentric troupe of characters aboard her new home: to sanctimonious, haughty Mrs Niffen and her browbeaten husband; to kind and gentle Leo, who steers the theatre from one riverbank town to the next; to sweet, open-hearted Liddy; and most of all, to the inscrutable Hugo himself. As the boat drifts south down the river, May gradually learns what it means to belong on her own terms, and how to fashion a family of sorts from this ragtag bunch of players. But just as May's new life is beginning to take shape around her, the reappearance of Comfort and Mrs Howard threatens to throw everything off course. To repay an old debt, May is not only compelled to break the law but also to guard a secret which puts the fate of the whole theatre - and all her hopes for a happy future - at risk.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy Finegan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/003123/bk_boli_003123_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Crop Circles: World Famous Mysteries: Unsolved Mysteries , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 17min
Who really makes crop circles?Strange formations in fields of wheat and other crops have been appearing since the 1970s. Are they made by aliens parking their spaceships, or is the explanation rather more down to earth?Of all the subjects I’ve explored for this series, the one I was most looking forward to finding more about was crop circles. For years, I had been hoping there would be an extraordinary paranormal explanation for crop-circle appearances or, better still, that we were being visited by aliens from other worlds.Then, when it became clear that most of the circles were in fact hoaxes, I relished the thought that I would finally have the chance to dismiss all the crop-circle fanatics I have heard on the radio over the years talking with great passion about the temporary parking of invisible spacecraft in a field, leaving behind an imprint in the flattened wheat when they zoom back into outer space.The only extra bit of evidence offered for this startling conclusion appearing to be that witnesses claim flocks of birds veer around crop-circle sites as if avoiding or circumnavigating something the rest of us cannot see.I was looking forward to poking fun at the gaping holes left in the arguments of these so-called experts when expounding their elaborate theories on the six o’clock news.Indeed, I wish I had phoned in once, just once, and asked that sanctimonious old fellow on the BBC, who appeared to be contradicting himself every five minutes, a couple of simple questions: How, then, do you explain the crop circles that have appeared directly underneath power lines - how could a spaceship have landed there? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Albert Jack. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144983/bk_acx0_144983_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lust in the Caribbean , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min
On a ship traversing the dangerous seas in 1710, surrendering to the swashbuckling pirates of the Manhunter will yield the most pleasurable of outcomes. Thomas Treadwell takes to the high seas as a sailor on a merchant ship as he searches for freedom, a difficult thing to find for a man such as himself in the 18th century. While he must hide his most essential self in the daylight, his forbidden desires are allowed brief tastes of secret passion under the cover of night and with faceless partners. It’s not the freedom he’d hoped to one day find, but it was better than most realities for a catamite. Caught in the taboo act aboard the Virtue, a pious ship captained by the sanctimonious Captain Temperance Stone, Thomas faces death for his crime of finding pleasure with a fellow sailor. But his fate changes in an instant when the Virtue is caught and boarded by the notorious Manhunter, a pirate ship purportedly manned by men just like him, men who desire men. The ship of criminal misfits offers him safe harbor as a guest, and what was always forbidden is accepted and celebrated. Celebrated heartily and with many of his newfound sailing companions. But when he stumbles upon their mysterious secret, passions and suspicions are aroused. Thomas must decide whether to join their ranks for good, making him a criminal in his own eyes. Lust in the Caribbean delivers sexy scenes and high adventure, transporting listeners back to a faraway place and time. Dive deep and experience the journey right alongside Thomas, as he discovers the meaning of acceptance, loyalty, and the rule of love over law. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Beck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/138901/bk_acx0_138901_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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