25 Results for : schemed
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The Virgin's Lover, Hörbuch, Digital, 347min
Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend. In a house in the countryside waits a very different woman, Amy Robsart - Robert's wife. She has no taste for life at court and longs for the day when her husband will return home. She has loved him since she was a girl, but now that they are adults, she hardly sees him. Meanwhile, the pressure grows for Elizabeth to marry, for it is unthinkable that a queen should rule on her own. Elizabeth's preference is clear, but he is unavailable. But what if the unthinkable were to happen? Philippa Gregory blends passion, personalities, and politics in this stunning novel of the Tudor court and a country divided. Language: English. Narrator: Rupert Penry-Jones. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000272/bk_hcuk_000272_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Never Marry a Viscount: Scandal at the House of Russell, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 561min
She’s crept back into the home she lost. He’s crept into her heart. Sophie Russell was once society’s darling. But after the disgrace and death of her father, she now finds all doors firmly shut to her - including those of her family home. To discover the secrets now hidden within its beloved walls, she’ll pose as a cook and spy on the estate’s new owner, a broodingly handsome viscount, who may have schemed against the Russells. Instead of dishing up the truth, the viscount tempts Sophie with delicacies of his own… Viscount Griffiths suspects that there is more to his new cook than meets the eye - especially since it was a mistress he hired sight unseen, not a cook. With the hope that her passion in the kitchen will extend to his bedchamber, he humors the beautiful interloper. But when that passion burns to brightest love, revelations may shake both of their wary hearts… The final sensuous book in the Scandal at the House of Russell trilogy will lay the truth bare. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Xe Sands. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006416/bk_brll_006416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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SuperCouples: Chapter 18 - A Creative Compliment - Wearmates , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 15min
A resident of Delhi, Udai is an engineer and holds a master’s degree in international business. Shruti is from Patna, and she holds a degree in international business and public relations. An artist at heart, she began her first creative expression when she started painting funky T-shirts for her brother to wear during his graduation years. Not only did she find herself being extremely fond of what she was doing, but she also came to realize that her brother and a lot of his friends seemed to love her designs. As destiny had schemed, she crossed paths with Udai at his birthday party, where they were introduced by Udai’s best friend. What could have been any other normal encounter turned into a magical connection where art, love, and life transcended between the two souls, and thus began the story of Shruti and Udai. They came together from very different educational fields, and their love for each other and for art inspired them to create a start-up named Wearmates. It offers a wide range of creative wearable products with the right amount of style, spunk, and depth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lavanya Krishna. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/054286/bk_adbl_054286_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Banking Her: Bad Boy Billionaires Series, Book 2.5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 231min
When one rulebook closes... Thatch and Cassie have finally found their perfect balance of good and sweet, crazy and playful, and, most importantly, hot and insatiable. But what happens when they're faced with a surprise neither of them plotted or schemed for? While Cassie seems to be taking everything in stride, Thatch can't stop himself from worrying about every little thing revolving around the woman he loves. Doing the only thing he can to ease his mind without pushing her away, Thatch proves that once again, when it comes to him and Cass, you'll never see what's coming. Another playbook begins... Wes Lancaster has always followed one guideline for play. He never gets involved with anyone working for his professional football team, the New York Mavericks. It hasn't been a hard rule to live by - until Winnie Winslow, the new take-no-shit team physician. She's beautiful, intelligent - and has no problem taking control of every situation. She pisses him off. She turns him on. As tension builds and desire heightens, Wes finds himself wondering how much longer he'll be able to follow his game plan. Contains mature themes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Arden, Elizabeth Hart, Maxine Mitchell, Jeremy York. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007207/bk_tant_007207_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A-List: The Jake Longly Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 459min
Nothing is easy in The Big EasyPI Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison head to New Orleans at the behest of Nicole's uncle, movie producer Charles Balfour, when his megastar, A-list actor Kirk Ford, awakens in his hotel bed with the body of Kristi Guidry, a local college coed. Ford, in the Big Easy for a location shoot, remembers little of the evening and nothing of the murder. And, to make matters worse, Kristi is the niece of a local mafioso-type who will do whatever is necessary to avenge her death. Balfour is losing money every day the filming is stalled - he needs his actor cleared, and quickly.Surrounded by glitzy Hollywood stars and intimidated by seedy underworld characters, Jake and Nicole encounter nothing but obstacles. Something isn't right. The facts don't fit. Who would want Kristi dead? Why frame Kirk for the murder? Everyone has an opinion, including Kristi's friends and ex-boyfriend, the local homicide detectives, and a fortune-teller. The clock is ticking as Jake and Nicole struggle to decipher who's lying, who's telling the truth, and exactly who schemed to murder Kristi Guidry. Nothing is easy in The Big Easy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Stone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/138546/bk_acx0_138546_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A World Ruled by Evil, Hörbuch, Digital, 67min
On the daily news we see war, disease, poverty, and man pitted against man. We see billions of impoverished people, displaced by power brokers. We see the super-rich getting richer. Many simply watch this news without understanding it or even trying to. They don't know the bigger picture, the truth about what is really happening out there. The truth is, what happens out there affects us all - and all of these world events are happening not by chance but by design. All of our lives are being affected by just a few men who are members of an elite group. Their ancestors plotted and schemed just as they are doing today. They affect all levels of society from lawmakers and enforcers to religious and political leaders to movie makers and media moguls as well as industrial giants and pharmaceutical billionaires. Through clever manipulation, marketing, propaganda, and force, they control the world, but they aren't the politicians you're thinking of because most often the politicians are pawns themselves. Instead these people are members of a long line, a golden thread through history that stretches back thousands of years and can be traced through their own bloodline. Welcome to the world of a very real and powerful secret society. Language: English. Narrator: Philip Gardiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/real/000409/rt_real_000409_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cargo of Coffins , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 125min
If Lars Marlin had three wishes, two have already been granted: he has escaped from Devil’s Island ... and he has come face to face with the man who put him there—Paco Corvino. But the third wish—putting a bullet in Corvino—will have to wait. Now the two are off to sea serving on a luxury yacht.Corvino is a convict, con-man and killer who has schemed his way into a position as chief steward on a luxury yacht sailing out of Rio de Janeiro. And, in a twist as devious as it is diabolical, he’s managed to install Lars - his hated rival - as captain of the very same vessel. And there are even darker twists to come. . . .Lars is determined to find out what Corvino has up his sleeve . . . and what killer cargo he’s hiding on board. But the yacht owner’s daughter proves to be a beautiful - and dangerous - distraction. Will Lars be safe in her arms . . . or is she part of Corvino’s plot - a deadly trap set with honey?Don’t miss the boat—as the audio version of Cargo of Coffins brings to vivid life this scintillating story of suspense and surprising revelations at sea. “An exciting story that will keep the listener wanting more.” —Gil Wilson ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. F. Daley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gala/000035/bk_gala_000035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Queen's Prophet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 693min
Inspired by Velázquez's baroque masterpiece, Las Meninas, The Queen's Prophet is an imagined account of the dwarfess Maribarbola of Spain (featured prominently in Velázquez's painting) and her struggle for survival and self-determination at a time when dwarfs were kept by aristocracy as pets, prophets, and good-luck charms. When the Countess of Walther dies at her German estate, her loyal dwarfess Maria-Barbara is forced to work as a prophet for a traveling magician, who betrays her by selling her to the queen of Spain. At the royal court in Madrid, Mari finds herself in a bizarre, enchanted world, a society culturally splendid but intellectually isolated. There she becomes Maribarbola, prophet to the queen, and, her survival at stake, endeavors to outsmart the Spaniards. Mari's wits and loyalties are tested as she becomes embroiled in palace intrigue alongside the politically embattled queen. When Mari's carefully schemed prophecies dazzle all of Spain, she and the queen climb to dizzying heights of power, a place as intoxicating as it is dangerous. But even as Mari survives and thrives at the Spanish court, the loss of identity she suffers from living a lie makes her question whether she is really surviving at all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justine Eyre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010159/bk_blak_010159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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On the Rocks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 472min
He left to travel the world for fame and glory, but only after spurning Gabby Ward and crushing her young heart. Now Hunter Markham has come back home to the sand and salty breeze of the North Carolina Outer Banks so he can open up Last Call, a beach bar nestled among the dunes of the Atlantic. Gabby Ward is not happy that Hunter has returned. Bitter over his rebuff years before, she's content to stay far away from him and his dangerously charming ways. Gabby's well-schemed plans to ignore Hunter go up in flames when he presents an offer to her that she simply can't refuse, throwing them together in a common quest to each reach their goals. Working together day in and day out proves to be problematic for Gabby, who soon realizes that the feelings she had for him are still very much alive. Hunter struggles to reach through to Gabby's cold heart, all while starting a new career away from his life as a top-ranked professional surfer. What starts out as a mutual business arrangement soon turns into a passion that neither of them can continue to deny. Hard choices lay ahead for both of them when Hunter is offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return to the pro surfing tour. Choices that could destroy what they have built or take them further than they ever had dared to hope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Douglas Berger, Bunny Warren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028318/bk_adbl_028318_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Global Life: My Journey Among Rich and Poor, from Sydney to Wall Street to the World Bank , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1103min
The autobiography of the larger-than-life, visionary financier and humanitarian who led the World Bank through one of its most intense and tumultuous decades in the struggle against global poverty. As president of the World Bank for a decade, James Wolfensohn tackled world poverty with a passion and energy that made him a uniquely important figure in a fundamental arena of change. Using a lifetime of experience in the banking sector, he carved a distinct path in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe for the institution that serves as the major lender to the world's poor. In A Global Life, Wolfensohn tells his astonishing life story in his own words. A man of surpassing imagination and drive, he became an Olympic fencer and a prominent banker in London and New York. An Australian, he navigated Wall Street with uncommon skill. Chairman of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for many years, he is also an amateur cellist. But it was his tenure at the World Bank that made him an international force. While at the helm of this controversial institution, Wolfensohn motivated, schemed, charmed, and bullied all the constituencies at his command to broaden the distribution of the world's wealth. Now he bluntly assesses his successes and failures, reflecting on the causes of continuing poverty. Much more than a business story, this is a deeply reflective account of a fascinating career and personality. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Sachs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002838/bk_adbl_002838_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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