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    Ancestral Vices , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 518min
    When Lord Petrefact hires Walden Yapp, Professor of Demotic Historiography at Kloone University, to write a scurrilous family history Yapp finds plenty of material in Buscott village, where Frederick Petrefact is running the Mill and adding new vices to the family collection. If Yapp can lay his hands on the Petrefact Papers in the Buscott Museum he may be able to expose the multi-national capitalism of the Petrefacts to the whole world. Unfortunately when he takes lodgings with the Coppetts of Rabbitry Road and encounters the peculiar charm of Rosie, a woman of large body and little mind, he sets in motion a train of events which are to lead to his undoing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Griff Rhys Jones. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/004859/bk_bbcw_004859_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Slinging Mud
    Slinging Mud ab 13.49 € als epub eBook: Rude Nicknames Scurrilous Slogans and Insulting Slang from Two Centuries of Am erican Politics. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,
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    The Courage of Lady Elizabeth Portland (Victorian Orphans series, #3) (eBook, ePUB)
    In 1890, shortly before her twenty-fifth birthday, Elizabeth Portland finds herself abandoned for the second time in her life. Against her better judgement she is persuaded to act as chaperone to an eighteen-year-old society girl to see her safely through a summer on the continent before her coming out season. Caught up in the parry and thrust of society match-making, she has no thought of herself becoming an object of interest, particularly to Hugh Wentworth, heir to a duke and reportedly a philanderer who makes his living by gambling. How unfortunate that circumstances keep throwing her in his path. When he becomes the victim of scurrilous rumour, will she have the courage to come forward and tell what she knows?
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    Pretending to Be Me: Philp Larkin, a Portrait , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min
    Pretending to Be Me is an intimate, acerbic, and occasionally scurrilous show about the poet, jazz aficionado, and Hull University librarian Philip Larkin. Larkin has moved home: surrounded by packing cases, playing selections from his favourite jazz LPs, and making himself cups of tea, and later whiskies, he reflects wryly on writing and life. Hilarious and moving, the narrative shifts seamlessly between Larkin's outrageous wit and the poems, which Courtenay reads with powerful directness and simplicity. Philip Larkin, one of the foremost figures in 20th-Century English poetry, feared his epitaph would be: "They f*** you up, your mum and dad". This, and other familiar poems, including "An Arundel Tomb", "The Whitsun Weddings", and "High Windows". are included in Pretending to Be Me. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Courtenay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000027/bk_twuk_000027_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Standing Our Ground: Monastery Valley, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 831min
    Book Excellence Awards 2020 Finalist - Political Thriller"Percy juggles both plotlines effectively while addressing important social issues." (Publisher's Weekly)A cold-blooded murder. The victim: a 14-year-old boy. The shooter waits patiently for the cops and calmly explains his right to kill the boy. “I was defending my property.” Can Deputy Andi Pelton find the evidence to break through the killer’s stand-your-ground defense?Suddenly, Sheriff Ben Stewart almost dies and cannot campaign for re-election. Andi knows she has to take his place - her nemesis, Deputy Brad Ordrew, runs unopposed and he’s promised to fire her when he’s sheriff. Can she stand her own ground to stay in Monastery Valley while she tries to solve the murder and defends herself against scurrilous political ads paid for by a mysterious stranger? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Steen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201933/bk_acx0_201933_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fry's English Delight: Word Games , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 49min
    Is English an innately playful language? Are word games good for you? Do we divide into number and word players? And could Scrabble have been invented in any other language? In this special programme, Stephen examines many word games, and we’ll hear some familiar voices playing unfamiliar games - Sheila Dillon from 'The Food Programme' plays 'Font or Cheese' against miscellanist Ben Schott. Phill Juptitus talks about his personal word game habits, and we’ll remember the late Humphrey Lyttelton’s scurrilous account of Una Stubbs on 'I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue'. We’ll travel deep inside the mind of puzzle-setter Chris Maslanka and visit the Comedy Store in London to experience the lightning reflexes of some top word-athletes. Plus, we’ll examine an extraordinary claim - which the fashion for increasingly cryptic crosswords helped to defeat Hitler. Stephen Fry celebrates the fun side of the English language in this exclusive extended edition of a BBC Radio 4 special. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Fry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/004843/bk_bbcw_004843_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Every Man Mind His Own Business Or Private Piques No Public Precedents
    Every Man Mind His Own Business Or Private Piques No Public Precedents ab 35.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Being An Answer To A Late Scurrilous Pamphlet Entitled Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business (1725). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    Byron's Women , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 827min
    One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomised wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Nine women; one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron - mad, bad and very, very dangerous to know. The most flamboyant of the Romantics, he wrote literary best sellers; he was a satirist of genius; he embodied the Romantic love of liberty (the Greeks revere him as a national hero); he was the prototype of the modern celebrity - and he treated women (and these women in particular) abominably. In Byron's Women, Alex Larman tells their extraordinary, moving and often shocking stories. In so doing, he creates a scurrilous anti-biography of one of England's greatest poets, whose life he views - to deeply unflattering effect - through the prism of the nine damaged women's lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kris Dyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028994/bk_adbl_028994_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death of a Scriptwriter: Hamish Macbeth, Book 14 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min
    Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her seventies, has retired to the Highlands. She hasn't written a word in years and her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last detective story, featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective Lady Harriet Vare. Even better, a London publisher is bringing the book into print. Even though the snobbish Miss Martyn-Broyd doesn't care to mix with the locals she can't help but share her excitement with local policeman Hamish Macbeth. Imagine her horror when Miss Martyn-Broyd discovers that Lady Harriet Vare is portrayed as a pot-smoking hippy, that the screenwriter is known for his violent and scurrilous scripts and that Lady Harriet is going to be played by the scene-stealing trollop Penelope Gates. But a contract is a contract, Ms Martyn-Broyd quickly learns and when she is accused of murdering the scriptwriter and the leading lady, she turns to her one friend in Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth, to help her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Monteath. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016110/bk_adbl_016110_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heroes & Rascals of Old Oregon: Offbeat Oregon History, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 599min
    Heroes and rascals...shipwrecks and lost gold...Since 2008, the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column has entertained and informed Oregonians with the weirdest, quirkiest, funniest, and most outrageous true stories in the surprisingly long history of their young state. Now, for the first time, those stories have been collected together, re-researched, augmented with freshly discovered information, and presented to listeners in audiobook form - starting with this volume, in which we've selected the most inspirational heroes, the most scurrilous rascals, and the most hilariously quirky mavericks of our state.Highlights of this volume include:Heroes like Robert Pamphlet, the Canadian rumrunner who rescued a boat full of shipwrecked mariners - and was sent to prison for it...Rascals like Joseph "Bunco" Kelley, the legendary Portland waterfront shanghaier, opium smuggler, and all-around underworld entrepreneur...Mavericks like Art Lacey, the man who smuggled a war-surplus B-17 bomber past the watchful eyes at City Hall and installed it proudly over the pumps at his Milwaukee gas station...And over 50 others. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Finn J.D. John. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/148151/bk_acx0_148151_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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