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    Blackmail , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min
    The respectable philanthropist Charles Granter is approached by a disreputable type on the Embankment in London, who attempts to blackmail him. Granter has just paid a visit to a pretty flower girl, a single mother in straightened circumstances, and the blackmailer wants 10 pounds in return for not telling Granter's wife. Granter is unsure how to deal with the situation. He refuses to give in to the blackmailer's demands...but how will his wife respond to the situation? Should he involve the police? Is the flower girl implicated in the blackmail plot? As Granter develops a plan of action, things take an unusual turn.... John Galsworthy was a brilliant British writer of short stories, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000278/bk_redd_000278_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Geotechnical Engineering Research Study
    Geotechnical Engineering Research Study ab 48.99 € als Taschenbuch: Performance Evaluation and Numerical Modeling of Embankment over Cement Stabilized Soft Clay. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Technik,
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    The Station Master's Wife: A Scandalous Life Exposed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 581min
    A novel of characters pulled from Oregon history in the late 1800's through the 1920s. Pioneers, railroad men, and the women who held everything together through daily life and the scandals hidden beneath.I feared for their lives and their ears. Our local weekly newspaper showed pictures of them dangling from ropes hanging in woven baskets off the embankment of a mountain in order to tap sticks of dynamite into the holes they drilled in the granite cliff faces they blasted away. One could hear that awful, loud dynamite blasting all the way in town. But the booming had been even worse for the ears of the railroad workers who detonated the charges for the grading and tunneling, especially the Chinese who were given these most dangerous jobs. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tena Bunnell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201906/bk_acx0_201906_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Saving Grace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 295min
    When Grace Collins braves the oncoming storm to make her court hearing, she has one thing on her mind - preventing her ex-husband from gaining custody of their daughter. But when her car strikes another on the way there, she is stranded down an embankment with no one else but the injured stranger she collided with.Frantic at the thought of losing her little girl, Grace is determined to find help before it’s too late. But the storm is here to stay, and when her calls for help go unanswered, the two strangers are forced to work together to survive. But who is this man? Why does Grace bare her soul's dark secrets to him? Can she trust him?Saving Grace is a journey through one woman’s fight to survive an abusive marriage, and find the strength to start her life over for her and her daughter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kayla Fisher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/172364/bk_acx0_172364_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    143: A Love Story with Barriers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 363min
    Genevieve's parents are still reeling from the news that their daughter is gay, and she will no longer be marrying Paul, the man who they believe is the ideal son-in-law. Rejected by her family and friends, Genevieve makes a new life with Rebecca, the woman she has fallen in love with, and she has never been happier.DC Isabel Smith first encounters the couple when investigating a vicious attack on Genevieve along the embankment of the River Thames. Her investigation is hampered when Genevieve regains consciousness but cannot remember the attack, who she is, or the woman she loves.With great reluctance, Rebecca has no choice but to let Genevieve return to her family and ex-fiance, who will do whatever they can to steer her along the path they believe is the right one - the one that does not include Rebecca. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ella McCready. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229924/bk_acx0_229924_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Another One Goes Tonight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 697min
    Peter Diamond, the Bath detective brilliant at rooting out murder, is peeved at being diverted to Professional Standards to enquire into a police car accident. Arriving late at the scene, he discovers an extra victim thrown onto an embankment - unconscious and unnoticed. Diamond administers CPR, but no one can say whether the elderly tricyclist will pull through. But why had the man been out in the middle of the night with an urn containing human ashes? Diamond's suspicions grow after he identifies the accident victim as Ivor Pellegrini, a well-known local eccentric and railway enthusiast. A search of Pellegrini's workshop proves beyond question that he is involved in a series of uninvestigated deaths. While Pellegrini lingers on life support, Diamond wrestles with the appalling possibility that he has saved the life of a serial killer.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Wickham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001167/bk_twuk_001167_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Deadly Memories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 589min
    A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The last thing Maura Thomas remembers before her car careened over a steep embankment is having dinner with her college roommate - over 20 years ago. Everything in between is a blank. Maura has no recollection of her husband, her daughter, or her busy, glamorous existence as owner of a Beverly Hills boutique. Maura can't even be sure that everyone around her is who they claim to be. Is it paranoia or self-preservation that makes her uneasy? And then there are the images starting to fill her head - pictures of a life at odds with everything she's been told. As Maura begins to piece together the fragments of her previous life, she grows convinced that her car crash was no accident. But the moment she remembers the truth she'll find herself at the mercy of a killer determined to silence her forever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009831/bk_reco_009831_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dam Breach Modelling and Risk Disposal
    Dam Breach Modelling and Risk Disposal ab 234.49 € als pdf eBook: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Embankment Dams (ICED 2020). Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Wissenschaften allgemein,
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    Dam Breach Modelling and Risk Disposal
    Dam Breach Modelling and Risk Disposal ab 245.99 € als Taschenbuch: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Embankment Dams (ICED 2020). 1st ed. 2020. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Naturwissenschaft,
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    Yellowhammer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 664min
    The new Essex-based thriller from the author of Blackwater and the Detective Jack Frost prequels.July 1983, Essex. A boy playing hide-and-seek sees a fox tugging at something up on a railway embankment. He approaches it cautiously. Seconds later, a blast is heard, and rooks ascend from the poplars surrounding the farmhouse at which the boy is spending his summer holiday with cousins.DI Nick Lowry is called upon to investigate two deaths at Fox Farm, the home of eminent historian Christopher Cliff. The body in the farmhouse kitchen is Cliff himself, having seemingly taking his own life with an antique shotgun. The fox-disturbed body on the property boundary is as yet unidentified.Lowry is already under pressure: County Chief Merrydown was at college with Cliff and knows the family. He must enlist colleagues Daniel Kenton and Jane Gabriel to answer two key questions: just who was at the house with Cliff that morning, and just what has since happened to Cliff's wife? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Bruce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000913/bk_qpuk_000913_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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