98 Results for : clung
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34 Months: Attitude and Survival as a Korean POW , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 283min
For 34 months, while wounded and struggling to survive in Korean War prison camps, Felix Ferranto recited the Lord's Prayer daily and dreamed of being free and with his family. Proper "attitude" and having learned enough of the Chinese language and culture during his time with the American Legation Guard in Peiping, China would be critical for his survival. A radio relay platoon commander in the 1st Marine Division, Felix was wounded at the time of his capture by Chinese forces in November, 1950. During the time he was in captivity, he kept meticulous notes of the other prisoners he met. When one died, he put a rectangle around his name, hiding the papers from his captors in a shaving cream canister that he had emptied. Meanwhile, his family in Oceanside, California, clung to its only thread of hope: a letter his wife received shortly after his capture. The letter was snuck out of the prison camp by a Chinese doctor. It was the doctor's way of repaying Felix for saving his life during an attack by Allied aircraft. In an attempt to electrocute a North Korean major, Felix rigged a radio. The effort was unsuccessful, leading to prolonged solitary confinement. His "attitude," while in the depth of unimaginable, life or death circumstances is what kept him alive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Botten. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/198869/bk_acx0_198869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Untold Want: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 402min
What would you do if the bible was law, and you didn't fit in? My name is Catianna Breaker. I live in a community that lives by the word of the Lord, and unquestioningly obeys the laws of the Bible. My father was a Gatekeeper, a soldier of God who enforces these laws and dispenses justice as our Prophet sees fit. I'm a painter, and an average student. I help my Aunt Shelly run a pottery store after school. I'm sixteen years old, and I'm dying. When you're sixteen, nothing could possibly happen to you. Things happen to friends of friends, to relatives or complete strangers, but not to you. Strip that away, and you lose something inside of you. It's the spark of youth that adults often refer to in reminiscence, something that makes every young boy and girl take daring risks, makes them happy-go-lucky and carefree. What you lose is your invincibility. So who am I now? What do I believe in when what I see and hear around me leads to suffering? What path do I follow when the rules I'd clung to for safety seem to turn their fangs on me in my hour of need? This is my story. These are my words. Please, listen, because this will be my only chance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: K. C. Cowan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019681/bk_acx0_019681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Black Death: Explore the Great Mortality from Beginning to End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 180min
Mankind’s annals don’t get darker.Delve into the deadliest pandemic ever known.No one knew where it came from, and at a certain point, it didn’t matter because it seemed to be everywhere...stalking the land with silent menace. It clung to people and animals like a second skin, traveling to distant places on the backs of traders and travelers who didn’t even know they were dead. It could kill swiftly and brutally, or slowly and painfully, and no one knew if they had it until it was far too late - when the weeping black pustules that gave the disease its name appeared across their feverish bodies. The Black Death swept through Africa, Asia, and Europe, taking millions of lives en route.People didn’t passively accept this epidemic. They scrambled for answers and solutions, grappling with the impossible. A very real fear began to take form: That this was the beginning of the end of the world. Social order broke down, governments stopped functioning, churches and religious scholars were undermined, fanatics whipped themselves into a frenzy, and ignorant, terrified mobs scapegoated and slaughtered their own neighbors in their homes.And yet, the world did not then end. Humanity endured, survived, and came again to thrive.This horrifying chapter of our history will fascinate, but discord and disease await. Prepare for the Black Death! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Al M. Rocca. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/208733/bk_acx0_208733_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Porn Again: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
In Porn Memoir: A Memoir, Josh Sabarra throws open the proverbial closet - and bedroom - doors, taking listeners on a Hollywood thrill-ride through growing up, coming out, coming of age and finally finding himself at 40. Despite being a high-level entertainment executive, Josh was still a virgin at 31. Uncomfortable in his own skin, haunted by painful childhood memories, he kept laser-focused on building an unparalleled career trajectory at the expense of his personal life. Tormented by schoolmates for being "different," Josh clung to his aberrantly close relationships with a small circle of adult females. But, even with that support, the shame and contempt that grew from his sexuality locked him in a prison of self-hate that robbed him of an emotional and sexual identity for more than three decades. Movie studio jobs, through which he met celebrity idols, led to friendships and relationships with some of the industry's most notable characters. Those intimacies created a false sense of acceptance and approval, requiring that he continue to up the stakes - celebrity lovers, the crazy world of online dating, sexual fetishists and porn stars-for-hire. The gay best friend you always wanted, Josh Sabarra delivers a whip-smart, poignant memoir set against a glittering backdrop that is at once heartbreaking, glamorous, sexy and hilariously honest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Josh Sabarra. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032029/bk_acx0_032029_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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My Persian Paradox: Memories of an Iranian Girl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 521min
On a cold night in 1978, seven-year-old Shabnam Shahmohammad clung to her mother in a Tehran apartment while the sounds of gunshots rang out in the street: The Iranian Revolution was at hand. She and her family survived that night, but as the Islamic fundamentalists took the power over, she grew up watching her father take his beloved books away to burn, his friends be arrested and disappear, and women like her mother grow ever more marginalized. Confused by her father’s communist ideology, her mother’s conservative religious beliefs, and the regime’s oppressive rules, she developed a deep longing to live a different life.Finding herself being married at 19, she naively dreamed to team up and discover an adventurous life. When she gave birth to a daughter whose future, she realized, mattered more to her than her own, she had to find a way to unlock her little girl’s possibilities. She longed to emigrate, but with Western countries’ embassies mostly absent from Tehran, options for escaping Iran were limited.My Persian Paradox: Memories Living Under Tyranny and Dreaming of Liberty is a tale of resilience facing oppression and dictatorship along with fighting with narrow traditional and restrictive cultural rules. This memoir is a journey of self-discovery, mother-daughter relationship obstacles, forbidden love, and the universal desire for freedom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie John. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231989/bk_acx0_231989_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Shadows on the Rock , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 515min
Superbly written, with that sensitivity to sunset and afterglow that has always been Miss Cather's. (The New York Times) Willa Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock immediately after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Like its predecessor, this novel of 17th-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to that new world even as they clung to the artifacts and manners of one they left behind. In 1697 Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to 12-year-old Cécile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas créche. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of a year, she re-creates the continent as it must have appeared to its first European inhabitants. And she gives us a spellbinding work of historical fiction in which great events occur first as rumors and then as legends - and in which even the most intimate domestic scenes are suffused with a sense of wonder. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ann Marie Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004765/bk_rand_004765_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Red Icon: Inspector Pekkala, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min
In the midst of the fighting, two Russian soldiers seek refuge in the crypt of a German church. There, clutched in the hands of a skeleton priest, they find The Shepherd - a priceless icon thought to have been destroyed long ago. When news of its discovery reaches Moscow, Stalin calls upon his most trusted investigator, Inspector Pekkala, once a favorite of the tsar and known to all of Russia as The Emerald Eye. To unravel the secret of the icon's past, Pekkala traces its last known whereabouts to a band of self-mutilating radicals known as The Skoptsy, who were hunted to extinction years ago by the Bolshevik Secret Police. Or so it was believed. As Pekkala soon learns, the last survivors of this brutal sect have clung to life in the shadowy forests of Siberia. With the reappearance of the icon, they have returned to claim the treasure they say belongs to them alone, bringing with them a new and terrible weapon to unleash upon the Russian people. Unless the Emerald Eye can stop them. Sam Eastland lives in the US and the UK. He is the grandson of a London police detective. Eye of the Red Tsar, the first in the Inspector Pekkala series, was followed by The Red Coffin and Siberian Red. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Pacey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025753/bk_adbl_025753_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Spy Who Seduced Her: The Brethren, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 488min
In this spellbinding new Regency series by Christi Caldwell, The Heart of a Duke meets the Brethren of the Lords. The stakes are high and passions flare hot in Regency England! A widow with a past...The last thing Victoria Barrett, the Viscountess Waters, has any interest in is romance. When the only man she's ever loved was killed, she endured an arranged marriage to a cruel man in order to survive. Now widowed, her only focus is on clearing her son's name from the charge of murder. That is until the love of her life returns from the grave. A leader of a once great agency...Nathaniel Archer, the Earl of Exeter head of the Crown's elite organization, The Brethren, is back on British soil. Captured and tortured 20 years ago, he clung to memories of his first love until he could escape. Discovering she has married whilst he was captive, Nathaniel sets aside the distractions of love...until an unexpected case is thrust upon him - to solve the murder of the Viscount Waters. There is just one complication: the prime suspect's mother is none other than Victoria, the woman he once loved with his very soul. Secrets will be uncovered and passions rekindled. Victoria and Nathaniel must trust one another if they hope to start anew - in love and life. But will duty destroy their last chance? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095809/bk_acx0_095809_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sitting Bull (eBook, ePUB)
"A reverent tribute to the great Hunkpapa chief and holy man, cast as a memoir with a rich array of new and contemporary illustrations." -Kirkus Reviews Sitting Bull (c. 1831-1890) was one of the greatest Lakota/Sioux warriors and chiefs who ever lived. He was eventually named war chief, leader of the entire Sioux nation-a title never before bestowed on anyone. As a leader, Sitting Bull resisted the United States government's attempt to move the Lakota/Sioux to reservations for more than twenty-five years. From Sitting Bull's childhood-killing his first buffalo at age ten-to being named war chief, to leading his people against the U.S. Army, and to his surrender,Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His Peoplebrings the story of the great chief to light. Sitting Bull was instrumental in the war against the invasive wasichus (White Man) and was at the forefront of the combat, including the Battles of Killdeer Mountain and the Little Bighorn. He and Crazy Horse were the last Lakota/Sioux to surrender their people to the U.S. government and resort to living on a reservation. Award-winning author and member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe S. D. Nelson intersperses archival images with his own artwork, inspired by the ledger-art drawings of the nineteenth-century Lakota. Through the art and riveting story, Nelson conveys how Sitting Bull clung to his belief that the Lakota were a free people meant to live, hunt, and die on the Great Plains. "A tragic true story told in powerfully subdued tones." -Booklist(starred review) "Both powerful and poignant." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)- Shop: buecher
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Once Upon a Fastball , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 388min
Your legacy is in the Attic. The words leap from the cryptic poem left for Harvard professor Seth Stein by his Papa Sol, the doting grandfather who vanished without a trace four years earlier. It was Papa Sol who instilled an unquenchable passion for baseball in Seth's soul; it was Sol who also ignited Seth's obsession with history, spinning fabulous tales of times and people long gone. And when Papa Sol disappeared, it was Seth who stepped up to the plate, caring for Sol's bewildered wife as she clung to her cherished memories. Seth is still searching for answers when the poem - "For Setharoo, on his 50th birthday" - appears in his grandmother's home. It leads him to a scuffed, yellowed baseball, resting in a box handmade by his grandfather. Without warning, a single touch of the rough leather thrusts Seth through the swirling vortex of history onto the streets of 1950s New York and then to the greatest baseball game ever played, the Bobby Thomson "Shot Heard `Round the World" playoff classic. It is in this surreal, sepia-toned site of past glory that historian Seth begins a wondrous, life-changing odyssey that allows him to find the answers he so desperately seeks. Suspenseful, thought-provoking, funny, and poignant , this beautifully crafted novel is a joyous tribute to our inspiring and timeless national pastime, and a rare treasure for all those who love baseball. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Meskimen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013611/bk_adbl_013611_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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