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Sweet Home Alaska , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min
This exciting pioneering story, based on actual events, introduces listeners to a fascinating chapter in American history, when FDR set up a New Deal colony in Alaska to give loans and land to families struggling during the Great Depression. Trip can't wait to follow in Laura Ingalls Wilder's footsteps...now she just has to convince her mom. It's 1934, and times are tough for their family. To make a fresh start, Trip's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting them from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska. Their new home is a bit of a shock - it's a town still under construction in the middle of the wilderness, where the residents live in tents and share a community outhouse. But Trip's not about to let first impressions get in the way of this grand adventure. Tackling its many unique challenges with her can-do attitude, she starts making things happen to make Alaska seem more like home. Soon, she and her family are able to start settling in and enjoying their new surroundings - everyone except her mother, that is. So, in order to stay, Trip hatches a plan to convince her that it's a wonderful - and civilized - place to live...a plan that's going to take all the love, energy, and Farmer Boy expertise Trip can muster. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Denaker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001967/bk_lili_001967_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Defiance on Indian Creek : Dangerous Loyalties, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 291min
This young adult historical novel, tells the fictional account of young Mary Shirley, who just wants a normal life with friends her age and someday, suitors. She is brave, tenacious, and prone to be rash.The settlers along Indian Creek in Western Virginia are siding against King George, except Papa. He has declared loyalty and intends to remove the family to Kentucky territory. After discovering surveys with strange riddles, Mary witnesses her papa exchange documents between a patriot neighbor and a known loyalist. She believes Papa is a cowardly traitor, endangering the family. Internal struggles lead to lost trust and acts of defiance until Mary is faced with a dangerous decision: Loyalty to Papa or loyalty to a cause. Lives are at stake no matter what choice she makes - one, puts hers at risk. Defiance on Indian Creek transports listeners to the days of the American Revolution to follow the heart-stirring story of young Mary Shirley, who struggles to find her place in a turbulent world. Troubled by her father’s traitorous activities, the eldest of eight siblings, Mary must summon resolve and inner strength to do what must be done to keep her family safe - putting herself in the path of great danger. Listeners will love Mary and worry for her every step of the way. Defiance on Indian Creek is the first book in what will no doubt prove to be as impacting and lasting a series as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books. (Charlene Whitman, author of The Front Range series) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angelina Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167983/bk_acx0_167983_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Caroline: Little House, Revisited , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 815min
In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before - Caroline Ingalls, Ma in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books. In the frigid days of February 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband, Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone, sickness tended without the aid of doctors, and babies birthed without the accustomed hands of mothers or sisters. But Caroline's new world is also full of tender joys. In adapting to this strange new place and transforming a rough log house built by Charles' hands into a home, Caroline must draw on untapped wells of strength she does not know she possesses. For more than 80 years, generations have been enchanted by the adventures of the American frontier's most famous child, Laura Ingalls Wilder, in the Little House books. Now that familiar story is retold in this captivating tale of family, fidelity, hardship, love, and survival that vividly reimagines our past. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Marvel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006260/bk_harp_006260_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tales from the Beach House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 521min
Tales from the Beach House is a satiric work of fiction that sharply captures the "man-bites-dog" world of contemporary South Florida. The Beach House, a crumbling old motel, is home to a collection of eccentric residents. Amongst their ranks: a tennis pro at the end of his game, a mortuary scientist whose love life has flat-lined, a paparazzo photographer searching for scoops, a bawdy duo fronting an improbable Ponzi enterprise, a beauty from "The Islands" with a dark secret, a fried-out TV weather man who claims to channel God, a middle school principal with a soft spot for crack, a Rod Stewart cover artist searching for redemption, and a waitress serving a side order of erotic fiction. Each member of this cohort is in search of something - fast money, an easy hustle, fleeting romance, enduring love, fame, power, dignity, happiness...a place they can call home. As well as facing their own tender, tragic, and often hilarious personal circumstances, this eclectic gang is compelled by necessity to band together when a sinister developer threatens the very existence of the Beach House.Tales from the Beach House is carefully crafted in the spirit of Carl Hiaasen's career-long deconstruction of South Florida. Each chapter focuses on one of the Beach House's individual apartments. These stand-alone stories possess interwoven subplots reminiscent of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Paul Theroux's Hotel Honolulu, and Thornton Wilder's classic novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Tales from the Beach House is written in a fast-paced tabloid style, reflecting both the author's transatlantic sensibilities and his two-decade career in the rough and tumble trenches of celebrity journalism.James Aylott was previously a Hollywood paparazzo photographer and staffer at an American supermarket tabloid. This is the author's first work of fiction, although he was often creative in his career of entertainment ne ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Taverna. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159593/bk_acx0_159593_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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American Legends: The Life of Gloria Swanson , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 88min
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. - Gloria Swanson. It goes without saying that the most enduring image of Gloria Swanson is the famous shot of her in Sunset Boulevard (1950), head tilted backward, stating, "Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close up." Indeed, for many, the very mention of "Gloria Swanson" conjures the name of "Norma Desmond," her character in Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy Wilder. That the shot of Desmond requesting her close-up remains indelibly imprinted in the minds of so many speaks in large part to the power of Sunset Boulevard, one of the most revered films of its times and the most famous film of Gloria Swanson's career. By dint of her performance in the film, Swanson has become almost synonymous with Hollywood's silent era. In many respects, Swanson's status as the female face of the silent era is entirely apropos. Working in the 1920s for Cecil B. DeMille in his lavish productions, Swanson commanded salaries of more than $1 million per year, sums that Paramount was only too willing to provide for the virtual guarantee of high box office receipts that her films provided. Swanson worked with a cross section of famous silent era figures, such Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin (although her experience with Chaplin did not fare well) during her early years with Keystone, as well as collaborations with DeMille and Erich Von Stroheim during her more mature years. Yet at the same time, the histrionics of Swanson's character in Wilder's film belie the sophistication that Swanson brought to the screen, as well as the salient role she played in shaping cinematic representations of women during the onset of the "new woman" in 1920s America. Includes pictures Includes a table of contents Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Includes Swanson's quotes about her o ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maria Chester. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/036509/bk_acx0_036509_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 373min
Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and their loyal dog, Jack. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have taught millions of Americans about frontier life, giving inspiration to many and in the process becoming icons of our national identity. Yet few realize that this cherished best-selling series wandered far from the actual history of the Ingalls family and from what Laura herself understood to be central truths about pioneer life. In this groundbreaking narrative of literary detection, Christine Woodside reveals for the first time the full extent of the collaboration between Laura and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. Rose hated farming and fled the family homestead as an adolescent, eventually becoming a nationally prominent magazine writer, biographer of Herbert Hoover, and successful novelist, who shared the political values of Ayn Rand and became mentor to Roger Lea MacBride, the second Libertarian presidential candidate. Drawing on original manuscripts and letters, Woodside shows how Rose reshaped her mother's story into a series of heroic tales that rebutted the policies of the New Deal. Their secret collaboration would lead in time to their estrangement. A fascinating look at the relationship between two strong-willed women, Libertarians on the Prairie is also the deconstruction of an American myth. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not e ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gabra Zackman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027084/bk_adbl_027084_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Haunted: A Stepbrother Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 131min
Brian Cox is an alpha male reality show producer, ladies man, and Kim Wilder's secret love. When Kim was just eight, Brian's father had married her mother. Their parents had a rocky marriage, and it finally culminated in a dramatic event that tore them asunder. Brian's father was a man fighting many inner demons. One night, in a drunken rage, he forcefully ejected Brian from their home. What happened to them the next day meant that Brian and Kim would be apart for the next 12 years. Kim became a successful journalist, with a video blog she started called "The Wilder Thing". One day, she gets an invite to be on the top-rated reality television show, Haunted. Brian Cox is now the notorious bad boy producer of the show, which has become hugely successful and made him famous. Kim can't wait to see him again, but isn't sure of her feelings, because of how things ended between them. Brian's escapades are plastered across the tabloids - he always has a beautiful glamour gal on his arm whenever he's caught out on the town. Kim hopes that seeing Brian again help her let go of the painful memories of the night they parted. Of course, nothing ever goes as planned! During a meeting of sponsors for the show, an unexpected event causes both of them to reevaluate their old relationship. A romantic turn takes both of them by surprise with its intensity. Toss in a hint of mystery and danger, and suddenly the game is afoot! Can they discover the hidden secrets behind Indian Wells State Park? How will their long-buried feelings for each other affect their professional relationship? Kim is determined not to risk her heart on Brian...but she is finding that being close to him is mesmerizing and intoxicating. A man used to always getting what he wants, Brian finds that he is becoming infatuated with Kim. What ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sierra Kline. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/061873/bk_acx0_061873_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Summary: The Clean Tech Revolution
Summary: The Clean Tech Revolution - Review and Analysis of Pernick and Wilder's Book: ab 4.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Oscar Wilder's Fairy Tales (Ducool Authoritative Fine Proofread and Translated Edition)
Oscar Wilder's Fairy Tales (Ducool Authoritative Fine Proofread and Translated Edition): ab 4.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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