21 Results for : offhand
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Jamie and Gracie: The Highland Clan, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 452min
Life can be short and brutal in the Highlands, and Jamie Grant is determined to make the most of it. Filled with a longing he cannot put into words, he leaves his clan to help his cousins, who are on a mission for the Scottish Crown. Though he has not yet told his sire, the great Alexander Grant, he plans to become a spy for the Crown if all goes well. A life of action and adventure is exactly what he wants - or so he thinks. His thoughts keep turning toward home, and his uncle's beautiful adopted daughter, Gracie. Gracie is reputed to be the most comely lass in the Highlands, but she shuns the attention. Being useful to her adopted clan matters more to her than being beautiful. Her dream is to have a family of her own, but the only man her heart yearns for is Jamie Grant, who seems as desperate to leave the Grants as she is to stay. When a mysterious, commanding baron courts her, she's wrought with confusion - she doesn't wish to leave home, but to refuse him offhand would be a dangerous insult that could endanger the clan she loves. Jamie realizes that the life he wants has been in front of him all along, but has he waited too long? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Woodson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/081049/bk_acx0_081049_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Eat Around It, Hörbuch, Digital, 40min, (USK 18)
Eat Around It, is funny and daring. Comedian Anthony Davis, not basketball player Anthony Davis, tells jokes with a chip on his shoulder. He’s outrageous; he’s ornery and out of the box hilarious. His Southern-fried comedy is rife with booming bursts and salt of the earth silliness. With sharp wit and high energy sarcasm, the North Carolina native is cutting and unflinching. He’s not afraid to yell and swear with agitation. Every emotional explosion is usually grounded by self-aware self-defeat. Davis, whether through off color wordplay or offhand audacity, achieves an impressive balance between being endearing and edgy. A noteworthy storyteller, Davis spins yarns throughout Eat Around It. Every anecdote goes from bad to worse, lurching forward with tense and alarming circumstances. One of the album's many highlights features the comedian’s run in with a sect of Christians, who happen to worship with snakes. The result is a madcap adventure, high stakes and higher hilarity. Anthony Davis keeps up the funny: delightful divergences, musing asides, ridiculous reenactments, potent peril, pointless politeness, a dramatic conclusion. This story and others are must listens. Davis smiles and he wisecracks, but he’s a powder keg, a livewire. In Eat Around It, the young, rising comedian’s debut comedy album, Anthony isn’t afraid to air his grievances. While the misguided, misunderstood everyman, wrestling with a comedy of errors, is often “wrong,” he’s still loveable (and funny as hell). Plus-size with a big personality; pristine, good natured, ornery, self-deprecating comedy, Davis makes his mark. You won’t want to miss Eat Around It! Language: English. Narrator: Anthony Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/roar/000700/pf_roar_000700_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night (Iowa Short Fiction Award) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min
Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night is a spirited, offbeat collection of stories, elongated riffs on that thing we call...love. All manner of love stories: thwarted love stories, imaginary love stories, love stories offhand and obsessive, philosophical love stories, erudite and amusing love stories. "People don't meet because they both like Burmese food," says one character, "or because someone's sister has a friend who's single and new in town, or because Billy's nose happened to crook just slightly to the left at an angle that made me want to weep...People don't fall in love with each other...they just fall into love." Everyone does it: women of fierce independence, men of thin character, rambling Deadheads, gay teenage girls, despondent Peace Corps volunteers, anorexic Broadway theatre dancers, the eager, the grieving, the uncommunicative. Even the confused do it. And they don't just fall in love with each other - they fall in love with certain moments and familiar places, with things as ephemeral as gestures and as evanescent as sunlight. Quirky, real, idealistic, deluded, bohemian, and true, these are people who can - and often do - fall in love with a pair of ears, August afternoons, saucers of vitamins, New Age carpenters, and dead bumblebees. And if there's something they can teach us, it's how to conceive of alternative worlds and the terror and the exhilaration of venturing outside the confines of the lives we know and making our way into a dark, glittering unknown. Winner of Iowa Short Fiction Award. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caroline Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001311/bk_acx0_001311_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Studio Saint-Ex: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 679min
This sleek, stylish novel set in 1940s New York, between the shock of Pearl Harbor and the landing of American troops in Europe, is a deft, romantic novel about a wartime love triangle involving a 22-year-old fashion designer poised to launch her career; the French expatriate writer and war pilot, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who’s left his Nazi-occupied country and come to Manhattan for a month, only to stay for two years; and his beautiful, estranged Salvadoran wife determined to winback her husband at all costs - and seductions.With Paris under occupation by Hitler’s troops, New York’s Mayor La Guardia has vowed to turn his city into the new fashion capital of the world. A handful of American designers are set to become the industry’s brightest names, and Mignonne Lachapelle is determined to be among them. Her ambition and ethics are clear until she falls for the celebrated and tormented adventurer Captain Saint-Exupéry.In New York, Saint-Ex writes a new book on the fall of France, Flight to Arras,and collects (a year late) his National Book Award for Wind, Sand and Stars. But he suffers under exile and, todistract himself from his malaise, begins work on a new book at his US publisher’s offhand suggestion: an exotic fable.Nothing about Mig’s tempestuous, romantic relationship with Saint-Ex is straightforward, but the greatest complication will come in the form of his deceptively simple manuscript about a petit bonhomme in the Sahara Desert fallen to earth on a journey across the planets. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cassandra Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005704/bk_blak_005704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Murphy's Law: Ideas & Concepts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 7min
Learn about Murphy's Law with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Murphy's Law is a tongue-in-cheek and rather pessimistic adage of eight simple words: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. The translation of these words into "Murphy's Law" was in honor of US aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy, Junior. Legend has it that in 1949 Murphy made an offhand comment to his colleagues while working at an Air Force Base in California. His team was testing human tolerance for g-forces during rapid deceleration. The experiments involved Air Force officer John Stapp being strapped into a sled moving at great speed. As the sled decelerated, an instrument was supposed to take readings of the g-forces Stapp experienced. However, the instrument Murphy was using gave no reading. When the problem was looked into, it was discovered that a technician had actually wired the instrument backwards. A frustrated Murphy commented: "If there's any way to do it wrong, he'll find it!" Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind. iMinds offers 12 main categories; become a Generalist by increasing your knowledge of Business, Politics, People, History, Pop Culture, Mystery, Crime, Culture, Religion, Concepts, Science and Sport. Clean and concise, crisp and engaging, discover what you never knew you were missing. iMinds is the knowledge solution for the information age cutting through the white noise to give you quick, accurate knowledge .. Perfect your dinner party conversation, impress your boss - an excellent way to discover topics of interest for the future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellouise Rothwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/imnd/000060/bk_imnd_000060_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 443min
It happens every spring. Yankees pitching great Ron Guidry arrives at the Tampa airport to pick up Hall of Fame catcher and national treasure Yogi Berra. Guidry drives him to the ballpark. They watch the young players. They talk shop. They eat dinner together and tease each other mercilessly. They trade stories about the greats they have met along the way. And the next day they do the same thing all over again.As every former ballplayer can appreciate, in that routine, every spring, there emerges a certain magic. Driving Mr. Yogia is the story of how a unique friendship between a pitcher and catcher is renewed every year. It began in 1999, when Berra was reunited with the Yankees after a long self- exile, the result of being unceremoniously fired by George Steinbrenner 14 years before. A reconciliation between Berra and the Boss meant that Berra would attend spring training again. Guidry befriended “Mr. Yogi” instantly. After all, Berra had been a mentor in the clubhouse back when Guidry was pitching for the Yankees. Guidry knew the young players would benefit greatly from Mr. Yogi’s encyclopedic knowledge of the game, just as Guidry had during his playing days. So he encouraged him to share his insights. Soon, an offhand batting tip from Mr. Yogi turned Nick Swisher’s season around. Stories about handling a hitter like Ted Williams or catching Don Larsen’s perfect game captured the players’ imagination. And in Yogi, Guidry found not just an elder companion or source of amusement – he found a best friend. By turns tender and laugh-out-loud funny, and teeming with unforgettable baseball yarns that span more than 50 years, Driving Mr. Yogi is a universal story about the importance of wisdom being passed from one generation to the next, as well as a reminder that time is what we make of it and compassion never gets old. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Berkrot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003709/bk_brll_003709_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Drive Thru Murder: The New Orleans Go Cup Chronicles, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 504min
A Murder Scene Where Nothing Is as It SeemsBrandy witnesses a murder at a drive thru joint with the unlikely name of Cluck It: Chicken by the Bucket. And then it turns out nothing at the scene’s what it seems, or at any rate nobody’s who they seem. Seems Cluck It is not just a place to clog your arteries but also a transgender hangout. And with that discovery, you know you're in New Orleans.The Local New Orleans Color Never Stops Brandy’s complex Irish Channel family develops the kind of problem that is a lot more fun on the page than in real life. What to do when your sister gets pregnant with one of the next-door twins, but she doesn't know which twin? (Be glad it's Brandy’s problem, not yours.)She also finds a mysterious box of valuable jewelry under her closet floor, becomes the unofficial caretaker of the Tarot reader across the street who knows the future but can never predict when she’s going to get so drunk she’s going to fall into her own bushes, and develops a strong suspicion about one of her other neighbors, all the while juggling the two Romeos.Luckily, Brandy Is Better at Solving Mysteries Than She Is at Wrangling Her Boyfriends The listener can rest assured she’s eventually, and in fine style, going to weave together the myriad mysterious strands that confound the police (who happen to count Boy Friend #1 among their ranks) and present them the solution with all the panache of an old-style detective like Hercule Poirot, yet none of the pretension. You can almost hear her wondering, “Did I do that?”Fans of cozy mysteries and chick lit heroines will delight in Brandy’s flat-out lovability and Mooney’s almost offhand yet spot-on (and often hilarious) observations of everyday New Orleans life. If you like contemporary stylish heroines like those popularized by Janet Evanovich, Elaine Viets, Stephanie Bond, and Gemma Holliday, and humorous mysteries like those by Donna A ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alyson Krawchuk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/177082/bk_acx0_177082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hardcore Heat: Five Hardcore Erotic Shorts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min, (USK 18)
Happy Hardcore Erotica Publishing presents this scorching collection of five hardcore sex shorts. Each steamy story is filled with explicit sex. If you want to read about lesbian sex, threesomes, or even a foursome, this is your collection!1. “Blind Date Foursome: A Group Sex Short” by Kassandra StoneAntonia doesn't really want to go out on a blind date, but in order for her friend Donna to get her man, Antonia will need to be there, so she reluctantly goes along. Of course, she had no idea that the evening would result in a foursome with her best friend and both dates including her first lesbian sex, date swapping, rough deep throat, and orgasms all around!2. “Hotel Threesome: An MFF First Lesbian Short” by Morghan RheesShe only mentioned it in an offhand way, but her boyfriend Bradley took her seriously and before she knew it, he'd picked up Glenda, a lovely girl who was good to go for a first ever lesbian sex encounter and a scorching hot mff ménage a trois! She'll get to enjoy her first taste of a woman while she watches Bradley treat Glenda to some rough sex!3. “My First Threesome: An Explicit MMF Short” by Tawna BickleyWhen Midori's husband asks her about a threesome, she's hurt. That's before she finds out he's been snooping and discovered the secret sexy stories she's been writing. Once she knows her husband's satisfied with her, she's ready to really satisfy, and she orders up a beautiful young call girl for her first threesome experience and her first lesbian sex, and boy is her husband happy!4. “Painting in the Park: A First Lesbian Sex Public Sex Short” by Rennaey NeceeMelanie is immediately attracted to the older woman in her painting class, and when the professor assigns them to paint the same landscape and compare notes, she's thrilled. She's even more thrilled when Jill suggests they make it a picnic. All of those thrills pale in comparison to what happens next, when Melanie has her very firs ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sapphire Rose. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014563/bk_acx0_014563_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Absolutely Hot Tales, Volume 1: Five Explicit Erotica Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 69min, (USK 18)
How would you like to hear this story? "My Threesome with Tara" by Andrea Tuppens When I met Trevor at the bar, I knew I'd be sleeping with him. My roommate had a shift so the house was mine. I made an offhand comment about making it a threesome if she showed up but I never expected it to actually happen! When we got there, though, she was naked and asleep in the bedroom and something just came over me. She didn't seem too happy about me just springing things on her but I'd fantasized for a long time about being with a woman and I wasn't missing the opportunity. That's only one of the sexy tales you'll find in this collection. Here are the rest of the stories! "Banging the Bride in Front of Everyone" by Nancy Brockton It was a wonderful wedding, and the honeymoon promises to be perfect as well. At the beachside resort, this lovely bride enjoys soaking up the sun while her loving groom recovers from a long night of lovemaking. Poolside, she flirts harmlessly with the attractive man at the pool, but she's about to discover that the flirtation was anything but harmless. Before she knows it, she's in the midst of a stranger sex encounter, but it gets more intense when three other men and a strange woman join in, and the honeymoon gangbang sex happens right out in public! "Caught by My Boss and Gangbanged for Stealing" by Alice Drake It was my fault, and I felt pretty damned guilty. I'd been stealing money from the company, and the worst part about it was that I actually liked my boss a lot. He was sexy as hell, and when he made it clear he was willing to let me pay him back with my body instead of calling the police, I was overjoyed. Of course, I shouldn't have been overjoyed so quickly. It started out wonderfully but when he got rough I knew I'd be paying him back, indeed. As if that weren't enough, other people showed up to help him take payment from my ass. Literally! / ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: LaDawn Black. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068033/bk_acx0_068033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Becoming Mr. October: The Revealing Story of Reggie Jackson and the World Champion New York Yankees , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min
A soul-baring, brutally candid, and richly eventful memoir of the two years - 1977 and 1978 - when Reggie Jackson went from outcast to Yankee legend. In the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player of the Oakland A's dynasty, which won three straight World Series, he was the first big-money free agent, wooed and flattered by George Steinbrenner into coming to the New York Yankees, which hadn't won a World Series since 1962. But Reggie was about to learn, as he writes in this vivid and surprising memoir, that until his initial experience on the Yankees, "I didn't know what alone meant." His manager, the mercurial, alcoholic, and pugilistic Billy Martin, never wanted him on the team and let Reggie - and the rest of the team - know it. Most of his new teammates, resentful of his contract, were aloof at best and hostile at worst. Brash and outspoken, but unused to the ferocity of New York's tabloid culture, Reggie hadn't realized how rumor and offhand remarks can turn into screaming negative headlines - especially for a black athlete with a multimillion-dollar contract. Sickened by Martin's anti-Semitism, his rages, and his quite public disparagement of his new star, ostracized by his teammates, and despairing of how he was stereotyped in the press, Reggie had long talks with his father about quitting. Things hit bottom when Martin plotted to humiliate him during a nationally televised game against the Red Sox. It seemed as if a glorious career had been derailed. But then: Reggie vowed to persevere; his pride, work ethic, and talent would overcome Martin's nearly sociopathic hatred. Gradually, he would win over the fans, then his teammates, as the Yankees surged to the pennant. And one magical autumn evening, he became "Mr. October" in a World Series performance for the ages. He thought his travails were over - until the next season when the insanity began again. Becoming Mr. October i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Reggie Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003642/bk_rand_003642_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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