108 Results for : affable
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The Perfect Golden Circle
England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men - traumatized Falklands veteran Calvert, and affable, chaotic Redbone - set out nightly in a clapped-out camper van to undertake an extraordinary project. Under cover of darkness, the two men traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns. As the summer wears on, and their designs grow ever more ambitious, the two men find that their work has become a cult international sensation - and that an unlikely and beautiful friendship has taken root as the wheat ripens from green to gold. Moving and exhilarating, tender and slyly witty, The Perfect Golden Circle is a captivating novel about the futility of war, the destruction of the English countryside, class inequality - and the power of beauty to heal trauma and fight power.- Shop: buecher
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My Brother's Husband, Volumes 1 & 2
***EISNER AWARD WINNER*** Gengoroh Tagame's global sensation, now in one volume! Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, and father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself to be the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and heartbreaking look at the state of a largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it's been affected by the West, and how the next generation can change the preconceptions about it and prejudices against it. (Please note: This book is a traditional work of manga, and reads back to front and right to left.)- Shop: buecher
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The Perfect Golden Circle
England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men - traumatized Falklands veteran Calvert, and affable, chaotic Redbone - set out nightly in a clapped-out camper van to undertake an extraordinary project. Under cover of darkness, the two men traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns. As the summer wears on, and their designs grow ever more ambitious, the two men find that their work has become a cult international sensation - and that an unlikely and beautiful friendship has taken root as the wheat ripens from green to gold. Moving and exhilarating, tender and slyly witty, The Perfect Golden Circle is a captivating novel about the futility of war, the destruction of the English countryside, class inequality - and the power of beauty to heal trauma and fight power.- Shop: buecher
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My Man Jeeves , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 305min
My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves. Some of the finest examples of humorous writing found in English literature are woven around the relationship between these two men of very different classes and temperaments. Where Bertie is impetuous and feeble, Jeeves is coolheaded and poised. This collection, the first book of Jeeves and Wooster stories, contains eight stories, including "Absent Treatment", "Helping Freddie", "Rallying Round Old George", "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good", "Fixing It for Freddie", and "Bertie Changes His Mind". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001393/bk_blak_001393_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Boy in the Water , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 892min
Another bucolic fall in Northern New Hampshire, and the semester is underway at Bishop's Hill Academy. But the school year starts off less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff finds far from welcome. Serene on the surface, the ivy-clad, tree-lined campus gives few clues to the school's history of special privileges, petty corruptions, and hidden allegiances. But as autumn advances, the affable smiles and pretenses of virtue wear thin. And as winter closes in, students, teachers, and staff get an education in savagery and murder. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/000774/bk_drms_000774_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Good Advice...Is Just That! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 18min
Frank Lewis is an affable old man who just happens to tell "Tall Tells' to pass the time. However, each time he tells a story or gives advice it usually comes to pass. Many family members don't see his "gift" as special as they are too close to the source. One day the governor comes to visit his mom in a nursing home where Frank is visiting his ailing wife. The Governor accepts his advice on an issue (housing for poor and elderly), and wins a 2nd term based on this valued advice! The story is circa 1929 (Depression Era). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory V. Diehl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013932/bk_acx0_013932_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Oh No, George! 10th Anniversary Edition
It's hard work being good all the time - and it's especially hard for a dog like George! Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, Oh No, George! is a laugh-out-loud, visual romp from the acclaimed author-illustrator of A Bit Lost, Shh! We Have a Plan, Goodnight Everyone, Don't Worry Little Crab and Maybe. In this hilarious read-aloud by the multiple award-winning author-illustrator Chris Haughton, Harris is off to do some shopping. "Will you be good, George?" he asks his dog. George hopes he can. He really wants to ... but chocolate cake is just so very delicious and he does love to chase cat... What will George do now? Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Chris Haughton's distinctive artwork perfectly accompanies the innocent charm of affable George, a dog trying to be good - with hilarious results!- Shop: buecher
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The Fraud , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 560min
In a rash of carjackings, Newark becomes newsworthy when one such theft ends in the murder of a wealthy banking executive. The affable, wisecracking Ross is assigned the story. To balance his reporting, he finds a Nigerian immigrant of more modest means who was also killed during a recent carjacking. It turns out the two victims knew each other, sharing an unexplained round of golf at a country club shortly before their deaths. When his unborn child is put in harm's way, it becomes more than just a story for Carter. And he'll stop at nothing to rescue the baby - even if it costs him his own life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Verner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/000760/bk_drms_000760_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Brothers Cabal: Johannes Cabal, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 785min
The fourth novel in the acclaimed cult-favorite series starring necromancer Johannes Cabal Horst Cabal has risen from the dead - again. Horst, the most affable vampire one is ever likely to meet, is resurrected by an occult conspiracy that wants him as a general in a monstrous army. Their plan is to create a country of horrors, a supernatural homeland. As Horst sees the lengths to which they are prepared to go and the evil they cultivate, he realizes that he cannot fight them alone. What he really needs on his side is a sarcastic, amoral, heavily armed necromancer. As luck would have it, this exactly describes his brother. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006961/bk_blak_006961_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Young Fredle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 380min
Cynthia Voigt crafts a novel about discovery, perspective, and the meaning of home - all through the eyes of an affable and worried little mouse. Fredle is an earnest young fellow suddenly cast out of his cozy home behind the kitchen cabinets - into the outside. It's a new world of color and texture and grass and sky. But with all that comes snakes and rain and lawnmowers and raccoons and a different sort of mouse (field mice, they're called) not entirely trustworthy. Do the dangers outweigh the thrill of discovery? Fredle's quest to get back inside soon becomes a wild adventure of predators and allies, of color and sound, of discovery and nostalgia. And, as Fredle himself will come to understand, of freedom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wendy Carter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001253/bk_lili_001253_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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