42 Results for : paraplegic
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Beyond the Bridge: Dermot Sparhawk, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min
Dermot Sparhawk, a former all-American football star at Boston College, returns in Beyond the Bridge, the prequel to Tom MacDonald's award-winning debut novel, The Charlestown Connection. In Beyond the Bridge, Sparhawk, a struggling alcoholic, agrees to help find the killer of an accused pedophile priest. When two more priests are slain in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood, it becomes evident that it is the work of a sadistic serial killer who crucifies his prey after killing them. Sparhawk blazes an unconventional trail to the killer that puts him at odds with the very people he is trying to help and initiates a turf war with law enforcement. He gathers a cadre of unlikely allies, including a parish priest, a police lab criminalist, the district attorney, and a state police lieutenant who help to rebuff attempts to derail him from the case. Then, with the help of his Micmac Indian cousin and his paraplegic tenant and former Boston College teammate, Sparhawk bulldozes his way to the truth, while putting his own life at risk. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Slocum. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019130/bk_acx0_019130_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Minus Faction - Episode One: Breakout, The Minus Faction, Bookn 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 158min
#1 Bestseller in Action & Adventure/Sci-fi #1 Bestseller in Fantasy/Superhero Top 5 in Thrillers "*Keeps you guessing, keeps you surprised.*" -amazon reviewer "*Terrific dialogue ... tightly-paced high-speed chase.*" -amazon reviewer *THE MINUS FACTION is a super-powered sci-fi thriller about extraordinary abilities and how not to use them.* In Episode One . . . Beaten. Burned. Broken. Capt. John Regent returns a paraplegic after escaping months of captivity and torture--except no one knows who took him or what he disclosed. When a government agent comes for answers, she discovers John's fantastical secret and sets him at war with his own country. But the veteran in the wheelchair has one last mission, and he'll fight off the powers-that-be long enough to save the life of a troubled soldier--even if it costs John his own. "*I could not put it down until I had devoured the whole book in one sitting.*" -amazon reviewer "*I was engrossed from the first page and now I'm invested.*" –goodreads reviewer ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Thurston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025277/bk_acx0_025277_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Destroyer Angel: An Anna Pigeon Novel, Book 18 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 697min
Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation - an autumn canoe trip into the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath’s 15-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is 13. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting-edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah, will make camping and canoeing more accessible to disabled outdoorsmen. On their second night out, Anna goes off on her own for a solo evening float on the Fox River. When she comes back, she finds that four thugs, armed with rifles, pistols, and knives, have taken the two women and their teenaged daughters captive. With limited resources and no access to the outside world, Anna has only two days to rescue them before her friends are either killed or flown out of the country, in Destroyer Angel by Nevada Barr. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001753/bk_aren_001753_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Crossroads: The Chance City Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 416min
Carter “Wheels” Ellis is handsome, strong, funny, and kind - and he owns an adorable Capuchin monkey named Ollie. However, women have never considered him as a serious beau since he's a paraplegic. Wheels has come to accept that he'll most likely never find a wife.But Nora Guthrie has strong feelings for Wheels. She appreciates all of his fine qualities, and he makes her heart beat faster whenever she's near him. Surprised by her attraction, Wheels wonders if they're compatible on a romantic level. The two friends embark on a romantic journey together. Mayor Carly Branson both despises and desires Ray Stratton. He's conceited, cocky, and too handsome for words - which comes in handy in his profession as a male prostitute.Ray can't stand Carly. She's snobbish and judgmental, yet utterly beautiful and captivating. The sparks that fly between these two could light up the night sky, and they're drawn to one another despite their mutual hate. Or could it be love?Four people come to important crossroads in their lives. Will they travel down the right path that leads to happiness, or will they take a wrong turn and end up lonely and heartbroken? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jay R. Smith Audio Publishing. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/122118/bk_acx0_122118_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hard Truth: An Anna Pigeon Mystery, Hörbuch, Digital, 386min
Just three days after her wedding to Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves from Mississippi to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park, where three girls have disappeared during a religious retreat. Two of the children reappear a month later, clad only in filthy underwear and claiming to remember nothing of the intervening weeks. The girls are frightened and traumatized, but they forge a bond with the pair of campers who discover them - a wheelchair-bound paraplegic and her elderly aunt. With the reappearance of the children comes an odd and unsettling presence in the park, a sense of disembodied evil and unspeakable terrors: small animals are mercilessly slaughtered, and a sinister force seems to still control the girls. As Anna investigates, she finds herself caught up in the machinations of a paranoid religious sect bent on protecting their secrets and keeping the girls sequestered from law enforcement and psychiatric help. Following the trail of the many suspects, especially that of the cult's intense youth-group leader, Anna comes to find the force against which the children's minds have been broken. This evil has the eyes of a visionary and the soul of the devil. Anna will discover the truth - even if it kills her. Language: English. Narrator: Joyce Bean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001351/bk_brll_001351_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rhyming Rings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 473min
David Gemmell was the UK's number one fantasy and historical novelist until his death in 2006. A regular Sunday Times best seller and international sensation, his legacy lives on through his novels, his influence on the genre and the David Gemmell Legend awards. Rhyming Rings is a never-before-seen Gemmell novel discovered in his papers by his widow, Stella Gemmell. Merging autobiographical details of Gemmell's life as a journalist in South London with a serial killer and a tinge of the supernatural, this is perfect for fans of David's work as well as fans of gritty crime novels. Set against the backdrop of a London simmering with poverty, change and racial tension, this taut thriller is a fitting legacy for the great writer. This book includes a brand-new introduction from massive Gemmell fan Conn Iggulden and an afterword by Gemmell's friend Stan Nicholls. An ambidextrous killer is murdering women, leaving virtually no evidence behind, and struggling journalist Jeremy Miller wishes he was covering the case. Instead he's stuck with heartwarming local stories about paraplegic teenagers and elderly psychic ladies. So when his stories and the murder case start to converge, no one is more surprised than Jeremy. Or, it turns out, more at risk. Read by Max Dowler. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Max Dowler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001128/bk_orio_001128_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Buzz (eBook, ePUB)
In the vein of Mary Roach's Bonk, a brilliant microhistory of the sex toy that ultimately tells the story of our changing sexual mores and evolving cultural values. Once only whispered about in clandestine corners, vibrators have become just another accessory for the suburban soccer mom. But how did these once-taboo toys become so socially acceptable? The journey of the devices to the cultural mainstream is a surprisingly stimulating one. In Buzz, Hallie Lieberman traces the tale from lubricant in Ancient Greece to the very first condom in 1560 to advertisements touting devices as medical equipment in 19th-century magazines. She looks in particular from the period of major change from the 1950s through the present, when sex toys evolved from symbols of female emancipation to tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS to consumerist marital aids to today's mainstays of pop culture. The story is populated with a cast of vivid and fascinating characters including Dell Williams, founder of the first feminist sex toy store; Betty Dodson, whose workshops helped 1960s women discover vibrators; and Gosnell Duncan, a paraplegic engineer who invented the silicone dildo. And these personal dramas are all set against a backdrop of changing American attitudes toward sexuality, feminism, LGBTQ issues, and more. Both educational and titillating, Buzz will make readers think quite differently about those secret items hiding in bedside drawers across the nation.- Shop: buecher
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Anatomy of a Miracle: A Novel* , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 835min
A profound new novel about a paralyzed young man's unexplainable recovery - a stunning exploration of faith, science, mystery, and the meaning of life Rendered paraplegic after a traumatic event four years ago, Cameron Harris has been living his new existence alongside his sister, Tanya, in their battered Biloxi, Mississippi, neighborhood where only half the houses made it through Katrina. One stiflingly hot August afternoon, as Cameron sits waiting for Tanya during their daily run to the Biz-E-Bee convenience store, he suddenly and inexplicably rises up and out of his wheelchair. In the aftermath of this "miracle", Cameron finds himself a celebrity at the center of a contentious debate about what's taken place. And when scientists, journalists, and a Vatican investigator start digging, Cameron's deepest secrets - the key to his injury, to his identity, and, in some eyes, to the nature of his recovery - become increasingly endangered. Was Cameron's recovery a genuine miracle or a medical breakthrough? And, finding himself transformed into a symbol, how can he hope to retain his humanity? Brilliantly written as closely observed journalistic reportage and filtered through a wide lens that encompasses the vibrant characters affected by Cameron's story, Anatomy of a Miracle will be championed and celebrated as a powerful story of our time and the work of a true literary master. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005401/bk_rand_005401_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Give Me Back My Children: Sarah C Allred, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 574min
She only wanted to be a mother to her own children - FLDS Cult leader had other plans.Sarah was born in 1979 in the FLDS compound. At 18, Sarah entered into an arranged marriage to Richard S Allred who was the grandson and personal bodyguard to leader Rulon Jeffs, and later Warren Jeffs. Sarah was the first of five wives and was often used to set the example. Sarah's husband was given Warren's prized daughter as his third wife who became Warren's source to control Sarah's family.As the Leadership adjusted, her world turned upside down. Rich was taken to a secret project to begin "Zion", and only those who are worthy could go. Rich came for her children, but Sarah was not worthy. She wasn't allowed to see or have contact with her children. Sarah came to realize Warren Jeffs was grooming her daughter to eventually become his wife. She wrote a letter, refusing to give permission. While traveling on a four-wheeler, the vehicle flipped and fell on her. She was in the hospital fighting for a month to survive told she would most likely be a paraplegic if she did survive.A few months later, still trying to heal from the accident, Sarah was told God no longer had a use for her. Therefore Sarah was cast out, thrown into a world she was taught to abhor and fear from birth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Annlan Tran. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/196945/bk_acx0_196945_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Guardian: Mach 10: End of the Sixth Age, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 126min
In the world but not of it. An unlikely hero in an experimental interceptor prevents World War III but is strangely changed...forever. In six months the top secret hypersonic interceptor would give the United States a credible antiballistic missile defense. But Guardian isn't ready. It's inside a C-17 cargo aircraft flying over Texas, and the test pilot isn't on board. Roger Brannon - a paraplegic former pilot - must air-launch Guardian and intercept a rogue nuclear warhead. If he fails, a million Americans will die and it could start World War III. Can he pilot again after the terrifying mid-air collision that killed his family and crippled him? Even if he succeeds, he can't land without functioning legs. So either way, he'll join his family within an hour. Only three shots, then a last desperate plan to implode the ion drive and release an EMP. For Guardian and Roger, everything changes. He doesn't meet his family; he finds his destiny. As you look around, do you wonder what's actually is going on? Where are we heading? Toward utopia, or destruction? What might soon happen that could bring about the "End of the Sixth Age"? Buy this thought-provoking novella about the second member of a unique team that forms to hold off the ultimate evil as long as possible. Guardian: Mach 10 is the second novella in the End of the Sixth Age Christian sci-fi series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Best. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/066067/bk_acx0_066067_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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