81 Results for : unbearably
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Radiance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 683min
Keiko Kitigawa disembarks from a plane on a New York airstrip in June 1952, turning one scarred cheek away from the pop and flare of news photographers’ cameras. On the surface, she is impeccably composed, an 18-year-old survivor of the atomic blast that destroyed Hiroshima and vaporized the people she loved best. But the committee who is sponsoring her visit to America for charitable reconstructive surgery want to crack that surface. America is obsessed with the atom bomb, and to achieve its political ends, the committee expects Keiko to become the poster child of the ban the bomb movement, peddling her story to the American public in all its searing, guilt-inducing detail. Daisy Lawrence, Keiko’s suburban hostess as she recuperates, is assigned to soften up the girl and pry her story out of her. With McCarthyism in full swing and the Hydrogen bomb on the brink of completion, Radiance traces the story of the deepening relationship between Daisy and the girl. Wary manoeuvres, whispered intimacies and wrenching betrayals dance the two women - 'host mother' and 'Hiroshima maiden' - unbearably close to the burning stories at each other’s hearts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tara Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000325/bk_twuk_000325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Opposite of You: Opposites Attract Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 648min
I've sworn off men. All men. Famous last words, right? You're expecting some epic tale of reluctant love and my dramatic change of heart? Well, you're not going to get it. I'm stubborn. And headstrong. And I've just survived the worst three years of my life. After escaping an abusive boyfriend to live in hostels and cheap hotels while I worked my way across Europe, I've come to two conclusions. The first? Now that I'm back home, I'm going to squander my expensive culinary degree on a food truck that caters to the late night drunk crowd. The second? I'm going to prove to the bastard across the plaza that my street food is better than his fussy five course monstrosities. Killian Quinn might be Food and Wine's Chef to Watch Out For. He might have a Michelin Star. He might have every food critic in the city wrapped around his too-large fingers. But he's also pretentious and unbearably arrogant and the very opposite of me. So he can keep his unsolicited advice and his late night visits and his cocky smiles. I want none of it. Or him. I want the opposite. Contains mature themes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Hart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008649/bk_tant_008649_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Three Letters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 745min
Three Letters is the brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father’s love, a little boy’s journey, and the desperate search for a place to call home, from number-one best-selling author Josephine Cox. Eight-year-old Casey’s mother, Ruth, is a cruel woman with a weakness for other women’s husbands. Casey’s father is gentle and hard-working and, though Tom Denton has long suspected his wife of having sordid affairs, he has chosen to turn a blind eye to keep the peace. But then, out of the blue, Tom’s world is completely shattered when he receives two bits of devastating news. Because of this, Tom realises that from now on their lives must change, forever. A broken man, Tom is made to fight for his son, determined to keep him safe. But, when fate takes a hand, life can be unbearably painful, and Casey is made to remember his father’s prophetic words: "It’s done. The die is thrown, and nobody wins." But, unbeknownst to Casey, there are three letters penned by his father that may just change his destiny forever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carole Boyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001005/bk_hcuk_001005_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blues Harp Green , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 457min
The second Francie met Chet, her poetic memory danced. Meet Francie Mills. She's 16. Lives in the boring burbs of LA. Is super determined and hopeful. And wants one thing: to be an amazing tennis player. Because if something exponentially, brilliantly wonderful like that happened, like winning the US Open or even getting to nationals, everything would be okay. Her life. Her family. Her. She would matter. Be part of something important. And wouldn't have to feel so unbearably sad and alone every time her dad gets drunk, again. But the likelihood of amazingness starts to seem impossible when Francie injures her knee, that is, until she meets Chet Jones, lead singer of the band Blues Harp Jones, in Austin, on location for her dad's movie job. Francie instantly falls for Chet, in his weird blazer and God Save the Queen t-shirt, sexy, genuine, funny. And she's sure something wonderful is finally happening, especially when Chet miraculously falls for her too. But the closer Francie gets to Chet back in LA and the more her dad's drinking tears her apart, the more she realizes the best kind of something wonderful isn't at all what she expected.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amelia Clover. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/093937/bk_acx0_093937_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Don McCullin: Through the Lens: Studies of Photographers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 13min
Armed American soldiers stand in the stone window frames of a ruined building in Berlin, curious and disturbing echoes of those classical statues that so often were used to add portentous significance to a facade; but here in a 1961 photograph by Don McCullin, they are overlooking, with some intensity, the East German military on the other side - the Wall has just been built. Chronicling another painful divide in 1964, McCullin photographed a distraught, silently screaming widow, a Turkish Cypriot victim of that civil war, restrained and held by other women, in an oddly dignified frozen tableau. In a 1968 photograph a US Marine pauses for thought, inadvertently echoing those renaissance paintings of meditating scholars, holding his helmet rather than a book - but this is a quiet moment in the battle for Hue. It is McCullin's photographs which helped to define the savage war in Vietnam for Britain, and beyond. Some is unbearably sad: a young North Vietnamese soldier, a casualty of Hue, stares sightlessly at the photographer, his hands outstretched to the detritus of his pockets, scattered on the earth beside the body - bullets and photographs of his family, wife, and babies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dana Brewer Harris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094728/bk_acx0_094728_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Can You Hear Me? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 334min
A riveting coming-of-age story, told with the breathless precision of a Hitchcock noir by a masterful new voice in Italian literature. 'I knew nothing, back then, of the ways in which love can show itself, of the force with which it can push us into a corner and take our breath away.' It's 1978. Ponte, a small community in Northern Italy: peaceful woods, discarded rubbish, a closed-down factory. An unbearably hot summer like many others, wilted flowers and trips to the waterfalls. Elia Furenti is 16, living in a secluded house with his parents, a life so unremarkable that even its moderate unhappiness has been accepted as normal. That is until the day the beautiful, damaged Anna returns to Ponte and firmly propels Elia to the edge of adulthood. But then everything starts to unravel. Elia's father, Ettore, is let go from his job and loses himself in the darkest corners of his mind, spending day after day plotting his revenge. A young boy is murdered, shaking the small community to its core. And a girl climbs into a van and vanishes in the deep, dark woods.... Translated from Italian by Alex Valente. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Addis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001176/bk_hodd_001176_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Wild Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 505min
The new novel from the Guardian Not the Booker-shortlisted author of Real Monsters. Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016.When we moved into the wild, the wild moved into us. When a troubled advertising salesman loses his job, the fragile wall between his public and private personas comes tumbling down. Fleeing his debtors, Adam abandons his family and takes to sleeping rough in a local park, where a fraternity of homeless men befriend him.As the months pass, Adam gradually learns to appreciate the tough new regime until winter arrives early, threatening to turn his paradise into a nightmare.Starving, exhausted, and sick of the constant infighting, Adam decides to return to his family. The men, however, have other plans for him. With time running out and the stakes raised unbearably high, Adam is forced to question whether any of us can truly escape the wildness within.Liam Brown brings us another enthralling survival tale which questions human belonging in either nature or society. Adam gambles with his life in this Lord of the Flies style struggle as he tries to escape back to modern society with his sanity intact."Compelling, chilling investigation into the dark instincts of masculinity." (Guardian) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Mills. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/172747/bk_acx0_172747_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blind God's Bluff: Billy Fox, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 523min
Ante up for the game of a lifetime! Billy Fox, a small-time gambler on a losing streak, has more than enough problems on his hands, owing too much money to some very impatient people. But when he rescues a blinded stranger from a swarm of bloodthirsty fairies, Billy’s life gets a lot more complicated.... Seems the stranger is actually a powerful local god who is involved in a high-stakes Florida poker tournament against various supernatural challengers. And with his eyes currently missing, he needs somebody to take his place at the gaming table. Before Billy knows it, he finds himself playing against the likes of an ancient Egyptian mummy, an unbearably seductive succubus, a mechanical man, an insect queen, and a cannibalistic beast-man. And not just cards are in play; magic, bloodshed, and cheating are not only expected, they’re encouraged. Everybody, including a sexy satyr-girl with her own cards up her sleeve, thinks that Billy is in way over his head. But Billy is a born gambler and, when the chips are down, he might just change his luck for good! Blind God's Bluff is an outrageously addictive urban fantasy that will keep you listening until the very last hand. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Verner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004631/bk_adbl_004631_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Whiskey Business: States of Love, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 217min
Ryder Waites will do anything to keep the tiny town of Gallows Grove, Kentucky, from vanishing off the map - even sell his family's whiskey recipe to Bluegrass Bourbon in Lexington. Hopeful that the larger company can provide necessary improvements to the distillery, Ryder aims ultimately to get Gallows Grove on the Bourbon Trail...and bring in much-needed tourism revenue. But to keep producing Hanged Man Bourbon in Gallows Grove, he'll have to convince the company liaison, unbearably stuffy and seriously hot Adam Keller, that he's worth the investment. Adam comes from an old-money family, but he's determined to make his own way in the world. When he's sent to Gallows Grove, he questions the life choices that led him to a rented room in a funeral home in a town full of macabre-themed businesses. And he doesn't know what to make of Ryder, the descendant of bootleggers, who's on a mission to save his strange town from extinction. When Adam and Ryder put aside their initial mistrust, the results are as smooth as good whiskey. But after Adam's assignment ends, he'll have to decide if small-town life and a future with Ryder are to his taste. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirt Graves. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/084625/bk_acx0_084625_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Welcome to the Neighborhood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 106min, (USK 18)
Gathering up my courage, I begin to unbutton my shirt. Halfway through, I realize I’m doing an awkward striptease, and I chuckle inwardly. Clarice’s eyes are fixed on me; she watches me hungrily, as though scared she might miss something....Nineteen-year-old Vicki Barnes is home for spring break, but she's all alone in her parent's big home - they've gone touring and won't be back for months. Boredom has well and truly set in...that is, until she sees the new neighbors moving in across the road. They're a beautiful couple in their late 30s, and Vicki is intrigued, not to mention turned on, when they share an X-rated kiss, right there in the driveway, before rushing inside like two sex crazed teens.The guy is smoking hot, so hot that she barely noticed the woman. The woman soon notices Vicki, though, and when her husband goes to New York on a three-day business trip, she soon sets about making fast friends with the sexy young girl. Vicki doesn't know it yet, but her summer is about to get unbearably hot....Don't miss this fantastic debut by new author Alyssa Goodman. This is a steamy stand-alone novella with no pesky cliff-hangers. Recommended for those aged 18 and up. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diedra Eby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228100/bk_acx0_228100_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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