176 Results for : ramshackle
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Sunshine at the Comfort Food Café , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 584min
Come to the Comfort Food Café this spring for sunshine, smiles and plenty of truly scrumptious lemon drizzle cake. My name is Willow Longville. I live in a village called Budbury on the stunning Dorset coast with my mum, Lynnie, who sometimes forgets who I am. I'm a waitress at the Comfort Food Café, which is really so much more than a café...it's my home. For Willow, the ramshackle café overlooking the beach, together with its warmhearted community, offers friendship as a daily special and always has a hearty welcome on the menu. But when a handsome stranger blows in on a warm spring breeze, Willow soon realises that her quiet country life will be changed forever. Curl up with this gorgeous novel and make yourself at home at the Comfort Food Café. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Cooper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003310/bk_hcuk_003310_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Daughters-in-Law , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min
Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. She has fiercely devoted herself to her three sons all their lives, and continues to do so even now they are all grown up. They are, of course, devoted to her – she and Anthony, their father, hold the family together at their big, beautiful, ramshackle house near the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk. But when Luke, her youngest, gets married, Rachel finds that control is slipping away. Other people seem to be becoming more important to her children than she is, and she can no longer rely on her role as undisputed matriarch. A power struggle develops which can only end in unhappiness; her three daughters-in-law want to do things their own way, and so, to her grief, do her sons... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Franklin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001061/bk_rhuk_001061_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The House of Dust and Dreams , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 777min
Greece 1936. A young British diplomat and his wife have been posted to Athens. Hugh loves the life there but his spirited and unconventional wife, Heavenly, finds it hard to fit into the whirl of endless parties and socialising. When Hugh is sent to Crete to sort out a problem, they stay in a rundown house owned by his family. Heavenly falls in love with the place and the people, and stays on when Hugh returns to his duties.As she tries to rebuild the ramshackle home, Heavenly makes firm friends with Anthi, a young woman from the village and Christos, the handsome and charismatic young builder. But the dark clouds of war are gathering and the island will become a crucible of violence and bloodshed in the days to come. For Heavenly, her friends and family, it will be the greatest test they have ever known. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sian Thomas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/004811/bk_bbcw_004811_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Screaming Staircase: Lockwood & Co., Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 607min
When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in.... For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions. Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career. Instead she finds herself joining the smallest most ramshackle agency in the city, run by the charismatic Anthony Lockwood. When one of their cases goes horribly wrong, Lockwood & Co. have one last chance of redemption. Unfortunately this involves spending the night in one of the most haunted houses in England, and trying to escape alive. Set in a city stalked by spectres, The Screaming Staircase is the first in a chilling new series full of suspense, humour and truly terrifying ghosts. Your nights will never be the same again.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Miranda Raison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001594/bk_rhuk_001594_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lie by Moonlight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min
While investigating a suspicious death, private-inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself on the grounds of Aldwick Castle - and in the midst of utter chaos. The ramshackle castle is in flames - and a beautiful woman and four young girls are taking flight on horseback. It turns out that the strong-minded Miss Concordia Glade and her four bright students are on the run from a notorious London crime lord who'll stop at nothing to destroy them. Now their only hope is Ambrose, a confirmed loner with more than his share of secrets - and more than his share of desire for the unconventional teacher. And as Ambrose and Concordia risk everything to bring down a criminal mastermind, they will also be forced to battle something even greater: the steamy passion that threatens their hard-won independence.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Louise Jane Underwood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/008565/bk_reco_008565_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kidnapped , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 298min
Framed for a crime she didn’t commit, Nora must prove her innocence.... For Nora Mulgrew, the days between the end of Salem University’s summer session and the start of fall semester are the 'dead time'. The campus is deserted, and Nora is the only resident in eerie old Nightingale Hall, a ramshackle dorm whose dark past has earned it the nickname 'Nightmare Hall'. Nora hasn’t heard any of those rumors, but her own nightmare is about to begin. An education major, Nora has spent the summer working at a day care where her favorite pupil is a darling child named Mindy. When Mindy goes missing, campus security suspects Nora. As she battles migraines and the suspicions of the police, Nora hunts the campus for the child. Someone has framed her for a terrible crime, and Nora must find out who it is before it’s too late. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tara Sands. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/006812/bk_adbl_006812_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Daughters-in-Law, Hörbuch, Digital, 375min
Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. She has fiercely devoted herself to her three sons all their lives, and continues to do so even now they are all grown up. They are, of course, devoted to her – she and Anthony, their father, hold the family together at their big, beautiful, ramshackle house near the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk. But when Luke, her youngest, gets married, Rachel finds that control is slipping away. Other people seem to be becoming more important to her children than she is, and she can no longer rely on her role as undisputed matriarch. A power struggle develops which can only end in unhappiness; her three daughters-in-law want to do things their own way, and so, to her grief, do her sons.... Language: English. Narrator: Fenella Woolgar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000819/bk_rhuk_000819_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Softly Grow the Poppies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 584min
Rose Beechworth is mistress of a charming country house - her own, left to her by her wealthy father. In the summer of 1914, Alice Weatherly turns Rose's world upside down. The young heiress longs to kiss Captain Charlie Summers goodbye and so she takes Rose to Liverpool's Lime Street station and into the heart of Charlie's brother Harry. Harry inherits the ramshackle Summer Place, and is only too glad when it becomes a hospital for wounded soldiers. As the war takes its terrible toll and Charlie disappears into fog of battle, Alice - the spoilt runaway heiress - becomes a heroine, while Rose finds herself running two great houses. It seems impossible that any of them can ever find happiness again… Once again, Audrey Howard has combined her profound knowledge of life in Lancashire in days gone by with a heart-breaking story of love lost and won. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carole Boyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006208/bk_bbcw_006208_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Walking On Glass , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 488min
Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut. Her lips were pale, and nearly too full for her small mouth, like something bled but bruised. He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life. Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that They are out to get him. They are. Quiss, insecure in his fabulous if ramshackle castle, is forced to play interminable impossible games. The solution to the oldest of all paradoxical riddles will release him. But he must find an answer before he knows the question. Park, Grout, Quiss - no trio could be further apart. But their separate courses are set for collision. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Kenny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000765/bk_twuk_000765_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cambodian Book of the Dead, The , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 552min
Cambodia - a country re-emerging from a half century of war, genocide, famine and cultural collapse. German Detective Maier travels to Phnom Penh, the Asian kingdom's ramshackle capital, to find the heir to a Hamburg coffee empire. As soon as the private eye and former war reporter arrives in Cambodia, his search for the young coffee magnate leads into the darkest corners of the country's history, and through the history of the communist revolution to the White Spider, a Nazi war criminal, who hides amongst the detritus of modern Cambodia and reigns over an ancient Khmer temple deep in the jungle. Maier, captured and imprisoned, is forced into the worst job of his life - he is to write the biography of the White Spider, a tale of mass murder that reaches from the Cambodian Killing Fields back to Europe's concentration camps - or die... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Meadows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/007098/bk_bbcw_007098_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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