87 Results for : studious
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Cartwheel: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 865min
Written with the riveting storytelling and moral seriousness of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together. When Lily Hayes arrives in Buenos Aires for her semester abroad, she is enchanted by everything she encounters: the colorful buildings, the street food, the handsome, elusive man next door. Her studious roommate Katy is a bit of a bore, but Lily didn't come to Argentina to hang out with other Americans. Five weeks later, Katy is found brutally murdered in their shared home, and Lily is the prime suspect. But who is Lily Hayes? It depends on who's asking. As the case takes shape - revealing deceptions, secrets, and suspicious DNA - Lily appears alternately sinister and guileless through the eyes of those around her: the media, her family, the man who loves her and the man who seeks her conviction. With mordant wit and keen emotional insight, Cartwheel offers a prismatic investigation of the ways we decide what to see - and to believe - in one another and ourselves. In Cartwheel, duBois delivers a novel of propulsive psychological suspense and rare moral nuance. No two readers will agree who Lily is and what happened to her roommate. Cartwheel will keep you guessing until the final page, and its questions about how well we really know ourselves will linger well beyond. A pick for The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of 2013 ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Rankin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003632/bk_rand_003632_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Killing Season: Part 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 461min
New York Times best-selling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying crime novel of suspense as a young man's obsessive investigation into his sister's death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer. He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him. The more you know, the more there is to fear.... Three years ago, 15-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her - until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a shallow grave by the river's edge. Ben, now 17, is relentlessly driven to find answers to Ellen's homicide. Police believe she was the victim of a psychopath known as the Demon. But Ben's analytical mind sees patterns that don't fit, tiny threads and clues that are derived from other unsolved murders he has researched. Despite his all-consuming push for a real solution to the crime, Ben has hit a wall until he gains an unlikely ally - the school's popular new girl, Ro Majors, who has secrets of her own. As the body count rises, a picture emerges of an adversary who is as cunning and methodical as he is deadly. And uncovering the truth may not be enough to keep Ben, Ro, and their loved ones safe from a twisted and fixated killer who has nothing left to lose. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlie Thurston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006271/bk_harp_006271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Nightworld Academy: Term One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 437min
Welcome to the Nightworld Academy, attended by vampires, shifters, and witches. A place filled with harmony and mutual respect between the supernatural races. Sometimes. I'm told my curse is a gift. A valuable one that could cost me my life.My visions of the future are weird, but my new school is weirder. All lessons take place in the evening and the majority of students are on an advanced program where they take extra classes late into the night.I enrolled at the academy because my last school expelled me for punching another student. Nobody believed that I knocked Tyler unconscious to stop somebody else dying. But why would they believe the crazy girl?I expected to meet other troubled teens here, but the pupils are predictable for an English boarding school. There's Ash, the rugby team captain and the academy’s most popular guy. Then there’s Andrei, the moody guy with a bad attitude who takes pleasure in annoying me. And Jamie who’s studious and friendly but intense.I thought I had the academy figured out: the mean girl, the quirky friend, the nerd, the emo, and the jock. But on the evening I swear allegiance to my new school house, everything spins out of control and I realize I’m dealing with more.Much more.One of us will die, and I know who.Term One is the first in this new upper YA/NA series of magic academy books. The main characters are eighteen and older and this is a slow burn RH. As the series is set at a school in England, the books are written in British English.Get this audiobook today to start this gripping new series filled with magic, mystery, and romance from USA Today best-selling author LJ Swallow. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Colton, Steve Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157471/bk_acx0_157471_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Charity and Sylvia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 655min
Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant was raised in Massachusetts. A brilliant and strong-willed woman with a clear attraction for her own sex, Charity found herself banished from her family home at age twenty. She spent the next decade of her life traveling throughout Massachusetts, working as a teacher, making intimate female friends, and becoming the subject of gossip wherever she lived. At age twenty-nine, still defiantly single, Charity visited friends in Weybridge, Vermont. There she met a pious and studious young woman named Sylvia Drake. The two soon became so inseparable that Charity decided to rent rooms in Weybridge. In 1809, they moved into their own home together, and over the years, came to be recognized, essentially, as a married couple. Revered by their community, Charity and Sylvia operated a tailor shop employing many local women, served as guiding lights within their church, and participated in raising their many nieces and nephews. Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of their extraordinary forty-four year union. Drawing on an array of original documents including diaries, letters, and poetry, Cleves traces their lives in sharp detail. Providing an illuminating glimpse into a relationship that turns conventional notions of same-sex marriage on their head, and reveals early America to be a place both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society might imagine, Charity and Sylvia is a significant contribution to our limited knowledge of LGBT history in early America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kristin Kalbli. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019790/bk_adbl_019790_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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All Night Long , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min
Shy, studious Irene Stenson and wild, privileged Pamela Webb had been the best of friends for one short high school summer. Their friendship ended the night Pamela dropped Irene off at home - and Irene walked in to discover her parents' bodies on the kitchen floor. It was ruled a murder-suicide, and Irene fled Dunsley, determined to wipe out every memory attached to her Northern California hometown. But now she has been summoned back. Pamela's email had been short and cryptic. More alarming, it included the code word they had used as teenagers, suggesting an urgency and secrecy that puzzled Irene. What could be important enough to make her former friend get in touch after all these years? She won't find out - at least not from Pamela, who lies dead in the luxurious home of her father, a US senator, pill and liquor bottles beside her. The shock has barely subsided before the rumors begin to swirl. Irene had planned to get out of this place as quickly as possible. But her reporter's instinct - and her own hunger to know the truth - compel her to extend her stay at the local lodge. Even more compelling is the man who runs the place - a hazel-eyed ex-marine who's as used to giving orders as Irene is to ignoring them. Luke Danner can see the terrified young girl hidden beneath Irene Stenson's black-clad, confident exterior - and he is intent on protecting her. But he is also driven by passions of his own, and together they will risk far more than local gossip to sort out what happened to Pamela Webb and what really happened on that long-ago summer night. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda Cobb. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/008506/bk_reco_008506_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fraternity: An Inside Look at a Year of College Boys Becoming Men , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 589min
* A Real Simple Best Book of 2019: "An essential read for parents and students." * The New York Times best-selling author of Pledged is back with an unprecedented fly-on-the-wall look inside fraternity houses from current brothers’ perspectives - and a fresh, riveting must-listen about what it’s like to be a college guy today.Two real-life stories. One stunning twist. Meet Jake, a studious freshman weighing how far to go to find a brotherhood that will introduce him to lifelong friends and help conquer his social awkwardness; and Oliver, a hardworking chapter president trying to keep his misunderstood fraternity out of trouble despite multiple run-ins with the police.Their year-in-the-life stories help explain why students are joining fraternities in record numbers despite scandalous headlines. To find out what it’s like to be a fraternity brother in the 21st century, Robbins contacted hundreds of brothers whose chapters don’t make headlines - and who suggested that many fraternities can be healthy, safe spaces for men.Fraternity is more than just a pause-resisting, character-driven read. It’s a vital book about the transition from boyhood to manhood; it brilliantly weaves psychology, current events, neuroscience, and interviews to explore the state of masculinity today and what that means for students and their parents. It’s a different kind of story about college boys, a story in which they candidly discuss sex, friendship, social media, drinking, peer pressure, gender roles, and even porn. And it’s a book about boys at a vulnerable age, living on their own for perhaps the first time. Boys who, in a climate that can stigmatize them merely for being male, don’t necessarily want to navigate the complicated, coming-of-age journey to manhood alone. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexandra Robbins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/004121/bk_peng_004121_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Xiaojing: The Classic of Filial Piety: The Classic Confucian Book for Children , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 102min
For over 2,000 years, this books has been the foundation of Chinese family life. Based on a series of conversations with Confucius, and supplemented by a series of story examples by an emperor in the 11th century, Xiaojang is essential to understanding the nature and order of Chinese society. It speaks of how one should behave toward a senior such as one’s parents, elder brother, or ruler and the obligations that follow in the opposite direction.Written in 400 BCE, the Xiaojang is legendarily a dialogue between Confucius and Zeng Zi, a disciple who was well-known for his filial piety. Since that time, it has been an essential tool of Chinese civilization, often being the first book that Chinese children are given when they are able to read it.For Confucius and his disciples, family life is the foundation and cornerstone of society, and recognizing the value and impact of family harmony - on both the local and greater environments - is crucial to stability and prosperity.Praise for the book:"We wish that there were more of them; they are dreamy, lifelike, and fascinating." (The Athenaeum)"No translation of this important work has been made since the beginning of the eighteenth century." (Pall Mall Gazette)"Worthy of close study by all who would penetrate to the depth of Eastern thought and feeling." (Manchester Courier)"[S]hould not fail to please readers of the more studious sort." (The Scotsman)"[W]ill find considerable favour with all Students of Eastern Literature and Eastern Philosophy." (Southport Guardian)"We commend these little books to all who imagine that there is no knowledge worth having outside Europe and America." (Bristol Mercury)"Such books are valuable aids to the understanding of a far-off age and people, and have a great interest for the student of literature." (Field) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chirag Patel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/190709/bk_acx0_190709_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Every Time I Think of You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 400min
A Lambda Literary Award winner1978: In a snowy Pennsylvania forest, Reid, a studious high school distance runner meets Everett, a privileged and capricious charmer.As their lives become intertwined, Reid is swept up in Everett’s adventurous world.When a near-fatal accident changes both their lives, Reid and Everett’s determination to keep their love alive faces obstacles of family, time, and distance.Praise for the book:"'Every Time I Think of You is a rare combination of delicacy and power, a story of 'the unbearable weight of first love' told with both innocence and urgency by its wise and charming adolescent narrator. It rekindled faded memories of the intensity of youthful desire - the mystery, the promise, the excitement, the disappointment. Intelligent, subtle, and compelling, Jim Provenzano’s novel is, most of all, audacious." (Andrew W. M. Beierle, author of First Person Plural)“The coming-of-age story gets a welcome and much needed shakeup in Jim Provenzano’s graceful and surprising novel about falling in love. Always going where you least expect it, the story is, by turns, heartbreaking and arousing, comic and introspective, familiar and altogether new. These are characters you’ll remember long after the last page." (Michael Thomas Ford, author of Full Circle and The Road Home)"Every Time I Think of You captures the joy of finding love for the first time, with all the sweetness, comedy, and tragedy that experience inevitably entails. And it does so with the audacity and brutal honesty to admit that, yes, even the broken and imperfect among us deserve to experience everything that life has to offer. Kudos to Provenzano for daring to show that disability and sexuality aren’t mutually exclusive, and that crips can be just as good in bed (or elsewhere) as their non-disabled counterparts.” (Ray Aguilera, former editor of Bent Voices) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Wetherbee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199097/bk_acx0_199097_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Calistos: Guardians of Hades Romance, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 620min
Tormented by the death of his twin sister, Calistos wants nothing more than to find a way to save her soul, but the pain of continuing without her and the constant feeling that he got her killed is slowly pulling him down into the darkness, and he knows it’s only a matter of time before he succumbs to the call of the abyss.Until a battle sets him on a collision course with a kind-hearted and beautiful mortal, one who rouses softer emotions he had sworn he would never risk feeling again, threatening to peel away his mask of playfulness and shatter the barriers around his heart.Marinda is a woman on a mission - to become a great cellist and repay her father for his faith in her. But her regimented and studious life is thrown into chaos when a handsome man is carted into the ER where she works and takes her hostage, pulling her into a dark and dangerous world - one where she discovers there’s more to her than meets the eye and her entire life has been a lie.When the enemy makes a play for Marinda and the gates, will Calistos find the strength to let someone into his heart again and look to the future, or will the pain of his past lead him to unleash hell on this world?If you love Greek gods romance books featuring powerful dark lords of the Underworld and strong heroines who steal their hearts, this paranormal romance series is for you.Seven powerful Greek god heroes. Seven passionate paranormal romance books. No cliff-hangers. Just happily forever afters!Buy the audiobook today and step into an action-packed paranormal romance world filled with mythology and mystery from New York Times and USA Today best-selling paranormal romance author Felicity Heaton.The Guardians of Hades romance series:Book one: AresBook two: ValenBook three: EsherBook four: MarekBook five: CalistosBook six: DaimonBook ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric G. Dove. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/207795/bk_acx0_207795_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dark Horse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 842min
In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is running out for Erin Seabright. A pawn in a kidnapper's terrifying game for a ransom no one can pay, her last hope is a washed-up ex-cop who has already lost it all - not once, but twice. The wealthy world of the Palm Beach horsey set seems a long way from a cop's world in the narcotics division. A lifetime ago, undercover sheriff's detective Elena Estes worked the mean streets and back alleys, living by her wits and playing the long odds until she took one risk too many. Now Estes lives on the ragged edge of lost hope and self-hatred, hiding from the past and believing she doesn't deserve to have a future. But the past is about to come back with a vengeance, and the future is about to become a race between life and death. A young woman is missing and her 12-year-old stepsister comes to Estes for help. No one but serious, studious Molly Seabright seems concerned about what's happened to her troubled older sister. Estes has no P.I. license, and no desire to break her self-imposed exile. But the more she learns about the people Erin Seabright was involved with, the more her long-dormant cop instincts come back to life. One trip to the showgrounds where Erin worked as a groom, and Estes is quickly pulled to the dark side of a glamorous sport. Behind the ultra-rich facade is an ultra-ruthless world of drugs, payoffs, and dirty deals. And in that world stalks a killer who will lead Estes down a twisted trail of mayhem and murder to a final showdown that could cost her everything. A race against time and evil. A race in which Estes is the dark horse...and no one is betting on her to win. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beth McDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000221/bk_rand_000221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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