122 Results for : peering
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Dark Echoes of the Past , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 463min
The first novel by multiple-award-winning Chilean author Ramón Díaz Eterovic to be translated into English - a landmark event for fans of crime fiction. Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can't stop chasing the ghosts of the past. This time, they've come to him... Virginia Reyes's brother, an ex - political prisoner of dictator Augusto Pinochet, was killed in an apparent robbery. Yet nothing of value was taken. The police have declared the case closed, but Virginia suspects that things aren't quite as they appear and turns to Heredia for help. Heredia couldn't agree more - but he can't shake the feeling that there's something Virginia's not telling him. Heredia knows this is not a simple crime. His investigation proves it. Drawn back into a world where murderers nest, secrets are to kill and die for, and Pinochet's legacy still casts a long, dark, and very threatening shadow, it's all Heredia can do to crawl out of it alive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009687/bk_brll_009687_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 177min
Peering into life's cringe-worthy moments, best-selling author Beth Lisick excavates territory that most would rather ignore. Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, these are the kind of memories that haunt us all, the small awful moments of shame and humiliation that we'd rather forget than relive. Beth Lisick has made a career of opening her life to her readers in all of its messy, smart hilarity, but this type of story doesn't usually find its way into a memoir. With her trademark humor and sly intelligence, writing in short flashes the way these episodes tend to pop up in memory, Lisick recounts her most embarrassing moments with gusto. From a trick she played on a neighbor thirty years ago to what she accidentally blurted out at last night's dinner party, she explores the bad judgments and free-floating regrets that keep her up at night, and the result is a daring, candid, and wickedly funny collection of embarrassment embraced, the triumph of humor and perspective over everyday mortification. Writer, performer, and independent film actress Beth Lisick is the author of the New York Times best-selling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool and the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017506/bk_adbl_017506_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dear Baseball Gods: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 697min
Dear baseball gods,Why didn't you look out for him? Didn't he deserve better? He hustled, competed, and played the game the right way. What happened wasn't fair.A second comebackDan sat by a tree, staring at the ground trying to decide what he would do next. The doctor had just explained that everything he worked for was now ruined. A second Tommy John surgery? Does anyone come back from that? Is my career over? Is this it?A winding road to the topAs a walk-on in college, Dan had to earn everything. He pitched on three hours sleep, lived in the clubhouse, played for a team that collapsed mid-season, and endured more arm pain than any kid should.A way to move on When finally forced to hang up his cleats, Dan looked in the mirror and didn't recognize the man peering back. If no longer a ballplayer...what would he do? What had been the point of it all? Who was he?The deeper side of life as an athleteIn this philosophical memoir, authored as a series of letters, you'll learn that the pinstripes don't wash off so easily.Want to learn more about Dan and Dear Baseball Gods? Get the book now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Blewett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171946/bk_acx0_171946_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 740min
Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, personal look at modern Southeast Asia, written by one of the region's most experienced outside observers. This is a first-hand account of what it's like to sit at the table with deadly Thai Muslim insurgents, mediate between warring clans in the Southern Philippines and console the victims of political violence in Indonesia - all in an effort to negotiate peace and understand the reasons behind endemic violence. Peering beyond brand new shopping malls and shiny glass towers in Bangkok and Jakarta, Michael Vatikiotis probes the heart of modern Southeast Asia. Why are the region's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia and Malaysia and China's growing influence affect the region and the rest of the world? Vatikiotis tells the story of modern Southeast Asia using vivid portraits of the personalities who pull the strings, mixed with revealing analysis that is underpinned by decades of experience in the countries involved, from their silk-sheathed salons to blood-spattered streets. The result is a fascinating study of the dynamics of power and conflict in one of the world's fastest growing regions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Bates. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oras/000002/bk_oras_000002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Gideon's Curse: A Novel of Old Mill, NC , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min
Just after the Civil War, a preacher named Gideon Swayne journeyed south from Random, Illinois to minister to the newly freed slaves. In the bitter prejudice of North Carolina, and the magic of the Great Dismal Swamp, he made a home...that home was taken from him in hatred, and in violence. The Pope plantation is mired in the "old ways", migrants work their land so they don't have to get their hands too dirty. There are older ways than the Pope family, built on slave labor and mired in their own past, can imagine. Their farm hand, Gideon, has seen his mother's reflection in the slime-pools of the bog. He's heard his grandfather, the first Gideon at Preacher's Marsh, chanting on the night breeze. He has seen eyes, glowing green and glittering with hatred, lining the trees along the fields and peering from the trees. He has heard voices like drumbeats chanting in the night. The dead are rising, and they are coming. Soon. Gideon's Curse is a novel of history. It's a novel of freedom, slavery, magic, and romance. It's a glance into the violent past of the Deep South and the hope of a better future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cary Hite. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088156/bk_acx0_088156_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Forgotten Papyrus: The Mummifier's Daughter Series, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 279min
Ancient Egypt, 1231 BC... A sudden increase in attacks on caravans, along with the delay of the Nubian tillage, sees Shabaka and Neti travel to Shabaka's home, Sylene, where they are tasked with finding the royal shutty. On their arrival they find not only that an attempt has been made on Dagi's life, but also that his death has been foretold by the most unlikeliest practitioner of divine arts. In a race against the moon to ensure Dagi's safety, the situation increasingly gets out of hand, and before long Neti and Shabaka find themselves peering into the deepest recesses of the human soul.... The Forgotten Papyrus returns us to a land steeped in mystery and magic. It paints a detailed picture of Ancient Egypt in all its glory. Faithfully recreating one of the most remarkable eras in Egypt's history, author Nathaniel Burns weaves a shudderingly ominous tale of ancient Egypt's mysteries revealed through a cast of characters the modern listener will recognize even though millennia have passed. So light up the incense, sit close to the light, and draw back the curtains on the shadowed past with this gripping tale of love and intrigue among the living and the dead in one of history's most intriguing civilizations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregg Rizzo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037947/bk_acx0_037947_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 555min
A history of the Manhattan building and its famous tenants, from Lauren Bacall to John Lennon, by the New York Times best-selling author of Our Crowd. When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed “the Dakota” for being as far from the center of the downtown action as its namesake territory on the nation’s western frontier. Despite its remote location, the quirky German Renaissance-style castle, with its intricate façade, peculiar interior design, and gargoyle guardians peering down on Central Park, was an immediate hit, particularly among the city’s well-heeled intellectuals and artists. Over the next century it would become home to an eclectic cast of celebrity residents - including Boris Karloff, Lauren Bacall, Leonard Bernstein, singer Roberta Flack (the Dakota’s first African-American resident), and John Lennon and Yoko Ono - who were charmed by its labyrinthine interior and secret passageways, its mysterious past, and its ghosts. Stephen Birmingham, author of the New York society classic Our Crowd, has written an engrossing history of the first hundred years of one of the most storied residential addresses in Manhattan and the legendary lives lived within its walls. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: LJ Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052197/bk_adbl_052197_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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In the Company of Bears: What Black Bears Have Taught Me About Intelligence and Intuition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
Imagine raising an orphaned bear cub, carefully reintroducing her to the wild, then being welcomed back, almost daily, to observe her wild world for more than 17 years. Imagine visiting her in her feeding spots, watching her with her mates and her young, peering into her den, and, over time, observing the lives of all the other wild bears in her territory and surrounding ones. That is what happened to Ben Kilham, whose long-term study of wild black bears has shattered conventional wisdom about how they live their lives. In the Company of Bears unveils Kilham's groundbreaking work. Like others, he once thought that black bears were solitary. But he discovered that they actually have extraordinary communication and interaction with each other - creating and enforcing codes of conduct, forming alliances, and even sharing territory and food when supplies are ample. In the Company of Bears (originally released in hardcover as Out on a Limb) is more than a story about bears. It's the story of a scientist once kept from a traditional science career by his dyslexia, only to find that thinking and seeing differently was his greatest gift and his best tool to interpret the non-human world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Backman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020697/bk_adbl_020697_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Princess of Egypt: A Mystery in Ancient Egypt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 318min
Ancient Egypt, 1233 BC Neti-Kerty's reputation as Egypt's first female mummifier has apparently reached all the way to the Pharaoh. Neti-Kerty and Shabaka, Special Investigator and Prefect of Thebes, are astonished to be summoned to the palace of Ramses II to investigate the sudden death of the Vizier Khay. Thanks to her powers of deduction and knowledge of the dead, Neti soon determines that something is amiss. As more people disappear during the investigation, the situation increasingly gets out of hands and before long Neti and Shabaka find themselves peering into the deepest recesses of the human soul.... Princess of Egypt returns us to a land steeped in gods, god-kings, ritual and magic. It paints for the reader a detailed picture of Pharaonic Egypt in all its shadowed glory. Faithfully recreating one of the most remarkable eras in Egypt's history, author Nathaniel Burns weaves a shudderingly ominous tale of ancient Egypt's mysteries revealed through a cast of characters the modern reader will recognize even though millenia have passed. So light up the incense, sit close to the light and draw back the curtains on the shadowed past with this gripping tale of love and intrigue among the living and the dead in one of history's most intriguing civilizations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Clay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/018201/bk_acx0_018201_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Leg Lover , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min, (USK 18)
Peering at me through her smoky veil, she raised one imperious eyebrow. 'I have a hunch you are eager to touch my legs.'I sunk to my knees before her outstretched foot. I watched my hands approach the delicate black nylon on her slick legs and the shiny onyx of her patent shoes. Gently, I stroked four finger tips down the seam at the back of her calf muscle to the round, slippery heel of her stiletto. Then I opened my palm and cupped her lower leg. Stroked it and inhaled the perfume she had sprayed down her shin."This, the first novel written exclusively about a male leg fetish, is the intense story of one man's total and lifelong enthusiasm for women's legs, feet, and their accessories. A highly detailed and intensely erotic love story about shapely legs, painted toenails, sheer hosiery, high heels, and the women who enchant and tease while presenting their legs to catch the eye and arouse the helpless devotee.This is not only an epic journey to the extremities of leg adoration, but the very first book in the new Nexus Enthusiast imprint - an original series that will explore, reveal, and tantalise the reader with the most highly detailed fetish fiction actually written by genuine enthusiasts for genuine enthusiasts. This is as kinky as fiction can possibly get! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nelson J. Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/virg/000010/bk_virg_000010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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