Glassblower

Born into Fire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 261min

Ryalda - the Element heroes of old - leak from the dark void of nothingness, Ghen, and bring with them beauty, desire... and destruction. Air Element, Erion aches to feel the heat of Kenna's emerging fire. However, merging his wind with the woman on the cusp of transformation comes with great risk. A risk he's unwilling to take. But with a male Fire Element intent on enslaving Kenna, Erion reconsiders his vow. To protect her, they must merge, but he will not bond his wind with her fire. Aspiring glassblower, Kenna Lang finally has a showing that could launch her career - with Drakaura, blown glass replicas of the dragons of her dreams. A chance meeting with Erion ignites an attraction hotter than the furnace used to blow glass. Drawn into an erotic joining, Kenna is born into fire. Now her world is going up in flames. Merged as Air and Fire, their power is unimaginable. However, both are unprepared for the emotions awakened by their joining and the timeless battle waged against them. Only together can they defeat their enemies, both Element and Dragon, and escape the darkness of Ghen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Terran McGahae. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/007553/bk_acx0_007553_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Adventure Books for Kids: Short Stories for the Children in a Book: Kids’ Adventure Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 92min

Three awesome short stories in one bundle.Story 1: Murray is an elder guardian. He swims around and counts the days. But when his granddaughter asks him about some of his adventures, he can’t stop talking, especially about a squid who stole diamonds from him and a shark that almost killed him. His daughter, Lucy, is smart and asks the right questions, which make him reconsider the conclusions he drew from his own story. This inspirational story will make you laugh and think at the same time.Story 2: The two farmers, Flyn and Jack, are upset. They find their chickens in pieces, attacked by some kind of predator. When an old man with a cane suggest that a rabbit has done this, the whole village laughs at him. But Flyn finds a reason to believe him and gets confronted with the dangerous bunny. They discover, however, to their horror, that there may be more than one murderous bunny out there. And no matter how cute they may seem, they decide to protect their homes and kill them. Read the crazy adventure of two courageous farmers who faced a fierce, ferocious, furry animal.Story 3: Adam is a glassblower. He lives in a small village, not too far away from the big city. Everything is going well, until a dark creature knocks over his stuff and escapes. Adam comes across a wishing well that tells him he can wish for whatever he wants and take back any wish if he is disappointed. Adam makes several wishes, but he quickly discovers that a lot of things he wants aren’t making him happy. He needs to figure out what he wants. Will he find true happiness? Quickly start listening! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John H. Fehskens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103917/bk_acx0_103917_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The City of Falling Angels, Hörbuch, Digital, 345min

It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times best seller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46 percent.It is Berendt and only Berendt who can capture Venice - a city of masks, a city of riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways form a giant maze, confounding all who have not grown up wandering into its depths. Venice, a city steeped in 1,000 years of history, art, and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble - foundations shift, marble ornaments fall - even as efforts to preserve them are underway.The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective - inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city - while gradually revealing the truth about the fire.In the course of his investigations, Berendt introduces us to a rich cast of characters: a prominent Venetian poet whose shocking "suicide" prompts his skeptical friends to pursue a murder suspect on their own; the First Family of American expatriates who lose possession of the family palace after four generations of ownership; an organization of high-society, party-going Americans who raise money to preserve the art and architecture of Venice, while quarreling in public among themselves, questioning each other's motives and drawing startled Venetians into the fray; a contemporary Venetian surrealist painter and outrageous provocateur; the master glassblower of Venice; and numerous others - stool-pigeons, sca Language: English. Narrator: John Berendt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000681/bk_rand_000681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Evidence of Things Unseen (eBook, ePUB)

This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure our unquestioned trust in a safe future.Fos has returned to Tennessee from the trenches of France. Intrigued with electricity, bioluminescence, and especially x-rays, he believes in science and the future of technology. On a trip to the Outer Banks to study the Perseid meteor shower, he falls in love with Opal, whose father is a glassblower who can spin color out of light.Fos brings his new wife back to Knoxville where he runs a photography studio with his former Army buddy Flash. A witty rogue and a staunch disbeliever in Prohibition, Flash brings tragedy to the couple when his appetite for pleasure runs up against both the law and the Ku Klux Klan. Fos and Opal are forced to move to Opal's mother's farm on the Clinch River, and soon they have a son, Lightfoot. But when the New Deal claims their farm for the TVA, Fos seeks work at the Oak Ridge Laboratory -- Site X in the government's race to build the bomb.And it is there, when Opal falls ill with radiation poisoning, that Fos's great faith in science deserts him. Their lives have traveled with touching inevitability from their innocence and fascination with "things that glow" to the new world of manmade suns.Hypnotic and powerful, Evidence of Things Unseen constructs a heartbreaking arc through twentieth-century American life and belief.

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The Heron's Cry

'Matthew Venn is a keeper . . . stunning' David BaldacciThe number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, from author and creator of the Vera and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves - soon to be a major TV series.North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder - Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed. His daughter Eve is a glassblower, and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her broken vases.Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved, though, to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband.Then another body is found - killed in a similar way. Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home . . .The Heron's Cry is the second novel in Ann Cleeves' Two Rivers crime series, following her Sunday Times bestseller, The Long Call.Praise for The Long Call'As a huge fan of both the Shetland and Vera series of books, I had high expectations for Cleeves' latest. Matthew Venn is a keeper. A stunning debut for Cleeves' latest crimefighter' - David Baldacci'Had me hooked . . . a promising beginning to another fine chapter in the Ann Cleeves story' - The Times'A triumph that cements Cleeves' status as one of Britain's best crime writers' - Daily Express'Clever, compassionate and atmospheric . . . I am already a Matthew Venn fan' - Elly Griffiths'Cleeves combines a flair for evoking sense of place with a thoughtful, complex plot' - Mail on Sunday'A traditional mystery of the best sort' - Guardian

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The Heron's Cry

Now a major ITV series, The Long Call, adapted for television by screenwriter Kelly Jones and starring Ben Aldridge.'Matthew Venn is a keeper . . . stunning' - David BaldacciThe number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, from author and creator of the Vera and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves - soon to be a major TV series.North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coast-line. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder - Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed. His daughter, Eve, is a glassblower, and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her broken vases.Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved though to find that Eve is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband.Then another body is found - killed in a similar way. Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home . . .The Heron's Cry is the second novel in Ann Cleeves' Two Rivers series following her Sunday Times bestseller, The Long Call.Praise for The Long Call:'Had me hooked . . . a promising beginning to another fine chapter in the Ann Cleeves' story' - The Times'A triumph that cements Cleeves' status as one of Britain's best crime writers' - Daily Express'Clever, compassionate and atmospheric . . . I am already a Matthew Venn fan' - Elly Griffiths'Cleeves combines a flair for evoking sense of place with a thoughtful, complex plot' - Mail on Sunday'A traditional mystery of the best sort' - Guardian

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