293 Results for : gloomy
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My Mommy Medicine
My Mommy Medicine is a picture book about the comfort and love a mama offers when her child isn't feeling well, from renowned author Edwidge Danticat. Whenever I am sick, Or just feel kind of gloomy or sad, I can always count on my Mommy Medicine. When a child wakes up not feeling well, it's mommy to the rescue! Her remedy includes a yummy cup of hot chocolate, a cozy bubble bath, unlimited snuggles and cuddles, fun sing-alongs, and all the extra special love and attention a kid could ask for. Mommy Medicine can heal all woes and make any day the best day! Award-winning memoirist Edwidge Danticat's rich and lyrical text envelops the reader in the security of a mother's love, and debut artist Shannon Wright's vibrant art infuses the story with even more warmth. A Parent's Choice Recommended Award Winner 2019 2020 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year List- Shop: buecher
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Gloom Town
A delightfully creepy novel from a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner imbued with magic and seafaring mythology. Lemony Snicket and Jessica Townsend meet Greenglass House, with a hint of Edward Gorey thrown in. When twelve-year-old Rory applies for a job at a spooky old mansion in his gloomy seaside town, he finds the owner, Lord Foxglove, odd and unpleasant. But he and his mom need the money, so he takes the job anyway. Rory soon finds out that his new boss is not just strange, he's not even human-and he's trying to steal the townspeople's shadows. Together, Rory and his friend Isabella set out to uncover exactly what Foxglove and his otherworldly accomplices are planning and devise a strategy to defeat them. But can two kids defeat a group of ancient evil beings who are determined to take over the world? Another delightfully creepy tale from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning author Ronald L. Smith.- Shop: buecher
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Black and White Knights: Brotherhood Gone Bad , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 37min
Two brothers are torn apart by their egos. Will they reunite and get the castle back in order? One castle, two sides, the one white and the other black...the one gloomy and the other radiating light, each to their divorced parents' preference. In this story of two knights, Radius and Exdobor have always stuck together. They accept each other's' differences, but become suspicious when a scheming servant traps their pride with an anonymous object. The end result is a big battle and a ferocious fight between the siblings. Find out what else happens in this exciting book about two knights. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John H Fehskens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098728/bk_acx0_098728_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Secret Circle, Volume I: The Initiation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min
The Circle’s power has lured her home.... Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie longs for her old life. Even so, she feels a strange kinship to a terrifying group of teens who seem to rule her school. Initiated into the coven of witches that’s controlled New Salem for hundreds of years, she’s drawn into the Secret Circle, a thrill that’s both intoxicating and deadly. But when she falls for the mysterious and intriguing Adam, Cassie must choose whether to resist temptation or risk dark forces to get what she wants—even if it means that one wrong move could ultimately destroy her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Devon Sorvari. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002651/bk_harp_002651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Secret Garden , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 472min
Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire England after her parents die from Cholera. Also living in the manor house is her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as spoiled as she. Mary and Colin are like two peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors, until a secret garden captures their imaginations. As spring brings new life to the Earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to change. Playing and working every day in the secret garden improves their nature and health, as the "magic" of the garden transforms them into normal, healthy children. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Flosnik. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/alph/000001/bk_alph_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Fifth Elephant: Discworld, Book 24 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 648min
Sam Vines is a man on the run. Yesterday, he was a duke, a chief of police and ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilisation, there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're werewolves - and they're catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time and already out of breath....Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Briggs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000263/bk_rhuk_000263_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Definitive Blues collection
ASK ME NO QUESTIONS|Baby let's play house|Baby please don't go|Baby what you want me to do|BABY WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME|BACK DOOR MAN|Basin street Blues|Billie's blues (I love my man)|Blue Turning Grey Over You|BLUES WITH A FEELING|Boogie chillen 2|Boom boom|CAN'T HOLD OUT MUCH LONGER|CHECKIN' UP ON MY BABY|CHERRY RED|Chicago Blues|CONFESSIN' THE BLUES|Cow cow blues|CRAZY BLUES|DAMN YUR EYES|THE DIRTY DOZENS|DIVING DUCK|Double trouble|DOWN HEARTED BLUES|Everyday|Fine and mellow|FRISCO BLUES|Gee baby ain't I good to you|GLOOMY SUNDAY|A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND|GULF COAST BLUES|HEAR ME TALKIN' TO YA|Help me|HOW LONG HOW LONG BLUES|I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU|I'D RATHER DRINK MUDDY WATER|I'M A MAN|I'M GONNA MOVE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN|I'm ready|I'm your hoochie choochie man|IN THE EVENING|IT'S A LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME|Jailhouse blues|THE JAZZ ME BLUES|JELLY ROLL BLUES|JUST A DREAM|Little red rooster / Rolling Stones|MAD ABOUT HIM SAD WITHOUT HIM HOW CAN I BE GLAD WITHOUT HIM BLUES|How can I be glad without him blues|MANNISH BOY|Mean Old Frisco Blues|MEAN OLD WORLD|MEAN WOMAN BLUES|MILK COW BLUES|MULE KICKING IN MY STALL|MY BABY|MY BABY LEFT ME|MY MAN BLUES|Nobody knows you when you're down and out|Paying the cost to be the boss|PINETOP'S BLUES|Rock me baby|ROLL 'EM PETE|Rollin' Stone|Saint James infirmary|See see rider|Seventh Son|Smokestack lightning|SOME OF THESE DAYS|Spoonful|St Louis blues|STRAGE FRUIT|SUGAR BLUES|T'AIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS IF I DO|TEXAS FLOOD / Vaughan Stevie Ray|That's all right|The thrill is gone|Tin roof blues|TISHOMINGO BLUES|TOBACCO ROAD|Trouble in mind|Walkin' by myself|WEARY BLUES|West end blues|When the sun comes out|Who do you love|Why don't you do right|Why I sing the blues|WOLVERINE BLUES|Worried man blues|YELLOW DOG BLUES|YOUR RED WAGON- Shop: Notenbuch
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Death on the Cherwell, Hörbuch, Digital, 484min
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon only to find the drowned body of the college bursar floating in her canoe. The police assume that a student prank got out of hand, but the resourceful Persephone girls suspect foul play,and take the investigation into their own hands. Soon they uncover the tangled secrets that led to the bursar’s death and the clues that point to a fellow student. Language: English. Narrator: Patience Tomlinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002347/bk_isis_002347_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Island of Dr. Moreau: A Chilling Tale of Prendick's Encounter with Horrifically Modified Animals on Dr. Moreau's Island. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 311min
Englishman Edward Prendick finds himself shipwrecked on the open ocean. When a passing ship takes him aboard and revives him, things are starting to look less gloomy for the young scientist. Yet little does he know things about to get much worse. He is taken to an abandoned island occupied only by Dr. Moreau, a disgraced English scientist for his unethical treatment of live creatures. Prendick finds that the Doctor has been up to old habits, using the island's animals to create animal-human hybrids. Prendick must learn to survive among these creatures, while uncovering even more deadly mysteries about the doctor and the strange inhabitants of the island in this classic sci-fi tale. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/001059/bk_drms_001059_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Great Expectations (Adaptation): Oxford Bookworms Library, Hörbuch, Digital, 172min
In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: ’Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!’ An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Charles Dickens original by Clare West. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Griffen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oxfr/000082/bk_oxfr_000082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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