73 Results for : compatriots
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William Wallace: The Spirit of a Scottish Martyr , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 56min
Smarter in sixty minutes. Get smarter in just 60 minutes with in60Learning. Concise and elegantly written nonfiction books and audiobooks help you learn the core subject matter in 20 percent of the time that it takes to read a typical book. Life is short, so explore a multitude of fascinating historical, biographical, scientific, political, and financial topics in only an hour each. William Wallace started out as a humble knight, but he died a war hero. He gave up everything in his fight for Scottish freedom, including his life. When captured, Wallace was hung, drawn, and quartered by the English king for crimes against the crown. Though he was memorialized in the 1995 film Braveheart, this book tells how much of what we associate with Wallace is more legend than fact. Still, the spirit of the great Scotsman lives on in the hearts and minds of his compatriots today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Doddy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117643/bk_acx0_117643_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pretty Boy Detective Club, Volume 3: The Pretty Boy in the Attic
From the renowed author NISIOISIN, the creator of BAKEMONOGATARI, Zaregoto Series and KATANAGATARI.Comes a new, innovative mystery series, Pretty Boy Detective Club!Mayumi Dojima is finally a full-fledged member of the Pretty Boy Detective Club, known to her compatriots as Mayumi the Seer, she of the beautiful eyes. Summoned suddenly to the disused art room that serves as the club s headquarters, Mayumi is pressed into service to assist with an ambitious redecorating project. But when they discover a secret room containing thirty-three mysterious canvases, the Pretty Boys are faced with their most perplexing puzzle yet. Who is responsible for these strange paintings, and are they connected to an impossible kidnapping that took place at Yubiwa Academy seven years ago? The third installment of the Pretty Boy series offers a beautiful mystery with an even more beautiful solution!Best-selling author NISIOISIN (Monogatari series, Decapitation, Katanagatari) brings his trademark blend of wit, wordplay, adventure, and cracked philosophy to a new mystery series for fans of all ages.- Shop: buecher
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Italian Lessons (eBook, ePUB)
One-of-a-kind timeless lessons for handling challenges and living with joy, the Italian way-"with unparalleled insight and brilliant wit, Severgnini's book not only transports us to Italy but deep into the Italian mind and spirit" (Stanley Tucci, host of Searching for Italy). Is there an Italian way to deal with life? Can we all learn something from the Italians? Italy often arouses in Americans a unique mix of attraction and bafflement, moderate disapproval and incredible allure. From the Italians' love of poetry to an innate desire to socialize to the regional differences between the north and the south, Beppe Severgnini, who has dedicated his career to the meticulous observation of his compatriots, embarks on an enthralling quest to identify a core Italian identity and explore how that identity has evolved since the global pandemic. Told with the warmth and humor of a longtime friend, Severgnini touches upon patience, endurance, and wisdom, and offers a one-of-a-kind set of timeless lessons for overcoming trials, the Italian way.- Shop: buecher
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Italian Lessons: Fifty Things We Know about Life Now
One-of-a-kind timeless lessons for handling challenges and living with joy, the Italian way-"with unparalleled insight and brilliant wit, Severgnini's book not only transports us to Italy but deep into the Italian mind and spirit" (Stanley Tucci, host of Searching for Italy). Is there an Italian way to deal with life? Can we all learn something from the Italians? Italy often arouses in Americans a unique mix of attraction and bafflement, moderate disapproval and incredible allure. From the Italians' love of poetry to an innate desire to socialize to the regional differences between the north and the south, Beppe Severgnini, who has dedicated his career to the meticulous observation of his compatriots, embarks on an enthralling quest to identify a core Italian identity and explore how that identity has evolved since the global pandemic. Told with the warmth and humor of a longtime friend, Severgnini touches upon patience, endurance, and wisdom, and offers a one-of-a-kind set of timeless lessons for overcoming trials, the Italian way.- Shop: buecher
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Against the Flow: The Inspiration of Daniel in an Age of Relativism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 979min
Daniel's story is one of extraordinary faith in God lived out at the pinnacle of executive power. It tells of four teenage friends, born in the tiny state of Judah about 26 centuries ago, but captured by Nebuchadnezzar, emperor of Babylon. Daniel describes how they eventually rose to the top echelons of administration. Daniel and his friends did not simply maintain their private devotion to God; they maintained a high-profile witness in a pluralistic society antagonistic to their faith. That is why their story has such a powerful message for us. Society tolerates the practice of Christianity in private and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness. If Daniel and his compatriots were with us today they would be in the vanguard of the public debate. What was it that gave that ancient foursome, Daniel and his three friends, the strength and conviction to be prepared, often at great risk, to swim against the flow? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Crockett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108793/bk_acx0_108793_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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For Such a Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 795min
While the France they have known is crumbling around them, two courageous women face danger and betrayal under Hitler's tyranny. Giselle Munier and Jean Thornton are more like sisters than cousins, having spent many of their summers together, but with the outbreak of World War II, both women's lives take a dramatic turn. Jean joins the American Red Cross and is assigned to a military hospital in Wales. Meanwhile, Giselle, active in the French Resistance, has been betrayed and arrested by the Nazis. Though her compatriots are able to rescue and hide her, Giselle remains in grave danger because she knows the identity of other Resistance leaders. Jean is determined to try smuggling Giselle to freedom. While the Allies prepare to invade Europe, she makes intricate plans for a parachute jump into occupied France. For such a plan to succeed, however, both women will need to summon superhuman strength and courage. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vanessa Benjamin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001328/bk_blak_001328_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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En Garde , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 41min, (USK 18)
John knows certain things are true. He knows he is in good shape for his age. He knows that buying a farm in rural Pennsylvania was good for his writing but bad for his pursuit of excellence with the sword. He knows that making the three-hour drive to compete in a monthly tournament at Penn State is worthwhile, even when he loses. And he knows that even though they seem to accept him as their equal, there are some lines that society says just can't be crossed with his new compatriots... since they are literally half his age. Kelly is young and ferocious enough to believe that society isn't going to make decisions for her about who and what she wants in her life. The trick isn't convincing her friends to accept that a relationship is possible between her and the sexy older man who has joined their competitive circle. The trick is convincing John.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luc Cooper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002656/bk_acx0_002656_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 502min
The extraordinary story of Australian sappers on the front lines of the war in Afghanistan.They are young, they are tough and they were the forward scouts in Australia's war against the Taliban. This is the story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan who learnt their skills from the original Australian Tunnel Rats of the Vietnam War. Like their compatriots in Vietnam, the Tunnel Rats of Afghanistan have rutted out the enemy from deep inside their caves and hideouts, have defused thousands of improvised explosive devices (the booby traps and landmines of this most recent of wars), built bridges and schools to win a war of hearts and minds and lost mates at a greater rate than any other group of soldiers. And they, too, have returned home with the devastating baggage of war: post-traumatic stress disorder. Inspiring and action packed, this is the story of a special breed of soldier operating in a modern war against a medieval enemy. It is a story that connects the unsung heroes of Vietnam with the modern heroes of Afghanistan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Meldrum. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002495/bk_boli_002495_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Sympathizer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 833min
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2016. It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy story, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Francois Chau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029011/bk_adbl_029011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Woman Named Drown: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 251min
Hailed by Time as an “extravagantly comic” novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America’s South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cum–pool shark. On the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life. So begins an odd pilgrimage through the American South. In Tennessee, our hero is bewitched by an older, gin-swilling, pool-playing sometimes-actress who claims to have recently starred in a theatrical production about a “woman named Drown.” He moves in with her and just as quickly begins encountering her strange compatriots. Before he knows it, they’re heading farther south together - to Florida - where the data that the dropout scientist is collecting from life’s laboratory are about to get quite contradictory. Richly influenced by offbeat literary giant Donald Barthelme, Padgett Powell’s A Woman Named Drown offers readers a smorgasbord of literary strangeness - a surreal series of adventures in which nothing much - and yet everything - happens at once. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: A.T. Chandler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015884/bk_adbl_015884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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