25 Results for : doorstop
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Cosmic Cats & Fantastic Furballs
Curl up with a cat and a book. A full litter of stories-science fiction, fantasy, and mystery-all cats, every page. A dying pet gets a new life through cybernetics-but will his humans accept a robocat? Defrosted kittens run amok. Chocolate kitties from Mars change from delicious treats to something a little different. A Siamese detective fingers-or paws-a burglar. An alien furball lands on a cat-hater's doorstop. A kitten's gift to the Christ child gets rejected, but that's not the end of this cat's journey. A sphynx pussyfoots through a wormhole and finds his soulmate on the other side, narrowly escaping death. A fisherman crosses a tiger kami and is transformed into a legend. Angels dye a kitten purple and give it wings, but these do not serve it well when it plunges to Earth in the path of a speeding eighteen wheeler. And, in a Nebula nominee, an extinct cat is revived from ancient fossil material and innocently rampages in a rural Ohio township. A fun page-turner for fans of felines!- Shop: buecher
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Ghost Walk , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 454min
Antiquarian bookshop owner Dido Hoare has a lot on her mind these days. In her second appearance, Dido is trying to run her store, juggling single motherhood with her infant son Ben, worrying about her aging father, Barnabas, and her on-again, off-again relationship with a married police officer. The last thing she needs is to find Tom Ashe, a homeless man with whom she has struck up an odd friendship, apparently deathly ill on her doorstop. Ashe's illness turns out to be a relatively mild reoccurrence of the malaria he picked up in his military service - a relief that turns to bewilderment when Ashe first disappears, then shows up, hands Dido an exotic necklace, mutters a few mysterious words, and drops out of sight again. The next day Dido discovers he has been murdered. Determined to find Ashe's killer, and convinced that the necklace is a clue to his secret, Dido and Barnabus begin a search that leads to a surprising truth about Ashe's past life and the bearing of a nightmarish past full of deceit and treachery, as well as peril for Dido and her father. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicola Barber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008904/bk_adbl_008904_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rebecca West and the God That Failed: Essays , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 324min
After completing his biography of Rebecca West in 1995, Carl Rollyson felt bereft. As his wife said, "Rebecca was such good company." He had already embarked on another biography, but Rebecca kept beckoning him. He felt there was more to say about her politics - a misunderstood part of her repertoire as a reporter and novelist. And had he done justice to her enormous sense of fun and humor? He regretted excising the portrait of her he wanted to put at the beginning of his biography. His editor kept cutting away at what he called Rollyson's doorstop of a book. And then after years of waiting, Rollyson received her FBI file. He kept running into Rebecca, so to speak, when he was working on his biographies of Martha Gellhorn and Jill Craigie. Interviews in London often turned up people who had known West as well. Thus piece by piece, Rollyson accumulated what's now another book about Rebecca West. This new collection tells the story of how his biography got written, of what it means to think like a biographer, and why West's vision remains relevant. She's one of the great personalities and writers of the modern age, and one that we are just beginning to comprehend. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Stamper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044623/bk_acx0_044623_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The New Adventures of Ellery Queen: The Ellery Queen Mysteries, Book 1940 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 633min
Trick I - The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear - each as dead as the other. Trick II - From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a distance of 12 feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch of each other into a spectator's back - a feat utterly impossible to perform yet brazenly and undeniably done. Trick III - The piece de resistance. This time it's an entire house, a real house, a solid house, which Ellery Queen had been in only the day before...vanished from the face of the Earth. And in its place emerges one of the most incredible conundrums ever to face the master crime solver. Encores - The New Adventures of Ellery Queen is a classic collection of eight short mysteries and a remarkable short novel. First published in 1940, it has sold more than one million copies and continues to be "as good as they come" (New York Times). Stories include "The Lamp of God", "The Treasure Hunt", "The Hollow Dragon", "The House of Darkness", "The Bleeding Portrait", "Man Bites Dog", "Long Shot", "Mind over Matter", and "The Trojan Horse". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Fass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008220/bk_blak_008220_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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John Marshall on George Washington: An Episode in American Political Biography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 24min
Virginia patriot and jurist John Marshall wrote the first authorized biography of George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, first president of the United States and father of his country. Published from 1804 through 1807 and sold by subscription, Marshall’s Life of Washington is a 3,200 page doorstop, more history than biography, and a work Thomas Jefferson privately considered “a five-volume libel”.When an objective biographer renders upon a president the judgment of history, critics usually question the author’s degree of access to their subject, cooperation among members of the president’s inner circle, and, more conspicuously, any hint of political bias. When the author is a confidante, a political ally, or even a protégé, critics often dismiss the work as entirely suspect, politically motivated, replete with vendettas to launch and old scores to settle. Imagine John Roberts writing a fair and balanced biography of George W. Bush or William Rehnquist waxing objective on the presidencies of Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan and you can begin to comprehend the controversy that surrounded John Marshall’s Life of Washington, written early in Marshall’s tenure as chief justice of the Supreme Court.The biographical enterprise taken up by John Marshall with his friend Bushrod Washington proved less successful than they had hoped. Only about 7,000 sets of the Life of Washington were eventually sold. Nevertheless, all parties involved fared well financially, and throughout his later years, Marshall regularly contemplated publication of a revised edition of the Life of Washington. Marshall’s long-standing friendship with Bushrod weathered their joint publishing experience, and they remained staunch allies throughout their tenure in the Supreme Court, where Marshall’s vigorous defense of the Constitution reigned until 1835. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Lee Philips. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/190923/bk_acx0_190923_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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