42 Results for : lurches
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Adventures in Science: From Quantum Thinking to Alien Encounters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 218min
It is one of the curious oddities of our time that we talk so much about the scientific method as if it is one singular entity when, in point of practice, it is anything but. The ultimate linchpin in science is decided not by how we go about doing it, but about how well our hunches, observations, and results tally with the universe we observe and, in turn, how such intellectual lurches compare and contrast with other competing stratagems in terms of yielding more, not less, information. The very word science, derived from the Latin "scire", is rather open-ended and simply means "knowledge." There are innumerable ways to gather knowledge about the cosmos we inhabit. What makes science so powerful is that it allows for such findings to be publicly aired and scrutinized and tested, not only with the world it is trying to understand, but with other vying alternative models which differ from each other. Perhaps science's greatest contribution is that at its best it is open to refutation and is thereby open to change. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Linda Velwest. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052497/bk_acx0_052497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Viscount Weston's Bride: Masterful Husbands, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 274min, (USK 18)
Imogene Mortimer is about to marry the man of her dreams, but is the infatuation that she has for Charles Weston true love? Does she even understand what love is all about? As a complete innocent and a product of her time, a time when young gentlewomen were kept entirely in the dark about what they could expect from marriage, Imogene is naive, and her expectation of marriage is kisses followed soon after by bouncing babies. How will Imogene fare as the unwitting pawn between two determined brothers? Never having been physically chastised before, how will she cope with the robust discipline meted out to her by a firm but loving man? How will a truly gullible girl cope with a red blooded husband? Has she chosen the right gentleman? Is he what he seems? Join Imogene as she stumbles at the first hurdle of marriage and lurches into chaos, unsure who she can trust and who she should love. Her life has changed forever...but is it to be for the better or for worse? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Krystle L. Minkoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087331/bk_acx0_087331_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Silesian Station , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 676min
Summer, 1939. British journalist John Russell has just been granted American citizenship in exchange for agreeing to work for American intelligence when his girlfriend, Effi, is arrested by the Gestapo. Russell hoped his new nationality would let him safely stay in Berlin with Effi and his son, but now he's being blackmailed. To free Effi, he must agree to work for the Nazis. They know he has Soviet connections and want him to pass them false intelligence. Russell consents, but secretly offers his services to the Soviets instead - not for anything too dangerous, though, and only if they'll sneak him and Effi out of Germany if necessary. It's a good plan, but soon things become complicated. A Jewish girl has vanished, and Russell feels compelled to search for her. A woman from his past, a communist, reappears, insisting he help her reconnect with the Soviets, who turn out to demand more than Russell hoped. Meanwhile, Europe lurches toward war, and he must follow the latest stories - to places where American espionage assignments await him. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001857/bk_adbl_001857_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Man Who Walked Like a Bear , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min
With his wife in the hospital, Porfiry Rostnikov tries to protect Moscow from chaos. Porfiry and Sarah Rostnikov have been in love since the end of World War II, growing old together as the Soviet Union lurches towards modernity. Sarah is recovering from a brain operation, her police inspector husband at her side, when a bearlike man staggers into her hospital room. Hulking, naked, and insensible, he is about to leap out the window when Rostnikov talks him off the ledge. But before the orderlies take him away, the giant whispers a secret to the investigator. Someone has been stealing from the factory where he works. As he puzzles over the colossal madman’s clue, Rostnikov must also focus on his colleagues in the Moscow police, as their team contends with a sudden jump in crime. Rebels are planting bombs, teenagers are plotting assassinations, and the KGB lurks in every shadow. Surviving all this without Sarah by his side will be a challenge for the limping policeman, but he has long proven adept at talking down the Russian bear. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McLain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/006154/bk_adbl_006154_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Decked with Holly , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min
Holly Dayton is about to go way out of her comfort zone. . .Spending Christmas vacation on a cruise with her two cousins from hell isn't Holly's idea of a good time. And when, in a moment of seasick-fueled desperation, she lurches into an open suite - she's greeted with an eyeful of pepper spray. The culprit? A gorgeous guy calling himself Nick. But when Holly goes to make her exit, she gets the shock of her life: a corridor crammed with screaming teenage fans. Because Nick just happens to be Dominic Wyatt, drummer for ReadySet - one of the hottest bands in America. Suddenly, rumors are swirling and Holly's face is captured on countless phones and plastered all over the Internet. But the band can't risk a scandal destroying their family-friendly image, so Dominic convinces Holly to be his fake girlfriend - just for two weeks. How bad could it be to be fauxmantically involved with one of the cutest rock stars on the planet? Holly's about to find out. . . "Fans of Meg Cabot will find Marni's voice equally charming and endearing." (Julie Kagawa, New York Times best-selling author) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: MacLeod Andrews, Cassandra Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014098/bk_adbl_014098_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 708min
Read by Steven Pacey, and featuring Joe Abercrombie narrating 'Freedom'. This audio edition also includes an interview with Steven and Joe. The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's only one who thinks he can save the day singlehanded when the Gurkish come calling: the incomparable Colonel Sand dan Glokta. Curnden Craw and his dozen are out to recover a mysterious item from beyond the Crinna. Only one small problem: no one seems to know what the item is. Shevedieh, the self-styled best thief in Styria, lurches from disaster to catastrophe alongside her best friend and greatest enemy, Javre, Lioness of Hoskopp. And after years of bloodshed, the idealistic chieftain, Bethod, is desperate to bring peace to the North. There's only one obstacle left - his own lunatic champion, the most feared man in the North: the Bloody-Nine.... Sharp Ends combines previously published award-winning tales with exclusive new short stories. Violence explodes, treachery abounds and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue's gallery of sideshows, backstories and sharp endings from the world of the First Law. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Pacey, Joe Abercrombie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000950/bk_orio_000950_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Veteran: A Stephen Crane Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 11min
The Veteran features Henry Fleming as a grandfather, many years after he appeared as the 18-year-old Yankee first-time soldier in The Red Badge of Courage. He retells the story succinctly and honestly about how he ran from his first battle as so many did. His grandchild is alarmed, as children are when they learn that adults are not perfect in what they do. Fleming exhibits bravery in the story as he saves his farm animals and lurches into his barn to save what he can, despite knowing the long odds against it. This story could well have been an afterword to The Red Badge of Courage. The last paragraph is well worth the listening: "When the roof fell in [the barn], a great funnel of smoke swarmed toward the sky, as if the old man's [Fleming's] spirit, released from its body - a little bottle - had swelled like the genie of fable. The smoke was tinted rose-hue from the flames, and perhaps the unutterable midnights of the universe will have no power to daunt the color of this soul." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deaver Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smag/000086/bk_smag_000086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Heart and Soul, Hörbuch, Digital, 428min
Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem during the usually turbulent teens. Now in their twenties, Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farming; while Linda lurches from one unsatisfactory relationship to the next. As if this wasn't enough, Clara, a senior cardiac specialist, has a new job to cope with - and now her ex-husband wants something from her ... For Anya, meeting Clara Casey is a miracle. She never intended to leave Poland - but the love of her life turned sour. Perhaps a new job in a new country will mend her broken heart? Now, newly arrived in Ireland, one minute she's washing car windscreens and the next she is assistant to Dr Clara Casey. Declan is looking forward to joining the clinic - but what should have been a straightforward six-month posting brings him far more than medical experience. Then there's Father Brian Flynn, who finds his doubts about his calling are assuaged by work in his new parish - until a nightmare acquaintance threatens his reputation. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Binchy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000249/bk_orio_000249_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Infection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 753min
Five ordinary people must pay the price of survival at the end of the world. A mysterious virus suddenly strikes down millions. Three days later, its victims awake with a single purpose: spread the Infection. As the world lurches toward the apocalypse, some of the Infected continue to change, transforming into horrific monsters. In one American city, a small group struggles to survive. Sarge, a tank commander hardened by years of fighting in Afghanistan. Wendy, a cop still fighting for law and order in a lawless land. Ethan, a teacher searching for his lost family. Todd, a high-school student who sees second chances in the end of the world. Paul, a minister who wonders why God has forsaken his children. And Anne, their mysterious leader, who holds an almost fanatical hatred for the Infected. Together, they fight their way to a massive refugee camp where thousands have made a stand. There, what's left of the government will ask them to accept a mission that will determine the survival of them all - a dangerous journey back onto the open road and into the very heart of The Infection. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Ganim. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003055/bk_adbl_003055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Virus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 564min
2016 Colorado Humanities for the Book Finalist 2016 Book Pipeline Competition Semifinalist "A taut, well-paced narrative that not only meets the expectations of the genre, but comes across as stylistically sound." 2015 Silver Medal EVVY award for Literary and Contemporary fiction from Colorado Independent Publishers Association A smallpox epidemic begins in a whisper with a single death, and then the name of the victim surfaces: Abdulaziz al-Sherhi. In a nation rich in imagination, this name requires none at all. In the weeks that follow, the epidemic fears crescendo into a national roar. People panic about dying from this horrific terrorist-incited disease and clamor for a vaccination. The federal government lurches along, hurriedly creating more vaccines to meet the demand. Maggie Rider, a weary road warrior for a high-tech company, submits to the shot only to realize this is no ordinary immunization. Her husband, Eddy, posts his suspicions about this deeply sinister government requirement to his web site. Now he’s a target. And Maggie is the bait. The technology is real. Washington is corrupt. It’s only a matter of time before this isn’t just an intriguing idea for a political thriller. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caroline McLaughlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104813/bk_acx0_104813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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