30 Results for : rumpled
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Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 616min
On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers. As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game was not televised; no New York sportswriters showed up; and a 14-year-old local boy ran onto the court when Chamberlain scored his hundredth point, shook his hand, and then ran off with the basketball. In telling the story of this remarkable night, author Gary M. Pomerantz brings to life a lost world of American sports. In 1962, the National Basketball Association, stepchild to the college game, was searching for its identity. Its teams were mostly white, the number of black players limited by an unspoken quota. Games were played in drafty, half-filled arenas, and the players traveled on buses and trains, telling tall tales, playing cards, and sometimes reading Joyce. Into this scene stepped the unprecedented Wilt Chamberlain: strong and quick-witted, voluble and enigmatic, a seven-footer who played with a colossal will and a dancer’s grace. That strength, will, grace, and mystery were never more in focus than on March 2, 1962. Pomerantz tracked down Knicks and Philadelphia Warriors, fans, journalists, team officials, other NBA stars of the era, and basketball historians, conducting more than 250 interviews in all, to recreate in painstaking detail the game that announced the Dipper’s greatness. He brings us to Hershey, Pennsylvania, a sweet-seeming model of the gentle, homogeneous small-town America that was fast becoming anachronistic. We see the fans and players, alternately fascinated and confused by Wilt, drawn anxiously into the spectacle. Pomerantz portrays the other legendary figures in this story: the Warriors’ elegant coach Frank McGuire; the beloved, if rumpled, team owner Eddie Gottlieb; and the ir ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000489/bk_bkot_000489_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Second Chances: Undying Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 76min
Erica Kings' Second Chances: Undying Love is a romantic tale about a woman getting a lot more than she bargained for. Fabricio and Madison were high school sweethearts. They experienced every turmoil that life could throw at them. Just like many first chances, their love happened too soon, fizzled out, and fell apart in the midst of their competing needs. Will their love survive? Yes, maybe, only if they can find the strength to take a chance, a second chance on love. The Second Chances series contains short episodes about love, betrayal, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Inspirational sweet clean romance. Excerpt: Undying Love As I got into the debate room, I noticed that it was already set up for the Presidential Debate Program, with the podium hung with the Presidential Debate seal set in a round medallion that was so big that it covered one-third of the debate podium. They were taking no chances that the seal would be missed in the debate press release. I looked around the room, noting that the opposing team was already there. Their team was five boys and three girls. The minute I locked eyes with him, I knew. I stood transfixed. I barely breathed as he walked toward me. His perfectly coiffed jet-black hair, shaved almost completely on the sides leaving a long straight black rumpled look of his silky, spikey hair in the middle. My eyes were mesmerized by his slightly pink lips as he bit his bottom lip as he walked toward me. After the longest amount of time that anyone could ever have walked across one room, he reached me. He stood right in front of me and Nelly. And he didn't say a word. The silence was deafening. But I waited him out, as my heart pounded a hard-thumping rhythm. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: April Barrow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090378/bk_acx0_090378_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?
The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient. The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings--the account of his long-dormant patients miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. Over the ensuing four years, the two men worked closely together until, for wracking personal reasons, Sacks asked Weschler to abandon the profile, a request to which Weschler acceded. The two remained close friends, however, across the next thirty years and then, just as Sacks was dying, he urged Weschler to take up the project once again. This book is the result of that entreaty. Weschler sets Sackss brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sackss capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment that failed to address his greatest concern: the spontaneous specificity of the individual human soul. And all the while he is pouring out a stream of glorious, ribald, hilarious, and often profound conversation that establishes him as one of the great talkers of the age. Here is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist, a self-described clinical ontologist whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? Which is to say, How do you be? A question which Weschler, with this book, turns back on the good doctor himself.- Shop: buecher
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The Reluctant Highland Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 61min
The only thing worse than not loving another person is to love and not being loved in return. Mr. and Mrs. MacGillivray,” A fierce looking woman stood across from a middle aged couple. Off to the side sat a little boy, arms crossed over his chest and with a bloody nose. “This is the third time since the last harvest that yer son has skelped another laddie from the clan.” She kicked a pebble away and looked at them sadly. “If he disnae start shaping up, we will need to take mair action as he is causing a disruption amongst the clan. And sending him away from the fields every time as punishment slows down oor work.” “The other laddie started it!” The little boy piped up angrily. “I was only defending myself, why am I the only one tae get punished every time!?” “He will be dealt with, Nicholas.” The woman looked at the boy with his rumpled tunic and ruffled red hair. “Never as badly as I am, though.” He grumbled whilst pouting and slouching unhappily with an audible sigh. “Nicholas,” Mrs. MacGillivray looked at him. “Stand up straight, and we will discuss this when ye get hame.” “How long will he be sent away from the fields this time?” Mr. MacGillivray asked, taking his wife’s hand in his.“Until the next full moon. And he is expected to do an apology to the laddie he skelped.” The woman folded her arms and sighed. “It seems a lang time, but yer son did quite a bit of damage to the other laddie. He will have a black eye, do ye ken?” “And him almost breaking my nose is normal?” Nicholas piped up again frustrated, “Och, ye arenae playing favorites.” “Nicholas!” His father gave his son a stern look. “Dinnae make things worse for yerself. If ye cannae say anything nice, then dinnae say anything at all.” “Yer supposed to be on my side,” Nicholas pouted while looking down at his bare feet once more. “And ye are supposed to honor yer faither and mother.” “Time to go hame, Nicholas,” his mother said a fe ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kitty Welles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164384/bk_acx0_164384_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Missing: Gone but Not Forgotten , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 242min
Based on an actual abduction that has never been solved, filled with drugs, violence, and lies. Missing - Gone but Not Forgotten is about the abduction of a little girl in a rural Florida community. Drugs, family feuds, underage sex, and lots of lies abound. Since this is a fictionalized version, my biggest challenge is to keep it exciting and still true to the real life case upon which the story is based. Excerpt: Jon unsnapped his gun from its holster but didn’t remove it. Clair reached toward the Colt Official Police Pistol strapped at small of her back and nodded at her partner to let him know she was ready and prepared for anything. Jon rapped hard on the door, “Sheriff's Department responding to your call. Please open the door.” When the trailer became silent and the door swung open, Clair's first thought was this was another child in the family. The person standing in the doorway was about five foot three or four, thin to the point of emaciated, with long brown hair straggling in her face. She was wearing a rumpled tee and a pair of skinny jeans and tennis shoes. Her large blue eyes with a totally blank expression gave the only hint that this was 17 year old Autumn Daily, the person reporting the missing child. She looked like she was stoned out of her mind on some strong chemicals. Behind her loomed a man a bit over six foot in his mid-20s. He had dark short hair, a small mustache, and weighing about 160 with enough muscle to take on either detective. His knuckles were bloody as if he had been punching something, or someone. He clarified that by slamming his fist into the trailer's side. “It's about damn time you get here. Some fucker took my daughter! If I find ‘em, I'll kill 'em so you better get them first.” “Calm down, Mr. Shatner. We're going to find whoever took your daughter but we need some background...." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/220926/bk_acx0_220926_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Darwin & Australia's Northern Territory: Travel Adventures , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 568min
Following are a few brief excerpts from this guide, written by a lifelong resident of Australia. She covers everything you might want to know about this part of Australia - guaranteed! The places to stay, from budget to luxury, rentals to B&Bs; the restaurants, from fast food to the highest quality; the beachwalks and bushwalks; the wildlife and how to see it; exploring the country by air, on water, by bike, and every other way. Australia's Northern Territory is a vast land of contrasts, stretching from the beautiful reefs and tropical rainforests at the very top of the country down through the amber deserts and dusty golden plains of the Red Centre. In the north the land is edged by a melding of languid mangrove swamps and smooth white beaches. Brilliant corals spread out beneath the waters, lining coves split by wide brown estuaries. Rivers snake from the coast down through thick woodlands and deep canyons, dwindling in width as they reach the drier plains. Here, the north Australian Outback is the true, endless Land of the Never Never, so famously coined by author Jeannie Gunn in her We of the Never Never novel of Outback station life. Quite simply, those who live here or who have stumbled across the fascination of its true beauty can never, never leave it. Halfway down through the territory are the great, ochre-colored deserts, where the fine, red earth is splashed with random thatches of spiny grass and clusters of rough-chiseled boulders. All you can see to the horizon at noon is blood-red earth and pale blue sky, the vast expanse only interrupted by the low, green-gold peaks of the MacDonnell Ranges at the far southern edge of the region. Their rumpled slopes hide pockets of waterholes and huge, shallow lakes, all of which erupt with animal activity after the rains. Near the base of the territory, near the border of South Australia, is the great red monolith of Uluru, the country's most famous sight, which pushed up through the surface millions of y ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kay Nazarchyk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032400/bk_acx0_032400_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rumpled Rhett (Once Upon a Duchy #3)
Rumpled Rhett (Once Upon a Duchy #3): ab 3.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Columbo: Mystery Movie Collection 1991-2003
Peter Falk is back in all his rumpled, trenchcoatwearing glory as Police Lieutenant Columbo in 13 captivating TV movies that aired between 1991-2003, including Falk's last appearance as TV's greatest sleuth! Join the five-time Primetime Emmy winner for "just one more thing" as he goes after sure-footed suspects with his offbeat wit, wily charm and dogged persistence. Featuring an all-star roster including Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde), Little Richard, Rip Torn (Men in Black), Rue McClanahan (The Golden Girls), George Wendt (Cheers), and William Shatner (Star Trek), this six-disc collection is one no mystery fan should be without!- Shop: odax
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