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Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 542min
A new deluxe edition of the international best seller by Heather O'Neill, the Giller-shortlisted author of Daydreams of Angels and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night. Featuring an original foreword from the author, this edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the coming-of-age story that People describes as "a vivid portrait of life on skid row." Baby, all of 13 years old, is lost in the gangly, coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father, Jules, is scarcely more than a child himself and is always on the lookout for his next score. Baby knows that "chocolate milk" is Jules' slang for heroin and sees a lot more of that in her house than the real article. But she takes vivid delight in the scrappy bits of happiness and beauty that find their way to her, and moves through the threat of the streets as if she's been choreographed in a dance. Soon, though, a hazard emerges that is bigger than even her hard-won survival skills can handle. Alphonse, the local pimp, has his eye on her for his new girl; he wants her body and soul - and what the johns don't take he covets for himself. At the same time, a tender and naively passionate friendship unfolds with a boy from her class at school, who has no notion of the dark claims on her - which even her father, lost on the nod, cannot totally ignore. Jules consigns her to a stint in juvie hall, and for the moment this perceived betrayal preserves Baby from terrible harm - but after that, her salvation has to be her own invention. Channeling the artlessly affecting voice of her 13-year-old heroine with extraordinary accuracy and power, Heather O'Neill's heartbreaking and wholly original debut novel blew readers away when it was first published 10 years ago. Now it is sure to capture its next decade of readers and listeners as Baby picks her pathway along the edge of the abyss to arrive at a place of rede ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Miriam McDonald, Heather O'Neill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005231/bk_harp_005231_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dead Calm, Bone Dry: Caribbean Chronicles, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 241min
Dead Calm, Bone Dry is a Directors' Choice FinalistWhat if you were forced to sail with pirates?Captured and tried for piracy.Then, sentenced to hang.Would you trade your body to the crew of the Flying Dutchman to save your soul?Ricky did.Some dead men do tell tales.And there is stolen treasure in this pirate story.Last winter, Ricky Bradshaw was another gangly freshman hoping to fit in - or at least not get picked on - and maybe catch the attention of Becky Nance, a girl in his biology class. Except, sometimes, Ricky "zones out" in class because he has absence seizures. If you've never heard of absence seizures, that's okay. A lot of people haven't. Ricky's teachers are a lot of those people.And that's what happened to Ricky last Christmas Eve: He had an episode and ended up in pirate land. When Dead Calm, Bone Dry begins, Ricky is on his way to be tried for piracy. In the ship's brig, he is about to learn that some things are worse than being unpopular in high school. Much worse. Like sailing to...well, we best let Ricky tell the account. It is his story, after all. Written for the General Market (G) (I): contains no sexual dialogue or strong language."Avast ye privateers and teen pirates! This book be a lubbers popular young adult book fer lads and boys ages, 10, 11, 12, 14, - oops I skipped 13 - 13, 15. Thems all the ages I kin count to. Yer will dance the hempen jig when ya set sail with this clean teen fiction series where tha poop deck be swabbed clean of all freebooters and scallywags. Jack Sparrow be a son of a biscuit eater if'n he don' enjoy this popular chapter books fer boys ages 10-12, 9-12 and thems that be in grades 7, 8, 10 - oops I skipped 9 - 9, 11, and...thems all the grades I know. Shiver me timbers; this be one fine popular action adventure, fantasy fiction series of books for boys who do not - er - don't like to read. Unless ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samuel Shoemaker-Trejo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228162/bk_acx0_228162_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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