54 Results for : perfidy
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The History Of The Wars Of New-England With The Eaftern Indians
The History Of The Wars Of New-England With The Eaftern Indians ab 49.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Or A Narrative Of Their Continued Perfidy And Cruelty (LARGE PRINT EDITION). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,- Shop: hugendubel
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Promises to Keep: After the EMP: Disruption Trilogy Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 853min
In this thrilling final chapter of The Disruption Trilogy, R. E. McDermott once again transports us to a frighteningly realistic post-apocalyptic world of chaos and uncommon courage, and of both hope and despair. When a massive solar storm takes down the power grid, all order collapses with civilization kept alive only by scattered pockets of survivors who find themselves not only short of critical resources, but facing an unexpected enemy - what's left of their own government. Survivor resistance stiffens as an increasingly corrupt and tyrannical president clamps down on dissent and seeks to eliminate anyone who might expose his perfidy. With both the defenders of Fort Box in what's left of Wilmington, North Carolina, and the people of the ship Pecos Trader in southeast Texas facing uncertain futures, a resourceful and elusive George Anderson leads government forces on a wild goose chase along the Appalachian Trail, but the future looks grim. Only one man has the credibility and the stature to turn the situation around and fulfill a promise to himself - and the nation. Simon Tremble, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the last lawmaker not under control of the corrupt president, climbs out of his hidden hollow and starts south along the Appalachian Trail. He has promises to keep. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/097814/bk_acx0_097814_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Other Daughter: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 639min
Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died suddenly. Grief stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage...and finds a cutting from a London society magazine, with a photograph of her supposedly deceased father dated all of three month before. He's an earl, respected and influential, and he is standing with another daughter - his legitimate daughter. Which makes Rachel...not legitimate. Everything she thought she knew about herself and her past - even her very name - is a lie. Still reeling from the death of her mother and furious at this betrayal, Rachel sets herself up in London under a new identity. There she insinuates herself into the partygoing crowd of Bright Young Things, with a steely determination to unveil her father's perfidy and bring his - and her half sister's - charmed world crashing down. Very soon, however, Rachel faces two unexpected snags: She finds she genuinely likes her half-sister, Olivia, whose situation isn't as simple it appears; and she might just be falling for her sister's fiancé.... From Lauren Willig, author of the New York Times best-selling novel The Ashford Affair, comes The Other Daughter, an audiobook full of deceit, passion, and revenge. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicola Barber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001949/bk_aren_001949_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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What Is Left the Daughter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min
Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country’s finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books—The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L—in this erotically charged and morally complex story. Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges—the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and ravishing cousin Tilda. Setting in motion the novel’s chain of life-altering passions, and the wartime perfidy at its core, is the arrival of German student Hans Mohring, carrying only a satchel. Actual historical incidents—including a German U-boat’s sinking of the Nova Scotia–Newfoundland ferry Caribou, on which Aunt Constance Hillyer might or might not be traveling—lend intense narrative power to Norman’s uncannily layered story. Wyatt’s account of the astonishing events leading up to his fathering of a beloved daughter spills out 21 years later. It’s a confession that speaks profoundly of the mysteries of human character in wartime and is directed, with both despair and hope, to an audience of one. An utterly stirring novel, this is Howard Norman at his celebrated best. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003854/bk_blak_003854_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Perfidy & Promises: A Pride & Prejudice Variation Mystery Romance (Crime & Courtship, #5) (eBook, ePUB)
Lizzy and her family arrive at Pemberley to allow Fitzwilliam a chance to court her. Things are off to a splendid start until Lady Catherine invites herself, and Caroline Bingley is clearly intent on causing trouble between ODC. Someone is targeting Fitzwilliam and Pemberley for harassment, but is it the same person who murders the stablemaster during Lizzy's stay? She and Darcy find themselves at odds over theories of the crime, but will that disagreement keep them from building a future together? This is part five of the completed five-book "Crime & Courtship" series. They are intended to be read in order and follow roughly the same timeline and locations as J.A.'s masterpiece. The first mystery takes place in Meryton. The next is at Netherfield, followed by Hunsford, then London, and finally Pemberley. The story arc continues throughout all five parts, compromising one long read broken into five sections. A mystery is central to each installment, so you could call this a cozy mystery sweet Regency romance. While Abbey sometimes writes sensual JAFF, this series is strictly SWEET.- Shop: buecher
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Australian Mythology: Captivating Dreamtime Stories of Indigenous Australians , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 184min
If you're looking for a captivating collection of Australian myths, then pay attention....With a history reaching back over 40,000 years, Indigenous Australian culture is one of the oldest continually existing cultures in the world. According to DNA tests conducted at the University of Copenhagen, Indigenous Australian people are the descendants of the first migrants to have left the birthplace of humanity in Africa, some 75,000 years ago. Across these many millennia, the Indigenous peoples of Australia have established complex and unique societies that have adapted well to the often harsh conditions of the Australian landscape. Although Indigenous Australian culture tends to be named as though it were a single unit, it is far from monolithic. According to the Australian government’s website, at the time of first contact with Europeans, there were some 500 distinct Indigenous nations inhabiting Australia, speaking different languages and following their own religious and cultural practices, with a certain amount of overlap across cultures. As with all human societies, that of the Indigenous Australians is abounding in stories. Stories of how the world came to be the way it is, stories of heroism and perfidy, stories about animals and birds, and stories about love and hate all have parts to play in the wide array of myths, legends, and tales created by Indigenous Australians. Australian Mythology: Captivating Dreamtime Stories of Indigenous Australians invites you to go on a startling journey and discover: Origin storiesMyths of gods, heroes, and monstersAnimal talesAnd much, much more!So if you want a captivating collection of Australian myths, click the “Add to Cart” button! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Reaves. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/191902/bk_acx0_191902_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tales for a Stormy Night: A Pandora's Box of Classic Chillers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 471min
It's midnight. Turn out the lights, cuddle with your true love, and shiver to fright-meisters Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. P. Lovecraft. Quicken your pulse with the elegant terror of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Guy de Maupassant. Chortle at the black glee of H. H. Munro and Ambrose Bierce. This volume of late-night listening is for lovers of mischief, the macabre, and literature. These 15 tales, plays, and poems, gleaned from cultures around the world, range from wickedly comic to deathly serious, from New England reserve to Gallic passion. We have even disinterred a previously unpublished tale of revenge by the neglected Bostonian Charlotte de Quincy, "Perfidy and Perfection." Befitting this varied fare, the presentation is a witch's brew of readings and dramatizations, seasoned tastefully, and (where appropriate) not so tastefully, with music and sound effects, under the direction of Yuri Rasovsky, Peabody and Audie Award-winning producer, and his coven of 20-odd (some very odd) performers. From Japan comes "Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi" by Lafcadio Hearn; from France, Maupassant's "The Horla"; from Eastern Europe, "Bonche the Silent" by I. L. Peretz; from Ireland, William Butler Yeats's one-act drama "Purgatory"; from Scotland, Stevenson's cadaverous "The Body Snatcher"; and from merry, or, in this case, morose, old England, Munro's catty "Tobermori", plus "Something Lies beyond the Scene" by Dame Edith Sitwell and composer William Walton. America is well represented by Poe's intoxicating "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"; Bierce's homage to lethal entrepreneurship, "Oil of Dog"; Lovecraft's necromantic "The Terrible Old Man"; and two tales of haunted real estate, "The Ghostly Rental" by James and "Kerfol" by Wharton. Shut your eyes and give your mind a listen, if you dare. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Full Cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000689/bk_blak_000689_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Revolt American Style: Fresh Start, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 565min
This political thriller has it all.Showcased by a full scale civil revolution, Revolt American Style is the first offering in a five-part series vividly describing severe change in the American way of life, change necessitated by decades of negligent and intentional misuse of federal power by leaders who were and are grossly incompetent; leaders who, from time to time, were and are guilty of treachery, treason, perfidy, and other high crimes and misdemeanors. Self-made expatriate billionaire Jet Taylor spearheads a strong-armed force of militia well on its way to resolution of every contemporary American problem. Standing directly in the juggernaut’s way is his daughter, Natalie Taylor, deputy director of the FBI. She will bring her father in, apprehend him, dead or alive. Failure is not an option, for Natalie or for the American nation.Every page of Revolt American Style is flush with creativity, irreverence, and accuracy. The plot ceaselessly twists and turns. It weaves a complex set of facts, introduced and developed by strong-minded, bold characters who believe in traditional American principles; characters who oppose the establishment, oppose the main-stream media and oppose the “deep state” of entrenched bureaucrats. This literary roller-coaster features massive civil unrest, international crime, treason, assassination, conspiracy, double crossing, drug dealing and bribery, along with doses of romance, sex, incest, and perversion. Americans are sad. Americans are angry. Americans are frustrated. The nation is permeated with disbelief and disappointment. The government is dysfunctional. It has little, if any, ability to identify and/or address profound issues and problems associated with basic governmental functions, such as immigration, national defense, health care, national debt, and partisanship, among others. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dick Doggett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130504/bk_acx0_130504_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Europe Under the Old Regime: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 180min
Behind the glittering facade of 18th century European civilization lurked some of the most brutal and cynical power brokers ever to practice the art of diplomacy, and ironically it was their blueprint for conquest that the French Revolution was to utilize so well. Europe Under the Old Regime is actually the preface to Sorel's tremendous and magnificently elaborate work, Europe and the French Revolution. In this brief introduction to his mighty history, Sorel gives us a sweeping and incisive understanding of the workings of court diplomacy as practiced from the time of Louis XIV up to the Revolution itself. It is an ugly picture of beautifully dressed women and gentlemen behaving in the most barbarous fashion, while doing so with grace and in a mannered style that was so brilliant and compelling that we can only wonder how they could carry out their perfidy and remain outwardly so cavalier. And yet, in the midst of sordid intrigue and heinous butchery, they did just that. Never in European history has such elaborate courtesy and refined behavior so thoroughly masked a vile intent. No one could be trusted. Thrones and kingdoms were partitioned and absorbed willy-nilly and their rulers sent packing...if they were lucky. Wars were frequent and horrible. Revenge, secret agreements, assassination: all in a day's work for an 18th century enlightened despot. When it came to "reasons of state", no kingdom was secure and no treaty sacrosanct. Diplomatic and military success were the only things that counted, and they were pursued with deadly zeal. This miniature masterpiece pierces the veil of 18th century manners and refinement to reveal the shocking truth of a "polite" aristocracy on the verge of self-immolation. Even after a hundred years, Europe Under the Old Regime remains one of the greatest historical essays ever written. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000033/bk_acon_000033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Poison and Perfidy
Poison and Perfidy - A Case for Brother Daniel: ab 1.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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