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Never a Bride: A Sweet "Pride & Prejudice" Variation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 151min

She is resolved to never be a bride, but she has no objection to being a mistress...Dragging along a reluctant Lydia due to her scandalous behavior with a certain redcoat, Lizzy arrives at Hunsford to reunite with Charlotte. To her displeasure, she discovers Mr. Darcy is visiting his aunt at Rosings Park, and their stays overlap. At first, acrimony remains between them, but as the days pass, she starts to soften toward him.Lydia and Georgiana unexpectedly become close friends, and when Lydia is invited to stay with them at Darcy House, Lizzy can scarcely refuse to act as Lydia’s chaperone. While in London, Fitzwilliam reveals the true depths of his affections and proposes.Lizzy is adamantly against marriage and determined to be never a bride, but a mistress is an entirely different matter. Her counterproposal shocks him, but Lizzy has means of persuading him. She is content as they are, until they are compromised and forced to marry.Convinced he contrived the matter to leg-shackle her, Lizzy is determined to ensure their marriage is a battleground. Can her pride ever yield, or is she too stubborn to see beyond her perceptions to the truth and grasp a chance at happiness?The events follow the timeline of the original by Jane Austen until Hunsford with only a slight modification. After that, the plot diverges greatly. Note: While Abbey sometimes writes sensual JAFF, this is mostly sweet, with a few instances of suggestion and moments that fade to black. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214923/bk_acx0_214923_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mad Blood Stirring , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 757min

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Mad Blood Stirring by Simon Mayo, read by Rhashan Stone. 1815: The war is over, but for the inmates at Dartmoor Prison, peace - like home - is still a long way away. On the eve of the year 1815, the American sailors of the Eagle finally arrive at Dartmoor prison, bedraggled, exhausted but burning with hope. They’ve had only one thing to sustain them - a snatched whisper overheard along the way. The war is over. Joe Hill thought he’d left the war outside these walls, but it’s quickly clear that there’s a different type of fight to be had within. The seven prison blocks surrounding him have been segregated: six white and one black. As his voice rings out across the courtyard, announcing the peace, the redcoat guards bristle, and the inmates stir. The powder keg was already fixed to blow, and Joe has just lit the fuse. Elizabeth Shortland, wife of the Governor, looks down at the swirling crowd from the window of her own personal prison. The peace means the end is near, that she needn’t be here forever. But suddenly she cannot bear the thought of leaving. Inspired by a true story, Mad Blood Stirring tells of a few frantic months in the suffocating atmosphere of a prison awaiting liberation. It is a story of hope and freedom, of loss and suffering. It is a story about how sometimes, in our darkest hour, it can be the most unlikely of things that see us through. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rhashan Stone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/003608/bk_rhuk_003608_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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No Turning Point: The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective: Campaigns and Commanders Series, Book 32 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1015min

The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 ended with British general John Burgoyne’s troops surrendering to the American rebel army commanded by General Horatio Gates. Historians have long seen Burgoyne’s defeat as a turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced France to join the war on the side of the colonies, thus ensuring American victory. But that traditional view of Saratoga overlooks the complexity of the situation on the ground.Setting the battle in its social and political context, Theodore Corbett examines Saratoga and its aftermath as part of ongoing conflicts among the settlers of the Hudson and Champlain valleys of New York, Canada, and Vermont. This long, more local view reveals that the American victory actually resolved very little. In transcending traditional military history, Corbett examines the roles not only of enlisted Patriot and Redcoat soldiers but also of landowners, tenant farmers, townspeople, American Indians, Loyalists, and African Americans. He begins the story in the 1760s, when the first large influx of white settlers arrived in the New York and New England backcountry. Ethnic and religious strife marked relations among the colonists from the outset. Conflicting claims issued by New York and New Hampshire to the area that eventually became Vermont turned the skirmishes into a veritable civil war. These pre-Revolution conflicts - which determined allegiances during the Revolution - were not affected by the military outcome of the Battle of Saratoga.The book is published by University of Oklahoma Press.Praise for the book:"There is no study to match No Turning Point, whether for its social precision or for its military account." (Edward Countryman, author of A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760–1790) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scot Wilcox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184153/bk_acx0_184153_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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