87 Results for : laughable
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They Come at Midnight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 286min
By the light of day, the world seems pleasant and safe. We tell ourselves we are the top of the life chain, the ultimate evolved species. When the sun sets and menacing eyes open, the lie is over. Our laughable dominance over the earth fades behind the veil of night. Beneath quiet and gloomy skies, rotten fingers claw upward from the cold ground. Coffin lids squeal. The lunatics in dank cells cackle the hymns of hell. Torturous nightmares rage in innocent minds devouring hope and sanity. Blades of vengeance harvest false justice among the guiltless. And the claws of forgotten beasts kill without reason. They Come at Midnight...to feed...and to bring us to our knees in serve to their dark masters. At the final toll of the bell, the wicked hunt begins, and there is no hope for our survival. Everette Bell brings us twelve tales of screaming terror in the tradition of scratchy radio dramas, black and white drive-in movies, and low budget video cassettes. Feel the breath of death on your neck as you read the tolling tales of the midnight hour of doom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Wehrlen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004921/bk_acx0_004921_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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New Tricks for Old Dogs: 28 Laughable Lessons for People Too Stiff to Change or Bend or Move , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 439min
With age comes wisdom. We become wise enough to realize that we can't do some of the things we did so well when we were young. The beloved comedian George Burns said it quite eloquently, "I can do anything at 80 that I could do when I was 20. That gives you an idea of what terrible shape I was in at 20." Self-help books offer solid, beneficial techniques, but they really only work for the young. Award-winning comedy writer Gene Perret reveals that more mature devotees must adjust these techniques, tweak them, alter them, and in some cases, ignore them completely. New Tricks for Old Dogs points out some of the flaws in the self-help philosophy. It tempers the advice with common sense. The battle cry of this volume is do it, but don't overdo it. Sometimes, after we reach a certain age, the best exercise program is a good, brisk nap. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marlin May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059293/bk_acx0_059293_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Poor Advice and Other Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 366min
An awful poet, dumped by his girlfriend, roams through Italy, where he clearly doesn't belong; an oil delivery man falls in love with a clumsy woman and becomes even clumsier than she is; and a six-year-old and his father kill over 200 flies at a horse farm while the father wonders about life and death. Poor Advice and Other Stories, with its mix of the serious and the absurd, reveals Lou Gaglia's humor, imagination, and range. A man avoids paying a World Series bet to a dying old woman; a vindictive whale chases after movie stars; and a man is jealous of his brother-in-law's ventriloquist dummy. Find these stories and many others in Mr. Gaglia's debut book. Lou Gaglia puts the entertainment back in literary fiction. Many of his characters seem laughable and misguided in their fumbling ways, but the listener will come to love them for their heart-warming innocence. You will laugh, you will cry, but mostly you will go away remembering his vivid characters, his spot-on dialogue, and his varying modes of conveying the stories in this unique collection, all of which reflect the talents of an outstanding fiction writer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Blizin, Cheryl Blizin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049094/bk_acx0_049094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Four Fingers of Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1668min
Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, "The Crawling Hand." Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues. Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. In the ensuing days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its breaking point, economically and culturally--a dystopia of lowlife, emigration from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives. The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Patton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002631/bk_adbl_002631_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Book Of Anecdotes And Budget Of Fun
The Book Of Anecdotes And Budget Of Fun ab 19.49 € als Taschenbuch: Containing A Collection Of Over One Thousand Of The Most Laughable Sayings And Jokes Of Celebrated Wits And Humorists.. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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Order and Anarchy: The Thin Blue Line Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min
Homeland Security investigators Felix Jbarra and Pope Dades are about to work their first big case as partners. Someone is creating counterfeit government documents and selling them through a site similar to the old Silk Road which was shut down years ago. As they dive into the case with the help of their friends at the FBI and LAPD, Felix and Pope realize the dark website is selling more than documents. It’s selling death. When a man connected with the website turns up murdered, it’s all hands on deck, and with so many letter agencies involved in this case, coordinating all parties is bound to be a challenge. When yet another agency unexpectedly gets involved, their bosses would find it laughable if it wasn’t so damned dangerous.Felix and Pope are getting used to being partners, but they are well-trained professionals who must learn to trust each other at work as well as at home. When a bomb almost kills them, they have no choice but to shorten that learning curve. From the mean streets of Hollywood to unfamiliar places on the dark net, our heroes put themselves in danger every moment, trying their best to protect innocents while keeping each other alive. Order and Anarchy also contains an exciting excerpt from the third book in the series, Crime and Chaos! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Pauley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/174509/bk_acx0_174509_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dare to Dream: Agent Max, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min
He could see his wife eyes wide and her face etched with confusion, worry and fright while her hair resembled a tumbleweed. Her knuckles had gone white from clutching a small parcel of clothes and other belongings to her chest. She sat very still in the passenger seat with her knees so close to her body that she was almost curled into the fetal position. If it wasn't for the dire nature of the situation, he could find her disposition laughable. Max glanced into the rear-view mirror to check on the children. Their faces almost mirrored their mothers except Joshua kept looking back nervously as though he expected the car to be descended on by murderous agents at any moment. Esther on the other hand was biting her nails with such vigor that she was likely to be biting through the bone soon. Now that they know and have experienced the dark side to his alternate world, Max had long ago prepared for this kind of situation but his family were innocent to a life where this kind of plan would even be necessary. As he sped down the expressway to his safe house, Max knew that his family would never be the same again. This is not how he intended to spend his Friday night. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher James Young. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023812/bk_acx0_023812_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beguiling , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 88min, (USK 18)
If an investigative mastermind, envied by all men and desired by all women, finally meets his match... oh, what a gratifying way to go!Robert O'Connor is a unique man, an expert at reading people who works alone and finds the ways of others most often completely laughable and definitely worthy of his contempt, especially those who pay him exorbitantly to solve any variety of the "problems" they tend to repeatedly get themselves into. Being a genius among men has its perks, especially when it comes to women; and O'Connor enjoys those thoroughly.Hired by the CEO of an international corporation to locate - and possibly cover up - a group of visiting foreign businessmen who suddenly disappeared, O'Connor is all business, commands absolute respect, and applies his keen, finely honed mind that all men envy. He's all work and no play until his work inherently requires him to uncover the mystery of the disappeared men through interactions with beautiful, alluring women, each holding a key leading O'Connor closer to delivering the results his client has paid him so handsomely for. As a true connoisseur and lover of women, O'Connor thoroughly enjoys where this particular investigation leads him, even as his sensual adventures and path of investigation direct him toward the most seductive female of all, the one with otherworldly appeal. Even Robert O'Connor can't possibly realize the true desires and intentions of this immanently beguiling femme fatale until it's much too late. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gomez Pugh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128041/bk_acx0_128041_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Learn English with Short Stories: Fantasy, Section 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 62min
Get ready for another set of exciting fantasy tales that will both entertain and educate the English learner. The Learn English with Short Stories series does not need to be read in order, as all of the stories are independent from one another. Read one, or read them all. Each unique fantasy story comes with highlighted vocabulary and definitions before and during the story. This guide also offers vocabulary exercises after each tale, allowing you to practice your newly learned terms and idioms. "The Witch and the Warrior": In a land devastated by a raging beast, Anandra is one village's last hope. Driven by honor and courage, she challenges the fiery dragon's reign over the town. Anandra's realization that the dragon is much more powerful than anything she's encountered leads her to find alliances in the most unexpected places in an effort to free the village from their daily torment. Her quest shows her just how far some are willing to go for the sake of humanity. "Enchanted Globe": James has never been the ambitious type - although, in his heart, he's always known he's meant for something better than his family's pawn shop. When a mysteriously unique globe is pawned at his shop, the instructions given along with it were almost laughable. Spin the globe and visit that location for 24 hours, the elderly man had told him. It was ridiculous to James - until it actually worked. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Scholl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/009080/bk_acx0_009080_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bottled & Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 480min
Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius", and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don't the rest of us? Bottled & Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last 100 years - and why we are poorer for it. It's a big story and water is big business. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of water, and every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. That adds up to more than 30 billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars of sales. Are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles? With a scientist's eye and a natural storyteller's wit, Gleick investigates whether industry claims about the relative safety, convenience, and taste of bottled versus tap hold water. And he exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities. "Designer" H2O may be laughable, but the debate over commodifying water is deadly serious. It comes down to society's choices about human rights, the role of government and free markets, the importance of being "green", and fundamental values. Gleick gets to the heart of the bottled water craze, exploring what it means for us to bottle and sell our most basic necessity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen McLaughlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014262/bk_adbl_014262_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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