39 Results for : repugnant
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Losing Beck: A Triptych , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 669min
Losing Beck is the story of Jennie Silver, who is trying to get over a man who was greatly influenced by the renowned Hungarian emigré novelist Avigdor Element. Spanning 100 years of history from when Nijinsky danced “The Afternoon of the Faun” in Paris in 1912, through World Wars I and II, to very close to the present, Jennie keeps a diary, writes a play and a novella in her attempt to control her desperate, high-pitched emotions focused on a man she is uncontrollably drawn to and at the same time finds repugnant. A man who is one of the keepers and part of the legacy of Element’s bad behavior. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Beth Garber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157344/bk_acx0_157344_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Here Lies Buried: Pilar Sagasta Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min
Pilar Sagasta steps into a world of mystery and intrigue when she travels to Arizona to connect with distant relatives.This contemporary murder mystery reaches back to the perilous times of the early 20th century that changed the world's political landscape. The story, brimming with memorable characters and haunting historical details, travels back and forth between the familiar, modern world and an early 20th-century Arizona brought startlingly to life by the words in a forgotten diary.Inspired by actual unsolved crimes in the Arizona Territory of the late 19th century, Here Lies Buried from Cathy Ann Rogers is a novel that carries listeners along with suspense and historical events both repugnant and intriguing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Whitney Dykhouse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215246/bk_acx0_215246_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lost Hearts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 24min
Mr. Abney, the owner of Aswarby, a tall, square, red-brick mansion built in the reign of Anne, proved himself to be a very evil man. No one knew more of the religious beliefs of the later pagans than did the owner of Aswarby. He performed hideous experiments on such persons as could conveniently be removed without occasioning a gap in society. The final "victim" - to employ a word repugnant in the highest degree to his feelings - must be his cousin, Stephen Elliott, a 12-year-old orphan. Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti. Snuggle up by the fire, turn down the lights, and prepare to visit the evil Aswarby estate ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Vendetti. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001283/bk_mike_001283_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Secret Sins of Lizzy Barton , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 378min, (USK 18)
Although she doesn’t know it, the lovely Lizzy Barton is falling in love with the dashing William Addison... and him with her. Their sparring relationship is an explosion waiting to happen. That is, until the villainous Jonathan Pierce discovers this simple maid’s damning secret past. As a member of the infamous Braided Whip, Jonathan has been looking for the right female property to own, to marry and to present to his secret society. To save herself and her sister, she is forced to marry this cunning scoundrel. Although Lizzy is repulsed by her husband’s repugnant sexual demands, he has awakened mysterious sexual forces in her being that seem to require satisfaction. And once locked inside this brutal marriage, Lizzy is certain that any chance of having the man she loves is doomed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Reid. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/marz/000001/bk_marz_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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All Right Now: A Short Zombie Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 131min
How can you sneak past a horde of the dead with a screaming baby? The day Charlie Macomber is born is the first day of the zombie apocalypse. When the hospital in Harrington, Indiana is overrun by reanimated corpses, Charlie's dad must carry his son through the walking dead to safety. But when zombies roam the earth, can anyplace be safe? A companion novella to All Together Now: A Zombie Story, All Right Now: A Short Zombie Story features familiar characters and sets the stage for the novel. WARNING: This novella is mean and nasty and intended for a mature audience. It is absolutely not appropriate for younger readers. All Right Now: A Short Zombie Story is a gruesome, repugnant tale featuring horrific acts of violence sure to warp young minds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dwayne Colbert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026040/bk_acx0_026040_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Unprintable: A Booklover's Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 739min
It is possibly the most repugnant piece of fiction in all of England. So why is Plumtree Press, one of the country's most respectable publishing houses, about to add the hotly controversial new novel to its list? Publisher Alex Plumtree isn't talking. Hardly anyone knows he has taken on the project as a favor to the Prime Minister. Forget the bad press and hateful reviews. Alex swiftly finds himself on the wrong side of a lawsuit, bugged, betrayed, roughed up, and implicated in murder. Suddenly Alex doesn't know who to trust. For someone is clearly determined to stop the presses at any cost. The only thing Alex does know for certain is that going to press with this book may cost him more than just his reputation...it may cost him his life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Neenan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015140/bk_adbl_015140_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Brighter Days Ahead , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 702min
Brighter Days Ahead is a moving story set against the backdrop of the Second World War, from Mary Wood, the author of In Their Mother's Footsteps. War pulled them apart, but can it bring them back together? Molly lives with her repugnant father, who has betrayed her many times. From a young age, living on the streets of London's East End, she has seen the harsh realities of life.... When she's kidnapped by a gang and forced into their underworld, her future seems bleak. Flo spent her early years in an orphanage and is about to turn her hand to teacher training. When a kindly teacher at her school approaches her about a job at Bletchley Park, it could be everything she never knew she wanted. Will the girls' friendship be enough to weather the hard times ahead? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Annie Aldington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001217/bk_macm_001217_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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All Together Now: A Zombie Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 317min
Yea though we perish, yea though we die, we'll all be together in the sweet by and by...Fifteen-year-old Ricky Genero is writing a journal of the zombie apocalypse. His high school has burned to the ground, his friends are all either dead or shambling corpses roaming the earth in search of human flesh, and his best friend died saving his six-year-old brother Chuck from a zombie horde. When Chuck is bitten and infected with the zombie virus, Ricky must travel among the walking dead in search of a cure.WARNING: This YOUNG ADULT novel is mean and nasty and intended for a mature audience. It is absolutely not appropriate for younger readers. All Together Now: A Zombie Story is a gruesome, repugnant tale featuring horrific acts of violence sure to warp young minds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Radtke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/024353/bk_acx0_024353_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Of Monsters and Madness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 361min
A romantic historical retelling of classic Gothic horror featuring Edgar Allan Poe and his character Annabel Lee, from a New York Times best-selling author. Annabel Lee is summoned from Siam to live with her father in 1820's Philadelphia shortly after her mother's death, but an unconventional upbringing makes her repugnant to her angry, secretive father. Annabel becomes infatuated with her father's assistant Allan, who dabbles in writing when he's not helping with medical advancements. But in darker hours, when she's not to be roaming the house, she encounters the devilish assistant Edgar, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Allan, and who others insist doesn't exist.A rash of murders across Philadelphia, coupled with her father's strange behavior, leads Annabel to satisfy her curiosity and uncover a terrible truth: Edgar and Allan are two halves of the same person - and they are about to make the crimes detailed in Allan's stories come to life. Unless Annabel stops them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brittany Pressley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012000/bk_adbl_012000_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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King, Queen, Knave , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed. One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Lane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/002579/bk_brll_002579_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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