31 Results for : scrubbed

  • Thumbnail
    A Dangerous Goodbye: A Fen Churche Mystery, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 556min
    Your lost love never came home after the war. Would you risk everything to find out what happened to him?  The year 1944. While war rages in Europe, Fenella Churche is doing her bit in the green fields of England. But when she finds a letter addressed to her on the scrubbed farmhouse table, she knows the news won’t be good. She hasn’t heard from her fiancé, Arthur, since he was posted to France on a dangerous undercover mission, and from his very first words she knows he may not be coming back. I fear this may be my last letter to you, my darling, Arthur writes. Fen won’t give up hope and calls the war office, wanting to know if Arthur is still alive; they refuse to tell her anything. Searching for answers, she returns to his letter, but parts of it just don’t make sense. Through her tears Fen realizes that her darling Arthur is giving her all the clues she needs to find out what happened to him. The year 1945. With the war behind them and nothing left for her in England, Fen travels to the deceptively pretty French village where she thinks Arthur might be, but there’s no sign of him. She’s close to giving up when she finds his silver cigarette case and another letter full of clues. But when the local priest is killed, it’s clear someone wants to keep wartime secrets buried. If Arthur, a brilliant spy, was outwitted and betrayed, can Fen stay alive long enough to find out what happened to the man she loves? A gripping story of war, mystery, espionage, and murder. Fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Rhys Bowen will absolutely adore this World War Two murder mystery.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Naomi Frederick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211048/bk_acx0_211048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    STARGATE SG-1 Heart's Desire (eBook, ePUB)
    All that glitters...Colonel Jack O'Neill wants a relaxing mission for SG-1 as they recover from Sha're's death at the hands of Teal'c and the horrors of Sokar's prison world of Ne'tu. The trade negotiations on Saday look like just the ticket - until the pirates show up.Captured by rival bands of treasure hunters in search of the mythical Heart's Desire, the team must fight to stay alive and to find each other among the vast mountains and ravines of a world where pirates captain airships and down is a very long way indeed.But SG-1 have deeper battles to fight. In the wake of his wife's death, Daniel Jackson strives to rebuild his friendship with Teal'c while Major Carter struggles to accept the legacy of Jolinar's memories... Heart's Desire"What happened?"Jack squinted, blinking through watering eyes to try to see if there was any obvious damage. He couldn't see any, although the upper side of the canopy was out of view. Still, the canopy didn't seem to be deforming as he thought it would be if the lightning strike had ripped through its canvas."I think we just found out that we do have lightning rods!"Carter's voice rose a notch. "Did we get hit by lightning?""Fix the drive!""I'm trying!"Jack's numb hands were slipping on the steering column, the metal slick with ice. He spared a glance down under his feet, and then let himself slide, finding his footing on the underside of the canopy. He scrubbed snow out of his face with the back of his hand, but the icy glove wasn't much help.Anywhere that isn't hot for our next mission, he'd said after Ne'tu. Just send us anywhere that isn't hot."I take it back!" he yelled, but the wind whipped the words away.
    • Shop: buecher
    • Price: 3.99 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    The Pioneer Program: The History and Legacy of NASA's Unmanned Space Missions to the Outer Solar System , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 106min
    Today the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the Race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the Solar System. Moreover, the notion that America “won” the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit, as well as the major contributions the Space Race influenced in leading to today’s International Space Station and continued space exploration.Space exploration was always an expensive business, and throughout NASA’s history, the agency has had to justify to Congress its need for every dollar it intended to spend. This problem has helped NASA to be more careful and more creative with the money they did receive, and scientists had to justify the equipment they wanted to include on each space probe. They had to justify the size and the power demand, too. If they wanted too much, the entire mission might be scrubbed, and all their work would have been for naught. This made planning and designs leaner and more efficient, as scientists and engineers were more careful with their recommendations.At the same time, scientists have been repeatedly surprised by their discoveries. Some of those discoveries revealed the dangers of space, like the Van Allen radiation belt, dangerous to astronauts without the right kind of protection. NASA also discovered the massive radiation belt surrounding Jupiter thanks to the Pioneer probes in 1973 and 1974. Similarly, with the knowledge that Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has a thick atmosphere, later missions were sent to investigate the moon up close. Thus, the Huygens lander pierced the Titan atmosphere in January of 2005 to investigate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165352/bk_acx0_165352_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    NASA's Pioneer and Voyager Missions: The History and Legacy of the First Space Probes to Explore the Outer Solar System and Beyond , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 150min
    Today, the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 "winning" the race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the solar system. Moreover, the notion that America "won" the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit, as well as the major contributions the Space Race influenced in leading to today’s International Space Station and continued space exploration.Space exploration was always an expensive business, and throughout NASA’s history, the agency has had to justify to Congress its need for every dollar it intended to spend. This problem has helped NASA to be more careful and more creative with the money they did receive, and scientists had to justify the equipment they wanted to include on each space probe. They had to justify the size and the power demand, too. If they wanted too much, the entire mission might be scrubbed, and all their work would have been for naught. This made planning and designs leaner and more efficient, as scientists and engineers were more careful with their recommendations.At the same time, scientists have been repeatedly surprised by their discoveries. Some of those discoveries revealed the dangers of space, like the Van Allen radiation belt, dangerous to astronauts without the right kind of protection. NASA also discovered the massive radiation belt surrounding Jupiter thanks to the Pioneer probes in 1973 and 1974. Similarly, with the knowledge that Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has a thick atmosphere, later missions were sent to investigate the moon up close. Thus, the Huygens lander pierced the Titan atmosphere in January of 2005 to investigat ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165210/bk_acx0_165210_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Am I Coded? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 57min
    Lesbian romance, loving a man or a woman? Between achieving a firmer grasp on how to use HTML and CSS in conjunction, Latka went about the usual duties of her week. She went shopping, talked briefly with any friends she'd encounter around the local market (noticing more distinctly how most of what they had to say related to how well their husband was doing or how charming something he'd recently done had been), made a concerted effort to ensure that all of Yusef's shirts were scrubbed and made spotlessly clean, yet unless she served dinner to him slightly later than expected, or neglected to achieve some enforced duty to his complete satisfaction, they rarely shared more than a few words. But, as if by magic, Latka no longer felt any urge to resurrect the early phases of their courtship and try, in a way that she knew was futile, to understand how everything between them had become so despondent, and how, to Yusef, Latka increasingly seemed like more of a convenient utility, a mere robot to maintain order in the world surrounding him. In order to please her concerned mother, Latka agrees to marry Yusef. But, having given up the beginnings of a career and an independent life, Latka begins to feel increasingly trapped by her new husband, who isn't the sweet man he first appeared to be. To occupy her mind and do something that makes her feel accomplished and worthwhile, Latka has begun to learn about computer coding. On another lonely night, convinced that none of her friends will understand, she searches the internet to find a group called Ladies Can Code. At this group meeting, Latka comes into contact with an older woman. A mentor and an inspiration from the start, she will end up changing Latka's life forever. But will she ultimately have changed it for the better? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Valliere. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/064359/bk_acx0_064359_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 309min
    A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela's Ashes, of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood. This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel García Márquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of 30 years, and translated and introduced by acclaimed writer Daniel Alarcón, it describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Emma Reyes was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogotá with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by their mother, she and her sister moved to a Catholic convent housing 150 orphan girls, where they washed pots, ironed and mended laundry, scrubbed floors, cleaned bathrooms, sewed garments and decorative cloths for the nuns - and lived in fear of the devil. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, Emma escaped at age 19, eventually establishing a career as an artist and befriending the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as European artists and intellectuals. The portrait of her childhood that emerges from this clear-eyed account inspires awe at the stunning early life of a gifted writer whose talent remained hidden for far too long. For more than 70 years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Audiences trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marisol Ramirez, Daniel Alarcón. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003228/bk_peng_003228_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Masquerade: The Secret Library , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 393min, (USK 18)
    A collection of three erotic romance novellas. Part of The Secret Library series. "Masquerade" by Elizabeth Coldwell. Let go from her sales job, Summer Kerrigan finds new employment at her local bar. It’s nothing like her old routine, but there’s welcome compensation in the shape of her cute boss, Eddie Quinn. When Eddie’s sister, businesswoman Heather, turns up at the bar selling tickets for the fundraising Masquerade Ball, he claims Summer’s his new love. But if Heather’s going to buy the lie they’re really a couple, they have to attend the ball as a couple - and with champagne flowing, passions run high, and Eddie and Summer find themselves in bed together. The sex is mind-blowing, but is it simply the result of taking part in a charade? Can their sham love affair turn into the real thing, or is it all just a masquerade? "Seducing Mr Storm" by Poppy Summers. In the late 1700s, Susanna Seymour’s mother is very keen to find a husband for her younger sister, Lucy, while Susanna is considered on the shelf at 27. Enter their neighbour arrived from London, the dashing and irreverent Elijah Storm, who makes his admiration plain for Susanna from the start. Susanna is not looking for a husband and is keen to make sure Lucy bags the bachelor, but things don't go quite to plan. Elijah is frank in his desire to have Susanna’s sexual services, and she believes by giving him what he wants, he will lose all interest in her. The price of it is his agreement to marry her sister. But with passions ignited, what will happen when Susanna seduces Mr Storm "Freefalling" by Zara Stoneley. Falling in love has just been scrubbed off artist Hayley Tring’s to-do list. But when the gorgeous Tom Holah commissions a painting, keeping her mind on the job and her hand on a paintbrush becomes a whole new challenge. Tom needs to brighten up his corporate image, but after a lust-filled night with Hayley he wants more than just her pictures ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cleo Morrell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010973/bk_adbl_010973_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    One Part Human: An Obscure Magic, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 194min
    Forced into a one-week ride along with agents of the XIA, Benny tries to hide the fact that she isn’t quite human.Benny has lived her life in the shadows, avoiding the public eye. Her life as a recipe blogger pays the bills and lets her socialise, but she is about to get the assignment of a lifetime.Her boss orders her into a one-week ride-along with agents of the XIA, the eXtranormal Investigation Agency. It is the anniversary of the agency, and they need to improve their exposure with the general public.Against her objections, she is paired with a standard set of agents — a vampire, a shifter, and a fey. They are willing to work with her, and it is only when she signs the waivers that she learns why. They all read her column.A week doesn’t seem like much time to learn about an organisation that deals with things most folk don’t enjoy thinking about, but it whips past when the assignments go from casual crime to murders that have one pivot point. Benny.Excerpt:Benny hated assignment meetings. They were intolerable, as those selected for the lackluster jobs tried to squirm out of them. Today was no exception.“I don’t see why I am up for this particular assignment, Julian. Doing a week of ride-alongs with the XIA is not my idea of scintillating reporting. What am I going to do? Get stuck in a black van for a week?”The gathered reporters were all staring at her with amusement and relief that it wasn’t them.“Benny, you have basic magic senses and two years of mage studies at the university. You are the most capable of seeing if the XIA is actually worth the money we have put in over the last 50 years or if the anniversary is celebrating mediocrity.” Julian rubbed his green-scaled hands together. “Add to that the fact that you are human and it makes you the perfect foil to the extranatural officers that you will be dealing with.”Benny scrubbed her hands through her hair. “This isn’t a good idea. I ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicole Blessing. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/187921/bk_acx0_187921_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    The Business of Blood (A Fiona Mahoney Mystery, #1) (eBook, ePUB)
    "Heart-pounding mystery awaits the reader brave enough to crack Byrne's sinister cover. This series is everything… E. V. E. R. Y. T. H. I. N. G. BoB has a Ripper Street, Penny Dreadful, Frankenstein Chronicles vibe." - Whiskey & Wit Book Reviews London, 1890. Blood and death are Fiona Mahoney's trade, and business, as they say, is booming. Dying is the only thing people do with any regularity, and Fiona makes her indecorous living cleaning up after the corpses are carted away. Her childhood best friend, Mary, was the last known victim of Jack the Ripper. It's been two years since Fiona scrubbed Mary's blood from the floorboards, and London is no longer buzzing about the Ripper, but Fiona hasn't forgotten. And she hasn't stopped searching for Jack. When she's called to a murder in the middle of the night, Fiona finds a victim mutilated in an eerily similar fashion to those of the Ripper, and only a few doors down from Mary's old home. The relentless, overbearing, and irritatingly handsome Inspector Grayson Croft warns her away from the case. She might have listened, if she hadn't found a clue in the blood. A clue that will lead her down a path from which there is no return.As a killer cuts a devastating swath through London, a letter written in blood arrives at her door, and it is only then that Fiona realizes just how perilous her endeavor is. For she has drawn the attention of an obsessive evil, and is no longer the hunter, but the prey. Fiona Mahoney is in the business of blood. But she's not the only one...With intriguing twists, blood-chilling discoveries, and dazzling prose, USA Today Bestselling author Kerrigan Byrne proves a woman's work is never done, even when she is sleuthing out a serial killer. Read the Fiona Mahoney Mysteries in orderThe Business of BloodA Treacherous TradeA Vocation of Violence
    • Shop: buecher
    • Price: 8.99 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Meditations
    What IS a Zendo Tavern?', everyone asks. The lyrics came first, imagining monks, AWOL from DBZ monastery, going into town to hit the local zen tavern for beer and some shots - or tea, if it really was the Zendo Tavern. On the website, zendotavern.com, & on the back of the CD is a stage set - an idea of the Zendo Tavern - sparsely furnished, cushions on scrubbed wood floor at low tables. Dimly outlined in the shadows above the patron, who has thrown his happi coat over the rice paper screen, is a painting: a nude reclines odalisk-like she holds a book of Rousseau, a feather quill pen, an Opossum lurks on the back of the couch... a variation on the paintings in all the bars in movie saloons of the old west. The patron could be Asian or Western - alone, meditating, deep in his cups of tea, or vodka - or sake. A different kind of zazen. As the CD developed, we looked for a name for such a mixed band of musicians playing such a mixed bag of songs. A zendo is a refuge from the every day world - a place to confront one's self through zazen, meditation, alone or with others on a similar quest. And in a western sense, pubs or taverns are also places we go to find refuge - to meditate, to confront ourselves and others also searching, asking questions. Zendo Tavern, is a meeting of East and West both in the diversity of musicians, the music, and in the idea of all creatures seeking a refuge - the songs are meditations in the sense of thinking about 'just what the hell are we doing here on this planet'? Someone said, 'Ah, the zendo is the high road, and the tavern is the low road.' But this is not so - they are both ways to a path. Playing music with yiming, Jan and Phil was a refuge filled with gratitude and pleasure. Biff cuthbert Jan kalinowski, lead guitar - comes from Gniezno, Poland and was a founding member of the 'Prowizorka Jazz Band'. Prowizorka has won awards all over Europe, notably the Golden Washboard many times in Warsaw, and first place at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, the band has recorded many CDs of early Dixieland Jazz, as well as many jazz standards, Yiming Gao, violin- Fortunately for Zendo Tavern she can't find enough outlets for her talents. She has played violin for twenty five of her twenty eight years, graduated with degrees in pre-med & German at Johns Hopkins, plus violin at Peabody Conservatory. While obtaining her masters in violin at yale, she held a chair in the New Haven Symphony, and played with Orchestra New England, and organized several Chamber groups. Her classical form was first corrupted by playing and recording fiddle tunes from Prince Edward Island. She has just finished four years of medical studies and is now beginning her residency work, but she still plays in chamber groups and with Zendo Tavern. Phil Rosenthal, mandolin - is known for his children's series of folk music CDs, CDs of his own compositions of music and lyrics, and some twenty years as singer/song writer with the Seldom Scene bluegrass band and Bluegrass Union and the many CDs the bands produced. Phil's American Melody Studio being ten minutes away, and Phil being an accomplished musician and engineer all factored into making this CD possible in a very restricted time frame of eight weeks. Biff Cuthbert, guitar/vocals - ended his classical piano career at age fifteen and played ukelele for a year in Europe, mostly in Italy. His father took him to Wolf's in New York, age sixteen, and bought him a Drake guitar, in 1971 shortly after college, he bought a Gallagher D-70. He counts Irving Berlin,Fats Waller,Tin Pan Alley, Roberto Murolo,Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Johnson & Lucille Bogan, Mississippi John Hurt, Scott Joplin,Dave Van Ronk, Paul Siebel,Doc Watson, Leo Kottke, Lyle Lovett, Mickey MacConnell as influences. This CD is a resolution of forty years of musical narrative.
    • Shop: odax
    • Price: 20.41 EUR excl. shipping

Similar searches: