41 Results for : unsympathetic
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Trailer Dogs: Life in America's New Middle Class: The Trailer Dog Chronicles, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 392min
Trailer Dogs is the profoundly profane, hysterically funny, yet often poignant, story of survival in today's near-extinct middle class. After losing their small business and life savings to the government's unfathomable shutdown, the author and her husband are forced to sell their home and move into a travel trailer. Still reeling from financial loss and the deaths of two of their beloved dogs, the pair embark on a new life in a trailer park, populated with some of the most unconventional characters you'd ever not hope to meet. There's Gretchen, the park's unsympathetic and conniving manager, and her puny, perverted husband, Lloyd, who "maintains" the park grounds and who gives pool algae a bad name. Daisy and Lonnie May are the author's closest neighbors, and are, perhaps, the park's most devoted couple. Only Daisy May happens to be Lonnie's dog. Trailer Dogs will make you laugh, cry, and maybe even a little angry. But it will never make you bored. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lyssa Graham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080665/bk_acx0_080665_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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All That Can Be Shaken , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 364min
All That Can Be Shaken is a moving true story of a family's struggle with a tragedy that shakes their lives and their faith. Essie's idyllic life is torn apart when her once joyful and exuberant husband, Stephen, is stricken with a deep depression. His suicidal tendencies force Essie to seek professional help. After shock treatment and a barrage of medications, Stephen becomes severely mentally ill, diagnosed as bi-polar and schizophrenic. Essie's story will take you through the horrors her family endures as they become prey to a society that is largely unsympathetic and unequipped to help. Yet there is One who is able to help Essie. And that One remains constant and faithful throughout the ordeal. After a series of trials and injustices and seeming defeat, faith arises from the ashes as the victor. Although the book's language is clean, some circumstances and events are for the adult listener. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Holly Ojeda. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/126844/bk_acx0_126844_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Vintage Tea Room 3: Changing Times and New Opportunities , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 90min
Marie has a decision to make - take the job in Copenhagen and move away from her family or give up on her dream of being at the top of the advertising industry. When Marie arrives back in Cirencester for her mother's wedding she can't wait to share the news of her new job with her twin sister, Jessica. To Marie’s surprise Jessica is less than enthusiastic and gives her reason to wonder if now is the right time for such a move. Marie does not want to burden her mum with news of her job or the reason she is having second thoughts. She confides in Adam, the temporary chef at the tea room. Despite being unsympathetic he may have the solution to her problem. The third book in the Vintage Tea Room series is a story of an ambitious young woman who wants to both progress in her career and remain close to her family. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nano Nagle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123273/bk_acx0_123273_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Edward the Rake , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 316min
These chapters in the life of Edward the Rake are dealt with frankly and light-heartedly. It is the story of a man who enjoyed himself and his indelicate advantages to the full, a penetrating and yet not unsympathetic portrait of the monarch and of the discreetly swinging social world that he created around him. John Pearson was born in 1930, and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history. He has worked on various newspapers, including the Economist, The Times, and The Sunday Times where for a time he wrote the Atticus column. After the success of his Life of Ian Fleming, he decamped with wife and family to Rome, where he lived for some years. Mr Pearson returned to England to research and write the life and times of the Kray brothers, and is now at work on a full-scale biography of the Sitwells. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Brenher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009300/bk_adbl_009300_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (5): '... and that's when it fell off in my hand.' , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 277min
Brilliantly funny, here is teenage-angst author Louise Rennison's fifth book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Louise is a star on the HarperCollins teenage list. 11.20 a.m. This is my fabulous life: the Sex God left for Whakatane last month and he has taken my heart with him. 11.25 a.m. Not literally of course otherwise there would be a big hole in my nunga-nungas. 11.28 a.m. And also I would be dead. Which quite frankly would be a blessing in disguise. 12.00 p.m. It is soooo boring being brokenhearted! ! But Georgia doesn't remain broken hearted for long: frequent snogging extravaganzas with old flame, Dave the Laugh, and the arrival of jelloid-knee-inducing Italian Stallion, Masimo, mean that Georgia has her work cut out to be the composed sex-kitten that she aspires to be. Follow Georgia's hilarious antics as she desperately muddles her way through teenage life and all that it entails: make-up disasters, rapidly expanding nunga-nungas, school - urgh, unsympathetic friends, highly embarrassing family (and pets) and, of course, boys. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Louise Rennison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000604/bk_hcuk_000604_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Narrowboat Girl, Hörbuch, Digital, 185min
Young Maryann Nelson is devastated at the loss of her beloved father. But worse is to come when her mother, Flo, sees an opportunity to better herself and her family in a marriage to the local undertaker, Norman Griffin. Though on the surface a caring family man, Norman is not at all what he seems, as Maryann and her sister, Sal, soon discover.Unable to turn to their unsympathetic mother for support, the girls are left alone with their harrowing secret. But for Sal it is too much to bear.The chance of a new life opens up for Maryann when she befriends Joel Bartholomew. Aboard his narrowboat, the Esther Jane, she finds herself falling in love with life on the canal as she is swept away from Birmingham and all her worries.But then Joel's feelings for Maryann begin to change, awakening all the old nightmares that she had thought long buried, and in panic and confusion she takes flight.The Narrowboat Girl is a testament to the overwhelming power of true love and its ability to overcome suffering. Language: English. Narrator: Frances Barber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000215/bk_macm_000215_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bernie Sanders and the Boundaries of Reform: Socialism in Burlington , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 671min
Today, Bernie Sanders is a household name, a wildly popular presidential candidate, and an icon for progressive Democrats in the US. But back in the 1980s, this “democratic socialist” - though some folks would prefer the term “social democrat” - was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, where his administration attempted radical reforms. Some efforts were successful, but when a waterfront deal failed, it was not due to Sanders' efforts; he would rather compromise and have a net gain than be an ideological purist. In his preface to this reissue of the 1990 book, Challenging the Boundaries of Reform, W. J. Conroy reflects on the recent legacy of Sanders, his agenda for America, and his appeal to young voters. His audiobook then looks back to identify Sanders’ experience in Burlington by examining several case studies that unfolded amid a conservative trend nationally, an unsympathetic state government, and a hostile city council.Ultimately, Conroy asks what lessons can be drawn from the case of Burlington that would aid the American left in a struggle to capture both government and civil society. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Roelofs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123569/bk_acx0_123569_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sword of Honour , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 649min
March 1814. Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American coast. War with the United States has not yet ended, but news of Napoleon's defeat and abdication has stunned a navy and a nation bled by years of European conflict. Victory has been the impossible dream, and now, for Bolitho, a vision of the future and a personal peace seems attainable. However, an unsympathetic Admiralty dispatches him to Malta. Is this appointment a compliment or a malicious ploy to keep Bolitho from the woman he loves and the freedom he craves? He cannot know, but the voice of duty speaks more insistently even than the voice of the heart, and in this familiar sea where both glory and tragedy have touched his life, Bolitho must confront the future, the renaissance of a hated tyrant and the fulfilment of destiny. Alexander Kent is the author of 28 acclaimed books featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in the course of a career spanning 45 years, he has written over 30 novels and two nonfiction books. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Jayston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017980/bk_adbl_017980_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Borderland: Black Acres, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 144min
Something is wrong with the Beacon estate.Kim and Julian try to adjust to their new home, but reminders of the previous owners are many. For Kim, it's difficult not to fixate on the mysterious disappearance of the house's last tenants and she quickly grows obsessed with learning more about them. All the while, the house's quirks and flaws become more than just an annoyance. They're becoming frightening.The strange door in the basement, which had been wallpapered over so as to keep it hidden, has opened of its own accord. The dead woods outside, though barren of animal life, seem to come alive at night with curious, masked onlookers. Kim feels like she's losing her mind, and Julian is unsympathetic. What is it that ails her? Is the stress of the move merely wreaking havoc on her mind, or is she being plagued by something more sinister?Kim begins to gather clues, digs deep to find answers to the questions that keep her up at night. The more she pieces things together however, the less she wishes she knew.The Borderland is the second novella in the Black Acres serial by Ambrose Ibsen. It is approximately 23,000 words and contains adult language, scenes of horror, and a cliffhanger ending. Listener discretion is heavily advised. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Hempel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139888/bk_acx0_139888_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Utilitarianism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 176min
Utilitarianism is a book released in 1863 by John Stuart Mill to provide the support for the value of utilitarianism as a moral theory and to respond to misconceptions about it. The book consists of five chapters; the introduction to the essay, the definition of utilitarianism and its common criticisms, the rewards it can offer the methods of proving its validity and in the final chapter looks at the connection between justice and utility and argues that happiness is the foundation of justice. Mill delves into how the incentives provided by others and the inner feelings of sympathy and conscience encourage people to think about how their actions affect the happiness of others arguing that humans are social animals who naturally desire to be in unity with their fellow creatures. That happiness is the only thing that humans find valuable without any external validation. In the essay he also responds to a number of criticisms of utilitarianism such as; it is a doctrine worthy only of swine, it's too demanding, it fails to recognize that happiness is unobtainable, makes people cold and unsympathetic, it is a godless ethics and fails to recognize that in making ethical decisions there usually isn't time to calculate future consequences. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alastair Cameron. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/069897/bk_acx0_069897_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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