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Black Powder War : The Temeraire Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 641min
Naomi Novik’s stunning series of novels follows the global adventures of Captain William Laurence and his fighting dragon, Temeraire, as they are thrown together to fight for Britain during the turbulent time of the Napoleonic Wars.British flyer Will Laurence and his extraordinary Celestial dragon, Temeraire, gratefully anticipate their voyage home from China. But before they set sail, they are waylaid by urgent new orders. The British government, having purchased three valuable dragon eggs from the Ottoman Empire - one of a rare fire-breathing Kazilik dragon, one of the most deadly breeds in existence - now requires Laurence and Temeraire to make a more perilous overland journey instead, stopping off in Istanbul to collect and escort the precious cargo back to England.And time is of the essence if the eggs are to hatch upon British shores.A cross-continental expedition is a daunting prospect, fraught with countless dangers. The small party must be prepared to travel the treacherous Silk Road, navigating frigid mountain passes and crossing sterile deserts to evade feral dragon attacks and Napoleon's aggressive infantry.Barely surviving the poisonous intrigue of the Ottoman Court, the small British party's journey home is delayed once more. The Prussians muster their forces before them, barring their way, and Laurence and Temeraire become swept up in the battle against Bonaparte - trapped by politics as they learn that the British had promised to send their allies aid - but help is months overdue.The crew will also face unexpected menace, for a Machiavellian herald precedes them, spreading political poison in her wake. Lien, the white celestial dragon, absconded from the Chinese imperial court shortly after the humiliating death of her beloved princely companion. Fervently believing Temeraire to be the architect of her anguish, she has vowed to ally herself with his greatest enemy in order to exact a full and painful revenge upon ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/004355/bk_hcuk_004355_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 771min
A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a 200-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction from rising sea levels - part natural history of an extraordinary ecosystem, starring the beloved blue crab; part paean to a vanishing way of life; and part meditation on man’s relationship with the environment - from the acclaimed author, who reported this story for more than two years.Tangier Island, Virginia, is a community unique on the American landscape. Mapped by John Smith in 1608, settled during the American Revolution, the tiny sliver of mud is home to 470 hardy people who live an isolated and challenging existence, with one foot in the 21st century and another in times long passed. They are separated from their countrymen by the nation’s largest estuary, and a 12-mile boat trip across often tempestuous water - the same water that for generations has made Tangier’s fleet of small fishing boats a chief source for the rightly prized Chesapeake Bay blue crab, and has lent the island its claim to fame as the softshell crab capital of the world.Yet for all of its long history, and despite its tenacity, Tangier is disappearing. The very water that has long sustained it is erasing the island day by day, wave by wave. It has lost two-thirds of its land since 1850, and still its shoreline retreats by 15 feet a year - meaning this storied place will likely succumb first among US towns to the effects of climate change. Experts reckon that, barring heroic intervention by the federal government, islanders could be forced to abandon their home within 25 years. Meanwhile, the graves of their forebears are being sprung open by encroaching tides, and the conservative and deeply religious Tangiermen ponder the end times. Chesapeake Requiem is an intimate look at the island’s past, present, and tenuous future, by an acclaimed journalist who spent much of the past two years living among Tangier’s peo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007651/bk_harp_007651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The House by the Lake: Gripping and Emotional World War 2 Fiction : Secrets of Paris , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min
The cobbled streets were dark as Isabelle hurried through the shadows, dodging in and out of doorways, constantly looking back. She worried the sound of her loudly thumping heart would give her away, as she peered around a corner. Suddenly, Isabelle was surrounded by Nazi soldiers, their black boots pounding on the pavement, barring her way.... 1939, Berlin. Max Albrecht is the young and handsome heir to a beautiful house on a lake where he spent his happy childhood. As war approaches, his parents tell him he must join the Nazi party or the whole family will be killed. But when his beloved French fiancé Isabelle shows him the horrifying truth, Max faces an impossible choice: Protect his family or save the girl he loves? 2010, San Francisco. Anna Young is content with her life, running a bustling deli and taking care of her adored grandfather Max, who raised her. Max has never spoken of his past until he hands over an old map, the plans to a grand house just north of Berlin. With a shaking finger, he points to it and says, “I left something behind under the floorboards. Please bring it home before I die.” When Anna arrives at the crumbling manor in Germany, she discovers a hidden engagement ring in a velvet box. She is desperate to find the woman her grandfather hoped to marry, but the local villagers look away when she mentions Max’s name, and back in San Francisco he is now in hospital, too unwell to speak to her. What did Max do so many years ago? Is Anna ready for the terrible secret that her family’s past may hold? From best-selling author Ella Carey comes an unforgettable novel, weaving together past and present. Gripping and heartbreaking, The House by the Lake uncovers the secrets and devastating choices that people were forced to make during history’s darkest time. Listeners are utterly captivated by The House by the Lake. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Teri Shnaubelt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219693/bk_acx0_219693_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Get Love! Learn to love yourself by Hypnosis, Hörbuch, Digital, 42min
You want to learn how to love and accept yourself? You suffer from low self-love and self-esteem? You are longing for an affectionate and meaningful relationship? Then try out "Get Love!" today! Most of you have probably heard Whitney Houston sing the words "learning to love yourself, it is the greatest love of all..." – what a simple truth! We all long for love, want to love and be loved in our lives. Love is the key to a happy, fulfilled and healthy life. But why do so many people fail? Only when we love ourselves and if we think we are adorable, then we can truly love another person and will be loved in return. However, many people suffer from low self-love and self-esteem. Bad experiences and fears out of previous relationships, negative beliefs, childhood imprints and patterns are barring the way for love and work deep in our subconscious mind. The result is a lack of confidence and self-esteem. By listening to Kim Fleckensteins "Get Love!" you will learn how to love and accept yourself. Discover that you are worthy to be loved. The positive suggestions in this hypnosis will help you develop a stable, healthy self-confidence and self-esteem. They are the basis for a happy and fulfilling relationship - with yourself and others! "Get Love!" was designed by well-known German Hypnotherapist Kim Fleckenstein. She is a certified alternative practitioner in psychotherapy, a clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP-Master-Coach. Her unique technique and self experiences have helped to create the special character and heart of her recordings. Together with professional and native speaker Cathy Weber she publishes her programs in English. Do not listen to this program while operating a motor vehicle or during any other activity that requires your full attention. This program does not replace a doctor or any other medical aids. The best effect can be achieved by listening to this program once a day over a period of 4 wee Language: English. Narrator: Kim Fleckenstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/flec/000020/bk_flec_000020_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Find Me: Faeries Lost, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 304min
Drew Maddox is a private investigator who believes what his eyes can see. He has very little use for imagination and flights of fantasy annoy him, yet when a naked woman suddenly appears on the road in front of his truck in the middle of a snow storm, it sends his brain tumbling and his life into a spiral of myth he can barely comprehend.In this fae romance book, Pandimora wears her name well, causing her own flurries of pandemonium just by existing. Born to a mother rumored to have the madness in her, Pandimora is different than most fairies in the realm of Aisywel. She has little regard for the incredible histories of her people, and of the supposed rules. While not an outright rebel, she skirts the laws of faerie propriety, but no more so than when she eavesdrops on a conversation her ears should never have heard.A high elder, one of the strongest and most magical of her people has committed a crime - and now he knows that she has heard and seen him. Pandimora flees, but not before the elder, Lukais, wraps his dark tentacles of power around her, poisoning her and barring the doors to her realm - forever. Hurt and grieving, Pandimora awakens on a snowy road - moments from being hit by Drew Maddox’s fast-moving truck. Her faerie power and her senses muddled, her entire sense of self shaken, Pandimora reaches out to Drew in desperation.Faerie magic is at play, pulling them both deep into a mire of intrigue and deceit - one that sets this unlikely pair against an entire realm of mystical beings with their own rules, trials, and meanings. Be prepared for elves and goblins in this fantasy romance book series! Find Me is book one in the Faeries Lost trilogy - an epic journey into the center of the unknown and the hearts of two souls that can never be.Each book is a complete paranormal romance fae story. Happy endings. No cheating. Books happen simultaneously. Listen to the trilogy: Find Me, Whisper Me, Hear Me. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jessie Mann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144736/bk_acx0_144736_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sex and the Enneagram (eBook, ePUB)
Understanding your approach to dating, relationships, and sex through the lens of your Enneagram personality type • Explains the relationship and sexual differences in the 9 Enneagram personality types for both genders • Examines how we can create greater intimacy with our partners and what blocks our sexual enjoyment • Looks at each type's fantasies and investigates how our behavior in relationships alters according to how emotionally integrated or disintegrated we are • Explores the three types of love and their countertypes; each type's Enneagram Passions and Virtues in relation to intimacy; how to engage with each type; and whether some types make better lovers Sex can take us from the sacred sublime to the darkest aspects of humanity. It can carry us on the wings of pure pleasure, or crush and potentially destroy us. No act in the human experience, barring the essential survival needs of food and water, can have more of an effect on us. In Sex and the Enneagram, Ann Gadd explores relationships and sex through the lens of the Enneagram, its nine personality types, and the subtypes of the wings and Instinctual Triads. The author introduces the Enneagram system and provides a full chapter devoted to each type. She examines each type's approach to sex, their fantasies, and levels of integration in relation to love and sex, as well as each type's approach to issues such as pornography, sexual problems, and dating sites and whether some types make better lovers. The author explains the Enneagram Passions and Virtues of each type in relation to sex, divorce, wing influences, and gender and explains how the 27 Sub or Instinctual types and the Hornevian Triads of the Enneagram system affect our sexuality. Most importantly, Gadd looks at how we can heal ourselves sexually so we can create more fulfilling, transforming intimacy for ourselves and our partners. Through understanding ourselves and our partners sexually, with the help of the Enneagram, Gadd hopes to bring us to deeper levels of compassion and understanding for each other. Sex then can be an expression enhancing our love for each other, rather than simply a physical act. By understanding your own and your lover's Enneagram type, intimate giving and receiving can be an empowering process to embody our love for ourselves and others.- Shop: buecher
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Barring Complications
Barring Complications: ab 9.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Die Barrings & Friederike von Barring
Das gefeierte Familienmelodram ''Die Barrings'' von Rolf Thiele mit Dieter Borsche und seine Fortsetzung ''Friederike von Barring'' mit Nadja Tiller sind nun als Filmjuwelen-Doppelbox erhältlich! ''Die Barrings'': Der Gutsbesitzer Fried von Barring (Dieter Borsche) heiratet die schöne, aber auf grossem Fuss lebende Gerda von Eyff (Nadja Tiller). Frieds Vater (Paul Hartmann), der anfangs gegen die Verbindung gewesen ist, zeigt sich besänftigt, bis er dann doch eines Besseren belehrt wird...- Shop: odax
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Die Barrings
Der Gutsbesitzer Fried von Barring (Dieter Borsche) heiratet die schöne, aber auf grossem Fuss lebende Gerda von Eyff (Nadja Tiller). Frieds Vater (Paul Hartmann), der anfangs gegen die Verbindung gewesen ist, zeigt sich besänftigt, bis er dann doch eines Besseren belehrt wird. Ohne Wissen ihres Mannes gestaltet Gerda das Haus kostspielig um, feiert Feste und lässt auch sonst keine Gelegenheit für grössere Ausgaben aus. Fried muss Kredite aufnehmen, immer häufiger kommt es zwischen den...- Shop: odax
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