218 Results for : cantankerous

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    The Curse of the Chocolate Phoenix , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 373min
    A secret government department, once again, needs the magical help of Oz and Lily in a desperate new mission. Along with everyone’s favourite cantankerous cat, Demerara, her ratty companion Spike, and the help of some powerfully magical chocolate, the children must travel back in time to the height of the Blitz. Can they defeat some very dangerous supernatural creatures and save London’s famous cathedral from destruction by fire? The exciting companion to The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rita Sharma. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000487/bk_oakh_000487_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Glass Dog and The Capture of Father Time, Hörbuch, Digital, 46min
    These wonderful stories, written by the beloved children's author L. Frank Baum (author of The Wizard of Oz), are certain to delight children of all ages with fanciful images and outrageous characters. "The Glass Dog" tells the story of a cantankerous wizard and a young glass blower who falls in love. "The Capture of Father Time" tells the story of young Jim, a mischievous boy who lassos Father Time, with comical results. Language: English. Narrator: David DuChene, James Mio. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pctr/000105/bk_pctr_000105_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Cost of Kindness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 20min
    Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English writer and humourist. The Cost of Kindness is an ironic tale about a congregation desperate to see the back of their cantankerous and highly unpopular vicar. Fortunately the dreadful man has agreed to leave and is preparing a vituperative final sermon admonishing his ungrateful flock for ousting him. But then the churchwarden's wife decides it would be only Christian to show the horrid man some sympathy...an act of kindness which unleashes awful consequences. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000680/bk_redd_000680_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Hippopotamus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 541min
    Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments, and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going on at Swafford. Miracles. Healings. Phenomena beyond the comprehension of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Fry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000678/bk_rhuk_000678_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Captain Bartholomew Quasar: Starfaring Adventures , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 223min
    Meet Captain Quasar, a cross between James T. Kirk and Dudley Do-Right - except in Quasar's case, things seldom ever go right.... Join Captain Bartholomew Quasar and the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude in this hilarious collection of short stories as they confront bands of nefarious space pirates, cantankerous bandits, exotic aliens, devious powers of persuasion, mysterious ghosts from the past, deep space identity crises, a runaway hyper-speed train, an insidious computer virus, and a villain with the fastest thumbs in the quadrant. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: E. M. Carberry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104427/bk_acx0_104427_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hands of Onyx: The Sav'ine, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 377min
    Ele'ana and her squad of cybernetic soldiers are escorting a long haul space freighter to the outer rim planets. She can't tell the captain what they're carrying, or why saboteurs are trying to stop them. The assignment is challenging enough without a saboteur aboard ship. The medic is half-blind. Her explosives expert is a sociopath. The interrogator suffers from dementia. Her own sanity is stretched to its limit as her desire for the cantankerous captain wrestles with the reality of her body's modifications. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Theo Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/102110/bk_acx0_102110_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ethan Frome, Hörbuch, Digital, 189min
    Ethan Frome" is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, "Ethan Frome", in 1993. "Ethan Frome" tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught relationships with his "sickly, cantankerous" wife Zeena and his young, beautiful cousin Mattie Silver. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Klett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lind/001184/bk_lind_001184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    You're Making Me Hate You
    You're Making Me Hate You ab 7.99 € als epub eBook: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Kunst, Musik & Design,
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    Pygmalion (eBook, ePUB)
    Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with Adonis (musical) and the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1938 film Pygmalion, the 1956 musical My Fair Lady and its 1964 film version.Shaw mentioned that the character of Professor Henry Higgins was inspired by several British professors of phonetics: Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, but above all, the cantankerous Henry Sweet
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    The Far Horizon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 279min
    Orphaned Eliza Dunlop has been working as a companion to a rich but cantankerous old lady, Miss Gregory. When Miss Gregory dies, Eliza is found a new position by the old lady’s lawyer, the oily Mr Humbie. She moves to Fife to take up the job as companion to a young lady, Catriona Stuart, but the situation strikes her as unusal. Why does the housekeeper Mistree Kilbain feel like a jailer? Just who is the mysterious Catriona Stuart? And what role does she have to play in an elaborate plot? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lesley Mackie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001921/bk_isis_001921_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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