172 Results for : hardscrabble
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Through Poverty's Vale
Through Poverty's Vale ab 33.49 € als Taschenbuch: A Hardscrabble Boyhood in Upstate New York 1832-1862. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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Bootleggers Lobstermen & Lumberjacks
Bootleggers Lobstermen & Lumberjacks ab 15.99 € als epub eBook: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,- Shop: hugendubel
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Toll Bridge , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 44min
As proprietor of a lone boardinghouse in an isolated canyon, Kelsey Taggert is accustomed to the hardscrabble life he endures in the tough Western country. But when a stagecoach brings a beautiful, wily woman and an outlaw to his door, Taggert begins to look for the gentler things in life with which to balance the harsh and stark realities of existence in the West. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Slate Peters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ahld/000131/bk_ahld_000131_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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PIGmalion, Hörbuch, Digital, 101min
A full-cast production inspired by Pygmalion, Shaw's classic drawing room tale of language and class division, and its musical incarnation, My Fair Lady. PIGmalion tells the story of one Eliza Doolittle, who sells homemade pork rinds at the Tri-Counties Fair and Livestock Show. The daughter of a hardscrabble Mississippi pig farmer, Eliza dreams of someday working as a waitress at "one of those nice downtown barbecue restaurants where all the tourists go". Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009405/bk_blak_009405_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blood Honor: The Day After Never Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 460min
They said it could never happen - that the day would never come. They were wrong. Five years post-collapse, former Texas Ranger Lucas Shaw is surviving hardscrabble in a kill-or-be-killed wasteland. When an enigmatic young woman enters his life with a desperate plea, Lucas must face impossible odds and battle an adversary who will stop at nothing to destroy them. Lightning-paced and gritty, Blood Honor, the debut novel in The Day after Never trilogy, is a non-stop adrenaline rush set in a chillingly plausible dystopian future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John David Farrell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/058632/bk_acx0_058632_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Growing Up Hard in Harlan County , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min
G.C. "Red" Jones' classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of "Bloody Harlan", and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.The book is published by The University Press of Kentucky. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirk Winkler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123247/bk_acx0_123247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ham on Rye: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years, and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christian Baskous. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003556/bk_harp_003556_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Vital Abyss: An Expanse Novella , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 146min
From New York Times best-selling author James S. A. Corey... Somewhere in the vast expanse of space, a group of prisoners lives in permanent captivity. The only company they have is each other and the Belters who guard them. The only stories they know are the triumphs and crimes that brought them there. The only future they see is an empty life in an enormous room. And then the man from Mars comes along.... Set in the hardscrabble solar system of the Expanse, The Vital Abyss deepens James S. A. Corey's acclaimed series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jefferson Mays. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001329/bk_twuk_001329_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Kneebone Boy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
Life in a small town can be pretty boring when everyone avoids you like the plague. But after their father unwittingly sends them to stay with an aunt who’s away on holiday, the Hardscrabble children take off on an adventure that begins in the seedy streets of London and ends in a peculiar sea village where legend has it a monstrous creature lives who is half boy and half animal. In this wickedly dark, unusual, and compelling novel, Ellen Potter masterfully tells the tale of one deliciously strange family and a secret that changes everything. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011272/bk_adbl_011272_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Relentless , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 418min
A Native American sheriff chases a gang of bloodthirsty bank robbers.Were it not for the copper mine, San Miguel wouldn’t exist. A hardscrabble town hewn out of the Arizona desert, it’s long on sand and short on excitement. For fun its citizens go to Las Vegas twice a month, just after picking up their paychecks. Because most of the miners take their pay in cash, every two weeks more than a million dollars moves through San Miguel’s little bank, watched over by heavy security from the sheriff’s department. This week, the security is not strong enough. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Prichard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/006054/bk_adbl_006054_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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