51 Results for : inheritor
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Don't Scream: The Inescapable Truth About Legacy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 344min
Who killed Father Francis? Two hundred years ago, two wealthy friends, Oliver DeHann and Michael Palmer, left a sealed legacy in the care and protection of the church. This legacy includes The Agreement, The Trust, and The Seal. By oath and binding agreement, the managed trust and secret seal are to be inherited and unsealed by a singular selectee born in the sixth generation post these two magnanimous friends. The agreement sets out the clear conditions. In exchange, the church received joint ownership of one of the world's richest portions of land and has prospered immensely by it ever since. Our cyber-savvy generation is the one in which the inheritor of The Legacy is born. Three contenders have arrived! Speculation on the value of The Trust is sky high. Against a rich tapestry of modern life we are treated to a searing, sensuous, unforgettable thrill. Outcomes are rarely as expected. Turning points are eminently enlightening. Detectives scratch their heads. So, who killed Father Francis? The answer is illuminating. Every crisis has an opportunity. Every opportunity has a shelf-life. Every shelf-life has a decision point preceding its tipping point. Always, in ever more peculiar ways legacy reveals its mind-bending truth: the snake that cannot shed its skin must perish. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neville DeAngelou. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096594/bk_acx0_096594_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 584min
Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River. The two bind themselves to one another, becoming intimate friends and agreeing "there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft". As Huck learns about love, responsibility, and morality, the trip becomes a metaphoric voyage through his own soul, culminating in the glorious moment when he decides to "go to hell" rather than return Jim to slavery. Mark Twain defined classic as "a book which people praise and don't read"; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a happy exception to his own rule. Twain's mastery of dialect, coupled with his famous wit, has made Huckleberry Finn one of the most loved and distinctly American classics ever written. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dufris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000607/bk_tant_000607_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blind Man's Alley: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 885min
Three construction workers are dead. The concrete floor three hundred feet up in the controversial Aurora Tower condo development in Soho collapsed, hurling them to their deaths. The developer, Roth Properties, the family-owned fiefdom of the famously abrasive Simon Roth, faces a vast tangle of legal problems, including allegations of mob connections and governmental improprieties -- i.e., bribery. The New York Journal has published insinuating articles on the incident that Roth has decided are libelous. The huge midtown law firm of Blake and Rubenstein, Roth's longtime counselors, is assigned the lucrative task of setting things right, and much of the work lands on the plate of a smart, cynical and seasoned associate, Duncan Riley. As a result he falls into the disconcerting orbit of Leah Roth, the beautiful and uber-competent daughter of Simon Roth and the designated inheritor of his real estate empire. Meanwhile, Riley pursues a small (he thinks) pro bono case in which he attempts to forestall an eviction of Rafael Nazario and his grandmother from public housing in the wake of a pot bust. One night Rafael is picked up and charged with the murder of the private security cop who busted him. The murder took place in another controversial "mixed income" housing development being built by . . . Roth Properties. Richard Price and Tom Wolfe, move over. You've got company. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000170/bk_acx0_000170_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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In Bed with Susie Bright 663: Gay Marriage 'Yes', Birth Control 'No'? What Happened?, Hörbuch, Digital, 30min, (USK 18)
The good news: gay marriage is making revolutionary gains. The bad news: abortions and birth control pills are harder to come by. Susie takes a look at the legal battles over reproductive rights and marriage equality to see what lessons we can learn from the court cases. At the heart of the issue is whether privacy trumps equality - or is it the other way around? Next, some narrators of audio erotica are saying "no" to work, because some of the stories are so cheesy and horribly written. This has inspired a new business model, exemplified by Erotica for a Better Tomorrow. It's a group of actors who have had enough with the dinosaur porn and billionaire romance spankings. They pledge to work on fantasy erotica that isn't regressive and violent. Then, it's "What's New on Audible". Susie has a great new audiobook to recommend for our listening pleasure. The Inheritor by Laura Antoniou, narrated by Elizabeth Jasicki, is the sixth book in the Marketplace series. Susie thinks the books are getting stronger with each sequel. Get ready to go on an emotional roller-coaster ride. Have a question or news story for Susie? You can send your confidential queries and comments to susie@susiebright.com. [Episode 663, June 12, 2015] Explicit Language Warning: You must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Bright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/suzy/150612/pf_suzy_150612_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles an Alphabettery
An annotated cosmology of Anne Rice's Vampiredom from A(kasha) to Z(enobia) all fifteen books of the Vampire Chronicles detailed, by a longtime Anne Rice reader and scholar; the who, what, where, why, (and often) how of her beloved characters, mortal and 'im', brought together in a book for the first time. Illustrated by Mark Edward Geyer.An Alphabettery of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles gathers together, from all fifteen of the books in the series, the facts, details, story lines, genealogies of her characters, vampiric subjects, geographical influences, and cultural and individual histories, all of which Rice painstakingly researched and invented during her 40-year career--to date--through which she has enchanted and transported us. Here are concise, detailed biographies of every character, no matter how central or minor to the cosmology. Revealed are the intricacies and interconnectedness of characters and subjects throughout. We see how Akasha (Queen of Egypt and the first vampire) is connected to Mekare (the inheritor of the title of the Queen of the Damned), etc., and how these characters connect back to the darkest rebel outlaw of them all, Lestat de Lioncourt ...And we see, as well, the ways in which Rice's vampires have evolved from warring civilizations to isolated covens to a unified race of blood drinkers led by their hero-wanderer and sole monarch, Prince Lestat. For devoted and first-time Anne Rice readers alike, An Alphabettery of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles will be the holy grail of lore and revelation for those who have been, and continue to be, mesmerized by the worlds within worlds of these beloved tales of the undead.- Shop: buecher
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the story's told. In this extraordinary audiobook, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Australian writer Dominic Smith brilliantly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland as a master painter, the first woman to be so honoured. 300 years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain - a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the Manhattan bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibition of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive. As the three threads intersect with increasing and exquisite suspense, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos mesmerises while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002796/bk_boli_002796_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
A masterful new story charts the circuitous course of the sole surviving work of a female Dutch painter. This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the audio's done. In his award-winning earlier novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the golden age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain - a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibit of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive. As the three threads intersect, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos mesmerizes while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present. This audiobook includes a reading group guide read by the author. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002216/bk_aren_002216_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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JELL-O Girls: A Family History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 463min
A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its façade - told by the inheritor of their stories. In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege - but they were also haunted by suicides, cancer, alcoholism, and mysterious ailments. More than 100 years after that deal was struck, Allie's mother Mary was diagnosed with the same incurable cancer, a disease that had also claimed her own mother's life. Determined to combat what she had come to consider the "Jell-O curse" and her looming mortality, Mary began obsessively researching her family's past, determined to understand the origins of her illness and the impact on her life of Jell-O and the traditional American values the company championed. Before she died in 2015, Mary began to send Allie boxes of her research and notes, in the hope that her daughter might write what she could not. JELL-O Girls is the liberation of that story. A gripping examination of the dark side of an iconic American product and a moving portrait of the women who lived in the shadow of its fractured fortune, JELL-O Girls is a family history, a feminist history, and a story of motherhood, love, and loss. In crystalline prose, Rowbottom considers the roots of trauma not only in her own family, but in the American psyche as well, ultimately weaving a story that is deeply personal, as well as deeply connected to the collective female experience. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allie Rowbottom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004533/bk_hach_004533_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Manor Hauntings: A Collection of Riveting Haunted House Mysteries , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2380min
The perfect daughter is dead...and a small town holds a shocking secret that needs to be unearthed....Amazon best-selling mystery authors J.S Donovan, Roger Hayden, James Hunt, and Alexandria Clarke invite you to explore this riveting mystery box set. A missing father, decade old murders, and an Antebellum-era mansion invaded by the spirits of the dead, private investigator/unexpected plantation inheritor Evelyn Carr has her hands full. Assisted by her husband, Evelyn chases answers. With each mystery solved, another arises...along with new adversaries. The truth hides within her family's dark past, but some secrets, once unearthed, cannot be reburied. The Haunting of Winchester Mansion In the small town of Black Bay, a vacant, forgotten house sits atop an overlooking bluff. When Bailey and Bodhi Taylor move in and begin renovations, the house seems perfect. But things move on their own, screams echo from the basement, and Bailey sees a shadowy figure out of the corner of her eye. Is the house haunted? And if it is, what does the ghost want with Bailey? The Curse of the House on Cypress Lane There sits a large house on Cypress Lane in the small town of Ocoee, Louisiana, and its history is intertwined with the town itself. A feud was born within its walls, and it is there where it will die. The Cooley family finds themselves in the middle of a fight that started long before they arrived. Will they make it out alive, or will they become another casualty in the fight between the living and the dead? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tia Rider Sorensen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099854/bk_acx0_099854_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Horse Whisperer: A Novel, Hörbuch, Digital, 347min
A 40-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path.In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins - to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to...The Horse WhispererHe is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch can heal broken spirits. For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers. Now Tom Booker, the inheritor of this ancient gift, is to meet his greatest challenge.Annie Graves has traveled across a continent with her daughter, Grace, and their wounded horse, Pilgrim, to the Booker ranch in Montana. Annie has risked everything - her career, her marriage, her comfortable life - in her desperate belief that the Whisperer can help them. The accident has turned Pilgrim savage. He is now so demented and dangerous that everyone says he should be destroyed. But Annie won't give up on him, for she feels his fate is inextricably entwined with that of her daughter, who has retreated into a heartrending, hostile silence. Annie knows that if the horse dies, something in Grace will die too.In the weeks to come, under the massive sky of the Rocky Mountain Front, all their lives - including Tom Booker's - will be transformed forever in a way none could have foretold. At once an epic love story and a gripping adventure, The Horse Whisperer weaves an extraordinary tale of healing and redemption - a magnificent emotional journey that explores our ancient bonds with earth and sky and hearts untamed. It is a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Coyote. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bant/000055/bk_bant_000055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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