90 Results for : reckons
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Views from the Cockpit: The Journey of a Son , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 358min
Views from the Cockpit: The Journey of a Son is a memoir born from pain. Word by word, year by year, tender father-son memories of airplane watching transform into nightmarish, turbulent family drama. Upon the discovery that his father had been the victim of severe elder abuse as his health was rapidly deteriorating, the author finds himself reevaluating the decisions his father made throughout his life. With an unshakable ending, the author's probing dissection of a man he thought he knew reckons with disloyalty, depression, religion, and death, leaving no stone unturned.Through sharp, sometimes hilariously brash analysis, decorated in plane metaphors and imagery, the author expresses his commitment to truth with sincerity and transparency. He reaches for forgiveness, understanding and compromise in the face of absurdity and uncompromising rigidity.Ultimately, he contemplates a different "flight path" drawn from past lessons. He encourages listeners to do the same.A must-listen for sons, fathers and families. Book-club discussion guide included. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. Ross Victory, Ross Victory. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170621/bk_acx0_170621_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tumbledown: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 972min
At age 33, James Candler seems to be well on the road to success. He’s in line for a big promotion at Onyx Springs, the treatment facility where he’s a therapist. He has a fiance, a sizable house, and a Porsche. But...he’s falling in love with another woman, he’s underwater on his mortgage, and he’s put his hapless best friend in charge of his signature therapeutic program. Even the GPS on his car can’t seem to predict where he should turn next. And his clients are struggling in their own hilarious, heartbreaking ways to keep their lives on track. How can he help them if he can’t help himself?In Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Arthur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018588/bk_adbl_018588_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Comeback: A Cliff Hardy Mystery, Book 37 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 344min
Cliff Hardy has his PI license back - but does he still have what it takes to cut it on the mean streets of Sydney? Cliff reckons the skills are still there, if a little rusty, and actor Bobby Forrest's case looks promising. Bobby's a nice enough guy, but why is he being stalked by a red-hot brunette? And why did he have to go online to find a date? When Bobby is murdered, it comes as a shock. Cliff's only solid lead is a white Commodore, the most ubiquitous car around. When a surprising connection with his own past surfaces, Cliff is forced to put some of his skills to the test. But is he heading in the wrong direction? Somehow he has to put it all together without losing his license again, but in true Hardy fashion he's managing to find his way into trouble, not out of it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dino Marnika. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002015/bk_boli_002015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Painted Goddess: A Fire Beneath the Skin, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 720min
When the gods go to war, who will stand against their divine fury? In the thrilling conclusion to the A Fire Beneath the Skin trilogy, the enchanted kingdom of Helva faces a nightmarish future of endless bloodshed, and Rina Veraiin - a young warrior-duchess armed with mysterious, magical tattoos - must use her fantastic powers to save her home from eternal war. As her far-flung friends scour Helva for additional tattoos to increase her formidable abilities, Rina reckons with an enigmatic death priest...the one whose contract grants her extraordinary magic but demands an awful price. When her debt comes due, can Rina make the ultimate sacrifice? Deities clash and allies succumb as Rina strives to fulfill her obligation and confront her strange and shocking destiny. Becoming an ink mage taxed Rina's resources to their very limits; now she must become something else, something more, something awesome and terrible. If she fails, her world will fall. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fiona Hardingham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/007841/bk_brll_007841_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Doctor Who: Big Bang Generation: A 12th Doctor novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 340min
Lisa Bowerman reads this original novel featuring the Twelfth Doctor, as played in the BBC TV series by Peter Capaldi. Christmas 2015, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Imagine everyone's surprise when a time portal opens up in Sydney Cove. Imagine their shock as a massive pyramid now sits beside the Harbour Bridge, glowing with energy. Imagine their fear as Cyrrus "the mobster" Globb, Professor Horace Jaanson and alien assassin Kik arrive. Finally, imagine everyone's dismay when a bunch of con artists turn up to spring their greatest grift yet. This gang consists of Legs, Dog Boy, Shortie, Da Trowel, and their leader, Doc, who is busy making sure the universe isn't destroyed. And when someone accidentally reawakens The Ancients of Time - which, Doc reckons, wasn't the wisest or best judged of actions - things get a whole lot more complicated.... A complete and unabridged reading by Lisa Bowerman, who plays Professor Bernice Summerfield in Big Finish's range of audio adventures. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Bowerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002184/bk_rhuk_002184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Boleyn Inheritance: Boleyn, Book 2, Hörbuch, Digital, 365min
The last Boleyn is Jane, Lady Rochford - widow of the disgraced George Boleyn. Caught in the intrigues of the Tudor court, she maneuvers for personal position as her family, in turn, tries to manipulate her. The king has married again; his bride is the deceptively astute Anne of Cleves. Her wits are tested as she senses a trap closing around her, with the Howards ready to take advantage of her fall. Central to their plot is the pretty, flirtatious Catherine, ready to take the place once held by her cousin, Anne Boleyn. Jane briefly believes that she will escape the fate of all who attempt to betray the royal trust, but she reckons without Henry's growing maliciousness. Her fate is sealed; she will be the last Boleyn. Philippa Gregory is the acknowledged queen of historical fiction, and this novel again displays her trademark blend of passion and politics, authenticity, and tremendously gripping storytelling. Language: English. Narrator: Emilia Fox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000345/bk_hcuk_000345_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Immortal King Rao
In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King's daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy-literally, for he has given her access to his memories, among other questionable gifts. With climate change raging, Athena has come to believe that saving the planet and its Shareholders will require a radical act of communion-and so she sets out to tell the truth to the world's Shareholders, in entrancing sensory detail, about King's childhood on a South Indian coconut plantation; his migration to the U.S. to study engineering in a world transformed by globalization; his marriage to the ambitious artist with whom he changed the world; and, ultimately, his invention, under self-exile, of the most ambitious creation of his life-Athena herself. The Immortal King Rao, written by a former Wall Street Journal technology reporter, is a resonant debut novel obliterating the boundaries between literary and speculative fiction, the historic and the dystopian, confronting how we arrived at the age of technological capitalism and where our actions might take us next.- Shop: buecher
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The Tango School Mystery: A Crampton of the Chronicle Adventure: Deadline Murder Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 398min
Welcome to Brighton, England, where they do like to murder beside the seaside...Want to know what it's like when a quiet romantic dinner ends in murder? Ace reporter Colin Crampton and his feisty girlfriend Shirley Goldsmith are tucking into their meal when Shirley discovers more blood on her rare steak than she'd expected.And once again, Colin is on the trail of a big story that can only end in more murder. Colin reckons he's cracked the story when he uncovers a plot involving a sinister figure from the past. A tango academy seems to lie at the heart of the conspiracy.But nothing is quite what it seems as Colin peels away the layers of the mystery. He tangles with a cast of memorable characters, including a professor of witchcraft, the former commander of an army mobile latrine unit, and a tango instructor with two left feet.Join Colin and Shirley for another madcap mystery in swinging sixties' Brighton, where the laughs are never far from the action. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Jamie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173550/bk_acx0_173550_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tumbledown , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 972min
A Library Journal "Best Indie Fiction of 2013" At age 33, James Candler seems to be well on the road to success. He's in line for a big promotion at Onyx Springs, the treatment facility where he's a therapist. He has a fiancée, a sizable house, and a Porsche. But... he's falling in love with another woman, he's underwater on his mortgage, and he's put his hapless best friend in charge of his signature therapeutic program. Even the GPS on his car can't seem to predict where he should turn next. And his clients are struggling in their own hilarious, heartbreaking ways to keep their lives on track. How can he help them if he can't help himself? In Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Arthur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023811/bk_adbl_023811_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dear Digby: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min
An oddball newspaper editor advises eccentric readers - and reckons with her own painful past Willis Digby is the letters editor at Sis(Sisterhood) magazine, a job that drives her mad. Plowing through correspondence that fluctuates from the predictable boosterish boilerplate to letters challenging conventional notions of sanity, Willis struggles to find a balance in her selections for publication in the landmark feminist journal. Memorable letters include those from a woman who sprinkles cat food into her husband’s breakfast cereal each morning, one from a woman convinced that the man on the label of her cleaning products is harassing her, and endless gender-specific descriptions of peculiar sexual proclivities. As Digby strikes up an unconventional friendship with one of her correspondents, she also confronts a harrowing childhood incident that has come back to haunt her. At once witty and powerful, Dear Digby is a tragicomedy that explores the shifting borders of the self, or selves, that define individual sanity and conventional thought, and redefine communication among lost souls. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollis McCarthy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017597/bk_adbl_017597_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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