88 Results for : newspaperman
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This Boy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 701min
From Camelot to despair in a single decade.In an instant, young Danny Logan fell in love with a girl and a career. Only one was faithful. Growing up on the streets of Hartford, Connecticut's South End in the tumultuous 1960s was a challenge in itself. For Logan, it meant having sharp wits, rock-solid values, and pride. But when he meets a girl who captures his heart with a single glance, he is torn between the neighborhood he knows - the place where he belongs - and a world of wealth beyond his dreams in a mansion at Fenwick on the shores of Long Island Sound. When disloyalty crushes his fantasy, he finds a new life as a newspaperman covering the violence and divisiveness of racial unrest in the City and the bloody Vietnam conflict. His journey as a reporter and editor takes him through the headlines that mark the worst of the 60s and 70s and harden him to the harsh realities of a new world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: F. Mark Granato. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131056/bk_acx0_131056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Shipping News, Hörbuch, Digital, 308min
A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today. When Quoyle, a 36-year-old, third rate newspaperman, learns that his two-timing wife has abandoned him and their two daughters, he returns to his ancestral home on the Newfoundland coast, where amongst locals and three generations of his family, he begins to rebuild his life. Newfoundland is a dreary rock in the north Atlantic beset by lousy weather. Proulx recreates this barren location in her vivid, distinctive prose and populates it with a cast of amusing, richly human characters. The transformation each of the characters undergoes following the move is profound. And Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth as he confronts his private demons. Along the way, we catch a glimpse of the maritime beauty of what is probably a fading existence. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Joy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000090/bk_sans_000090_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Freddy and the Bean Home News , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 285min
It all started in 1927 when a group of animals on a farm in Upstate New York decided to travel to Florida in search of warmer weather - and faithful fans of the Freddy books have been joyously lapping up each book in the 26 book series ever since! Why is Freddy such a popular pig? Most readers and listeners will tell you it's because he's a pig for all seasons: a detective, a pilot, a magician, an explorer, a poet, a politician...you name it, and Freddy will give it a shot! In Freddy and the Bean Home News, Freddy's friend Mr. Dimsey, the editor of the Guardian, is ousted for publishing news of Bean Farm in the local newspaper. To ensure that those who are interested might still learn of all the goings-on, Freddy takes it upon himself to found a newspaper of his own and calls it The Bean Home News, the basis for the current Freddy fan club newsletter. But it turns out that being a newspaperman isn't quite as easy as Freddy thought it might be. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McDonough. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/003398/bk_reco_003398_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Deceit, Hörbuch, Digital, 377min
It looks like just another car crash: a head-on collision on a lonely stretch of desert highway that leaves one driver dead. But Tom Valle, the local newspaperman assigned to the story, is damned good at spotting lies. And for Valle, once a star reporter at America's most prestigious daily, this so-called accident may be just the ticket he needs to resurrect his career and get him out of the aptly named town of Littleton, California, for good. Yet as Valle eagerly starts investigating, he finds himself the only one who cares about getting the story right. As he starts checking facts, and unveiling lie after lie, he finds himself completely alone and negotiating a dark trail of corruption, cover-ups, fraud, and murder that stretches back for decades. The more he discovers, the closer he gets to the heart of a conspiracy that threatens to destroy him. From a seedy after-hours bar in L.A. to a remote cabin in the woods to the dark corridors of a psychiatric ward, Valle is desperately seeking redemption in the truth. But, as the boy who cried wolf so many times before, will anyone believe him? Language: English. Narrator: Dylan Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/time/000473/bk_time_000473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hell on Ice: The Saga of the Jeannette , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 880min
The thrilling adventure of one crew's harrowing journey back from the Earth's most foreboding frozen hell In the 1870s, newspaperman James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald drummed up excitement and publicity for his paper through highly publicized missions of exploration. In 1879, Bennett's idea for a voyage was his most audacious to date: the North Pole. To do this, he hired a team of naval veterans in addition to a smattering of civilians with specialized knowledge in meteorology, whaling, and naturalism. The men on board the Jeannette set off in September of 1879. This would be the last time anyone saw them for two years. The product of devoted research into personal histories, memoirs, and classified congressional investigation records, Hell on Ice is a remarkable document: a novelization of history, turning the horrible ordeal of the brave men of the Jeannette into a riveting narrative. Written with a weathered seaman's familiarity, the story brilliantly captures a most perilous voyage from the perspective of the ship's chief engineer. The men of the Jeannette endure months trapped in an Arctic ice pack, and then begin a desperate trek for home. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019185/bk_adbl_019185_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Night Beat: Human Interest, Hörbuch, Digital, 476min
A newspaperman of the people, by the people, and for the people - that's Randy Stone of the Chicago Star, pounding the city streets night after night on the trail of crime, corruption, and haunting human interest stories! Frank Lovejoy stars as Stone in these 16 digitally restored and remastered episodes from 1950. Sheldon Leonard, Joan Banks, William Conrad, Lurene Tuttle, Gerald Mohr, Betty Lou Gerson, Bill Johnstone, and more portray the complex characters in his intriguing adventures. Episodes include: Zero 02-06-50; The Night Is a Weapon 02-13-50; A World All of His Own 02-20-50; The Girl in the Park 02-27-50; Number 13 03-06-50; Am I My Brother's Keeper 03-13-50; The Man Who Claimed to Be Dead 03-20-50; Mentallo, the Mental Marvel 05-01-50; Elevator Caper 05-08-50; The Night Watchman 05-15-15; I Wish You Were Dead 05-22-50; Harlan Matthews, Stamp Dealer 05-29-50; Football Player and the Syndicate 06-12-50; Vincent and the Painter 06-19-50; The Juvenile Gangster 06-26-50; The Elevator Caper (Audition) 01-13-50. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Lovejoy, Sheldon Leonard, Joan Banks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/001218/rt_radi_001218_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 179min
Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth. So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens. Abandoning a career as a young steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, Sam took a bumpy stagecoach to the far West. In the gold and silver fields, he expected to get rich quick. Instead he got poor fast, digging in the wrong places. His stint as a sagebrush newspaperman led to a duel with pistols. Had he not survived, the world never would have heard of Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn - or redheaded Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens adopted his pen name in a hotel room in San Francisco and promptly made a jumping frog - and himself - famous. His celebrated novels followed at a leisurely pace, his quips at jet speed: "Don't let schooling interfere with your education," he wrote. Here, in high style, is the story of a wisecracking adventurer who came of age in the untamed West - an ink-stained rebel who surprised himself by becoming the most famous American of his time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007428/bk_blak_007428_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Box 13, Vol. 1, Hörbuch, Digital, 321min
Movie star Alan Ladd played Dan Holiday, retired newspaperman turned fiction writer and adventurer extraordinaire. To gain ideas for his books, Holiday placed an ad in the Star-Times newspaper: "Adventure wanted - will go anywhere, do anything - Box 13." It wasn't long before his Box 13 became jammed with adventures galore. Holiday always had more adventure than he had originally sought because those who responded to his ad never revealed all of their glorious, unusual, and sometimes sinister details until they met in person and the adventure had already begun. Silvia Picker played Holiday's scatter-brained secretary, Suzy. Suzy added touches of humor to the mystery-adventure and nail-biting storylines. Box 13 was produced by Mayfair Productions, a company run by Alan Ladd and Richard Sandville. The name came from Mayfair Restaurant, which Ladd and Sandville owned during World War II. In addition to producing Box 13, Ladd also wrote some of the scripts. Episodes include: "The First Letter" "Insurance Fraud" "Blackmail Is Murder" "Actor's Alibi" "Extra, Extra" "Shanghaied" "Short Assignment" "Double Mothers" "Book of Poems" "The Great Torino" "Suicide or Murder" "Triple Cross" Language: English. Narrator: Alan Ladd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007759/bk_blak_007759_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas, and Beliefs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 71min
The gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people, "...[E]ven a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching." This introduction to Celtic mythology will serve the novice well - for it is a complicated history with the earliest written records destroyed by the marauding Vikings. Inside you will read about.... The arrival of the Tuatha dé Danann Hibernia The main gods of the Celtic pantheon Celtic life and rituals Sources of Celtic mythology The effect of Christianity, and beliefs and superstitions The oral tradition harks back to 4000 BCE and is a compilation of myths and cultures of many different peoples, including the Indo-Iranians, Slavs, Greeks, Germans, Austrians, and finally, the Gauls, who washed up on the shores of the Emerald Isle. Whatever aspect of this rich, mystical, and lavishly embellished heritage you would like to investigate further, you will find the author has supplied a marker to guide you on your way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bridger Conklin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103118/bk_acx0_103118_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bad News: A Zack Walker Mystery, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 680min
The explosive and hilarious final audiobook in the Zack Walker series from best-selling author and master of the thriller Linwood Barclay. Metropolitan newspaper writer Zack Walker has a knack for stumbling onto deadly stories. But it's one that his good friend Trixie Snelling doesn't want told that's about to unleash a storm of trouble. As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has her share of secrets, but Zack has no idea what she's really hiding when a local newspaperman threatens to do an exposé on her - not until Zack finds a dead body strapped to the bondage cross in her basement dungeon. Now Zack is implicated in a murder, Trixie is missing, and everything he thought he knew about his friend, his town, even his own marriage reveals a darker side. Zack's twisted trail to the truth will lead to a long-unsolved triple homicide, bikers, drug wars, and a stone-cold killer hell-bent on revenge. It's a story that's already cost him his job and possibly his wife, and, if Zack's not very lucky, it will cost him his life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Hope. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001164/bk_orio_001164_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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