67 Results for : coldness
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The Crystal Crux: Betrayal, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 853min
Once you get past the Greek warrior Bellerophon and his esoteric-laced crystals, past the menacing black dragon Ophis, past the sinister giant Sinibaldus, past the black-heart Castellan Rugerius, past the enchanted creatures haunting Eagles Pass and the treacherous Fabbro family ruling Parthenope, you'll discover that The Crystal Crux: Betrayal is a love story, a tale of light and faith in a land of darkness, war and hopelessness. Pero de Alava has sinned against the powers-that-be. His elevated paranoia has made him indecisive and given life to frequent hallucinations and troubling visions. The supernatural is colliding with reality and the caballero fears he is losing his mind. His plans to wed Anthea Manikos unravel quickly. His best friend, Francis Whitehall, the Griffin, can't reach him. He accepts no advice from anyone. He curses God because he has seen the prosperity of the wicked and envied them. Will his quest into hell help him right his mind again or will his jealousy drive him to be as unjust as those he despises? Emperor Henry VI has died. He can no longer protect his pawns. Brother betrays brother, friend betrays friend. As Zor always says, "Bravest blood flows first." The heart has been struck. It is only day one and the leaves are falling, snapping off at the stems, missed opportunities drifting away, swirling in the breeze towards the coldness of the grave. So many regrets. "Every malevolent act you henceforth commit in the name of justice, will only disconnect you from the greater good you are swearing to perform. You will be broken and become the evil thing you loathe." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: 5395 Media LLC. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059603/bk_acx0_059603_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Girl in the Woods: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 872min
Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis' exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada - a coming-of-age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who discouraged her from telling of the attack, Aspen was confused and ashamed. Dealing with a problem that has sadly become all too common on college campuses around the country, she stumbled through her first semester - a challenging time made even harder by the coldness of her college's "conflict mediation" process. Her desperation growing, she made a bold decision: She would seek healing in the freedom of the wild, on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail leading from Mexico to Canada. In this inspiring memoir, Aspen chronicles her journey, a five-month trek that was ambitious, dangerous, and transformative. A 19-year-old girl alone and lost, she conquered desolate mountain passes and met rattlesnakes, bears, and fellow desert pilgrims. Exhausted after each 30-mile day, at times on the verge of starvation, Aspen was forced to confront her numbness, coming to terms with the sexual assault and her parents' disappointing reaction. On the trail and on her own, she found that survival is predicated on persistent self-reliance. She found her strength. After a thousand miles of solitude, she found a man who helped her learn to love and trust again - and heal. Told with elegance and suspense, Girl in the Woods is a beautifully rendered story of eroding emotional and physical boundaries to reveal the truths that lie beyond the edges of the map. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Tucker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004598/bk_harp_004598_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Warrior: Hot Steamy Paranormal Shifter Romance : Heart of Stone, Volume 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 504min
A mysterious legend exists from the days of an old...A war, raging above us in the universe for the last thousand years. Tales were spun about a ruthless god-like king who sat on an eternal throne, protecting his kingdom from other clans. He carelessly cast lives away with a cold indifference and his legend grew, as he became the fear of many and the hope of a few. An entire world filled with lustful pleasures and miserable pain came before him, with its many joys and reluctant sorrows but he could never feel anything. His power increased, while his coldness grew. He scorned love, laughed at death and watched as many lived, loved and died just for the pleasure of experiencing it. It never moved him, for he was the King of Beasts, the most feared and ungodly monarch of all the realms. The power of his birthright brought an immortal existence for him which lasted for a millennia; though in reality, he’d not even lived a single day. He became weary of the throne and removed his crown to step into our world and find a way to feel alive. He found his heart and the beat of it started when the greatest power known to any world overwhelmed it. The bitterness faded while his cold eyes took in a new wonder, a new phenomenon - love. He reveled in a new life where he lived, loved and was king no more. The sins committed by him and the pain that fell on others by virtue of his cold actions, rippled through echoing against the fabric of time to bounce back endlessly. Vengeance is cold and its deliverance divinely fated; the beasts of vengeance will have their day. “Love can be a velvet gift with a steel gauntlet in it.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lexi Davenport. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214407/bk_acx0_214407_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Christmas at Fireside Cabins: An Absolutely Heart-Warming and Feel-Good Festive Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 529min
An uplifting, beautiful, and totally heartwarming tale about the magic of family at Christmas, the importance of chasing your dreams, and the unbeatable feeling of falling in love under the mistletoe.Christmas is always the toughest holiday for Lila Evans - a heartbreaking reminder of losing her father. This year, she’s organized a cozy getaway with her closest friends. She might not have a family to call her own, but it should be just the remedy for the December blues.On the way to their festive vacation, Lila stops at a coffee shop in Pinewood Hills. But the rugged, surly owner Theo Perry doesn’t offer a warm small-town welcome. Despite her best efforts, Lila’s met with an icy reception.At least, she has Fireside Cabins tucked in the snowy Tennessee hills to look forward to. Except, it turns out to be far from a winter wonderland - there isn’t a shred of Christmas spirit in their tumbledown cabin, and the owner, a widow named Eleanor Finely, confesses that the resort is on the brink of closure. Lila instantly wants to help - tearful Eleanor clearly has no one, and Lila knows exactly how that feels.When a burst pipe floods their cabin, Lila turns to Theo for help. As much as his coldness infuriates her, she can’t deny that on the rare occasions when he does smile, it feels like coming home.As Lila does her best to bring some sparkle to Fireside Cabins and to warm up frosty Theo, could Pinewood Hills hold her new beginning - and the family she’s always longed for? And with a dusting of Christmas magic, spiced cider, and sugarplum pie, could this be the first holiday she’s not alone?Indulge in this glittering audiobook that might just prove, at this magical time of year, that anything is possible. Christmas at Fireside Cabins is the perfect treat for fans of Debbie Macomber, Susan Mallery, and Sheila Roberts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patricia Rodriguez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/218497/bk_acx0_218497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Avoidant Attachment: Why Is Your Partner Cold and Detached in Your Relationship? Improve Intimacy, Emotional Connection and Understand Why Your Dismissive Partner Behaves the Way They Do , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 182min
Does your partner experience their relationship with you through a certain detachment?Do you feel coldness and distance within the relationship that is difficult to explain?Do you strive to grow your relationship, but have been stuck in the same spot for months or even years?A partner with an avoidant attachment style of emotion can build walls and create distances in any couple relationship and can show strict communication limits and undermine a romantic relationship. The detached attitude of the avoidant attachment personality can be frustrating for a partner, who will experience feelings of uselessness and/or neglect, even to the point of feeling completely abandoned.Those who in a relationship with an avoidant partner can, justifiably, take a few steps back and question the entire relationship.I recommend that you listen to this book if your partner:Has a shy, detached, elusive personality or seems impervious to love and emotions.Struggles to think as a couple and to build a sense of "us".Obstructs, or deviates from any attempt to communicate your hurt feelings. Cannot - or will not - accept help from others.Shows boundless love for a pet but can be cool and aloof with you.Regards any request for intimacy from you as pressurising.Shows difficulties in living the sexual life of a couple in a natural way, sometimes even avoiding intimacy in their relationships.Is not aware of these dynamics, so can come to question love, to the point of thinking that they are a difficult person.If you do not intervene soon, those in a couple relationship with an avoidant person will end up having to settle for a relationship that consists of distances, until the relationship eventually fragments. Everything you have built together will have been in vain.Understanding the wounds of attachment is the best gift you can give to your relationship, and ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Russell Newton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/236859/bk_acx0_236859_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Home or Away (eBook, ePUB)
Two friends, one Olympic dream, and the choice that stood in the way. Once Leigh and Susy were close friends and teammates bound for Olympic hockey gold, but when Leigh's sure-fire plan to make the final roster backfired, she left everything behind to start over, including the one person who knew her secret. Two decades later, Leigh's a successful investment banker, happily married, and the mom of a hockey prodigy, so when a career opportunity lands the family back in Minnesota, Leigh takes the shot for her kid. Back in the ultra-competitive world she left behind, the move puts her in Susy's orbit, a daily reminder of how Leigh watched from the sidelines as her former teammate went on to Olympic glory. Despite the coldness between them, Susy can't help but hope that Leigh might lace up her skates and join her in the coaches' box-after all Leigh knows better than anyone how hard it is to be a woman in this world. Susy's coaching decisions are undermined by the all-male board and she knows soon her daughter, Georgie, will be seen as a "girl athlete," relegated to the B team, with less support and opportunity to advance. But Leigh's sure keeping Susy at arms' length is the only way to hide her history with her coach Jeff Carlson. When he hints of new favors in exchange for her son's ice time and allegations arise over his conduct, Leigh is caught in the ultimate bind: come clean about what happened when she was an Olympic hopeful and risk her marriage or play Jeff's game. In a moment of desperation, Leigh turns to Susy and realizes the one person she thought was her biggest competitor might turn out to be her biggest ally. Told with Kathleen West's trademark wit and compassion, Home or Away is a story about overcoming our pasts, confronting our futures, and the sustaining bonds of female friendship.- Shop: buecher
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Home or Away
Two friends, one Olympic dream, and the choice that stood in the way. Once Leigh and Susy were close friends and teammates bound for Olympic hockey gold, but when Leigh's sure-fire plan to make the final roster backfired, she left everything behind to start over, including the one person who knew her secret. Two decades later, Leigh's a successful investment banker, happily married, and the mom of a hockey prodigy, so when a career opportunity lands the family back in Minnesota, Leigh takes the shot for her kid. Back in the ultra-competitive world she left behind, the move puts her in Susy's orbit, a daily reminder of how Leigh watched from the sidelines as her former teammate went on to Olympic glory. Despite the coldness between them, Susy can't help but hope that Leigh might lace up her skates and join her in the coaches' box-after all Leigh knows better than anyone how hard it is to be a woman in this world. Susy's coaching decisions are undermined by the all-male board and she knows soon her daughter, Georgie, will be seen as a "girl athlete," relegated to the B team, with less support and opportunity to advance. But Leigh's sure keeping Susy at arms' length is the only way to hide her history with her coach Jeff Carlson. When he hints of new favors in exchange for her son's ice time and allegations arise over his conduct, Leigh is caught in the ultimate bind: come clean about what happened when she was an Olympic hopeful and risk her marriage or play Jeff's game. In a moment of desperation, Leigh turns to Susy and realizes the one person she thought was her biggest competitor might turn out to be her biggest ally. Told with Kathleen West's trademark wit and compassion, Home or Away is a story about overcoming our pasts, confronting our futures, and the sustaining bonds of female friendship. Story Locale: Minnesota- Shop: buecher
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The Sheikh's Inherited Bride: Evermore, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 373min
“You are King,” she said, sitting into Addan’s chair now, collapsing into it, taking in a shaking breath.“Yes,” he crossed his arms over his chest, “I will inherit Addan’s throne, and all that entails.”She swallowed, his promotion one she knew he didn’t wish for, one she knew he didn’t take any joy in.“Your highness,” she said, deferentially, standing uneasily. She couldn’t work out how she wanted to be. “I’d like to be alone now.”He didn’t answer, his eyes holding hers for a moment before she spun and moved to the door. But before she could open it, his voice arrested her.“You are part of that, Sophie.”She turned to face him. “Part of what?”“When he died, I inherited all that was his. Including you.” He said the words with a hint of disgust. With coldness and disdain.A frisson of alarm jolted her spine. “I don’t...understand.” Tears streamed down her cheeks and she dashed at them; more came to take their place.“This palace, the title, the country, his duties. All of it. And also, your betrothal to Addan, on his death, passed to me.”An unexpected death propels Malik to the top of the line of succession. He inherits everything: The birthright to rule the prosperous Arabian kingdom, the wealth of their family, the power of their blood...and the late Sheikh's bride-to-be!Innocent Sophie had agreed to the marriage because she adored her intended groom. He was safe, kind, gentle...but his brother Malik is the exact opposite! Raw virility and power, masculine strength, and with a cool disdain for her, she should want to run a mile from this marriage! She should want to turn her back on her promise, her duties, and the kingdom she's fallen completely in love with.But though she doesn't like Malik, one look from the man she must now marry fills her body with a heat she can't deny - particularly when an heir is urgently required!Book five in The Evermore Series is a romance about lo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meghan Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/216381/bk_acx0_216381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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He's Been Faithful: Trusting God to Do What Only He Can Do, Hörbuch, Digital, 123min
When Carol Cymbala says that nothing is impossible for God, she means it. For nearly thirty years she has experienced God's light shining steadily in the heart of a city that has become synonymous with coldness and decay. She has watched in awe as he has mended human beings whose lives seemed beyond help. She has also seen how prayer can be the dynamic tool God uses to solve the worst kind of problems. In her own life, Carol has overcome enormous fears through the grace of God, enabling her to conduct the 275-member, Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir despite the fact that she doesn't even read music. With remarkable candor she tells us: "The story of my life involves doing the things I dread. But I've done them anyway and have learned an incredible truth: though doing God's will hasn't always been easy, it has always been good. Always better than I imagined, taking me beyond my small plans to God's big plans. Because of his promise and proven faithfulness, I know that nothing is impossible for God." Admitting that she is a shy person who always prefers being in the background, Carol has let God shape and stretch her life in surprising ways. Sunday after Sunday, as she directs The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, she looks out at a sea of faces, brown, black, and white, amazed at how God has used music to woo all kinds of people to himself: lawyers, nurses, doctors, teachers, crack addicts, prostitutes, and homeless people. He's Been Faithful recounts the awe-inspiring stories of those who have been touched by the Lord through the music of The Brooklyn Tabernacle, as well as the story of Carol's own journey as she has sought to lead believers into an encounter with God through worship. He's Been Faithful highlights what God can do when we decide to trust him despite our fears and inadequacies. The moment we admit our powerlessness is the moment we will begin to see God working most powerfully. Language: English. Narrator: Carol Cymbala. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/zond/000138/bk_zond_000138_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pyromaniac , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 16min
Dan Wells was Hickman County’s High School star quarterback and was close to graduating. Dan was the biggest player outside of sports if you know what I mean, and wasn't interested in being tied down by no girl. Marriage and a baby was the furthest thing on his mind. All he cared about was sports, and getting laid until Hickman County High's prettiest cheerleader Rhonda who was the most popular girl in school hooked up with Dan for a night of hot passion which led to an unwanted pregnancy, and a lot of shedding tears between both of them. Dan was looking forward to a full athletics scholarship to a college of his choice, but now that there was a baby staring them both in the eyes wanting their love, and attention all they both seen was how one moment in time destroyed their dreams of freedom. Abortion was discussed, but neither one had the guts to follow through with it. Their freedom that they both cherished was about to come to a screeching halt because they didn't enter the thought of using protection so now they both must suffer the consequences. After the baby was born, and they both got jobs, and had a one bedroom apartment to raise their unwanted baby. After weeks of blaming one another with tears of sadness they decided to give the baby a name which was not out of love. They named their new baby "Demon" because instead of taking the blame for their mistake they cast the blame on the baby for the mess they got their own selves into. As the baby got older, and was sent out in the cruel world to school, and having a name as Demon, this would only backlash on his parents, and everyone that teased, and called him names. Resentment for his parents was at an all-time high that when he became a teenager all the anger and frustration that he bottled up inside was going to be unleashed at a hellish level. For the coldness that his parent’s bestowed upon him he was going to make his parents or anyone that stood in his way pay. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luke Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017736/bk_acx0_017736_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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