117 Results for : disaffected
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Eagle Eye: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 387min
Hortense Calisher’s complex exploration of the journey of a young man whose intelligent observations cannot help him figure out his own direction. Returning home to New York from Europe on his twenty-first birthday, draft-dodging narrator Bunty Bronstein is frustrated with his increasingly pompous businessman father and his disaffected mother, who no longer shows the flame she once possessed. Equipped with an incisive view of bourgeois lifestyles in New York, Bunty observes the shifting sensibilities of his family members, and yet has difficulty apprehending his own place in the world. Preoccupied with emerging computer technology, yet unsure of his future and alienated from his once-comfortable family, Bunty remains a compelling, wandering soul. A male companion piece to Hortense Calisher’s equally expert, yet campier, Queenie, Eagle Eye explores the mind of a relatable young man facing dilemmas that are at once universal and singular. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tristan Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014885/bk_adbl_014885_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Slow Fade , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 377min
Slow Fade is a portrait of Wesley Hardin, whose life has been devoted to manipulations of all kinds: cinematic images, conference-table negotiations, actors, technicians, and even (and especially) those closest to him. Nearing the end of his career, he tries to divest himself of illusions, to make peace with his demons and his past. The process is complex and at times appears to occur by committee. After his son Walker returns from a long spell in India (where he was searching for Wesley's daughter at his father's behest), Wesley hires him to write a script about his experiences there, which Walker will not otherwise discuss. As Wesley grapples with control over one final film project, Walker roams the American landscape with a disaffected roadie named A. D., who is desperately trying to make a new career for himself outside of his rock 'n' roll experiences. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will Oldham, D. V. DeVincentis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drag/000001/bk_drag_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Become More Successful with Difficult Students , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 256min
Many of our public school students are disaffected and struggling with their poor behaviors and poor school performance. Test scores are being reported down with kids’ behaviors being out of control. Our schools are being charged increasingly with teaching more nontraditional skills such as skills that involve social and emotional learning to students less prepared than ever before.How to Become More Successful with Difficult Students provides educational staff with simple, successful techniques that will assist them to:Improve their relationships with their studentsIncrease social and emotional learning through insightful interactions with their studentsPut some of the fun back into educationGet kids to enjoy school againHelp kids to learn perform betterIf you are one of those educators who is giving it your all to help every one of our youth be better students and better people, then How to Become More Successful with Difficult Students is a necessity for your everyday use. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary J. Chambers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171648/bk_acx0_171648_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Spirit Quest 1969: Tripping Through Lands of Enchantment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 354min
Spirit Quest 1969: Tripping Through Lands of Enchantment, is the true tale of a disaffected suburban kid hitchhiking through western America to discover the counterculture communes in 1969.In 1969, when he was 17 years old, Ronald dropped out of high school near Chicago to explore the counterculture in the Rocky Mountains. After taking a huge dose of LSD, he wandered into the Navajo reservation seeking supernatural visions, meeting missionaries, and students of Indian lore. He joined a group marriage commune in Taos at the height of the Hippie-Chicano conflict. The domineering personalities he found in communal life disappointed him, but the concept of living together in non-monogamous families inspired him to continue working to improve the concept. Low on cash, Ron decided to return to the city to earn enough money to continue exploring the street scene and New Left world in Chicago and New York, which will soon appear as a follow-up book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Trupp. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223832/bk_acx0_223832_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Soldier of Rome - The Sacrovir Revolt: Book Two of the Artorian Chronicles , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 616min
It has been three years since the wars against Arminius and the Cherusci. Gaius Silius, legate of the 20th Legion, is concerned that the barbarians - though shattered by the war - may be stirring once again. He also seeks to confirm the rumors regarding Arminius' death. What Silius does not realize is that there is a new threat to the empire, but it does not come from beyond the frontier; it is coming from within, where a disenchanted nobleman looks to sow the seeds of rebellion in Gaul. Legionary Artorius has greatly matured during his five years in the legions. He has become stronger in mind, his body growing even more powerful. Like the rest of the legion, he is unaware of the shadow growing well within the empire's borders, where a disaffected nobleman seeks to betray Emperor Tiberius. A shadow looms, one that looks to envelope the province of Gaul as well as the Rhine legions. The year is AD 20. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel Patterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051247/bk_acx0_051247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Ecliptic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 883min
The mesmerising new novel from the acclaimed author of The Bellwether Revivals: a rich and immersive story of love, obsession, creativity and disintegration. On a forested island off the coast of Istanbul stands Portmantle, a gated refuge for beleaguered artists. There, a curious assembly of painters, architects, writers and musicians strive to restore their faded talents. Elspeth 'Knell' Conroy is a celebrated painter who has lost faith in her ability and fled the dizzying art scene of 1960s London. On the island, she spends her nights locked in her blacked-out studio, testing a strange new pigment for her elusive masterpiece. But when a disaffected teenager named Fullerton arrives at the refuge, he disrupts its established routines. He is plagued by a recurring nightmare that steers him into danger, and Knell is left to pick apart the chilling mystery. Where did the boy come from, what is 'The Ecliptic', and how does it relate to their abandoned lives in England? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane MacFarlane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007129/bk_sans_007129_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Guardian of Lies: A Paul Madriani Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 853min
Defense attorney Paul Madriani gets caught in a web of deceit and murder involving Cold War secrets, a rare coin dealer who once worked for the CIA, and a furious assassin in one of the most entertaining novels yet in this New York Times best-selling series. Together with his partner, Harry Hinds, Madriani must piece together the threads of a decades-old conspiracy involving priceless gold coins, an aging American spy, a disaffected Russian soldier, and a forgotten weapon from the days of JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis. As the separate strands of the story come together, Madriani finds information that will ultimately lead him to the one person who holds the key to it all: a man some call "The Guardian of Lies". Paul Madriani faces his most challenging - and most urgent - case yet, a breathless story that combines fact and fiction and will hold listeners captive until its final, explosive conclusion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001933/bk_harp_001933_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Treacherous Temptations , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min
A reluctant heiress resigned to her fate.... Mary Elizabeth Edwardes has one of the largest fortunes in England but has no desire to leave her quiet country existence...and even less to acquire a husband she cannot choose for herself. A dissolute nobleman bent on retribution.... Trapped in a duplicitous existence since scandal destroyed his fortune and family name, Lord Hadley Blanchard has spent the better part of a decade posing as a disaffected exile while spying and seducing in the service of the English Crown. A dangerous game of seduction, and intrigue.... When summoned from abroad by a former lover, Lord Hadley perceives an opportunity for vengeance at last. By employing the full measure of his seductive charm, he woos the ward of the man who destroyed his life, little knowing that winning Mary's fortune will mean risking his own treacherous heart. Mature content warning - This audiobook contains sexually explicit material. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051959/bk_acx0_051959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Jump-Starting Boys: Help Your Reluctant Learner Find Success in School and Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min
Everyone knows that boys are falling behind in education. Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys, who are most aware that their bright, eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade, after which they become disengaged, discouraged, and disaffected. There are dozens of books on underachieving boys, but most parents brave enough to lift one off the shelf are instantly intimidated by the footnotes, graphs, case studies, and academic-speak addressed almost entirely to educators. What about the average guilt-ridden, frustrated mother or father of an underachieving boy? Jump-Starting Boys is the first book on the market that empowers parents, helping them reclaim the duties and rewards of raising their children and navigate the influences of school and media. Filled with reassurance and support, the authors turn fear and guilt into can-do confidence. Through easy tips and action list sidebars, this is the most practical, readable book on the topic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gillian Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/009909/bk_acx0_009909_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Condition Black, Hörbuch, Digital, 186min
A thrilling classic from a master of the genre. It is the last month before Iraq is to invade Kuwait, and Saddam Hussein has instructed his scientists to stop at nothing to arm his nation with nuclear warheads. As Frederick Bissett, a disaffected British weapons scientist, is on the point of seizing the Iraqi bait, the only man to stand in the way of a total collapse of the Middle Eastern military balance is a young FBI operative, Bill Erlich - a man who has just seen a close friend gunned down by a terrorist, though, and is hard on the heels of the assassin. As he blunders into the lines by which the Iraqi puppet-masters control their undercover agents in England, he is faced with a last and inevitable confrontation and recognises that he has gone beyond the point of recall: he is engaged in what his FBI training has taught him to call ‘Condition Black’, lethal assault in progress. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Cox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000864/bk_hcuk_000864_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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