147 Results for : overtaken
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I Forgot to Die , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 389min
Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie stars and legendary rock musicians, but it wasn't long before he found his way into the dark underbelly of the City of Angels. When he hit rock bottom - addicted to heroin and cocaine, overtaken by paranoia and psychosis, written off by his friends and family - he grabbed a shovel and kept digging. At 33, Khalil was 109 pounds, a convicted felon, high school dropout, and homeless junkie living on the infamous Skid Row in downtown L.A. So how does someone with nothing, who feels like they deserve nothing, and who just wants to end it all turn their life around? I Forgot to Die is an incredible true story of pain, suffering, addiction, and redemption - and how one man ultimately conquered his demons and wrote himself a new life story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Khalil Rafati. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007706/bk_tant_007706_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Her Forbidden Knight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min
An innocent young telegraph operator becomes a counterfeiter’s target. Once, the Lamartine Hotel was a quiet refuge for New York’s stuffy fashionable set. But by the 1890s, fashion has moved uptown, and the lobby of the Lamartine has been overtaken by natty young sports, who pass their afternoons with billiards or shows of noisy derring-do. Their preferred damsel is Lila Williams, a delicate young telegraph operator whose shyness so charms them that they resolve to defend her against any ill-behaved characters. They are about to face their fiercest challenger, who rides in the gleaming armor of a millionaire. His name is John Knowlton, and from the first telegram she writes for him, Lila is charmed. He has money, good looks, and a criminal secret, and his insidious charisma will demand heroic effort from the knights of the Lamartine billiard table. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonah Cummings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005976/bk_adbl_005976_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Billy Budd , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 234min
On one level... Melville’s tale is an historical adventure telling the story of life aboard ship shortly after the mutiny at Spithead in 1797. Billy is taken from a homeward bound merchantman to serve on the ‘Seventy Four’ HMS Indomitable. He falls foul of Claggart, the ‘Master at Arms’, and the final confrontation results in death. Billy becomes an unwilling martyr - what passes for justice must be implemented because of the rebellious climate of the time. However, below the surface lie some of Melville’s thematic obsessions: the aristocratic savage placed against an inhumanity born of service in time of war, innocence overtaken by fate and the worthy encompassed by the inevitable. The natures of evil and conscience are explored and ‘Billy Budd’ is the author’s “last word upon the strange mystery of himself and human destiny”. Melville is regarded by many as the finest author America has produced. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000064/bk_assm_000064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Memory Trap , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 465min
Even in the era of glasnost, a defector is worth having, especially if he is a senior computer specialist in Russian military intelligence. But when the defection goes wrong, the British are left with three bodies and two inadequate clues to the nature of the information they might have been offered, and which now lies buried somewhere in the collective memories of David Audley and his one-time colleague Major Peter Richardson.But what is the secret that Audley shares with the half-Italian Richardson, now frightened into hiding somewhere in Italy? For once, David Audley has no idea and the race is on to find the elusive Major. But Audley's objective is fast being overtaken by modern political imperatives, ones very different from the black and white certainties of the old Cold War days. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Grady. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009126/bk_adbl_009126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Krait's Redemption: Cat's Eye Chronicles, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min
With winter solstice fast approaching, Sora and her companions are running out of time. She must stop The Shade from awakening the Dark God, yet a powerful force has overtaken her Cat's-Eye necklace, rendering the stone almost useless. To use the stone, Sora must learn to trust her instincts and embrace her own inner strength. She joins forces with unexpected allies to protect the City of Crowns. As the city dissolves into chaos, she finds herself barreling toward an epic battle that will decide the fate of the kingdom. At risk to his own life, Crash returns to the Hive seeking aid against Cerastes. However, the events that led him into exile have not been forgotten. Will the Hive offer him redemption, or will they demand he pay the ultimate price for his transgressions? Join Sora and Crash in their epic battle to save the City of Crowns! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C.S.E. Cooney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008356/bk_tant_008356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Last Cigarette: The Smoking Diaries, Volume 3, Hörbuch, Digital, 284min
Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of 60 years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of 20 and his two lighters, and add no more singes to his cardigan? As this wonderful, wayward record of Gray's life progresses, these questions are overtaken by much larger ones. What is that lady on the plane to Athens doing with her nose? What was sex like before 1963? Will his name be in lights on Broadway? Why did he leave the bedside of his dying mother? With their combination of comedy and serious reflection, of sharp observation and painful self-disclosure, Simon Gray's diaries have reinvented the memoir form and are destined to become classics of autobiography. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Gray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cnon/000106/bk_cnon_000106_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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TimeRiders: Day of the Predator (Book 2): Day of the Predator (Book 2) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 741min
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of TimeRiders: Day of the Predator, the second book in the TimeRiders series, read by Trevor White. Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose - to prevent time travel destroying history... When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn't have, Liam is marooned 65 million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly - and until now - undiscovered species of predator. Can Liam make contact with Maddy and Sal before he's torn to pieces by dinosaurs - and without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Trevor White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000407/bk_pauk_000407_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bloodhounds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 639min
Winner of the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger, the Barry Award and the Macavity Award. 'Darling, if ever I've met a group of potential murderers anywhere, it's the Bloodhounds.' Thus says one of the members of the Bloodhounds of Bath, a society that meets in a crypt to discuss crime novels. But to their latest recruit, they seem just a gaggle of dotty misfits, until one of them reveals that he is in possession of an immensely valuable stamp, recently stolen from the Postal Museum. Then theft is overtaken by murder when the corpse of one of the Bloodhounds is found in a locked houseboat, with the only key in the possession of a man with a perfect alibi. Burly Peter Diamond finds himself embroiled in a mystery evoking the classic crime puzzles of John Dickson Carr. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Wickham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001203/bk_twuk_001203_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Claiming Their Royal Mate: Part One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 122min, (USK 18)
Daniella Clark has never fit in - a fact she's always blamed on being adopted. But when her body is overtaken by a need so fierce it defies human explanation, she turns to the one man she instinctively knows must have the answers she seeks - her sexy-as-sin neighbor. But his explanation isn't one she can easily accept, and it means her sexual heat won't go away without his help. But it turns out her neighbor isn't the only male she has to worry about. The prime of his people has laid claim to her. And though he radiates sexuality in a way that makes her mouth water, he's more beast than man. With one weretiger charged to protect her, and the prime's plan to claim her for his own, Daniella must fight to maintain her sense of self, even while they fight for her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carly Robins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026054/bk_acx0_026054_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Wyndcross (A Regency Romance): Families of Dorset, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 428min
Kate Matcham needs a fortune or a husband. She wants neither. With a tainted inheritance in the balance, she receives one offer to become a scoundrel's mistress and another offer of a marriage of convenience. Before resigning herself to a choice, she accepts the invitation to visit a childhood friend, considering it a last hurrah before embarking on a bleak future.The visit goes sideways when she falls for the gentleman her friend intends to marry, a man well out of Kate's league - and one who seems to be hiding something. Smuggling has overtaken the county, and it seems that everyone is complicit in the trade that killed her father.One by one, her options dwindle as she struggles against her strengthening feelings for a duplicitous man, a determination not to hurt her friend, and keeping the promise she made long ago: To stand up to the people who killed her father. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eleanor Caudill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192252/bk_acx0_192252_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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