90 Results for : silks
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Obsidian: An Alien Warrior Romance (Elemental Mates, Book 3) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 270min
I'm at an alien auction. But I'm the one being sold. When I woke up and took in my surroundings, I knew I was in deep trouble. From the way the aliens eyed me, to the silks draped on everything, including me, it wasn't hard to believe I was in a brothel. What I didn't count on was it being upscale. Apparently, there is a high demand for entertainment across the galaxies, and humans are rare. I would think that's a good thing, but it's not. As the bidding price goes higher and higher, so does my anxiety levels. Who knows what my buyer is going to expect from me, but I can guarantee it's nothing I'd do willingly. Until I meet Castien. Not only does he save me, but he promises to reunite me with my friends. The only problem is that he makes no apology as he tries to seduce me. Now, all the things required of me at the brothel are coming to the forefront of my mind, and it's not hard to play the part as his lover.I just need to make sure that I'm still acting by the time we part ways, or I'll belong to him. And the currency in which he buys me with won't be money this time. It will be my heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dash Coleman, Jenny Watson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/234770/bk_acx0_234770_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Radiant Light: Tales from the Edge Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 489min
This wicked witch is sweet as sin. Iphigenia Holt, witch, acrobat, and bleeding heart, continues tumbling down the circus silks and into a harem of lofty admirers in this sequel to Distant Light. Finally out from under her mother's shadow, Iphi has found joy in an unconventional place: in the arms of two men. There's Rhys, half-vampire, half-shifter, all deadly. And there's Caspian, the sensitive shifter who paints life in brilliant colors. Together the trio soars to sensual new heights, but Iphi has no time to revel in her newfound happiness before their love is put to the test. Iphi's mother isn't happy with her daughter's recent independence, and she's holding Caspian's brother Thorn hostage to get Iphi back under control. Worse, their brother Dominic watches Iphi from the shadows - and she'd be lying if she didn't admit she comes alive under his gaze. Meanwhile, a mysterious puppet master is abducting humans and vampires off Distant Edge's streets to build a ghoul army. Iphi may be the only one who can stop evil from invading the Edge, but if her men can't find a way to see past the mistrust tearing them apart, their deadly foe will steal what they love most right out from under them. Contains mature themes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Cendese, Carly Robins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/012126/bk_tant_012126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Red Ribbon
Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She is a dressmaker, but this is no ordinary sewing workshop. Hers are no ordinary clients.Ella has joined the seamstresses of Birkenau-Auschwitz, as readers may recognise it. Every dress she makes could mean the difference between life and death. And this place is all about survival.Ella seeks refuge from this reality, and from haunting memories, in her work and in the world of fashion and fabrics. She is faced with painful decisions about how far she is prepared to go to survive. Is her love of clothes and creativity nothing more than collaboration with her captors, or is it a means of staying alive? Will she fight for herself alone, or will she trust the importance of an ever-deepening friendship with Rose?One thing weaves through the colours of couture gowns and camp mud - a red ribbon, given to Ella as a symbol of hope.- Shop: buecher
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More Magic of the Hands - A Magical Discourse on Effects with
More Magic of the Hands - A Magical Discourse on Effects with ab 39.49 € als Taschenbuch: Cards Tapes Coins Silks Dice Salt Cigars Gloves Thimbles Penknives Matchboxes Billiard Balls Chinese Rings. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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Silver Lies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 804min
The crooked, the greedy, and those with a checkered past - they all came to Leadville with the same purpose: Get in, get rich, get out. As 1879 draws to a close, silver fever burns hot in the Rocky Mountain boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. Unfortunately for Joe Rose, an assayer of precious metals, death stakes its own claim. Joe’s body is found trampled into the muck behind Inez Stannert’s saloon. Inez already has much more to deal with than pouring shots of Taos Lightning. A lady educated on the East Coast, she has a past that doesn’t bear close scrutiny, due in part to her elopement with a gambling man who has recently disappeared. Most of the townsfolk, including Inez’s business partner, Abe Jackson, dismiss Joe’s death as an accident. Death, after all, is no stranger in Leadville. But Inez wonders why this loving husband and father was carrying a brass token good for “one free screw” at the parlor house of Denver madam Mattie Silks. When Joe’s widow Emma asks Inez to settle Joe’s affairs, Inez reluctantly agrees and soon uncovers skewed assays, bogus greenbacks, and blackmail, leading her to believe that Joe was murdered. Was he killed over money or for purely personal motives? It’s up to Inez to find out. Ann Parker, a science writer by day, is the author of the Silver Rush historical mystery series, of which Silver Lies was the winner of the Willa Cather Award for Historical Fiction and the Colorado Gold Award for Best Mystery. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirsten Potter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005498/bk_blak_005498_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Paris Universal Exhibition 1878
Paris Universal Exhibition 1878 ab 25.99 € als Taschenbuch: Monographs On The Tusser And Other Wild Silks Of India Descriptive Of The Objects And Specimens Exhibited In The India Section Of The Paris Exhibition (1878). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1012min
In 1876, Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the greatest empires of the Indian subcontinent, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities of Lahore and Peshawar. It was a territory irresistible to the British, who plundered everything, including the fabled Koh-I-Noor diamond. Exiled to England, the dispossessed Maharajah transformed his estate at Elveden in Suffolk into a Moghul palace, its grounds stocked with leopards, monkeys, and exotic birds. Sophia, god-daughter of Queen Victoria, was raised a genteel aristocratic Englishwoman: presented at court, afforded grace and favor lodgings at Hampton Court Palace and photographed wearing the latest fashions for the society pages. But when, in secret defiance of the British government, she travelled to India, she returned a revolutionary. Sophia transcended her heritage to devote herself to battling injustice and inequality, a far cry from the life to which she was born. Her causes were the struggle for Indian Independence, the fate of the lascars, the welfare of Indian soldiers in the First World War - and, above all, the fight for female suffrage. She was bold and fearless, attacking politicians, putting herself in the front line and swapping her silks for a nurse's uniform to tend wounded soldiers evacuated from the battlefields. Meticulously researched and passionately written, this enthralling story of the rise of women and the fall of empire introduces an extraordinary individual and her part in the defining moments of recent British and Indian history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tania Rodrigues. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022231/bk_adbl_022231_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Barons of the Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 746min
In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the 19th-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades. There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business - one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea to New York from Canton could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological challenge of the day became ensuring one’s goods arrived first to market, so they might fetch the highest price. Barons of the Sea tells the story of a handful of cutthroat competitors who raced to build the fastest, finest, most profitable clipper ships to carry their precious cargo to American shores. They were visionary, eccentric shipbuilders, debonair captains, and socially-ambitious merchants with names like Forbes and Delano - men whose business interests took them from the cloistered confines of China’s expatriate communities to the sin city decadence of Gold Rush-era San Francisco, and from the teeming hubbub of East Boston’s shipyards and to the lavish sitting rooms of New York’s Hudson Valley estates. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, Barons of the Sea is a riveting tale of innovation and ingenuity that draws back the curtain on the making of some of the nation’s greatest fortunes, and the rise and fall of an all-American industry as sordid as it was genteel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008863/bk_sans_008863_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 762min
The Forty Elephants were unique in the annals of British crime. Known also as the Forty Thieves, they were the country's only all-female crime syndicate, a gang of tough but glamorous young women who plundered the fashion stores and jewel shops of the West End, took their lovers from the among London's most notorious gangsters, and terrorised their rivals, male and female alike. Their roots lay with the Elephant Gang, a band of highwaymen who once haunted the Elephant and Castle coaching inn south of the Thames and whose reputation descended through generations of cutthroats. In the dying years of Queen Victoria's reign, their women forged a name of their own. But it was in the early years of the 20th century that Alice Diamond led the Elephants to their greatest infamy. Born the oldest of eight children in Lambeth Workhouse Infirmary, Diamond was the daughter of a jailbird and by her teens was said to be the cleverest shoplifter in London. Newspapers described her gang as 'notorious for their good looks, fine stature, and smart clothing' as well as for stealing the most expensive silks, gems, and furs. One detective described how they would descend 'like a gang of locusts' in taxis and chauffeur-driven limousines, cleaning out a store inside one hour. They also used the motor-car and train to travel the country, targeting shops and warehouses, wearing specially made skirts and knickers to hide their plunder and spending their ill-gotten gains on a life of mad excess. Crime historian Brian McDonald has uncovered a wealth of material to write the first ever full-length account of these remarkable women and their scandalous exploits, now available for the first time as an audiobook read by Adna Sablyich. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adna Sablyich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129927/bk_acx0_129927_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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New World, Inc. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 752min
Three generations of English merchant adventurers - not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed - were the earliest founders of America. Profit - not piety - was their primary motive. Some 70 years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown", the world's first joint-stock company. Back then, in the mid-16th century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a daunting array of social, commercial, and political problems. Struggling with a single export - woolen cloth - the merchants were forced to seek new markets and trading partners, especially as political discord followed the straitened circumstances in which so many English people found themselves. At first they headed east, and dreamed of Cathay - China, with its silks and exotic luxuries. Eventually, they turned west, and so began a new chapter in world history. The work of reaching the New World required the very latest in navigational science as well as an extraordinary appetite for risk. As this absorbing account shows, innovation and risk-taking were at the heart of the settlement of America, as was the profit motive. Trade and business drove English interest in America, and determined what happened once their ships reached the New World. The result of extensive archival work and a bold interpretation of the historical record, New World, Inc. draws a portrait of life in London, on the Atlantic, and across the New World that offers a fresh analysis of the founding of American history. In the tradition of the best works of history that make us reconsider the past and better understand the present, Butman and Targett examine the enterprising spirit that inspired European settlement of America and established a national culture of entrep ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Kipiniak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004336/bk_hach_004336_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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