207 Results for : eccentrics
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Sherlock Holmes and the Shadows of St. Petersburg , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 163min
A psychological account of a crime - that's how Fyodor Dostoyevsky described his novel Crime and Punishment, which tells of two horrific ax murders in St. Petersburg. It becomes much more than a mere "account", however, when a pair of dead bodies turn up in London's East End, their heads split open by an ax blade. To Scotland Yard, the crimes are murders to solve. To Sherlock Holmes, they present an intriguing puzzle. But to the literary man, Dr. John H. Watson, they seem a deliberate restaging of the brutal murders depicted in Dostoyevsky's narrative. If Watson is right, what can be the purpose behind an actual recreation of the fictional killings? Blocking the answer to that question is a mysterious assortment of English and Russian eccentrics, and one can only wonder if the startling revelation at the end will be dramatic enough to set matters straight. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ben Carling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/125757/bk_acx0_125757_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Big Stone Gap: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 682min
Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the tiny town of Big Stone Gap is home to some of the most charming eccentrics in the state. Ave Maria Mulligan is the town's self-proclaimed spinster, a thirty-five year old pharmacist with a "mountain girl's body and a flat behind." She lives an amiable life with good friends and lots of hobbies until the fateful day in 1978 when she suddenly discovers that she's not who she always thought she was. Before she can blink, Ave's fielding marriage proposals, fighting off greedy family members, organizing a celebration for visiting celebrities, and planning the trip of a lifetime - a trip that could change her view of the world and her own place in it forever. Brimming with humor and wise notions of small-town life, Big Stone Gap is a gem of a book with a giant heart.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adriana Trigiani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003035/bk_rand_003035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Old Girls in Low Cotton , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 93min
Somewhere people act normal--but not in the Downy Mount Mobile Home Park, where recently widowed Marfa Bacot lives with her mother-in-law, Lulu, who cleans from hell to breakfast and has her make-up tattooed on so she's always ready for the rapture. As if it's not crazy enough inside the trailer, Marfa has to deal with the other eccentrics who populate the park, from the runaway polygs stockpiling water for the end of the world to the man who hears from extraterrestials through V8 cans to the domineering Don Ella, who runs the park with an iron fist and attendance-mandatory parties. Marfa dreams of a new life on her own outside Flagstaff, but first she'll have to let go of her old one. Helen Childress wrote the movie Reality Bites. She is a seventh-generation Texan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Therese Plummer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021955/bk_adbl_021955_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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My Secret Life: Volume Two Chapter Three, Hörbuch, Digital, 32min, (USK 18)
My Secret Life", the anonymously written erotic memoirs of a Victorian English gentleman who refers to himself simply as "Walter" is one of the most idiosyncratic and sexually obsessed books ever written. In this vast autobiographical confessional the author recounts, in meticulous detail, his sexual exploits throughout the course of a life devoted entirely to the pursuit of carnal pleasure. Through this compelling exploration of the author's sexual behaviour we are left with a uniquely entertaining insight into life behind the closed doors of Victorian society. "My Secret Life" is funny, sorrowful, suspenseful, compulsively readable, obscene, titillating, exciting and erotic... in it we are privy to the thoughts, emotions and memories of one of the most unusual, unsung and colourful English eccentrics of the Victorian era. Explicit Language Warning: You must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Crawford Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/002901/bk_edel_002901_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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My Secret Life: Volume Three Chapter Six, Hörbuch, Digital, 20min, (USK 18)
My Secret Life, the anonymously written erotic memoirs of a Victorian English gentleman who refers to himself simply as 'Walter' is one of the most idiosyncratic and sexually obsessed books ever written. In this vast autobiographical confessional the author recounts, in meticulous detail, his sexual exploits throughout the course of a life devoted entirely to the pursuit of carnal pleasure. Through this compelling exploration of the author's sexual behaviour we are left with a uniquely entertaining insight into life behind the closed doors of Victorian society. My Secret Life is evocative, provocative, sorrowful, suspenseful, obscene, exciting and highly erotic... in it we are privy to the thoughts, emotions and memories of one of the most unusual, unsung and colourful English eccentrics of the Victorian era. Explicit Language Warning: you must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Crawford Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/007240/bk_edel_007240_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sales People: Hiring, Training, and Using them Effectively , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min
How do you hire and train sales people, and how do you use them effectively? In only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction, learn the answer to this question from the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide. He helped bring American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) public in 1988, a company that recently sold for $6.1 Billion. This audiobook includes 13 sections: Introduction: The Hardest Job to Hire For and Employ People In Effectively Define What You Are Looking For Suggested Ad: Be Willing to Carry a Bag Learning the Ropes: The Most Undervalued Part of the Job Your Firm's Toleration for Input Interviews: Do Not Prompt Them Interviews: Eccentrics Need Apply Testing Points Training Employing Doable Tasks Undoable Tasks Summary: Keep Looking All the Time.This product is part of the Simply Magazine Home & Office series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deaver Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smag/000022/bk_smag_000022_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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My Secret Life: Volume Two Chapter Twenty One, Hörbuch, Digital, 38min, (USK 18)
My Secret Life", the anonymously written erotic memoirs of a Victorian English gentleman who refers to himself simply as "Walter" is one of the most idiosyncratic and sexually obsessed books ever written. In this vast autobiographical confessional the author recounts, in meticulous detail, his sexual exploits throughout the course of a life devoted entirely to the pursuit of carnal pleasure. Through this compelling exploration of the author's sexual behaviour, we are left with a uniquely entertaining insight into life behind the closed doors of Victorian society. "My Secret Life" is funny, sorrowful, suspenseful, compulsively readable, obscene, titillating, exciting and erotic... in it we are privy to the thoughts, emotions and memories of one of the most unusual, unsung and colourful English eccentrics of the Victorian era. Explicit Language Warning: you must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Crawford Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/004784/bk_edel_004784_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Flash Black , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 363min
The author of Black Tie and Tales and Black in the Saddle Again, both winners of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor, returns with a new collection guaranteed to tickle your funny bone and make you scratch your head at the absurdities of life in the early years of the new millennium. In slyly ironic, pointedly witty essays, Black takes aim at the vagaries of the English language, the moribund political correctness movement, and a host of rural and urban eccentrics. In fact, there's not much that Black won't write about, be it the banality of bumper stickers, the ingenuity of crows, or such everyday subjects as outhouses, hammocks and blue jeans. So sit down, settle back and loosen your belt to leave room for a belly laugh or three. Flash Black is witty, weird, one hundred percent Canadian and guaranteed to delight. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Foley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010547/bk_adbl_010547_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min
Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia.... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of "felony of sock", and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia. It recounts the misfortunes of the escaped Irish convicts who set out to walk from Sydney to China, guided only by a hand-drawn paper compass, and explains the role of the coconut in Australia's only military coup. Our nation's beginnings are steeped in the strange, the ridiculous, and the frankly bizarre. Girt proudly reclaims these stories for all of us. Not to listen to it would be un-Australian. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Hunt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023003/bk_adbl_023003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Code of the Woosters
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic novels in the English language. When Aunt Dahlia demands that Bertie Wooster help her dupe an antique dealer into selling her an 18th-century cow-creamer. Dahlia trumps Bertie's objections by threatening to sever his standing invitation to her house for lunch, an unthinkable prospect given Bertie's devotion to the cooking of her chef, Anatole. A web of complications grows as Bertie's pal Gussie Fink-Nottle asks for counseling in the matter of his impending marriage to Madeline Bassett. It seems Madeline isn't his only interest; Gussie also wants to study the effects of a full moon on the love life of newts. Added to the cast of eccentrics are Roderick Spode, leader of a fascist organization called the Saviors of Britain, who also wants that cow-creamer, and an unusual man of the cloth known as Rev. H. P. "Stinker" Pinker. As usual, butler Jeeves becomes a focal point for all the plots and ploys of these characters, and in the end only his cleverness can rescue Bertie from being arrested, lynched, and engaged by mistake!- Shop: buecher
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