148 Results for : irascible
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Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor: An Irish Country Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 985min
A brand-new tale in Patrick Taylor's New York Times best-selling series.Fans of Taylor's best-selling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Newly married to his once-long-lost sweetheart, he's ready to settle into domestic bliss, but there's always something requiring his attention, be it a riding accident, a difficult patient with a worrisome heart condition, a spot of grouse-hunting, or even some tricky shenanigans at the local dog races. The everyday complications of village life are very different from the challenges Fingal faced nearly 30 years earlier, when fresh out of medical school, the young Dr. O'Reilly accepts a post at the Aungier Street Dispensary, tending to the impoverished denizens of Dublin's tenement slums. Yet even as he tries to make a difference, Fingal's tireless devotion to his patients may cost him his own true love.... Shifting back and forth between the present and the past, Patrick Taylor's captivating Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor, brings to life both the green young man O'Reilly once was and the canny village doctor listeners have come to know and admire. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Keating. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001675/bk_aren_001675_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Mourning Parade: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 708min
Single mom and veterinarian Natalie DeAngelo lost everything the day her two sons were killed in a school shooting. Following her psychiatrist's advice, she decides to sell her once-happy home to escape the immense pain and grief of living there alone. Desperate to find relief from her unspeakable loss, Natalie impetuously commits to honoring her boys' memory and volunteers to assist philanthropist Andrew Gordon at his elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand. All she wants once she gets there is relief. But she soon realizes she may be in over her head when she faces three major challenges: her debilitating PTSD is creating night terrors; Peter Hatcher, the sanctuary's irascible in-house vet, has a longtime grudge against her and wants desperately for her to fail; and Sophie, a female elephant with a raging leg infection and PTSD caused by human abuse, is demanding that Natalie use every trick in her veterinarian's black bag to heal her. Dr. Hatcher wants to euthanize Sophie, as he claims she's a lost cause, and Natalie knows she must find a way to convince the others to let her keep trying. Can she and Sophie find a way to heal together and learn to love life again? Or will another tragedy shatter Natalie's progress? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tavia Gilbert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010114/bk_blak_010114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Short Stories of Saki: 65 of Saki's Most Popular Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 838min
Sixty-five short stories by the master storyteller, Saki: 'Esme', 'The Match-Maker', 'Tobermory', 'Mrs. Packletide's Tiger', 'The Stampeding of Lady Bastable', 'The Background', 'Hermann the Irascible', 'The Unrest-Cure', 'The Jesting of Arlington Stringham', 'Sredni Vashtar', 'Adrian The Chaplet', 'The Quest', 'Wratislav', 'The Easter Egg', 'Filboid Studge', 'The Music on the Hill 'The Story of St. Vespaluus', 'The Way to the Dairy', 'The Peace Offering', 'The Peace of Mowsle Barton', 'The Talking-out of Tarrington', 'The Hounds of Fate', 'The Recessional', 'A Matter of Sentiment', 'The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope', 'Ministers of Grace', 'The Remoulding of Groby Lington', 'The She-Wolf', 'Laura', 'The Boar Pig', 'The Brogue', 'The Hen', 'The Open Window', 'The Treasure Ship', 'The Cobweb', 'The Lull', 'The Unkindest Blow', 'The Romancers', 'The Schartz-Metterklume Method', 'The Seventh Pullet', 'The Blind Spot', 'Dusk', 'A Touch Of Realism', 'Cousin Teresa', 'The Yarkand Manner', 'The Byzantine Omelette', 'The Feast Of Nemesis', 'The Dreamer', 'The Quince Tree', 'The Forbidden Buzzards', 'The Stake', 'Clovis On Parental Responsibilities', 'A Holiday Task', 'The Stalled Ox', 'The Story Teller', 'A Defensive Diamond', 'The Elk', 'Down Pens', 'The Name Day', 'The Lumber Room', 'Fur', 'The Philanthropist And The Happy Cat', 'On Approval', 'The Mouse'. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000179/bk_redd_000179_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Lost World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
Edward Malone, an enthusiastic and ambitious columnist for the Daily Gazette, is urged by the woman he loves to undertake a heroic deed so that he may earn her love in return. In a few weeks, he is bound for the shores of South America in the company of the irascible academic Summerlee and debonair adventurer Lord John Roxton on an expedition to prove the claims of bombastic genius Professor Challenger. The professor has allegedly discovered an isolated prehistoric land on top of a huge mountain in the tropical rain forests of the Amazonian jungle, and after many trials and tribulations they are at last on the mysterious summit of these craggy cliffs - without any obvious means of returning. The explorers need to draw on all their reserves of courage and strength as they are plunged into a nightmare world of prehistoric monsters, aggressive apemen and the Accala Indians, a tribe of bloodthirsty cave dwellers - not to mention betrayal by their own servants and the scepticism and disdain of the international scientific community. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle demonstrates the full range of his skills in this masterful story of mystery, suspense and adventure: the original scary tale of dinosaurs that still thrills and entertains. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000112/bk_assm_000112_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Wild Adventure: West Meets East, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 211min
After years of reluctantly living the wild life in Haskell, Wyoming, all Rose Rawlins wants is to settle down into a quiet position as a maid for the Bond family in Brynthwaite, England. She takes her position as nurse for charming and irascible Mr. Bond and confidant of adventurous Miss Elaine Bond seriously, vowing that nothing will get in the way of her duty to her new friends.Until handsome and tempting Dr. Isaac Newsome comes along.Widower, Isaac Newsome, doesn’t feel as though he has anything to offer a woman, but from the first moment he lays eyes on Rose, that belief is challenged. Rose’s refreshing, American ways breathe new life into what was becoming a stale existence. But in spite of the fiery attraction between them, Rose is holding something back.It takes a trio of mischievous young men from Brynthwaite Municipal Orphanage, all of Mr. Bond’s wiles, a mysterious and regal bookseller who is also new to town, and a daring boat race to bring Rose and Isaac together, but even then, will a sudden tragedy pull them apart?Narrated by the author, who is not a professional narrator, but sure does love telling you her stories...and who blushes at the naughty bits. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Merry Farmer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143985/bk_acx0_143985_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Obsidian Mirror: Sierra Carter Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 591min
Sierra Carter learns that her former employer's technology is in reality a means of spreading a deadly evil around the world. Necocyaotl, god of death and destruction, has placed his essence in every device, causing people to place their self-interest and personal desires above all else. If Sierra's going to stop him, she'll need some help. And help is on the way. Chaco, also known as Coyotl the Trickster, is a handsome young man when he isn't a coyote - and an excellent cook. Fred the mannegishi has the gift of disappearing at will and a few well-kept secrets. Rose, a Native American shaman, teaches Sierra how to develop her inner powers. Kaylee is a practitioner of Voudon, as is the irascible and mysterious Mama Labadie. Clancy Forrester, chief of security for Sierra's former employer, enters the fray, reluctantly surrendering his view of reality. Necocyaotl's team is playing for keeps, and the evil god brings an army of ice demons, dark spirits, and assorted monsters into the game to bolster his more human henchmen and -women. Sierra and her friends constantly find themselves on the edge of disaster, snatching every win from the extremely pointy jaws of their enemies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tanya Eby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001959/bk_high_001959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Churchill , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 266min
Winston Churchill possessed an iron will and a subtle conscience. His staunch patriotism, tenacity, appetite for a fight, and, above all, towering rhetoric inspired the British people to mount a gallant defense of their island nation. Having set a new bar for national heroism, he earned a place in the pantheon of the world's greatest leaders. Churchill, a fearless soldier, was a veteran of countless battles and a rider in one of Britain's last cavalry charges. He was also a gifted writer, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose war reporting made his name and whose books outlived him. A bon vivant who loved his brandy and cigars, he was also a devoted husband whose marriage was a lifelong love affair. By any measure, Churchill was a giant. But the man was far from perfect. He was a hero, yes, but a human one. He could be petty, irascible, and self-centered; it was bred in his bone that white Englishmen were born to lead the world and all others to be led. His mistakes cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives, but he had courage and a born politician's sense of the public stage. In the end Churchill became a regal figure whose life came to symbolize defiance of tyranny in the face of impossible odds. Here is his story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Bruce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009698/bk_blak_009698_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Zombie Turkeys: How an Unknown Blogger Fought Unkillable Turkeys: Life After Life, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min
Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won't stay dead. You can shoot 'em, chop 'em, burn 'em — they come back stronger. The undead plague of poultry spreads uncontrollably, rocking the whole country. As Sam tracks down the zombie turkeys and how to eradicate them, his editor, Lisa Kambacher, nags him to turn his stories and expenses in on time. During their years of working together, Lisa has mellowed from bitchy into an irascible pinchpenny. Lisa snipes at Sam for plebeian writing but uses her intelligence to pursue the lucrative carnivorous turkey story. Sam and Lisa ricochet across the landscape, tracking turkeys and fleeing the bloodthirsty hordes. Careening from shell-shocked grocery store owners fighting turkeys crawling out of refrigerators, to machine-gunning turkey farmers, to secret militia, Sam and Lisa doggedly report. Throughout the turkey apocalypse, they dare ravaged cities, plow knee-deep in gore and corpses, and upload streams of zombie turkey video news to the world. With paranoid militias clashing with the federal government and unkillable turkeys, Sam and Lisa doubt their ability to survive. Sam and Lisa have no superpowers. If you have a heart condition or lack humor, you should not listen to Zombie Turkeys, no matter how much you want to find out what happens. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Blechman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099806/bk_acx0_099806_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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O My America!: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 654min
A delightfully funny and moving novel about the singular life of a cantankerous Jewish-American writer and anarchist troublemaker, as remembered by his daughter. In 1972, sixty-four-year-old Ezra Slavin's heart gives out at an anti-war rally. A contentious and irascible Jewish-American writer, anarchist, and inadvertent guru to discontented youth, he leaves behind a large extended family of ex-wives, lovers, and children, most of whom had cut all ties with the infuriating intellectual provocateur years earlier. Out of the entire family, only one daughter, Merry, a journalist, can remember her father with her own critical, conflicted understanding, a saddened sympathy approaching love. As the day of his memorial approaches, she attempts to make sense of the puzzle of Ezra's life before all of its disparate, discordant elements come crashing together at the service. The award-winning author of Other People's Lives, Johanna Kaplan creates a vivid cast of unforgettable characters who reveal the disparity between Ezra's long-suffering, neglected family, his admiring friends, and the youthful hangers-on - and, most notably, in the outrageously enigmatic Ezra himself. At once hilarious and poignant, O My America! offers a fascinating evocation of a time and place in America, a satiric history of the immigrant Jewish experience, and a wonderful portrait of an exasperating yet endearing anti-hero pursuing his unique vision of the American dream. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Romy Nordlinger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013798/bk_adbl_013798_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sinbad - The New Voyages, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
Set Sail for Adventure The greatest seafaring adventurer of all time returns to the high seas: Sinbad, the sailor! Born of countless legends and myths, this fearless rogue sets sail across the seven seas aboard his ship, the Blue Nymph, accompanied by an international crew of colorful, larger-than-life characters. Chief among these are the irascible Omar, a veteran seamen and trusted first mate; the blond Viking giant, Ralf Gunarson; the sophisticated archer from Gaul, Henri Delacrois; and the mysterious, lovely, and deadly female samurai, Tishimi Osara. All of them banded together to follow their famous captain on perilous new voyages across the world's oceans. Writers Nancy Hansen, I. A. Watson, and Derrick Ferguson offer up three classic Sinbad tales to rival those of legend while adding a familiar sensibility from the cult favorite Sinbad movies of FX master Ray Harryhausen. Sinbad - The New Voyages, Volume 1 will enthrall and entertain all lovers of fantasy adventure in a brand-new way. So pack up your you traveling bags, bid adieu to your loved ones, and get ready to sail with the tide as Sinbad el Ari takes the tiller, and the Blue Nymph sets sails once more - its destination worlds of wonder, mystery, and high adventure. AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS - Pulp Fiction for a New Generation! Featuring cover art by Bryan Fowler. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jem Matzan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052985/bk_acx0_052985_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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