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The Voyage of the Golden Handshake , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 716min

On a cold morning in Grimsby, Albert Hardcastle wakes up to the first day of his retirement. His days of working in a shop are behind him, and he and his wife, Alice, decide to celebrate by taking the luxury cruise of which they always dreamed. Meanwhile, on the Essex coast, Rear Admiral Sir Benbow Harrington, a retired Royal Navy officer, is trying to assemble a fleet of passenger ships. His newest vessel, the Golden Handshake, is ready for its maiden voyage. At least that's what Sir Benbow thinks, and if others disagree, he ignores them. When Albert and Sir Benbow embark on the Golden Handshake's first cruise, they encounter characters and experiences more colourful than they could ever have imagined and meet with both triumph and disaster as well as plenty in between. The Voyage of the Golden Handshake is a warm and charmingly funny story which reminds you that life is for living and in which Terry Waite shows an unexpected talent for comic fiction. Terry Waite was born in Cheshire in 1939, the son of a village policeman. He worked with the Anglican Church in Uganda, then in Rome, before becoming a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury's staff. He negotiated the release of many hostages in Iran, Libya, and Lebanon. Contrary to popular belief, he is not a clergyman. While negotiating the release of captives in Beirut, he was taken hostage and spent 1,763 days in captivity, more than four years of which were in solitary confinement. Since his release in November 1991, he has dedicated himself to studying, writing, lecturing, and humanitarian activities. He is president of Emmaus UK, an international charity working with homeless people; founder and president of Hostage, a charity providing support for hostages and their families; and joint founder of YCare, a development agency for young people. Awarded the MBE in 1983 and CBE in 1992, he holds many honorary doctorates both in the UK and overseas. H ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Thorne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022447/bk_adbl_022447_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off: Complete Series 5, Hörbuch, Digital, 109min

Welcome back Giles Wemmbley Hogg two M's, two G’s - Marcus Brigstocke’s classic character. Budleigh Salterton's most famous citizen has been grounded by both the Home Office and his father, so he's set up GWH Travvel ("two M’s, two G’s, two V’s - bit of a mix up at the printers"). Run from his bedroom in Budleigh Salterton, with the help of his long-suffering former Primary Schoolteacher Mr Timmis and the hindrance of his sister, Charlotte, it's a one-stop travel/advice/events management/Web-site service, where each week, his schemes range far and wide - whether it's roaming the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a rucksack ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll look in the phone book - how hard can it be? Now, 'A to D'".....), GWH Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it all, so you won't want to". In short - Giles Wemmbley Hogg - each week he travels to far-off foreign lands and joins the exotic world of work. And each week, he makes a thumping great prat of himself.... This is the complete Series five, featuring Rebecca Front, Mitch Benn (The Now Show), David Armand (Sorry, I've Got No Head), Laura Solon & Ben Willbond (Horrible Histories). In the first episode - featuring Rebecca Front - when an American mogul tries to buy up every last pebble in lovely Budleigh, Giles decides to run for mayor. Meanwhile his sister, Charlotte, goes on a tent protest.... In episode two - Giles has become mayor of Budleigh Salterton, but when he accidentally enters an Iron Man triathlon in Spain, he has to enlist the help of a tub of mysterious white powder and a donkey.... Plus this show features Mitch Benn (The Now Show) and his amazing Spanish accent! In episode three, co-starring Laura Solon & Ben Willbond, Giles tries to put Budleigh Salterton on the gastronomic map, and inadvertently serves up a full-scale bioha Language: English. Narrator: Laura Solon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006648/bk_bbcw_006648_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Manhattan Review GMAT Math Study Guide [5th Edition]

The Turbocharge Your GMAT series is the result of this arduous effort of Manhattan Review, which offers weekend crash courses, one-week intensive courses, weekday and weekend long courses, online workshops, free seminars, and private tutoring to students in the US, UK, Continental Europe, Asia and the rest of the world. Its website has a wealth of free information and promotions including free offers to World MBA Tour Fairs, free MBA Panel Discussions, free GMAT & MBA Admissions Workshops, free downloads, MBA and GMAT essentials, free InFocus Newsletters, free interview articles, and more. Its website www.manhattanreview.com is frequently updated with free resources! If you reside outside of the US, please refer to the International Location section for your local content. Manhattan Review's origin can be traced directly to an Ivy-League MBA classroom in 1999. While lecturing on advanced quantitative subjects to MBAs at Columbia Business School in New York City, Prof. Dr. Joern Meissner was asked by his students to assist their friends, who were frustrated with conventional GMAT preparation options. He started to create original lectures that focused on presenting the GMAT content in a coherent and concise manner rather than a download of voluminous basic knowledge interspersed with so-called "tricks." The new approach immediately proved highly popular with GMAT students, inspiring the birth of Manhattan Review. Over the past 15+ years, Manhattan Review has grown into a multi-national firm, focusing on GMAT, GRE, LSAT, SAT, and TOEFL test prep and tutoring, along with business school, graduate school and college admissions consulting, application advisory and essay editing services. The highly-acclaimed Manhattan Review Turbocharge Your GMAT preparation materials include about 600 pages of well-illustrated and professionally presented strategies and originally written problems for both the Verbal Section and Quantitative Section, 200 pages of detailed solutions, and more than 300 pages of internally developed Quantitative Glossary and Verbal Vocabulary List with detailed definitions, related words and sentence examples. The detailed breakdown of exclusive practice problems per category is 40+ Reading Comprehension passages, 60 Critical Reasoning questions, 250 Sentence Correction questions, and 300+ Quantitative questions.

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The Way of the Worm (eBook, ePUB)

The third and final novel in Ramsey Campbell's triumphant Lovecraftian trilogy, The Three Births of Daoloth, where time travel, monstrous evil and the alien apocalypse combine to create a stunning conclusion for streaming TV lovers and suspense readers alike. "With The Way of the Worm, Campbell's cosmic trilogy comes to a triumphant conclusion." S.T. Joshi Book 3 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. The present day, or something very like it. Dominic Sheldrake has retired from lecturing and lives on his own. His son Toby is married with a small daughter. The occultist Noble family are more active than ever. Their cult now openly operates as the Church of the Eternal Three, and has spread worldwide. The local branch occupies the top floors of Starview Tower, a Liverpool waterfront skyscraper. To Dominic's dismay, Toby and his wife Claudine are deeply involved in it, and he suspects they are involving their small daughter Macy too. Dominic lets his son persuade him to attend a meeting of the church, where he encounters all three generations of the Nobles. Although Christian Noble is almost a century old, he's more vigorous than ever inhumanly so. The family takes turns to preach an apocalyptic sermon that hints at dark secrets masked by the Bible and at the future that lies in wait. In a bid to investigate further Dominic undergoes the rite the church offers its members, which confers the ability to travel psychically through time. Before he's able to flee back to the present he has a vision of the monstrous fate that's in store for the world. Dominic discovers a secret he's sure the Nobles won't want to be made public. Although he has retired from the police, Jim helps him establish the truth, and Roberta publishes it on her online blog. It's the subject of a court case, the results of which seem to defeat the Nobles, only for them to return in a dreadfully transformed shape. Now Dominic and his friends are at their mercy, and is there anywhere in the world to hide? Even if they manage somehow to deal with the Nobles, there may be no escaping or preventing the alien apocalypse that all the events of the trilogy have been bringing ever closer... FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.

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The Way of the Worm

The third and final novel in Ramsey Campbell's triumphant Lovecraftian trilogy, The Three Births of Daoloth, where time travel, monstrous evil and the alien apocalypse combine to create a stunning conclusion for streaming TV lovers and suspense readers alike. "With The Way of the Worm, Campbell's cosmic trilogy comes to a triumphant conclusion." ? S.T. Joshi Book 3 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. The present day, or something very like it. Dominic Sheldrake has retired from lecturing and lives on his own. His son Toby is married with a small daughter. The occultist Noble family are more active than ever. Their cult now openly operates as the Church of the Eternal Three, and has spread worldwide. The local branch occupies the top floors of Starview Tower, a Liverpool waterfront skyscraper. To Dominic's dismay, Toby and his wife Claudine are deeply involved in it, and he suspects they are involving their small daughter Macy too. Dominic lets his son persuade him to attend a meeting of the church, where he encounters all three generations of the Nobles. Although Christian Noble is almost a century old, he's more vigorous than ever ? inhumanly so. The family takes turns to preach an apocalyptic sermon that hints at dark secrets masked by the Bible and at the future that lies in wait. In a bid to investigate further Dominic undergoes the rite the church offers its members, which confers the ability to travel psychically through time. Before he's able to flee back to the present he has a vision of the monstrous fate that's in store for the world. Dominic discovers a secret he's sure the Nobles won't want to be made public. Although he has retired from the police, Jim helps him establish the truth, and Roberta publishes it on her online blog. It's the subject of a court case, the results of which seem to defeat the Nobles, only for them to return in a dreadfully transformed shape. Now Dominic and his friends are at their mercy, and is there anywhere in the world to hide? Even if they manage somehow to deal with the Nobles, there may be no escaping or preventing the alien apocalypse that all the events of the trilogy have been bringing ever closer... FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.

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