26 Results for : acrimony
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The Bad Daughter: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 681min
A gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller of family intrigue and dark secrets, from the author of Someone Is Watching and See Jane Run.There was no shortage of words she could use to describe her father, and almost none of them complimentary. Serves you damn right, she thought. A voicemail from her estranged sister, Melanie, sends Robin’s heart racing and her mind spiraling in a full-blown panic attack. Melanie’s message is dire: Their father, his second wife, and his 12-year-old stepdaughter have been shot - likely in a home invasion - and lie in the hospital in critical condition. It’s been more than five years since Robin turned her back on her father when he married her best friend. Five years since she said good-bye to her hometown of Red Bluff, California, and became a therapist. More than two years since Robin and Melanie have spoken. Yet even with all that distance and time and acrimony, the past is always with Robin. Now, she must return to the family she left behind. As she attempts to mend fences while her father clings to life, Robin begins to wonder if there is more to the tragedy than a botched burglary attempt. It seems that everyone - Robin’s mercurial sister, her less-than-communicative nephew, her absent brother, and even Tara, her father’s wife - has something to hide. And someone may have put them all in grave danger. New York Times best-selling author Joy Fielding has written a gripping edge-of-your-seat thriller of family intrigue and dark secrets. The Bad Daughter explores the deadly differences between the lies we want to believe and the truths we wish not to know. Praise for The Bad Daughter:“So expert is [Joy] Fielding at seeding clues that readers will never see the final plot twist coming. The acutely portrayed family dynamics lend pathos and a certain schadenfreudian frisson to the proceedings. An author who knows her way around suburban angst.” ( ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brittany Pressley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005327/bk_rand_005327_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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El Norte (eBook, ePUB)
A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads. Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots?ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims by a century, and has been every bit as important in shaping the nation as it exists today. El Norte chronicles the dramatic history of Hispanic North America from the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century to the present?from Ponce de Leon's initial landing in Florida in 1513 to Spanish control of the vast Louisiana territory in 1762 to the Mexican-American War in 1846 and up to the more recent tragedy of post-hurricane Puerto Rico and the ongoing border acrimony with Mexico. Interwoven in this narrative of events and people are cultural issues that have been there from the start but which are unresolved to this day: language, belonging, community, race, and nationality. Seeing them play out over centuries provides vital perspective at a time when it is urgently needed. In 1883, Walt Whitman meditated on his country's Spanish past: "We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them," predicting that "to that composite American identity of the future, Spanish character will supply some of the most needed parts." That future is here, and El Norte, a stirring and eventful history in its own right, will make a powerful impact on our national understanding. "This history debunks the myth of American exceptionalism by revisiting a past that is not British and Protestant but Hispanic and Catholic. Gibson begins with the arrival of Spaniards in La Florida, in 1513, discusses Mexico's ceding of territory to the U.S., in 1848, and concludes with Trump's nativist fixations. Along the way, she explains how California came to be named after a fictional island in a book by a Castilian Renaissance writer and asks why we ignore a chapter of our history that began long before the Pilgrims arrived. At a time when the building of walls occupies so much attention, Gibson makes a case for the blurring of boundaries." -New Yorker "A sweeping and accessible survey of the Hispanic history of the U.S. that illuminates the integral impact of the Spanish and their descendants on the U.S.'s social and cultural development.... This unusual and insightful work provides a welcome and thought-provoking angle on the country's history, and should be widely appreciated." -Publishers Weekly, starred review, PW Pick- Shop: buecher
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The Age of Acrimony
The Age of Acrimony - How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy 1865-1915: ab 18.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Sharia law and the religious factor in a secular state like Nigeria
Sharia law and the religious factor in a secular state like Nigeria - Islam versus Christianity in Nigeria and the Perennial Pogrom and Acrimony: a Panacea. 1. Auflage: ab 34.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Return to earth
Als seien ACRIMONY nie verschwunden ... Wunderbarer Stoner-Rock, bei dem der Song vorm Schwofen kommt.Musikreview.de: SIGIRIYA bieten auf ihrem Debüt überraschungs-, aber nicht spannungsarmen und vor allem hittigen Kifferrock. Wer ACRIMONY liebte, fällt auch hier aus allen Wolken, und wer will schon neue Fans und die Welt erobern, wenn er privat längst in der Realität angekommen ist? Das macht Return To Earth umso ehrlicher und langlebig. Legacy Magazin: The Church Within mausern sich beständig zu einem Garant für erstklassig doomige Klänge, wobei schon Qualität vor Quantität geht. Das fängt schon bei der liebevollen Aufmachung der einzelnen Veröffentlichungen an: auch das Debütalbum Sigiryas kommt in einem schön robusten Pappschuber daher....... Ähnlich überirdisch operieren Sigiriya auf ihrem gelungenen, restlos empfehlenswerten Einstand Retun to Earth! (13/15) TRACKS: 1. The Mountain Goat 2. Tobacco Sunrise 3. Hurricane 4. Whiskey Song 5. Dark Fires 6. Robot Funeral 7. Deathtrip To Eryri- Shop: odax
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