53 Results for : backstories
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The Essential Guide to Warfare: Star Wars (eBook, ePUB)
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE ULTIMATE INTERGALACTIC BATTLEFIELD Like many a great epic, Star Wars is rooted in a rich history of armed conflict. Now, for the first time, the facts, figures, and fascinating backstories of major clashes and combatants in the vast Star Wars universe have been documented in one fully illustrated volume. Extensively researched and inventively written, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare combines action-filled narrative with encyclopedic knowledge that: • explores notable military units and groups • traces the development of significant armaments and technologies • profiles key warship classes, ground units, and manufacturers • provides capsule biographies of great military leaders • presents eyewitness troopers' accounts of combat • plus-enough additional profiles, intel, history, and lore to span the cosmos! Encompassing all of the Star Wars media, including the legendary films, the hit TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the bestselling books, comics, and videogames, and packed with original artwork, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare is a conquering achievement.- Shop: buecher
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The Book of Forgotten Authors , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 518min
Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead. So begins Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner, no author, it seems, can ever be fully immune from the fate of being forgotten. And Fowler, as well as remembering their careers, lifts the lid on their lives, and why they often stopped writing or disappeared from the public eye. These 99 journeys are punctuated by 12 short essays about faded once-favourites, including the now-vanished novels Walt Disney brought to the screen, the contemporary rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie who did not stand the test of time, and the women who introduced us to psychological suspense many decades before it conquered the world. This is an audiobook about books and their authors. It is for book lovers, and is written by one who could not be a more enthusiastic, enlightening and entertaining guide. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Fowler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000356/bk_qpuk_000356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Noble Knights of Beany Weany , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 7min
The kingdom of Everjoy is in crisis! King Daddidoo needs to replace his lazy goofball guards and begins a valiant search for the noblest in the land. Who will it be? Join the quest with the Stinkypoos, Princess Betterthanyu, and more - as they race to grow the "best of all tree" from the potted beans. "Sprout your flowers, don't be teeny - grow, grow, grow!" But aha - be wise. Just when you think you've figured it out, a surprise may arise that cancels all doubt!Plus, as an added bonus - the story is filled with more than 30+ secret items the jester has hidden throughout...and puzzles, backstories, websites, sing-a-long songs, and so much more!This is audiobook one of the Kingdom of Everjoy Chronicles - a delightful children's series that is set in adventurous medieval times, yet embraces our multiethnic, multigenerational world with timeless and cherished morals. Each audiobook is full with understandable prose for all ages, hilarious humor, a moral value (honesty, integrity, hard work, compassion, etc.) and the memorable tales of the kingdom.The trumpets have announced your arrival! Enjoy your journey within the kingdom of Everjoy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brant Porter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130583/bk_acx0_130583_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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All Their Minds in Tandem , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 926min
The setting is October 1879. The stage is New Georgetown, West Virginia. A mysterious figure by the name of The Maker has entered this small community and, almost immediately upon doing so, started entering the minds of the townsfolk. Townsfolk who are as curious as The Maker himself. Like Dr Umbründ, the pint-sized physician with a prodigious capacity for sin; like the three sisters in the house on the hill - one stern, one wild, one mysterious; like the tavern's semimythical siren, The Bird, who plays spellbinding music from behind a black velvet curtain and whom no patron has ever laid eyes on; like Odell, a youth with dreams and ambitions that his craven disposition will forever prevent him from seizing and who has spent the entirety of his erstwhile existence under the crushing heel of Clay, New Georgetown's lead cad and chief alpha male. As we enter these characters' lives and lightly tread our way through their brains, their bedrooms, their backstories and beyond, we will see what it is they all hope for and hide - and learn just why The Maker has chosen to meet them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Moraitis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000243/bk_qpuk_000243_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 708min
Read by Steven Pacey, and featuring Joe Abercrombie narrating 'Freedom'. This audio edition also includes an interview with Steven and Joe. The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's only one who thinks he can save the day singlehanded when the Gurkish come calling: the incomparable Colonel Sand dan Glokta. Curnden Craw and his dozen are out to recover a mysterious item from beyond the Crinna. Only one small problem: no one seems to know what the item is. Shevedieh, the self-styled best thief in Styria, lurches from disaster to catastrophe alongside her best friend and greatest enemy, Javre, Lioness of Hoskopp. And after years of bloodshed, the idealistic chieftain, Bethod, is desperate to bring peace to the North. There's only one obstacle left - his own lunatic champion, the most feared man in the North: the Bloody-Nine.... Sharp Ends combines previously published award-winning tales with exclusive new short stories. Violence explodes, treachery abounds and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue's gallery of sideshows, backstories and sharp endings from the world of the First Law. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Pacey, Joe Abercrombie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000950/bk_orio_000950_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1224min
Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington, and What Is It?, an African-American man Barnum professed was a newly discovered missing link in evolution. Bunk then turns to the hoaxing of history and the ways that forgers, plagiarists, and journalistic fakers invent backstories and falsehoods to sell us lies about themselves and about the world in our own time, from pretend Native Americans Grey Owl and Nasdijj to the deadly imposture of Clark Rockefeller, from the made-up memoirs of James Frey to the identity theft of Rachel Dolezal. In this brilliant and timely work, Young asks what it means to live in a post-factual world of "truthiness" where everything is up for interpretation and everyone is subject to a pervasive cynicism that damages our ideas of reality, fact, and art. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001407/bk_high_001407_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Race to Space (Epic Fails, Book 2): Countdown to Liftoff , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 113min
In this second installment of the Epic Fails series, explore the many failures that made up the Race to Space, paving the way for humanity's eventual success at reaching the stars. Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: "one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later that year, our first attempt was such a failure that the media nicknamed it "Kaputnik." Still, we didn't give up. With each failure, we gleaned valuable information about what went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future. So we tried again. And again. And each time we failed, we failed a little bit better. The Epic Fails series by Erik Slader and Ben Thompson explores the humorous backstories behind a variety of historical discoveries, voyages, experiments, and innovations that didn't go as expected but succeeded nonetheless, showing that many of mankind's biggest success stories are the result of some pretty epic failures indeed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L. J. Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/012706/bk_reco_012706_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Animated Marx Brothers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 291min
To many people, the Marx Brothers always seemed cartoonish. Small wonder that film animators plucked their personas from their first appearances in The Cocoanuts (1929) and Animal Crackers (1930) and caricatured them in countless animated appearances in theatrical cartoons. Their animated likenesses have since been wisecracking in television cartoons, direct-to-video movies, fan films, commercials, flip books, avatars, emoji, a slot machine, and two TV pilots so rare they were once thought not to exist. At last, Marx Brothers fans can rejoice. Matthew Hahn's search for every animated appearance of a Marx brother has trailed longer than Groucho's coattails. His discoveries include the backstories of the studios, moviemakers and stars, rare test drawings from the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, abandoned projects, connections, coincidences, and apocrypha. Through the reels of Silly Symphonies, Looney Tunes, and Merrie Melodies, to their comic clashes with Heckle & Jeckle, Oswald Rabbit, Krazy Kat, Pooch the Pup, Buddy, Cubby, Willie Whopper, Flip the Frog, and Popeye, journey back through the most detailed analyses ever compiled of animated Marx Brothers appearances. The author also draws from appearances in You Bet Your Life (1950), Quick Draw McGraw (1959), The Simpsons (1989), Tiny Toon Adventures (1990), and Animaniacs (1993), among many others. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nat Segaloff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011614/bk_blak_011614_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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More Hollywood Murders and Scandals: Tinsel Town After Dark, More Famous Celebrity Murders, Scandals, and Crimes: Murders, Scandals, and Mayhem, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 94min
More Hollywood Murders and Scandals: Tinsel Town After Dark, More Famous Celebrity Murders, Scandals, and Crimes is volume two in the Murders, Scandals, and Mayhem series. It adds to the collection of the most famous and infamous Hollywood scandals and celebrity murders from the early beginnings of Hollywood right up to today. From Thomas Ince to Tupac Shakur and George Reeves to Natalie Wood, the stories will capture your imagination, as they describe the backstories of the major characters, the circumstances of the celebrity crimes, and the results of the investigations. Included are: The mysterious death of Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow The shocking death of Jayne Mansfield The loss of Sal Mineo Dorothy Stratten's senseless death And more Included is a description of changes in the film industry, from the earliest film displayed in New York City to the films of today, which provide entertainment and escapism for moviegoers around the world. Many of your questions about these Hollywood crimes and scandals will be answered, and you will be amazed at all the facts and theories associated with these incredible events that are contained in this book. Get your copy of More Hollywood Murders and Scandals now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038513/bk_acx0_038513_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Stranger from the Sea (eBook, ePUB)
A shipwrecked sailor disturbs the life of a journalist in a late nineteenth-century English seaside town in this reimagining of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea. After a ferocious storm shipwrecks young Norwegian sailor Hans Lyngstrand in the English Channel near Dengate, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges takes a job at the local newspaper. When Hans moves into Martin's boardinghouse to convalesce and Martin interviews the young sailor for the paper, it upends Martin's otherwise uneventful world. Hans tells him of the shipwreck-and of his encounter with a vicious sailor vowing to seek revenge, who Hans believes may still be alive. So begins a complex friendship between the two young men that will cause Martin to reexamine his relationships with everyone around him. InThe Stranger from the Sea, the backstories Paul Binding creates for the characters of Ibsen's classicThe Lady from the Seaunfold in tandem with the secret romances, rivalries, and heartaches of a seemingly unremarkable town. The result is a lyrical and quietly captivating novel that will mesmerize readers from its opening pages. "A sensitive depiction of youthful sexuality, the anguish of failed relationships, and the rights of women in a male-dominated world," -TLS- Shop: buecher
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