58 Results for : bizarrely
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Cooking the Books: A Corinna Chapman Mystery, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 536min
Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant investigator, is trying very hard to do nothing at all on her holidays. Her gorgeous Daniel is only intermittently at her side (he's roaming the streets tracking down a multi-thousand-dollar corporate theft). Jason, her baking offsider, has gone off to learn how to surf. And Kylie and Goss are fulfilling their lives' ambition auditioning for a soapie. It should be a time of quiet reflection for Corinna, but quiet reflection doesn't seem to suit her - she's bored. Scenting a whiff of danger, Corinna accepts an offer from a caterer friend to do the baking for the film set of a new soap called Kiss the Bride - the soapie in which Kylie and Goss have parts. Twists and turns and complications that could only happen to Corinna ensue, involving, bizarrely, nursery rhymes and a tiger called Tabitha. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, a young woman is being unmercifully bullied by her corporate employers - employers who spend a lot of time cooking the books. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Louise Siversen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001963/bk_boli_001963_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 816min
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 From the author of -Isms and -Ologies and Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, here is a deeply researched, fascinating history of the role that organized hatred has played in American politics. The New Hate takes listeners on a surprising, often shocking, sometimes bizarrely amusing tour through the swamps of nativism, racism, and paranoia that have long thrived on the American fringe. Arthur Goldwag shows us the parallels between the hysteria about the Illuminati that wracked the new American Republic in the 1790s and the McCarthyism that roiled the 1950s, and he discusses the similarities between the anti-New Deal forces of the 1930s and the Tea Party movement today. He traces Henry Ford's anti-Semitism and the John Birch Society's "Insiders" back to the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and he relates white supremacist nightmares about racial pollution to nineteenth-century fears of papal plots. Written with verve and wit, this lively history is indispensable listening for anyone who wants to understand the recent re-ascendance of extremism in American politics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/012847/bk_acx0_012847_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Flight: A Quanutm Fiction Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1040min
The novel that introduced quantum fiction to literature shelves was called "a fable for our times" and extends the stage of human drama to the subatomic realm and entire cosmos. Mendle Orion is a writer who lives at the intersection of fiction and reality. He idealizes love and cynically rails against a world that wastes his dreams. The man's life is forever changed the day he meets a mysterious young woman with intense blue eyes and total amnesia who looks at urban life as though she's seeing it for the first time. Mendle names her Aira Flight, after the light being superhero of the latest book he's writing. As he falls in love with the soulful stranger, he discovers the she has no navel, and the novel he's writing is bizarrely unfolding as real coinciding events in his life. A novel within a novel are masterfully intertwined as mysteries unfold to a conclusion where even theoretical physics confirm the thin line between fairy tale and cold reality. The story is read by the author, Vanna Bonta, who brings experience as a voice actress for major films and television to the narration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vanna Bonta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mhou/000001/bk_mhou_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Own: The Sad and Like-Wike Weepy Tale of Wittle Elkie Selph: The Collected Works of U.R. Bowie, Volume 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 370min
Own: The Sad and Like-Wike Weepy Tale of Wittle Elkie Selph comes out of the tradition of Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, and (especially) A Clockwork Orange. This story of a school shooting in the hills of north-east Georgia is narrated by the 15-year-old shooter, Elkin "Own" Selph, in a jazzed-up style that mixes together Southern dialect, bizarrely inventive terms, and Russian-based words from Burgess' Clockwork Orange. If Own were to sum up his plight as the novel begins, here is what he would say: "My name is Elkin "Own" Selph, from Tocotano, GA. I love ole Georgie; what's not to love? Not nobody caint not love the good ole sod-off Blue Ridge Mountains of NE Georgie. Thang is, doe, I ain't but wah-plach 15, and I got me like-wike real horrorshow woman problems. Now, why did a ding-blinn Glock handgun get into the dits-blitz picture? So here sets ole Own, all on his ownsome-lonesome, in a dark school cafeteria. Surrounded by scads of like-wike blinn-dead classmates. Bam bam bam bam. Quid nunc? Now what?" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: U.R. Bowie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/041381/bk_acx0_041381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bugbear Blues: The Chafrium Elfpunk Universe, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 775min
The street has its own uses for magic, and no mercy.When immortals start meddling with a century-old murder mystery, the King of the Eternal City summons Delphi Janjack: fixer, tour guide, gentleman’s gentleman...a one-person army meant to solve problems without mussing his top hat and brocaded vest. Delphi might also be a disgraced champion in hiding, his secrets so abhorrent nothing but death will wipe the slate clean. Nearly 400 years after the Elves invaded South America, there is just one free city left: Austen, Tejas. With the heir to Court Royale missing, the last bastion of human independence faces inevitable destruction.Delphi has mere days to find the missing Queen, solve the murder, and administer rare justice to the incorrigible Grey Elves. Can humanity afford to trust this monster? Does it have any other choice?Equal parts murder mystery, revenge tale, travel guide, and cultural history, Bugbear Blues takes listeners to a world that witnessed Jane Austen survive tuberculosis in 1817, then alter the landscape of the multiverse. From jazz wizards to magical computers, enter a bizarrely familiar 1980s Texas where the Darcy clan has taken up the way of the sword and literature itself can be fashioned into a weapon of inestimable power. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan J. Iannucci. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168117/bk_acx0_168117_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life: You Are Raoul Moat , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 213min
This is a work of narrative nonfiction based on the last days of the fugitive Raoul Moat, a Geordie bodybuilder and mechanic who became nationally notorious in Britain one hot summer's week when, after killing his ex-girlfriend's new lover, shooting her in the stomach, and blinding a policeman, he disappeared into the woods of Northumberland, evading discovery for seven days - even when TV tracker Ray Mears was employed by the police to find him. Bizarrely, alcoholic ex-England footy star Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne also played a role, trying to get a fishing rod and a chicken to Moat by taxi. Eventually, cornered by the police, Moat shot himself. Andrew Hankinson, a journalist and a Geordie, tells Moat's story in the second person, which means that the listener is uncomfortably close at all times to Raoul Moat. It is an audio experience unrelieved by authorial distance or omniscient interpretation. Everything comes from Moat's mind - from his recordings and writings - and the narrative Hankinson has woven is compelling, even if Moat's sentimentality, suspicion, and self-pity are never far from sight. This is a narrative in the great tradition of Norman Mailer or Hunter S. Thompson - or, given its North of England flavour, Gordon Burn or David Peace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Weyman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026449/bk_adbl_026449_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 863min
A character-driven history that describes the bizarrely ill-suited alliance between America and Pakistan, written by a uniquely insightful participant: Pakistan's former ambassador to the US. The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension, and always has been. Pakistan - to American eyes - has gone from being a stabilizing friend to an essential military ally to a seedbed of terror. America - to Pakistani eyes - has been a guarantee of security, a coldly distant scold, an enthusiastic military supplier and ally, and now a threat to national security and a source of humiliation. In their sixty-five year relationship, one country has become a global superpower, the other perilously close to a failed state - perhaps one of the most dangerous places in the world. Husain Haqqani has a unique insight into Pakistan, hishomeland, and America, where he was the Pakistani ambassador and is now a professor at Boston University. His life has mapped the relationship of Pakistan and America, and he has found himself often close to the heart of it - sometimes in very confrontational circumstances, even under house arrest - which has allowed him to write the story of the two countries' turbulent affair, here memorably laid bare. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ralph Lister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006009/bk_blak_006009_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Alexandru's Kiss: Magic, New Mexico, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 269min
Far from home.... Alexandru Carson has a major problem, and it isn't with the woman who captured him - it is the fact that he can't remember anything but his name. Confused by his inability to remember, he doesn't know where he is or how he ended up in the middle of a forest that feels bizarrely alien to him. If being lost wasn't bad enough, his fascination with and attraction to his captor is making the situation even more frustrating as he tries to unravel the mystery of what happened. Ka'ya Stargazer is an outcast among her tribe. Born with the mark of the Huntress, she is feared for her ability as a warrior, even while she is a prisoner of the tribe who shuns her. When she discovers an injured man on a scouting trip, she is forced to make a decision that will change her life forever. Alexandru's kiss leaves Ka'ya craving for more than her life as a warrior. Yet, even as they grow closer, there are powerful forces threatening to rip them apart. Will Alexandru accept Ka'ya's claim on him, or will she lose him forever when he regains his memory and discovers he does not belong in her world? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Brenin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109537/bk_acx0_109537_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bossman (eBook, ePUB)
#1 on the New York Times#1 on Wall Street Journal The first time I met Chase Parker, I didn't exactly make a good impression. I was hiding in the bathroom hallway of a restaurant, leaving a message for my best friend to save me from my awful date. He overheard and told me I was a bitch, then proceeded to offer me some dating advice. So I told him to mind his own damn business-his own tall, gorgeous, full-of-himself damn business-and went back to my miserable date. When he walked by my table, he smirked, and I watched his arrogant, sexy ass walk back to his date. I couldn't help but sneak hidden glances at the condescending jerk on the other side of the room. Of course, he caught me on more than one occasion, and winked. When the gorgeous stranger and his equally hot date suddenly appeared at our table, I thought he was going to rat me out. But instead, he pretended we knew each other and joined us-telling elaborate, embarrassing stories about our fake childhood. My date suddenly went from boring to bizarrely exciting. When it was over and we parted ways, I thought about him more than I would ever admit, even though I knew I'd never see him again. I mean, what were the chances I'd run into him again in a city with eight million people? Then again… What were the chances a month later he'd wind up being my new sexy boss?- Shop: buecher
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Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics - and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
“Mom was a much nicer person than her God. There are many biblical regulations about everything from beard-trimming to menstruating. Mom worked diligently to recast her personal-hygiene-obsessed God in the best light.” Alternating between laugh-out-loud scenes from his childhood and acidic ruminations on the present state of an America he and his famous fundamentalist parents helped create, best-selling author Frank Schaeffer asks what the Glenn Becks and the Rush Limbaughs and the paranoid fantasies of the “right-wing echo chamber” are really all about. Here’s a hint: sex. The unforgettable central character in Sex, Mom, and God is the author’s far-from-prudish evangelical mother, Edith, who sweetly but bizarrely provides startling juxtapositions of the religious and the sensual thoughout Schaeffer’s childhood. She was, says Frank Schaeffer, “...the greatest illustration of the Divine beauty of Paradox I’ve encountered... a fundamentalist living a double life as a lover of beauty who broke all her own judgmental rules in favor of creativity.” Charlotte Gordon, the award-winning author of Mistress Bradstreet, calls Sex, Mom, and God “a tour de force.... Sarah Palin, ‘The Family,’ Anne Hutchinson, adultery, abortion, homophobia, Uganda, Ronald Reagan, B. B. King, Billy Graham, Hugh Hefner—it’s all here. This is the kind of book I did not want to end.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Schaeffer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000555/bk_gdan_000555_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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