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Cape Peninsula - A fascinating Journey: Wonderland of Nature - Audiotraveller, Hörbuch, Digital, 44min
A varied tour through the Cape Peninsula National Park around the Cape Peninsula along the coast, through fine sand dunes that do not stop at the road.The Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve in the south of the Peninsula measures 8,000 hectares and has been part of the national park since 1998.Passing picturesque fishing villages and small towns with nostalgic flair, the journey goes through the wonderful landscape with steeply sloping rocks to the southernmost point.In between, boulders, large chunks of granite break the coastline and form numerous protected small bays and reefs. The origin of the boulders can be traced back to 540 million years.Huge sandstone monuments protect the flowering grasslands from the stormy winds. 52 orchids and 139 plant species thrive together with sugar bushes and the Protea, the country's national flower, in the vast fields.The drive through the national park ends with a view of the beautiful sunset over the sea, which the visitor will remember for a long time. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Simpson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cfsu/000103/bk_cfsu_000103_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Non-Linear Frequency Translation Technology
Non-Linear Frequency Translation Technology ab 39.99 € als Taschenbuch: Effects of Non-Linear Frequency Translation Technology on speech recognition scores in individuals with sloping hearing loss. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Kunst & Musik,- Shop: hugendubel
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We Are Sunday League: A Bitter-Sweet, Real Life Story from Football’s Grass Roots , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 483min
The Wizards FC was a team of former school friends who - with the help of a few star ringers - slogged their way through mud, skinheads, and Staffordshire bull terriers to win the Edmonton Sunday League. Team captain Ewan Flynn brings alive a world of young men giving it their all on sloping pitches a million miles from the glamour of the Premier League, and officials who volunteer to maintain some sort of order. Along the way, he charts the bittersweet stories of mates who brought success to the Wizards, despite suffering disappointment in their own all-too-brief professional football careers.It's a sometimes farcical, sometimes tragic tale of growing up in North London: family tensions, friendship, being a man, and seeing where your dreams can take you - even a Roy-of-the-Rovers rise to captaining your country against the world champions. Injuries on the pitch led the writer to many encounters with the surgeons' knife in order to keep playing. He shows how, once football has you, it never lets you go. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin East. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161883/bk_acx0_161883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hedge Apple , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 92min
'But how do I get in?' The narrator asks himself, just as Alice did before she followed the White Rabbit. In a similar land of magical realism, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. sets up an escapade in 'a long thicket of trees separating two sloping farm fields'. We hike with Tony beyond a fallen fence with twists of old barbed wire wrapping into the tree bark of the forest perimeter. Encountering 'Buddha-like' images, muscular snakes that grasp at his clothing, and rotting fruits from Hedge Apple trees, Tony ventures further into the unknown forest. The author, a biologist, environmentalist, musician, and historian, takes us into his philosophical world of surreal science. His adventurous narrator realizes that adulthood does not necessarily end the wonder of youth. If the listener wants an uplifting view of an emotional landscape, or a straight-up scientific thriller where the hero is chased by towering, glowering, gigantic monsters, it's all here in this fabulous tale. Like Walt Whitman poetry, the language is rich in meaning, allusion, alliteration, and a sly humor. Lovely and memorable. (Mary Popham) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Sirois. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233261/bk_acx0_233261_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Railway Station Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
Seeking solace in the wake of her husband’s death, a woman embarks on a new life on the Irish coast, where her mysterious new neighbor offers a rekindled sense of happiness, however short-livedHelen moved to a small ocean-side village for the isolation - to be alone with the waves, birds, and changing seasons. Newly widowed, she spends her days painting in her glass-walled studio atop a hillside on Ireland’s northwest coast. From her perch she can study the rocks and dunes of the land sloping into the sea, the fishing boats rocking in the tide, and the railway station, abandoned for forty years, now being refurbished by Roger, an Englishman and veteran of the Second World War. Her friendship with Roger develops slowly, but in tandem with her growing affection for him is an intractable suspicion over his past. As the Troubles continue to settle over Ireland, Helen experiences sparks of happiness with Roger. Meanwhile, her son Jack, a radical living in Dublin, is increasing his involvement with an impassioned group of Irish guerillas, unwittingly setting in motion a series of events that lead to a shocking conclusion for both him and his mother. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Terry Donnelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020395/bk_adbl_020395_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Jade Dragon Mountain: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 715min
On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell. Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the emperor himself. When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing. Everyone has secrets: the ambitious magistrate, the powerful consort, the bitter servant, the irreproachable secretary, the East India Company merchant, the nervous missionary, and the traveling storyteller who can't keep his own story straight. Beyond the sloping roofs and festival banners, Li Du can see the mountain pass that will take him out of China forever. He must choose whether to leave and embrace his exile or to stay and investigate a murder that the town of Dayan seems all too willing to forget. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Shih. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002039/bk_aren_002039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cowboy Rush: The Dalton Boys, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 248min
Five brides for five brothers...at least that's the deal the Daltons have struck with their boys. Each son must marry in order to inherit a piece of the ranch they love so much. When the Daltons find the herd outgrowing their numbers, they have no choice but to hire a ranch hand. Kade, sent to pick up the hand named Ryan, is happy to have a bachelor comrade to hang around. Being the only unmarried Dalton boy is hard to swallow. But once he sees Ryan is really a little redheaded spitfire with curves for miles, his instinct is to hightail it. After Ryan's father died and her mother took off for a life of her own, Ryan grew up fast - and strong. Anything men could do, she did better, faster, and longer. So Kade telling her she can't only makes her more determined to prove herself. She's also mad enough to spit nails - when she's not burning for the hunky cowboy, that is. While they thoroughly dislike each other, they must work together to keep the ranch running smoothly. Kade's desires for Ryan are sloping toward dangerous, and she's had enough of the big cowboy getting in her space and not showing what he's made of. But as a natural disaster strikes the ranch, they're forced together. Question is, who will come out on top? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: JR Lowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070458/bk_acx0_070458_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste: The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 604min
It was Tuesday the second of December 1947 when Jenny the Spiddler walked into my office: almost a month before they nationalised my mother. Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detectives created at the Weeping Cross Railway Servants' Orphanage, who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the years 1925 to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of God's Wonderful Railway and all that the good men of England fought for in two world wars, Jack keeps the trains free of fare dodgers and purse-stealers, bounders and confidence tricksters, German spies and ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of the railways Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous. It reaches up to the corridors of power and into the labyrinth of the greatest mystery in all the annals of railway lore- the disappearance in 1915 of 23 nuns from the 7:25 Swindon to Bristol Temple Meads, or the case of the "Hail Mary" Celeste. Shady government agents, drunken riverboat captains, a bandaged book-seller, a missing manuscript, a melancholic gorilla and a 4070 Godstow Castle engine - the one with a sloping throatplate in the firebox and the characteristic double cough in the chuffs - all collide on a journey that will take your breath away. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ric Jerrom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022474/bk_adbl_022474_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sorority , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 507min
Prep meets Girls in White Dresses in Genevieve Sly Crane's deliciously addictive, compulsively listenable exploration of female friendship and coming of age that will appeal to anyone who has ever been curious about what goes on in a sorority house.... Margot is dead. There's a rumor she died because she couldn't take the pressure of being a pledge. You may not ask what happened to her. It's not your business. But it wasn't a suicide, if you're wondering. Spring Fling will not be cancelled. The deposit is nonrefundable. And Margot would have wanted the sisterhood to continue in her absence, if only to protect her sisters' secrets: Shannon is the thinnest girl in the house (the other sisters hate her for it, but they know her sacrifice: She only uses the bathroom by the laundry room); Kyra has slept with 29 boys since she started college (they are all different and all the same); Amanda is a virgin (her mincing gait and sloping posture give it away); and while half the sisters are too new to have known Margot, Deirdre remembers her - she always remembers. With a keen sense of character and unflinching, observant prose, Crane exposes the undercurrents of tension in a world where perfection comes at a cost and the best things in life are painful - if not impossible - to acquire: Beauty. A mother's love. And friendship...or at least the appearance of it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caitlin Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008264/bk_sans_008264_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Maltese for Absolute Beginners: The Concise Guide on Buying, Grooming, Food, Health, Care and Training Your Maltese Puppy or Dog (Maltese Puppy Training Book) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 19min
The Maltese is a diminutive dog, weighing from four to six pounds (two to three kilograms). The body is compact, the shoulder blades sloping. The back is level, and the ribs are well-sprung. The tufted tail is carried gracefully over the back. The neck is elegantly structured to promote high carriage of the head. The head is well-proportioned to the body, and the skull is slightly rounded. The drop ears are low-set and heavily feathered. The eyes are dark, the nose black, and the muzzle of medium length and slightly tapered. The long, silky coat that sweeps or hangs close to the ground gives the Maltese an almost ornamental appearance. The long hair on the head may be tied in a topknot or left hanging. The coat color is pure white.The Maltese moves in a buoyant, flowing gait. It is gentle, affectionate, intelligent, responsive, and trusting. A good family dog, Maltese pups are lively, playful, vigorous, and they generally enjoy learning tricks. They can be snappy with raucous children. The petite build of the Maltese belies its fearless presence. Highly alert, it elicits a flurry of barking in response to unfamiliar noises.The Maltese is a suitable indoor dog that thrives even in apartments and small confines. This breed can be difficult to housebreak, and they tend to be finicky eaters. Maltese are light shedders and are acceptable pets for most allergy sufferers. Daily brushing and regular bathing are recommended in order to prevent coat matting. The hair around the eyes should be cleaned daily in order to prevent tear staining.Get the audiobook today by scrolling up and clicking "buy now". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fei Ren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221337/bk_acx0_221337_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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