564 Results for : parlor
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The True Life of the World’s Greatest Showman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1405min
Original 1888 Edition of The Life of P.T. Barnum"The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama, which entrances empires and secures for the gifted artist a world-wide fame which princes well might envy. Men, women and children, who cannot live on gravity alone, need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is in a business established by the Author of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission, and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain. " (PT Barnum) Phineas Taylor Barnum came from humble means to revolutionize the entertainment industry of his time and lay the foundation of the entertainment industry we know today. His visionary ability to create and market new and innovative acts transformed the world and moved society forward towards a new era of understanding and inclusiveness. His marketing skill and shrewd business skills transformed common and mundane acts into "must see" cultural events. Barnum skill as a showman included marketing such unique features as educated dogs, industrious fleas, automatons, jugglers, ventriloquists, living statuary, tableaux, gypsies, albinos, fat boys, giants, dwarfs, rope-dancers, live "Yankees," pantomime, instrumental music, singing, and dancing in great variety, dioramas, panoramas, models of Niagara, Dublin, Paris, and Jerusalem; Hannington's dioramas of the Creation, the Deluge, Fairy Grotto, Storm at Sea; the first English Punch and Judy in this country, Italian Fantoceini, mechanical figures...these, among others, entertained audiences by the tens of thousands and made Barnum a fortune and made his name synonymous with show business. But Barnum's genius was not limited to parlor tricks and freak shows, although this was a common criticism of his shows. His well-earned title of the World's Greatest Showm ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stan Chandler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160861/bk_acx0_160861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sexy Variations: Five Explicit Erotica Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min, (USK 18)
If you like your erotica hot and hardcore, you're sure to love this collection of five explicit erotica stories. Hey, who says women can't enjoy erotic romance that's heavier on the erotic than the romance? This collection is filled with sexy situations and explicit language. It's hot as hell, and it's just a click away. Download now. Warning: This audiobook contains very explicit descriptions of sexual activity and includes rough sex, group sex, first anal sex, reluctant sex, and more. Only mature adults who won't find that offensive should listen to this collection. 1. "Threesome at the Lake House: A Ménage a Trois Erotica Story" by Connie Hastings When my roommate Heather suggested we spend the weekend at her family's lake house, I was excited. It would be a great break from the stress of school, and it was sure to be relaxing. How was I to know an old lover of hers would show up and I'd be suddenly plunged into a sexual experience like none other? My first lesbian sex, my first anal sex...and all of it happened outdoors where anybody could see! 2. "Stranger Sex on My Eighteenth Birthday (A Younger Woman Erotica Story)" by Kate Youngblood Taylor has her 18th birthday all figured out. She's particularly excited about her plans for a tattoo and hanging out with her friend Alice. Things don't go as planned, though! Alice gets caught up with a boy, and the tattoo artist isn't coming in. About the only good thing is a hot guy working the desk at the tattoo parlor. Taylor thinks Kai is amazing, and he's about to prove it. Before long, she's right in the middle of a stranger sex experience! 3. "Keeping the Fans Happy: Porn Star Sex on Webcam" by Maggie Fremont ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Saucedo, Jess Bella, Nichelle Gregory, Poetess Connie, Sapphire Rose. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/045590/bk_acx0_045590_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Victor Lustig: The Life and Legacy of the 20th Century’s Most Notorious Con Artist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min
“Never pry into a person's personal circumstances (they'll tell you all eventually).” (“The Ten Commandments for Con Men”, attributed to Victor Lustig)The art of the confidence trick is a controversial craft that is as old as time itself. In the early years of civilization, unscrupulous folks bottled and peddled assortments of fake cures and potions. Snake oil salesmen aside, charlatans posed as mystical beings with supernatural powers, promising to end droughts and other misfortunes of the gullible with what were in reality parlor tricks and illusions. Indeed, throughout history, unabashedly brazen characters managed to make careers out of deception. Seventeenth-century Britain, for instance, was terrorized by William Chaloner, the most infamous serial counterfeiter and con artist of his time before he was ultimately bested by Sir Isaac Newton himself. The British trickster posed as a quack doctor and a clairvoyant who dispensed false fortunes (most likely via an early form of cold reading) and bogus healing antidotes, but these were bush-league frauds in comparison to one of his most renowned claims to fame: He once bribed four Jacobite sympathizers to crank out pamphlets regarding King James II's denunciation of His Royal Highness William and later double-crossed his coconspirators by tipping off the cops and swiftly decamping with the $1,000 reward. Confidence women were equally active players in such dirty, fixed games. Doris Payne was a professional pilferer of jewels whose unconventional vocation spanned six decades. Throughout all her hits across the United States, Europe, and Asia, Payne adhered to a simple, yet effective method of operation: She donned stylish, pricey clothes, singled out impressionable male shopkeepers and distracted them with flirtatious small talk, and secretly palmed jewelry with sleight-of-hand tricks. One of the most recent was Frank Abagnale, a career impersonator, former forger of bank checks turned FBI empl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Pickering. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194184/bk_acx0_194184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Heartwood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 722min
Set in north-central Pennsylvania at the turn of the 20th century, Heartwood is an inspiring and heart-rending novel that traces the intertwined lives of two men with common roots in the rugged timbering industry, but whose destinies and love for Cassandra Erhart, daughter of an industrialist, turn them against each other. Heartwood is a loving and careful preservation of a precious part of American history that has all but vanished.This story of place and a man’s search for significance amidst clashing worlds of humans and nature is more than the tragedy and triumph of Tobias Meier’s passage from woodsman to ostracized heir. His leaving a landscape he knows and to which he is connected spiritually, moving on in pursuit of false opportunity, illuminates the larger-scale sacrifices tolled on an increasingly transient America. Heartwood contemplates what is lost as civilization expands, natural places disappear, and technology renders steadfast traditions obsolete.The scenes of Heartwood, which Jack Driscoll, author of How Like An Angel, calls cinematic, take place in logging camps and the sooty innards of an arc light factory, in the homes of lumber tycoons and the drafty bedrooms of company houses, during a bear hunt and in a parlor room in 1913’s finest New York hotel.The story of Tobias is intertwined with the rise of an empire and the ones who built it, one of the multi-faceted ventures that farmed the region’s natural resources to build the little industrial towns of Pennsylvania. As was true with many of these family operations, the empire follows the economic cycles of the new century and it impacts most every life in the town it occupies. Tobias and the protagonist will choose paths that follow the tide of this empire, and one will get swept into it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Rowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203746/bk_acx0_203746_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bikini Babes' Carwash: The Complete Anthology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 828min, (USK 18)
Phoebe thinks starting up a new hands-on carwash staffed entirely by her superbly stacked, gorgeous sorority sisters is a magnificent idea. Little does she know how that decision will change all their lives as, one after another, they meet and fall in love with the men of their wildest dreams...while trying to solve the mystery of a 20-year-old jewel heist! Phoebe's DesirePhoebe is confident that her new carwash will be a success. But Riley Thompson is a clever businessman. If the girls can’t afford to lease his prime location, he knows of other ways to make a tidy profit. Besides, he lusts after pretty Phoebe, and longs to teach her that an experienced older man can be an even better lover than a lusty football jock! Antonia's ArousalToni has more worries on her plate than she cares to count. Their battered old carwash is in even worse shape than they thought, and the county’s new building inspector has showed up unexpectedly, and brought trouble with him. If only he wasn’t so incredibly sexy, with a taste for homemade Italian cooking…and gorgeous Italian sorority girls! Muriel's PassionThe rugged day laborer who’s joined their small crew seems disturbingly familiar. Even though Muriel aches to feel his clever hands gliding all over her body, something about him is making her keen senses hum with alarm. Who is he…and why is he lurking around their sorority house every night? Andrea's EcstasyShe’s adored Mac forever…but he barely even knows she’s alive. That’s what Andi thinks, anyway, until she’s nearly killed in a freak swimming accident. If she survives, will Mac be the one to teach her the glorious delights of making love? Astra's CravingAstra is working hard to remodel the damaged bay that will become their luxurious "massage parlor". She doesn’t need sexy Jared Montrose sniffing around, trying to cozy up to her sorority sisters, just so she’ll hire h ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gavin McAllister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206115/bk_acx0_206115_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Spiral Notebook: The Aurora Theater Shooter and the Epidemic of Mass Violence Committed by American Youth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 457min
On July 20, 2012, 12 people were killed and 70 wounded at a mass shooting in a movie theater in Colorado. In 1999, 12 kids and one teacher at Columbine High School were murdered by two students. In 2012, 20 children and seven adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Thirty-two were killed at Virginia Tech. Twelve killed at the Washington Navy Yard. In May 2014, after posting a YouTube video of "retribution" and lamenting a life of "loneliness, rejection, and unfulfilled desires," a lone gunman killed six and wounded seven in Isla Vista. All of these acts of violence were committed by young men between the ages of 18 and 30. Mass violence committed by young people is now an epidemic. In the first 14 school days of 2014, there were seven school shootings, compared to 28 school shootings in all of 2013. The reasons behind this escalating violence and the cultural forces that have impugned a generation is the subject of this important new book. New York Times best-selling author Stephen Singular has often examined violence in America in his critically acclaimed books. Here he has teamed with his wife, Joyce, for their most important work yet - one that investigates why America keeps producing twentysomething mass killers. Their reporting has produced the most comprehensive look at the Aurora shooting yet and draws upon the one group left out of the discussion of violence in America: the twentysomethings themselves. While following the legal proceedings in the Aurora shooting, The Spiral Notebook is full of interviews with Generation Z, a group dogged by big pharma and antidepressants and ADHD drugs, by a doomsday/apocalyptic mentality present since birth, and by an entertainment industry that has turned violence into parlor games. Provocative and eye opening, The Spiral Notebook is a glimpse into the forces that are shaping the future of American youth, an entire generation bathed in the violence committed ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Taylorson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007687/bk_blak_007687_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Little Familiar: Familiar Spirits, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 213min
Powerful witch Piotr Russell has resigned himself to loneliness, because ordinary humans can’t know what he is, and other witches are intimidated by his abilities. Generations of Russells have lived and died with only their familiars at their side. The presence of a friendly familiar is enough to keep even the loneliest witch sane, and yet Piotr deliberately hasn’t chosen one. He forces himself to keep busy instead, but the emptiness of his house haunts him even more the spirit of Great-Great-Aunt Elysia in the parlor. With Samhain and Halloween approaching, he’ll have much to do, and knowing that, his concerned coven seizes the chance to intervene and sends help to his door in the form of Bartleby Dorchester. The rarest of rare jewels, Bartleby is a human familiar: a witch with no magic of his own, and a desire to find a strong witch to help and serve. In particular, he desires to help and serve Piotr, and everything in Piotr wants to let him. Bartleby was meant to be his familiar; Piotr knows it as surely as he knows when it will rain or when the apples in his garden will ripen. But what Piotr wants from Bartleby, all he’s ever wanted, is for Bartleby to love him, something he thinks is impossible. Russells live and die unloved, and he won’t allow Bartleby to feel obligated to spend his life with him as his familiar if he could be happy in love with someone else. But Samhain is a time for change, when walls come down and borders grow thin, and Bartleby isn’t going to waste what might be his last chance to convince Piotr that they were meant to be. He might have no magic, but love is a power all its own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joshua Macrae. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227432/bk_acx0_227432_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Manipulation: Dark Psychology: How to Analyze People and Influence Them to Do Anything You Want Using NLP and Subliminal Persuasion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
Manipulation: Dark Psychology: How to Analyze People and Influence Them to Do Anything You Want Using NLP and Subliminal Persuasion (Body Language, Human Psychology) Dark Psychology Series, Book 5 How can you persuade someone to do exactly what you want? Better yet, how can you do so without them having the slightest idea you’re doing it? What if there was a way to make people do your bidding while believing the action was their idea in the first place? Imagine having the power that ensures your requests are met without hesitation! If there were such a power, would you take it? Not only does such a thing exist, you can find it here! The answer lies within dark psychology. Within this book is the knowledge you’ll need to master manipulation using methods such as: Neuro-linguistic programming Subliminal persuasion Cold reading “Shot gunning” Body language analysis Understanding behaviors The “vibes” of a person With these persuasive techniques, you’ll be able to manipulate anyone and convince them to do anything you want them to. You’ll have the ability to convince others you can read minds by learning how every psychic has achieved their success with the power of cold reading. You’ll understand the psychology of advertisement and how you can use the science of manipulation psychology from a simple scene, photograph, or spoken word. You’ll know how to learn about everyone around you before you’ve even spoken to them as this book delves into different aspects of analysis. Delve deep within a person, and learn exactly what makes them unique through the use of analysis, cold reading, and other unusual tricks you’ll learn listening to this book. Contained within this book are: Tips and tricks: how to manipulate another person The rules of persuasion How to work parlor trick magic Detailed examples in r ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Slydell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118902/bk_acx0_118902_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cowboys Full, Hörbuch, Digital, 450min
From James McManus, author of the best-selling Positively Fifth Street, comes the definitive story of the game that, more than any other, reflects who we are and how we operate. Cowboys Full is the story of poker, from its roots in China, the Middle East, and Europe to its ascent as a global - but especially an American - phenomenon. It describes how early Americans took a French parlor game and, with a few extra cards and an entrepreneurial spirit, turned it into a national craze by the time of the Civil War. From the kitchen-table games of ordinary citizens to its influence on generals and diplomats, poker has gone hand in hand with our national experience. Presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama have deployed poker and its strategies to explain policy, to relax with friends, to negotiate treaties and crises, and as a political networking tool. The ways we all do battle and business are echoed by poker tactics: cheating and thwarting cheaters, leveraging uncertainty, bluffing and sussing out bluffers, managing risk and reward. Cowboys Full shows how what was once accurately called the cheater's game has become a mostly honest contest of cunning, mathematical precision, and luck. It explains how poker, formerly dominated by cardsharps, is now the most popular card game in Europe, East Asia, Australia, South America, and cyberspace, as well as on television. It combines colorful history with firsthand experience from today's professional tour. And it examines poker's remarkable hold on American culture, from paintings by Frederic Remington to countless poker novels, movies, and plays. Braiding the thrill of individual hands with new ways of seeing poker's relevance to our military, diplomatic, business, and personal affairs, Cowboys Full is sure to become the classic account of America's favorite pastime. Language: English. Narrator: Oliver Wyman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001023/bk_aren_001023_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Sea Beast Takes a Lover , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 414min
An astonishing fiction debut from a UC Irvine MFA graduate and recent contributor to The New Yorker.Bewitching and playful, with its feet only slightly tethered to the world we know, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover explores hope, love, and loss across a series of surreal landscapes and wild metamorphoses. Just because Jenny was born without a head doesn't mean she isn't still annoying to her older brother, and just because the Man of the Future's carefully planned extramarital affair ends in alien abduction and network fame doesn't mean he can't still pine for his absent wife. Romping through the fantastic with big-hearted ease, these stories cut to the core of what it means to navigate family, faith, and longing, whether in the form of a lovesick kraken slowly dragging a ship of sailors into the sea, a small town euthanizing its grandfathers in a time-honored ritual, or a third-grade field trip learning that time travel is even more wondrous - and more perilous - than they might imagine.Andreasen's stories are simultaneously daring and deeply familiar, unfolding in wildly inventive worlds that convey our common yearning for connection and understanding. With a captivating new voice from an incredible author, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover uses the supernatural and extraordinary to expose us at our most human.Audiobook Table of Contents:"Our Fathers at Sea", read by Peter Altschuler"Bodies in Space", read by PJ Ochlan"The Sea Beast Takes a Lover", read by Michael Crouch"The King’s Teacup at Rest", read by Mark Bramhall"He Is the Rainstorm and the Sandstorm, Hallelujah, Hallelujah", read by Emily Rankin"Rockabye, Rocketboy", read by Robbie Daymond"The Saints in the Parlor", read by Arthur Morey"Andy, Lord of Ruin", read by Michael Andreasen"Jenny", read by Kirby Heyborne"Rite of Baptism", read by Mark Br ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Various. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003878/bk_peng_003878_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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