Christmastide

The Poetry of Scotland , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 69min

Scottish poetry is a powerful, beautiful expression of Country and Culture. It’s proud history includes such figures as Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and many other illustrious figures. This volume of poetry is a perfect compendium of the words and works of Scotland. The track list is; The TWA Corbies – Ballad; Sir Patrick Spens – Ballad; Get Up And Bar The Door – Anonymous; The TWA Books - Alan Ramsay; from A Hymn On The Seasons - James Thomson; Hymn On Solitude - James Thomson; Johnnie Cope - Adam Skirving; from O Tell Me How To Woo Thee - Robert Graham of Gartmore; from Auld Reikie - Robert Fergusson; A Red Red Rose - Robert Burns; Tam O’ Shanter – Robert Burns; To A Mouse - Robert Burns; A Man's A Man For A' That - Robert Burns; Ae Fond Kiss – Robert Burns; from 'Caller Herrin' ' - Lady Nairne; Ca' The Yowes To The Knowles – Anonymous; McLean's Welcome - James Hogg; Lochinvar - Walter Scott; Proud Maisie - Walter Scott; Old Christmastide (An Extract) By Sir Walter Scott; My Native Land - Sir Walter Scott; The Dirge Of Wallace - Thomas Campbell; Ode To The Memory Of Burns - Thomas Campbell; Lord Ullin's Daughter - Thomas Campbell; Lachin Y Gair - George Gordon (Lord) Byron; Beautiful Balmoral - William Topaz McGonagall; from 'The City Of Dreadful Night' - James Thomson; from 'In The Shadows' (Sonnet 1) – David Gray; The Vagabond - Robert Louis Stevenson; Where Go The Boats - Robert Louis Stevenson; God Gave To Me A Child In Part - Robert Louis Stevenson; I Do Not Fear To Own Me Kin - Robert Louis Stevenson; Autumn Fires - Robert Louis Stevenson; Christmas At Sea - Robert Louis Stevenson; Winter - Robert Louis Stevenson; When You See Millions Of The Mouthless Dead -Charles Sorley; Such Such Is Death - Charles Sorley; Scottish Ground - Daniel Sheehan; Selkirt Grace – Robert Burns; Scots Whahae – Robert Burns; Auld Lang Syne – Robert Burns. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Cumming, Hannah Gordon, Daniela Nardini, Gordon Kennedy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000165/bk_copy_000165_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Earl of Scarborough: Wicked Earls' Club, Book 21 (Seductive Scoundrels 9) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 234min

’Tis the season to be wicked….When a woman desperate for a job saves the life of an earl….Both of their plans for the future are thwarted.He’s eccentric and society-shy….There’s no polite way to describe Ansley, Earl of Scarborough’s obsession with schedules and inflexible routines. Unfortunately, he’s also in need of a wife, which forces him squarely in the midst of the society he can scarcely function in. If only he dared to ignore the haut ton’s censure and claim the lovely, wholly unsuitable Willow as his own.She seeks a governess post….Up from the country, Willow Harwood must quickly secure a governess position and save enough money to return to America. Only, her plans are foiled when she rushes to the rescue of a devastatingly handsome earl in the process of being robbed. Though he’s far above her station, she can’t fight the irrepressible attraction she feels toward him.Neither is prepared for the upheaval to their lives when she reluctantly accepts his offer of employment…as his housekeeper. Nor can either predict the mayhem that follows when a lord who disdains society and a country miss with no experience plan a haut ton Christmastide gathering.This charming Regency holiday historical by a USA Today best-selling author will make you smile, laugh, and sigh with contentment as you witness the sweet and tender love growing between Ansley and Willow.If you enjoy listening to entertaining Christmas, class difference, strong heroine, and lovable rogue stories with a dash of romantic humor and heart-warming emotion, then you’ll adore Collette Cameron’s enthralling Wicked Earls' Club Series. Buy Earl of Scarborough and settle into your favorite listening nook into a Regency world adventure you can’t put down.Though part of a series, this book can easily be listened to as a stand-alone novel.Check out Collette's other series: Castle Brides ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nathaniel Priestley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195193/bk_acx0_195193_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Christmas Foundling: A Christmas Regency Romance (Belles of Christmas: Frost Fair, Book 5) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 357min

A babe in a manger once saved the world. Can this one save a failing marriage?Lydia Blakeburn, Baroness Lynham, wants nothing more than to present her husband with an heir, but after five years of marriage, she has all but given up on doing so. What started as a love match has since begun to sour, yet there is nothing Lydia can do to free Miles from a marriage she is certain he regrets. The future they had envisioned together is slipping farther and farther away.Miles Blakeburn is at his wit's end. Not only has he failed to produce an heir to the family's ancient title, his wife has withdrawn from him entirely. The one thing in the world she wants, he has thus far been unable to give her: a child. He is a failure in every regard.When they happen upon an abandoned baby at the Frost Fair, Miles simply can't resist the light he sees sparked in his wife's eyes as she holds the child. He agrees to take the foundling in until Christmastide is over, when they will find the babe a permanent home. But, for a couple who's been yearning for a baby for years, the infant can't help but expose all the feelings Lydia and Miles have long been trying to bury- feelings that have the power to bring them back together...or estrange them forever.Note: This book deals with the topic of infertility, which can be triggering for some.Five Christmas romances and the Frost Fair that started them all. This is the fifth book in the clean and sweet Regency romance Belles of Christmas: Frost Fair series. Although this second-chance romance is a stand-alone novel, the books are best enjoyed when listened to in order. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228596/bk_acx0_228596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mistletoe and Chain Mail: (Christmas): Holiday Knights Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 182min

(A sweet and clean novella. Experience a medieval Christmas in authentic detail in this first book of the Holiday Knights Series.)Sir Adam de Ware is on a mission as a spy for King Edward III. He is sent to Cavendish Castle to investigate some odd behavior from the earl. If he succeeds to get answers for the king, he will be rewarded when the mission is completed. Wanting to get close to the earl's daughter, the cold-hearted Lady Eva, to find out more, Adam decides to seduce her. But the only way to seduce a woman like this is to appeal to what she most desires, and that is sumptuous food! Adam uses his unique skill of being able to cook delectable holiday dishes to lure the woman closer.Lady Eva Cavendish will do anything to protect her father's secret, even forging missives to the king in her father's name. But when Sir Adam shows up at her doorstep on Christmas Eve with a roasted goose and all the fixings to offer, she finds that she can't turn him away. Since the death of her mother, the kitchen servants haven't been able to serve an edible dish, and she longs for properly prepared food for the Christmastide season.When the Lord of Misrule proclaims that Sir Adam will be cooking in the castle's kitchen during the 12 days of Christmas, Lady Eva cannot go against the custom of the twisted holiday tradition. And when Sir Adam starts to seduce her with everything from partridge with pears, to French hens, to collie bird pie, she finds his talents alluring and starts to fall for him.Will the deceit that brings these two together be enough to keep a romance cooking, or will it burn up in the kitchen when the truth is revealed on both their parts? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin E Green. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/135566/bk_acx0_135566_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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