194 Results for : inscrutable
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The Mastery of Destiny , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 112min
There is, and always has been, a widespread belief in Fate, or Destiny, that is, in an eternal and inscrutable Power which apportions definite ends to both individuals and nations. This belief has arisen from long observation of the facts of life. Men are conscious that there are certain occurrences which they cannot control, and are powerless to avert. Birth and death, for instance, are inevitable, and many of the incidents of life appear equally inevitable. Men strain every nerve for the attainment of certain ends, and gradually they become conscious of a Power which seems to be not of themselves, which frustrates their puny efforts, and laughs, as it were, at their fruitless striving and struggle. As men advance in life, they learn to submit, more or less, to this overruling Power which they do not understand, perceiving only its effects in themselves and the world around them, and they call it by various names, such as God, Providence, Fate, Destiny, etc. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000506/bk_gdan_000506_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Auctioneer: Valancourt 20th Century Classics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 525min
One of the finest and best-selling horror novels of the 1970s returns at last to chill a new generation.In the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, where life has changed little over the past several decades, John Moore and his wife, Mim, work the land that has been in his family for generations. But from the moment the charismatic Perly Dinsmore arrives in town and starts soliciting donations for his auctions, things begin slowly and insidiously to change in Harlowe. As the auctioneer carries out his terrible, inscrutable plan, the Moores and their neighbors will find themselves gradually but inexorably stripped of their freedom, their possessions, and perhaps even their lives....A chilling masterpiece of terror whose sense of creeping menace and dread increases throughout, Joan Samson's The Auctioneer (1975) is a rediscovered classic of 20th-century fiction. With echoes of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Stephen King's Needful Things, Samson's novel returns at last in this long-awaited new edition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Godfrey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/122039/bk_acx0_122039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Murder at the Vicarage (Dramatised), Hörbuch, Digital, 137min
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. In the sleepy little English country village of St Mary Mead, all is not as it seems. Under a seemingly peaceful exterior lurks intrigue, guilt, deception - and murder. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner, is the most detested man in the village. Everyone, even the vicar, wishes he were dead. And very soon he is - shot in the head in the vicar's own study. A visiting artist confesses to the murder, but residents saw him elsewhere at the time the Colonel was shot. If he didn't do it, who did? Is he protecting the wife whom he loves? Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues. A trap set, and Miss Marple's theory is put to the test when the true killer is finally unmasked. Language: English. Narrator: June Whitfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003852/bk_bbcw_003852_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Gentleman's Daughter: Her Choice: A Gentleman's Daughter, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min
From author Reina M. Williams comes the first book in the A Gentleman's Daughter series, traditional regencies for fans of sweet period dramas. Regency England: rakes and radicals, poets and patriots, the hardy and the hedonistic. What is a gentleman's daughter to do in these changing and challenging times? She will skirmish for love, ever polite, though sometimes her white kid gloves must come off. Cecilia Wilcox's frustrating and unsettling encounter with a handsome stranger is soon pushed from her thoughts by the appearance of her first love, the rakish, elegant best friend of her older brother. Disapproving of her daughter's choice, her domineering mother takes her to London to find a husband. She introduces Cecilia to a charming rogue and the stranger, whose commanding and inscrutable presence both disturbs and captivates her. Amidst London balls and country house parties, Cecilia must wade through false assumptions, betrayals, and revenge to reclaim the man she loves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caprisha Page. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021651/bk_acx0_021651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Call Forth the Waves: The Celestine Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 691min
Earth, not so very long from now: the silent, inscrutable alien visitors who bathed the planet in transforming rains have moved on, leaving behind a world much changed. Penn Roma, age sixteen, is blessed - or cursed - with supernatural talents she has always concealed. Her sisters, likewise afflicted, are prisoners of the Commission, the government agency tasked with controlling these strange children. Penn's determination to save them only gains urgency when she learns of the horrifying plans the twisted Warden Dodge has for the peculiar charges. But Penn herself must remain hidden, navigating a series of fantastical havens with her embattled allies, similarly enhanced teens also in the Commission's crosshairs. Worse, her vast, half-understood powers have become unpredictable, failing at critical moments and activating outside of her control. Can Penn trust a rogue warden, supposedly opposed to Dodge's schemes, to help free her family...or has the Commission set its most nefarious trap yet? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suzanne Elise Freeman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/007851/bk_brll_007851_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Daisy Miller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 143min
What the European male fails to understand is that the American Girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent; and that her purity depends upon nothing she says or does." (Leslie Fiedler)When Frederick, an American expatriate traveling in Europe, meets the commonplace, newly rich Miller family from New York, he is charmed by the daughter, Daisy, and her "inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence". The Millers have no perception of the complex code that underlies behavior in European society, and Winterbourne is astonished at the girl's unworldliness and her mother's unconcern when Daisy accompanies him to the Castle of Chillon. Some months later, he meets the family in Rome, where Daisy has aroused suspicion among the American colony by being seen constantly with a third-rate Italian. Ostracized by former friends who think her "intrigue" has gone too far, Daisy denies that she is engaged to Giovanelli. Publicly, Winterbourne defends her as simply uncultivated, but privately, he hesitates. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan O'Malley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001861/bk_blak_001861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Strange Company , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 113min
In Strange Company, a delightful collection of short essays, Jean Ryan brings us closer to the natural world. From lizards to lady bugs, from the inscrutable sloth to the resplendent quetzal, Ryan reveals some of our commonalities with earth's creatures and hints at the lessons we might learn from them. Do lizards fall in love? What do sloths think about all day? Why is the blood of a horseshoe crab so valuable? Do starlings flock for fun? Can a parrot serve as a therapist? Do turtles ever grow bored with their long lives? Why would a crow foster a kitten? Can snails be fearless? These are just a few of the questions Ryan poses in Strange Company as she invites the listener on a wild journey through land, sea and sky. While these essays acknowledge our responsibility to Mother Nature, the insights they offer are affirmative and heartening. With her precise, elegant prose, Ryan draws us into the tantalizing world of animals and their oddities. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nikiya Palombi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082919/bk_acx0_082919_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Stories: Four Original Short Stories, Hörbuch, Digital, 124min
Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales. In a drawer in his bureau, Dr. Watson keeps a locked cedarwood chest - a 'box of secrets'. It contains an archive of notes referring to some of Holmes' cases that, for one reason or another, never saw the light of day. Now, for the first time, Watson has decided to reveal the truth to the world.... In these four thrilling stories, Holmes experiments with the science of ballistics, locates some missing gold bullion, investigates the theft of a large amount of money and solves the baffling mystery of the Stovey murder. Language: English. Narrator: Benedict Cumberbatch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002142/bk_rhuk_002142_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Joseph Stalin: The Contradictory Character of a Communist Dictator , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 72min
Smarter in 60 minutes. Get smarter in just 60 minutes with in60Learning. Concise and elegantly written audiobooks help you learn the core subject matter in 20% of the time that it takes to listen to a typical book. Life is short, so explore a multitude of fascinating historical, biographical, scientific, political, and financial topics in only an hour each. Joseph Stalin ruled Russia with an iron first. As a dictator, he was personally responsible for the deaths of roughly 10 million people. While most write Stalin off as an evil tyrant, there is more to the man than most know - a US Ambassador once said, "I must confess that for me Stalin remains the most inscrutable and contradictory character I have known." What could be so contradictory about such a person? This book explores the life of this man who, while an "evil genius", was undeniably a genius in a country at the crossroads of an era. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Honickberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141411/bk_acx0_141411_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The History of Jane Doe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 463min
A poignant, deeply funny coming-of-age story about first love, first loss, and the power of history to give life meaning. History buff Ray knows everything about the peculiar legends and lore of his rural Connecticut hometown. Burgerville's past is riddled with green cow sightings and human groundhogs, but the most interesting thing about the present is the new girl - we'll call her Jane Doe. Inscrutable, cool, and above all mysterious, Jane seems as determined to hide her past as Ray is to uncover it. As fascination turns to friendship and then to something more, Ray is certain he knows Jane's darkest, most painful secrets and Jane herself - from past to present. But when the unthinkable happens, Ray is forced to acknowledge that perhaps history can only tell us so much. Mixing humor with heartache, this is an unmissable coming-of-age story from an exciting new voice in YA. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Crouch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/003231/bk_lili_003231_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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