Showing results by narrator "David Peters" in All Categories

Higbee, Colorado, population 147, is about to become a boomtown. The visionary General Wade Garrison is building a railroad to connect Higbee to the renowned Santa Fe Rail. But a rancher named Ike Clinton has his own selfish reasons for making sure these bands of steel go nowhere - and he’ll go to any lengths to derail Garrison’s plans. Falcon MacCallister owes a war-time debt to the General and answers the call to aid the man in his fight with the Clinton brood. 

For the greatest trapper in the country, there’s no place like the Rocky Mountains. Preacher and his son Hawk are riding the High Lonesome when the clear mountain air is split by a girl’s savage screams. A gang of ruthless trappers has kidnapped a Crow woman, but before they escape with her, Preacher and Hawk burst out of the tree line, guns spitting fire. 

In this inclusive, illustrated history and guide to skin care and beauty, journalist and founder of Very Good Light David Yi teaches us that self-care, wellness, and feeling beautiful transcends time, boundaries, and binaries—and that pretty boys can change the world Chanel and Goop might have...

Smoke Jensen has met some down-and-dirty, murdering prairie scum over the years. But this time it’s personal and it’s bloody—and going to get bloodier. First, they stole fifty of the hundred horses Smoke delivered to his old friend Big Ben Conyers in Tarrant County, Texas. Then they stole two thousand cattle from Big Ben...and killed him just for the fun of it. Now they’re going to pay.

Nemo versteht die Welt nicht mehr. Ein neues Paket kommt an … aber es ist leer. Und total zerfetzt! In fetten Buchstaben steht das Wort Kratzig darauf. Bald finden Nemo, Oda und Fred überall in Boring fiese Krallenspuren. Hat der Spielzeugdieb ihnen diesmal wirklich ein böses Spielzeug geschickt? Wo steckt das geheimnisvolle Wesen? Und ist es gefährlich? Nemo und seine Freunde haben keine Wahl: Um all diese Rätsel zu lösen, müssen sie den Dieb finden! Die Bestsellerserie für Kinder ab 6 Jahren - Vielstimmig inszeniert mit Musik, Geräuschen und tollem Titelsong.

Der berühmte Entfesselungskünstler Harry Houdini entgeht nur knapp einem Säureanschlag während eines Auftritts im Circus Busch in Berlin. Obwohl er einen begründeten Verdacht hat, wer hinter dem perfiden Mordversuch steckt, können die vermeintlichen Täter nicht dingfest gemacht werden. Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson weilen auch gerade in der Metropole und bieten ihre Hilfe an.

Nemo hat einen Plan: Er will dem mysteriösen Päckchen-Verschicker eine Falle stellen. Das könnte ein guter Plan sein – doch leider geht er schief. Und damit haben Nemo und seine Freunde drei Probleme: 1. Drache Drago wird lebendig. 2. Die Drachenspucke hat überraschende Nebenwirkungen. 3. Die einzige Person, die Drago in ein harmloses Stofftier zurückverwandeln kann, befindet sich am anderen Ende der Welt. Also fasst Nemo einen neuen Plan. Einen guten Plan. Doch leider geht auch dieser schief.

The mysterious barons — either hybrids of another race or genetic evolution gone mad — are dying. Kane, once a keeper of law and order in the new America, is part of the driving machine to return power to the true inheritors of the Earth. California is the opening salvo in one baron's savage quest for immortality—and a fateful act of defiance against earth's dangerous oppressors. Yet their sanctity is grimly uncertain as an unseen force arrives for a final confrontation with those who seek to rule, or reclaim, planet Earth.

In the 19th century, when books were comparatively rare and expensive, encyclopedic compendiums about managing households became very popular. The most notable example in this genre is Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management, first published in 1861. Three years later, Edward Abbott, who described himself as an “Australian Aristologist”, published The English and Australian Cookery Book, which has the subtitle Cookery for the many, as well as the for the ‘upper ten thousand’.

Hansel and Gretel are sent into the forest by their mother to collect berries as a punishment. The siblings get lost in the twilight and discover the gingerbread house of an old ugly witch. She enchants the children and wants to bake them into gingerbread. Hansel and Gretel use their wits to save themselves and push the wicked old woman into her own oven. The children are finally found by their worried parents, who are looking for them in the forest. In the end the family is happily united.

Rückkehr ins Riordan-Universum. Chaos um Thor und Odin: Diese neun wilden Geschichten strotzen nur so vor Action, Chaos und Wikinger-Humor! Abwechselnd erzählen der mächtige Gott Odin, der modebewusste Zwerg Blitzen, der taubstumme Elf Hearthstone, die erste mutige Walküre mit Kopftuch Samirah al-Abbas und viele mehr. Am Ende verschränken sich alle Handlungsstränge zu einem Finale, in dem Magnus' Freunde zusammen Feuergott Surt besiegen - bis zum nächsten Kampf.

Ein lebendiger Yeti – in unserer Stadt?! "Bitte nicht öffnen!" steht auf dem geheimnisvollen Päckchen, das Nemo bekommt. Klare Sache: Nemo macht es auf... Und dann passieren drei Dinge: – Eine Plüschfigur springt heraus, ein verfressener Yeti-Ritter namens Icy-Ice-Monsta – quicklebendig! – Draußen schneit es – und das mitten im Sommer! –Und der Yeti wird groß. Sehr groß. Zweieinhalb Meter groß! Während die Kleinstadt Boring in Schnee und Eis versinkt, kommen Nemo und seine Freunde ordentlich ins Schwitzen.

Ding-Dong!... Zappenduster! »Für ein neues Monster hab ich echt keine Zeit!« Als Nemo das dritte Päckchen bekommt, bringt er es ungeöffnet zurück zur Post. Erledigt, denkt Nemo. Gut gemacht, denken seine Freunde. – Falsch gedacht. Denn: 1. Es wird plötzlich stockdunkel in der Stadt. Mitten am Tag. 2. Jemand anders muss die Kiste aufgemacht haben! 3. Und das Wesen, das darin war, stöckelt nun frei umher! – Nemo, Fred und Oda wissen nicht, was für ein Wesen. Sie wissen nur, was auf der Kiste stand: »Bitte nicht öffnen – durstig...«

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Theology of James, Peter, and Jude: Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover...

Richard Marsh's The Beetle outsold Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1897, the year both novels were published. Like Dracula, The Beetle is about a strange, unearthly being from a foreign land who infiltrates Britain by hypnotizing and preying upon his victims. This exciting adventure is narrated by four different characters who have close encounters with this rapacious creature and attempt to hunt down and destroy him.

This classic farce was first performed in 1892. Since the record-breaking initial run in London, it has been revived many times around the world in a variety of languages, and has also been adapted for a number of presentations on film. The play incorporates many of the features which have become standard in romantic comedies: a cross dressing central character, identity confusion, young lovers kept apart by parental influence and older lovers unexpectedly reunited.

Clara receives a nutcracker from her godfather Drosselmeyer on Christmas Eve. That night she dreams the nutcracker is fighting with toy soldiers against the army of the Mouse King. Clara helps the nutcracker and it transforms into a prince. Together they travel to the land of sweets and celebrate a wonderful sweet festival with the Sugar Plum Fairy. It was all just an amazing dream - or was it...?

A gunshot wound has robbed Audubon, Texas, of its top lawman at the worst possible time. Clete Lanagan and his band of outlaws have hatched a scheme to plunder the town bank of a small fortune in railroad money. When the acting sheriff, Dalton Conyers - half-brother of Smoke’s niece Rebecca - is unable to raise a posse to hunt down Lanagan’s gang, he calls on Smoke for help. But with so much cash at stake, Lanagan won’t go down without a fight. 

After Henry V's death and while Henry VI is young, nobles rule England and fight the French, including Joan of Arc. As Henry VI becomes king, the noble houses begin to divide and take sides between York and Lancaster. The war with France winds down, and the nobles try to find Henry a wife and disagree about who Henry chooses.

Broadcast live from the Club Akimbo, Bletchley, this is Britain's first public access cable radio show, presented by a group of Buckinghamshire district councillors who really should know better. Chairman of the Ways and Means committee Mr Dutton is our host as he introduces us to the items on the agenda, which include sparkling sketches, surreal escapades and musical interludes from Chilean charmer Enrico Valdez and his Orchestra with Mickey Binelli.