Resultados Editorial "Audible Originals" en Biografías y memorias

In 10 lectures, award-winning historian Patrick N. Allitt transports listeners to England in the 1840s and 1850s. During those two decades, Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, became one of the most influential people in the country and remains a figure of fascination even today. In fact, the British royal family as we know it wouldn't exist without the private and public actions of this detached, impartial, and upright political figure.

Professor Louis Moore’s audiobook about the history of African Americans in sports in the United States educates listeners about the fascinating social and cultural history of the nation. For example, integration of major league and professional sports broke a major color barrier for one of the first times in the early years of the Civil Rights Movement. African American athletes competed in America long before the 20th century - in fact, they even competed during the years of slavery.

In 1960, Ishmael Reed, then an aspiring young writer, interviewed Malcolm X for a local radio station in Buffalo, and the encounter cost Reed his job and changed his life. In Malcolm and Me, Reed, the author of such classic novels as Mumbo Jumbo and the winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, reveals a side of Malcolm X the public has never seen before, and explores how the civil rights firebrand influenced his own views on working and living and speaking out, and left a mark on generations of artists and activists.

Welcome to the era of true marriages of convenience. Discover the reality of trading someone’s hand in marriage, such as an American heiress, in exchange for money, power, or political clout through compelling history lectures. Showcased in novels such as Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and in present day pop culture through works like Downtown Abbey, the Gilded Age was an era of contradictions. Life on both sides of the Atlantic was grimy and glamorous, prosperous and impoverished, traditional and revolutionary.

What did the Founding Fathers think about religion? And why did a group of practicing Protestants create a republic with widespread religious liberty? The 12 lectures included in this fascinating course provide multi-layered insights into the vision, philosophies, politics, and deep-seated faith of these brilliant leaders - in their own time, in their own words.

Il rapimento più lungo d'Italia, una famiglia travolta da uno tsunami, la sopravvissuta a una sparatoria e un uomo che ha visto le sue tre figlie uccise dalla moglie. Cos'hanno in comune queste e altre storie? Sono storie di chi è piombato nel buio, ma ha avuto la forza di ritrovare la luce. Rivivremo, ascoltandoli dalla loro viva voce loro e da quella dei testimoni del loro dramma, gli eventi che li hanno fatti precipitare e dai quali hanno avuto la forza di riemergere. Storie difficili, estreme, cha sapranno raccontarci un nuovo modo di guardare alle nostre vite.

Il rapimento più lungo d'Italia, una famiglia travolta da uno tsunami, la sopravvissuta a una sparatoria e un uomo che ha visto le sue tre figlie uccise dalla moglie. Cos'hanno in comune queste e altre storie?Sono storie di chi è piombato nel buio, ma ha avuto la forza di ritrovare la luce. Rivivremo, ascoltandoli dalla loro viva voce loro e da quella dei testimoni del loro dramma, gli eventi che li hanno fatti precipitare e dai quali hanno avuto la forza di riemergere. Storie difficili, estreme, cha sapranno raccontarci un nuovo modo di guardare alle nostre vite.

Il rapimento più lungo d'Italia, una famiglia travolta da uno tsunami, la sopravvissuta a una sparatoria e un uomo che ha visto le sue tre figlie uccise dalla moglie. Cos'hanno in comune queste e altre storie? Sono storie di chi è piombato nel buio, ma ha avuto la forza di ritrovare la luce. Rivivremo, ascoltandoli dalla loro viva voce loro e da quella dei testimoni del loro dramma, gli eventi che li hanno fatti precipitare e dai quali hanno avuto la forza di riemergere. Storie difficili, estreme, cha sapranno raccontarci un nuovo modo di guardare alle nostre vite.

Il rapimento più lungo d'Italia, una famiglia travolta da uno tsunami, la sopravvissuta a una sparatoria e un uomo che ha visto le sue tre figlie uccise dalla moglie. Cos'hanno in comune queste e altre storie? Sono storie di chi è piombato nel buio, ma ha avuto la forza di ritrovare la luce. Rivivremo, ascoltandoli dalla loro viva voce loro e da quella dei testimoni del loro dramma, gli eventi che li hanno fatti precipitare e dai quali hanno avuto la forza di riemergere. Storie difficili, estreme, cha sapranno raccontarci un nuovo modo di guardare alle nostre vite.

Nel mondo LGBTQ+, per coming out si intende il momento in cui una persona decide di dire al mondo "io sono così" e deriva dal modo di dire "coming out of the closet". I coming out sono tutti diversi non solo perché sono diverse le persone che li fanno, ma anche perché sono diverse quelle che li ascoltano. Ogni coming out è una storia, il racconto di un pezzo di viaggio unico, un incontro tra chi ha bisogno di dire e chi ha (si spera) voglia di ascoltare. Queste sono 12 storie che volevano uscire dall'armadio, ora non resta che starle a sentire.

On Christmas Eve, 2017, Tess Henry was found dead in a dumpster in Las Vegas. Tess was a 28-year-old new mother, a former honor roll student, and a high school basketball player from suburban Roanoke, Virginia, a place ravaged by the national opioid crisis. The New York Times best-selling author Beth Macy chronicled Tess and her mom, Patricia, through Tess' harrowing, years-long battle to recover from heroin addiction in her award-winning book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America.

I calciatori vivono la loro vita sotto a quei quattro riflettori che illuminano il magico rettangolo verde di uno stadio, dove a volte accadono imprese impossibili. Gol spettacolari, rimonte imprevedibili, emozioni vere e genuine che lasciano il segno nel cuore di milioni di tifosi. Ma talvolta capita che quegli stessi riflettori si spengano improvvisamente sulla vita e sulla carriera di un singolo calciatore che è prima di tutto, un uomo. Eventi che creano storie che vanno raccontate, perché il ricordo e le gesta sportive di uomini straordinari non vada perduto.

Ever since getting sober a few years ago, Allison Hilborn-Tatro has been dedicated to achieving what she calls "radical stability" in her life. She’s up before five each morning and asleep by nine every night. Her days as a family therapist and mother to one good-natured Labradoodle are orchestrated down to the minute, with little room for anything unexpected to barge in and knock her off the wagon. That is, until the death of a neighbor she barely knew leaves her in possession of his two orphaned Shih Tzus.

James Dommek, Jr., an Alaska Native writer and musician, sheds new light on a real-life mystery that pits Native American folklore against the US justice system. In the vast Alaskan Arctic, legend has it there once lived a mythic tribe—Iñukuns—that only existed in rumors and whispers. This changed forever when an actor-turned-fugitive, Teddy Kyle Smith, had an encounter that brought Iñukuns from myth to reality. Smith was an aspiring actor with a promising career until it all came quickly crashing down with a gunshot, a manhunt, bloodshed, and other frightful events.

The case began in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1922 and lasted for over a decade. The killer has never been found, and the case continues to fascinate true-crime aficianados. A bon vivant Episcopal minister, a not-so-virginal soprano in his choir. The wealthy wife. Her oddball brother. Their furtive maid. The snooping congregants. The bumbling detectives. And in the denouement, a trial, one of the more notable of America’s Jazz Age, covered by the likes of Damon Runyon, Dorothy Dix and James Thurber. All of it hanging on the dramatic testimony of a single, strange witness.

In The Life & Times of Beethoven, celebrated composer and music historian Professor Robert Greenberg of San Francisco Performances gives you a unique perspective on a musical genius the likes of which the world had never seen before - or since. Blending biography, history, and music appreciation, these 10 lectures portray Beethoven’s extraordinary (and still modern-sounding) music as a direct outgrowth of his life, environment, and interior emotional landscape.

To most audiences, Philip Roth is a literary icon, author of probing, provocative works like American Pastoral, Portnoy’s Complaint, and Goodbye, Columbus. But to James Atlas, Philip Roth was more than just a writer—he was a friend. In 1977, when he was 28, James Atlas published his first book, a biography of the poet Delmore Schwartz, and was stunned to receive a congratulatory letter from Philip Roth. He had been moved by the tragic story it told.

In early 2018, Larry Nassar, the former doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, was sentenced to serve out the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to a variety of sex crimes. New York Times best-selling author Mary Pilon and Carla Correa chronicle the scandal from its inception, tracking the institutions that Nassar hid behind, the athletic culture that he benefited from, and the women who eventually brought him to justice.

In Chase Darkness with Me, you’ll ride shotgun as journalist Billy Jensen identifies the Halloween Mask Murderer, finds a missing girl in the California Redwoods, and investigates the only other murder in New York City on 9/11. You’ll hear intimate details of the hunts for two of the most terrifying serial killers in history: his friend Michelle’s pursuit of the Golden State Killer which is chronicled in I’ll Be Gone In The Dark which Billy helped finish after Michelle’s passing, and his own quest to find the murderer of the Allenstown 4 family.

Grab your lace shawl and top hat and get ready to twirl—this is a full-throttle appreciation of the life and voice of Stevie Nicks from one of rock criticism’s most celebrated writers.

Best-selling author and Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield explores the music and artistry of the rock goddess who has kept generations of music lovers totally bewitched and spellbound, with such classic rock hits as "Rhiannon" and "Gypsy".