Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Biografías y memorias

A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.

Elle s'immerge dans l'univers qu'elle décortique, participe aux stages de Clara Morgane et autres « prêtresses » contemporaines, pour comprendre ce qui se cache derrière cette quête spirituelle en plein essor. Et si le féminin sacré n'était pas une lubie ésotérique, mais une réponse à un monde médical qui a longtemps ignoré les spécificités du corps féminin ?

Una obra maestra de la sátira política -empapada en vodka y desternillante- sobre el ocaso de un Vladímir Putin senil en un futuro ya muy cercano...Vladímir P envejece a marchas forzadas aislado en un mundo poblado por los recuerdos de sus años en el poder. Para desprenderse del antaño todopoderoso gran líder con todos los honores (y horrores), y no levantar sospechas entre sus súbditos sobre su difícilmente disimulable demencia senil, se le invita con sumo tacto a pasar el resto de sus días confinado en una suerte de exilio vacacional entre los muros de su lujosa dacha, al atento y todo menos desinteresado cuidado de su personal doméstico.

Primera biografía (autorizada) de Manu Chao, compuesta a la carrera por quien tuvo el raro privilegio de acompañarlo en sus azarosas giras por medio mundo. Durante la mayor parte de un lustro, el escritor, compositor, crítico y periodista británico Peter Culshaw tuvo el raro privilegio (pues a ningún otro cronista le ha sido concedida tal gracia) de acompañar a Manu Chao en su periplo por medio mundo desde el corazón del África sahariana a buena parte de las Américas y, de vuelta ya en el viejo mundo, de Finisterre a los Urales con el empeño de cantar sus gestas.

Antes de tener hijos estaba segura de que sería la mamá perfecta. Destacaría en mi labor como madre, mis hijos estarían impecables siempre, y yo, brillando en mi nuevo rol, me iría a dormir tranquila todas las noches. En mi mente, despertaría descansada y con la mejor disposición para un nuevo día. Tengo que admitirles, desde un inicio, que soy malhablada. Si estás leyendo esto, debo advertirte: esto no es para las personas prejuiciosas, no es para las personas que se pelean con desconocidos en redes sociales o que escriben mensajes haters como cobardes tras una pantalla.

Antes de que el chef Aaron Sánchez saltara a la fama, era un niño, un mexicoamericano travieso, criado por una mujer con una determinación incansable y de invaluable talento, chef y restauradora de éxito por derecho propio. De niño pasaba las noches en el comedor de su casa rodeado de algunos de los chefs y restauradores más influyentes de Nueva York. En sus memorias, Sánchez se adentra en sus años de formación con gran sinceridad, inyectando adrenalina en su historia y revelando cómo se enamoró de la cocina y comenzó una carrera en el trepidante mundo culinario.

Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life - child migrant, talented photographer, suspected enemy alien and spy, desert wanderer, American citizen - mirrors the arc of Japanese America in the 20th century. In a series of pilgrimages, Shimoda records the search to find his grandfather and unfolds, in the process, a moving elegy on memory and forgetting.

Singer-songwriter Hayley Gene Penner's memoir takes a brutally honest yet humorous look at the dark, intimate truths we spend our lives running from. Like a map of beautiful mistakes, Hayley’s stories of questionable sexual encounters, artistic aspirations, and emotional abuse trace her coming of age in the music industry.

Charlie Chaplin made an amazing 71 films by the time he was only 33 years old. He was not only known as the world’s first international movie star, but as a comedian, film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than the next. In this animated biography of Chaplin, Joyce Milton reveals to us a life riddled with gossip and a struggle to rise from an impoverished London childhood to the life of a successful American film star.

On a picturesque street in Sacramento County, California, three healthy saplings stand side by side. But what they symbolize are the deaths of three innocent people - two of them children. The man who took their lives, then planted trees in their honor, was their own husband and father. Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife, Irene, died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, his two young children were also found dead in their beds. Barron claimed they suffered from the same rare genetic disorder as their mother.

On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911 call from his car to report that he and his seven-months-pregnant wife, Carol, a lawyer, had been robbed and shot by a Black male in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. By the time police arrived, Carol was dead, and the baby was soon lost as well. The attack incited a furor during a time of heightened racial tension in the community. Even more appalling, while the injuries were real, Stuart’s story was a hoax: He was the true killer.

What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be.

Lo storico leader e fondatore dei Timoria - pionieri del rock italiano anni Novanta - affida a questo ascolto il racconto di tutto quello che la musica gli ha regalato: incontri, canzoni, occasioni e luoghi che hanno messo in discussione la sua vita, salvandola, tra rivoluzioni, precipizi e svolte. Dopo un difficile intervento al cuore, il terzo, a causa della malattia che lo accompagna da sempre, Omar Pedrini decide di parlare di sé. E lo fa componendo un libro che sembra quasi il film della sua vita, o il suo personalissimo concept album.

If you've ever felt a crumpling in your chest when another friend tells you that they're pregnant... If you've ever wondered why everyone else seems to find it so easy... If you've ever experienced the pursuit of motherhood... This audiobook is for you. It is currently estimated that one in five couples have difficulty conceiving. Hepburn’s audiobook, which describes her long and, at times, heartbreaking journey to have a child has been called a cross between Bridget Jones's Diary and Eat Pray Love for the infertile generation.

Where does a moderately popular internet star who never leaves her house look for potential suitors? Online. Tinder, Bumble, Match.com, OkCupid - I tried them all. My 31-year-old self clicked and swiped her little heart out, leading to more dates than I could count, and more disappointment than I was prepared for. Maybe you can relate. Maybe you know all too well the perils of modern dating.

In the late 1970s, a serial killer prowled the campus of Michigan State University, terrorizing students and faculty alike. Donald Miller was a graduate of MSU's renowned School of Criminal Justice, but somehow went awry and turned into a monster, targeting pretty coeds for sexual assault and murder. Miller's victims included his ex-fiancée. Only after the killer was brought to justice could the campus return to normal, as a place for education and enjoyment. Donald Miller's path from promising criminal justice grad to deadly criminal is chronicled in this riveting short.

Awakenings - which inspired the major motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and their extraordinary transformations.

One of the first personal narratives written by an ex-slave, this is also one of the few written by a woman. Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) was enslaved, along with her family, in North Carolina under a ruthless master who sexually harassed her. After several failed escape attempts, and several years of hiding, she finally made her way North to freedom, where she was eventually reunited with her children. The book was published in 1861.

Thailandia e Cambogia, Somalia e Repubblica Democratica del Congo, Brasile e Colombia, Pakistan e Italia. Sono alcune delle aree in cui Medici Senza Frontiere svolge da più di trent'anni la sua opera di soccorso rivolta alle popolazioni povere e alle vittime delle catastrofi e delle guerre. Nove scrittori italiani (Alessandro Baricco, Stefano Benni, Gianrico Carofiglio, Mauro Covacich, Sandro Dazieri, Silvia Di Natale, Paolo Giordano, Antonio Pascale, Domenico Starnone) le hanno visitate e in questo libro raccontano ciò che hanno visto.

"Mi chiamo Teresa Ciabatti, ho quattro anni, e sono la figlia, la gioia, l'orgoglio, l'amore del Professore." Il Professore è Lorenzo Ciabatti, primario dell'ospedale di Orbetello. Lo è diventato presto, dopo un tirocinio in America, perché è pieno di talento ma modesto, un benefattore, qualcuno dice un santo. Tutti lo amano, tutti lo temono, e Teresa è la sua figlia adorata: l'unica a cui il Professore consente di indossare l'anello con lo zaffiro da cui non si separa mai. L'anello dell'Università Americana, dice lui. L'anello del potere, bisbigliano alcuni.