Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Narrativa femenina

Nora, con tan sólo 26 años, es dueña de su propia empresa y todo le sonríe en el ámbito profesional. Sin embargo, su vida sentimental brilla por su ausencia y el coraje que demuestra en los negocios lo pierde frente a los hombres. Un día, va a ver una obra de teatro y se queda prendada del actor protagonista y decide que, por una vez, ella será la que tome las riendas y se propone conquistarle, pase lo que pase. Ya está bien de esperar a que él dé el primer paso.

Drei Frauen verschiedener Generationen, durch das Schicksal miteinander verbunden... Die alte Fran hat einst das Glück kennengelernt, doch mittlerweile ist alles, was ihr geblieben ist, ihre abgelegene Farm - und der Wunsch, einen Menschen zu finden, der ihr Wärme und Hoffnung geben kann. Rachel hingegen hat auf die große Liebe gesetzt und alles verloren: ihren Lebensmut, ihr Selbstbewusstsein, ihr Café.

Britta, 30, Single, hat ihr Leben im Griff. Sie arbeitet erfolgreich in der Tourismusbranche. Ihr neuestes Projekt: Sie soll zusammen mit einem Kollegen nach Dänemark auf die Insel Læsø fahren, um dort ein Feriendorf zu planen. Die Insel ist für Britta ein besonderes Ziel, stammt doch ihr bereits verstorbener Vater von dort, den sie nie kennengelernt hat. Doch sie muss feststellen, dass ihre Mutter sie die ganzen Jahre über belogen hat. Denn plötzlich ist die ordentliche und strukturierte Britta Teil einer liebenswert chaotischen dänischen Familie.

Samuel et Ariane sont amis depuis leur enfance, amoureux depuis presque aussi longtemps. Cependant, certaines décisions déchirantes peuvent ébranler la fondation d’un couple, même le plus solide. Malgré toute leur volonté, leur amour n’a pu faire oublier des blessures trop profondes. Bouleversée, Ariane a fui en Amérique du Sud, où elle a tenté tant bien que mal d’oublier Samuel.

Jo had thought that her life - and her heart - was full. With a busy job, a husband and a teenage daughter who is going off the rails, keeping her life running smoothly had already felt hard enough. But now Jo sits at the funeral of her best friend, Ginny, crushed by the loss of a friendship that had endured for 30 years: from college and their first days at work through to settling down and raising their own children. Against her husband’s wishes, Jo has made a life-changing decision: to take in Ginny’s teenage son, Victor, and raise him as her own.

Als die Journalistin Emilia Lukin bei einer Auktion das Gemälde einer jungen Frau entdeckt, meint sie in ihr eigenes Spiegelbild zu blicken. Kann es sich um ihre Großmutter Sophie handeln? Um deren extravagantes Künstlerleben im Paris der 1930er-Jahre ranken sich wilde Gerüchte, Emilias Mutter Pauline aber hüllt sich in Schweigen. Emilia lässt das traurige Lächeln auf dem Porträt nicht mehr los, und so folgt sie dessen Spuren in die Provence und nach Paris.

"Der Tag, an dem Irgendwer McIrgendwas mir eine Waffe auf die Brust setzte, mich ein Flittchen nannte und drohte, mich zu erschießen, war auch der Tag, an dem der Milchmann starb." Mit Milchmann legte Anna Burns das literarische Großereignis des vergangenen Jahres vor. Ein Roman über den unerschrockenen Kampf einer jungen Frau um ein selbstbestimmtes Leben - weltweit gefeiert und ausgezeichnet mit dem Man Booker Prize. Eine junge Frau zieht ungewollt die Aufmerksamkeit eines mächtigen und erschreckend älteren Mannes auf sich, Milchmann.

Ein einziger Tag reißt Sophie den Boden unter den Füßen weg: Erst stirbt ihre Mutter, nur wenige Stunden später verlässt ihr Ehemann sie für eine Jüngere. In ihrem bisherigen Leben völlig verloren, bricht sie alle Brücken hinter sich ab und zieht zu ihrer besten Freundin auf die Isle of Wight. Erst als sie einen Job in einem kleinen Café an der malerischen Promenade von Ventnor annimmt, kehren Freude und Hoffnung zurück. Hier trifft sie Nick - einen Mann voller Schmerz und Geheimnisse.

People respond to tragedy in different ways. Some try to move on. Some don't move at all. A year after her young son's death due to a rare genetic disease, Emma Hazelton is still frozen by grief, unable and unwilling to consider her husband Noah's suggestion that they try to have another child. As the future Emma once imagined crumbles, her family's past comes into sharp relief. Searching for the roots of her son's disease, Emma tries to fit together the pieces in her genealogical puzzle.

Lindsey Bains Johanson has spent her entire life practicing the art of denial. She was always the obedient, perfect daughter of General Travis Bains until she learned of the atrocities he committed against her own sister. Now, free of her father, she has become the perfect wife. A lifetime of training has enabled her to keep quiet about anything and everything, including the monster her husband becomes behind closed doors.

Tess and Orla have been best friends throughout most of their adult lives. So when life gave them lemons and their loved ones let them down, they pooled their resources and bought a dressmakers shop on the corner of Penny Lane. And they’ve been doing just fine ever since. But one day, while studying her tired eyes and shapeless figure in the mirror, 62-year-old Tess realised that she doesn’t want her life to be just fine anymore. She wants it to be extraordinary.

Life dealt her heart a terrible blow as a newborn. With time, she learned to love again. But with him, time is running out. Marine biologist Ri Sullivan had a rough start in life. A biracial baby abandoned in a Moscow train station, she spent eight months in a Russian orphanage before being adopted by a devoted couple from the coast of Maine. Her family weathered years of painful attachment difficulties, and now the spirited, resilient 25-year-old has no conscious memory of ever feeling insecure.

In Halo, Georgia, folks know Cherry Tucker as big in mouth, small in stature, and able to sketch a portrait faster than buckshot rips from a ten gauge - but commissions are scarce. So when the well-heeled Branson family wants to memorialize their murdered son in a coffin portrait, Cherry scrambles to win their patronage from her small town rival. As the clock ticks toward the deadline, Cherry faces more trouble than just a controversial subject.

The four most powerful women in Washington are at the top of their political game. What could possibly go wrong? Charlotte Kramer, America's first female president, is beginning her second term and is determined to make her mark on history though events do seem to be conspiring against her. Melanie Kingston, her best friend, just signed on as secretary of defense. Will their relationship survive? Dale Smith is the senior communications advisor to the vice president and knows a secret that could not only ruin her own career, but put the credibility of the White House on the line....

Storied, fiercely competitive Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code; its reputation has been unsullied for decades. Now a long-dormant secret society, Prisom's Party, threatens its placid halls with vigilante justice, exposing students and teachers alike for even the most minor infraction. Iris Dupont, a budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, feels sure she can break into the ranks of The Devil’s Advocate, the Party’s underground newspaper, and there uncover the source of its blackmail schemes and vilifying rumors.

One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. It's the first time the Atlanta native has been out on the open water, and she's captivated. On the dock of a stilt house, with the dazzling skyline in the distance and the unknowable ocean beneath her, she meets the house's owner, Dennis DuValand, a new future reveals itself.

As I saw my newborn baby’s face for the first time, I tried desperately to capture her face in my mind - to stamp it onto my eyelids. As she was taken from me, I knew I might never see my daughter again. Thirty-seven years later... 'You were adopted'. Three short words and Sabina’s life fractures. There would forever be a before those words and an after. Pregnant with her own child, Sabina can’t understand how a mother could abandon her daughter or why her parents have kept the past a secret.

In this beautifully written and powerful debut novel, Ella Joy Olsen traces the stories of five fascinating women who inhabit the same historic home over the course of a century - braided stories of love, heartbreak, and courage connect the women, even across generations.

In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with classic stories of the Middle East. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes; the beautiful Fatima; Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders; and a host of mischievous imps.

Accountant Katie Kramer is a quintessential good girl - working hard, recycling diligently, all the while trying to ignore the feeling that she doesn't fit in anywhere. That's all she wants. Well, that and amazing sex, and the kind of daredevil escapade she can look back on when she's crunching numbers in a dusty cubicle. Which explains why she just took a job in Wishful, California, working for Wilder Adventures and Expeditions. Waking up to find a magnificently built stranger towering over her bed - that part defies explanation.