Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Narrativa femenina

Quatre femmes, quatre époques, quatre destins tragiques. Katia Gagnon nous surprend avec un roman sombre, aux tonalités fantastiques et au suspense haletant. Il y a d’abord Thérèse, dans les années 1990, qui soudain voit surgir de son passé un être qui viendra l’aider à se libérer enfin d’un fardeau qu’elle porte depuis des années. Il y a Michèle qui, à la faveur de la révolution sexuelle des années 1970, veut réinventer la vie, le couple, et oublier la mort que quelqu’un a déposée au plus profond de son être quand elle était toute petite.

Berlin 1929: Die drei Freundinnen haben ihren Weg gefunden: Edith arbeitet als Hebamme in der Klinik und in einer Beratungsstelle für Frauen. Margots Leben steht kopf, nachdem sie sich in einen verheirateten Mann verliebt hat, und Luise unterrichtet inzwischen Hebammen-Schülerinnen und stürzt sich ins Nachtleben der schillernden Metropole. Gleichzeitig zeigen sich die Spuren der Weltwirtschaftskrise nur zu deutlich in Berlin. Armut und Leid sind allgegenwärtig.

Leah Smith finally has everything she has ever wanted. Except she doesn't. Her marriage feels more like a loan than a lifelong commitment, and the image she has worked so hard to build is fraying before her eyes. With a new role and a past full of secrets, Leah must decide how far she is willing to go to keep what she has stolen.

At age 20, Molly Shakespeare knows a lot. She knows Descartes and Kant. She knows academia and Oxford. She knows that the people who love you leave you. She knows how to be alone. But when Molly leaves England's gray skies behind to start a new life at the University of Alabama, she finds that she has a lot to learn - she didn't know a summer could be so hot, she didn't know students could be so intimidating, and she certainly didn't know just how much the folks of Alabama love their football.

Melinda Soto, aged 64, vacationing in Mexico, is murdered by a fellow American tourist. Back in her hometown of Reno, Nevada, she leaves behind her adopted son, Jeremy, whom she rescued from war-torn Guatamala when he was a toddler - just one of her many causes over the years. And she leaves behind a circle of friends: Veronique, the academic stuck in a teaching job from which she can't retire; Rosemary, who's losing her husband to Alzheimer's and who's trying to lose herself in volunteer work; Henrietta, the priest at Rosemary's and Melinda's church.

After hitting her head, Lucy Sparks awakens in the hospital to a shocking revelation: the man she’s known and loved for years - the man she recently married - is not actually her husband. In fact, they haven’t even spoken since their breakup four years earlier. The happily-ever-after she remembers in vivid detail - right down to the dress she wore to their wedding - is only one example of what her doctors call a false memory: recollections Lucy’s mind made up to fill in the blanks from the coma.

Natalie isn’t a romantic. She doesn’t believe in true love or destiny. She thinks that people are just plain lucky if they happen to find someone. It’s coincidence and nothing more. As a wedding dress designer, though, she knows she has to keep these feelings under wraps. Even if she’s suspicious that Harper, the bride she’s working with, might secretly agree with her. Because if Harper admitted she wasn’t sure about love, it might also mean giving up on a millionaire husband-to-be and the lavish island wedding of her dreams.

Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, 30-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town, and arrives at her parents' home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth's mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic.

England, 1939. Ruth hat es geschafft - sie hat die nötigen Papiere für ihre Familie besorgt, die endlich nach England ausreisen darf. Zusammen wollten sie alles in Bewegung setzen, um ihre Verwandten noch nachzuholen. Aber dann erklärt England Deutschland den Krieg. Ruth wähnte sich bislang in Sicherheit, aber was geschieht, wenn die Deutschen das Land nun angreifen? Sie setzt alles daran, dass sie zusammen nach Amerika fliehen können. Doch der Krieg droht ihre Pläne zunichtezumachen.

Meg Larson thought she had everything she wanted: she works in the local bakery, she’s months away from marrying her high-school sweetheart, and home is beautiful, sunny Seashell Cove, where the sky is blue, the sea is turquoise and the sand is golden. Except that the bakery is up for sale, and her fiancé Sam’s more interested in bikes than their relationship. When Meg receives shocking news about her family, he’s on a cycling tour and ignoring her calls - and posting selfies on Facebook with a female cyclist he looks far too cosy with....

Frankreich 1958: Jeanne verzaubert in den Fünfzigerjahren ganz Paris mit ihren Chansons. Nun lebt sie mit ihrem Mann in einem Château im malerischen Loire-Tal und widmet sich leidenschaftlich ihrer großen Liebe, der Rosenzucht. Doch ein Schatten liegt über ihrem Glück, denn Jahre zuvor musste sie das, was sie am meisten liebte, zurücklassen, um zu überleben... Hamburg 2017: Die Journalistin Ella erbt ein verfallenes Anwesen in Frankreich. Sie ahnt nicht, dass das Vermächtnis ihr ganzes Leben auf den Kopf stellen wird.

Macy Hayward always admired the Monroes. Adopting four kids - including the brooding, mysterious Liam - they were an example of the loving family she wanted for herself someday. Now, ironically, Macy’s got an unexpected new tenant in the apartment above her hardware store: none other than Liam. Most of Liam’s furniture consists of weightlifting equipment, since he has no intention of settling in. He can’t wait to run away again, from his brothers and his bitter memories - and from Macy, with her relentlessly seductive curves.

Schwimmen ist ihr Leben. Doch gerade als es nicht besser laufen könnte für Lauren Jefferson, bedroht eine Verletzung ihre Karriere als Profisportlerin. Nur ein erfahrener Coach kann ihr jetzt noch helfen. Doch der Beste für diesen Job ist ausgerechnet der, den sie keinesfalls um diesen Gefallen bitten kann: ihr Ex Wade Warner. Wade weiß, dass er sich von dieser Frau fernhalten muss. Sie hat ihm schon einmal das Herz gebrochen. Soll sie doch alleine zusehen, wo sie bleibt. Doch sein Herz hat andere Pläne.

This ballerina will dance just for me. I am my own man and I won’t end up like my brother - tamed and chained to one woman forever. But I like a good challenge. A challenge like her. Sara may embody the pure and innocent swan on stage, but this blue-eyed doll can’t hide the little nymph she really is. I've never seen a naked ballerina before, and I crave the lithe body of this one.

Biddy Weir is a quirky girl. Abandoned by her mother as a baby, and with a father who's not quite equipped for the challenges of modern parenting, Biddy lives in her own little world, happy to pass her time painting by the sea and watching the birds go by. That is, until she meets Alison Flemming. Because there are a few things about Biddy that aren't normal, you see. And Alison isn't afraid to point them out to the world. All of a sudden, Biddy's quiet life is thrown into turmoil. If only there was someone to convince her that, actually, everyone's a little bit weird....

Braxton Monroe’s taking a break from teaching to do some strenuous work on a Civil War-era house, and feeling the strain in every rock-hard muscle. Good thing he has to interview massage therapists for the spa - even if it’s embarrassing to meet a job candidate in his boxers. Cora Buchanan has hands so talented - and a voice so sultry - he wants to hire her before he even lifts his head from the table. But he’s shocked to meet her outside the massage room - with her seeing-eye dog, Heidi the yellow lab.

Diana è una bella ragazza poco più che ventenne. Tutto per lei sembra scorrere normalmente - amici, amori, studio - fino a quando una lettera sconvolge ogni cosa. La madre, infatti, prima di morire le ha scritto, rivelandole l'esistenza di una sorella gemella, Mary, che il padre, lasciandola, aveva portato via con sé. Inizialmente Diana non ha voglia di cercarla, presa com'è dalla sua vita.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right? When Caren Williams finds herself back on the estate she fought so hard to get away from, little does she realise she'll be living opposite her archenemy, Gina Bradley. Gina thinks she and her family rule Stanley Avenue, so when Caren starts to become popular, she decides to hit her where it will hurt the most: she wants her husband.

Alice has been lying to herself for years, holding fast to the belief that the needs of her family far outweigh her own. But her outwardly successful marriage hides dark secrets, and for much of her life the children were the only reason she stuck around. These days, though her successful banker son lives nearby, his young wife seems to do everything she can to keep Alice at bay. As for Alice's other son, he has always been something of a stranger and has been traveling for so long that Alice isn't even sure what continent he is on anymore.

A Santiago con Celeste è il racconto di un viaggio di trecento chilometri, undici giorni, un lungo malumore e una sciarpa. Un percorso in cui l'autrice parte con uno zaino pieno e torna con uno zaino vuoto. Da Roma a Santiago, in treno, a piedi (ma anche in taxi), fermandosi in ostelli e rifugi, spa e piscine, il pellegrinaggio su una delle rotte classiche della cristianità di una scrittrice italiana che demitizza e rimitizza il cammino attraverso i suoi passi e quelli della sua amica Celeste.