Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Literatura y ficción

How far would you go to keep a promise? Reed Bradford never should have made that promise. He’d barely survived the first time around, but now she was back, his best friend’s little sister, his one-time neighbor, and the woman that he never should have promised to protect. He never should have done a lot of things, like cross that line, but once he did.... There was no turning back.

Perhaps the most autobiographical (and deliberately least disciplined) of Vonnegut's novels, Slapstick (1976) is in the form of a broken family odyssey and is surely a demonstration of its eponymous title. The story centers on brother and sister twins, children of Wilbur Swain, who are in sympathetic and (possibly) telepathic communication and who represent Vonnegut's relationship with his own sister who died young of cancer almost two decades before the book's publication.

Et si une randothérapie au cœur de l'Italie pouvait aider tout à chacun à régler ses difficultés ? C'est en tout cas le concept qu'entend promouvoir le beau Francesco en accompagnant cinq Français légèrement égarés dans la vie mais prêts à se lancer dans l'ascension du Monte Meta. Bérénice craint les hommes. Stéphane veut arrêter de fumer.

Cosa vuol dire aver fatto il bambino nell'Italia del boom economico e il ragazzo negli anni Settanta? Ce lo spiega con implacabile ironia Beppe Severgnini, in un testo che ormai è un classico e da vent'anni ci racconta chi siamo.

Avid antiques collector Pierre-Francois Chaumont unearths the find of a lifetime at a Paris auction house: an 18th-century portrait of a gentleman who looks just like him. Researching into the painting's history, he has the chance to abandon his tedious existence and walk into a brand new life.

After spending months buried up to my eyeballs in my family's affairs, I'm ready for a break. The kind of break where I can spend two solid weeks camping and fishing in the company of absolutely no one. Then I find myself directly in the path of a drop-dead gorgeous tornado by the name of Becca Stone. Who can resist a night with a damsel in distress? Especially when she happens to be a leggy blonde? The last thing I expect is for Becca to show up on my cabin doorstep the next night, shivering in the rain and ready for seconds.

Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of brutality. Loosely based on the legend of Bluebeard (best realized in Bela Bartok's one-act opera), the novel follows Karabekian through the last events in his life that is heavy with women, painting, artistic ambition, artistic fraudulence, and as of yet unknown consequence.

Liebe ist was für Anfänger, findet Laura. Nachdem ihre vermeintliche Bilderbuchehe durch ist, hat sie die Nase voll von all den romantischen Klischees, die sie fleißig auf Instagram gepostet hat. Ihr aktueller Beziehungsstatus: geschiedener Single mit flüchtigen Affären. Doch dann wird die Redakteurin dazu verdonnert, über Liebe und »nachhaltige Romantik« zu schreiben. Hä? Vollends ins Schleudern kommt Laura, als sie eine kreative Auszeit in der Biohof-WG ihrer Schwester nimmt. Dort trifft sie den nervigen Nachbarn Finn. Und entdeckt plötzlich eine ganz neue Variante von Romantik.

Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him. She seduces a 15-year-old admirer, Jimmy, and persuades him to do her dirty work. Mission accomplished, Suzanne takes to the airwaves in her new role as grieving widow, in search of a TV deal. If that means selling Jimmy down the river, she’s ready.

Em um dos programas, Lucas resolve debochar de uma astróloga, Dandara. Acontece que ela não é uma astróloga comum e, como punição, joga uma maldição no apresentador: pelos próximos doze dias, daquele até o dia do aniversário de Lucas, ele despertará com as piores características de cada um dos signos. Se não conseguir se tornar uma pessoa empática até lá, o ciclo da maldição se repetirá para sempre.

Alicia Erian's characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. The Brutal Language of Love challenges traditional notions of right and wrong with what has become Erian's signature—an achingly stylish humor and a deep understanding of the brutal truth about human nature. These surprising, provocative, and deeply resonant stories marked the emergence of a major talent.

This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological— that destroy the rain forest and all birds of Brazil.

Coscienza (chiamata variamente Enza, Cosce, Scienza e Zen), ghostwriter di tesi di laurea, si scopre vedova a quarantaquattro anni. A guastare il lutto, una sconosciuta che è morta nell'auto di suo marito, nello stesso precipizio. Chi era la donna, ma chi era soprattutto suo marito?

Ça vous est déjà arrivé de vouloir quelque chose vraiment très fort et de succomber, tout en sachant que vous allez sûrement encore souffrir ? Non ? Eh bien, vous êtes plus raisonnable que moi. Je m'explique : À 27 ans, je reprends tout juste ma vie en main après une relation amoureuse désastreuse. Institutrice en attente de titularisation, mon bonheur est tout ce qui compte et je sais que je suis sur la bonne voie. J'exerce le job de mes rêves, j'ai des amies en or, un toit au-dessus de ma tête et je suis l'esclave d'un chat despote. Je coche toutes les cases, non ?

"Quello che so è che mi chiamo Piedimonte. Di più, non posso garantire." Stefano Piedimonte, scrittore napoletano trapiantato a Milano tra molto alterne fortune, si è ridotto così, steso sul letto nel suo monolocale di periferia, a dubitare del proprio passato, del proprio presente e della propria stessa identità, in compagnia di un cucciolo di bassotto forse immaginario. Come può essere successo? C'entra uno studente universitario che per un esame ha ricevuto il compito di compilare la voce Stefano Piedimonte su Wikipedia.

Lucia è arrivata ai 40 con la convinzione di aver raggiunto qualche traguardo nella vita: un lavoro che ama in un'agenzia di comunicazione, una relazione equilibrata e l'acconto per l'affitto della casa perfetta. Ma in un giorno di pioggia tutto inizia a perdere i contorni. Una catena di eventi infausti si abbatte sulle sue abitudini. Professione, affetti, identità vengono messi in discussione da un'idea che subdolamente si fa largo nel suo cervello: i trentenni hanno preso il potere e lei non se n'è accorta.

Italia, oggi. Una città morente avvolta dalla nebbia. Una bottega di erboristeria che si chiama Opus Magica in cui si vendono gli articoli più bizzarri e pericolosi del pianeta. Dietro il banco un uomo strambo e disilluso accoglie una composita clientela di altrettanta eccentricità: maghi, esorcisti, scrittori folli, forse anche fantasmi. Mentre le vie del centro sono sempre più invase dalla terrificante progenie dei Fratelli dell'Ombra. Una discesa negli incubi condivisi della provincia italiana che strappa la risata e non lesina sui brividi da elargire.

Questa novella a metà tra la satira sociale e l'allegoria amara, descrive una popolazione ridotta a uno stato di sonnambulismo che si scoprirà essere indotto dal governo per accrescere il PIL nazionale.

Red York has seen it all: the Maple Leafs’ 45 consecutive Stanley Cups, Toronto’s designation as a United Nations World Heritage Site, the emergence of the Toronto Telegram as the nation’s greatest newspaper. Now, in response to at least two readers’ requests, and with the aid of a ghostwriter whose name he can’t ever remember, the award-winning columnist has penned a definitive history of the city of Toronto in the back half of the 20th century.

When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours and a looming Native Title war between the local Bundjalung families. When Jo unexpectedly finds love on one side of the Native Title divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the Good Life.