Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Literatura de género

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention....

Yūko è in grado di vedere cose che gli altri non vedono, e di indovinare i desideri e i pensieri di chi le sta intorno grazie a una sensibilità fuori dal comune. Compiuti quattordici anni, tutto sembra assumere sfumature misteriose, e il mondo si popola di bizzarre creature. Yūko sta imparando ad assegnare un colore a ogni stato d'animo e a ogni emozione; a insegnarglielo è Kyū, il suo maestro di disegno, che ha il doppio dei suoi anni. Quando dal fusto di una pianta fuoriescono degli strani omini verdi, loro sono gli unici a vederli.

Chris y Paulo pasan cuarenta días en el misterioso y desconocido desierto del Mojave, en una búsqueda que los llevará a enfrentarse con su realidad más recóndita, con sus miedos más íntimos, sus debilidades e inseguridades. Las Valquírias trata de la voluntad y de la capacidad de elección que tenemos, y de cómo nuestras decisiones determinan nuestro destino. Paulo Coelho nos abre las puertas de su lucha más personal y nos habla de la responsabilidad hacia sí mismo y hacia sus seres más queridos.

-Si me muero, quiero que escribas tú mi obituario. -Bueno... Me lo dice poco convencida. Entonces trato de llevármela al huerto con las historias que más gracia le hacen y exagerando alguna que otra cosa que me ha pasado. -¿Tengo que poner todo eso? No sé si me acordaré... -A ver qué pones y cuánto espacio te dan. -¿Y por qué, mientras nos morimos, no escribimos un libro?

Ésta es la historia del gran Gilberto Bosques Saldívar, el diplomático mexicano que durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial salvó miles de vidas en Francia al otorgar visados mexicanos para que los refugiados pudieran hallar paz en una tierra nueva.

Caçula de três irmãs, Angela DeSaria já tinha traçado sua vida desde pequena: escola, faculdade, casamento, maternidade. Porém, depois de anos tentando engravidar, o relacionamento com o marido não resistiu, soterrado pelo peso dos sonhos não realizados. Após o divórcio, Angie volta a morar na sua cidade natal e retorna ao seio da família carinhosa e meio doida. Em West End, onde a vida vai e vem ao sabor das marés, ela conhece a garota que mudará a sua vida para sempre.

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors, declaring that she will never marry. It is only when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the cultivated but worthless Gilbert Osmond that she discovers that wealth is a two-edged sword.

En Alepo, la vida de Nuri y de su esposa, Afra, transcurría feliz junto a su hijo, Sami. Él era apicultor y dedicaba su vida a las abejas, ella era una artista de gran sensibilidad que vendía sus cuadros en el mercado de la ciudad. Pero cuando sucede lo impensable y la guerra destruye todo lo que aman, tienen que escapar.

Una banda de motoristas acosa a una pareja que viaja por Estados Unidos; un hombre se ve obligado a comer una tarántula viva ante las cámaras de un programa de televisión para solucionar los problemas económicos de su familia; dos buscadores de oro aficionados sufren en las montañas un terrible accidente que pone a prueba su amistad; la muerte de dos vagabundos y el descubrimiento de unas ruinas misteriosas perturban la celebración de una boda....

Craig Mellow, acclaimed author but unhappy exile, seizes the chance to return to Zimbabwe when he is given a spying mission for the World Bank. Accompanied by beautiful photographer Sally-Anne Jay, he is at first unaware of the dangerous currents of tribal conflict that swirl below the calm surface of Zimbabwean politics. Then he stumbles upon a highly organised ivory-poaching operation which masks the treacherous plot to sell the country he once fought for into slavery....

When Royan Al Simma is the victim of a vicious attack that leaves her husband dead, her only thought is that she must continue their joint work: to use the secrets of the seventh scroll to find the hidden tomb of Pharaoh Mamose and its untold trove of lost Egyptian riches. To do so, she must bury her grief and partner with the eccentric aristocrat Nicholas Quenton-Harper, a man who shares her passion for the ancient world. But the men who killed her husband are not yet finished.

Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancée, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. But when Penrod's jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. On a mission to establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous journey to the new capital of Addis Ababa, where they are welcomed by Menelik, the King of Kings.

When ballet dancer Clara Campbell arrives in New Orleans, lonely and homesick, she is immediately captivated by the story of Windisle Plantation and the tragic tale that is said to have transpired beyond its gate. Legend has it that it is abandoned by all living souls, but to Clara’s great surprise, it is not a ghost she hears through the stone wall surrounding the property, but a flesh and blood man: a scarred stranger with a pain deeper and darker than the churning waters of the Mississippi river that flows beside his self-imposed prison.

In German East Africa on the eve of the First World War, two freebooting adventurers - one a flamboyant Irish American, the other an impeccable young Englishman - pit their wits against the gross German Commissioner from whose territory they are making their living as game hunters and ivory poachers. But the outbreak of war gives the signal for their private skirmishing to flare into a relentless vendetta pursued with devastating violence by land and sea, so that what begins as a comic escapade gives way to chilling horror....

Samantha Valentine didn’t drift into my life, she collided with it. Soon it was like we had been friends forever. She told me everything about her perfect life, but I always felt there was something she was leaving out. Then one night, I get a frantic call from Samantha, hysterical and begging me to protect her from her boyfriend. Rushing to her house, instinct takes over and soon my heart is hammering out of my chest as I stand over the body of a man I had never met before this evening.

This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.

Durante 18 anos, Jude pôs as necessidades dos filhos em primeiro lugar, e o resultado disso é que seus gêmeos, Mia e Zach, são adolescentes felizes. Quando Lexi começa a estudar no mesmo colégio que eles, ninguém em Pine Island é mais receptivo que Jude. Lexi, uma menina com um passado de sofrimento, criada em lares adotivos temporários, rapidamente se torna a melhor amiga de Mia. E, quando Zach se apaixona por ela, os três se tornam companheiros inseparáveis.

Roberto Marías è un uomo spezzato dal passato, dai ricordi di un padre perso troppo presto e da quelli di una vita pericolosa, trascorsa come agente sotto copertura. Di professione fantasma, ha imparato a ingannare, a tradire, a sparire senza lasciare traccia. Quando incontra Emma e suo figlio Giacomo, le loro solitudini iniziano a parlarsi e qualcosa impercettibilmente, cambia. Una narrazione serrata e struggente sui padri e i figli, i vuoti dell'anima e la fragilità degli uomini.

Los habitantes de Peñafonte, una pequeña aldea minera, tratan de subsistir en el particular equilibrio establecido tras los trágicos eventos de los últimos años: la revolución obrera

La historia de la humanidad está llena de cosas perdidas, relegadas al olvido en ocasiones, o destruidas por el hombre o la erosión de los días. Algunos de esos dispares objetos, reales o imaginarios, quedan recogidos e inventariados en este libro: los enigmáticos fragmentos que han pervivido de los poemas de Safo, el Palacio de la República de Berlín, el tigre del Caspio o el supuesto esqueleto de un unicornio. Una obra cautivadora e inclasificable que nos brinda la oportunidad de reflexionar sobre el significado de la pérdida...