Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Ficción contemporánea

脱サラし、お笑い芸人になった西野勤。しかし才能がなく、８年間、売れることなくくすぶっている。そんな彼の元にガネーシャが降臨！

ハツとにな川はクラスの余り者同士。ある日ハツは、オリチャンというモデルのファンである彼の部屋に招待されるが……文学史上の事件となった127万部のベストセラー、史上最年少19歳での芥川賞受賞作。

In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent to live with her aunt’s in a house by the sea. Orphaned shortly thereafter, Polly will spend the next eighty years stranded in this quiet corner of the world as 20th century rages in the background. Throughout it all Polly returns again and again to the story of Robinson Crusoe, who, marooned like her, fends off the madness of isolation with imagination.

Big Ray's temper and obesity define him. When Big Ray dies, his son feels mostly relief, dismissing his other emotions. Yet years later, the adult son must reckon with the outsized presence of his father's memory. This stunning novel, narrated in more 500 brief entries, moves between past and present, between his father's death and his life, between an abusive childhood and an adult understanding.

In the Prince of Wales Hotel and the shabby terraces and tearooms of Westbourne, retired lives run their course - all, in their different ways, anticipating crisis.

When Sam, Jackie and Anna successfully campaign to save their children's school lollipop lady, they are asked by a TV reporter if they fancy standing in the general election. It is, of course, a crazy idea: Sam's youngest son has an incurable disease, Jackie is desperate for another child and her mum is struggling with Alzheimers, Anna's teenagers - and marriage - are in danger of going off the rails. But sometimes the craziest ideas turn out to be the best. And just think what they could do if they got to run the country...

The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature - his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives, those on the periphery - long to experience the glow of his fame. Anna and Will are Renn's grown children, struggling to be authentic versions of themselves in a world where they are seen as less important extensions of their father. They are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows every part of them.

Um professor estudioso da II Guerra Mundial começa a ter pesadelos, como se estivesse vivendo as atrocidades ocorridas durante o Nazismo. Durante suas aulas, provoca seus alunos ao associá-los a Hitler, com a intenção de incitar sua sensibilidade e curiosidade. Seu comportamento acaba gerando polêmica e coloca os holofotes sobre ele. A situação se complica ainda mais, quando ele se torna vítima de um estranho complô nazista.

Oliver and his wife arrive by Eurostar to attend the birthday party of grandchild Hugo. Hugo's grandmother Harriet is also on her way. Oliver and Harriet fail to recognise one another at first - but the physical attraction is instantaneous. Harriet's son, Roderick,, a successful banker, is married to Jennifer, who works in publishing. Attempting to reconcile careers, marriage and children leads to high stress levels as the two generations walk a dangerous tightrope between fidelity and parenthood.

Tending to Virginia is a audiobook of one family's most important stories - how they happened, how they were perceived, how they were remembered, how their truth is revealed. In the end, an eruption of family confessions becomes revelation - revelation as legacy, passed down among a family's women; revelation as a family's gift in celebration of growing up, a process Jill McCorkle knows lasts into old age.

Russ Bryant, a lonely and downtrodden reporter trapped in a job he hates, stumbles onto the story of a lifetime when he is befriended by Casey Fox, a promising rookie catcher on the local minor league team. Possessed of mythic talents but mortal insecurities, Casey isn’t even sure he wants to play in the major leagues (and unless he improves his attitude toward the team’s management, he may never get the option). Still, when circumstances in Boston lead to an offer from the Red Sox, the lure proves irresistible, and Casey moves on the fast track from the anonymity of the minor leagues to stardom at Fenway Park.

Jonathan Kepler wants to climb Spoon Mountain with his grown son and daughter on his sixty-fifth birthday in three weeks. The kids, Ben and Miranda, think he’s crazy. For starters, Spoon Mountain is almost the tallest alpine peak in New Mexico. Jonathan’s health is terrible. Still reeling from his third, nearly fatal, divorce, he has a rotten heart, serious asthma, and a fed-up girlfriend who is about to drop him like a bad habit.

生前の罪により、輪廻のサイクルから外されたぼくの魂。だが天使業界の抽選にあたり、再挑戦のチャンスを得た。自殺を図った少年、真の体にホームステイし、自分の罪を思い出さなければならないのだ。

この数年の間に、僕の家族にはいろんなことが起こった。そんな暮れのある一日、久しぶりにみんなが家に集まった。悲しみの深い淵のさらにその先で、物語は、ゆっくりと静かに始まる－。

グルメ×任侠!!
就職活動中の大学生が暮らす6畳のワンルームに転がり込んできたヤクザは、妙に「食」にウルサイ男だった！ 異色グルメ小説。

Long ago, when the worlds were one... So begins the Tale, the ancestral legend Bron's family has guarded for a thousand years. Once, they were the keepers of the Stone, the most sacred object on earth, from which all the powers of Mind are drawn. But when the conflict between Mind and Hand split the worlds apart, the Stone was seized by an ambitious sorcerer. To keep the new world from contamination, he created rigid Limits circumscribing which tools might be made and which knowledge might be pursued.

盲目の強打者登場に、球界は大パニック!?

盲目の天才打者、横浜大洋ホエールズの田中一郎選手。 盲導犬に先導され、“耳”で球種を捉える驚異の打法で、昭和54年度は本塁打56本、打率4割7分4厘を記録。

Bestselling author Torey Hayden's novel is a fascinating study of a fractured family, a troubled child, and a psychiatrist's attempts to rescue them. Conor, aged nine, arrives in the play therapy room of child psychiatrist James Innes with the diagnosis "autistic". His mother Laura, an aloof, enigmatic novelist, can't handle him. His rancher father, embroiled in divorcing Laura, does not feel there is anything wrong with Conor. His six-year-old sister Morgana insists he really does see ghosts.

The whole of the harbour was touched with gold - the tops of the quiet waves, warehouse roofs, the bulging folds of sails at rest, the tips of seagull wings - giving him one sweeping glimpse of beauty just as he was leaving, a vision of things as they ought always to be just as they were not.... March, 1912. A sultry Indian summer hangs over the west coast of Australia and aboard the luxury steamship SS Koombana, three tales entwine.

東京中央銀行大阪西支店の融資課長、半沢直樹のもとにある案件が持ち込まれる。大手ＩＴ企業ジャッカルが、業績低迷中の美術系出版社・仙波工藝社を買収したいというのだ。