Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Narrativa literaria

Two Syndicate World star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships - a fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligence - that is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance.

The adolescent Christopher and his soul mate, Toni, had sneered at the stifling ennui of Metroland, their cosy patch of suburbia on the Metropolitan line. They had longed for Life to begin - meaning Sex and Freedom - to travel and choose their own clothes. Then Chris, at 30, starts to settle comfortably into bourgeois contentment himself. Luckily, Toni is still around to challenge such backsliding.

This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.

Duas pessoas se encontram por acaso no Instituto de Arte de Chicago. A partir desse momento, Aldo Damiani e Charlotte Regan têm dificuldade de ficar longe um do outro. Ele é um teórico antissocial que mantém a mente ocupada com cálculos sobre viagem no tempo e abelhas. Para Aldo, o mundo é caótico e perturbador. Então, ele constrói rotinas, regras e fórmulas. Sem isso, sua existência entraria em colapso. Ela é uma falsificadora de arte que prefere mentiras a verdades. Para Regan, todas as pessoas são previsíveis e entediantes.

Ogni evento ha una causa che lo precede. Che ha a sua volta una causa, che ne ha un'altra ancora, e così via. È possibile dunque, anziché andare avanti, tornare sempre più indietro, e ricollegare tutti i fili apparentemente sconnessi che uniscono le nostre vite? Anja Boato costruisce un romanzo vorticoso, nel quale le comparse di un capitolo diventano i protagonisti del successivo e le domande si moltiplicano, tra omicidi, anelli preziosi, disturbi mentali, malattie, funerali e fughe terrificanti.

Wenige Tage vor seinem 40. Geburtstag erhält Konstantin Wagner einen Anruf, der ihn nach langen Jahren wieder an die Schlei führt – in das Haus, in dem er endlose Sommer seiner Kindheit verbracht hat und das er nun für seine Eltern verkaufen soll. Aus dem verlängerten Wochenende wird eine Woche, dann mehr. Und während zu Hause in Hamburg seine Freundin alles für die Geburtstagsfeier vorbereitet, steht Konstantin unverhofft vor großen Fragen: Wo und wie will er wirklich leben?

Als Mona in der Marsch eintrifft, um den 80. Geburtstag ihres Opas Karl zu feiern, ist Oma Annemie spurlos verschwunden. Sie zieht zu ihrem Opa in das reetgedeckte Haus am Rand des kleinen Dorfs in den Weiten der Marsch, wo Monas Mutter Sabine gemeinsam mit den Zwillingsbrüdern Stefan und Sven aufgewachsen ist. Im Laufe eines langen Sommers taucht sie tief ein in die Familiengeschichte und stößt auf falsche Erinnerungen und erschreckende Geschehnisse.

息子を溺愛するあまり学校や近隣でトラブルをくり返す母親・梶原美里と家から一歩も出ない引きこもりの息子・恭介。この親子と、梶原家の隣人、美里と同じ職場で働く女性、引きこもりの支援施設で働く男性、恭介と同級の女子中学生、恭介が起こした不可解な事件を取材する女性ジャーナリストとの係わりを描く。

Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers - a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.

When two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, and their mother are left to the financial mercies of John Dashwood and his wife, they find themselves in drastically reduced circumstances.

Moscow, 1993. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union have brought unimaginable change to Russia. With this change come new freedoms: freedom to travel abroad and to befriend Westerners, freedom to make money, and even the freedom for an underground gay scene to take root. Encouraged by the new climate of openness, twenty-one-year-old Kostya ventures out of the closet and resolves to pursue his dreams: to work in the theatre and to find love as his idol Tchaikovsky never could.

From the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a classic love story set in a country trying to come to terms with its past. An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is a story of doomed love, of star-crossed lovers, separated not by their families, but by the very circumstances of their lives.

Felix Ketay, a 25-year-old Los Angeles dyke, has her foundations shaken when she’s ditched by her pomosexual girlfriend and then gay-bashed on the streets of West Hollywood. Felix’s old-school lesbian aunt, Anna Lisa Hill, ran away from home in 1965 at age 19 and ended up in Lilac Mines, a small town in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills with a small but tight-knit butch/femme community.

Full of both satire and social analysis, Our Mutual Friend looks at what could happen in Victorian England when a fortune passes to a working-class couple. The audiobook will enchant the listener with its larger-than-life characters, its poignant depiction of social injustice and the singular seed of hope with which Dickens hints at the possibility of a better tomorrow.

Dolores and Victor are both successful, both Americans living alone in England. They meet and fall instantly in love, only to discover they agree on nothing. From the start they know they have only one year together. Their affair is sometimes bitter, always passionate, and, in the end, an extraordinary revelation for them both.

From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in 18th-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition.

Vom Rand einer steil abfallenden Klippe, wo man sonst unter hohen Aleppo-Kiefern wunderbar den Sonnenuntergang genießen könnte, bietet sich Isabelle Bonnet ein alles andere als idyllischer Anblick: Unten am Strand liegt eine Frau, unverkennbar in Ordenstracht gewandet. Schnell bestätigt sich, was zu befürchten war: Die Nonne lebt nicht mehr. Offenbar hatte sie bei der Suche nach seltenen Heilpflanzen den Halt verloren und war zu Tode gestürzt.

De l'édification du mur de Berlin à l'effondrement de l'Union soviétique, la grande aventure du XXe siècle telle que personne ne l'a jamais racontée. 1961. Les Allemands de l'Est ferment l'accès à Berlin-Ouest. La tension entre les États-Unis et l'Union soviétique s'exacerbe pour atteindre un point culminant l'année suivante avec la crise des missiles de Cuba. Le monde scindé en deux blocs se livre une guerre froide qui risque de devenir une guerre nucléaire.

A Signature Performance: Leelee Sobieski’s Emma is sultry but vulnerable, offering a sympathetic rendering of the heroine and her plight, allowing the listener to draw his own conclusions about Madame Bovary in this cautionary tale of love, passion, and desperation.