Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Coming of age

La Judit té gairebé dotze anys i un do per dibuixar. Viu amb la seva mare i el seu avi a Ginebra. El seu pare, un famós pintor, va marxar a Hongria quan era petita. La Judit està preparant-se per a un concurs de dibuix quan, inesperadament, els escacs es creuen en el seu camí i comença a aficionar-s’hi. La Judit jugarà moltes partides, però una d’elles li canviarà la vida: la que jugarà contra Mr. Aliyat, un estrany mestre dels escacs, nascut a l’Iran, que es comunica a través de notes enigmàtiques.

Una història sobre el primer amor i la pèrdua de la innocència, per un dels escriptors més importants del segle XX.

A ple estiu dels anys trenta, la Ginia, de només setze anys, té unes ànsies desbocades de vida. De molta més vida. Acompanyada de la seva amiga Amelia, elegant i sofisticada, coneixerà un món enlluernador habitat per artistes bohemis.

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

Manuela Penarrocha té tretze anys. Asseguda en una cadireta baixa al portal de casa seva, cus les espardenyes com ningú. La nena d’ulls grisos i cabells d’or recorda el seu pare. Ell, per fer la guerra, n’ha portat unes com aquestes, com la resta de carlistes, homes d’espardenya, garrot, trabuc i navalla a la faixa. Vol abraçar-lo, sentir l’escalfor del seu petó al front. Enyora la mirada dura i alhora plena de tendresa, el seu riure estrident.

Dopo aver risposto a un annuncio Ange, brillante studentessa di filologia, inizia a dare ripetizioni a Pie, uno strano sedicenne, dislessico e incompreso dai genitori. Affascinato dalla matematica, Pie disprezza invece la letteratura. Sotto l’occhio vigile di Grégoire, l’autoritario padre del ragazzo, Ange si mette al lavoro incoraggiando Pie a leggere un classico dopo l’altro. Il rapporto tra i due diventa subito speciale, e anche Ange avrà qualcosa da imparare dal suo allievo.

Tom Connolly's dazzling second novel is a funny, turbulent and heartfelt study of male relationships and a glorious love letter to the city of New York. It is April in Manhattan, and the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen-year-old Finn has just arrived in the city with his irrepressible and volatile girlfriend, Dilly, determined to even the score with his older brother, Jack, for abandoning him in the UK in the aftermath of their parents' deaths.

"Trust only those who earn it." A sentiment I follow without direction but holds more consequence than ever before. One decision, five lives, three futures. This is what's at stake. One night, one choice, four broken Brayshaws. That is where we're headed. Unless I stop it. I have to stop it. I have to remind him of what he's chosen to forget. My town. My choice. My ending.

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.

Si sigues tu brújula interior, llegarás a tu destino con los ojos cerrados. Aunque aparentemente tiene una vida perfecta, la protagonista, una mujer joven y madre de familia, se siente agotada y le cuesta conciliar trabajo y familia. No es feliz y se pregunta por qué. Un día, mientras pasea por el bosque y recapacita sobre su vida, conoce a una anciana que le habla de las "cuatro preguntas de la vida", que tienen el poder de cambiarlo todo para mejor.

Pip is an orphan, brought up in a village on the Essex marshes by his disagreeable sister and her husband Joe Gargery, the kind-hearted village blacksmith. Life is harsh and Pip has few prospects until he receives from an anonymous benefactor the chance of escaping the forge for a more promising life in London. But his expectations are fraught with difficulties as he is haunted by figures from his past such as the escaped convict Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her proud, beautiful ward, Estella.

"Questo breve e intenso primo libro di Erri De Luca porta già impressi in ogni frase - mi sembra - i segni di un vero scrittore: un tono di voce che appena si coglie diventa inconfondibile, e la integrità di uno sguardo che sa mettere nel giusto fuoco i pensieri e i sentimenti. Qui la memoria non è consolazione, ma è un dramma, e il tempo gioca un suo gioco crudele stabilendo distanze insormontabili tra chi narra e la materia del proprio racconto. Una luce bianca e densa come quella che filtra da nuvole alte bagna queste pagine.

Pip is an orphan, brought up by his sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery. One evening, while visiting his parents' graves, he has a shocking encounter with an escaped convict who forces Pip to help him. The very next day, he is invited to go and see Miss Havisham, a rich old lady who is seeking a playmate for the beautiful Estella. These two chance events are to change Pip's life in ways he could never have imagined...

When Elizabeth Bennet first knew Mr. Darcy, she despised him and was sure he felt the same. Angered by his pride and reserve, influenced by the lies of the charming Mr. Wickham, she never troubled herself to believe he was anything other than the worst of men—until, one day, he unexpectedly proposed. Mr. Darcy's passionate avowal of love causes Elizabeth to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about him.

Enrico Vallesi è un uomo intrappolato in un destino paradossale. Un giorno decide di salire su un treno e tornare nella città dove è cresciuto. Comincia così un viaggio di riscoperta attraverso i ricordi di un'adolescenza inquieta, in bilico fra rabbia e tenerezza. Con una scrittura lieve e tagliente l'autore ci guida fra le storie e la psicologia dei personaggi, in un romanzo di formazione alla vita e alla violenza che è anche un racconto sulla passione per le idee e per le parole, un'implacabile riflessione sulla natura sfuggente del successo e del fallimento, una inattesa storia d'amore.

She expected to start Harkness College as a varsity ice hockey player. But a serious accident means that Corey Callahan will start school in a wheelchair instead. Across the hall, in the other handicapped-accessible dorm room, lives the too-delicious-to-be-real Adam Hartley, another would-be hockey star with his leg broken in two places. He's way out of Corey's league. Also, he's taken. Nevertheless, an unlikely alliance blooms between Corey and Hartley in the "gimp ghetto" of McHerrin Hall.

La búsqueda es la historia de Waldek Grodek, un niño polaco de diez años cuya apacible vida se ve interrumpida por la invasión alemana a Polonia. A partir de ese momento, sus juegos infantiles y sus excusiones como Boy Scout se transformaron en estrategias para sobrevivir.

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

Giorgio, studente modello figlio di intellettuali borghesi, ha ventidue anni e una vita normale e un po' noiosa. Francesco è torbido, misterioso e affascinante. E baro. Le loro vite viaggiano separate fino all'incontro che segnerà il destino di entrambi, trascinandoli in un vortice ubriacante che a poco a poco diventa un'inarrestabile discesa agli inferi. Una storia struggente sull'amicizia e il tradimento, un viaggio doloroso e inquietante in quel tempo fragile e misterioso che separa la giovinezza dall'età adulta.

Four lives. Four stories. Four sets of letters. Four brave souls in need of guidance while facing life's greatest challenges. The anonymously published Dear Life program is designed to help them step outside of their comfort zones, face their obstacles, and relinquish their demons...and prove their existence.

Freshman Lianne Challice is known to millions of fans as Princess Vindi. But sometimes a silver-screen sorceress just wants to hang up her wand, tell her manager to shove it, and become a normal college student. Too bad that's harder than it looks. She's never lived a normal life. She hasn't been to school since kindergarten. And getting close to anyone is just too risky - the last boy she kissed sold the story to a British tabloid.