Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Psicológica

Pese a que sus padres están convencidos de que Valentino se convertirá en un gran hombre, sus hermanas creen que no es más que un joven vanidoso, egoísta y frívolo, más preocupado por sus conquistas que por sus estudios de medicina. El repentino compromiso de Valentino con una mujer rica pero poco agraciada y diez años mayor acabará con los sueños de sus padres, quienes, escandalizados ante tan desafortunada elección, sospechan de la novia.

Este libro es la historia de una sombra que mató a un hombre de una puñalada, fue condenado a veinte años de prisión y huyó antes de entrar en la cárcel. En vez de ocultarse en un pueblo remoto o marcharse a otro país, se camufló entre la multitud de su ciudad, Barcelona, donde pasó los siguientes treinta años perfeccionando el arte de la invisibilidad a la vista de todos: detrás de la barra de un bar, recogiendo a su hija del colegio, yendo de excursión los fines de semana.

El gran escriptor irlandès situa una de les seves millors narracions al Pirineu català, en una història sobre la fredor, la distància i el dolor d’una família. A Un llarg hivern, Colm Tóibín mostra amb un control emocional impressionant l’expressió més eloqüent del vincle entre una mare i un fill. L’enyorança i la pèrdua que sent en Miquel cap a la seva mare s’entrellaça amb l’enyorança silenciosa que sent per un jove policia i per en Manolo, el servent.

En Guillem és un nen introvertit, amb un somriure permanent, i és un àvid lector de tot allò que li cau a les mans. Té només una amiga. Fins aquí tot en ordre. Però rere aquesta aparença de tranquil·litat s'amaga un món fragilíssim, agafat amb pinces i amb un misteri per resoldre. El trencaclosques el configuren un pare en crisi, una mare absent, una professora intrigada i una psicòloga que mira de recompondre el que amaga el nen. Una novel·la coral que traspua sentiments, buits, paraules no dites i un misteri corprenedor.

When Freya Miller is struck by tragedy, losing her husband and her home within a short time, she is burdened with many worries. The main one being where she and her five-year old daughter, Skye, are going to live. A chance meeting with the charismatic Dr Marsden changes all that. He offers the young mother the most amazing opportunity: an apartment at one of London’s most exclusive addresses for a fraction of the market rental cost. It’s an offer Freya simply can’t refuse.

You think you know the truth about the people you love. But one discovery can change everything.... Eight-year-old Billy goes missing one day, out flying his kite with his sister, Rose. Two days later he is found dead. Sixteen years on, Rose still blames herself for Billy's death. How could she have failed to protect her little brother? Rose has never fully recovered from the trauma, and one of the few people she trusts is her neighbour Ronnie, who she has known all her life.

A tres días para que comience el nuevo año, una mujer acudirá desesperada a la parroquia de un barrio barcelonés de clase media en busca de Ramiro, un íntegro sacerdote que dio clases a su hijo cuando era adolescente. Junto con un psicólogo mujeriego y un perspicaz joven fotógrafo, Ramiro emprenderá una búsqueda que le adentrará en las entrañas de lo que quizá sea una secta satánica. Las pesadas sombras de unas desapariciones podrían no ser más que pequeñas piezas de un aterrador puzle que Ramiro y sus dos amigos intentarán revelar.

Cuando tras un año de relación Edward Benet, un apuesto caballero inglés, le propone a Amanda Kresley viajar desde Estados Unidos a Gran Bretaña para conocer a su madre, nada hace sospechar que este pueda convertirse en el peor viaje de su vida. Cheston House, una hermosa mansión en mitad de la campiña inglesa, es el idílico lugar donde vive Meredith, la madre de Edward, una mujer extremadamente bella aunque contenida, calculada e incluso algo gélida.

Umami constituye una propuesta literaria original en su afán por explorar la amplia gama de sensaciones y emociones que el ser humano - en distintas etapas de la vida - experimenta. Una novela coral en la que los personajes aprenden a reinventarse para hacer frente a las adversidades y superar sus pérdidas. Ana quiere plantar una milpa en su traspatio, en pleno Distrito Federal. Pero en la tierra hay altos contenidos de plomo y la privada donde vive está plagada de ausencias. Su hermana murió, sus papás están de luto, y sus hermanos de campamento.

Mi nombre es Inés Escudero. Mi hijo Pablo tiene siete años, y está gravemente enfermo. Podría morir en las próximas semanas. Daría mi vida sin dudarlo un solo instante, si con ello pudiera salvar la suya. El problema es...que ni siquiera sé si mi vida me pertenece. Sabes que hay piezas de tu pasado que no encajan en el puzle de tu vida...Rebusca en tus sentimientos, en tus recuerdos...

A new family moves in over the road. The new family is acting strange. This new family has some secrets. From the author of Audible's Thriller of the Year, Silent Child, comes another psychological thriller to keep you guessing until the very end. Performed by Sophie McShera, (Daisy Mason, Downton Abbey), enter the world of a family broken by lies, a woman traumatised by a dark past, and a child caught in the crossfire.

My darling little boy Albie adores playing at our new neighbours’ house. And after the terrible year we’ve had, I feel so lucky that we can start over in this perfect place, with new friends who treat Albie like the son they never had. He can’t stop talking about the tree house they’re building him, and the cookies they bake together. But as time passes, something starts to feel wrong. Why don’t they ever open the front door more than a crack? They told me they had no children so who does the small pink tricycle I saw in their hall belong to?

Tutti vogliono vivere in Hogarth Street con il suo bel viale alberato e le case bianche. La famiglia West è la quintessenza della perfezione: Katherine e Josh sembrano la coppia perfetta, i loro splendidi gemelli riempiono di allegria il verde prato di casa. Ma qualcosa non quadra. Perché non invitano nessuno ad entrare, rifiutano le offerte di babysitting e i bambini non si sono ancora visti? La curiosità degli abitanti di Hogarth Street aumenta e, nel giorno più torrido dell'anno, una tragedia scuote le loro vite tranquille.

Introducing Audible's Thriller of the Year: Silent Child by Sarah A. Denzil, performed by Joanne Froggatt. In the summer of 2006, Emma Price watched helplessly as her six-year-old son's red coat was fished out of the River Ouse. It was the tragic story of the year - a little boy, Aiden, wandered away from school during a terrible flood, fell into the river, and drowned. His body was never recovered. Ten years later Emma has finally rediscovered the joy in life...until Aiden returns.

When Liv, Ellen and Håkon, along with their partners and children, arrive in Rome to celebrate their father’s 70th birthday, a quiet earthquake occurs: their parents have decided to divorce. Shocked and disbelieving, the siblings try to come to terms with their parents’ decision as it echoes through the homes they have built for themselves and forces them to reconstruct the shared narrative of their childhood and family history.

I'm a freak, a misfit, an odd end. Abandoned and unloved. But my happiness is so close I can taste it. Until he shows up. Gorgeous, expensive, and all man. Sad brown eyes and a brilliant smile. And he wants me to go with him. His intentions are hidden. His motives are unclear. Yet I leave with him because there's no happiness here. What he promises feels too good to be true.... A castle. A fortune. And horses, too. It's too easy. Nothing in my life has ever been easy. What's the catch? There's always a catch.

The doorbell rings, just days after my beloved husband’s sudden death. I don’t recognise the woman on our doorstep, with her blonde highlights, a diamond bracelet identical to my own and a bouncing baby boy in her arms. As I show her inside, I notice her eyes grow wide as she takes in our spacious hallway, and the big squashy sofas that we all used to pile on. She glances at the silver-framed family photos and my little daughter hiding behind my skirts. She looks at me, her blue eyes serious. ‘I’m sorry’ she says. ‘I am your husband’s girlfriend. And this is his son.'

Brian Evenson’s hallucinatory and darkly comic stories of paranoia, pursuit, sensory deprivation, amnesia, and retribution rattle the cages of the psyche and peer into the gaping moral chasm that opens when we become estranged from ourselves. From sadistic bosses with secret fears to a woman trapped in a mime’s imaginary box, and from a post-apocalyptic misidentified Messiah to unwitting portraitists of the dead, the mind-bending world of this modern-day Edgar Allan Poe exposes the horror contained within our daily lives.

In Cocaine Nights, J. G. Ballard stretches the taught canvas of his transgressive vision over the framework of old-fashioned mystery. The setting: the swank Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, where young retirees from Europe's chillier climes bask in a lifestyle of endless leisure. Into the queasy beauty of this artificial environment steps Charles Prentice, a London travel writer who has come to visit his brother Frank, manager of Club Nautico tennis and swim club by day, coked-up discotheque by night. Frank is in jail, having confessed to setting an explosive fire that has taken five alive.

Ubicada en un pequeño pueblo del norte de Chile que verá alterada su tranquilidad con la llegada de algunos personajes, "Albina y los hombres perro" relata la historia de dos mujeres, la amnésica giganta blanca Albina, cuya sensualidad transforma a los hombres en una jauría desenfrenada, y La Jaiba, mujer con bigote y joroba, unidas por un azar mágico que las relacionará con otros personajes igualmente fuera de lo común.