Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Psicológica

Mia Hamilton lived the perfect life with her husband, university teacher Zach, and their two-year-old daughter. But everything changed when Zach committed suicide on the same night one of his students vanished. Five years later, just when Mia is beginning to heal, stranger Alison walks into her life, saying her husband didn't kill himself. Fragile, slight Alison leads Mia on a path into Zach's past, and Mia begins to think she never really knew her own husband.

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.

How far would you go to protect your family? Single dad Ben is doing his best to raise his children, with the help of his devoted mother, Judi. And then Ben meets Amber. Everyone thinks this is a perfect match for Ben, but Judi isn't so sure.... There's just something about Amber that doesn't add up. Ben can't see why his mother dislikes his new girlfriend. And Amber doesn't want Judi anywhere near her new family. Amber just wants Ben and the children.

Single mother Callie has come to rely heavily on her best friend Suzy. But Callie suspects Suzy's life isn't as simple as it seems. It's time she pulled away - going back to work is just the first step towards rediscovering her old confidence. So why does she keep putting off telling Suzy about her new job? And who will care for her rather frail daughter, Rae, while she is gone?

It is the sweltering summer of 1997 when strait-laced, straight-A student Karen meets Biba - a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress.She is drawn to her new friend’s carefree world of constant parties, and quickly abandons her old life to move into the crumbling Highgate mansion Biba shares with her brother Rex and a stream of lodgers. For a while, life is one long summer of love. But summer must end. And by the end of theirs, two people would be dead.

It is 1993 and Thomas Penmarsh has lived in Finisterre, the house by the sea, all his life, sleeping each night in the room with the barred window. He's only 48 but has been an old man since one evening in 1967 when he lost everything he valued. However, now his controlling mother has died and he is master of the house. When Esmond, his cousin and childhood confidant, comes to live with him, Thomas is overjoyed - Esmond always looks after him. But is Esmond all that he seems?

The day that Jerry Hunt met Charlotte Frost was the day he decided to go straight. Jerry had been running a successful scam with his friend Pete, but something in Charlotte's smile made him take stock of his activities. He'd been to prison once and, Jerry decided, he wasn't going there again. In many ways, Charlotte, too, would like to pull away from her past.

An einem ruhigen Novembertag beschließt Nils Vik, dass dies der letzte Tag seines Lebens sein wird. Er trinkt einen Kaffee, schließt sein Haus ab und begibt sich ein letztes Mal zu seiner Fähre, mit der er sein Leben lang Menschen über den Fjord gefahren hat. Doch nun führt eine Brücke über das Wasser, sein Boot hat seine Aufgabe erfüllt. Und auch Nils Vik hat die Aufgaben seines Lebens erfüllt. Auf dieser letzten Fahrt durchstreifen noch einmal die Menschen, die seinen Weg kreuzten, seine Gedanken und verweilen für eine Weile an seiner Seite, auch seine große Liebe Marta.

Bicklebury is a small village of some 300 inhabitants, a church and a pub, but no shop, no school and certainly no crime - until two ex-cons decide it is the ideal location to pull a robbery. Derek Jarvis and his daughter, Hannah, are home when the two armed men break in, and Derek, fearing for their safety, urges Hannah not to resist. The tactic backfires as one of the men brutally attacks her, leaving her broken and revolted. Derek's marriage and his daughter are never the same again....

The Floating Opera and The End of the Road are John Barth's first two novels. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on human emotions. Separately they give two very different views of a universal human drama.

My son Cam is going to be a baseball star. He’s only thirteen but this trip is a huge opportunity for him. There are scouts from all the major baseball teams at this tournament. He is the one to watch. The night before the tournament starts, Cam’s bed is found empty. Everyone is a suspect. People are always jealous of him — other kids, other parents. Even his own father. Anyone could have taken him. The police start digging into every corner of our lives. They want to know everything about us. Everything about our relationship. Every secret we’ve kept from each other.

Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never been the social toast of the town, but when he is accused of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, he finds himself ostracized by his colleagues and realizes just how small his little village truly is. But fortunately for Berl, the very thing that sets him apart—his inability to follow the pack—proves to be his saving grace. With this inglorious hero, McGuane has created an unforgettable voyager.

Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone who no longer recognizes himself. When Geoff hears that a drug called ibogaine might be able to save him from his heroin addiction, he goes to a clinic in Mexico to confront the darkest and most destructive versions of himself. In this modern reimagining of the Divine Comedy, survival lurks in the darkest corners of Geoff’s brain, asking, will he make it? Can anyone?

Julia rennt nicht weg. Zumindest nicht so richtig. Aber sie braucht dringend eine Auszeit von ihrem Leben, und da fühlt sich das Angebot aus Biarritz an wie eine Rettungsleine. Hals über Kopf zieht sie an die Atlantikküste, wo sie als Psychologin den Bewohnern eines Seniorenheims zur Seite stehen soll.

In un futuro non troppo lontano, raggiunta una certa età – cinquant’anni per le donne, sessanta per gli uomini – le persone che non hanno avuto figli vengono rinchiuse in un complesso chiamato L’Unità. Un luogo idilliaco, almeno in apparenza: una struttura all’avanguardia con eleganti appartamenti immersi in splendidi giardini, dove vengono serviti elaborati pasti gourmet e dove gli ospiti, finalmente liberatisi del peso del giudizio sociale, hanno la possibilità di fare amicizia con persone come loro.

Non bisognerebbe mai addormentarsi arrabbiati: si rischia di finire sballottati da un confine all’altro dello spazio. È quel che succede a Primo, che in una notte di sconforto si ritrova risucchiato in un’avventura di quelle che cambiano la vita. Insieme al suo pupazzo Malcolm, approda sul pianeta delle Tzor, minacciate dal Leviatano, poi su quello della misteriosa e indipendente Regina senza Re, e il viaggio continua tra incontri paurosi, inquietanti, commoventi. Primo vorrebbe solo tornare a casa, ma dovrà imparare a combattere, oltre a nemici e mostri, le sue emozioni.

Parigi, inizio anni Duemila, un angelo si innamora di Dixi, ragazza fragile che fa la modella, nata in una ricca famiglia della borghesia francese e cresciuta da sola, persa in una vita disordinata senza regole e futuro, alla mercé di uno zingaro di cui è perdutamente innamorata e che la trascina, giocando con i suoi sentimenti, in una serie di eventi dalle tinte fosche. Lo spirito, Alan, la segue ovunque, fino a svelarsi nelle chiese dove la ragazza trova rifugio e conforto.

Il libro ha come protagonista un giovane avvocato di successo, Luca Pertinelli, e il coro di amici (e colleghi di lavoro) che l'accompagnano "in scena". Fino a quando non arriva dall'Inghilterra la giovane Sabine, di cui Luca si innamora entrando in conflitto con il proprio ambiente, la moglie e le regole di un mondo in cui egli stesso è irrimediabilmente prigioniero. Nella seconda parte del romanzo, la scena si sposta su un'isola vacanziera dove la presenza di Sabine farà esplodere in modo drammatico le contraddizioni che dominano il circuito di sciagurati gaudenti attorno ai quali Bulgaro traccia un disegno collettivo di grande respiro.

Quando Ranocchia viene ripescato dall’acqua gelida del fiume, più morto che vivo, ciò che il paese sospettava da tempo diventa certezza: è impazzito. Già non è mai stato molto brillante, con il suo fare svagato e il fisico gracile, inabile al lavoro nei campi. Da quando poi se n’è andato di casa per calcare le assi del palcoscenico sotto l’egida di quel cialtrone di Baldo Bandini, capocomico e vagabondo... Inevitabile che la sua mente, già debole, cedesse.

La protagonista è una donna di mezza età che ha lasciato il marito dopo che la figlia diciannovenne è andata via di casa. Priva di rapporti significativi oltre il nucleo familiare ormai sfaldato, la donna si trasferisce al mare, in una casa tutta sua sulla costa nordorientale della Germania, nei pressi di un paesino dove durante la stagione estiva lavorerà nella birreria del fratello, un sessantenne fanfarone e sfaccendato.