Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Comedia y humor

The Saint is in Portugal on the trail of a young woman whose father was in the US Army and disappeared towards the end of the war. Her father worked as an investigator, tracing large sums of money. Soon the Saint and the Ungodly are on the trail of Nazi gold. Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore and moved to England in 1919. He left Cambridge University early when his first novel was accepted for publication. He wrote novels about the Saint throughout his life.

You said you'd listen to your favorite narrators read anything: Well, this ambrosial new audiobook brings together an acclaimed cast of narrators to read aloud the menus of some of our favorite local restaurants here at Audible headquarters in Newark, New Jersey, as only they know how. You haven't truly lived, or dined, until you've heard Cassandra Campbell capture the emotional nuances of Newark's best Indian-inflected burgers or let Nick Podehl extol the virtues of the pear arugula salad and then seductively steer you toward a plate of creamy mushroom linguini.

The first novel of six in Trollope's series of the Chronicles of Barsetshire introducing the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and the characters of Septimus Harding, the Warden, and his son-in-law Archdeacon Grantly. The Warden concerns the moral dilemma of the conscientious Reverend Septimus Harding, who finds himself at the centre of a bitter conflict between defenders of Church privilege and the reformers of the mid-Victorian period.

This tells the often hilarious story of two middle-aged women, Pat and Sam, intent on fleeing hearth and home for a blissful, family-free fortnight of drawing and cooking classes – only to end up at leaky old Hartley House. There, the ever-resourceful Aunt Biddy is struggling to get her nephew Tom’s life back on track by opening his only asset as an idyllic country retreat.

Credevamo di poter dimenticare tutto quello che abbiamo vissuto come cittadini italiani? Michele Serra si adopera perché nessuno debba, perché nessuno possa dimenticare cosa ci ha portato sin qui. Di quando Berlusconi regalò alla regina d'Inghilterra un reggiseno di pizzo, pregandola di indossarlo in sua presenza. Di quando venne finalmente chiarito che "cariche dello stato" non si riferiva agli esplosivi usati durante la prima Repubblica. E di quando il PD diede in affido i suoi elettori a chi garantiva di trattarli con umanità.

Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green, is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place are eight retirement homes, but there’s heated debate in the village about the new residents. How to choose who will live there? How will they get on together? And how will they accommodate all the pets? Meanwhile the old residents have their worries.

Summer at Fairacre charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the backdrop of roses, skylarks and bees... Joseph Coggs finds a temporary home in the schoolhouse while his mother is in the hospital. Miss Read’s friend Amy mysteriously disappears. And, perhaps most difficult of all, Mrs. Pringle, the grumpy school cleaner, is unable to work because of her ‘bad leg’.

Set in the world of the Victorian professional and landed classes, the story centres on Mr Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to it.

Is English an innately playful language? Are word games good for you? Do we divide into number and word players? And could Scrabble have been invented in any other language?

Stephen Fry presents this intriguing programme charting the history of knowledge, how technology changes our relationship with it, and how we know what we knowKnowledge. The Google generation thinks it doesn’t need to carry much of it around in its head any more. Much has already been written about the internet changing the way we think and learn. But is knowledge less valuable than it used to be?

In the fourth audiobook in Anthony Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, the values of a Victorian gentleman, the young clergyman Mark Robarts, are put to the test. Though he lives a comfortable life, has a doting wife, children and a patroness in Lady Lufton, his ambitions stretch beyond the little village of Framley. Through a combination of naivety and social climbing, Robarts is compromised and brought to the brink of financial and social ruin by the disreputable politician, Sowerby.

Un simpatico e presuntuoso dongiovanni che impiega tutte le energie e ogni minuto libero dal lavoro di infermiere per conquistare più donne possibili. Andrea Zanardi ha i suoi territori di caccia e i suoi infallibili sistemi: si aggira per il mercato con la calcolata goffagine di un single imbranato, abile a intenerire i cuori di floride casalinghe prodighe di consigli sulla spesa; è un entusiasta no global quando si tratta di sedurre una fotografa free lance durante gli scontri del G8 di Genova.

Despite the title, Dickens's portrayal of early industrial society is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom without love and to have no empathy, their lives completely devoid of beauty, culture, or imagination. Only after a series of crises does their father realise that the manner in which he raised his children has ruined their lives.

Andrea Zanardi è un infermiere genovese di quarant'anni, ma è anche (e soprattutto) il più grande seduttore sulla piazza e dedica anima e corpo alla conquista, e al successivo abbandono, di ogni donna che incontra. Eppure questo sciupafemmine incallito, cinico e maschilista, vuole capire la ragione del suo viscerale rifiuto per ogni forma di legame. In cerca di risposte e di se stesso, Zanardi parte per il Giappone.

Volete vincere 100.000 dollari per scoprire che non potete intascare un centesimo, oppure preferite far visita a vostra nonna in Paradiso per capire che neanche lei è uno stinco di santo? O ancora, preferite convincervi che indossare una maglietta rossa sia il segreto per incontrare l'amore della vita, oppure che la cosa migliore del mondo sia un bel niente? Se quello che cercate è un viaggio esilarante sulle ali della fantasia e del nonsense a stelle e strisce, "Una cosa ancora" è il testo giusto.

I was done. Done with men. Women say it all the time; they get fed up, throw their hands in the air, and vow a life of celibacy - until the next chiseled chest comes into view and then they're foaming at the mouth and wiping the drool from their chins. But this was different, I really meant it. I'd decided to bat for the other team.... At least I tried. But creating the next Brat Pack hadn't been on the agenda. Neither had my date's brother, Collier West. And I wasn't prepared for finding true love at the end of my gal-pal tryst.

È una sera stellata di ottobre. Massimo Galbiati, un professore di chimica di una tranquilla università di provincia, e Virginio de Raitner, suo inossidabile ex-collega ultracentenario, corrono verso la Svizzera a bordo di una vecchia Jaguar coupè, sulle sponde selvagge del Lago Maggiore, in compagnia di un bassotto fonofobico e mordace. Non è che si conoscano molto.

You think you’re struggling to find your place in the universe? Consider poor old Colin Douglass, a terminally ill insurance agent who awakens from centuries in cryogenic freeze to find Earth is a devastated wasteland. Now, he’s being pursued by a homicidal interstellar tourist board, and calculating insurance dividends is as outdated as making stone axes. Sci-fi-hating technophobe Colin seeks a cure for his illness in this strange new galaxy where toilets talk back, and door handles are a long-forgotten relic.

Ogni giorno ci imbattiamo in situazioni che mettono a dura prova la nostra pazienza. Tra una notte bianca e un apericena, siamo perseguitati da problemi che assumono le forme più disparate. Ma si presentano sempre, inevitabilmente, nel momento sbagliato. Che siano animali esotici fuori stagione o sconosciuti sport olimpici, che ci raggiungano dopo aver attraversato la steppa o il web, la nostra vita non può fare a meno di confrontarsi con loro.

"Qui da noi, da sempre, c'è un'abitudine radicata profondamente nella nostra cultura: non si dice mai la verità, soprattutto quando si parla di sé. La frase 'Vede, io sono un uomo fondamentalmente buono' va così tradotta: 'Io sono una carogna, ho subìto troppe umiliazioni nella vita, sono capace di scrivere lettere anonime, delazioni e, spesso, ho pagato degli iettatori professionisti per nuocere ai miei amici più cari'." L'audiolibro inedito di un maestro dell'umorismo italiano, uno scanzonato e spietato ritratto dei vizi e delle supposte virtù italiche.