Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Literatura de género

2 aprile 1985, ore 8.35 A Irisburg, una piccola città nella penisola scandinava, Nikki condivide una vita tranquilla e felice con la sua compagna Simone. Fuori c’è un mondo nuovo: il vecchio mondo patriarcale è stato spazzato via dal Contagio, una pandemia che per generazioni lo ha devastato. Il Contagio infatti era diffuso dagli uomini, che ora vengono quindi tenuti in quarantene a prova di fuga, mentre la società è riservata alle donne, chiamate “portatrici”. Solo così si può evitare che i corpi di portatrici e “diffusori” entrino in contatto.

Questo romanzo è la storia dell’amore, lancinante e assoluto, di una figlia, Marie, nata da uno stupro, per la madre, Eugénie detta Génie, che, ripudiata dalla famiglia e respinta dalla comunità dopo che ha generato una bastarda, si è murata nel silenzio e nella lontananza. Una madre che sa dirle soltanto: «Non starmi sempre tra i piedi», che raramente la abbraccia; una che tutti, in paese, bollano come matta e sfruttano facendola lavorare nei campi e nelle fattorie in cambio di un po’ di frutta, di un pezzo di carne.

ままならない人生の転機や旅立ちを誠実な筆致で描く、ウェルメイドな連作短編集。念願かなって海外旅行の添乗員になった遥。風光明媚なアイスランド、スロベニア、食べ物がおいしいパリ、北京……

人気お笑い芸人にして注目の著者の初の中編小説集。「黄色いか黄色くないか」高校生の頃からお笑いに魅せられて、お笑いライブハウスに就職した主人公・唯（ゆい）。ある年末年始、賞レースが集中して芸人の悲喜こもごもが色濃くあらわれる、その季節に繰り広げられる、華やかな「笑い」の舞台裏の人間ドラマに迫る。

桜野町にある桜風堂書店を託され、仲間たちとともに『四月の魚』をヒットに導いた月原一整。しかし地方の小さな書店だけに、人気作の配本がない、出版の営業も相手にしてくれない、などの困難を抱えることに。

Luxury villas on hot white sand, views for miles over turquoise water. Flawless hostess Penny gathers guests to an island for her husband’s birthday celebrations. But she soon regrets inviting self-obsessed Eloise. When a child vanishes on the night of the party, their perfect island weekend is ripped apart. Even paradise harbours murky secrets… Has he been taken? Has he drowned? In the panic to find any trace, Penny casts about for someone to blame—even if that person is her own daughter, Rosie. Even clear waters descend to pitch black.

The novel begins in the decade of 1990s. The world had changed overnight. The wall of Berlin had vanished, and the great and mighty Soviet Union was vanishing. But in India, the report of the Mandal Commission was creating new frontiers. Meanwhile Advani started his rathyatra.

Agla Prishth' allahabadi chaatra jeevan ki dastaan par, apne samay ki sarvadhik charchit kriti 'Shesh Agle Prishth Par' ke lokpriya lekhak K.D. Singh ki agaami kriti hai. Allahabad mein padh rahe, aur competition ki tayyari kar rahe chaatron ke sukh-dukh, utsaah-nairaashya, hatasha, kshobh, ke bawjood, jeevan

जाने क्या आकर्षण था अथर्व में जो मंजुला जैसी सुदृढ़ और प्रखर युवती को अपनी ओर खींचे जा रहा था। शायद अथर्व से मिलकर मंजुला की तलाश मुकम्मल हो गई थी। पीली पड़ चुकी सफ़ेद प्यालियों में चाय की चुस्कियों के साथ, एक टपरीनुमा पार्टी ऑफ़ि‍स की छत तले मिस मंजुला गर्ग का प्यार परवान चढ़ता रहा। समाज के लिए एक आदर्श सोच रखने वाले अथर्व और उन्हें ज़मीनी स्तर पर पूरा करने का इरादा रखने वाली मंजुला का साथ परफेक्ट था।

Dozens of start-up tech companies are forming each week, innovating at a breakneck pace and forcing change overnight, ready or not. In the blisteringly funny Obvious in Hindsight, the new technology in question is flying cars, and they’re coming to a crowded urban area near you. But before that happens, the slick and powerful political consultants campaigning to get the new tech adopted will have to manipulate political operatives to their advantage while overcoming fierce opposition from groups hostile to the idea.

Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching... A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations.

New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours. Unwilling to accept this fate, Slide—a barber with an opaque past—embarks on a quest for the perfect apartment, pinballing through the sprawling, madcap city of Polis and its endless procession of neighborhoods.

No seu audiolivro mais autobiográfico, Paulo Coelho nos leva a reviver o sonho transformador e pacifista da geração hippie. Paulo é um jovem que quer ser escritor, deixa os cabelos longos e sai pelo mundo à procura da liberdade e do significado mais profundo da existência. Da prisão como terrorista pela ditadura militar brasileira, em 1970, ao encontro de Karla, em Amsterdã, quando resolvem ir até o Nepal no Magic Bus. No caminho, vivem uma extraordinária história de amor.

प्रॉडिगल डॉटर एबल रोसनोवस्की की बेटी फ्लोरेंटीना की कहानी है, जो देखने में जितनी खूबसूरत थी उससे कहीं अधिक होशियार और सक्षम। उसे अपने पिता से विरासत में दृढ़-संकल्प और अदम्य साहस तो मिला लेकिन संपत्ति नहीं। फ्लोरेंटीना की एकमात्र महत्त्वाकांक्षा थी - अमेरिका का राष्ट्रपति बनना। एक महिला का राष्ट्रपति बनना - सुनने और सोचने में एकदम असम्भव! लेकिन उसके शब्दकोश में असम्भव शब्द तो था ही नहीं।

O demônio e a srta. Prym é o último livro da trilogia que Paulo Coelho chamou de “E no sétimo dia...”—antes dele vieram Na margem do rio Piedra eu sentei e chorei e Veronika decide morrer. Essas três histórias acompanham uma semana na vida de pessoas comuns que de repente se veem diante de um enorme desafio. É justamente isso que os habitantes do pequeno vilarejo de Viscos vão enfrentar. Certo dia, um estrangeiro chega à cidade em busca de uma resposta que já o atormentava fazia um tempo: os seres humanos são, na essência, bons ou ruins?

On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and Len’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Maggie leans against the apple tree, watching her fun-loving husband and darling children as her heart swells with pride. As the joyful party atmosphere disappears into the night, close by, the lifeless body of a young woman is pulled from a river. Slipping upstairs to find the special gift for her adoring husband, Maggie stumbles across something else hidden amongst the dusty boxes of family keepsakes.

Laura thought she’d found the one nice guy in New York City. When Ethan saves her from a crushing crowd on Brooklyn Bridge, their connection is dazzling. Worthy of a heat-filled passionate night. Laura falls pregnant from their one-night stand—a miracle considering her past fertility issues. Ethan is attentive and wonderful at first. She hopes he will be the kind of father she’d always wanted for herself. Until his attentiveness turns to obsession. His questions become demands. Why didn’t she answer her phone or respond to his messages? Why won’t she move in with him and his rich mother?

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?

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.

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.'