Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Littérature et fiction

Deux opposés en apparence peuvent-ils se compléter ? Quand il emménage avec son père chez sa nouvelle compagne, Sariel est à bout de souffle. Dissimuler un passé torturé et rempli de secrets le rapproche sans cesse de l'explosion. Lorsque son regard croise celui de Elliott, son demi-frère, il sent au fond de lui que cette rencontre ne va pas le laisser indemne. Elliott mène une vie paisible, mais les yeux trop gris de Sari fracassent sa plénitude, jusqu'à le bouleverser. Son attirance pour lui est instantanée. Sariel l'intrigue, éveillant en lui des sentiments extrêmes.

Everything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, chronicling the lives of three women—one cis, two trans, all forever entwined.

DARK ROMANCE L'un est en prison, condamné à l'injection létale tandis que l'autre s'accroche à la vie. » Lorsque certains s'aiment pour le meilleur, je suis davantage attiré par le pire. Joshua a tout juste quinze ans lorsque je pose un revolver sur sa tempe en lui laissant un choix : appuyer sur la détente ou m'aimer. J'ignorais que cette décision allait me conduire dans le couloir de la mort, à divaguer entre la violence et la folie.

Les victimes du Corrupteur se font empoisonner à leur insu. Elles reçoivent un défi sordide, qui doit être accompli en 24 heures. Les victorieux se méritent l’antidote. Les autres subissent une mort atroce. Sophie Dubé est une femme brisée. Son honnêteté pousse les personnes qu’elle aime à disparaître de sa vie. Chaque abandon lui donne l’impression de perdre un morceau d’elle-même. C’est ce qu’elle surnomme sa malédiction.

Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love. But with summer over, the two are sent back to Warsaw, and to the harsh realities of life under the Party. Exiled from paradise, Ludwik and Janusz must decide how they will survive; and in their different choices, find themselves torn apart.

Rune Saint John, the last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home. With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis. But as they investigate, they uncover more than a missing man: a legendary creature connected to the secret of the massacre of Rune's Court.

Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men.

Homicide detective Tori Hunter was used to doing things her way. But even after six different partners in seven years, she was not prepared for the hot-tempered Samantha Kennedy. Samantha, on the other hand, was trying to juggle a new job and a demanding boyfriend and now finds herself with an even greater challenge - being partnered with the most difficult detective in the entire squad.

The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck. Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Throne, is backed into a fight of high court magic and political appetites in a desperate bid to protect his ward, Max, from a forced marital alliance with the Hanged Man. Rune's resistance will take him to the island's dankest corners, including a red light district made of moored ghost ships and the floor of the ruling Convocation, where a gathering of Arcana will change Rune's life forever.

Naomi Alderman's The Lessons reflects the truth that the lessons life teaches often come too late. Hidden away in an Oxford backstreet is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few who possess keys to its unassuming front gate. Its owner is the mercurial, charismatic Mark Winters, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous.

Feys Leben könnte kaum unbedeutender sein. Ständig wird sie übersehen, und in dem Bretagne-Urlaub mit ihren Freunden ist sie das fünfte Rad am Wagen. Doch als sie am Strand auf einen Fremden trifft, ändert sich ihr Schicksal. Magisch angezogen von dem Fotografen und seinem Model betritt Fey eine sinnliche, erotische Welt, in der sie jegliche Hemmungen fallen lässt, um mit leidenschaftlicher Hingabe sich selbst neu zu entdecken.

This novel centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.

It's 1946, and the dust of World War Two has just begun to settle. When famous archaeologist Rufus Denby returns to London, his life and reputation are as devastated as the city around him. He's used to the most glamorous of excavations, but can't turn down the offer of a job in rural Sussex. It's a refuge, and the only means left to him of scraping a living. With nothing but his satchel and a mongrel dog he's rescued from a bomb site, he sets out to investigate an ancient church in the sleepy village of Droyton.

Hundreds of years ago, on a wild sea coast, two bold-hearted men met in combat and love...This is the story of Caius, a Christian monk struggling to reconcile his sensual nature with his newfound faith, and of Fenrir, a ferocious Viking raider abandoned by his comrades and left for dead. When Caius takes pity on the wounded man, his brethren are horrified: what kind of wolf has Cai brought into the fold?

Thomas Penrose is a village doctor in rural Cornwall. Popular with patients and friends alike, and handsome into the bargain, he lives in a romantic clifftop tower by the sea. It's a wonderful life - if only Dr. Tom could enjoy it. He's a veteran of the conflict in Afghanistan, fighting a lonely battle against alcoholism and PTSD. Determined not to inflict his troubles on anyone else, Tom keeps himself to himself. But fate has other ideas, and brings a handsome surfer crashing to his feet after a dreadful wipe-out on Porth Beach.

Rien de plus frustrant pour un policier qu'un cold case : une enquête qui, par manque de preuves, reste non résolue. Malgré toute son expérience, Maud Graham a toujours de la difficulté à accepter que ces cas inexpliqués fassent partie du métier. Surtout que, dans une ville paisible comme Québec, les actes criminels ne sont pas légion. Néanmoins, de nouveaux indices viennent remettre à l'avant-plan un meurtre et une disparition survenus des années plus tôt et pour lesquels ni coupables ni motivations n'avaient été trouvés.

This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who "shares the blood" by two women there, Gilda spends the next 200 years searching for a place to call home. An instant lesbian classic when it was first published in 1991, The Gilda Stories has endured as an auspiciously prescient book in its explorations of blackness, radical ecology, re-definitions of family, and yes, the erotic potential of the vampire story.

Ultimo tango a Pechino. Nella Cina ricca e spieiata degli anni recenti, un giovane capitano d'industria abituato a comprare tutto - anche l'amore di chi non lo ama - incontra un ragazzo quasi adolescente, che si prostituisce per necessità economica o forse per autopunizione, e con lui brucia per la prima volta nel fuoco di una passione erotica che cambierà la vita di entrambi. Scoppiato su internet, quasi fosse un moderno samizdat, il caso di "Beijing Story" ha conquistato i lettori di tutto il mondo.

My name is Jamie Atwood, and I'm an addict. I never thought I'd say such a thing. Never had a problem being overly attached to anything in my life. I came from a perfectly middle-class family, made good grades, and had a hot cheerleader girlfriend...but the truth is, nothing ever really moved me. So how did a guy like me become an addict? I met Michael Kage. Kage is an MMA fighter. A famous one. I like to think I helped him get that way.

Mallory is on the run from his whole life. He's been working for an environmental activism group, but he's out of control, trying to wipe out the memories of a tough childhood in his efforts to save the planet. When an accident at sea costs the lives of his colleagues, he crash-lands back in his hometown in the far north of Scotland, lonely and at rock bottom. It's the last place on earth he expects to find comfort or friendship.