Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Littérature et fiction

New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi gift-wraps 15 short takes on the holiday season - interviews with holiday notables, "informational" articles about TV specials and Christmas carols, short stories and poems, and even a couple of nods to Thanksgiving and New Year’s - and puts them all into a stocking stuffer-sized package that makes the perfect gift for friends, family, or yourself.

Ricardo Verloc, secrétaire général du festival de Cannes, est parti à la recherche du fils du ministre de la culture, retenu en otage par un dictateur d'Asie centrale. Il se fait mettre le grappin dessus par la fille du dictateur en question, Oksana, une bimbo vulgaire et ultra sexy, qui rêve d'obtenir la palme d'Or.

Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was 84 and she was 36. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside. Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina.

Jule ist Hebamme aus Leidenschaft. Für sie gibt es nichts Schöneres, als werdende Mütter zu begleiten, bis hin zum großen Ereignis der Geburt. Doch als sie selbst ungewollt schwanger wird, fangen die Komplikationen an. Denn der Kindsvater - ein One-Night - entpuppt sich ausgerechnet als Lebensgefährte ihrer sympathischen Klientin Amelie. Und schon ist Jule mitten in einem Strudel widerstreitender Gefühle.

Everyone in Cedar Creek, Texas, knows Jack McNight is an arrogant devil. Physically, I get it: he’s tan and fit, with coal-black hair that’s clearly been scorched by hellfire. Oh, and his personality? It burns just as hot. When I show up on the doorstep of Blue Stone Ranch, I’m run-down and rockin’ my last pair of underwear. I’m hoping for a savior, but instead, I find him. My opinion of Jack is marred by a dismal first impression, but his opinion of me is tainted even before I arrive. He’s heard I’m a spoiled princess there to take advantage of his goodwill.

Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups moves from contemporary LA to the dorm rooms of an American college to ancient Pompeii, throwing the listener into a universe of social misfits, reimagined scenes from history, and ridiculous overreactions. In one piece a tense email exchange between a young man and his girlfriend is taken over by the man's sister, who is obsessed with the Bosnian genocide ("The situation reminds me of a little historical blip called the Karadordevo agreement").

Everyone - even Augustus the cat - has cause to be obliged to Jeeves when he manages to retrieve the infamous Book - the book which lays bare the private lives of three-quarters of the upper classes. And which could prove to be political dynamite at the Market Snodsbury by-election.

Un tragicomico tribunale, sei pericolosi camorristi, una donna capace di sbaragliarli tutti.Napoli, 1944. Il Natale è ormai alle porte e in casa di Calogero Martorio, Mammasantissima della camorra, è in corso una cena con tutti i capi dei Quartieri per decretare la condanna a morte di Carmine Atriere, un giovane delinquente accusato di aver ammazzato Zumpatiello, braccio destro del potente Tommaso Cacace. Le testimonianze sembrano tutte concordi: il ragazzo, vilmente, ha accoltellato alle spalle Zumpatiello, assassinando non solo un uomo d’onore ma il padre di cinque figli.

Hier wird nach Märchenmanier gemordet! Jürgen Seibold, der Autor der beliebten Allgäu-Krimis, meldet sich mit einer neuen witzigen Krimireihe zurück. Robert Mondrian hat keine Lust mehr, Attentäter zu jagen und Staatsfeinde mit bloßen Händen aus dem Verkehr zu ziehen. Deswegen hat er Deutschlands geheimstem Geheimdienst den Rücken gekehrt, sich zur Ruhe gesetzt und eine Buchhandlung gekauft.

Grace Warner spends her days teaching four sections of Beowulf for Cretins to bored students at one of New England's “hidden ivy” colleges. Not long after she is dumped by her longtime girlfriend, Grace meets the engaging and mysterious Abbie on a cross-country flight. Sparks fly on and off the plane as the two strangers give in to one night of reckless passion with no strings attached and no contact information exchanged.

She's old enough to be his mother. Alice has always looked young for her age, even with her graying hair and her dowdy New Jersey housewife style. Make that ex-housewife: Now that her husband's gone and her daughter is grown, Alice is in desperate need of a whole new life. So she lets her best friend Maggie, a hip New York City artist, transform her on New Year's Eve. Soon, thanks to the wonders of hair dye and tight jeans, Alice looks really young, as one night in a Manhattan bar confirms.

Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the deep South suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre adventures that, it turns out, are somehow interconnected and, even more surprisingly, meaningful. The eclectic cast of characters features Socrates, Carl Jung, and Tony Randall, along with an ex-television evangelist with a penchant for booze, prostitutes, and uncomfortable knitwear who gets mugged in Miami by an almost pure-blooded Watusi warrior - and sets off on a road trip in a stolen motor home.

Geraldo tem um mau-humor crônico, selvagem, misantropo e hilariante. É certamente a última pessoa que você convidaria para escrever um livro de autoajuda. A menos que você seja um editor visionário como o Aloísio. Enquanto se esforça para se manter são durante a escrita, Geraldo luta contra a sabedoria de coaches quânticos, os lugares-comuns das sapienciais milenares, as ideias malucas de sucesso do seu amigo e editor, a inocência um tanto poética da sua quase namorada e seu íntimo instinto de autopreservação.

Se si fugge di notte da Villa Bacilla sulle ali di una diavolessa sexy, sorvolando Tristala assieme a tre equipaggi che si spostano contemporaneamente, può accadere di visitare gli otto mondi alterei della mappa nootica. Capita così di conoscere la terra primordiale di Ermete Trismegisto, Protoplas; i mari incantati di Capitan Guepière a Posidon; i cinquanta casinò e i locali notturni di Bludus; Mnemonia con i suoi fuochi fatui e l'insidia dell'embambolia; Medium con le sue giornate di Beneficenza Ben-evidente.

Una tranquilla notte di regime, che assomiglia a un febbricitante sabato notte delle nostre città popolato da allegre brigate di gerarchetti clarkopodi e clarette che ridono in posa, "come un set di spot di brut". Uno strano personaggio, un po' Marlowe un po' mago, titolare di una delle più antiche magie del mondo, passa le notti tra nostalgie e sbronze colossali al bar Apocalypso.

Ein tief verschneiter Dezember auf Föhr. Oma Imke träumt von einem harmonischen Weihnachten in der Familie. Sie stellt den Julboom auf und pflegt andere friesische Rituale. Doch dann sagt einer nach dem anderen ab. Bei ihren Versuchen, den Heiligabend doch noch zu retten, landet sie am winterlichen Deich, in der Inseldisco und in einer alten Mühle. Irgendwann wird ihr alles zu viel, und sie flieht zu ihrem heimlichen Liebhaber nach Amrum. Wegen einer Sturmflut kann sie nicht zurück. Wird es ein Weihnachtswunder für die Familie Riewerts geben?

Oma wird tüdelig. Seit einem Jahr leben Sönke und Maria gemeinsam auf der Nordsee-Insel Föhr. Mit der Ruhe ist es allerdings vorbei, als Sönkes minderjährige Cousine Jade zu Besuch kommt. Statt des braven Mädchens von früher steht eine übelgelaunte Grufti-Braut vor ihnen. Auch Oma bereitet Sorgen, denn sie wird zunehmend vergesslich, so richtig vergesslich! Und dann geschieht auf der Insel ein spektakulärer Kriminalfall, und die Kripo schickt vom Festland einen Kommissar, den Maria noch von früher kennt - ihr attraktiver Exfreund.

One rule: No more men. Two years ago I walked away from a marriage I thought would last forever and all I got from it was Dick…And I don’t mean the one between my stupid ex’s legs. I’m talking about the 150 pound furry dog said ex dropped off at my doorstep. But I’d take Dick over any man, any day. So why did I resemble my dog, panting and drooling, whenever I ran into Hudson West, my sexy new neighbor? True, the gorgeous veterinarian was hotter than sin. And my new roommate only made it impossible for me to avoid conversation with a man I didn’t need.

Davis: I've had my eye on Grace Buchanan for a while now. Unlike the bubbly blondes I usually date, the feisty, flame-haired bartender both intrigues and bewilders me. Something about Grace - the tattoos? The nose ring? - makes every part of me sit up and beg. There's only one problem: She hates me. Trading insults and one-liners has become our M.O. But when Grace bets me that I can't get a date with a non-blonde if my life depends on it, I'm determined to prove her wrong by landing the ultimate non-blonde: her.

Ein Blick auf die nackte Frauenleiche, die im East River Park gefunden wird, und Eve Dallas weiß, dass "der Bräutigam" nach fast einem Jahrzehnt wieder zugeschlagen hat. Die Tote liegt auf einem weißen Tuch. Ein Silberring steckt an der linken Hand. In ihrem Torso sind die Worte "48 Stunden, 12 Minuten, 38 Sekunden" eingeritzt. Die vier Opfer von damals waren ebenso tätowiert und trugen den gleichen Ring. Wird es Eve diesmal gelingen, den brutalen Killer unschädlich zu machen?