Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Littérature et fiction

Three times they tried to kill her. Then they hired a professional. She hired Riyria. When the last member of the oldest noble family in Avryn is targeted for assassination, Riyria is hired to foil the plot. Three years have passed since the war-weary mercenary Hadrian and the cynical ex-assassin Royce joined forces to start life as thieves for hire. Things have gone well enough until they receive the odd assignment to prevent a murder.

The People's Republic of Haven made a tiny mistake when it announced the execution of Honor Harrington. It seemed safe enough. After all, she was already dead. Unfortunately, they were wrong. Now Honor has escaped from the prison planet called Hell and returned to the Manticoran Alliance with a few friends. Almost half a million of them, to be precise including some who know what really happened when the Committee of Public Safety seized power in the PRH.

In the evolving world of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Sundering has given way to months of cloud-cloaked darkness, and war rages under that oppressive sky. The orcs have broken a hard-fought treaty that's held, however tentatively, for a hundred years, and the time to settle old scores has devolved into an all-out brawl for control of the ancient realms of the North.

Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering.

Honor Harrington has been exiled to Basilisk station and given an antique ship to police the system. The vindictive superior who sent her there wants her to fail. But he made one mistake: he's made her mad....

In a prosperous yet gruesomely violent near future, superhero vigilantes battle thugs whose heads are full of supervillain fantasies. The peace is kept by a team of smooth, well-dressed negotiators called The Men in Fancy Suits. Meanwhile a young girl is caught in the middle and thinks the whole thing is ridiculous. Zoey, a recent college graduate with a worthless degree, makes a reluctant trip into the city after hearing that her estranged con artist father died in a mysterious yet spectacular way.

Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection–available only from Audible–selected and with introductions by the award-winning, best-selling Lovecraft editor Leslie S. Klinger. Howard Philips Lovecraft was the early 20th-century genius who, almost singlehandedly, pioneered horror and scientific fiction, only to die in near-obscurity. Rediscovered by critics and scholars in the 1970s, Lovecraft’s work has influenced—by their own admission—every major horror or science-fiction writer of today.

The Underdark. A place of brooding darkness, where no shadows exist, and where Drizzt Do'Urden does not wish to go. The noble dark elf must return there, though, he must go back to find his friends in the gnome city of Blingdenstone, and on to Menzoberranzan, the city of drow. Only then can Drizzt discern what perils might reach out from that dark place to threaten his friends in Mithril Hall.

Hannah est une très bonne élève et elle a un don incroyable pour le chant. Mais quand il s'agit d'hommes et de séduction, elle perd tous ses moyens. Garrett est la star de l'équipe de Hockey de l'université, mais ses résultats scolaires ne sont pas à la hauteur et il risque de perdre sa place dans l'équipe. Ils vont passer un drôle d'accord. Elle lui donne des cours et il l'aide à séduire le quater back de l'équipe de football. Cet arrangement original va-t-il changer leur vie ?

Comment se relever quand tout ce qui donnait un sens à sa vie s’écroule comme un château de cartes ? C’est ce que se demande Julie Beausoleil après s’être réfugiée au Mexique. À Montréal, elle était la dynamique productrice d’un jeu-questionnaire à succès, évoluant dans le monde enfiévré et compétitif de la télévision, entourée de proches dont elle croyait la loyauté inébranlable. Aujourd’hui, elle n’est plus rien. Dans un moment de faiblesse, elle a posé un geste inadmissible, qui, une fois soumis au jugement de l’impitoyable tribunal populaire, a entraîné l’effondrement de son existence.

Katmai National Park: 7,000 square miles of rugged, isolated wilderness in southern Alaska. Vast stretches of frozen tundra, deep ancient forests, and impassable ravines ruled by the massive volcanic God, Devil's Desk. Despite the vigorous protests of Michael, the Talbots and the Tynes head to the park for a much-needed vacation away from it all.

La petite orpheline Cro-Magnon recueillie par des Neandertal a fait bien du chemin depuis "Le clan de l'ours des cavernes", le premier tome de ses aventures. Elle vient de mettre au monde une petite fille, et a été peu à peu adoptée par les membres de la Neuvième Caverne, le clan de son compagnon Jondalar. À tel point que la Zelandoni, guérisseuse et chef spirituel de la tribu, la choisit pour lui succéder un jour. Afin de parvenir à cette fonction, Ayla suit pendant plusieurs mois la grande prêtresse.

From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman's approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships. "Girl Logic" is Iliza's term for the way women obsess over details and situations that men don't necessarily even notice. She describes it as a characteristically female way of thinking that appears to be contradictory and circuitous but is actually a complicated and highly evolved way of looking at the world.

Dans ce quatrième volet de la saga " Les Enfants de la Terre ", Ayla et son compagnon Jondalar laissent derrière eux la chaleureuse tribu des chasseurs de mammouths pour continuer leur traversée des steppes immenses du continent européen. Le couple ne manque pas de susciter l'étonnement sur son passage. En effet, Ayla et Jondalar se déplacent à cheval, en compagnie d'un loup apprivoisé. Or, les peuples qu'ils rencontrent vivent de chasse et de cueillette, et n'ont jamais vu d'animaux domestiques.

Everyone knows the story-how Arthur pulled the sword from the stone, how Camelot came to be, and about the power struggles that ultimately destroyed Arthur's dreams. But what of the time before Arthur and the forces that created him?

Indy Savage is a former wild child (okay, maybe not so "former") and current used-bookstore owner. Lee Nightingale is a former bad boy and now runs a private investigation service. Toss together a quiet barista with a not-so-lawful side-business, a crazy Vietnam Vet, a pothead, a drag queen, family and friends who will not mind their own business, a few stun guns, and a bag of diamonds, and mix them all up with some shootings, a high-speed chase and car bombs exploding, then hang on for your first wild Rock Chick ride.

Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point.... Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties. The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter - until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!

Lisbeth, une scientifique parisienne de 41 ans, doit assister à une conférence internationale dans la cité légendaire d'Antéa. Elle n'a qu'une vague idée de l'objet de la conférence, mais c'est la première fois qu'elle quitte Paris et elle compte bien profiter des quelques heures d'avance dont elle dispose pour faire un peu de tourisme sur place. Elle est loin d'imaginer l'impact sur l'humanité qu'auront les révélations faites lors de cette conférence.

This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining, and enjoying amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge.

When young orphan, Oliver Twist, is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker, he leaves behind years of miserable servitude and mistreatment at an English workhouse. Hoping to move on to better things, he decides to escape his new, equally dreary surroundings and head to London. It is there that the novel unravels as Oliver meets a host of larger-than-life characters, including The Artful Dodger, a high-ranking member of a juvenile pickpocketing gang, and their elderly leader, Fagin.