Résultats Éditeur "Audible Originals" dans Littérature et fiction

Alice Comstock has always been a dutiful wife and an attentive mother, a perfectionist presiding over a flawless home. She’s reliably been her family’s center, the caretaker and problem-solver, until an illness requires her children to assume responsibility for their mother. For Adam, Alice’s youngest, a return home to California sparks a memory of his younger self. Alternating between the present and flashbacks to Adam’s college years, "There Are Flowers in Ohio" explores how the paths not taken shape all of our lives.

Durch geschickte Verhandlungen Bischof Beauforts kann John befreit werden und begibt sich wieder in den Dienst Harrys. Doch in England wartet seine große Liebe Juliana, die uneheliche Tochter Beauforts. Als er erfährt, dass Beaufort Juliana mit seinem Erzrivalen Arthur Scrope verheiraten will, reist er nach England zurück, stellt sich gegen König und Kirche und heiratet heimlich Juliana. Wütend über diese eigenmächtige Aktion entlässt Harry John aus der Armee, fällt jedoch kurz darauf der Ruhr zum Opfer.

England 1413. Der 13-jährige John of Waringham steht im Schatten seiner älteren Brüder. Um seinen Mut zu beweisen, reißt er von zu Hause aus und begibt sich an den Hof des frisch gekrönten Königs Harry, wo er rasch Karriere macht. Voller Enthusiasmus zieht er gemeinsam mit seinen Freunden an der Seite des Königs in den Krieg gegen die Franzosen. Doch hier muss er rasch lernen, dass der Krieg ein schmutziges Geschäft ist.

Der dreizehnte Teil der Waringham Hörspiele beschließt die ereignisreiche Geschichte um Nicholas of Waringham. Er wartet, wie Teil 1 und Teil 2 des Bestsellers "Der dunkle Thron", ebenfalls mit einer buchgetreuen Inszenierung auf. Das liebevoll vertonte Hörspiel ist mit kontemporärer Musik untermalt und wird neben dem Erzähler Detlef Bierstedt von den Stimmen großartiger Sprecher getragen: Constantin Lücke, Eva Meckbach, Valerie Niehaus, Gerrit Schmidt-Foß, Patrick Heppt und viele andere hauchen der Geschichte Leben ein.

Nachdem Robin notgedrungen für König Edward in den Krieg gegen Frankreich und Spanien gezogen ist, treffen wir ihn wieder im Lager der Soldaten nach der Schlacht von Najera. Dort bringen sein Gerechtigkeitssinn und seine Ehrlichkeit den Schwarzen Prinzen gegen ihn auf – ein gefährlicher Feind. Nur mithilfe des Dukes of Lancaster, dem Bruder des Prinzen in dessen Dienst Robin getreten ist, kann er seinen Kopf aus der Schlinge ziehen und schließlich wieder nach England zurückkehren. Die Verbindung zu Lancaster wird weitreichende Folgen für Robin haben. Sein Weg ist weiterhin voller Gefahren, aber sein Schicksal hat sich gewendet.

In a futuristic world where predictive software can map out the lives of every living person and their descendants, Naomi Prynne is on trial. The charge: endangerment by way of a pregnancy. Thirteen jurors will determine whether Naomi is allowed to carry the pregnancy to term, but the jurors are also all plaintiffs, the software having predicted how Naomi Prynne’s child will affect each of them in life-changing ways.

Susy Branch (Tavi Gevinson) and Nick Lansing (Adam DiMarco) aren’t into each other, but they share a similar problem. Susy is a down-on-her-luck socialite who doesn’t want to get a real job, and Nick is a struggling writer who’s tired of tutoring the kids of the one percent. All of their wealthier friends are getting married, to seemingly lucrative results. So, Susy and Nick devise a plan: have a wedding.

1812. In Bath and London, Jane Austen's characters are attending balls, and the Bridgerton family are making waves in Regency high society. But these are the grimy streets of Liverpool: a city where the extreme wealth of international commerce meets brothels and brawls, smugglers and secrecy; where both high and low society operate amidst revolutionary rumblings from France and the shadow of the recently abolished slave trade.

The Sound Inside follows Bella Baird, an accomplished English professor at an Ivy League university who prizes her solitude. But when she faces a challenge she cannot tackle alone, she allies herself with a brilliant and mysterious student, Christopher.

Motherhood isn’t easy, especially when you’re a mother of a Black son. Ten years ago, Cheryl jumped at the chance to send her son, Javonte, to an exclusive boarding school in New England - far away from Atlanta and the violence of the city streets. It was the American dream, or was it? Now settled in Vermont, Javonte is married and well-employed, but Cheryl hardly ever sees him, and when she does, her own son seems like someone she only used to know.

It’s 1929 in New York City. In an apartment high above Lexington Avenue, the painter Georgia O’Keeffe feels stuck. At 42, she should be at the apex of her powers as an artist, and yet something is missing. Her husband - the gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, who helped build her reputation in the art world - has grown needy and insecure, not to mention unfaithful. More than this, her work has lost its fire, and she knows it. The calla lilies and poppies for which she is revered now seem careful, predictable.

In "People in Hell Want Ice Water" - an eerie and suspenseful short story about connection, trust, and self-preservation - a random hookup amidst the COVID-19 pandemic brings two lonely people together when they need it most. Colin is an immunocompromised software engineer living alone in Los Angeles when he meets Martha on an early morning walk. She’s irreverent and mysterious, and although Colin knows better than to invite a stranger into his house, it’s been over 40 days since he’s been touched, and he can’t resist the temptation.

Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story "In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People" is an at-once hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a dead woman’s marriage and the Volvo that stood in the middle of it all.

Robin has made a powerful ally in the Duke of Lancaster. But he has made powerful enemies too: not only his childhood adversary Mortimer, but the sadistic knight Peter de Gray. Returning to England, he is awarded the fiefdom of Fernbrook in Lancashire, where he meets the beautiful noblewoman Joanna. But the wheel of fortune keeps turning and as the years pass Robin and his friends must face trials and tragedies: plague, war and political intrigue are never far away.

Wally Roux is a teenage genius with a big imagination and a big heart, who just moved to Savannah, GA, from Maine with his mom, who adopted him when he was an infant. In this charming and sweet solo performance, Wally investigates what is causing a number of strange events and occurrences. He explores and gets lost within space-time - an infinite, indefinable, and mysterious void that you can’t see but when you slice into it you can feel it.

Before he was “Babe” or “The Sultan of Swat” or “The Great Bambino”, George Herman Ruth was just another teenage misfit at St. Mary’s School for Boys. But Ruth has something the other boys don’t, and when Baltimore Orioles manager Jack Dunn watches him throw a baseball over a building, Ruth gets the chance to punch his ticket out of the orphanage. All he has to do now is make the team.

Ça y est, nous y voilà. Après toute une vie d’impatience et d’ingurgitation. D’espérance obstinée. Bon sang, je suis si excitée que j’en ai la chair de poule... enfin Noël, le vrai Noël ! Évidemment, vous ne pouvez pas vous en rendre compte vous, vous avez certainement pris l’habitude : le tohu-bohu des marchés couverts, le fumet des marrons chauds si délicat, les bavardages mielleux et le froissement jubilatoire du papier kraft.

For a book-obsessed kid with a big imagination and a flair for drama, could anything be luckier than living in a library? Capturing her remarkable childhood and its impact, Sharon Washington's autobiographical Off-Broadway show brings its sense of wonder and bittersweet realism into your home and heart as an enthralling audio experience. Only from Audible, Feeding the Dragon celebrates the role of books in opening Washington's mind to worlds of possibilities - including a career in acting.

At the age of 30, Robin is an Earl at last - but not the Earl of Waringham, the ancestral title that he still hopes to win back one day from the evil Mortimer. England has seen other changes too: Edward III is dead and his successor, the boy king Richard II, is at odds with his uncle, the Duke of Lancaster. The introduction of a hated new poll tax brings about one of the most dangerous episodes in English history and Robin finds himself embroiled in the Peasants’ Revolt.

At the heart of Audible's three year partnership with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) is the involvement of LAMDA students in the creative process of making new audio dramas especially for young people. Four original audio dramas were commissioned from some of the UK's most exciting emerging writers.