Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Fiction femmes

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention....

The Ramayana, one of the world's greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the center of the novel: This is Sita's version. The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic, often misunderstood and relegated to the margins: Kaikeyi, Surpanakha, Mandodari.

I trust no one. I thrive with control and I've learned to be ruthless and coldhearted. A love life? I'm not interested. But I still have desires. That's where Dahlia came in; my treasure. She had never been a submissive before and I was eager to train her. When I saw her on stage at the auction, dressed in gold, I knew I had to have her. She's mine for an entire month. I own her. But one lie changed everything.

Connie McColl is finally free to make her own decisions for the first time in decades. And when she meets glamorous Gill and downtrodden Maggie, at a rather dull flower arranging class, it seems that she’s not the only one dreaming of adventure. The three very different women all agree it’s about time they had a holiday to remember. So they make a pact for this summer to be their best yet - and drive off into the sunset together....

Il la libérera de ses dettes... si elle accepte ses conditions. Kat Wilder est aux abois. Elle travaille comme serveuse pour soutenir sa petite sœur, mais l'argent manque toujours. Elle a besoin d'aide, et vite, sinon elle risque de perdre leur appartement. Arrive Blake Sterling. Le milliardaire en technologie offre à Kat une bouée de sauvetage. Un million de dollars en échange de sa main. Un million de dollars pour porter des robes de créateurs, sourire aux paparazzis et le regarder dans les yeux comme si elle était folle amoureuse.

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.

Calla Fletcher returns to Toronto a different person, struggling to find direction and still very much in love with the rugged bush pilot she left behind. When Jonah arrives on her doorstep with a proposition she can't dismiss, she takes the leap and rushes back to Alaska to begin their exciting future together. But Calla soon learns that even the best intentions can lead to broken promises, and that compromise comes with a hefty price - a log cabin in rural Alaska that feels as isolating as the western tundra.

Après le succès de la trilogie Cassandra, le cinquième et dernier volet de la saga Swan Hill d'Anna Jacobs. Bram Deagan, pionnier irlandais devenu négociant prospère, verra-t-il le rêve sa vie enfin exaucé : réunir tous les siens en Australie dans la colonie de Swan Hill ? Il faudra d'abord qu'il se réconcilie avec son frère Fregus, arrivé avec sa future épouse. Angleterre, 1871. Avant de mourir en couches, la femme de Fergus Deagan lui fait promettre de partir rejoindre en Australie son frère Bram, un pionnier devenu négociant.

Lancashire, 1857. Liza, 17 ans, est employée au service des Pringle, un jeune couple qui la traite bien. Mais son père exige soudain qu'elle revienne vivre parmi les siens pour s'occuper de sa mère malade et de ses jeunes frère et sœur. Liza déchante, mais sa déception n'est rien comparée à la décision qu'a prise pour elle son père : elle épousera un veuf bien plus âgé qu'elle. Pour échapper aux avances pressantes de cet homme qui lui répugne, Liza s'enfuit.

Toby thought she understood her own past; she thought she knew the score. She was wrong. It's time to learn the truth.

When best-selling author Carrie McClelland visits the windswept ruins of Slains Castle, she is enchanted by the stark and beautiful Scottish landscape. The area is strangely familiar to her but she puts aside her faint sense of unease to begin her new novel, using the castle as her setting, and one of her own ancestors, Sophia, as her heroine. Then Carrie realizes her writing is taking on a life of its own and the lines between fact and fiction become increasingly blurred.

Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of 10, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff to track Claire's every move, making sure she's living up to his impossible standards. But what he doesn't know is that Claire has worked for months on a plan to vanish.

Suite au décès de sa mère, Joe hérite d’un courrier lui dévoilant le nom de son père biologique, ainsi que l’endroit où il vit. Esseulée et démunie face à son deuil, la jeune infirmière décide de tout plaquer pour partir en quête de ce père inconnu, un certain Jerry Welsh, propriétaire d’un bar et dirigeant d’un club de moto en Californie.

Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Tóibín's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen’s adored brother, Declan, is dying. Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, where the six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, must listen to and come to terms with one another.

L'adresse d'un vignoble en Nouvelle-Zélande et le dessin d'une étrange bague sertie d'une émeraude en forme d'étoile, ce sont les seuls éléments dont disposent les sœurs d'Aplièse pour partir à la recherche de leur septième sœur, celle grâce à laquelle elles seront enfin au complet et pourront rendre hommage à Pa Salt, à l'endroit où son bateau a disparu.

They say that life is a beautiful lie and death a painful truth. They're right. No one has ever made me feel more alive than the guy who serves as a constant reminder that my clock is ticking. He is my forbidden, shiny apple. The striking fallacy to my blunt, raw, truth. He is also my sister's ex-boyfriend. One thing you should know before you judge me: I saw him first. I craved him first. I loved him first. Eleven years later, he waltzed into my life, demanding a second chance. Dean Cole wants to be my bronze horseman. Hopefully, he isn't too late.

Veuve martyrisée par sa belle-fille, Hannah Firth fait la rencontre de Nathaniel King, qui vient de tout perdre... L'espoir renaît alors, mais pour combien de temps ? Le troisième volet de la série Les Pionnières, par l'autrice de la trilogie Cassandra. Lancashire, 1863. Veuve depuis peu, Hannah Firth fait ses adieux à son fils cadet, qui part tenter sa chance en Australie. Elle se retrouve désormais seule en compagnie de son aîné et de son odieuse belle-fille, qui la traite comme une domestique.

When Lydia was a teenager, she made a decision that ruined her family's life. They've spent the last 30 years living with the consequences and doing their best to pretend it never happened. Lydia's husband, the gorgeous and reliable Mark, and her two teenage children know nothing about that summer back in 1982. And that's the way Lydia wants it to stay. The opportunity to come clean is long gone, and now it's not the lie that matters; it's the betrayal of hiding the truth for so long.

'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.' Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death.

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name....