Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Fiction de genre

Une nuit, alors qu'elle rentre chez elle, Samantha Watkins, jeune bibliothécaire au quotidien morne et insipide, va voir sa vie prendre un virage à 180 degrés de par sa rencontre avec un "ange"... Loin des gardiens du paradis, l'homme qui la choisit pour devenir son assistante et mettre sa vie en danger dans l'enquête sur les étranges disparitions de la région, est un vampire de cinq cents ans, dont la fonction principale est de veiller au maintien du secret de l'existence de son espèce.

Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland's high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, his own childhood. The life he has built for himself, between his work in Dublin and his family's retreat by the sea at Cush, is distinguished by order and by achievement. When, like his beloved coastline, it begins to slip away, he is pulled sharply into the present and finds himself revisiting his past.

Rue Notre-Dame, le temps passe. À la radio, on écoute Un homme et son péché, et la mystérieuse télévision fait son apparition dans les vitrines des magasins. Fidèle à lui-même, Maurice s'emporte à tout moment. Jeanne, elle, se réfugie au presbytère.

Actress Willow Carruthers is living the dream in London, with an Oscar on her shelf, a rock-star husband and two gorgeous children. But Willow isn't coping with her seemingly perfect life. Country girl Kitty Middlemist arrives in London desperate for a job. She has a perfect pedigree on paper but no particular skills in real life. Work is hard to find until Kitty, quite by chance, takes on a job with Willow. As their lives and secrets become intertwined, Willow and Kitty discover there is no such thing as chance - only destiny.

This is the sixth and final novel in the action-packed series following Special Forces captain Lee Harden and a group of survivors struggling to survive while rebuilding an America devastated by a bacterium that has turned 90 percent of the population into a ravenous horde.

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse - by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals - propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.

Abandoned after months of captivity, Julius Caesar gathers recruits that he will forge into a unit powerful enough to gain vengeance on his captors. But soon a new crisis threatens: a gladiator named Spartacus.

Philippa Gregory's first story in the best-selling Wideacre trilogy. A compelling tale of passion and intrigue set in the 18th century. From the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover. Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the 18th century, she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others.

In the summer of 1916, Private Daniel Baker marches into battle with the boys of Nova Scotia's 25th Battalion. Out of brutal necessity, Danny has steeled himself against the trials and horrors of war, but he is completely unprepared to meet the love of his life in war-torn France. Audrey Poulin has the soul of an artist. She lives alone with her grandmother in the quiet French countryside, where her only joy is in her brush and palette. When by chance she encounters Danny, the handsome young soldier captures her heart and inspires her painting.

Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom", a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends.

Australia is one of the last places where life still exists after nuclear war starts in the Northern Hemisphere. A year on, an invisible cloak of radiation has spread almost completely around the world. Darwin is a ghost town, and radiation levels at Ayres Rock are increasing. An American nuclear-powered submarine has found its way to Australia where its captain has placed the boat under the command of the Australian Navy.

November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly 20 years, the notorious thief known as the Ridgerunner has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son’s future.

Three people—two enslaved, one indentured—living beside each other, struggling against their circumstances, trying to bend destiny.

Dans le quartier Saint-Henri, un peuple d'ouvriers et de petits employés est désespérément en quête de bonheur. Florentine croit avoir trouvé le sien dans l'amour ; Rose-Anna le cherche dans le bien-être de sa famille ; Azarius fuit dans le rêve ; Emmanuel s'enrôle ; Jean entreprend son ascension sociale. Chacun, à sa manière, invente sa propre voie de salut et chacun, à sa manière, échoue.

Pip is an orphan, brought up in a village on the Essex marshes by his disagreeable sister and her husband Joe Gargery, the kind-hearted village blacksmith. Life is harsh and Pip has few prospects until he receives from an anonymous benefactor the chance of escaping the forge for a more promising life in London. But his expectations are fraught with difficulties as he is haunted by figures from his past such as the escaped convict Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her proud, beautiful ward, Estella.

"Vint le moment où la souffrance des autres ne leur suffit plus : il leur en fallut le spectacle."

Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 35th in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal - but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene...

Hériter d'un vieux manoir et d'un joli pécule pour le rénover pourrait paraître excitant quand on n'a pas un sou. Mais hériter d'une maison qui attire les journalistes parce qu'on la pense hantée, un peu moins. Entre secrets de famille, amour déchu et citrouilles qui envahissent le jardin, l'automne promet d'être particulièrement mouvementé.

Alexandre Trudeau se questionne. Sa femme semble s'être lassée de lui; ses enfants le considèrent comme un primate d'une autre époque, bon qu'à payer les comptes; sa carrière de journaliste stagne et manque de piquant. Tel un passager resté sur le quai, il regarde défiler sa vie, les mains dans les poches. Comment en est-il arrivé là?

Eliot Rosewater, a drunk volunteer fireman and president of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature, with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. The result is Kurt Vonnegut's funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.