Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Récits initiatiques

Sex. That's all Noah Foster wants when Alexa Jackson shows up at his apartment. After returning from a semester in Paris, Alexa is back in her hometown of Boston and looking for anything but the drama that surrounds Noah. He's intense, gifted, famous, and a bastard through and through. Alexa doesn't take life too seriously. Noah doesn't do calm and easygoing. Their unexpected meeting sets them both on a course toward an unlikely connection.

It’s 1979, and Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are notorious at Auburn Academy. They’re an unlikely pair at an elite East Coast boarding school (she’s Jewish; he’s Korean American) and hardly shy when it comes to their sexuality. Aviva is a formerly bookish girl looking for liberation from an unhappy childhood; Seung is an enthusiastic dabbler in drugs and a covert rebel against his demanding immigrant parents. In the minds of their titillated classmates - particularly that of Bruce Bennett-Jones - the couple lives in a realm of pure, indulgent pleasure. But, as is often the case, their fabled relationship is more complicated than it seems....

My name is Ally Prince, and I've always been unlucky in love. I don't know why, I just always...have. When all of my best friends were falling for their soul mates in college, I was left behind. I was Ally, the pretty cousin of superstar quarterback Romeo Prince. I was Ally, the best friend to the most amazing group of girls I've ever known - a title I loved, but one I became tired of just being. And I was Ally, the one on which they could all rely. But to me, I was Ally, the girl with the heart no one had claimed....

Being rescued in the middle of a blind date by a gorgeous fireman is the last thing that Bridget Grant expects. When he throws all caution aside to defend her honor, she sees something that she has been craving for years. Inviting him back to her place can't hurt, can it? Dane Beckett has been in a relationship for the past two years that has pulled the life from within him. Just as he breaks up with his girlfriend, another woman crosses his path. She's everything he never knew he wanted. She wants to take her time.

On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be a part of it.

Libby Duncan is on the cusp of having her dream come true. She has landed a role in a Broadway musical, and all of the hard work, dedication, and devotion to her craft are finally paying off. It's not the starring role she's hoped for, but she knows that it's a step in the right direction, and if she can keep her focus where it needs to be, she'll finally get the solo she deserves. If that happens, the entire path of her career will change, and her remarkable talent will finally be noticed.

Brighton Beck has the life that many men can only dream of. He's a successful artist, he has a loving family, and he's surrounded by people who appreciate and respect his talent. If anyone looked in from the outside, they'd see a perfect life, but he's lost two women he loved, and that stalled him in his tracks. Beck is stuck in a bottomless pit of self-pity, and it's starting to impact not only his loved ones and friendships but his career, too.

Che fine ha fatto Kala? A Kinlough, una cittadina irlandese che si affaccia sul mare, è l’estate del 2003. Un gruppo di amici quindicenni sta vivendo il momento più bello della vita: i primi amori, le prime sbronze, l’amicizia viscerale come può esserlo solo a quell’età. È un’estate vissuta come se dovesse durare in eterno. È l’estate che cambierà per sempre le loro vite. Kala Lanann, carismatica leader del gruppo, trasgressiva e spericolata, al culmine di quella stagione scomparirà senza lasciare traccia. Quindici anni dopo, tre dei vecchi amici si ritrovano nella cittadina.

En el auge de su madurez, Helena Artigas busca cumplir su más grande sueño: obtener un doctorado. Para ello debe viajar a Madrid a cursar el último semestre en la Universidad Complutense. A pesar de la resistencia familiar, está decidida a lograrlo. Durante la travesía, los objetos más preciados que posee caerán en manos de un extraño. Poco se imagina que ese contratiempo será el inicio de un viaje no sólo a otro país, sino a lo más íntimo y auténtico de su ser y sus anhelos.

I fratelli Scarrone, Mario, Vincenzo e Aurora, crescono nel dopoguerra figli di un'educazione borghese, fiduciosi in un avvenire scandito dai sogni dorati del boom economico: l'automobile per andare in vacanza, il televisore, il giradischi. Ma il vento tumultuoso del 1968 arriva a scompaginare le loro vite. Il padre Carlo, professore universitario, subisce la contestazione dei suoi studenti come un affronto da cui non sa riprendersi. Mario legge molto, frequenta il movimento, vive la sua formazione come una lotta per ideali che in famiglia non aveva conosciuto.

Seit ihrer Jugend in Rom haben sich die beiden Frauen nicht mehr gesehen. Jetzt sind sie Mitte 40, geschieden, haben erwachsene Kinder. Federica, die eine, wurde von der anderen einst um Herkunft, Wohlstand und eine Mutter, die etwas hermachte, beneidet. Beide einte der Wunsch, schön und beliebt zu sein, und Federicas ältere Schwester war ihr gemeinsames Idol. Bis 1988, in einer Oktobernacht, auf tragische Weise alles anders wurde.

Edie Carrigan didn't plan to "get herself" pregnant, much less end up in a home for unwed mothers. In 1950s North Carolina, illegitimate pregnancy is kept secret, wayward women require psychiatric cures, and adoption is always the best solution. Not even Edie’s closest friend, Luce Waddell, understands what Edie truly wants: to keep and raise the baby. Twenty-five years later, Luce is a successful lawyer, and her daughter Meera now faces the same decision Edie once did.

München, 1965. Die 17-jährige Anna hat sich in ihrer Familie schon immer fremd gefühlt. Mit ihren dunklen Locken sticht sie buchstäblich wie das schwarze Schaf der Sonnlechners hervor. Und während ihre Eltern und ihre Schwester das unaufgeregte bürgerliche Leben genießen und den familieneigenen Friseursalon mit Eifer betreiben, sehnt sie sich nach Freiheit und Abenteuer. Vor allem das Malen – das Spiel mit unzähligen Farben und Formen – hilft ihr dabei, ihren Träumen Ausdruck zu verleihen.

You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink beer, eat smoked meat, and pontificate into the pau hana hours. But above the shop, where the family lives, life isn't so predictable. Toni Yagyuu, the middle child, has enough on her hands dealing with her budding diva of a little sister. But it is the men in her life that really have her running in circles

Marta Romagosa narra la història d'un grup de dones, amigues totes, que a l'estiu es troben al mateix lloc. Tres nits fora de casa ambienta l'amistat d'aquestes amigues en èpoques diverses de la seva vida. L'autora ens parla del que és ser una dona d'uns cinquanta anys ara, del mirall deformant de l'expectativa i la il·lusió de la joventut vers la realitat de la maduresa. Ens ofereixen una mirada al passat des de l'experiència dels anys.

Una història sobre el primer amor i la pèrdua de la innocència, per un dels escriptors més importants del segle XX.

A ple estiu dels anys trenta, la Ginia, de només setze anys, té unes ànsies desbocades de vida. De molta més vida. Acompanyada de la seva amiga Amelia, elegant i sofisticada, coneixerà un món enlluernador habitat per artistes bohemis.

Nel 1871, quando il sedicenne Arthur Rimbaud, da Charleville, invia i propri versi a Paul Verlaine, che di anni ne ha ventisette ed è già uno stimato poeta, non può immaginare che quella lettera cambierà per sempre il loro destino. Verlaine, entusiasta, invita subito Arthur a Parigi, dove i due si amano, si ubriacano, litigano, scrivono versi. Suscitando ovviamente le furie della moglie di Verlaine che da pochi mesi gli ha dato anche un figlio. Paul e Arthur fuggono a Londra dove sopravvivono tra baruffe e sbronze, passione e poesia.

Secretly, a man welds steel to a bulldozer. Later, another watches a ghost walk along his dry-walled hallways. A woman raises her teenage son in a homeless encampment where the boy has to fight to survive with the help of a strange, lonely cop. In Mililani Mauka, the lives of two families, the Motts and the Krills, come together as they try to keep afloat in a changing Honolulu, a city with growing suburbs and homeless camps.

Giulia, maestra di sostegno nella scuola elementare di Guggiano, si è molto affezionata a Fabio, un ragazzino con gravi problemi di integrazione, che in classe viene spesso preso di mira dal bullo Ascanio Lombardi - detto il Maiale - invidioso della sua timida amicizia con la compagna Valeria. Fabio vive con la sorella Valentina, la giovane madre gravemente malata e il padre Giuseppe, un uomo violento che ama i propri figli ma non riesce a essere un genitore affidabile.

In life Lucien Taylor has made several mistakes, but the two most grievous are as follows: leaving his wife and son to take up with his old flame, Emily; and putting up Emily's bail when she is arrested for murder. The upshot is that Lucien is left stranded in Montana, with a malodorous hot spring and a squandered sense of purpose.