Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Fiction biographique

Una reina que gobernó con justicia los Países Bajos, Hungría y Bohemia y que renunció a su infancia para convertirse en la gran reina que fue y la hermana predilecta de Carlos V. María de Habsburgo ha abandonado la regencia de los Países Bajos después de más de 25 años de un gobierno sabio y justo, acompaña a su hermano Carlos V a España, pero tras la muerte del emperador y de su hermana ordena, abatida, su correspondencia para enviársela a su hermana Catalina.

Kafka was an attractive, slender, and elegant man - something of a dandy - who captivated his friends and knew how to charm women. He seemed to have had four important love affairs: Felice, Julie, Milena, and Dora. All of them lived far away, in Berlin or Vienna, and perhaps that's one of the reasons that he loved them: he chose long-distance relationships so he could have the pleasure of writing to them, without the burden of having to live with them. He was engaged to all four women, and four times he avoided marriage.

Sechs Freunde und ein Versprechen: Ihr Leben soll nicht in Ordnern mit der Aufschrift "Birth - School - Work - Death" abgeheftet werden. Deshalb ziehen sie gemeinsam ins Auerhaus. Eine Schüler-WG auf dem Dorf - unerhört. Aber sie wollen nicht nur ihr Leben retten, sondern vor allem das ihres besten Freundes Frieder. Denn der ist sich nicht so sicher, warum er überhaupt leben soll. Bov Bjerg erzählt mitreißend und einfühlsam von Liebe, Freundschaft und sechs Idealisten, deren Einfallsreichtum nichts weniger ist als Notwehr gegen das Vorgefundene. Denn ihr Ringen um das Glück ist auch ein Kampf um Leben und Tod.

Jende Jonga, ein in New York lebender kamerunischer Einwanderer, ist auf der Suche nach einem besseren Leben für sich, seine Frau Neni und den sechsjährigen Sohn in die USA gekommen. Jende kann sein Glück kaum fassen, als er im Herbst 2007 den Job als Fahrer von Clark Edwards ergattert, einem leitenden Manager bei Lehman Brothers. Clark verlangt Pünktlichkeit, Diskretion und Loyalität - und Jende will um jeden Preis gefallen.

Being a teenage literary prodigy is hard. Richard Goodman may have a book contract at 17, but his parents don’t respect his opinions, he can’t lose his virginity, and his ego inflates and deflates with every breath. Even when Richard receives the attention he craves, he finds that fame and fortune can’t deliver him from his own flaws. The Work Is Innocent is Yglesias’s fictional take on his own freakishly precocious literary coming-out as a teen.

Mark Binelli turns his sharp, forceful prose to fiction in an inventive retelling of the outrageous life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, a bluesman with one hit and a string of inflammatory guises. He came onstage in a coffin, carried by pallbearers, drunk enough to climb into his casket every night. Onstage he wore a cape, clamped a bone to his nose, and carried a staff topped with a human skull.

Sur la Côte d'Opale, durant les Années folles, une modeste fille de pêcheurs est prête à tout pour changer de condition. C'est au Royal Picardy, considéré comme le plus bel hôtel du monde, au Touquet-Paris-Plage, que son destin va basculer... La jeune Laurette vit au port d'Etaples, où ses parents sont simples pêcheurs. A quinze ans, affublée d'un physique ingrat, elle est bien décidée à changer le cours de son existence et à côtoyer le beau monde.

This audiobook journeys back to 1957 Los Angeles, where James Whale, the once-famous director of such classics as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, is living in retirement, haunted by his past. Rescuing him from his too-vivid imagination is his gardener, a handsome ex-marine. The friendship between these two very different men is sometimes tentative, sometimes touching, often dangerous - and always captivating.

This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world of music making and stargazing. Lina, as Caroline is known, serves as William's assistant and the captain of his exhilaratingly busy household. William is generous, wise, and charismatic, an obsessive genius whom Lina adores and serves with the fervency of a beloved wife. When William suddenly announces that he will be married, Lina watches her world collapse.

Lieutenant Mike Galway takes command of his first platoon, and it is not at all what he bargained for. What he anticipated was the challenge of training a unit of disciplined Marine infantrymen to go to war. Instead he finds himself responsible for a group of unruly American teenagers, for whom he has to become a combination of surrogate father, psychologist, high school principal, marriage counselor, financial advisor, conflict mediator, and drug and alcohol therapist.

Hitchhiking her way through Alaska, a young woman named Anna is picked up by Kyle, a fisherman. Anna and Kyle quickly fall for each other, as they are both adventurous, fiercely independent, and in love with the raw beauty and solitude of Alaska. To cement their relationship, they agree to become caretakers of a remote lighthouse perched on a small rock in the middle of a deep channel - a place that has been uninhabited since the last caretaker mysteriously disappeared two decades ago.

In 1890 actor John Wilkes Booth - long presumed dead - emerged from 25 years of anonymity in his wilderness refuge to expose those truly responsible for the Lincoln assassination and its ensuing cover-up, to unite with the children he had never known and recover what he might of his sense of purpose and dignity.

Davidù sale sul ring per la prima volta a nove anni. Cresciuto senza un padre - il Paladino, pugile fenomenale, morto poco prima della sua nascita - in una Palermo sporca, violenta e luminosa, sotto la protezione del gigantesco zio Umbertino e dell'enigmatico nonno Rosario, ci racconta cinquant'anni di storia, dalle bombe della seconda guerra mondiale a quelle di mafia del '92, accompagnato da una schiera di personaggi memorabili.

Die Presse feierte ihn als "intelligentesten Menschen aller Zeiten", er galt als Beweis für das unerschöpfliche Potential des menschlichen Gehirns: William Sidis, 1898 bis 1944, war ein Wunderkind und ein Star. Im Alter von 18 Monaten liest er die "New York Times", mit 6 Jahren beherrscht er 10 Sprachen, mit 10 präsentiert er seine Theorie der vierten Dimension. Das sei ganz normal, behauptet sein Vater, für den Intelligenz eine Frage der strikten Erziehung ist.

This fictionalized story of the true-life genius Nikola Tesla - arguably the most influential inventor in history - offers a "young-to-old" portrayal in the form of "A Romance of the Mind". It reveals his impassioned inner life and his secret love for Karina, the muse no one else can see who brings him life-altering inspirations.

When Naomi’s sisters are snatched up to be taken to be wives of the erratic Pharaoh, Akhenaten, she knows they won’t survive the palace, so she offers herself in their place. The fearsome Commander Horemheb sees her courage, and knows she is exactly what he is looking for… The Great Queen Nefertiti despises Naomi instantly, and strips her of her Hebrew lineage, including her name, which is changed to Kiya. Kiya allies herself with Horemheb, who pushes her to greatness and encourages her to make the Pharaoh fall in love with her.

October 2007. Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto returns home after eight years of exile to seek political office once more. Assigned to cover her controversial arrival is TV journalist Ali Sikandar, the estranged son of a wealthy landowner from the interior region of Sindh.

New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred Confederacy has fallen to Union troops under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin "the Beast" Butler. The city is rife with madness and rage. When 12-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws into the unrest his mother, Elise, a mixed-race woman passing for white, and his father, Angel, whose long and wicked life is drawing to a close. What follows forces mother and son into a dark, new world.

Although not a member of the National Socialist Party, Leni Riefenstahl was the film-maker darling of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. First a successful dancer and actress in Germany, she became more notorious when she produced and directed Victory of Faith and Triumph of the Will, the chilling documentaries about Nazi Party congresses at Nuremberg. Glenn Morris was an All-American farm boy from tiny Simla, Colorado, as well as a former college football star and student body president at the school now known as Colorado State University.

Love and Fatigue in America records an Englishman’s decade-long journey through his newly adopted country in the company of a mystifying illness and a charismatic dog. When he receives an unexpected invitation from an unfamiliar American university, he embraces it as a triumphant new beginning. Instead, on arrival, he is stricken with a persistent inability to stand up or think straight, and things quickly go wrong. Diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome he moves from state to state, woman to woman, and eccentric doctor to eccentric doctor.