Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Récits initiatiques

In first grade, twins Alexis and Adam wrote down what they wanted to be when they grew up and put it in their teacher’s time capsule. Now entering their senior year in high school, they are surprised to find out what they wrote: Alexis wanted to "help people" and Adam wanted to be a fireman. But that was before Adam got sick and their family fell apart. Adam’s leukemia is now in remission but, sadly, so is the twins’ family. Their mother and father are always working - not only don’t they have time for Alexis and Adam, they don’t have time for each other. Alexis can’t even convince them to take a weekend off for one last family vacation to Disney World.

In this dazzling, hilarious, and heartbreaking debut, Joel Higgins grapples with the aftermath of a tragic loss as he tries to make sense of the problems he's sees all around him with the help of banned books, Winnie-the-Pooh, a field of asparagus, and many pairs of socks.

Rosa vive em um lugar “desnuvado”: lá, a chuva não cai, a plantação não vinga e a vida é dura. As coisas começam a melhorar quando ela faz amizade com Guto e os dois adotam um bichinho “descomum”. Em busca de uma vida melhor, a família deixa para trás a fazenda, mas logo todos se veem envolvidos nos conflitos pela terra. Rosa terá então que escolher seu caminho.

When her best guy friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, 16-year-old Cat sets out to discover who in her small town did it. Richly atmospheric, this daring mystery mines the secrets of a tightly knit Southern community and examines the strength of will it takes to go against everyone you know in the name of justice.

Some students enter their freshman year of college knowing exactly what they want to do with their lives. Elliot McHugh is not one of those people. But picking a major is the last thing on Elliot's mind when she's too busy experiencing all that college has to offer - from dancing all night at off-campus parties, to testing her RA Rose's patience, to making new friends, to having the best sex one can have on a twin-sized dorm room bed. But she may not be ready for the fallout when reality hits.

For eight years, Loa Sollilja's world ran like one of those mechanical models of the solar system, with her baby sister, Asta, as the sun. Asta suffered from a genetic disorder that left her a permanent infant, and caring for her was Loa's life. Everything spun neatly and regularly as the whole family orbited around Asta. But now Asta's dead, and 16-year-old Loa's clockwork galaxy has collapsed.

Julie Ellis and Luke Muldenhower have always been school sweethearts. Now both are in high school and deeply in love. Luke, a talented football player, is almost certain to receive an athletic scholarship to a top college. And no matter what her parents say, wherever Luke goes, Julie intends to follow. When Luke can't shake what he thinks is a virus, Julie persuades him to see a doctor. Luke's test results are alarming, but Julie believes their love is stronger than anything. Can love survive, now and forever?

Thea Galehouse has always known how to take care of herself. With a flighty club-owner mom and a standoffish, recovering-alcoholic dad, Thea has made her own way in her hometown of New York, attending the prestigious and competitive Stuyvesant High School. But one chat with Will, a handsome and witty senior, and she's a goner - completely hooked on him and unable to concentrate on anything else. Always worried that she loves Will more than he loves her, Thea is pleasantly surprised when their romance weathers his move to college and Will goes out of his way to involve her in his life. But then, Thea misses a period.

I'm your average girl at your average high school, trying to figure out my place in life. After catching my now ex-boyfriend messing around with my now ex-best friend, I've made some big changes. No more band, no more backstabbing friends and no more boring old life. Now I have new friends, a new job and new interests. But there's a certain someone who's interested in me, and I don't get it. Jordan Tuttle could have anyone he wants. He's the most popular boy in school.

Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She's on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she's made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother's scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her. Now Parker wants a new life. So she quits softball. Drops twenty pounds. And she figures why kiss one guy when she can kiss three. Or four. Why limit herself to high school boys when the majorly cute new baseball coach seems especially flirty?

For 16 years, Nate was the perfect son - the product of a no-nonsense upbringing and deep spiritual faith. Then he met Cam, who pushed him to break rules, dream, and accept himself. Conflicted, Nate began to push back. With each push, the boys became more entangled in each others' worlds...but they also spiraled closer to their breaking points. And now all of it has fallen apart after a fistfight-turned-near-fatal-incident - one that's left Nate with a stab wound and Cam in jail.

Victoria Massey es trasladada al internado Fennoith tras intentar envenenar a su padrastro con matarratas. Después de la muerte de Adelaide Massey, la relación de ambos empeoró. Adelaide dejó en herencia toda su fortuna a su hija única, la joven Victoria. Benjamín, viudo y padrastro de la muchacha, crédulo pensó que la fortuna de Adelaide sería para él.

As one of the top pianists at the Royal College of Music, Flynn has been put forward for an important concert, the opportunity of a lifetime. On a good day he feels full of energy and life, but on a bad day being alive is worse than being dead. Sometimes things can only get worse before they get better.

In his final year at the Royal College of Music, star pianist Flynn Laukonen has the world at his feet. He has moved in with his girlfriend, Jennah, and is already getting concert bookings for what promises to be a glittering career. Yet he knows he is skating on thin ice—only two small pills a day keep him from plunging back into the whirlpool of manic depression that once threatened to destroy him.

Tommaso ha 16 anni e da 18 mesi non esce di casa, quasi non esce dalla sua stanza, è quello che gli psicologi chiamano hikikomori, letteralmente "chi si è ritirato, chi sta in disparte". Da un giorno all'altro, ha abbandonato il basket, la scuola, le sue passioni e ormai passa il tempo a guardare video di vecchie partite NBA e a giocare ai videogame. C'è un gioco in particolare intorno a cui organizza le sue giornate, è il suo unico appuntamento fisso.

Sofia ha quattordici anni nel 1964: l'anno della minigonna, dei collant, delle prime polaroid e dell'apertura del Piper. Le vibrazioni della "Swinging London" stanno arrivando in Italia e Sofia, come tutti i suoi coetanei, vive in trepida attesa di quel mitico concerto che nel '65 vide la prima e unica esibizione italiana dei Beatles. Nello stesso appartamento in cui abita Sofia, circa quarant'anni dopo, si trasferisce Matteo con la sua famiglia. Anche lui ha quindici anni, ma l'adolescenza, alle soglie del Duemila, è un luogo pericoloso e scomodo dove vivere.

Dani ha sedici anni e sta trascorrendo l'estate più noiosa della sua vita lavorando nell'ufficio del padre quando Marta, il suo primo amore, gli manda un messaggio su WhatsApp: dovremmo prenderci una pausa. Un fulmine che squarcia il velo delle sue certezze e lo spinge a partire per frequentare il quarto anno di liceo a Barcellona, ospite della famiglia Hernández. Una fuga? Esatto: una fuga, documentata passo dopo passo in un blog, il Dani's Corner, che in pochi mesi fa di lui un influencer con decine di migliaia di follower appassionati alle sue imprese nella capitale catalana.

Jedes Jahr im Frühling kommen die Nomaden auf dem Weg zu ihrem Sommerlager in den afghanischen Bergen in Sorayas Dorf vorbei. Mit ihnen kommt Tarek, der so wunderbare Geschichten zu erzählen weiß. Doch dieses Jahr wartet Soraya vergeblich auf ihn. Als siebte Tochter ist sie einem alten Brauch zufolge als Junge aufgewachsen, konnte sich frei bewegen und zur Schule gehen. Mit vierzehn Jahren hat sie jedoch das Alter erreicht, wo sie schon längst wieder als Mädchen leben sollte, in der Stille des Hauses. Die Taliban drängen unmissverständlich darauf.

In early March 2020 in New Rochelle, New York, teenager Geth Montego is fumbling with the present and uncertain about her future. She only has three friends: her best friend Tovah, who’s been acting weird ever since they started applying to college; Diego, who she wants to ask to prom; and the K-pop band BTS, because the group always seems to be there for her when she needs them (at least in her head).

Si alguien te invita a saltar al vacío, con esa energía efervescente en los ojos, una no piensa en el vértigo, sino en las cosquillas en los dedos." Algunas personas, las que verdaderamente importan, aunque se marchen, nunca se van. Tras un año separados, Naira y Jarek deciden irse a vivir juntos a Londres, la ciudad en la que se conocieron durante su Erasmus.