Resultado Editorial "Audible Studios" em Literatura e Ficção

This comic novel, told in epistolary fashion as a sequence of exchanged letters, presents pornographer "Guy LaDouche" retreating to the wilderness with the hope of solitude and concentration to write his next book under a looming deadline. Instead of peace, he finds harassment and distraction from his publisher, his old girlfriend, and an angry father convinced that LaDouche's last novel, featuring a genuine nymphomaniac, was based on the man's daughter.

It’s not the end of the world. That’s what 39-year-old Tess Eliot has to remind herself after losing her newspaper column ("Tess Knows Best") and being dumped by her boyfriend for a younger woman (a feng shui expert? Really?). Then Tess is hired to write an etiquette guide preparing readers for the Ancient Mayan doomsday of December 21, 2012, and she has to ask herself: Could the world really be coming to an end? At first, Tess fakes her way through chapters like "Boundaries in the Bunker" and "Cannibalism: Yes or No?" But after uncovering a secret plot for world destruction, she is forced to embark on a life-changing odyssey.

P.J. O’Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s underground newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world’s only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions, and other "Holidays in Hell” in more than 40 countries.

Men come and go, but magic is forever…right? Wrong. After a few months of letting witchcraft slide, Jane Madison discovers that not using her powers has her rapidly losing them. Meanwhile, her warder is avoiding her, her familiar has moved out, her mother is abandoning her again, and her grandmother is…getting married? With her world turned topsy-turvy, Jane is at her wits' end trying to set things right. Staking everything on a last-ditch spell that backfires spectacularly, Jane is left full of questions.

North London in the 21st century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you.

Woody Allen's early comic fiction was heavily influenced by the zany, pun-ridden humor of S.J. Perelman. And now, for the first time, Woody Allen narrates one of his early collections of short stories, Getting Even. Listen to Woody Allen revenge himself on such significant subjects as death, obesity, organized crime, the invention of the sandwich, and much more.

Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker's fuse-blowing, sex-positive escapade, House of Holes. Baker returns to erotic territory with a gleefully over-the-top novel set in a pleasure resort, where normal rules don't apply. Brimful of good-nature, wit, and surreal sexual vocabulary, this is a modern-day Hieronymous Boschian bacchanal that is sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse.

Vlad Taltos is very good at killing people. That, combined with two faithful companions and a talent for witchcraft, makes him an assassin par excellence. But lately his heart just hasn't been in his work, so he decides to retire. Unfortunately, old enemies have scores to settle with Vlad. So much for retirement!

Baker has written a novel that remaps the territory of sex--solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. Written in the form of a phone conversation between two strangers, Vox is an erotic classic that places the author in the first rank of America's major writers.

Medium Dead is a fun urban fantasy chronicling the crime fighting adventures of Brenda - a reluctant medium - and Brian - a vigilante demon with an impish sense of humour. Think Stephanie Plum with magic and a dash of Carl Hiaasen. Brenda Steele is smart, funny and out of her depth. A Vigilante Demon called Brian wants her to find murdered spirits and help him track down their killers. But Brian doesn't just catch criminals, he likes to play with them first, and make the punishment fit the crime.

Katie Johnson may make her living consulting with new moms on the latest, greatest baby gadgets no parent should be without, or which mommy meet-ups are the most socially desirable, or whether melon truly is the new black, but the success of her marriage to her husband, Alex, depends on controlling her own urges toward motherhood. He's adamant that they stay childless. Sure, Katie understands that he's upset over the fact that his out-of-town ex-wife rarely lets him see their 10-year-old son, Peter. But living vicariously through her anxious clients and her twin sisters' precocious children only makes Katie resent his stance more deeply.

For Summer Hartwell, holding her and Graham's wedding 1,000 miles from home seemed like a good idea. Even if it is at a retirement community. How else could she avoid planning the wedding with her neurotic, anxiety-ridden mother? But with one week left to go and Summer's parents arriving on the scene, things begin to quickly unravel.

Hailed by Time as an “extravagantly comic” novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America’s South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cum–pool shark. On the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life. So begins an odd pilgrimage through the American South.

Die zwei alten Schwestern Lilli und Berta Berburg müssen sich der Tatsache stellen, dass sie ihren Alltag allein wohl doch nicht mehr bewältigen können. Aber die Freiheit aufgeben und in ein Altersheim gehen, das wollen sie auf gar keinen Fall. So greifen Sie zu einem Trick: Sie teilen sich heimlich einen Platz im Altersheim, indem sie alle paar Tage wechseln. Immer eine von ihnen lässt sich so ein wenig verwöhnen und aufpäppeln, während die andere alleine weiterwurschtelt.

Jerry Stahl racconta le avventure di un uomo che nel proverbiale autunno dei suoi anni o, quantomeno, nel pre-autunno, scopre che la sua ragazza è incinta. E che diventerà padre. Nuovamente. Soltanto che questa volta vuole riuscirci nel modo giusto: senza eroina, e con un sacco di mal di schiena in più. Con questo libro Stahl torna a offrirci il suo stile confessionale, autobiografico e sporco, quello che ha contribuito ad alimentarne il culto a partire da Mezzanotte a vita.

Extreme Zeiten erfordern extreme Lösungen. Warum kein neues Leben beginnen, wenn das alte zum Problem wird? Dieser Ratgeber erklärt schrittweise fünf Möglichkeiten, den eigenen Tod glaubhaft und gerichtsfest vorzutäuschen. Einige dieser Vorschläge sind mit großem Aufwand und enormen Risiken verbunden, versprechen aber nach der Aufführung des Spektakels den ungestörten Neuanfang. Andere Methoden sind unkompliziert durchführbar - für den Fall, dass es mal schnell gehen muss.

Tourist Torsten Hantsch findet bei seinem Strandspaziergang auf Amrum einen vom Meer angespülten Feuerlöscher. Dass ein solcher weißes Pulver enthält, ist an sich nichts Ungewöhnliches - wäre es nicht in Portionspäckchen eingeschweißt. Der kauzige Wartungsdienstmitarbeiter Petter Jensen erkennt in dem Koks sofort die Möglichkeit, sein marodes Konto zu sanieren. Doch nicht mit Hantsch! Der Verwaltungsangestellte ist gesetzestreu und traut Jensen keinen Meter über den Weg. Für Diskussionen bleibt allerdings keine Zeit, denn die Eigentümerin des Löschers taucht auf. Mit mehr Glück als Verstand versucht das ungleiche Duo, "seinen" Löscher zu retten - was einige Menschen mit ihrem Leben bezahlen.

Thea hat an Weihnachten vor einem Jahr in Cornwall den unwiderstehlichen Sean kennengelernt und sich Hals über Kopf in ihn verliebt. Ein Jahr später soll die Hochzeit stattfinden, doch macht die turblente Familie ihr fast einen Strich durch die Rechnung.

Dieses Hörbuch enthält die Kurzgeschichten "Das finale und wirklich abschließende Wort Gottes" und "Roadtrip to Bethlehem". Man kann Gott, den Allmächtigen, für vieles verantwortlich machen: Für die Berge, die im Weg stehen, wenn man schnell nach Italien fahren will beispielsweise. Oder dass das Schnabeltier merkwürdig aussieht. Für eins kann Gott aber ganz sicher nichts: Das merkwürdige Verhalten feierwütiger Christenmenschen zur Weihnachtszeit.

Jan-Uwe Fitz' Erzähler ist völlig gestört, und das muss anders werden. Verfolgen Sie seinen Weg in die Anstalt und wieder zurück - auf ein paar Verfolger mehr kommt es bei einem Paranoiker ohnehin nicht an. Erfahren Sie alles über eine Welt, in der die Irren regieren - auf beiden Seiten. Stimmen Sie ab, wenn es wieder heißt: "Deutschland sucht den Super-Depri"!