Resultado Editorial "Audible Studios" em Sagas

The novel is a moving saga of relationships, the carefree spirit of youth, reckless love and deep loss. A middle-aged writer reflects on the 1960s when he was a young student besotted by the charming Jacqueline. Driven by the hope, excitement and conviction of young love, they decide to run away together. Their fantasies of blissful love are soon countered by the demands of real life.

Un uomo "che non è più un ragazzo" sta per diventare padre e stringe un patto con la moglie: se il figlio sarà una femmina, la scelta del nome spetterà alla donna; se sarà un maschio, toccherà a lui. Quando l'ultima ecografia svela che nascerà un maschio, il protagonista comincia a pensare al nome da dargli. Potrebbe chiamarlo Marino, come il nonno che non ha mai conosciuto e che gli ha lasciato una biblioteca di oltre seimila volumi.

Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient.

1876 verlässt die abenteuerlustige Kaufmannstochter Auguste wegen einer unerfüllten Liebe ihre Heimatstadt Hamburg. In Queensland begleitet sie eine Forschungsexpedition in das australische Outback. Die mutige Frau wird Zeugin eines grausamen Verbrechens, das auch sie fast das Leben kostet. Mehr als hundert Jahre später erbt Franziska, eine Nachfahrin von Auguste, die Familienfarm und macht dort eine bewegende Entdeckung. Was hat Auguste nach ihrer Rettung bei den Aborigines erlebt?

Two sets of cousins, Boer and Brit, find their destinies inexorably intertwined in the politics and mayhem that led up to and encompassed the Anglo Boer War of 1899-1902. From Transvaal to Victorian England, the cousins form strong bonds that are tested on the battlefields of South Africa. Martin de Winter, nurtured to lead his country, Transvaal, into the 20th century, instead finds himself excelling as a gifted young general, fighting a desperate war to keep his nation from ruin, all the while being haunted by his love for a British woman.

Grièvement blessé lors d'un combat contre les soudards de l'Ordre Impérial, Richard serait sans doute mort sans l'intervention de Nicci. Un sauvetage miraculeux qui laisse le Sourcier très faible, désorienté... et peut-être victime d'une formidable hallucination.

1840: Der Jahrhundertsturm beginnt. Alvin von Briest ist ein echter Preuße. Er fühlt sich den alten Traditionen seines Heimatlandes verpflichtet, auch wenn es ihm nicht immer leicht fällt. Auf Rat seines Freundes Otto von Bismarck entscheidet er sich sogar für eine Militärlaufbahn. Ganz anders sein Freund Paul Baermann. Paul stammt aus dem Münchner Bürgertum und ist ein Mann des Fortschritts. Seine einzige Liebe gilt der Eisenbahn. Bis er in Paris Louise Ferrand kennenlernt, die ihn mit ihrer Schönheit verzaubert.

Un tueur à gage tombe amoureux de sa cible... Logen, ville de la déchéance humaine. Ville dans laquelle les sirènes de police ont remplacé les chants des oiseaux, où les gangs s'affrontent sans relâche au milieu d'une population pauvre et sans défense, ou presque. Soit t'y nais et tu te bats, soit t'y crèves. La drogue, les armes sont mon quotidien. Tout est une question de calculs, de fric, de choix. Un contrat signé : tuer l'autre pour de l'argent. Facile, tellement fait et refait que ça sera rapide. Mais cette fois-ci, la nana à liquider me plaît. Son nom ? Amyliana.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist vorbei, Johanna, Sophie und Luise klauben die Scherben ihrer Leben zusammen. Luise glaubt, Kriegswitwe zu sein und heiratet erneut, eine Entscheidung, die sie Jahre später das Leben kosten wird. Johanna gibt die Suche nach ihrer verlorenen Tochter nicht auf. Eine Suche, die sie an den Rand ihrer Kräfte führt. Und Sophie braucht lange, um den Verlust ihres Mannes zu verkraften. Dann begegnet ihr eine neue Liebe - in sehr überraschender Form.

Love at first sight. That’s what it was when Rip Myers came up to me in kindergarten. From that point on, we were inseparable best friends. When I work up the courage to tell Rip I love him, I am met with rejection. He tells me he treasures our friendship too much. That statement might as well be a knife to my heart. I want to hold out hope that he’ll change his mind. Instead, he moves on. The only choice I have is to pretend that doesn’t slay me.

Fourteen-year-old Jason Aloysius Garrity is now of age to work full-time in a Pennsylvania coal factory, earning four dollars a week. His family left their hardscrabble life in Ireland to create a better one in America. But their shanty-like home on a street filled with outhouses, horse manure, and the ever-present odor of noxious gas is a hell all its own. Yet Jason possesses the passion and principles that will lift him out of the abject poverty surrounding his widowed mother, fanatically religious younger brother, and manipulative crippled sister.

La famiglia D'Aste è una delle più in vista della città: una ricchezza antica, continuamente accresciuta grazie all'attività immobiliare e a solide relazioni con i poteri forti del luogo, a cominciare dai politici. Su tutti, nell'ampia villa con vista sul mare dove risiedono i D'Aste, domina il vecchio patriarca, il nonno Edoardo. Egli ha deciso di puntare tutto sul venticinquenne nipote Francesco: sarà il volto nuovo della famiglia, e a lui viene affidato il risanamento di un'area industriale dismessa.

È un'abbagliante mattina di luglio quando Emma, neolaureata in Lettere, riceve una telefonata inattesa: l'anziana prozia Carolina, che lei a malapena conosce, la invita a casa sua perché, dice, ha un regalo per lei. La curiosità di Emma si tramuta in stupore quando - tra le mura solenni del palazzo di via dei Mille, a Napoli, teatro di tutte le vicende della sua famiglia - la zia le affida un astuccio che contiene un anello: una meravigliosa corniola ovale con una figura incisa sostenuta da una catena liberty d'oro rosso.

On his deathbed, the 400-year-old emperor of Atlantis has reason to worry. Signar, the savage ruler of a powerful outlying state, is scheming to seize control of the empire, and not even its advanced technology can save it. Signar will halt his invasion if he can take the emperor’s daughter, the beautiful Empress Salustra, as his bride. Such a marriage contradicts the deepest feelings of Salustra’s heart, the secret wisdom of her lineage, and her sacred trust as Atlantis’s queen. But the emperor has a plan: Salustra will seduce Signar and then sentence him to death.

I thought the only woman I ever loved died in a car crash... Until I found her ten years later - a miracle. Her memory is missing, but it doesn't matter. I’ve reclaimed her heart, and we're going to be married. But my enemies are gunning for her. They know what she means to me. Can I destroy them and protect her before it's too late?

1917. When dancer Viktoriya Budian flees war-torn Russia, she arrives in Paris, destitute and without hope. Her only chance of survival is to join the Ballets Russes, a controversial dance company that works with Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, and Henri Matisse. Present day. Lily Johansson returns to Paris, the city that broke her heart and destroyed her ballet career, hoping to ease the guilt over her fiancé’s death and to make amends with her estranged sister, Natalie, also a dancer.

Francis Arrowsmith is a man without a country, a soldier-of-fortune in search of a war. An English orphan raised in France by exiled Jesuits, he hopes to make a quick pile out of his rare skills in building and operating artillery. Little does he know that when he joins a Portuguese expedition to aid the decadent and corrupt Ming dynasty in its fight against the Manchu invaders, he is embarking on a journey that will merge his destiny with the fate of China itself.

On a stormy, windswept night, Guy Jerald tried to kill himself. But he did not die. Now, the 55-year-old Pennsylvania power broker and business titan - a living example of the American Dream - lies in a bed in a psychiatric hospital. He is on suicide watch, barely able to recognize his wife and two adult children. But a visitor from his distant past will open the floodgates. During one of the most harrowing battles of World War II, Guy saved the life of fellow soldier James Meyer. Now, James is a celebrated British psychiatrist determined to repay the favor.

Many years have passed since the Sanctuary was built as a refuge for the lost. It is just two marble rooms: one for those waiting to be heard and one for the Man Who Listens. Drawn to it are the grieving, the despairing, the cynical, the defeated, the dying, the betrayed, and the broken. They know that the Man Who Listens accepts every blasphemy, every pitiful excuse, and every intimate tale of degradation with silent understanding. Now, 12 new souls are about to seek help for their unimaginable anguish....

Primavera de 1942, el mayor conflicto armado de la historia de la humanidad se adentra en su cuarto año. Las incursiones aéreas y el racionamiento son moneda corriente, el caos se ha convertido en una forma de vida. Sin embargo, algo empieza a moverse entre los jóvenes Cazalet: el tiempo de espera ha terminado y el ingreso en el incitante mundo adulto parece haber llegado por fin.