Resultado Editorial "Audible Studios" em Sagas

Violette est de retour à Toulouse, bercail de la tribu Balaguère, avec son mari, leur petit garçon et toute leur joyeuse ménagerie. Là-bas, ils replongent dans l'univers d'enfance et d'adolescence de Violette. Un monde chamarré, chaleureux, plein de soleil, mais aussi de ces ombres silencieuses, secrets et non-dits "qui pourrissent tout" et qui l'ont fait fuir quelques années plus tôt. Elles ont un peu vieilli, mais ses tantes, ces merveilleuses mères de substitution, sont toujours là, Babé, le cœur du foyer, et son inépuisable tendresse, Justine, la magicienne aux doigts de fée, et son indéfectible énergie. Leur générosité, leur optimisme, leur amour de la vie, quels que soient les obstacles et les coups du sort.

Pretty Amy Curran was just 18 years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport pier in 1939. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven, or so they both believed. But when Britain declared war on Germany, Barney volunteered to fight and the couple were eventually separated for five long years. When he returned to Liverpool after VE Day he wasn't the same person - and neither was Amy.

From "one of the most original voices on the American literary scene" (The Atlantic Monthly) comes the powerful tale of Sonia Kurisu, a young woman who grew up troubled in working-class Hawaii and struggles to raise her young son alone. Alternating between the present and the past, Yamanaka depicts Sonia's difficult childhood, her addictions to drugs and alcohol, and her string of bad lovers. As she tries to gain control of her life, she is haunted by the ghosts of three children she never had.

Simon Danbury, an internationally sought-after motivational speaker, helps women from all walks of life with love, self-esteem, dating, and career building skills. Handsome, witty, and wealthy, Simon seemingly has everything a man could want. But appearances can be deceiving. While Simon may have the answers for millions of women all over the world, when it comes to his own love life, he's a giant, sexy mess. Divorced, and convinced that he'll never love again, the very last thing he expects is one Charly Boudreaux.

Callie Mills never intended to return to New Orleans and the life she left behind more than a decade ago. There was no need to open old wounds when she had the life she'd worked hard for in Denver. But when she's fired from her awesome job in Colorado and her father dies, she has no choice but to return home to run the derelict bar left to her in the heart of the French Quarter. Callie must not only face bad memories but turn The Odyssey into something she can be proud of.

In a spectacular feat of daring and magic, Elena and her army of outlaws and rebels have defeated evil's minions and released the mystic secrets of the Blood Diary. But the malevolent Dark Lord has unleashed the Weirgates - black wells of ferocious energy that are his greatest source of power. Now Elena's bravest allies are sent to find and destroy the Gates, as windships carry the fight north to the frigid woodlands, south to the burning desert sands, and east to the blasted regions of dread Gul'gotha.

The three deadly Weirgates are destroyed but the threat of the Dark Lord remains. And so Elena and her companions have gone their separate ways to prepare for what is yet to come. Elena herself has journeyed to the beautiful city of A'loa Glen, there to recover her strength and spirit. Enter Harlequin Quail. Some might call him a fool, but the little man in the jester's suit claims to be a spy. And he comes fresh from the foul fortress of Blackhall itself, where the Dark Lord dwells.

The penultimate volume in John Jakes’s stirring Kent Family Chronicles finds America booming in its postwar prosperity. With this newly secured peace comes an opportunity for the Kent family to reconcile and to thrive, both personally and financially. Gideon Kent takes up his father’s vow to reunite the family, but when he brings his father’s widow back into the fold, the repercussions seem insurmountable.

This riveting, multigenerational epic tells the story of two families and the history of Puerto Rico through the eyes of Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintn Mendizabal. Isabel attempts to immortalize their now-united families - and, by extension, their homeland - in a book. The tale that unfolds in her writing has layers upon layers, exploring the nature of love, marriage, family, and Puerto Rico itself.

Jack Andrews was having a tough time. He'd come back from the First World War to find his wife had 'got religion'. She'd got it so badly that she finally went off, left Jim and the three children and joined Father Peter's League of Repenters. She never really came home again. Jack and the children managed as best they could, but things were pretty tough when Aunt Edie turned up. The first thing she did was give her cousin, Maud Andrews, a piece of her mind for running off and leaving her family. But when that didn't do any good, Edie moved in and took over the Andrews family.

When fiery Bridget Cummings advertised for a lodger, she did not expect a policeman to apply for the room. She wasn't fond of the coppers, believing them to be traitors to the poor of Whitechapel, but her younger brother and sister moved PC Fred Billings in the moment Bridget's back was turned, and she seemed to have little say in the matter. Still, she had to admit that she was glad of his company in the walk back from her late-night washing up job, particularly when a young girl was found in a nearby street with her throat cut.

Roma, autunno 1942. L'Italia è in guerra già da tempo, ormai, e con lei i Fontamara al completo. Molti degli uomini sono impiegati al fronte, e fra quelli rimasti in città serpeggia l'ombra scura del governo e delle sue nuove disposizioni. Per la Pregiata Forneria Principi sono anni bui, ma il senso degli affari della capofamiglia Eva permette al biscottificio di accaparrarsi molte commesse da parte del regime e di utilizzare i proventi proprio per aiutare coloro che le leggi razziali vogliono annientare.

In the big old house overlooking the sea, five small children listened as their mother read them a story. Theirs was an idyllic childhood, as they played on the beach, in the gardens and the woods, before the war and other tragedies disrupted their lives. Now, many years later, Nest and Mina still live at their beautiful childhood home, surrounded by the glorious Devon country side. But, when their sister Georgie comes to stay at Ottercombe, memories of their past start to revisit them.

Die drei Hebammen müssen sich in den schwierigen Kriegszeiten behaupten und versuchen, so gut es geht, Menschlichkeit in dieser unmenschlichen Zeit zu bewahren.

Berlin, 1957: Der Krieg liegt nun schon einige Jahre zurück, doch er hat Spuren hinterlassen im Leben von Edith, Margot und Luise. Während Margot noch immer unter dem Verlust ihrer großen Liebe leidet, kümmert Luise sich um vier Pflegekinder, die sie kurz vor Kriegsende bei einem Bombenangriff retten konnte. Und Ediths Tochter Jule hat sich als Hebammen-Schülerin beworben. In die Klinik werden immer wieder Frauen eingeliefert, die sich gezwungen sahen, zu "Engelmacherinnen" zu gehen, um nicht als ledige Mutter zu enden.

Une nuit, alors qu'elle rentre chez elle, Samantha Watkins, jeune bibliothécaire au quotidien morne et insipide, va voir sa vie prendre un virage à 180 degrés de par sa rencontre avec un "ange"... Loin des gardiens du paradis, l'homme qui la choisit pour devenir son assistante et mettre sa vie en danger dans l'enquête sur les étranges disparitions de la région, est un vampire de cinq cents ans, dont la fonction principale est de veiller au maintien du secret de l'existence de son espèce.

Life in the Glasgow tenements was never easy, but life for Beth is becoming increasingly harsh. In wartime, everyone grabs what brief happiness they can and, in Beth's case, she finds herself drawn to Steve, a flying ace. Their relationship blossoms, but fate deals Beth a cruel hand when Steve is killed in action, leaving her pregnant.

Baumgartner’s life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next 40 years, and back to Baumgartner’s youth in Newark and his Polish-born father’s life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.

Der Auftakt der bewegenden Historiensaga um das Zimmermädchen Eva, das im Karlsbad des 19. Jahrhunderts seinen Weg sucht. Eine junge Frau in der Fremde. Ein glamouröses Hotel. Und die Herausforderung ihres Lebens. 1895: Die junge Eva soll sich bei einem Großbauern als Magd verdingen, damit die Familie über die Runden kommt. Als der im Dorf berüchtigte Sohn des Bauern sie ungebührlich bedrängt, flieht sie mithilfe des Pfarrers in letzter Minute nach Karlsbad. Dort tritt sie eine Stelle als Zimmermädchen an.

A mysterious man appears aboard the Titanic on its doomed voyage. His mission? To save the ship. The result? A world where the United States never entered World War I, thus launching the secret history of the 20th century. In April 2012 Joseph Kennedy, nephew of John F. Kennedy, lives in an America occupied in the East by Greater Germany and on the West Coast by Imperial Japan. He is one of six people who can restore history to its rightful order - even though it would mean his death and the deaths of everyone he loves.