Resultado Editorial "Audible Studios" em Sagas

Brussels, April 1915. A beautiful young woman finds herself on the run from the enemy. Also being pursued is Ned Scott, a British army major who has been badly injured. The pair find themselves at a hospital run by the famous Edith Cavell, who agrees to treat the major while offering them both refuge and a false identity - she names the young girl Anna.

Tim Parkes was three when his parents were killed in a train crash and he went to live with his aunt May, first in New Cross and then to Walworth, where the living was cheaper. They managed splendidly - and then came the war. Tim Parkes became Gunner Parkes and Aunt May spent most of her nights in the Walworth air raid shelters with Tim keeping an eye on her whenever he was able.

Sammy Adams is always on the look-out for a new business opportunity. When he hears from his son David about the new-fangled supermarkets that are becoming all the rage in America, he immediately starts looking for a suitable site in South London. Meanwhile, legacies of the last war continue to haunt the Adams family. The mystery of Katje Galicia, the Polish woman who knows something of Sir Edwin Finch's past, becomes a major police enquiry while a beautiful German girl appears, bringing wartime memories back to Tim Adams and his wife, Felicity.

It is 1946, and with the war at last at an end, members of the Adams family who had been serving with the forces begin to come home. Boots is reunited with Polly and their twins, his son, Tim, returns to the welcoming arms of Felicity, and with so many others coming back, Chinese Lady finds herself once more the watchful matriarch of the family. But grandson Daniel is still serving in an army unit out in Palestine, where he is caught up in life-threatening circumstances, and his American fiancee, Patsy, counts the days until his return.

In 1941, the United Kingdom was in desperate straits, standing alone with its troops against the colossal war machine of Nazi Germany. There was always Prime Minister Winston Churchill, however, who growled his defiance to Hitler and induced in his people a determination to endure. The Adams family shared that determination and their own kind of optimism.

Leonore Seliger wächst in den 1960er-Jahren in der norddeutschen Provinz auf. Sie ist eine Außenseiterin, unangepasst, rebellisch. Trost findet sie bei Clara, einer Brieffreundin aus der DDR, die sie in einem Pioniercamp der DDR getroffen hat. In einem verrauchten Jugendclub in Osnabrück lernt Leonore die Musik der Beatles kennen, nach dem Abitur in England die freie Liebe. Während sie im Deutschen Herbst in Frankfurt studiert und durch eine verhängnisvolle Affäre ins Visier der Polizei gerät, bereitet sich Clara in Ostberlin auf eine große Aufgabe vor.

Seit dem Tod ihres Bruders hat Rixa Hinrichs versucht zu vergessen: ihre Trauer, die stumme Melancholie ihrer Mutter und ihre verpatzte Solo-Karriere als Musikerin. Als Bar-Pianistin reist sie um die Welt, bis der Tod ihrer Mutter sie zurück nach Deutschland holt. Auch diese ist mit dem Auto verunglückt - fast an derselben Stelle wie Jahre zuvor Rixas Bruder. Die Suche nach einer Erklärung führt Rixa in das alte Pfarrhaus ihrer Großeltern nach Mecklenburg, wo ein streng gehütetes Geheimnis seine düsteren Schatten wirft.

Excitement is running high in the Adams family. Mr Finch, after a long career in secret government work, is to be knighted - which means that Chinese Lady will become a real 'Lady'! What with having to find a new outfit suitable for the occasion, and worrying about whether she'll have to curtsey to the king, the redoubtable matriarch of the Adams family scarcely knows if she's coming or going.

Berlín, 1904. Gustav Horcher, cumpliendo su sueño, abre un restaurante en el corazón de la capital alemana. Pocos años después, las dos guerras mundiales y el régimen de Hitler determinarán la vida del país y sus habitantes. En 1943, huyendo del conflicto, Otto, el hijo de Gustav, se traslada con su familia a una España en plena posguerra e inaugura de nuevo su restaurante en el Madrid del estraperlo y las cartillas de racionamiento, bajo la protección de la ficticia neutralidad de Franco.

El club de las cincuenta palabras es un grupo de mujeres extranjeras que se reúnen en el sótano de una casa en un pueblo del Levante español, a orillas del Mediterráneo. Los vecinos creen que son brujas porque hablan en inglés y leen libros en otros idiomas y de autores desconocidos en la España de los años 50. David, hijo de Alice, la anfitriona, presencia estas reuniones mientras juega con un tren de madera. Cada cumpleaños su madre le regala un nuevo vagón de color diferente.

Aquesta és la història de diverses dones i dalgun home. De dones valentes i sensibles, dones apassionades, dones que estimen els homes però que sobretot estimen la música. Aquesta és la història dun violí que passa de mà en mà, dun director dorquestra exiliat que viu entre notes musicals i entre faldilles, de mares absents, de desamors i de venjances, de guerres que separen, de minyones que mengen xocolata desfeta. Aquesta és la història de La casa del silenci, on la música no deixa mai de sonar.

Izzy has joined the Air Transport Auxiliary and can’t believe her luck. She’s getting to do the thing she loves most: flying. On the ground she is a woman who longs to be independent, but who is lying to her family about the job she does. But, in the thrill of the air, she can be free. Izzy’s heroine is her friend, Elspeth, who, on an impulse, signed on to do her bit as a lumber-jill and has been regretting it ever since.

Ein einziger Tag reißt Sophie den Boden unter den Füßen weg: Erst stirbt ihre Mutter, nur wenige Stunden später verlässt ihr Ehemann sie für eine Jüngere. In ihrem bisherigen Leben völlig verloren, bricht sie alle Brücken hinter sich ab und zieht zu ihrer besten Freundin auf die Isle of Wight. Erst als sie einen Job in einem kleinen Café an der malerischen Promenade von Ventnor annimmt, kehren Freude und Hoffnung zurück. Hier trifft sie Nick - einen Mann voller Schmerz und Geheimnisse.

Rose Beechworth is mistress of a charming country house - her own, left to her by her wealthy father. In the summer of 1914, Alice Weatherly turns Rose's world upside down. The young heiress longs to kiss Captain Charlie Summers goodbye and so she takes Rose to Liverpool's Lime Street station and into the heart of Charlie's brother Harry.

Do mesmo autor de As aventuras de Pi, esta obra mistura fábula contemporânea e conto fantástico em uma jornada de aventura, que explora o amor e a perda de modo devastador. Repleto de ternura, humor e surpresas, leva o leitor em uma viagem por Portugal do século passado - e pela alma humana. Suas três histórias, separadas por décadas no tempo, são nesta obra conectadas pela dor do luto de seus personagens, em uma metáfora que ilustra a trajetória de uma vida e sua constante busca por sentido.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist vorbei, Frieda muss schlimme Verluste verkraften. Sie lässt sich nicht unterkriegen, und möchte Stück für Stück Nichte Sarah zur ihrer Nachfolgerin in der Schokoladenmanufaktur ausbilden. Doch Friedas Sohn hat andere Pläne. Kann Frieda den Kampf in der eigenen Familie gewinnen?

Der vierte Band der Gut-Greifenau-Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin Hanna Caspian über die Bewohner eines Gutes in Pommern. Konstantin und Rebecca kämpfen mit den Folgen, die Misswirtschaft und Krieg auf ihrem Pommerschen Gut hinterlassen haben. Doch schwerer als die aufkommende Hyperinflation wiegen die persönlichen Schicksalsschläge. Noch ist nichts entschieden, wenn es um Greifenau geht - nicht, solange Konstantin keinen Erben hat. Die ehemalige Komtess Katharina dagegen kann sich alles leisten, was sie will.

While her mother regards the Locarno dancehall as a den of iniquity, for 17-year-old shop-girl, Nell McClusky, it’s the centre of the universe. Where else is she going to meet the man of her dreams who’ll take her away from the humdrum realities of life on a council estate in 1950s Edinburgh? At first Alistair Rutherford doesn’t look that promising. He dresses more like a student than Nell’s idol, Buddy Holly.

Un amore finito, un impiego insoddisfacente lasciato indietro e una vita che, a 39 anni, non ha ancora messo radici e sta tutta in una valigia. Come quella con cui Julia arriva a Barcellona, nella lussuosa villa di Pedralbes che lei e le sorelle sono costrette a vendere dopo la morte della madre Gloria. Fra i ricordi di un padre autoritario e severo, complice della dittatura franchista, e i segreti di famiglia occultati fra le pareti delle stanze deserte, Julia ritrova anche una fotografia della madre da giovane, abbracciata a un bellissimo sconosciuto.

Harriet Peacock has everything. What more could she possibly want? She has come a long way. From small shopkeeper and betrayed wife, she has made herself the City's darling, her name linked in gossip columns with film star Caspar Jensen. She has come a long way from Simon Archer, the man who invented a brilliantly simple game of chance and skill in a prison camp 40 years ago, a game that is the foundation of Harriet's business empire. But when things start going wrong, Harriet finds that in love, as in the game, the quickest way to a goal can be the riskiest.