Resultado Editorial "Audible Studios" em Amadurecimento

Set in the American Midwest and Southwest, the novel opens in 1976, when the young teenage protagonist, Erica, is in a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt. In the present day, Erica, now in her 50s, takes a phone call at work telling her that her mother has died. From this point the story moves backwards in time, with each chapter shedding light - and dramatic irony - on those it follows. This mother-daughter relationship seesaws.

Riley refuses to call herself a battered woman - she doesn't fit the profile. When her boyfriend Ben hits her, she doesn't know what to call it. She does know to pack her things and run to the one place that feels safe - home. Riley discovers she's pregnant and her emotions become tangled. She can't shake the fact that she's still in love with Ben...A horrific accident then turns Riley's world even more upside down, forcing her to accept help from those around her. Before she can begin to heal, she must learn the difference between being independent and being alone.

Laura loves her daughter more than anything in the world. But nine-year-old Autumn is being bullied. Laura feels helpless. When Autumn fails to return home from school one day, Laura goes looking for her. She finds a crowd of older children taunting her little girl. In the heat of the moment, Laura makes a terrible choice. A choice that will have devastating consequences for her and her daughter....

The adolescent Christopher and his soul mate, Toni, had sneered at the stifling ennui of Metroland, their cosy patch of suburbia on the Metropolitan line. They had longed for Life to begin - meaning Sex and Freedom - to travel and choose their own clothes. Then Chris, at 30, starts to settle comfortably into bourgeois contentment himself. Luckily, Toni is still around to challenge such backsliding.

Il y a des vies qui sont si étonnantes qu'on n'aurait pu les inventer. C'est le cas de celle de Julian Gruda, alias Jules Kryda, alias Roger Binet. Comment, à quatorze ans, un garçon peut-il déjà avoir emprunté autant d'identités? Avoir vécu avec autant de familles différentes sans se faire démasquer? Avoir servi d'agent secret de la Résistance? Comment peut-il avoir grandi à l'orphelinat même s'il a deux mères, au moins?

I am Tesla...but I cannot speak my name aloud. Technically, I am only two years old, but inside I am infinite, ageless. I have two loving parents, but I am alone. Like an island in the sea. There is no one else like me. I am totally, uncontested, and damnably unique.

Kate, a young woman newly arrived from London, is determined to become the kind of person who is up for it and down for it - and not remotely troubled over how those two semantically opposed phrases could have come to mean the same thing. In the sweltering city, she encounters Bill, a once-lauded now booze-sodden novelist, and Inez, his teenage daughter who makes extra cash catering to the sexual fantasies of men she has met online - and falls into a complex infatuation with them both.

In a battle of armies and sorcerers, empires will fall. After young Caldan's parents were slain, a group of monks raised the boy and initiated him into the arcane mysteries of sorcery. But when the Mahruse Empire was attacked and the lives of his friends hung in the balance, he was forced to make a dangerous choice. Now, as two mighty empires face off in a deadly game of supremacy, potent sorcery and creatures from legend have been unleashed. To turn the tide of war and prevent annihilation, Caldan must learn to harness his fearsome and forbidden magic.

A Barkley Cove, un tranquillo villaggio di pescatori, circolano strane voci sulla Ragazza della Palude. Dall'età di sei anni Kya si aggira completamente sola tra canali e canneti, con qualche straccio addosso e a piedi nudi. Ha al suo attivo un solo giorno di scuola, ma la palude e le sue creature per lei non hanno segreti: la nutrono, la cullano, la proteggono, sono maestre e compagne di giochi. Kya impara a decifrare i segni della natura prima ancora di saper leggere un libro: nella sua assoluta solitudine sembra bastare a se stessa.

1 maggio 1947, Portella della Ginestra. Lucio ha 15 anni e con i genitori sta celebrando la festa del lavoro. In un attimo la folla viene crivellata di colpi, Lucio si ritrova coperto dal sangue della madre, accanto a lui anche il padre muore sotto i suoi occhi, tenendo ancora stretta la bandiera rossa. Lucio rapido la raccoglie e scappa. A compiere la strage, scoprirà subito dopo, è stato il bandito Giuliano, d'accordo con dei signori ben vestiti che il ragazzo non conosce.

Anni Ottanta: il regno dei paninari, delle griffe, delle diete affamanti e dell'aerobica di Jane Fonda. In un villaggio residenziale della periferia bene di Torino vive Alessandra, figlia grassottella di una coppia di bellissimi, piena di tic e senza un amico, mangiatrice compulsiva perennemente a dieta. Ale si aggira fra l'ippodromo e la stazione di Porta Nuova, un centro sportivo e un ristorante per cerimonie. Cosa cerca? Prima di tutto il cibo e poi un flipper con cui sbaragliare la solitudine e un grande amore che ha molti visi ma ogni volta lo stesso nome: Elena.

È l'estate del 2006 a San Zenone, un paese in provincia di Ferrara. Un gruppo di ragazzini delle medie trascorre le giornate a giocare a calcio sull'argine: è questa la loro passione, il loro linguaggio. Per alcuni sarà l'ultima estate prima delle scuole superiori a Ferrara, per altri quella del primo amore, della prima sbronza, della morte del nonno. Per tutti sarà l'estate dello scoppio di «Calciopoli» e del Mondiale di Germania che scandirà il loro tempo.

My name is Delilah Graham, and music is my life. I moved from Chicago to live in the one place that I considered to be the center of the universe: New York City. At 23 years old, after raising my two brothers and sister, it was time for me to start my own life. I worked as a waitress in a greasy diner by day, and by night I performed my music in small clubs around the city and on the streets of New York. That was until a man and his daughter stepped into the diner and changed my life forever.

This wasn't supposed to happen. But it did. This wasn't supposed to be my life. But it was. I was just a typical girl, living a typical life. Nothing was out of the ordinary until tragedy threw me into a turnstile I couldn't see my way out of. That was, until him. I never could've imagined my heart falling the way it did. Hard, fast, and with unbounding beauty. The only problem? He was off limits. Forbidden. But he became my everything, and I became his, so we risked it all.

Fetishist of working women Arthur Munby, irascible antiquary General Pitt Rivers, feminist Barbara Bodichon, and other historical figures of the Victorian epoch wander through the backdrop of the novel as Anna's anomalous love for Lore Ritter, and her friendship with freethinking and ambitious Miriam Sala, carry her into areas of uncharted desire, while Beatrice, forced to choose between her beloved Will Anwyl and the evangelist Christian Ritter, who marked her out as a wife when she was only a child, is pulled between passion and duty.

Lucca was made the underboss, being what nightmares are made of. Chloe was scarred by her past, learning too young that nightmares are real. He has waited long enough to claim her soul, but he must take it from the devil first. Her soul might have been better off claimed by the devil. The only way to save her from her past is to delve into his. The world as she knows it will come crashing down.

Nero is the king of Legacy Prep, living a life of power. Elle is the school's punching bag, living a life of fear.

Virginia träumt von einem Leben in Berlin, doch aus Rücksicht auf ihre alleinerziehende Mutter – süchtig nach Schlaftabletten und der Liebe ihrer Tochter – beginnt sie ein Studium in deren Nähe. Beim Besuch einer feministischen Hochschulgruppe trifft sie auf Gleichgesinnte, junge Menschen, die sich für eine diverse Gesellschaft einsetzen. Obwohl sie alle mit eigenen Herausforderungen kämpfen, entsteht schnell eine tiefe Freundschaft. Und dann wäre da noch der Jurastudent Benedict, der seine Selbstzweifel durch überehrgeizige Leistung kompensiert.

I wouldn't say I ran away exactly - 22 is too old for that. I'd call it self-preservation. I have one objective: protect my heart from the boy next door who has no clue I've loved him my whole life, even with a front row seat to his revolving bedroom door. My escape plan almost worked. Except I left one thing behind. Logan Carter hijacked my heart, and it's time to get it back. This time for good.

It was easy to call us forbidden and harder to call us soul mates. Yet I believed we were both. Forbidden soul mates. When I arrived in Edgewood, Wisconsin, I didn't plan to find him. I didn't plan to stumble into Joe's bar and have Daniel's music stir up my emotions. I had no clue that his voice would make my hurts forget their own sorrow. I had no idea that my happiness would remember its own bliss.