Risultati Editore "Audible Studios" in Narrativa femminile

In eight unflinching and stunningly crafted stories, Kanza Javed unspools the lives of characters desperately trying to forge a path for themselves on the margins of society.

Life hasn't turned out quite the way Becca Cammeyer of Greenwich Village—once voted most likely to land on Broadway or in jail for a good cause—had planned. Her only child has moved to another continent, she's still living in a fifth-floor walkup with her aging dog, still single, still nearly broke, still not on speaking terms with her best friend or her mother, and still hearing the ghost of her long-dead father whispering in her ear.

Aux yeux du monde, Dolorès vit un conte de fées avec Franck, superstar de cinéma, et leurs trois beaux garçons... Mais son destin de mère au foyer dérape quand son compagnon lui annonce qu’il souhaite « réorienter » leur couple. Et, comme un virage n’attend pas l’autre, elle se voit forcée d’accepter l’héritage de son père : une cour à scrap et un garage en faillite, dans son très petit village natal.

Après s’être engagée à fond de train dans sa vie de célibataire monoparentale, Dolorès ralentit et prend la mesure de ses nouvelles responsabilités. Même si son frère Junior est temporairement hors d’état de nuire, elle zigzague entre les ennuis financiers du garage, les magouilles du notaire Sansoucy et les cahots de sa vie amoureuse. Alors que le trop loyal Fernand se dérobe et que les excentricités de Philippe la perturbent au plus haut point, parviendra-t-elle à tourner à son avantage les caprices hollywoodiens de Franck ?

Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a hip Bay Area DJ, and with her dreamteller mother, who has rarely spoken about her past or her native India. Rakhihas her hands full, juggling a creative dry spell, raising her daughter, and trying to save the Berkeley teahouse she and her best friend Belle own. But greater challenges are to come.

Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil's attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America - and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.

From the story of a young bride whose fairy-tale vision of California is shattered when her husband is murdered and she must face the future on her own, to a proud middle-aged divorced woman determined to succeed in San Francisco, Divakaruni's award-winning poetry fuses here with prose for the first time to create 11 devastating portraits of women on the verge of an unforgettable transformation.

17 tra le scrittrici più talentuose del panorama italiano si confrontano con l’idea della maternità. Le donne crescono avvertite che un giorno per loro scatterà l’orologio biologico. È un’informazione leggendaria, che risale a un tempo indefinito e lontano: ogni donna la custodisce. Ogni donna immagina che sarà madre. È un proscenio cui è impossibile sottrarsi, fa parte di un processo naturale, indomabile. Per ognuna è un mondo a sé. Una storia diversa. Ogni “orologio biologico” ha un suo scadere, un “carattere”, un incedere.

Benedetta è una studentessa universitaria, ha un fisico mozzafiato e si muove con inusitata eleganza sui tacchi a spillo. Legge classici della filosofia, è incurante dei tabù alimentari e delle nevrosi della società moderna, e ama, riamata, un benestante signore di mezza età. Sulla carta la relazione non ha molto futuro, e invece, sulla tela, sarà eterna. Perché lei fortunatamente non è interessata ai beni materiali e allora lui, come regalo, la fa ritrarre dai più affermati pittori del nostro tempo.

Rita, regresa a su pueblo en Alicante después de muchos años de ausencia. Se dirige a casa de Lena, una de las amigas de entonces, pero la posibilidad de un feliz encuentro se ve truncada por una imagen horrible e inesperada: Rita encuentra a Lena muerta en el baño de su casa. Lo que empieza pareciendo un suicidio, se convierte después de algunas investigaciones, en un posible asesinato. Rita decide entonces reunir a las amigas de entonces para hablar de lo ocurrido.

Jack and Maggie Harris are adrift on ravaged streets during the London Blitz. Their home is gone. They have nowhere to go and nothing left to lose. With only the memories of their greatest loss - the death of their child during a Christmas years before - Jack and Maggie settle in a seemingly deserted mansion for the night.

If any American fictional character of the 20th century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lorelei Lee of Little Rock, Arkansas, the not-so-dumb blonde who knew that diamonds are a girl's best friend. Outrageous, charming, and unforgettable, she's been portrayed on stage and screen by Carol Channing and Marilyn Monroe, and has become the archetype of the footloose, good-hearted gold digger, with an insatiable appetite for orchids, champagne, and precious stones.

In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal. Nearly 30 years later, Hugo's estranged daughter, Joanna, has returned home to the English countryside to arrange her father's funeral. Among his personal effects is an unopened letter addressed to Sofia. In it is a startling revelation.

Margot Cary has spent her life immersed in everything Lake Sackett is not. As an elite event planner, Margot's rubbed elbows with the cream of Chicago society and made elegance and glamour her business. She's riding high until one event goes tragically, spectacularly wrong. Now she's blackballed by the gala set and in dire need of a fresh start - and apparently the McCreadys are in need of an event planner with a tarnished reputation.

Cien al día. Ni una más. Esa es la cifra de palabras que la neurolingüista Jean McClellan y el resto de mujeres tienen derecho a pronunciar cada día. Una sola palabra por encima de esa cifra y cientos de voltios de electricidad recorrerán las venas de cualquier mujer que se atreva a sobrepasarla. Ese es el mandato del nuevo gobierno. Las mujeres no pueden escribir, los libros les han sido prohibidos, sus cuentas bancarias han sido transferidas al hombre de la familia más cercano y se han suprimido todos los empleos para las mujeres.

Eleanor Oliphant siempre dice lo que piensa. Lucha por dejar de ser alguien con pocas habilidades sociales. Se ha preparado un calendario vital cuidadoso y estricto para evitar interacciones sociales: los fines de semana los pasa sola comiendo pizza congelada y bebiendo vodka y todos los miércoles habla con su madre. Pero todo cambia cuando Eleanor conoce a Raymond, el informático de la oficina. Juntos abandonarán la soledad en la que han estado viviendo.

Molly Harper brings her signature "clever humor, snark, silliness, and endearing protagonists" ( Booklist) to the charming small town of Lake Sackett, Georgia with the new Southern Eclectic series. Carl and Marianne were high school sweethearts, loving the way only teenagers can - with no thought to logic or pride, just a bone-headed, optimistic frenzy of unicorns and hormones. That was all they needed. Or so Carl thought. Scared of being stuck in Lake Sackett, Georgia, like so many of her friends, Marianne panicked and bolted....

When new next-door neighbors Georgia, Midge, and Lula first assembled on Georgia's porch in Charleston for sweet tea, they couldn't have known their gathering was the beginning of a treasured tradition. For 26 years they have met on Tuesdays at four o'clock, watching the seasons change and their children grow up, supporting each other in good times and in bad. With their ambitions as different as their personalities, these best friends anticipate many more years of tea time.

Liverpool, 1945. Three women, the strongest of friends, return home, trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war and shared all sorts of good and bad times. Now their old lives seem dull in comparison. But not for long.... Maggie and Nell are both 21 and full of hope and excitement. Iris, on the other hand, is feeling apprehensive about returning to civilian life. At the age of 30, her only wish is to have a baby, but sadly this wish is yet to come true.

At the age of 19, Kitty McCarthy has decided she is going to live a life less ordinary. What she does know is that she doesn't want to get married and raise children in Liverpool like her sisters.