Risultati Editore "Audible Studios" in Letteratura e fiction

Amelia è stata una bambina studiosa e responsabile, poi un'adolescente studiosa e responsabile e oggi è una quasi trentenne delusa e responsabile. Tra sette giorni compie trent'anni e la sua nuova occupazione preferita è stilare liste dei suoi fallimenti. L'ultima è venuta più lunga del previsto: abita nella cantina dei suoi genitori, per mantenersi scrive articoli di tendenza per una rivista hipster, ma siccome è sottopagata deve anche portare a spasso il cane della vicina tre volte al giorno e fare la cameriera in un pub del centro pieno di adolescenti ubriachi.

Ogni giorno ci imbattiamo in situazioni che mettono a dura prova la nostra pazienza. Tra una notte bianca e un apericena, siamo perseguitati da problemi che assumono le forme più disparate. Ma si presentano sempre, inevitabilmente, nel momento sbagliato. Che siano animali esotici fuori stagione o sconosciuti sport olimpici, che ci raggiungano dopo aver attraversato la steppa o il web, la nostra vita non può fare a meno di confrontarsi con loro.

The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse, when she saw a sign on the door - a crude sign in pencil, on a ragged sheet of paper. "Collapse of Western Civilization - Dr. Norbert Beilstein," it said. "Visitors welcome."

I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone. He came home with the ashes of it and died 20 years later, poor and, as it happened, drunk.

From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women". She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions?

Still bruised and heartbroken from their last calamitous quest, Gorm Ingerson and his band of washed-up heroes try to make amends for the orcs they accidentally betrayed. But justice is put on hold when an old foe marches to the city gates. Gorm is horrified to discover a liche pitching the frightened city-dwellers on the merits of the undead lifestyle...at the head of a corpse army. To save the city from high-pressure sales tactics and an inevitable siege, the dwarf warrior and his misfit band hatch a harebrained scheme that lands them at the top of the king’s kill list.

«Quest’estate, non sapendo cosa fare, ho formato un comitato per il fiume Lambro sito Unesco. Subito ho avuto cinque adesioni.» È solo l’inizio di questa storia, un atto dovuto per rimediare a una clamorosa ingiustizia. Non è possibile infatti che Milano sia sede di un unico sito, quando per trovarne a decine basta un giro sul Lambro: dalla baia dei lavandini – il primo lavandino vecchio vi fu gettato da Giovanni il Pirla – alle colonie di mangiatori di girini, fino alle lettere d’amore infilate nelle bottiglie vuote del Vernel.

America is in trouble - at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn’t lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there’s just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike. Set in the near future, The Rationing centers around a White House struggling to quell the crisis - and control the narrative.

Dan has accidentally "Noclipped" into the Backrooms—a bizarro, extra-dimensional Alice-in-Wonderland world, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as the Dwellers. No one ever gets out. Hell, forget about leaving, if Dan wants to survive the week, he's going to need to harness the strange game-like magic of the Backrooms, make some very sketchy allies, and carve out a little safe haven to call his own.

While Blandings Castle sleeps in the summer sun, the Hon. Galahad Threepwood, brother of the Earl of Emsworth, is busily engaged in writing his Reminiscences, and they look set to be as warm as the weather, if not warmer. For Galahad has led a thoroughly misspent life, and his acquaintances can all too easily recall their past follies in his company. Reputations are at stake and even the nobility and gentry are beginning to panic.

Perché mai si dovrebbe desiderare di diventare gay? Innanzi tutto perché non c'è un buon motivo per desiderare di essere etero, a parte una patologica assenza di fantasia. Poi perché essere eterosessuale è fuori moda. E infine perché bastano cinque settimane e un po' di buona volontà per scoprire l'altra sponda che, nella maggior parte dei casi, non è poi così lontana. Se siete sicuri di non essere gay, se siete certi di non conoscerne, questo manuale metterà alla prova le vostre sicurezze e vi dischiuderà orizzonti sconosciuti. Seguendo le gesta di Bruce e di Diana.

A Roma, nei dintorni del 1968, la rivoluzione ha il brivido di febbraio, la faccia di Mao e le note di Bandiera rossa eseguita da Claudio Villa. Gli insorti locali hanno intanto conquistato una rinomata trattoria del circondario, "L'Antico Girarrosto", dunque anche Velletri sta per capitolare. Peccato, proprio lì stava per aprirsi il banchetto di nozze di Serena e Canio, ragazzi di quartiere, appassionati di Drupi. Tra gli invitati, accanto a papà Stelvio, anche una maga di "sapienza etnisca" e Athanor, dobermann di provata lede neofascista, amatissimo dalla sposina.

Despite the title, Dickens's portrayal of early industrial society is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom without love and to have no empathy, their lives completely devoid of beauty, culture, or imagination. Only after a series of crises does their father realise that the manner in which he raised his children has ruined their lives.

Lucia è arrivata ai 40 con la convinzione di aver raggiunto qualche traguardo nella vita: un lavoro che ama in un'agenzia di comunicazione, una relazione equilibrata e l'acconto per l'affitto della casa perfetta. Ma in un giorno di pioggia tutto inizia a perdere i contorni. Una catena di eventi infausti si abbatte sulle sue abitudini. Professione, affetti, identità vengono messi in discussione da un'idea che subdolamente si fa largo nel suo cervello: i trentenni hanno preso il potere e lei non se n'è accorta.

This tells the often hilarious story of two middle-aged women, Pat and Sam, intent on fleeing hearth and home for a blissful, family-free fortnight of drawing and cooking classes – only to end up at leaky old Hartley House. There, the ever-resourceful Aunt Biddy is struggling to get her nephew Tom’s life back on track by opening his only asset as an idyllic country retreat.

Walter Starbuck, a career humanist and eventual low-level aide in the Nixon White House, is implicated in Watergate and jailed, after which he (like Howard Campbell in Mother Night) works on his memoirs. Starbuck is innocent (his office was used as a base for the Watergate shenanigans of which he had no knowledge), and yet he is not innocent (he has collaborated with power unquestioningly and served societal order all his life). He represents another Vonnegut Everyman caught amongst forces he neither understands nor can defend.

In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.

With cutting wit, fierce conviction, and surprising empathy, Vonnegut explores a diverse range of topics including society, politics, sex, literature, and mortality. Fans who believe they've read all of Vonnegut's work will be delighted to find the author speaking frankly about timely and relevant new topics - with an amusing yet insightful style that's instantly recognizable.

The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". But if you want to know Stephenson was doing 20 years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring 30-year-old junior Casimir Radon.

Perhaps the most autobiographical (and deliberately least disciplined) of Vonnegut's novels, Slapstick (1976) is in the form of a broken family odyssey and is surely a demonstration of its eponymous title. The story centers on brother and sister twins, children of Wilbur Swain, who are in sympathetic and (possibly) telepathic communication and who represent Vonnegut's relationship with his own sister who died young of cancer almost two decades before the book's publication.