Mostrando resultados por Editor "Audible Studios" en Ficción Biográfica

In 410 CE, arrogant 16-year-old Magonus Sucatus Patricius denounces Christianity as a religion for cowards when the Roman legions withdraw, leaving Britain vulnerable to raiders from the west. Determined to wield a sword despite being the grandson of a priest, the affluent young man is taken captive by barbarians and sold into slavery to a cruel Irish king. On a mountaintop in Eire, a shepherd strips him of his grand Roman name and calls him Padraic, marking him a man of no consequence.

Although not a member of the National Socialist Party, Leni Riefenstahl was the film-maker darling of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. First a successful dancer and actress in Germany, she became more notorious when she produced and directed Victory of Faith and Triumph of the Will, the chilling documentaries about Nazi Party congresses at Nuremberg. Glenn Morris was an All-American farm boy from tiny Simla, Colorado, as well as a former college football star and student body president at the school now known as Colorado State University.

Author, video artist, underground film actor, and superstar, the incomparable Viva is arguably the most famous of Andy Warhol's protégés - a mainstay at the enigmatic artist's Factory. In her riveting, revelatory, totally uncensored, and scandalously entertaining novel, the Factory doors are blown wide open, exposing a world of sex, drugs, and genius.

Au mois de novembre 1953 débute le procès retentissant de Pauline Dubuisson, accusée d'avoir tué de sang-froid son amant. Mais qui est donc cette beauté ravageuse dont la France entière réclame la tête ? Une arriviste froide et calculatrice ? Un monstre de duplicité qui a couché avec les Allemands, a été tondu, avant d'assassiner par jalousie un garçon de bonne famille ? Ou n'est-elle, au contraire, qu'une jeune fille libre qui revendique avant l'heure son émancipation et questionne la place des femmes au sein de la société ?

A writer resembling Zoé Valdés - a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter - is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement, until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora became his lover, muse, and ultimately, his victim. She became The Weeping Woman captured in his famous portrait, the mistress he betrayed with other mistress-muses, and their affair ended with her commitment to an asylum at the hands of Picasso's friends.

"L'unica cosa importante in questo tipo di ritratti scritti e cercare la distanza giusta, che è lo stile dell'unicità". Così scrive Emanuele Trevi in un brano di questo audiolibro che, all'apparenza, si presenta come il racconto di due vite, quella di Rocco Carbone e Pia Pera, scrittori prematuramente scomparsi qualche tempo fa e legati, durante la loro breve esistenza, da profonda amicizia. Trevi ne delinea le differenti nature: incline a infliggere colpi quella di Rocco Carbone per le Furie che lo braccavano senza tregua; incline a riceverli quella di Pia Pera.

Teresa non si sarebbe mai aspettata di innamorarsi di Alessandro Manzoni ancora prima di incontrarlo di persona. Eppure, non è tipo da perdere la testa facilmente: è una giovane vedova benestante con un figlio, una posizione sociale, una cultura che le permette di brillare nei salotti della Milano ottocentesca. Così quando anche lui rimane vedovo della prima moglie Enrichetta, stroncata dall’ennesima gravidanza, un amico devoto combina un incontro galeotto durante una prima della Scala.

Hitchhiking her way through Alaska, a young woman named Anna is picked up by Kyle, a fisherman. Anna and Kyle quickly fall for each other, as they are both adventurous, fiercely independent, and in love with the raw beauty and solitude of Alaska. To cement their relationship, they agree to become caretakers of a remote lighthouse perched on a small rock in the middle of a deep channel - a place that has been uninhabited since the last caretaker mysteriously disappeared two decades ago.

When Jon and Ray form a tight friendship, they find in each other everything they lack at home, but it’s not until Ray falls in love with beautiful, headstrong Karen Dorsey that the three friends begin to dream of breaking away from Brewster for good. Freedom, however, has its price. As forces beyond their control begin to bear down on them, Jon sets off on the race of his life - a race to redeem his past and save them all.

M. F. K. Fisher's first novel tells of a late-summer idyll at the Swiss farmhouse of Tim and Sara, where guests have gathered at ease on the terrace next to the burbling fountain in which baby lettuces are being washed, there to enjoy the food and wine served them by this stylish American couple. But all around these seemingly fortunate people, the forces of darkness are gathering: The year is 1939; World War II approaches.

Written in an urban vernacular that’s electrifying and intimate, On the Come Up introduces a heroine whose voice is irrepressible, dynamic, and unstintingly honest. Thirteen-year-old AnnMarie Walker dreams of a world beyond Far Rockaway, where the sway of the neighborhood keeps her tied to old ideas about success. While attending a school for pregnant teens, AnnMarie comes across a flyer advertising movie auditions in Manhattan. Astonishingly, improbably, and four months before she’s due to give birth - she lands a lead role.

Esther, hija de una familia de orígenes judíos, nace el mismo día en que se firma el Tratado de Versalles, que pone fin a la devastadora Primera Guerra Mundial. Su padre, el doctor Paul Dukas, obsesionado con su ascenso personal y profesional, y convertido al cristianismo, descubrirá muy pronto que el pasado judío de un hombre no se perdona fácilmente.

"Desert solitaire" è diventato un libro di culto sin dalla sua pubblicazione, nel 1968. Un racconto provocatorio e mistico, arrabbiato e appassionato, in cui Edward Abbey ci restituisce la sua esperienza di ranger nell'Arches National Monument, nel Sudest dello Utah, catturandone l'essenza e trasmettendoci il desiderio di vivere nella natura e conoscerla nella sua forma più pura: silenzio, lotta, bellezza abbagliante.

Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach.... The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and desire to be consumed.

In 1890 actor John Wilkes Booth - long presumed dead - emerged from 25 years of anonymity in his wilderness refuge to expose those truly responsible for the Lincoln assassination and its ensuing cover-up, to unite with the children he had never known and recover what he might of his sense of purpose and dignity.

On a December night in 1938, a 10-year-old girl named Lore is put on the Kinder transport, a train carrying hundreds of Jewish children out of Austria to safety from Hitler's increasingly alarming oppression. Temporarily housed at the Dover Court Camp on England's east coast, Lore will find herself living in other people's houses for the next seven years: the Orthodox Levines, the Hoopers, the working-class Grimsleys, and the wealthy Miss Douglas and Mrs. Dillon.

Aucun romancier n'aurait pu inventer un personnage aussi fascinant que celui de Bruno Sulak. Tout au long des années 80, ses braquages audacieux et ses évasions répétées - sans la moindre effusion de sang - ont défrayé la chronique judiciaire. Ancien légionnaire, parachutiste émérite, charmeur, généreux et intègre, follement épris de liberté, Bruno Sulak a marqué les mémoires avec ses casses spectaculaires.

Los emigrados es una meditación sobre la memoria y la pérdida: un relato melancólico, nada épico, sobre el desarraigo, la desesperación y la muerte. Sebald recrea las vidas de cuatro exiliados –o cinco, si se incluye su propio autorretrato indirecto– a través de lo que narran ellos mismos, de recuerdos ajenos, fotografías y objetos encontrados.

Casada, por orden del emperador Maximiliano I, con Christian II "el sanguinario," la breve vida de Isabel de Habsburgo, una mujer valiente y abnegada, estará llena de sinsabores. Con catorce años, en un barco rumbo a Dinamarca, rumbo a su boda con un hombre 20 años mayor que ella, al que no conoce y al que no entiende porque no hablan el mismo idioma, Isabel de Habsburgo, hermana del emperador Carlos V e hija de Juana la Loca y Felipe el Hermoso, comienza un diario.

In a riveting novel rooted in one of American history's great "what ifs," Jim Lehrer tells the story of two men haunted by the events leading up to John F. Kennedy's assassination. November 22, 1963. As Air Force One touches down in Dallas, ambitious young newspaper reporter Jack Gilmore races to get the scoop on preparations for President Kennedy's motorcade. Will the bubble top on the presidential limousine be up or down? Down, according to veteran Secret Service agent Van Walters.