Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Biographical Fiction

A fascinating and intimate novel of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, narrated by the First Lady herself. Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's most misunderstood and enigmatic women. She was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband. She also ran her family into debt, held séances in the White House, and was committed to an insane asylum - which is where Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel begins.

Com apenas 7 anos, Maria da Glória torna-se rainha de um reino que não conhecia. Esta é a história de uma mãe dedicada e política de pulso forte que durante dezanove anos comandou os destinos de Portugal.

India, 1947. Una familia de tres hermanas vive en una aldea rural de Bengala. Priya, inteligente e idealista, sueña con seguir los pasos de su padre y convertirse en médica, desafiando las normas que impone la sociedad. Deepa, la belleza de la familia, aspira a un matrimonio que eleve el estatus familiar. Jamini, devota y perspicaz, es una prodigiosa artesana de colchas, pero sus anhelos más profundos permanecen ocultos. La paz y el amor que comparten en su hogar son un refugio contra los violentos acontecimientos que se viven en la India.

Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel, and their five-year-old daughter, Regina, each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. Attorney Walter is resigned to working the farm as a caretaker; pampered Jettel resists adjustment at every turn; while the shy yet curious Regina immediately embraces the country - learning the local language and customs.

C'est un jour comme un autre dans la vie de Saroo. Le garçon, âgé de cinq ans, est dans une gare du fin fond de l'Inde en train de ramasser quelques pièces lorsqu'il monte dans un train à quai. Le lendemain, Saroo se réveille à Calcutta. Dans l'immense ville, il est complètement seul, sans aucun papier. Il est recueilli par un orphelinat où, quelques mois plus tard, un couple d'Australiens va l'adopter. Saroo grandit, mais, depuis l'Australie, il pense toujours à sa famille biologique. Pendant 25 ans, il scrute les villages indiens sur Internet, à la recherche d'images familières.

It’s early spring 1959, and the word desire is synonymous with America’s most famous blonde: Marilyn Monroe. Being desired is her drug, her kryptonite, the very definition of who she is. It’s so much a part of her identity that her own wants and needs have become fleeting at best, as if she’s seen herself through others’ eyes so often that she’s forgotten what she looks like through her own. But the deepest needs always surface, and there is one thing Marilyn wishes for beyond all else: to meet her real father.

In the cold spring of 1936, Arthor Crandle, down-on-his luck and desperate for work, accepts a position in Providence, Rhode Island, as a live-in assistant for an unnamed shut-in. He arrives at the gloomy colonial-style house to discover that his strange employer is an author of disturbing, bizarre fiction. Health issues have confined him to his bedroom, where he is never to be disturbed. But the writer, who Crandle knows only as "Ech-Pi", refuses to meet him, communicating only by letters left on a table outside his room.

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.

Nobel Prize-winning writer André Gide lays bare his adolescent psyche in this early work, first conceived and published as part of his novel The Notebooks of André Walter, completed when he was just 20 years old. This profoundly personal work draws heavily on his religious upbringing and private journals to tell the story of a young man who, like the author, pines for his forbidden love, Cousin Emmanuelle. This unique portrait of Gide as a young man presents the passions and conflicts, temptations and anguish he would explore in maturity.

Teheran, 1979. Behsad, giovane rivoluzionario comunista, lotta per un nuovo ordine dopo la cacciata dello Scià. Ci trascina nelle sue azioni clandestine, ci confessa le sue speranze per un nuovo Iran e ci racconta come, nel cuore della lotta, abbia incontrato l’amore della sua vita, Nahid. Dieci anni dopo, Behsad e Nahid si trovano in Germania. Insieme ai loro figli, Laleh e Morad, sono fuggiti dall’Iran dopo l’ascesa al potere di Khomeini. Di notte tutto è silenzio a Teheran racconta quattro decenni di un popolo in lotta.

This fictionalized story of the true-life genius Nikola Tesla - arguably the most influential inventor in history - offers a "young-to-old" portrayal in the form of "A Romance of the Mind". It reveals his impassioned inner life and his secret love for Karina, the muse no one else can see who brings him life-altering inspirations.

Deutschland 1914: Die 15-jährige Anna beginnt im Spreewald ihre Schneiderlehre. Zur selben Zeit wird die Gutsherrentochter Charlotte von ihrer Tante und deren jüdischem Ehemann in die Leipziger Ballsaison eingeführt. Ohne es zu wissen, begegnen beide der Liebe ihres Lebens und treffen Entscheidungen, die sie bereuen werden. Doch zwei Weltkriege schreiben ihr eigenes Drehbuch und reißen ihre Familien immer wieder auseinander. Begegnen werden sich Anna und Charlotte erst 1953 in Berlin, zusammengeführt durch die Ehe ihrer Kinder - und verbunden durch denselben Schmerz, den sie erst einander wirklich offenbaren können.

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.

The letter came in secret, with a pearl eardrop from an aunt long thought dead, resurrecting the forbidden past. Banished by her spiteful half sister, Queen Mary, to Hatfield House in the English countryside, 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth cannot refuse the summons. The Boleyns are in grave danger. And Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn, is marked for death by a master poisoner whose reign of terror may have royal sanction.

Stell dir vor, du entdeckst eine Vorfahrin, die dir ähnlicher ist, als du je gedacht hättest. Zum 100. Geburtstag von Henriette kehrt die Familie ins alte Ferienhaus im Havelland zurück – zwischen Flussläufen und weiter Landschaft. Für Enkelin Antonia ist schnell spürbar: Der Tod ihres Vaters hat sich tief in das Familiengefüge eingegraben, und auch das Wiedersehen mit ihren drei Schwestern ist schmerzhafter, als sie gehofft hatte. Als ein Familienstammbaum verschenkt wird, stößt Antonia auf Jeanne Beauvais – eine Ahnin, die im 17.

Una novela que nos sumerge en la historia de la Europa Central del siglo XX, la ciudad de Viena y el largo peregrinaje del pueblo judío a través de una saga familiar en pos de un sueño: alcanzar la Tierra Prometida. 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.

Ein heldenhafter Abenteurer? Ein geistreicher Berater der Mächtigen? Oder doch nur ein einfacher Betrüger? Die einzige Romanbiografie über eine der schillernsten Figuren des Mittelalters: Marco Polo. Ist dieser Mann ein Held, ein Genie oder nur ein Lügner? Diese Fragen gehen dem Geschichtenerzähler Rustichello durch den Kopf, als er der Erzählung seines Mitgefangenen Marco Polo lauscht. Hat dieser Marco es wirklich bis an den Hof des Kublai Khan geschafft?

In late summer of 1562, within a bedchamber at Whitehall Palace, Elizabeth Tudor prays for the recovery of the delirious, fever-racked friend who has served her for twenty-six of her twenty-nine years. Ten days later, with loyal, handsome Lord Robert Dudley by her side, the queen leads her retinue to London’s Royal College of Physicians to enlist two learned doctors in the raging battle against disease and pestilence.

It is the crowning day of twenty-five-year-old Bess Tudor's life as she returns from exile to become England's queen. But even as her magnificent procession wends its way to Westminster Palace, a shot rings out, muffled by the jostling crowd. Within moments of becoming England's ruler, Elizabeth learns of the brutal murder of a highborn lady of the court, the sister of one of her dearest friends.

Tutto comincia alle sei di mattina, in radio, dove due giornalisti assonnati si danno il turno. Lui è appena arrivato e cerca di svegliarsi con un caffè, lei sta correndo a casa dopo aver lavorato tutta la notte. E succede che nella fretta i due si scambiano per errore i cellulari. Si rivedono qualche ora più tardi, e da un dialogo surreale nasce un invito al cinema, poi una mostra, un aperitivo, una gita in montagna.