Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Contemporary Fiction

「お前ら、そんな仕事して恥ずかしいと思わないのか。目をさましやがれ！」　漢字の読めない政治家、酔っぱらい大臣、揚げ足取りのマスコミ、バカ大学生が入り乱れ、巨大な陰謀をめぐる痛快劇の幕が切って落とされた。

ドラマ化（TBS日曜劇場）で大人気のシリーズ第４弾！　唐木田役の俳優・谷田歩さんによる朗読版！　ついにトランスミッションの開発に乗り出した佃製作所。ライバル企業と火花を散らす中、佃社長は帝国重工・財前の仲介により、旧友・野木教授と思わぬ再会を果たす。準天頂衛星「ヤタガラス」が導く壮大な物語は、どのような結末を迎えるのか――!?

問題を抱える支店を回って業務改善を指導する東京第一銀行・調査役の相馬健に、念願の部下がつくことになった。

おせっかいな叔母に拝み倒され、人生初のお見合いに出かけた花咲舞。

One mistake can have a thousand consequences. Nofar is just an average teenage girl - so average that she's almost invisible. Serving customers in an ice cream parlour all summer long, she is desperate for some kind of escape. Then one day, in walks faded talent show star Avishai Milner, who, in a moment of anger and misunderstanding, suddenly finds himself accused of sexually assaulting her. Now everyone wants to talk to Nofar: the press, her schoolmates and the boy upstairs who saw what did - and didn't - actually happen.

Johnny, teased for being smaller than his peers, finds courage - and parallels to his own life - in his father's stories of rabbits and dragons.

Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.

生前の罪により、輪廻のサイクルから外されたぼくの魂。だが天使業界の抽選にあたり、再挑戦のチャンスを得た。自殺を図った少年、真の体にホームステイし、自分の罪を思い出さなければならないのだ。

あの日なら、僕はすべてを捨ててしまうことができた。仕事も家庭も金も、何もかもをあっさりと捨ててしまえた。

2012年本屋大賞第3位!!朗読に俳優・小泉今日子、音楽に向島ゆり子を迎えAudiobook化。18世紀、水の都ヴェネツィア。ゴンドラが運んでいくのは、秘めた恋とかけがけのない友情――

Es ist der Alptraum einer jeden Familie: Die passionierte Reiterin Mikaela wird von ihrem Pferd abgeworfen – und ihr 9-jähriger Sohn Bret gibt sich die Schuld daran. Nach Wochen im Koma rechnet niemand mehr mit ihrem Aufwachen. Allein ihr Mann Liam glaubt fest daran, dass er sie mit seiner Liebe ins Leben zurückholen kann. Nur mit Mühe gelingt es ihm jedoch, sich um die beiden Kinder zu kümmern. Vor allem der kleine Bret ist durch den Verlust der Mutter schwer traumatisiert. Doch dann stößt Liam auf ein langgehütetes Geheimnis seiner Frau.

本屋大賞受賞『成瀬は天下を取りにいく』を超える、爆走型ヒロインが誕生！

舞台俳優・家福をさいなみ続ける亡き妻の記憶。彼女はなぜあの男と関係したのかを追う「ドライブ・マイ・カー」。

Tutto comincia nella sala d'attesa di un aeroporto. Non poteva essere altri che lui, una vittima perfetta. È stato sufficiente parlargli. E aspettare che la trappola scattasse. Tutto finisce nella sala d'attesa di un aeroporto. Va detto comunque che il caso non esiste. Un giallo? Forse. Certamente la doppiezza dell'uomo, la crudeltà, la bellezza e la bruttezza.

The treefolk have always been an enigma to Elodi and her father - that is, until they have a rare chance to save a fallen fairy. Not far away, Germain is coming to terms with having lost his love, Celeste, to the Undereaves.

It's summer, Ian's mother is dying of cancer, and he must contend all on his own with the onslaught of puberty, the Southern heat, and his confusing desire for his friend, Harbin. His discovery of an adolescent shark sets in motion a deep violence that brings Ian's quickly evolving world into sharp focus.

The late Binodini Thakur had been very clear that she would never agree to sell her hissa in her Bauji's big old house on Hailey Road. And her daughter, Bonu, is determined to honor her mothers wishes. But what to do about her four pushy aunts who are insisting she sell?

Stars are dying, the sky is darkening, an alien race has inhabited the planet, and Irene and Jean sit by the pond at their nursing home every day, waiting for the world to end. Here the two elderly friends will learn more than they ever could have anticipated - about the world, about what it means to be different, and about each other.

Big Ray's temper and obesity define him. When Big Ray dies, his son feels mostly relief, dismissing his other emotions. Yet years later, the adult son must reckon with the outsized presence of his father's memory. This stunning novel, narrated in more 500 brief entries, moves between past and present, between his father's death and his life, between an abusive childhood and an adult understanding.

「GOAT」刊行記念、書き下ろし掌編！山羊は、いつでも面白い物語を探し求めています。なぜなら、それを食べると、心もお腹も満たされるから。きょうは、どこに探しにいこう……？　やがて山羊が見つけたのは、野原にたたずむ、ひとつの家でした。