Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in 20th Century

Spring, 1950. Alexandra de Falla, a half-English, half-Spanish young writer abandons her privileged but suffocating life in London and travels to Spain to be reunited with her long-estranged family. Instead of providing the sense of belonging she yearns for, the de Fallas are riven by seething emotions and in the grip of the wild customs and traditions of Andalucía, all of which are alien to Alexandra.

1948: Change has come to every corner of the globe - and Rosie Stanton, returning home to Northern Queensland after serving the war effort in Brisbane, plans to rescue her family’s foundering sugarcane farm with her unstoppable can-do spirit. Coming up against her father’s old-world views, a farm worker undermining her success, and constant reminders of Rosie’s brothers lost in the war, Rosie realizes she wants more from life and love - but at what cost? Italian immigrant Tomas Conti arrives at a neighboring farm, and sparks fly as Rosie draws close to this enigmatic newcomer.

It is the heady 60s in Liverpool, and the Flowers, the Baileys, and the McDowds are three very different families bound together by music. The children are determined to be part of the glamour that surrounds the city, so when Sean, Lachlan, and Max form The Merseysiders and Jeannie and Rita become part of The Flower Girls, they put their hearts and souls into achieving success.

When Hubert Larnaudie invites some fellow residents of his Parisian apartment building to drink an exceptional bottle of 1954 Beaujolais, he has no idea of its special properties. The following morning, Hubert finds himself waking up in 1950s Paris, as do antique restorer Magalie, mixologist Julien, and Airbnb tenant Bob from Milwaukee, who's on his first trip to Europe. After their initial shock, the city of Edith Piaf and An American in Paris begins to work its charm on them.

Una mattina di aprile, in uno chalet in mezzo alle montagne, un uomo si sveglia, abbraccia la sua amante, si infila il costume e va a fare la solita nuotata. La donna si alza, prepara la colazione, caffè, formaggio, pane, poi lancia uno sguardo verso lo specchio d'acqua lì davanti e vede una sinistra macchia bianca. Corre fuori, si tuffa, è una pessima nuotatrice, raggiunge il corpo a fatica, lo trascina a riva, ma la sua pelle è di ghiaccio. Un istante prima M. era vivo, adesso è morto.

Liverpool, 1937. Jessica is married to Bertie, a mean, patronising man who she has stayed with purely for the sake of her two young children. To make up for the love and passion that is missing from her life, she spends the occasional afternoon at the local cinema, lost in romantic films. But when an unexpected glass of champagne is offered to her in a Liverpool hotel, the consequences turn out to be shattering. When Bertie discovers his wife's deceit, he is ruthless in his revenge. He sells their house and disappears....

Pretty Amy Curran was just 18 years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport pier in 1939. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven, or so they both believed. But when Britain declared war on Germany, Barney volunteered to fight and the couple were eventually separated for five long years. When he returned to Liverpool after VE Day he wasn't the same person - and neither was Amy.

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.

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.

Nathan Hack expects his four sons to marry well and keep up the tradition of becoming barristers in the prestigious house of Hack. But Rubin, the youngest, feels that his legacy is a stranglehold. He's betrothed to a woman from a fine family when he falls in love with a beautiful, enigmatic stranger in Paris. Her name is Magda, and she will change Rubin’s life completely. Decades later, history will repeat itself when a woman is caught between two men during Hitler's regime.

From acclaimed romance writer Rexanne Becnel comes a story of passion and hidden identity in the post-war American South. As a dark figure on horseback approaches the resplendent Louisiana estate of Sparrow Hill, a chill runs through Lacie Montgomery, the lovely head of the Sparrow Hill School for Young Ladies, because she is not exactly who she appears to be - and the exposure of her darkest secret could mean the closing of her beloved school and the end of its rightful place in the Kimbell family legacy.

England, 1918: Obwohl das Tragen roten Lippenstifts noch einem Skandal gleichkommt, stellt die junge Leonora in der Apotheke ihres Vaters heimlich Kosmetika her. Als ihr Vater an der Spanischen Grippe stirbt, sucht sie ihr Glück in Amerika und lernt den charmanten Everett kennen - und lieben. Doch um diese Liebe muss sie ebenso kämpfen wie um ihren Traum einer Kosmetikfirma. Denn auch in Manhattan gibt es Widerstand gegen den Wunsch der Frauen, selbst über ihr Aussehen zu entscheiden.

1978: a Roma le Brigate Rosse hanno rapito Aldo Moro, in Sicilia boss mafiosi come Gaetano Badalamenti soffocano ogni tentativo di resistenza civile, all'ombra della Madonnina le bande di Vallanzasca e Turatello fanno salire la tensione in una città già segnata dagli scontri sociali. Ma anche in questo clima la dolcevita del capoluogo lombardo, che si prepara a diventare la "Milano da bere" degli anni Ottanta, non conosce soste.

Fourteen-year-old Jason Aloysius Garrity is now of age to work full-time in a Pennsylvania coal factory, earning four dollars a week. His family left their hardscrabble life in Ireland to create a better one in America. But their shanty-like home on a street filled with outhouses, horse manure, and the ever-present odor of noxious gas is a hell all its own. Yet Jason possesses the passion and principles that will lift him out of the abject poverty surrounding his widowed mother, fanatically religious younger brother, and manipulative crippled sister.

Ich bin deine Muse, ich bin deine Liebe. Klimt war ihre erste Liebe, für Gustav Mahler wird sie zur Muse - Alma Schindler wächst inmitten der Wiener Künstlerbohème auf, ist in den Salons der schillernden Metropole zu Hause, verfolgt den Aufstieg der Secession, inspiriert und verführt. Und sie ist Künstlerin, ihre Leidenschaft gehört dem Klavierspiel, vor allem der Komposition. Bis sie Gustav Mahler trifft und sich Hals über Kopf in ihn verliebt. Gustav erwidert ihre Liebe, jedoch zu einem hohen Preis: Für ihn soll sie ihre Kunst aufgeben.

Der Auftakt zur neuen Familiensaga über eine große Liebe und die gesellschaftlichen Schranken der Kaiserzeit von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Margit Steinborn. Du hast mich gesucht. Einen Herbst und einen Winter lang... Berlin, 1908. Nirgendwo sonst prallen die sozialen Gegensätze der Klassengesellschaft so aufeinander wie hier: Die Oberschicht feiert rauschende Feste, während die Arbeiterschaft in ärmlichen Verhältnissen ihr Leben fristet. Nach einem Unfall des Vaters in der Maschinenfabrik Wittmann droht Isa und ihrer Familie das soziale Elend.

Depuis que Greta montre des signes de sénilité, Tom découvre chez sa mère une douceur inhabituelle : elle lui raconte son enfance en Prusse orientale, sa fuite vers l’ouest à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et son premier grand amour avec un soldat afro-américain. Mais quand elle lui pose des questions sur une sœur dont il n’a jamais entendu parler, Tom se rend compte qu’il ne connaît qu’une infime partie de la vie de celle qui l'a élevé. Avec une tension narrative haletante et une plume tout en émotion, Susanne Abel lève le voile sur le sort des bébés biraciaux nés de l’occupation américaine en Allemagne.

Texas, 1934: Seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise sind Hunderttausende arbeitslos, und in den Ebenen der Prärie herrscht Dürre - zu viel wurde gerodet, nach Missernten droht das Land von Sandstürmen davongetragen zu werden. In dieser unsicheren, gefahrvollen Zeit muss Elsa Martinelli eine schwere Entscheidung treffen: Soll sie um das Land kämpfen, das sie liebt und das die Heimat ihrer Familie ist? Oder soll sie mit ihren Kindern wie so viele andere nach Westen ziehen? Irgendwann bleibt Elsa keine Wahl mehr, doch die Flucht nach Kalifornien birgt neue Gefahren in sich.

Als die schüchterne Kate und die coole, hübsche Tully einander mit vierzehn zum ersten Mal begegnen, ahnen sie noch nicht, dass daraus eine Freundschaft fürs Leben entstehen wird. Jahrelange Trennung, unterschiedliche Lebenswege, Männer: nichts kann Tully und Kate auseinanderbringen. Doch dann kommt es zu einem schlimmen Streit, in dem alte Wunden aufreißen. Es herrscht Funkstille - bis den Freundinnen klar wird, wie kurz das Leben sein kann.

1918 ist der Frieden mit Russland in greifbarer Nähe. Nach einem Mordanschlag ist es fraglich, ob Konstantin das noch erleben wird. Immerhin pflegte die Dorflehrerin Rebecca ihn aufopferungsvoll. Graf Adolphis indes ist verzweifelt. Durch den Kauf von Kriegsanleihen ist das Gut hoch verschuldet.