Showing results by publisher "Audible Originals" in Literature & Fiction

¿Disfrutas con el terror, la intriga y el suspense? Entonces hablas el idioma del miedo y sin duda, este es tu sitio. ¿Hablas Miedo? es un podcast que ahonda en nuestros temores más profundos y ancestrales a través de una curiosa mezcla de periodismo de investigación, narrativa, excelentes interpretaciones y una impecable realización sonora. Ficciones y casos reales se dan la mano en una experiencia única no apta para cobardes.

Après le succès fulgurant à l’audio que connaît la saga "The Sandman", considérée comme « la plus grande épopée de l'histoire des comics » par le Los Angeles Times Magazine, retrouvez l'univers fantastique et sombre des romans graphiques DC écrits par Neil Geiman dans "The Sandman : Acte III".

Meet. Love. Break. Recover. That’s been the routine of Staceyann Chin’s romantic life. But at 35, after yet another devasting breakup and overcome by an urgent and all-consuming desire to have a child, Chin realizes she’s running out of time. So she sets her sights on a single target: motherhood.

Inspired by extensive interviews following the 2014 shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by white Police Officer Darren Wilson, Orlandersmith gives equal voice and embodies the many faces of a community haunted by injustice, in a country yearning for change. Until The Flood is a tour de force solo performance that explores the dark forces of American history, race, and politics that exploded in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and sent shock waves across the nation.

Ein verwunschenes Herrenhaus, das die wildesten Fantasien entfesselt. Magische Schlüssel, die Türen zu anderen Welten öffnen. Eine glückliche Familie, über die das ultimativ Böse hereinbricht. Eine Graphic Novel, die zu einem spektakulären Dark Fantasy Audiodrama mit einer bombastischen Soundkulisse wird. Im idyllischen Sommerurlaub bricht das Grauen über die Lockes herein: Vater Rendell wird vor den Augen seiner Familie brutal ermordet. Verstört und gebrochen zieht Mutter Nina mit ihren Kindern Bode, Kinsey und Tyler von San Francisco ins Keyhouse, dem alten Familiensitz in New England.

Joseph is having a comically rough year. His job sucks, his relationship ended, he’s plagued by prank phone calls, and he nearly lost his father to the virus. When his best friend asks him to donate his sperm so that she can start a family, Joseph just can’t understand why anyone would bring a child into this calamitous world. The only bright spot is an intriguing new online relationship with an attractive internet “daddy” that has him rethinking his isolation until a series of revelations have him facing even bigger decisions about his future.

Audible presents Happy Endings, an Audible Original.

London 1348. Jonah Durham hat Intrigen, zerstörerische Kriege und Schicksalsschläge überwunden. Sein mit List und Vorsicht aufgebautes Handelsimperium floriert. Nun will er auch die letzten Sprossen seines Aufstiegs erklimmen - mächtige Ämter im Königreich winken. Nur sein ältester Sohn Lukas bereitet ihm Sorgen. Er weigert sich, in die Fußstapfen zu treten und Jonahs Vermächtnis weiterzuführen. Doch all das wird bedeutungslos, als in den engen Gassen Londons die Pest ausbricht.

Juno was born with spina bifida and is now clumsily navigating her 20s amidst street healers, love, loneliness – and the feeling of being an unfinished project. Written and performed by rising star, Amy Trigg, this remarkable debut play is a hilarious, heart-warming tale about how crap our wonderful lives can be.

Three offbeat stories of crime and conundrum, set in the present moment, from the New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning author of Underground Airlines and The Last Policeman.

Greg O’Connor and Josh Fagin, who cowrote summer thriller The Space Within, discuss with Audible Editor Sam how the stellar soundscape and all-star cast—led by Jessica Chastain—came together for this eerie, bingeable podcast.

A moving story of an old woman reckoning with memories - both cherished and heartbreaking - of her past, from French Rwandan author Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, winner of the 2020 Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie.

Dream, oder auch Lord Morpheus, ist der mächtige Herrscher der Träume, Geschichten und der Fantasie. Ein ruchloser Okkultist entriss ihn einst seinem Reich und hielt ihn auf der Erde gefangen, wo er jahrzehntelang schmachtete - bis zu dem Tag seiner Flucht. Seine frühere Herrschaft ist verblasst. Um seine Macht wiederzuerlangen muss er seine drei Insignien zurückholen: einen Beutel Traumsand, einen Helm und einen Rubin.

As a high school sophomore, Aiden Kelly's biggest problems should be his failing grades, his abusive father, being a self-proclaimed loner, or getting pummeled by the football team. Instead, Aiden's number one dilemma is a guy named Tony, a senior who seems to know all sorts of things that should be impossible to know. Oh, and he may also be a sociopath. So, you know: No. Big. Deal.

Tino has known true love…and lost it. To find love again, he turns to a dating app that spans the multiverse. What could go wrong? In this off-beat speculative fiction tale, Tino navigates not just bad dates but also bad timelines, all in the search for Ms. Right.

A humanities professor at a liberal arts college is terrified of what she feels is an inevitable act of violence, fearing that one day, she will be the victim of a disgruntled student’s aggression. As a single mother, no one matters more than her little boy. So when a senseless act of violence changes her life forever, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the very weapon used to perpetrate the crime—and to the irresistible feeling of power that comes from holding life and death in her hands.

A woman (Alison Pill) finds herself grappling with both grief and anger following the sudden death of her mother and the shocking revelation of her father’s infidelity. Her father (Reed Birney), on the other hand, is just trying his best to verbalize his own complicated feelings about love, loss, lust…and household chores. And the other woman (Marsha Mason) simply wonders: Is she still “the other woman” when the original woman is gone?

When love reigns supreme in Northridge High just outside Chicago, by the lake, it happens beneath the soft, pink-infused spotlights hovering over that most special night of the year - prom night. Passable in Pink is an Audible Original from New York Times best-selling author Mike Sacks (Stinker Lets Loose!). Sacks has teamed up once again with director Eric Jason Martin (Stinker Lets Loose!, Heads Will Roll) to adapt a forgotten John Hughes-type 1983 movie into a fully immersive cinematic audio experience, with an epic all-star cast.

Motherhood has turned out to be a lot weirder and lonelier than Mary anticipated - has the world gone crazy, or has she? Most of the time, it feels like both. But when her oldest starts kindergarten, Mary meets another mom, Fiona, and the two form an unusual yet exhilarating friendship. There’s only one problem: Mary doesn’t really like Fiona’s husband, Andreas. What begins as a minor irritation keeps intensifying and changing shape in Mary’s mind as Andreas’s perceived wrongdoings pile up, until she can’t distinguish integrity from self-sabotage.

A lonely terraforming AI is delighted when a spacecraft unexpectedly makes an emergency landing on his planet. Hoping that the mysterious woman aboard might want to stay, he strives to be the best host in the universe.