Résultats Éditeur "audible originals" dans Fiction historique

Wenn die Scheinwerfer ausgehen, zeigt sich so manche Ikone von ihrer menschlichen Seite. Anja Rützel porträtiert neun Persönlichkeiten der Geschichte aus der Sicht halbfiktiver Zufallsbekanntschaften - anrührend, kurios und lehrreich. Agatha Christie versteckte sich monatelang in einem Hotel vor der Welt - nur die Barsängerin kannte ihre Gründe. Nikola Tesla liebte es, die Tauben im Park zu füttern - der Brezelverkäufer wurde sein Vertrauter. Winston Churchill konnte seinen Zuchtschweinen kein Haar krümmen - doch nur die Frau, die die Schweine täglich fütterte, wusste, wie sehr er die Tiere liebte.

Grab a flashlight and go monster-hunting in the safe company of Adam Jortner, award-winning professor of religion at Auburn University. You’ll encounter chilling tales of living houses, sentient plants, psychotic toys, brain-eating zombies, and otherworldly beings whose mere name is enough to drive people insane. Along the way, you’ll learn how monster stories change how Americans think and what Americans do, how they shape the history of our country, and what secrets about human nature these inhuman monsters can share.

The 1935 Labor Day hurricane annihilated between four hundred and six hundred lives in the middle of the Florida Keys, and like all disasters, both exposed long-standing social and economic inequities and reminded us of the bonds that enable us to provide what rescue we can for those we cherish. In this fictional account of the storm, rooted in the record but brought to life with Shepard’s unparalleled command of interpersonal impact, Village of Islands follows a handful of residents of a small beachside town in the moments leading up to, during and after this event.

Von der Lumpenhändlerin zur Mutter des organisierten Verbrechens: Inspiriert von der wahren Geschichte der Fredericka Mandelbaum erzählt Fredy Gareis die erste Staffel des packenden Historien-Dramas "Madame Fuchs". Auf nach Amerika, "dick und fett und reich werden"! Davon träumen im Jahr 1850 Tausende Deutsche. Die 25-jährige Frieda schafft es mit Mann und Kindern an Bord eines der Auswandererschiffe und kehrt ihrer Heimat für immer den Rücken. Bettelarm strandet die Familie in "Kleindeutschland" an der Lower East Side.

Goldengrove’s towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone’s throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Tabby Palethorp had been running wild there, ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room. I was the perfect choice to give Tabby a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion. I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn’t stop me from yearning for impossible things.

Recruited as a codebreaker of enemy ciphers, ex-debutante Osla Kendall spends her days translating Axis military messages and her nights reading mystery novels. When Osla gets her hands on Agatha Christie's most recent work, N or M?, a mysterious signal within its pages catches her eye, and she and her eccentric book club get in touch with the famous but reclusive writer. Osla's outreach is a welcome distraction for Agatha, who feels restless and underestimated toiling away in a London pharmacy.

It’s 1929 in New York City. In an apartment high above Lexington Avenue, the painter Georgia O’Keeffe feels stuck. At 42, she should be at the apex of her powers as an artist, and yet something is missing. Her husband - the gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, who helped build her reputation in the art world - has grown needy and insecure, not to mention unfaithful. More than this, her work has lost its fire, and she knows it. The calla lilies and poppies for which she is revered now seem careful, predictable.

Wie gerät die junge Minna ins Rotlichtmilieu - und mausert sich zur Bordellwirtin? "Kaiserwetter in der Gosse" erzählt die unabhängige Vorgeschichte des Audio-Bestsellers "Die juten Sitten: Goldene Zwanziger, dreckige Wahrheiten" von Anna Basener. Berlin, 1895: Auf der Suche nach einem besseren Leben wählt die junge Minna den Weg ins Bordell und in die Arme adeliger Freier. Hin- und hergerissen zwischen dem Zwielicht der Halbwelt und dem Glanz der Hofgesellschaft, erfährt sie, wie zerbrechlich Träume sind und was es heißt, auf sich gestellt zu sein.

The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly. Quietly disdainful of her Tory parents, who drag her along to society events and welcome a British soldier into their home during their occupation of New York City, Elizabeth decides to take matters into her own hands. She realizes that, as a young woman, no one around her believes that she can comprehend the profound implications of being a nation at war - she is, effectively, invisible. And she can use this invisibility to her advantage.

Two giants of the theater, five-time Tony Award® winner Angela Lansbury and three-time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones, star in 1988’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama. Driving Miss Daisy is Alfred Uhry’s tale that follows the complicated friendship between a feisty Jewish widow and her Black chauffeur in mid-century Atlanta over the course of 20 years.

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.

Stephen McAllister was a grunt, a dog handler in Vietnam, tasked not only with fighting what was by then an unwinnable war but with rehabilitating a scout dog named Big Mike whose trauma ran even deeper than his own. McAllister's voice has an abundance of heart and humor, but the laughter has a catch in its throat. For all the ingenuity and camaraderie, a dark and suspenseful melody plays behind the adventures of McAllister and his unforgettable constellation of young characters, American and Vietnamese.

Der fulminante Abschluss der Trilogie um Isaac & Eleanor ist da! Die Audible Original Hörspielreihe basierend auf der Waringham Saga von Rebecca Gablé mit Detlef Bierstedt, Manja Döring, Johannes Klaußner und vielen mehr lässt euch erneut am Schicksal der noblen Grafschaft teilhaben. 1568: Isaac harrt als einer der letzten Überlebenden auf der kaum noch seetüchtigen "Minion" aus. Als immer mehr Besatzungsmitglieder elendig verhungern, sieht auch er dem Tod ins Auge. Wird er England jemals wiedersehen?

In the summer of 1937, Amelia Earhart is the most famous woman in the world - a record-breaking pilot, a best-selling author, and a modern woman shattering the glass ceiling in the early days of aviation. And then she vanishes. In Tampa, Florida, 15-year-old Lizzie Friedlander spends her afternoons glued to her father’s radio, tapping into the enormity of a world she longs to travel. Lizzie can hardly believe her ears when she picks up a radio signal from a faraway source that sets her heart racing: “Amelia Earhart calling SOS!”

Birdie, a young woman born into wealth, has a deep passion for art and science which leads her to a position painting landscape habitats at the new Museum of Natural History. Her mother sees this pursuit as a distraction from her daughter’s obligatory society functions and tries to forbid her from the museum, but Birdie’s dedication only grows once she meets Jay, an intelligent Irishman who’s yanked himself up by his bootstraps to join the Museum’s elite team of researchers. Captivated by each other despite their differences, Birdie and Jay steal away to Central Park each day.

At the age of 30, Robin is an Earl at last - but not the Earl of Waringham, the ancestral title that he still hopes to win back one day from the evil Mortimer. England has seen other changes too: Edward III is dead and his successor, the boy king Richard II, is at odds with his uncle, the Duke of Lancaster. The introduction of a hated new poll tax brings about one of the most dangerous episodes in English history and Robin finds himself embroiled in the Peasants’ Revolt.

Die Legende lebt! Rebecca Gablés "Palast der Meere" führt das imposante historische Epos "Die Waringham Saga" mit einer neuen Generation um Isaac und Eleanor fort. Die Audible Original Hörspielreihe mit den Sprechern: Maria Koschny, Manja Doering, Johannes Klaußner, Sascha Rotermund und Detlef Bierstedt, bekannt als deutsche Stimme von George Clooney uvm. Teil 1 schließt zeitlich direkt an "Nicholas" an und spielt in den Jahren 1560-1563. Hörspielautor Florian Bald adaptierte auch dieses Romanepos als Fortsetzung des wahrscheinlich längsten Hörspiels der Welt.

Robin has made a powerful ally in the Duke of Lancaster. But he has made powerful enemies too: not only his childhood adversary Mortimer, but the sadistic knight Peter de Gray. Returning to England, he is awarded the fiefdom of Fernbrook in Lancashire, where he meets the beautiful noblewoman Joanna. But the wheel of fortune keeps turning and as the years pass Robin and his friends must face trials and tragedies: plague, war and political intrigue are never far away.

The year is 1970. Emma Gable, a blind teenager coming of age in a small industrial town in Western New York, is about as far from the seismic cultural transformations rocking campuses and city streets across America as a person can get. Emma escapes the chaos of her dysfunctional family by dialing up random numbers on the phone in her bedroom, just to see who'll answer.

England in the 14th Century. Twelve-year-old Robin’s world is turned upside down when his father, the Earl of Waringham, dies in disgrace. His inheritance lost and his family name dishonoured, the penniless Robin must begin a new life as a peasant on his own estate. He soon makes an enemy in Mortimer, the spoiled young son of the new Earl. As the years pass and the boys enter adulthood, Robin flees Waringham to seek his fortune abroad.