Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Fiction historique

Londres, 1889. Enola Holmes, sœur du célèbre Sherlock, ayant échappé à la vigilance de ses frères, a ouvert sous une fausse identité un cabinet de " Spécialiste en recherches, toutes disparitions ". Son premier client : le Dr. Watson en personne !... Il cherche précisément à retrouver la piste d'Enola, qu'il ne reconnaît pas. Si Enola ne peut aider Watson, elle s'intéresse à un autre cas qu'il lui mentionne : la disparition de la jeune fille d'un baronet, Lady Cecily Alistair, une adolescente loin d'être bien comme il faut.

1888. Le jour où Enola Holmes découvre que sa mère a disparu, elle pressent qu'elle seule pourra la retrouver. Elle qui a grandi libre, est alors soumise par ses frères à l'apprentissage des bonnes manières d'une lady, puis expédiée droit vers un pensionnat de jeunes filles. Mais la chère enfant a du cran et de la ressource et elle échappe à son détective de frère, plogeant dans les basfonds de la capitale.

Londres, printemps 1889. Le Dr Watson, grand ami du célèbre détective Sherlock Holmes, a disparu ! Lorsqu'Enola apprend la nouvelle, elle ne peut laisser ce nouveau cas de disparition irrésolu. Mais il lui faut un déguisement approprié pour lui éviter d'être reconnu par son frère Sherlock, qui mène aussi sa propre investigation. Elle se procure de quoi devenir méconnaissable et elle rend visite à Mrs Watson, chez qui elle découvre un bouquet à l'étrange composition... Enola tient probablement une piste qui expliquerait la disparition du Dr Watson.

August 1611. Jack Fletcher is shipwrecked off the coast of Japan - his beloved father and the crew lie slaughtered by ninja pirates. Rescued by the legendary sword master Masamoto Takeshi, Jack's only hope is to become a samurai warrior. And so his training begins. But life at the samurai school is a constant fight for survival. With courage in his heart and his sword held high, can Jack prove himself and face his deadliest rival yet?

It is Charlotte's first night at boarding school. But when she wakes up, the girl in the next bed is not the person who was sleeping there the evening before. And the new building outside her window seems to have metamorphosed into a huge, dark cedar tree! Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back forty years... A classic time travel mystery from acclaimed author Penelope Farmer.

Will knows a secret. Somewhere in the forest, behind the abbey where he lives, is a grave. And beneath the snow lies something he thought could never die.But Will is not alone in knowing the truth behind the Crowfield Curse. Hidden in the dusk, someone else is watching...A spooky, suspenseful story for older children from acclaimed author Pat Walsh, The Crowfield Curse was shortlisted for the Times Children’s Fiction Competition.

Junko is bad at athletics. Really bad. Other students laugh because they think she is small and weak. Then her teacher takes the class on a trip to a mountain. It’s bigger than any Junko’s ever seen, but she is determined to make it to the top. Ganbatte, her teacher tells her. Do your best. After that first trip, Junko becomes a mountaineer in body and spirit. She climbs snowy mountains, rocky mountains and even faraway mountains outside of her home country of Japan. 

Wangari lives in the lush, green land of rural Kenya, where the soil is perfect for planting, the trees tower into the sky and the streams are full of mysterious creatures. All day, she plays beneath her favourite fig tree, and at night, she gathers around the fire with her family to listen to her mother's stories. Then Wangari grows up and goes away to school, and things start changing at home. Farmers chop down the trees. Landslides bury the stream. The soil becomes overworked and dry, and nothing will grow. People go hungry. 

Katinka Dashkova is running for her life because everything she knows is changing. Katinka, a dazzling ballerina with a hunched back, and her friends, Alexei the Giant and Nikolai the dwarf, are different. That's why they are part of Peter the Great's Circus of Curiosities. But the Tzar is dead, and they must flee the Winter Palace. Guided by a special map, they set out across Russia running for their lives. 

Agra 1857, the Indian rebellion. Three children are trying to make their way through a country at war with a circus tiger in search of safety. Jacques is a boy acrobat who has lost his circus; Beatrice (Bea) and Ping are both orphans. United by a deep friendship and their desire to save Tonton the tiger, find Bea's lost brother and Kamal the fire-eater, they set out on a wild and dangerous journey. Will they make it? A magical tale based on the true story of a lost French circus during the Indian rebellion.

In the late '50s, Sandra Scoppettone (author of the Lauren Laurano mystery series) and her friend Louise Fitzhugh (author of Harriet the Spy) began a collaboration on a book that was both authors' first book, Suzuki Beane, first published in 1961 by Doubleday as a hardcover. It is the story of a hip, young New York City "baby beatnik". 

Las aventuras y desventuras del caballero Tirante nos transportarán en un fascinante viaje desde la corte del Rey de Inglaterra, donde es nombrado caballero, a la isla de Sicilia, al sitio de Rodas, al Norte de África y al imperio de Constantinopla. Tirante es el gran héroe: fuerte, valiente, divertido, ingenioso, buen estratega, pero sobre todo humano, que responde a las peticiones de auxilio de Rodas y del emperador de Constantinopla, y suspira por el amor de Carmesina. Acompaña las andanzas de Tirante el Blanco en este audiolibro adaptado para niños y niñas.

Copo de Algodón, hija de la princesa de Tacuba y del señor de Tenochtitlan, y esposa del señor de Iztapalapa, nació en la era del Quinto Sol, en una ciudad que un pueblo fiero y guerrero levantó en una laguna de reflejos color turquesa. Creía en Tláloc y Huitzilopochtli, y amaba las flores y los cantos. Un día su mundo se agitó, como las aguas al lanzar una piedra.... 

Daisy Fisher, la niña arquera y nueva socia del Club de los Sabuesos, ha vuelto a El Cairo en compañía de su abuelo, también insigne egiptólogo. Es un especialista en las fiestas de los faraones y una prestigiosa asociación cultural egipcia lo ha invitado como asesor. Van a recrear la antigua fiesta de Heb Sed, que tendrá lugar en la pirámide de Zóser. ¿Y no sabéis quiénes van a acompañarlo? ¡Por supuesto! Nuestros amigos del Club de los Sabuesos. 

Los Sabuesos vuelven a Londres para conocer el famoso papiro de Hunefer (famoso, claro, para sus padres, que son arqueólogos). Pero nuestros amigos tienen una extraña habilidad para estar en el sitio apropiado en el momento oportuno, ya que solo ellos se percatan de que una extraña pareja ha cogido una pieza que se exhibe al lado del papiro, el cofre de Anubis, y se la llevan...¡con el monito Toth dentro! 

Daisy’s hero is Florence Nightingale, and she hopes to one day become a nurse just like her. But as a girl growing up in the East End of London in 1912, it seems like all her future holds is dropping out of school to work a tough job in a factory for very little money.

Las aventuras y desventuras del caballero Tirante nos transportarán en un fascinante viaje desde la corte del Rey de Inglaterra, donde es nombrado caballero, a la isla de Sicilia, al sitio de Rodas, al Norte de África y al imperio de Constantinopla.  

Este relato es la primera obra de caballerías de nuestra literatura. Nos cuenta las aventuras de un caballero andante muy valiente, sensato y buena persona: Zifar, al que con el tiempo llamarían el Caballero de Dios, por sus buenas obras y sus grandes hazañas. 

For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on “climbing boys” - orphans owned by chimney sweeps - to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless, and brutally dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived - and a girl. But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. Instead, she wakes to find herself in an abandoned attic. And she is not alone. Huddled in the corner is a mysterious creature - a golem - made from ash and coal. This is the creature that saved her from the fire.

Quando Brunisa, la ragazza ebrea di "Una valle piena di stelle" ritorna a casa, la città è in rovina, ma la gente è fiduciosa e cerca in ogni modo di ricominciare. L'aspettano nuove amicizie, vecchi pregiudizi, la ricerca dell'amato Claudio e, soprattutto, un mistero che tinge di giallo la sua vita... Un vivacissimo ritratto dell'Italia del dopoguerra con le speranze e le illusioni che l'accompagnano alla democrazia.