Titres dans Vie de famille

This program is read by actor Richard Armitage, best known for his role in The Hobbit film trilogy, and actress Tuppence Middleton, best known for her role in Downton Abbey. Beautiful Ugly features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of...

J'avais fait remplir un flacon d'acide chlorhydrique, et je le gardais sur moi en permanence, avec l'idée de le jeter un jour à la gueule de quelqu'un. Il me suffirait d'ouvrir le flacon, un flacon transparent qui avait contenu auparavant de l'eau oxygénée, de viser les yeux et de m'enfuir. Je me sentais curieusement apaisé depuis que je m'étais procuré ce flacon de liquide ambré et corrosif, qui pimentait mes heures et acérait mes pensées.

Dan and Sally Oliver and their friend Chloe Hennessey are lucky to be alive. Three years on, after surviving one of the world's biggest natural disasters - the Boxing Day tsunami - their lives have changed dramatically. Dan and Sally are now parents. Dan is enjoying being a stay-at-home father taking care of their young son, and Sally is the bread winner and loves her job as a partner in a Manchester law firm.

Andrea Brafford’s life is nearly perfect. A passionate marine biologist happily married to Craig, the man she loves, she has recently moved into a home commensurate with their success to enjoy a life many others only dream about in one of Houston’s most desirable suburbs. But only a few months later, a trial that dramatically polarizes their town names Craig Brafford as a defendant in the murder of his young wife, shattering the serenity of the peaceful community. Andrea’s life remains a mystery that investigators and public opinion equally fail to solve.

Elle s'appelle Sarah et passe son temps à s'enfuir, à errer, pour en revenir souvent au même point. C'est l'histoire du « pou », une bestiole apathique installée dans l'esprit de Sarah, à l'affût de nouveaux plans foireux, et qui l'oblige à acheter un bateau. C'est l'histoire de ce bateau, Dune, un voilier éclopé, vieille bique à coque rouge, de ses mises à l'eau rocambolesques et d'une première traversée avortée qui se solde par un séjour aux urgences psychiatriques.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs - yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral....

Sicilia, prima metà del Settecento. Marianna Ucrìa, una bambina che appartiene a una nobile famiglia...

Welcome to Flamford, the town sanity forgot. Edgy, sharp-tongued City burn-out Andy Chambers has been advised, for the sake of his health, to take a break from his stressful London lifestyle and get some rest. So he goes to stay with his estranged uncle, Jeff Whitaker, at his seaside home in Flamford - but, as he soon discovers, living with his relative is far from relaxing.

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.

Valeria Cossati never suspected how unhappy she had become with the shabby gentility of her bourgeois life—until she begins to jot down her thoughts and feelings in a little black book she keeps hidden in a closet. This new secret activity leads her to scrutinize herself and her life more closely, and she soon realizes that her individuality is being stifled by her devotion and sense of duty toward her husband, daughter, and son.

A headstrong woman goes against her wealthy family’s wishes in this stunning prequel to Roses, perfect for fans of Gone with the Wind. Born into the most influential family in 1830s South Carolina, Jessica Wyndham is expected to look appealing, act with decorum, and marry well. However, her...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes an all-new audio production read by Julia Whelan, including a bonus conversation with Julia Whelan and Taylor Jenkins Reid, recorded exclusively for this edition. When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the...

My husband doesn't understand why I want to return to work, especially while our daughter is still so young. She's only four weeks old. But I'm at risk of losing my job if I don't. Hiring a nanny seems like the best solution, and Bree Miller is the perfect answer — she's young, bright and immediately adores Delilah. We go for a walk in Central Park on Bree's first day. I'm taking a call when I hear a loud, high-pitched shriek. My heart races in my chest as I turn the corner. A man dressed head-to-toe in black has his fingers wrapped around the handle of Delilah's stroller...

How do you define yourself when others have already decided who you are? Six years ago, when Camden Daniels came back from war without his younger brother, no one in the small town of Alba, Colorado, would forgive him - especially his father. He left, swearing never to return. But a desperate message from his father brings it all back. The betrayal. The pain. And the need to go home again. But home is where the one person he still loves is waiting. Willow. The one woman he can never have. Because there are secrets buried in Alba that are best left in the dark.

Was wissen wir schon über unsere Eltern? Meistens viel weniger als wir denken. Und manchmal gar nichts. Die fünfzehnjährige Kim hat ihren Vater noch nie gesehen, als sie von ihrer Mutter über die Sommerferien zu ihm abgeschoben wird. Der fremde Mann erweist sich auf Anhieb nicht nur als ziemlich seltsam, sondern auch als der erfolgloseste Vertreter der Welt. Aber als sie ihm hilft, seine fürchterlichen Markisen im knallharten Haustürgeschäft zu verkaufen, verändert sich das Leben von Vater und Tochter für immer.

En la gran casa de campo de la familia Tallis, la madre se ha encerrado en su habitación con migraña, y el señor Tallis, un importante funcionario, está, como casi siempre, en Londres. Briony, la hija menor, de trece años, desesperada por ser adulta y ya herida por la literatura, ha escrito una obra de teatro para agasajar a su hermano Leon, que ha terminado sus exámenes en la universidad y hoy vuelve a casa con un amigo.

Biochimiste de 54 ans, Douglas Petersen imagine déjà sa retraite auprès de Connie, sa femme artiste, dans leur maison londonienne. Mais celle-ci lui apprend brusquement qu'elle n'est plus certaine de l'aimer. Pathologiquement maladroit et réservé, Douglas va devoir déployer toute son énergie pour reconquérir sa femme et tenter de tisser des liens avec cet inconnu qu'est devenu son fils adolescent. Douglas entraîne alors sa famille sur les traces de leur passé, dans un tour très balisé de l'Europe.

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil—literally in Hollywood, Las...

Mia Winter spent six years unconditionally loving her husband, working hard to fit into his world, which didn’t make room for her. Aiden let the weight of family expectations blind him to the woman who gave him her whole heart, and he made a terrible mistake, one his wife witnessed. This Christmas, Mia is done holding onto…nothing, which is what she feels her marriage is. Under the tree, she puts only one gift for her husband, divorce papers, wrapped very nicely with a bow and everything.