Greatest Selection of Get Your Full Audiobook in Fiction, Contemporary

Écoutez ce livre audio dans son intégralité gratuitement sur https://hotaudiobook.com

Titre: Le mec de la tombe d'à côté

Auteur: Katarina Mazetti

Narrateur: Marielle Ostrowski, Michelangelo Marchese

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 03-21-11

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 2.5 sur 5 sur 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Désirée, trop jeune veuve, va régulièrement sur la tombe de son mari. Au cimetière, elle rencontre "le mec de la tombe d'à côté", dont l'allure l'agace autant que le caveau tape-à-lœil qu'il vient fleurir.

Depuis la mort de sa mère, Benny vit seul dans la ferme familiale. Il s'en sort comme il peut, grâce à une bonne dose d'humour. Chaque fois qu'il la voit, il s'énerve contre la nana qui s'assied sur le même banc de cimetière que lui. Tout sépare ces deux-là. Pourtant, il suffira d'un sourire pour qu'ils soient éblouis.

Un roman d'amour décalé, qui met aussi en scène ce fossé d'incompréhension qui sépare les catégories sociales. L'interprétation de Michelangelo Marchese et Marielle Ostrowski restitue le mélange d'humour et de satire sociale qui fait le charme de ce roman à la fois acide et tendre.

L'auteure

Née en 1944,

est journaliste à la Radio Suédoise. Auteure de livres pour la jeunesse et de romans pour adultes, elle rencontre un succès phénoménal avec

traduit en de nombreuses langues, et qui a également été adapté pour le théâtre.

Les narrateurs

Chanteuse depuis son plus jeune âge, actrice passée par l'Actor's Studio,

rend, par la justesse de son ton, toute la texture de ce roman si intime.

En écoutant

lire

, c'est tout un monde de possibilités nouvelles qui s'ouvre à nous et nous montre comment nous libérer de ce qui nous empêche d'être vraiment heureux.

© Gaïa Editions, 2006. Traduit du suédois par Lena grumbach et Catherine Marcus

© et (p) Audiolib, 2011

Revues par les critiques:

La presse en parle

"A vos transats ! Voici le plus joli roman d'amour de l'été, le plus drôle, le plus attachant. [...] Jusqu'aux dernières lignes inattendues et qui enchantent. Un bonheur qui ne vous lâche pas."

Cosmopolitan

Écoutez ce livre audio dans son intégralité gratuitement sur https://hotaudiobook.com

Titre: Mauvaise fille

Auteur: Justine Lévy

Narrateur: Marielle Ostrowski

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 3 hrs and 51 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 03-04-10

Éditeur: Audiolib

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

"Maman est morte, je suis maman, voilà, c'est aussi simple que ça, c'est notre histoire à toutes les trois. (...) Maman vit en Angèle qui court sur une pelouse interdite. Maman me parle et me sourit quand Angèle tombe et se relève aussitôt, les dents serrées, pour ne pas pleurer. Elle est dans le cri qu'elle ne pousse pas, dans sa petite grimace d'enfant crâne qui ne compose pas. Partout, dans mon enfant, ma mère a laissé son empreinte."

L'auteure

est le troisième roman de

après

(Plon, 1995) et

(Stock, 2004).

La narratrice

Chanteuse depuis son plus jeune âge, actrice passée par l'Actor's Studio,

rend, par la justesse de son ton, toute la texture de ce roman si intime.

© Editions Stock, 2009

© et (P) Audiolib 2010

Revues par les critiques:

La presse en parle

"C'est violent et léger, tragique et drôle. Justine Lévy est une équilibriste hors pair qui conjugue intelligence et sensibilité. On appelle ça le talent."

Anne Michelet, Version fémina

Écoutez ce livre audio dans son intégralité gratuitement sur https://hotaudiobook.com

Titre: Le secret de Shambhala (La prophétie des Andes 3)

Auteur: James Redfield

Narrateur: Jean-Marie Bioteau

Format: Abridged

Durée: 1 hr and 3 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-15-05

Éditeur: Coffragants

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Quelque part dans l'Himalaya, en un lieu mythique du bouddhisme tibétain appelé Shambhala, vit une communauté dont on a longtemps cru qu'elle n'existait que dans les légendes. Là, hommes et femmes, véritables précurseurs de notre évolution future, ont accédé à un niveau de conscience supérieur, maîtrisant leur énergie au point de pouvoir affecter la réalité.

Guidé par une étrange série de coïncidences, le héros de James Redfield se lance dans une nouvelle quête: trouver la cité légendaire et mener l'humanité vers l'éclosion spirituelle capable de dissoudre les maux et les inégalités qui la divisent. Traqué par les chinois, il réalise les changements intérieurs qui seuls peuvent lui ouvrir les portes de Shambhala. A sa suite, nous découvrons les clefs de notre accomplissement spirituel et, avec elles, les moyens d'élargir notre vision du monde et d'agir.

© Editions Robert Laffont, 2001

© James Redfield, 1999

© Editions Alexandre Stanké inc. 2002 - Collection Coffragants

Écoutez ce livre audio dans son intégralité gratuitement sur https://hotaudiobook.com

Titre: Mon cœur, tu penses à quoi ? À rien...

Auteur: Nicole de Buron

Narrateur: Christine Berthier

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 03-16-05

Éditeur: Editions VDB

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Tout va bien dans votre petite famille. Jusqu'au jour où en rentrant gaiement chez vous, vous trouvez l'Homme effondré sur le canapé... Il vient d'être poliment viré de son très important poste de P-D-G au profit d'un crétin de quarante ans et quelques. Il est au bord du suicide.

Pourtant, le pire est peut-être pour vous. Un homme qui n'a pas préparé sa deuxième vie est un véritable calvaire. Égaré, il traînasse dans les couloirs comme un môme qui s'embête. Vous dérange toutes les cinq minutes. Oublie son portable dans le frigo...

Vous lui suggérez plein d'activités... Rien ne lui plaît. Si ! le golf... Si vous aviez su... !

L'auteure

est l'auteure de la fameuse série télévisée Les Saintes Chéries, et de six comédies pour le cinéma, dont

et

.

Elle a également publié des romans, dont :

© Editions Plon, 2000

© Livres Audio V.D.B., Septembre 2004

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: When I Was Otherwise

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Stephen Benatar

Narrator: Helen Lloyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This skillfully wrought examination of character and relationships opens with macabre impact. A bland newspaper report describes the discovery of two dead women - one of them a skeleton - in a North London house. The author teases the reader toward the known, grisly ending by cutting back and forth in time and gradually constructing the complex pattern of emotions and events that define even the most mundane-seeming lives. He plays a similar and equally skillful game with our assessments of the characters. His individual creations are believable, fallible, and ultimately highly engaging individuals.

When I Was Otherwise is a blend of powerful characterization and social satire. It summons the mingled tragedy and humour of old age to powerful effect.

Members Reviews:

"When she was in certain moods, even Scrooge might have found it difficult to hold out long against Daisy."

Sometimes described as "the best British writer that no one has ever heard of," Stephen Benatar, now in his mid-seventies, has been self-publishing and hand-selling his books for the past thirty years, despite his awards and prize nominations. He believes his sales are better than they were when he was published by mainstream publishers. The New York Review of Books has recently republished his 1981 novel, Wish Her Safe at Home, and When I Was Otherwise, Benatar's third novel, written in 1983, has also been republished in England this past spring by Capuchin Books. Benatar has always paid special attention to characters who are dealing with significant emotional stresses, and his novels are filled with psychological insights and feelings the reader understands, even as his mordant wit draws the characters to the edge, allowing the reader to watch them cross the line into darker and darker worlds of their own.

When the novel opens, the police have found two women dead in a house they shared with a male family member in north London, one of the women having been dead for over a year. The three people mentioned are Dan Stormont, a seventy-six-year-old widower; his sister Marsha Poynton, age sixty, a divorcee with two sons who live far away; and Daisy Stormont, their sister-in-law, around whom all the action turns, the widow of Henry Stormont, Dan's brother. Daisy, a lively flirt with great appeal to men, at least in her early days, has kept her age secret for her entire life, and most women are convinced that she is at least fifteen years older than she says she is, which would put her in her eighties at the time of her death.

The novel starts at the end and works its way backward, jumping back and forth among time frames as the background and the entire history of each character are laid bare. Often information about one character is conveyed by another, usually Daisy, from her own point of view, and Benatar is absolutely brilliant at writing dialogue which reveals character, attitudes, and information simultaneously. Daisy has a knack for saying the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment, while seeming to be ingenuous and innocent, and the reader quickly believes that no one could be so insensitive by accident.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Beginning of the End of the Beginning

Author: Anne Elliott

Narrator: Marc Vietor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-27-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Meet Clay, a Brooklyn performance artist who is sick of being broke. Sporting a row of stitches from his last show, and severely in debt to both family and girlfriend, he decides to do the unthinkable: get a straight job. Clay shaves off his green hair, teaches himself to type, and gets a secretarial gig on Wall Street. But is this just another form of theater? Will his girlfriend still love him in a necktie? What about his artist friends - will they forgive him for consorting with the enemy? Is the enemy actually an enemy at all?

Starting in a hospital emergency room, meandering through corporate cubicles and cafeterias, galloping through an underground Williamsburg performance, and closing in the Twin Towers with Clay's tortured, self-destructive boss and an unflappable goat, The Beginning of the End of the Beginning is a bittersweet romp through the innocence of 1999 New York City, a time when heartbreak was still heartbreak and broke was still broke, but the city itself felt unsinkable.

Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College.

Members Reviews:

Parallel lives and skylines

Well Iâm 57 and this was just what the doctor ordered.

One character in corporate Yin, the other in bohemian Yang. They meet in a night of mourning and explosive revelry to discover -- somewhere deep within a shared and pesky goathood -- a profound sense of themselves.

If youâve ever made art and had the pay the rent or visa-versa (and felt a fish out of water doing either), youâll get a lot out of this meditation on authenticity and typing lessons. Through its deftly drawn characters and attention to unconventional detail youâll feel like youâre living through it yourself. Itâs remarkable.

I liked this Ploughshares Solo novelette and look forward to see whatâs next from Elliott.

Five Stars

Immensely entertaining!

truly loathed this book

The characters were tropes and the so called action was dishwater dull. Just not interested in squalor! I'm too old for books of this type at 68!!

One Star

This was a tiresome read. I never got it and quit reading 3/4 through.

A performance artist learns to type...

A struggling performance artist becomes an office temp, loses his girlfriend, and spends a crazy evening with his temp boss and his hugely successful art school roommate of fifteen years ago as they watch an amazing performance by his ex and his best friend and thenâ

I want to say something more profound than âthis is a great story.â

Anne Elliot I think has done what a writer is supposed to do. She delivers us to a world that most of us (well at least folks like me) donât know much (anything?) about, but makes it feel real and honest and true.

This is a great story. Buy it. I guarantee you wonât be disappointed.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Dust

Author: Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius

Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In the 1870s, Jacob and Sarah Wade travel with their three children in a covered wagon to lay claim to land in Kansas to call their own and scratch out a living. The book follows three generations of the Wade family although it concentrates mostly on the relationship between Martin Wade, the oldest son of Jacob and Sarah, and the woman he chooses to marry, Rose. The hard existence of farm life takes a toll on all involved and affects each person differently. This novel was a best seller when it was published in 1921 by the husband and wife writing team of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius and Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius. It was considered an example of the new writing of naturalism and realism being published at the time. Painfully gloomy as it is, the New York Times noted, Dust must be classed among the 'big' novels of the year.

Members Reviews:

Historical

If you could sum up Dust in three words, what would they be?

A very good historical story. The narrator did a good job reading this audiobook. It kept me entertain during my long drive.

Any additional comments?

Dust

The opening line did it again. Knowing what this story was about and hearing the title of the first chapter The Dust is Stirred was intriguing to me as it takes place on the Kansas Prairie where the tallgrass grows.

Three generations survive and thrive on their farm through the ages. This story was somewhat of a surprise with an unexpected twist of fate with Martin and Rose. I would like to think that the earlier pioneers would have been in more of a state of content than the story portrays, although I know times were hard. The story was somewhat sad but worth a listen.

My curiosity lead me to look up the authors of this book and I found their story to be really neat as well. I found them listed in the Kansas Historical Society.

About the narrator: Lee Ann Howlett told this story the way it was meant to be. The times were hard and people were haggard and worn. She portrayed this perfectly. She added the element that portrayed the lives of the early pioneers as they moved west. Great work!

Audiobook gifted in exchange for review

Underappreciated Classic

What does Lee Ann Howlett bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Lee Ann Howlett's smooth narration, with an edge of the sardonic, perfectly matches the tone of the story and allows the listener to feel the pain and loneliness of the characters.

Any additional comments?

Dust is an overlooked classic that, while published in 1921, remains relevant to the 21st century reader. The essence of the relationship between the main characters, Rose and Martin, is not unlike that of modern couples who seek to fill the emptiness in their relationships by working harder. A melancholy tale, indeed, but this is a story that needs to be told to remind us of our humanity.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Brambles

Author: Eliza Minot

Narrator: Eileen Stevens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-09-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This is the story of the Bramble family - Margaret, Max, and Edie - three adult siblings careening through wildly different byways of adult life. Margaret, mother of three, is about to take her ailing father into the tumult and chaos of her already overcrowded home. Edie is young and single, but struggling mightily to anchor her solitary life. Max, newly married, newly a father, is buckling under the weight of new responsibilities. Over the course of one critical season, a long hidden secret will be revealed, remaking each of them, and all they thought they knew about themselves.

Members Reviews:

almost good

there's some really great stuff here. i especially liked the perspective on motherhood. but the plot twist that comes about 3/4 through the book and totally out of nowhere did not fit with the rest of the book. what had been a subtle, intimate portrait of a regular family dealing with real life struggles becomes this wacky, far-fetched caricature. the weird ending overshadows the majority of great story.

It's finally OVER!

OK, So I think this book would be better titled "The Rambles"... I had never read any of Minot's work before but seen this book on amazon.com and thought the plot sounded great so i bought it... and started reading it... 4 MONTHS AGO!! I am the type of person that if i love a book I cant put it down, and if i start a book i must finish it... I finally did today. I have to say that the story line is silly, almost pointless, and the author goes on and on and gets so far off subject you forget what was happening in that part of the book... The plot twist 3/4 of the way through the book was stupid, not even exciting at all and almost a little confusing. The story line would have been intresting had the author not rambled so damn much and devloped the people in the story a little more, they were very under devloped and offered you nothing to like about them, there fore no one in the story to root for or no reason to keep you turing the pages, and not just through the book away and chalk it up to wasted time... Seriously... I had high hopes for this book but they were pretty much crushed... Dont buy it...

Five Stars

Great reading!

The Brambles

The author is more interested in colorful, poetic descriptions than

in telling an interesting story.

You lose any desire to see what happens to these people because they are SO boring and self centered.

I got the feeling that the author was her tormented Edie character.

This is a cure for insomnia.

Did I miss something

I am actually returning this book because I couldn't stand it anymore. It skips around so much I actually looked to see if my copy was missing pages. The Tiny One was one of my favorites, but this style of writing is not working for this book.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Love at the Sea Bluffs Lodge

Author: Devon Vaughn Archer

Narrator: Anne Marie Damman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-14

Publisher: R. Barri Flowers

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Connie Sheridan is the owner of the Sea Bluffs Lodge in Sea Bluffs, Oregon. Beautiful, 30, strong-willed, and single, Connie attends a celebrity auction to promote literacy. She inadvertently wins the bid to have dinner with the handsome romantic-suspense writer Mitch Templeton. He is part of the dynamic best seller writing duo known as Alexis Mitchell. Alexis is Mitch's ex-wife.

Sparks fly instantly between Connie and Mitch. But having been hurt by men in the past, Connie remains wary of love and romance. When Mitch shows up at the lodge that night for a room and a place to finish the latest Alexis Mitchell novel, sparks turn to flames. Connie drops her guard and finds herself swept up in passion, desire, and uncertainty. She ignores her misgivings even as she confronts her feelings about him.

Mitch Templeton had participated in the celebrity auction at Alexis' insistence, as a way to promote their brand and books. He had not counted on meeting Connie, who immediately captivated him like no woman had before. Their all-consuming passion holds the promise of much more. Now both Connie and Mitch must reconcile the past to have a chance for a future with each other and all that entails.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: The Amber Fury

Author: Natalie Haynes

Narrator: Zara Ramm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-14

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When Alex Morris loses her fiancé in dreadful circumstances, she moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with the past. Alex accepts a job at a special school, commonly referred to as The Unit - it takes on the students expelled from other schools in the city.

These are troubled, difficult young people and Alex is an inexperienced teacher, terrified of what shes taken on. There is one class - a group of five teenagers - who are particularly intimidating. However, with the help of the Greek tragedies she teaches, Alex gradually develops a rapport with them. But one of her students is learning more than Alex ever intended to teach.

Finding them enthralled by tales of cruel fate and bloody revenge, Alex even begins to worry that they are taking her lessons to heart, and that a whole new tragedy is being performed, right in front of her. The Amber Fury is a beautifully constructed psychological pause resister. It is a dark mystery of a novel about loss, obsession, and the deep and abiding human need to connect.

Members Reviews:

A stunning tragedy

This is a classy psychological thriller. A woman with a melancholy past arrives in a school for troubled teenagers and begins teaching drama with a focus on Ancient Greek tragedies. As the story unfolds we learn that these archaic stories are still a powerful insight into the human psyche and the class discussions have a profound and unexpected impact on the children. This packs a real emotional punch as the background of what happened to the teacher's boyfrend is slowly revealed and her inner fury is something we can all share with a passion. This builds into a tense drama and the denouement is clever and thoroughly satisfying.

It is not often that a novel can awaken an interest into an area I had not really looked into before but I now find I have a genuine desire to find out more about Ancient Greek drama. I understand this is a real passion of this book's author so she has clearly been successful in transferring her enthusiasm. This is a highly recommended listen.

Fantastic

A brilliant story, fantastic narration and renewed my interest in Greek mythology. I hope this author writes more.