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Titolo: Storie di streghe 1

Autore: Flavio Stroppini

Narratore: Anahì Traversi, Ella Dimitreva, Fabiano Rizzi, Davide Fior

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 17 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 12-11-15

Editore: Fonderia Mercury srl

Categoria: Fiction, Contemporary

Riepilogo Editore:

Un giornale del Ticino ha scritto "Quel maledetto lunedì 5 novembre, l'uomo era uscito con degli amici nel tardo pomeriggio. Dopo una serata di bagordi, a Bodio, ha incontrato la prostituta moldava Anya, 28 anni. Il rapporto a pagamento è finito in aggressione: con una presa al collo, l'uomo le ha schiacciato il nervo vagale, provocandone la morte immediata. Credendola solo svenuta, l'ha lasciata nel letto."

Anya di vero nome fa Natalia. Viene dalla Transnistria, una regione della Ex URSS. A Natalia piace il vento che scende dal San Gottardo, perché le ricorda tutto. Ogni granello di polvere è uno schiaffo. Un ricordo. Una storia. Questa storia la racconta Annalisa, un'anziana scrittrice appassionata di racconti sulle streghe. Come le Lunöcc, che a Gnosca, una notte di molto tempo fa, vennero gettate in un pozzo, ad affogare. Tra tutto questo un forte temporale, la natura che che cerca di sfogarsi in esplosioni disordinate.

Questa è una storia di streghe, una storia di follia, una storia di umanità. Una storia che non cambia nulla, che è già successa, che succede tuttora e che succederà domani. Inevitabile, come un temporale.

©2010 Flavio Stroppini (P)2013 Fonderia Mercury

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Title: The Old Dirt Road and the Hellion

Subtitle: A Living Breathing Portrait of Art

Author: Lynn Dowless

Narrator: Chiquito Joaquim Crasto

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-15

Publisher: SR&H Enterprises

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This work is intended to stand unto itself as more a living, breathing portrait of art painted with carefully chosen words, than just as a really interesting story told. The intent here is for the listener to view the landscape through the eyes of the main character, to feel what he does as he ambles along in this adventure. When the main character feels the pain and pleasures of the old dirt road, then all will only be right if the listener feels these same identical experiences. As the phantom of the old dirt lashes out in retribution for the sins in the main character's past, then the hope here likewise is that the listener will feel the need for adjustment in the course of his own life, as he, too, travels the old dirt road through the world of the secular experience. Upon reaching this point, the listener should experience the thrills of an exciting climax as the main character reaches his destination, and ends the experience with a new positive insight into the plan for improvement in both his secular and spiritual life.

Members Reviews:

Rural Nostalgia

Any additional comments?

The Old Dirt Road and the Hellion is a retrospective look back at the adventures (and misadventures) of a rural good ol' boy. The protagonist travels the road of life thinking about his misspent youth and wonders what is to come of his life. I think this tale will feel familiar to many people and definitely inspired nostalgia in me. This beautiful story is well written, well read, and well received!

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Titolo: Storie di streghe 2

Autore: Flavio Stroppini

Narratore: Anahì Traversi, Ella Dimitreva, Fabiano Rizzi, Davide Fior

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 11 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 12-11-15

Editore: Fonderia Mercury srl

Categoria: Fiction, Contemporary

Riepilogo Editore:

Un giornale del Ticino ha scritto "Quel maledetto lunedì 5 novembre, l'uomo era uscito con degli amici nel tardo pomeriggio. Dopo una serata di bagordi, a Bodio, ha incontrato la prostituta moldava Anya, 28 anni. Il rapporto a pagamento è finito in aggressione: con una presa al collo, l'uomo le ha schiacciato il nervo vagale, provocandone la morte immediata. Credendola solo svenuta, l'ha lasciata nel letto."

Anya di vero nome fa Natalia. Viene dalla Transnistria, una regione della Ex URSS. A Natalia piace il vento che scende dal San Gottardo, perché le ricorda tutto. Ogni granello di polvere è uno schiaffo. Un ricordo. Una storia. Questa storia la racconta Annalisa, un'anziana scrittrice appassionata di racconti sulle streghe. Come le Lunöcc, che a Gnosca, una notte di molto tempo fa, vennero gettate in un pozzo, ad affogare. Tra tutto questo un forte temporale, la natura che che cerca di sfogarsi in esplosioni disordinate.

Questa è una storia di streghe, una storia di follia, una storia di umanità. Una storia che non cambia nulla, che è già successa, che succede tuttora e che succederà domani. Inevitabile, come un temporale.

©2010 Flavio Stroppini (P)2013 Fonderia Mercury

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Titolo: L'etica del parcheggio abusivo

Autore: Elisabetta Bucciarelli, G. Sergio Ferrentino

Narratore: Claudio Moneta, Cecilia Broggini, Edoardo Lomazzi, Giulio Baraldi, Fabrizio Martorelli, Valeria Ferrario

Formato: Original Recording

Durata: 1 hr and 11 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 12-11-15

Editore: Fonderia Mercury srl

Categoria: Fiction, Contemporary

Riepilogo Editore:

L'opera fa parte del progetto "AutoreVole: audiodrammi in teatro" in cui autori di fama nazionale si sono confrontati con la drammaturgia radiofonica. Allestiti in teatro, gli audiodrammi permettono agli spettatori - dotati di radiocuffie - di "vedere la radio".

Cosa sta succedendo nel parcheggio sotto la grande quercia al centro della Metropoli? È il territorio del Mario, parcheggiatore abusivo che esercita la sua professione seguendo un'etica del tutto particolare. Il diritto a sostare nelle linee blu va meritato e per ottenere la possibilità di lasciare ferma la vettura non basta un gratta e sosta, è necessario superare una prova. Oggi però oltre al traffico d'auto di tutti i giorni c'è anche una concentrazione umana insolita. La giovane Olga dalle grandi forme, sarta alla Scala, il Bancario cialtrone, che tiene per il guinzaglio la vita di molti, la Bellezza Ordinaria, sempre a dieta anche cerebralmente e il Proprietario del suv, alto un metro e cinquantacinque ma con un cane alano il doppio di lui. Un poliziotto li sta interrogando, proprio lì, nel grande posteggio dove il Mario segue logiche meritocratiche anziché solamente economiche. A qualcuno però le regole vanno strette, nella vita come sulla strada...

Adattamento e regia di Sergio Ferrentino.

©2013 Fonderia Mercury (P)2013 Fonderia Mercury

Recensioni critiche:

La parola cuore dell'esperimento. Affascinante.

-- Il Giorno

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Titolo: Le madri atroci

Autore: Sandrone Dazieri, G. Sergio Ferrentino

Narratore: Andrea Fazzari, Carlotta Viscovo, Marco Gobetti, Igor Horvat, Clio Cipolletta, Deborah Morese

Formato: Original Recording

Durata: 53 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 12-11-15

Editore: Fonderia Mercury srl

Categoria: Fiction, Contemporary

Riepilogo Editore:

L'opera fa parte del progetto "AutoreVole: audiodrammi in teatro" in cui autori di fama nazionale si sono confrontati con la drammaturgia radiofonica. Allestiti in teatro, gli audiodrammi permettono agli spettatori - dotati di radiocuffie - di "vedere la radio".

Doveva essere una semplice settimana di lavoro, ma dal viaggio Daria non è più tornata. È stata trovata impiccata nella camera di un albergo scalcinato, suicida senza nemmeno un biglietto d'addio. In cerca di una spiegazione al gesto della moglie, Fabio parte per Amsterdam scoprendo che Daria ha trascorso i suoi ultimi giorni sotto l'effetto di sostanze allucinogene, cercando dentro di sé le risposte che i libri non erano più in grado di darle.

Cercando di capire che cosa Daria abbia provato, Fabio si sottopone alla stessa esperienza, venendo risucchiato un po' alla volta in un mondo affascinante e pericoloso. Un mondo dove si sussurra dell'esistenza di un fungo sciamanico, dagli effetti devastanti. Un fungo chiamato il Dio della Nausea, capace realmente di aprire le porte a quella che è un'altra dimensione. Ma per varcarla c'è un prezzo da pagare, superare le prove cui le Madri Atroci, le guardiane della soglia, sottopongono i penitenti.

Adattamento e regia di Sergio Ferrentino.

©2012 Fonderia Mercury (P)2012 Fonderia Mercury

Recensioni critiche:

Spettacoli non da vedere, ma da sentire.

-- Corriere della Sera

Recensioni dei membri:

One Star

Mediocre

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Title: A Way from Heart to Heart

Author: Helena Fairfax

Narrator: Helen Longworth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-15

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A knock at the door shatters Kate Hemingway's life when she's informed of her husband Stuart's death in Afghanistan.

She struggles to care for their young son, George, with only Stuart's aloof best friend, Paul, as emotional support. Piece by fragile piece, she tries to rebuild her life, realising Paul and her son have formed an unlikely bond.

When Paul agrees to accompany Kate and a group of disadvantaged teenagers on a trip to the Yorkshire moors, he finally reveals something he's kept secret for years.

Kate's own scarred heart begins to open up. But can she risk her son's happiness as well as her own?

Members Reviews:

Even the minor characters will move you.

I first became acquainted with Helena Fairfax through her blog, which is one of the most consistently intelligent and interesting sites I have found on the internet. Based on her writing there, I just had to read one of her romance novels, something I rarely do. After all, who can resist Helenaâs reasons for writing romances, which include her optimistic view of humanity? All that said, I was not disappointed and thoroughly enjoyed "A Way From Heart to Heart". Helenaâs characters are as intelligent as she is, and you soon are rooting for Kate Hemingway, who has lost her photographer husband Stuart to a bomb in Afghanistan. Kate has been left with a young son and memories of the man who pulled her out of a tumultuous existence by recognizing both her outer and inner beauty. The title phrase, âa way from heart to heartâ is from an Afghani saying, which recurs throughout the book as an ongoing motif. Stuartâs best friend, Paul, has maintained a relationship with Kateâs son, but has maintained an aloof reserve that makes Kate believe he does not think highly of her, partly because she has misgivings about herself and the life she had before Stuart discovered her. The novel is the story of the struggle of a man and a woman, linked by the chance circumstance of knowing Stuart, whose death has left a void in both lives. There is no easy answer here. Helena creates real people with real problems and real continuing struggles to do what is right for themselves and those they love. All this is set against the background of London and the Yorkshire moors, which are beautifully described. Even the minor characters will move you. What else could you ask for? Read and enjoy!

Good story - need the tissues though

This author is new to me and an absolute pleasure to read. This book was complex and the h had some real issues. I was reaching for the tissues on quite a few occasions. The H is the h's late husbands best friend but he and the h have always had an awkward relationship. Three years after the h is widowed, the H and her begin to connect and discover there is something between them but the path to true love doesn't run smoothly. The biggest drawcard about this author's writing is the development of the relationships. I also like that the bedroom scenes are behind closed doors.

A Way from Heart to Heart touched mine.

A Way from Heart to Heart touched mine. Kate lost her photographer husband to a bomb in Afghanistan, and has great difficulty adjusting to widowhood, and focuses totally on her young son, oblivious to her husband's best friend who has loved her for years. Finding a way from heart to heart is a long struggle for Kate, one she agonizes over.

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Titel: Bauerngeschichten

Autor:: Ludwig Thoma

Erzähler: Gerhard Acktun, Johann Glocke, Christian Sollberger, Evelyn Acktun

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 33 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-04-15

Herausgeber: Alogino-Hörbuchverlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Contemporary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Amüsante Kurzgeschichten aus dem Bayerischen Voralpenland von Ludwig Thoma.

©2015 Alogino Hörbuchverlag (P)2015 Alogino Hörbuchverlag

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Title: Wallflowers

Author: Eliza Robertson

Narrator: Erin Moon, Jonathan Todd Ross, Luis Moreno, Morgan Hallett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-15

Publisher: Lamplight Audio

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A small boy and his grandmother set sail for China in the mud of her backyard; a supermarket car park becomes a graveyard of strewn blueberries; migratory birds fly over a marshland ringing with the sound of wooden spoons on kitchen pots; and the breaking of a silence between two roommates leads to disquieting revelations.

Eliza Robertson's delicate and startling stories tell of the adventure of the ordinary and the magic within the everyday.

Critic Reviews:

"Robertson lets images vibrate with possibilities. Almost every story, individually, is sharp, illuminating." (Independent on Sunday)

"Filled with lush flora and fauna, both real and figurative.... Assured and ambitious." (Guardian)

Members Reviews:

Not Munro, but . . .

I am continually amazed by the quality of the women writers who come out of Canada. Judging from this debut story collection, Eliza Robertson, who is only in her mid-twenties, promises to be one of them, once she has truly found her voice. But she already shows signs of a highly original mind. She has already staked out a territory about as far from the detailed realism of Alice Munro as possible. Her stories tend to be quirky, oblique, a little surreal, but they also speak to the concerns of real people in the contemporary world. Speak of them at a remove, that is. For almost all the stories appear to be about one thing, while in fact they are about something else.

"Roadnotes," perhaps my favorite, is a series of letters from a young woman to her sister (I think, but the genders are not clear) written on a road trip from Mont Tremblant down the eastern seaboard of the US to follow the fall foliage, but behind it are painful memories of their mother, who has just died. "Ship's Log" is the hourly progress report of a couple of children digging through the earth from Ontario to China; it is wonderfully oddball in its period setting, but it too has a recent bereavement in back of it. "My Sister Sang," another favorite, contains the notes taken by the transcriber of the cockpit voice recorders after a plane crash, but those open a window onto the world of his sister who, like the one person killed in the crash, was a professional singer.

The best of these work because when Robertson manages a perfect balance between the container story and the emotional content. But not all the stories come so perfectly into focus, when the everyday aspect and the container do not quite match. "Who Will Water the Wallflowers," for instance, begins: "The day before the flood, the girl slices lemons into a wide-mouthed mason jar." There then follows a beautifully-observed portrait of the lives in a few neighboring houses in a residential subdivision. But by the time the promised flood comes, one is not quite sure what the point has been. Or, at the other extreme, the wonderfully titled "Thoughts, Hints, and Anecdotes Concerning Points of Taste and the Art of Making One's Self Agreeable: A Handbook for Ladies" is a brilliant riff on old etiquette handbooks concealing a story about spousal abuse, but one that strays a little too close to melodrama for my personal taste.

But all the stories are interesting, and astonishingly varied in manner.

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Titel: Mohnschnecke

Autor:: Anna Koschka

Erzähler: Karoline Mask von Oppen

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 9 hrs and 44 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-03-15

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Contemporary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Dotti ist wieder Single. Seit dreihundertfünfzig Stunden. Damit sie sich mit Kater, Büchern und Flauschesocken wieder wohlfühlt, entwickeln ihre Freundinnen eine Mauerblümchentherapie für sie. Doch erst der Fund eines geheimnisvollen handgeschriebenen Rezeptbuchs verändert alles. Wem mag es gehören? Und wer hat es geschrieben? Dotti begibt sich auf die Suche, angeleitet nicht zuletzt durch mysteriöse Hinweise von @mohnschnecke55...

>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung wird Ihnen exklusiv von Audible präsentiert und ist ausschließlich im Download erhältlich.

©2013 Droemersche Verlagsanstalt (P)2015 Audible GmbH

Kritik Bewertungen:

Bridget Jones? Sex and the City? Nein. Viel besser. Viel authentischer. Viel charmanter. Die Wienerin Anna Koschka hat mit ihrer Heldin, der Literaturkritikerin Dotti, eine unvergleichlich originelle und liebenswürdige Figur geschaffen, die man zwangsläufig ins Herz schließen muss. Und so ist auch der Nachfolger von NASCHMARKT ein absoluter Lesegenuss, von dem man einfach nicht genug bekommt. Ein Buch zum Verlieben!

-- buch-ticker.de

Der Ton des Romans ist humorvoll, locker und leicht und macht ihn damit zu einer guten Lektüre für dunkle Herbstabende.

-- LoveLetter Magazin

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Title: A Night in with Marilyn Monroe

Author: Lucy Holliday

Narrator: Anna Parker-Naples

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-15

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The hilarious follow-up to A Night in with Audrey Hepburn from your favourite new author. Perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond and Sophie Kinsella.

After dating the hottest man on the planet, Dillon O'Hara, Libby Lomax has come back down to earth with a bump. Now she's throwing herself into a new relationship and is determined to be a better friend to best pal, Ollie, as he launches his new restaurant.

Despite good intentions, Libby is hugely distracted when a newly reformed Dillon arrives back on the scene, more irresistible than ever. And when another unwelcome guest turns up on her battered sofa in the form of Marilyn Monroe, Libby would willingly bite her own arm off for a return to normality.

Critic Reviews:

"One of the best books we've read in ages...the perfect girlie read." (Reveal)

"I laughed my slippers off!" (Alexandra Brown)

"A story awash with hilarious happenings." (Express & Star)

Members Reviews:

Suspend your disbelief!

aww I loved this book so much, I can't wait for the next in the Libby Lomax series. I read this book almost immediately after finishing reading A Night in With Audrey Hepburn, which I also loved, and I think that that was a really good way to do it. If you can I would totally loose yourself in a mini marathon of Libby Lomax and her fabulous friends!

This was a lovely quick read and one you could totally escape into. There are a few events during the course of the book that made me feel a little tense and on edge just because Libby gets herself into such scrapes and I want it all to be better for her, but overall, it is a really light hearted read that you can escape into after work or for an indulgent duvet day!

I really like the character of Libby because she is just so real. She goes through the things we could all go through. Granted, we don't get into such comedic situations as she does, but we've all had that ex that we know should be an ex but we're drawn back to, we all worry about careers and we've all been in the flat that turns out to be not quite what we expected!

In terms of storyline, as with the previous novel in this 'series' you do have to suspend your disbelief slightly to get to grips with the fact that Libby has conversations and exchanges with Marilyn Monroe, wears her bracelet and takes fashion advice from her but overall this is a really sweet story and leaves things fabulously placed for the next book in this series. If you haven't read them yet the now is your chance to catch up because I am sure that the wonder that is Lucy Holliday will be bringing another luscious installment of Libby to our shelves very soon!