Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Literature & Fiction

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK While reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion. In Boston, a renowned surgeon eagerly awaits the opportunity to perform the...

Russendisko Reloaded! Im Sommer 1990 reist Wladimir Kaminer für 96 Rubel spontan von Moskau nach Berlin. Hier trifft er seine zukünftige Frau Olga, ruft die Russendisko ins Leben...

Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul . . . He hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION “Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic – there is nothing like The Pisces. I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it.” —Stephanie Danler, author of...

A young woman trapped in a deeply dysfunctional family in the seedy wilds of 1990s South Florida has to make a choice—save her family, or save herself—in this “riveting” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) novel from the acclaimed author of Lay the Favorite. “Marvelous . . . a...

Die Freiheit ist nur 20 Meter entfernt für den kubanischen Flüchtling, der sich auf den Mast einer Luxusjacht vor Miami geflüchtet hat. Aber dann wird er vor den Augen von Millionen Fernsehzuschauern in einer spektakulären Aktion live verhaftet. Und das ausgerechnet vom netten Nestor, einem Polizisten mit kubanischen Wurzeln, der unter den chauvinistischen Sprüchen seiner weißen Vorgesetzten leidet. Die ganze Stadt ist in zwei Lager gespalten: Für seine Familie und Landsleute ist Nestor ein Verräter, für die Weißen ein Held und Musteramerikaner. Soll der kubanische Bürgermeister ihn suspendieren oder mit Orden schmücken? Versaut ihm dieser Idiot die Wiederwahl?

Alicia Deats is a new teacher chaperoning her very first high school trip to Washington DC, and nothing could be more terrifying than a class full of horny, backstabbing, boundary-pushing teenagers under her watch. To make matters worse, she embarrassed herself with her co-chaperone Bryan Kenner...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST “A masterpiece” (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition Now an Emmy Award–nominated FX limited series on Hulu, starring Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Brody ONE OF THE TEN...

A PEOPLE BEST NEW BOOK An outlandish comedy of morals and manners about a highborn British family of outrageous characters, by the acclaimed author of The Improbability of Love and House of Trelawney “A joy to read.”—Vogue “High Time delves once again into the aristocratic...

The first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club is a rollicking tale of small-town peculiarity, dark secrets, and one extraordinary beauty pageant. When her husband is offered a post at a small northwestern university, Maye Roberts is only...

A comic romance set in the snowy north, from one of Japan’s most revered novelists. Available in English for the first time. Unimpressed by her marriage prospects, 20-year-old Natsuko Matsuura decides to pack it in and enter a convent. But en route to an abbey in the far north of Japan, she...

Eine wilde Satire über Freundschaft, das Altern, die englische Mittelschicht und Gruppensex. Susan und Julie sind gerade 60 Jahre alt geworden. Sie leben in einem kleinen Dorf in Südengland und sind seit der Schulzeit miteinander befreundet. Susan führt ein bürgerliches Hausfrauendasein, Julie lebt in einer Sozialwohnung und arbeitet als Aushilfe in einem Pflegeheim. Als Susans Ehemann Barry tot aufgefunden wird, offenbart sich, dass er ein surreales Doppelleben als Swinger führte und Susan einen finanziellen Scherbenhaufen hinterlassen hat. Um nicht in Altersarmut abzurutschen, greifen sie zu einer radikalen Lösung: einem Banküberfall.

“A propulsive, madcap story” (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the world." —The Atlantic After salaryman Hanio...

A charming and comic debut novel about a quirky ensemble embarking on an epic quest to find Bigfoot “American Mythology is a riveting, big-hearted novel about a group of pilgrims who encounter both the mysteries of nature and ultimately those of the human heart. Giano Cromley has given us a...

The paths of four family members diverge drastically when the U.S. government begins detaining Vietnamese Americans, in this “rich, gripping novel that lands squarely as a mirror of our contemporary moral squalor” (Los Angeles Times). “Comically macabre . . . Nguyen [is] a stellar satirist...

"Bist du's, Jürgen?" "Nein, ich bin George Clooney im achten Monat." In seinen neuesten Glossen und Geschichten verhandelt Jürgen von der Lippe - Entertainer, Moderator, Schauspieler, Autor (wir könnten das hier ewig weiterführen) alle wichtigen Themen unserer Zeit: Glück im Spiel, Tod und Trauer, Helene Fischer, Oben ohne, neue Flirttechniken, Märchen heute, Schimpfkunde, gesellschaftliche Strömungen, Paare im Bett, Musik usw.. Live liest der Timing-Titan eine Auswahl seiner Storys - gemeinsam mit dem rasant-charmanten Robert Louis Griesbach und der wunderbar rotzigen Gabi Decker.

A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Book A Best Book of the Year: The Guardian, NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail A GoodReads Reader's Choice Bringing together Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's...

From the frenzy of the 2012 Olympics to the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, here Jonathan Coe chronicles the story of modern Britain by way of a cast of characters whose world is being upended. There are newlyweds who disagree about the country’s future and, possibly, their relationship; a political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his lavish town house while his radical teenage daughter undertakes a relentless quest for universal justice; and Benjamin Trotter, who embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age, and his father.

With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious...