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When love reigns supreme in Northridge High just outside Chicago, by the lake, it happens beneath the soft, pink-infused spotlights hovering over that most special night of the year - prom night. Passable in Pink is an Audible Original from New York Times best-selling author Mike Sacks (Stinker Lets Loose!). Sacks has teamed up once again with director Eric Jason Martin (Stinker Lets Loose!, Heads Will Roll) to adapt a forgotten John Hughes-type 1983 movie into a fully immersive cinematic audio experience, with an epic all-star cast.

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, and I guess you can say the same thing about strippers, too. On the surface, Mo Nique is the hottest stripper dancing at The Pink Palace, but on the inside, she’s really just Janelle Taylor, a teenage runaway trying to survive in Atlanta. Some people might want to call her a ho, but she’s the one your man is spending his whole paycheck on! This isn’t the life she envisioned for herself, but it’s the path she was forced to take in order to get by.

“Delicious, decadent, and utterly diabolical. No one serves up a scandal like Asha Elias.”—Kirsten Miller, author of The Change A seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, Pink Glass Houses is very Big Little Lies and Pineapple Street...

Charlie is already feeling adrift when she relocates to an exclusive town in coastal New England with her mysteriously distant husband, Dev, and their young twins in tow. She hopes the move will recharge her stalled marriage, and she wants her kids to feel like they belong, even if she’s clearly a fish out of water herself. In a strange new world where summer is a verb and both the harbor and the partygoers are awash in a dizzying constellation of pinks and pastels, she’s never felt so confounded or alone. She’ll need more than a preppy handbook to find her way.

Newlyweds Keith and Kit Collins can hardly believe their luck when the general manager of the iconic, opulent Pink Hotel invites them to come for a luxurious stay as a bid to hire Keith. Kit loves their small-town life, but Keith has always wanted more, and the glittering, lily-scented lobby makes him feel right at home. Soon after their arrival, wildfires sweep through the surrounding mountains and Los Angeles becomes a pressure cooker, with riots breaking out across the city amid rolling blackouts.

Felix genießt sein Leben als stiller Teilhaber des Restaurants PINK MOON. Probleme haben doch nur die anderen. Zum Beispiel sein ebenso geheimnisvoller wie zutraulicher Nachbar Renz. Oder sein Tennispartner Wöhler. Doch eines Tages steht Felix an einer Straßenecke einem Mann gegenüber, von dem er weiß, dass es sein vor Jahren verstorbener, unbekannter Vater ist...

Mindy Solomon absolutely has to leave Miami. Florida is bad for her head and her hair. She dreams of a dancing career on Broadway and moves to New York, but after a string of failures and mishaps, she realizes that she needs to rethink her grand plan. Finding herself spending way too much time in the comedy club where her future ex-boyfriend works, she nervously goes up onstage one night. People laugh. Not in the places where Mindy thought they would laugh, but hey, it's a start.

Widowed in Memphis during 1932, Cecile Dowd is struggling to provide for her three-year-old daughter. Unwittingly trusting a neighbor puts little Millie Mae into the clutches of Georgia Tann, corrupt Memphis Tennessee Children's Home Society director suspected of the disappearance of hundreds of children. With the help of a sympathetic lawyer, the search for Millie uncovers a deep level of corruption that threatens their very lives.

Can the love of a lifetime be forever changed by one pink line? With heart, humor, and compassion, Dina Silver’s debut novel of love, loss, and family is certain to stir anyone who relishes a good laugh, can stand a good cry, and, above all, believes in the redemptive power of love. This unique, modern story gives listeners a dual perspective. Sydney, a sweet-tempered, strong-natured college senior, is young, in love with an exceptional man, and unexpectedly pregnant. Faced with a child she never planned for, she is forced to relay this news to her neurotic mother, relinquish her youth, and risk losing the love of her life. Then there’s Grace, her daughter, who believes she is a product of this great love, but grows to realize her existence is not what she assumed and is left with profound and puzzling questions about who she really is.

Alexander Gorkows autobiografischer Roman ist ein Wunderwerk der Poesie, das glänzende Portrait einer versunkenen Zeit, zugleich eine Hommage auf unsere Kindheit und die rätselhafte Kraft der Musik in einer Welt voller Risse – zwischen Gesunden und Kranken, Behinderten und angeblich Normalen, zwischen Armen und Reichen, zwischen Ordnung und Chaos. Die 70er Jahre. Eine Vorstadt. Das Westdeutschland der letzten Baulücken, der verstockten Altnazis, der "ZDF Hitparade".

Telling stories of ordinary lives with extraordinary skill, Pamela Mordecai draws delicately detailed portraits of life in Jamaica and other islands, with occasional trips to Canada. Her characters speak with the cadences of the Caribbean, and cope with the universal experiences of birth and death, joy and betrayal.

Michelle hat alles, was man sich wünschen kann: Gutes Aussehen, einen prima Job, Designerklamotten und viel Geld. Michelle hat auch einen Partner: Valentin von Gertenbach - ein wahrer Traummann und "très dinstingué". Alles wäre perfekt, wenn es nicht diesen klitzekleinen Haken gäbe: Valentins Frau. Als Michelle kurz vor Weihnachten von Valentin in den französischen Alpen sitzen gelassen wird, beschließt sie, nach Berlin zurückzukehren und um ihn zu kämpfen.

When a factory girl and a Jewish businessman fall in love it seems that the whole world is against them. Manchester, 1939. On the eve of war Gracie Earnshaw is working in Rosenberg's Raincoat factory - a job she hates - but her life is about to be turned upside down when she falls in love with Jacob, the boss' charismatic nephew. Through Jacob, with his ambitions to be a writer, Gracie glimpses another world: theatre, music and prejudice. But their forbidden romance is cut short when Jacob is arrested and tragedy unfolds.

Maggie is a mother to a stroppy teenager, a wife to a befuddled husband and a daughter to two very different women. She has always known she’s adopted, but has she ever understood what that means? Not really. Following the death of her mother, Maggie finally feels able to go in search of her birth mother Morag, and heads to the Highlands of Scotland with her disgruntled daughter, Roxie, in tow, leaving her crumbling marriage to worry about another day. The family reunion is bittersweet, but everything is blown wide open when Roxie unearths Morag’s explosive teenage diaries.

Als der Polizist Tom Gruber seinen entführten Sohn Paul befreien will , wird er erschossen. Paul ist sehr traurig das sein Vater tot ist und wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher als das dieser wieder bei ihm wäre. Daraufhin kehrt Tom als Geist auf die Erde zurück um 7 letzte Tage mit seinem Sohn zu verbringen bevor sie für immer Abschied nehmen müssen voneinander. Doch dann nimmt das Schicksal eine dramatische Wendung.

Amélie est une jeune femme intense, fière et féminine, qui aime porter de jolies robes à pois, peindre des amas de couleurs abstraites, sortir dans les pubs et se livrer de temps à autre à quelques excès… Son quotidien devient particulièrement difficile lorsque la maladie de Crohn, une maladie inflammatoire intestinale chronique, s’empare de sa vie et de son corps.

这是三个从事粉色职业的80后男孩，虽然分属不同的行业，却因为职业同属粉色而惺惺相惜走到一起……這是三個從事粉色職業的80後男孩，雖然分屬不同的行業，卻因為職業同屬粉色而惺惺相惜走到一起……

When the Duke of Barningforde was told by his second son, Alastair, that he had married an actress in Paris without his approval, he exiled Alastair from England with only a very small allowance. His wife, Grace, actually came from a good Scottish family and was not an actress, but had a very fine soprano voice and sang with a famous French orchestra. But the Duke would not listen and Alastair and Grace never again set foot in their homeland.

Als der Familienvater Johannes Feist kurz vor Weihnachten seinen Job verliert, lernt er die beiden Gangster Mike und Toni kennen. Mit ihnen zusammen, nimmt er einen Job als Kaufhaus Weihnachtsmann an, um dann den Laden leerzuräumen. Schließlich will Johannes seinem Sohn Kevin, den größten Weihnachtswunsch erfüllen. Doch nach und nach kommen Johannes immer mehr Zweifel auf. Wird er das richtige tun?