Cecelia Ahern has 20 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 25 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 377 ratings. The most-rated is Catch-22.
Catch-22
Summary
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest - and most celebrated - novels of all time. In recent years, it has been named to "best novels" lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he's assigned, he'll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: A man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. Since its publication in 1961, no novel has matched Catch-22's intensity and brilliance in depicting the brutal insanity of war. This 50th-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical responses and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers from Joseph Heller's personal archive; and a selection of advertisements from the original publishing campaign that helped turn Catch-22 into a cultural phenomenon. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.
©1955, 1961 Joseph Heller. Copyright renewed (c) 1989 Joseph Heller. All rights reserved (P)2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved
Lord John and the Private Matter
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With more than 10 million copies in print worldwide, New York Times best-selling author Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series is a global phenomenon. Lord John and the Private Matter, starring one of the most popular Outlander characters, captures all the adventure and magic of the series while delivering a fresh tale that is utterly captivating. Lord John is in a difficult spot. His cousin Olivia is engaged to marry the Honorable Joseph Trevelyan, but he has just observed something of a rather personal nature that, if confirmed, might put an end to any talk of marital bliss. Determined to investigate further, Lord John is distracted when the Crown calls for his services. A comrade in arms has been slain, and to complicate matters, the victim may have been a traitor. Now Lord John has not one, but two puzzling mysteries to solve.
©2003 Diana Gabaldon (P)2003 Recorded Books, LLC
Postscript
Summary
The long-awaited sequel to the international best seller PS, I Love You! The PS, I Love You Club. These are the six words written on a card handed to Holly Kennedy. They’re words that are engraved on her heart - because PS, I Love You is how her husband, Gerry, signed his last letters to her, letters that mark a year she will never forget. Now, the mysterious club wants something from her. And if Holly can find the courage meet them, she’ll learn what it really means to live life to the full. Because every love story has one last thing to say....
©2019 Cecelia Ahern (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Incendie nocturne
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À ses débuts, Bosch a eu un certain John Jack Thompson comme mentor. Un homme qui lui a appris à toujours prendre une affaire personnellement et à déployer tous ses efforts pour la résoudre. À la mort de Thompson, sa veuve confie à Bosch un dossier volé par son mari aux scellés avant sa retraite. Il s'agit d'une affaire non résolue : un jeune homme abattu dans une ruelle coupe-gorge de Los Angeles des années plus tôt. Bosch demande l'aide de Renée Ballard, déjà fort occupée au quart de nuit à Hollywood après qu'un sans-abri a été retrouvé calciné dans sa tente. Ensemble, ils en arrivent bientôt à se poser une terrible question : le mentor de Bosch a-t-il dérobé ce dossier pour tenter de résoudre l'affaire... ou pour s'assurer que la vérité ne soit jamais faite ? Seconde enquête pour le duo de choc que forment Bosch et Ballard : un cold case délicat qui les mène dans les bas-fonds de Los Angeles.
©2019 / 2020 Hieronymus, Inc., Little Brown and Company, Inc. / Calmann-Lévy (P)2020 Audiolib
PS, I Love You
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Meaningful, moving and magical - the classic best-selling love story. Everyone needs a guardian angel.... Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other. Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He's left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed PS, I Love You. As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing - and being braver than ever before. Life is for living, she realises - but it always helps if there's an angel watching over you.
©2008 Cecelia Ahern (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Love, Rosie (a.k.a. Rosie Dunne)
Summary
Rosie and Alex are destined for each other, and everyone seems to know it but them. Childhood friends, then high school buddies, then long-distance confidantes, they barrel forward with their lives on sometimes parallel, occasionally intersecting, and often divergent paths. Yet the paths are always there, well-trod and deep. Just when it seems that Alex and Rosie might be together forever, everything goes wrong: Alex gets the news that his family is leaving Dublin and moving to Boston. Devastated, the two make plans to apply to colleges in the U.S. She gets into Boston University, Alex gets into Harvard, and everything is falling into place. But on the eve of her departure, Rosie receives news that changes their lives forever. Her dreams for college, Alex, and a glamorous career are dashed as Rosie stays in Dublin while Alex pursues a medical career and a new love in Boston. But destiny is a funny thing, and in this novel, structured as a series of clever e-mails, letters, notes, and a trail of missed opportunities, Alex and Rosie find out that fate isn't done with them yet. Delightfully unexpected and romantic, Love, Rosie is a novel of enormous heart that will keep listeners laughing and guessing until the very last word.
©2005 Cecelia Ahern (P)2005 Hyperion
The Book of Tomorrow
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Tamara's childhood. With her mother shut away with grief, and her aunt busy tending to her, Tamara is lonely and bored and longs to return to Dublin. When a travelling library passes through Kilsaney Demesne, Tamara is intrigued. She needs a distraction. Her eyes rest on a mysterious large leather bound tome locked with a gold clasp and padlock. With some help, Tamara finally manages to open the book. What she discovers within the pages takes her breath away and shakes her world to its core. Told in Cecelia's imitable style, The Book of Tomorrow is a mesmerising and magical story for this autumn.
©2009 HarperCollins Publishers (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers
If You Could See Me Now
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Elizabeth's sister Saoirse is a red-haired whirlwind, always leaving behind pieces that Elizabeth struggles to pick up. One of those pieces is Saoirse's six-year-old son, Luke, a quiet, contemplative boy. When Luke is playing in Elizabeth's garden one day, and witnessing the latest scene between his mother and his aunt, a friend named Ivan walks into his life. This unexpected and rather mysterious friend will change Luke - but will have an even greater impact on Elizabeth. Always capable and self-contained, Elizabeth finds Ivan creeping under her skin and beginning to change her life in ways she could never have imagined. With all the warmth and poignancy fans have come to expect from Cecelia Ahern, this is a magical novel, and a surprising love story.
©2005 Cecelia Ahern (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK
One Hundred Names
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The thoughtful and unique new novel from the phenomenally popular author. Journalist Kitty Logan’s career is being destroyed by scandal - and now she faces losing the woman who guided and taught her everything she knew. At her terminally ill friend’s bedside, Kitty asks - what is the one story she always wanted to write? The answer lies in a file buried in Constance’s office: a list of 100 names. There is no synopsis, nothing to explain what the story is or who these people are. The list is simply a mystery. But before Kitty can talk to her friend, it is too late. With everything to prove, Kitty is assigned the most important task of her life: to write the story her mentor never had the opportunity to. Kitty not only has to track down and meet the people on the list, but find out what connects them. And, in the process of hearing ordinary people’s stories, she starts to understand her own.
©2012 Cecelia Ahern (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Roar
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I am woman. Hear me roar. Original, honest and thought-provoking, Roar is Cecelia Ahern's unforgettable story collection. With her trademark honesty, Cecelia Ahern gives us 30 linked stories, all titled 'The Woman Who...', that capture the different facets of women's lives. Humorous, moving, surreal and poignant, the stories capture the moments the characters are overwhelmed by guilt, confusion, frustration, intimidation, exhaustion - the private moments when they feel the need to roar. From 'The Woman Who Slowly Disappeared' to 'The Woman Who Returned and Exchanged Her Husband', discover an extraordinary collection that will resonate with listeners everywhere.
©2018 Cecelia Ahern (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
La vie et moi
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Un jour, en rentrant du travail, Lucy Silchester trouve une enveloppe dorée par terre sur le tapis. À l'intérieur, une invitation... pour un rendez-vous avec la Vie. Sa Vie. Une Vie qu'elle a perdu de vue depuis longtemps et va rencontrer... en personne. Cette Vie en question prend les traits d'un vieil homme malheureux, reflet de l'existence chaotique et désespérée de Lucy qui déteste son travail, délaisse ses amis et fuit sa famille. Mais qu'elle le veuille ou non, Lucy Silchester a un rendez-vous qu'elle va bien devoir honorer. Émouvant et chaleureux, drôle et magique, le dernier roman de Cecelia Ahern nous montre ce qui peut arriver lorsqu'on commence à négliger son existence. >> Ce livre audio en version intégrale vous est proposé en exclusivité par Audible et est uniquement disponible en téléchargement.
©2011 / 2012 Cecelia Ahern / Pour la traduction française : Flammarion. Traduit de l'anglais (Irlande) par Perrine Chambon et Arnaud Baignot (P)2018 Audible Studios
Flawed
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In her breathtaking young-adult debut, best-selling author Cecelia Ahern depicts a society in which perfection is paramount and flaws are punished. And where one young woman decides to take a stand that could cost her everything. Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister, she's well liked by her classmates and teachers, and she's dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found flawed.
©2016 Cecelia Ahern (P)2016 Macmillan Audio
Perfect
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Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine's life has completely fractured - all her freedoms gone. Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with Carrick - the only person she can trust. But Celestine has a secret - one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground. A secret that has already caused countless people to go missing. Judge Crevan is gaining the upper hand, and time is running out for Celestine. With tensions building, Celestine must make a choice: save just herself or to risk her life to save all Flawed people. And, most important of all, can she prove that to be human in itself is to be Flawed?
©2016 Cecelia Ahern (P)2016 Macmillan Audio
Les Jours meilleurs
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Une histoire aux couleurs de l'espoir par la talentueuse auteure de P. S. I love you... À force de traquer le scoop et de dévoiler la vie privée des gens dans les colonnes de la presse à scandale, Kitty est dans l'impasse. Sa carrière de journaliste piétine, et ses frasques lui valent une réputation désastreuse. Tout s'effondre quand elle apprend que Constance, la femme qui lui a tout appris, vit ses derniers instants. Elle se rend à son chevet et lui demande quelle histoire elle a toujours rêvé d'écrire. Mais la réponse arrive trop tard, sous la forme d'une liste de cent noms, sans aucune explication. Bien décidée à percer le mystère, Kitty tente de comprendre ce qui relie entre eux ces inconnus. En allant à leur rencontre, elle va découvrir des aspects pour le moins inattendus de la vie de Constance et peut-être même trouver un sens à la sienne.
©2017 Milady (P)2017 Hardigan
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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What elevates Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam, reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El Saadawi. As Rumi said, "Love will find its way through all languages on its own"; in Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, Warsan's début, we witness the unearthing of a poet who finds her way through all preconceptions to strike the heart directly.
©2013 Warsan Shire (P)2017 Random House Audio
Girl in the Mirror: Two Stories
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Two powerful and unforgettable stories from the number-one best-selling author. Girl in the Mirror Lila knows how lucky she is to have found the man of her dreams. But when a secret from her family's past comes to light on her wedding day, her destiny changes in the most unexpected of ways…. The Memory Maker They say you never forget your first love. But what happens when those cherished memories start to fade? Some people would do anything to hold on to the past and, for one heartbroken man, that means finding a way to relive those precious moments….
©2011 Cecelia Ahern (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Das Jahr, in dem ich dich traf
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Jasmine, 33, ist erfolgreich und fleißig und fliegt trotzdem aus ihrem Job. Freigestellt für ein ganzes Jahr! Klingt traumhaft? Ein Albtraum für Jasmine, denn nun sitzt sie planlos zu Hause in ihrer Straße voller Rentner. Wofür ist sie überhaupt gut? Interessiert sich noch irgendjemand für sie? Und dann tyrannisiert auch noch der Radiomoderator aus dem Haus gegenüber die gesamte Nachbarschaft. Mit diesem Kerl will Jasmine definitiv nichts zu tun haben, das weiß sie schon seit Jahren. Doch als dieser Matt selbst seinen Job verliert, beginnt für alle eine aufregende Reise, nicht nur zu sich selbst...
©2014 / 2014 / 2015 Die Originalausgabe erscheint unter dem Titel "The Year I Met You" im Verlag HarperCollins, London / Cecelia Ahern / Für die deutschsprachige Ausgabe: S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main. Aus dem Englischen von Christine Strüh (P)2015 Argon Verlag GmbH
P.S. I love you
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Holly e Gerry sono una di quelle coppie giovani e belle che vivono in simbiosi. Quando, all'improvviso, Gerry muore, Holly è devastata: vedova a soli ventinove anni, ha l'impressione che la sua vita non abbia più senso. È anche arrabbiata, si sente tradita, lui - suo marito, amante, miglior amico, la sua roccia - aveva promesso di non lasciarla mai, come può farcela da sola, ora? Ma Gerry non ha dimenticato, e trova il modo di farle avere una lettera ogni mese, con un messaggio per ritrovare la voglia di vivere e, soprattutto, con un dolcissimo "P.S. I love you" che spinge Holly, fra un pianto e un sorriso, ad aprirsi al domani. Perché la vita è fatta per essere vissuta, sempre. Prodotto e realizzato da Cinehollywood, per conto di Rizzoli. >> Questo audiobook in edizione integrale vi è offerto in esclusiva per Audible ed è disponibile solamente in formato audio digitale.
©2005 Rizzoli (P)2017 Rizzoli
The Gift
Summary
If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be?
Everyday Lou Suffern battled with the clock. He always had two places to be at the same time. He always had two things to do at once. When asleep he dreamed. In between dreams he ran through the events of the day while making plans for the next. When at home with his wife and family, his mind was always someplace else.
On his way into work one early winter morning, Lou meets Gabe, a homeless man sitting outside the office building. Intrigued by him, and on discovering he could also be very useful to have around, Lou gets Gabe a job in the post room.
But soon Lou begins to regret helping Gabe. His very presence unsettles Lou, and how does Gabe appear to be in two places at the same time?
As Christmas draws closer, Lou starts to understand the value of time. He sees what is truly important in life, yet at the same time he learns the harshest lesson of all.
This is a story about people who, not unlike parcels, hide secrets.They cover themselves in layers until the right person unwraps them and discovers what's inside. Sometimes you have to be unravelled in order to find out who you really are. For Lou Suffern that took time.
©2008 HarperCollins Publishers (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers
Thanks for the Memories
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Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Popular Fiction Award, 2009.
How can you know someone you've never met?
Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn't. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair.
When she leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, Joyce moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of déjà vu is overwhelming her, and she can't figure out why.
Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely, and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets attractive doctor Sarah, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time.
When Justin receives a basket of muffins with a note simply saying thank you, he is sure someone is playing a trick on him. But then a series of gifts begin to arrive. Intrigued and disturbed, Justin is determined to find out who is sending them. What he discovers will change his life forever.
©2008 Cecelia Ahern (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK