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Entries Tagged as 'Hear It Here First'
Hear it here, first: HEADSTONE, A MOMENT IN TIME, THE JOKE-OFF, ONE AND ONLY
September 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Hear It Here First
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Barry Prize for Thirteen Hours
September 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First, Publishing News
Deon Meyer’s book Thirteen Hours has won the Barry Prize for Best Thriller at this year’s Bouchercon mystery convention. Congratulations!
No mystery behind acclaim for KILLED AT THE WHIM OF A HAT- on audio today
July 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
Critics have been unanimous in their praise for Killed at the Whim of a Hat, Colin Cotterill’s forthcoming novel and “What may be the best new international mystery series since the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.” (Booklist) And starting today, you can listen to this surefire bestseller in the format that everyone from the Guardian [...]
Tags: Audiobooks·Colin Cotterill·killed at the whim of a hat·mystery
Paul Farmer on NPR to discuss ‘Haiti After the Earthquake’; Meryl Streep, Edoardo Ballerini, Edwidge Danticat, Eric Conger, and others narrate audiobook
July 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
Dr. Paul Farmer, the renowned physician and anthropologist and the founding director of Partners in Health, talked with NPR Tuesday about his newest book, Haiti After the Earthquake. Tuesday marked the eighteen-month anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. A recording of the NPR session can be found here. On Jan. 12, 2010, a massive earthquake [...]
Tags: audiobook·Haiti After the Earthquake·Meryl Streep·NPR·Paul Farmer
International diplomacy, New Jersey style: ‘Eating with the Enemy’ arrives on audiobook
July 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Hear It Here First
The bizarre but true tale of New Jersey native Robert Egan’s experience as an accidental diplomat with North Korea—and “an enlightening, and precarious, experiment in the ways opposing cultures can merge and acquiesce” (Kirkus Reviews)—Eating With the Enemy has been garnering major attention ever since it was published earlier this year. It’s been featured in [...]
Tags: audiobook·Eating With the Enemy·Kurt Pitzer·Robert Egan·Traber Burns
Hot Summer Audio: Tan Line Free and Built for the Beach!
July 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Hear It Here First
Books and the beach. Such a winning combination. But in ancient times, literate beachgoers had to deal with a wide array of problems: Heavy paper tomes would keep their hands occupied, rendering them unable to reach out for mojitos. Tan lines would appear in the exact shape and size of the books they were propping [...]
Tags: borrower·claire dewitt·hot summer audio·inspector and silence·killed at the whim of a hat·Long Gone·preacher
Alafair Burke’s LONG GONE is here today!
June 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
With a thriller author as talented as Alafair Burke, nothing is as it seems. Friends become enemies. Dream jobs become murder scenes. Even the title strives to deceive you—for Long Gone is not long gone at all. It’s right here at HighBridge, and it’s available on audio today! Long Gone follows Alice Humphrey. After a [...]
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Solving murders in between beers: Inspector Van Veeteren arrives in the U.S.
June 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
Poor Inspector Van Veeteren. All he wants to do is read books, drink beer, and maybe play a little chess, if anybody’s up for it. But instead, the reluctant hero of Håkan Nesser’s critically acclaimed mystery series is stuck solving murder after murder; and now, for the first time, we in the U.S. get the [...]
Tags: audiobook·borkmann's point·Håkan Nesser·inspector and silence·Inspector Van Veeteran·mind's eye·mystery·the return·woman with birthmark
Excellent summer listening: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
June 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First
Thank you, Sara Gran! Just in time for summer, a new audiobook from the author that Glamour calls "A latter-day Raymond Chandler" has been released to wide critical acclaim. Gran’s Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead follows tattooed, pot-smoking, new-agey private eye Claire DeWitt as she uses unorthodox means to investigate a murder [...]