On the last day of “June Is Audiobook Month,” here’s some news from the Audio Publishers Association: After receiving 32 video submissions and narrowing the field to 10 impressive finalists, APA is pleased to announce the winners of our 2011 Get Caught Listening Video Contest. The winners, as determined by popular vote, are: FIRST PRIZE […]
Entries from June 30th, 2011
APA Announces the Winners of the 2011 Get Caught Listening Video Contest
June 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:
David Drummond (narrator of ALL THINGS SHINING) pays a visit
June 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
David Drummond, narrator of All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular World stopped by the HighBridge office this morning to say hello. He’s in town this week performing Guys and Dolls at the Ordway Theater, and was kind enough to pay us a visit. David did an excellent job […]
Tags: All Things Shining·audiobook·David Drummond·HighBridge
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 […]
Tags: Alafair Burke·Audiobooks·Long Gone
NPR is going to the dogs
June 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
NPR is going to the dogs—in the best possible way, of course. NPR Driveway Moments: Dog Tales, an audio-only celebration of extraordinary pooches and the lives that they have touched was released just a few weeks ago. And as you can tell from these pictures from NPR correspondent and Dog Tales host Andrea Seabrook, the […]
Tags:
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
Featured Audio Giveaway – June 2011
June 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
The Borrower How to Win This Audio CD 1. Be an active* subscriber to our newsletter. Just enter your email address below: 2. Send an email to newsletter@highbridgeaudio.com 3. Put the words “The Borrower” in the subject line. Entries must be received by no later than 6/27/2011. See the Win Audiobooks page for more details. […]
“The Borrower” debuts today
June 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Publishing News
Librarians and booklovers rejoice! The Borrower, the critically acclaimed first novel by Rebecca Makkai, is available on audio today. The Borrower follows Lucy Hull, a young librarian in Missouri, as she sets out on an impromptu and legally dubious road trip with her favorite patron—ten-year-old Ian Drake, who is fleeing his mother and the antigay […]
Tags: Makkai·The Borrower·tour
Hobbit release date shifts Pi
June 6th, 2011 · No Comments · HighBridge at the Movies
Last week, titles and release dates were announced for the two Hobbit movies being filmed by Peter Jackson in New Zealand. The first film is called The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and will open on December 14, 2012. The second film, The Hobbit: There and Back Again is scheduled to open on December 13, 2013. […]
Tags: ang lee·hobbit·legolas·life of pi·lord of the rings·orlando bloom·Peter Jackson
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 […]