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Entries from April 30th, 2014

Featured Audio Giveaway – May 2014 – The Hidden Child

April 30th, 2014 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

The Hidden Child Camilla Läckberg; read by Simon Vance The latest in the Fjällbacka Mysteries series!Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among boxes in her late mother’s attic. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig into her family’s past to finally uncover the reasons why.Her inquiries lead […]

Nicola Barber to Narrate Jackaby

April 23rd, 2014 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is excited to announce Jackaby by William Ritter, a new young adult supernatural mystery from Algonquin Young Readers, releasing this September. We are equally excited to announce that two-time Audie Award winner Nicola Barber will be narrating the audiobook. Already being billed as a “Doctor Who meets Sherlock,” Ritter’s debut novel features a detective […]

The Power and Peril of Words: The Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland

April 21st, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Isolated on the 11th floor of the Record, a venerable New York newspaper in the midst of making the awkward transition to the digital age, Lena Respass, the title character of Amy Rowland’s novel The Transcriptionist, spends her days typing other people’s words. These words, the dictations of reporters for the Record, flow in through […]

New Tom Cook Novel Coming This September from HighBridge

April 16th, 2014 · No Comments · Acquisition News

HighBridge will publish the audio edition of Thomas H. Cook’s new novel, A Dancer in the Dust, which will release this fall in print from Mysterious Press. It will be narrated by the estimable Ray Chase. Cook’s most recent book, Sandrine’s Case, is a well-deserved finalist for the 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel, but […]

Car Talk Classics: The Pinkwater Files

April 16th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Peter here, blogging from Minneapolis. For many years now I have been listening to Tom and Ray, the Magliozzi brothers out of WBUR-FM Radio in Boston. I am not a car guy. I don’t even own a car any longer, but I do recall the joys and heartbreak of owning a used Toyota. My upbringing […]

Beowulf translated and read by the late Seamus Heaney

April 11th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

When I first read Beowulf in college I was immediately captivated. As an English major, and a huge fan of fantasy literature, I was familiar with the story, but until then had never actually read the verse. I had an amazing Medieval Literature professor who set me on a path to which I began devouring […]

Simon Vance Returns for Deon Meyer’s Cobra

April 9th, 2014 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that Simon Vance will be narrating Cobra, the latest mystery/thriller from internationally bestselling author Deon Meyer. In Cobra, Captain Benny Griessel and South Africa’s top police unit, the Hawks, attempt to track down a thief on the run, save his sister, and capture a mysterious hitman whose calling card is […]

NPR American Chronicles WWI Marks 100 Years of Hard Lessons

April 7th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

One hundred years. Enough time for many changes to alter forever the lives of people, of nations. Most human lives now last longer. People move faster, learning, working, connecting. Most would argue the quality of our lives is better. Technology is our partner in everything we do, and has the potential to help us in […]

On Immunity from Eula Biss, “Didion’s heiress apparent”

April 2nd, 2014 · No Comments · Acquisition News

National Book Critics Circle Award winner Eula Biss first scored hot, independent publisher Graywolf Press to release the print edition of On Immunity, her provocative examination of the flashpoint issue of vaccinations as a difficult but vital choice for personal and societal health. She found an equally hot, independent publisher for the audio edition: HighBridge will proudly release the audio […]

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