HighBridge is proud to announce that award-winning narrator Scott Brick will be reading The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, a highly anticipated new title by author Gabrielle Zevin. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry follows irascible A. J. Fikry, the owner of independent book store Island Books. Fikry has already lost his wife, […]
Scott Brick to Narrate The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
November 13th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
Tags: algonquin·audiobook·bookstore·earphone·Fikry·Gabrielle Zevin·grammy·history decoded·narrator·reader·Rendezvous·scott brick·The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama Topps Collector’s Editions
November 8th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Force is with us here at HighBridge. This month marks something very exciting: the launch of our Topps Collector’s Editions of the Original Star Wars Radio Drama. First hitting airwaves in 1981, the thirteen part, 6-hour drama was immensely popular. NPR replayed the drama a couple times, but the audio drama was otherwise unavailable […]
Tags: A. C. Crispin·art·dark·dark horse·jedi·light·matt busch·mp3·NPR·organa·radio·radio drama·randy martinez·skywalker·star wars·topps·wookie
HighBridge Narrator Updates
November 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
HighBridge is pleased to announce that Xe Sands will be reading My Accidental Jihad by Krista Bremer, and Tomas Marsh will narrate Kicking the Sky by Anthony De Sa. My Accidental Jihad, available in April, is a profoundly moving and often funny meditation on tolerance, and explores what it means to open our hearts to […]
Tags: Anthony De Sa·audiobook·AudioFile·earphones·Is this Tomorrow·Kicking the Sky·Krista Bremer·My Accidental Jihad·narrator·The Art Forger·Tomas Marsh·Xe Sands
Three HighBridge Titles Selected for 2014 World Book Night
October 25th, 2013 · No Comments · Publishing News
HighBridge is pleased to announce that three of our titles have been selected for World Book Night US: Pontoon, This Boy’s Life, and Young Men & Fire. Each year, 30 to 35 books are chosen by an independent panel of librarians and booksellers. Authors of the books waive their royalties and the publishers agree to […]
Tags: esperanza fire·garrison keillor·john maclean·lake wobegon·memoir·norman maclean·oliver wyman·pontoon·This Boy's Life·Tobias Wolff·World Book Night·young men & fire
Digital Classic: Penance
October 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized
First published in the mid-1990s, Penance was David Housewright’s first novel, and won the Edgar Award for the Best First Novel. A Minnesota native and resident, Housewright has gone on to write more than ten novels to date, with about as many short stories under his belt. Penance was released under the Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio […]
Tags: audiobook·David Housewright·detective·minneapolis·mysterious press·mystery·Penance·police·R. C. Bray·St. Paul
Tara Sands to Narrate ‘The Summer of Letting Go’
September 25th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
HighBridge is proud to announce that Tara Sands will be narrating The Summer of Letting Go, by Gae Polisner. Available March 2014, The Summer of Letting Go is a young adult audiobook that follows a teenage girl, still reeling from her little brother’s drowning death, who finds herself holding back—from summer trips to the ocean, […]
Tags: algonquin·audiobook·AudioFile·earphones·Gae Polisner·narrator·reader·tara sands·The Summer of Letting Go·YA·young adult
Headstone
September 13th, 2013 · No Comments · HighBridge at the Movies
With Headstone, the ninth book in the Jack Taylor series, author Ken Bruen offers up some of the hardest-boiled, dark noir, detective/crime fiction I have ever experienced. And while it is the ninth book of what is technically a series, those not familiar with previous books won’t be lost in the least; it’s a great […]
Tags: audiobook·Audiobooks·crime fiction·dark·detective·Galway·gritty·hard-boiled·Headstone·Ireland·irish·jack taylor·John Lee·ken bruen·noir·PI·purgatory
R. C. Bray Continues Narration of Leo Maxwell Series
September 11th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
HighBridge is excited to announce that R. C. Bray will be narrating Lion Plays Rough by author Lachlan Smith, available in February. Bray previously narrated book one of the gritty legal thriller series, Bear is Broken. The series follows young attorney Leo Maxwell who is thrown into the world criminal defense after his brother, Teddy, […]
Tags: Bear is Broken·Lachlan Smith·legal·Leo Maxwell·Lion Plays Rough·mystery·R. C. Bray·thriller