June Is Audiobook Month!

June 4th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Don’t forget–June is Audiobook Month! Celebrate the greatest (in our humble opinion) month of the year by listening to titles from your favorite authors and narrators. And everything is on sale for the month of June. What could be better!!!

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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 […]

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Featured Audio Giveaway – April 2014 – Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

March 31st, 2014 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry Gabrielle ZevinRead by Scott Brick A #1 IndieNext Pick! Hear what all the buzz is about—and why narrator Scott Brick counts it among his top favorite books he has narrated. With his wife gone, a rare book stolen, and both his bookstore and love of life in serious […]

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Living and Loving by the Book: Zevin’s THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY

March 31st, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

He looks across the spines, which are, for the most part, black and red with all capitalized fonts in silvers and whites. An occasional burst of fluorescence breaks up the monotony. A. J. thinks how similar everything [looks]. Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A. J. decides, because they […]

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In Memoriam: Comedian, Author David Brenner

March 16th, 2014 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

David Brenner helped generations of Americans laugh. In some ways a precursor to Jon Stewart and today’s political satirists, current events fueled Brenner’s humor. His first career as an award-winning documentary writer and producer in retrospect appears the perfect developmental ground for his later work as an observational comedic artist. Brenner died Saturday after a […]

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Featured Audio Giveaway – March 2014 – Call the Midwife: The Shadows of the Workhouse

March 10th, 2014 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse (Volume 2 in the Trilogy) Jennifer Worth; read by Nicola Barber   A perfect choice for Women’s History Month! The sequel to Jennifer Worth’s New York Times bestselling memoir is a rich portrait of a bygone era of comradeship and midwifery populated by unforgettable characters. When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer […]

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Greed Is Green: McKenzie Funk’s WINDFALL

February 24th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

When I first watched the documentary An Inside Job, which is about the global financial meltdown, I remember my sense of disbelief at the essentially willful self-deception on the one hand and the sheer willingness to put personal gain ahead of massive destruction to the entire world economy on the other.  And the world has […]

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STORIED LIFE OF AJ FIKRY: “Top of my list of absolute favorites”

February 10th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Author/Narrator News

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin has certainly struck a chord with many advance readers of this Algonquin title, available from HighBridge on audio April 1—and one of them happens to be the audiobook’s narrator, AudioFile “Golden Voice” Scott Brick. HighBridge always strives to select only those stories that really speak to […]

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Featured Audio Giveaway – Feb 2014 – Mandela: An Audio History

February 3rd, 2014 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

Mandela: An Audio History Produced by Radio Diaries Hosted by Desmond Tutu Commentary by Nelson Mandela Foreword by Joe Richman   In honor of Black History Month, this month’s giveaway is the duPont-Columbia and Robert F. Kennedy Award-winning audio documentary Mandela: An Audio History. Recognized as one of the most comprehensive oral histories of apartheid […]

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Audiobooks for a Polar Vortex

January 6th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

It’s COLD, really really COLD in many parts of the country, and particularly in our neck of the prairie (a balmy -18F, as I write this). We’ve put together a short list of audiobooks suitable for either facing or avoiding the weather. Keep warm and keep safe! Face it: South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, […]

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