The Zhivago Affair tells the dramatic, never-before-told story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. The audiobook is narrated by Simon Vance. Simon has been narrating audiobooks for more than 30 years and has completed more than 700 titles. He […]
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Doomsday Rider Rides Again
June 13th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
You don’t really see a lot of westerns on the bestseller list these days. Personally, I think that’s a crying shame. In general, westerns represent tried-and-true fundamental themes such as honor, justice, defense/protection (in a western it’s most commonly someone defending his or her land), and the moral limits of revenge and retribution. These themes […]
Tags: audiobook·cowboy·Doomsday Rider·Johnny Cash·Kris Kristofferson·Louis L'Amour·Ralph Compton·terry evens·Waylon Jennings·western·Willie Nelson
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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Soon I Will Be Invincible
May 6th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Invincible in·vin·ci·ble /in-ˈvin-sə-bəl/ adjective 1. impossible to defeat or overcome 2. incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued What would you do if you were invincible? Would you save the world? Or would you destroy it? Would you be a “good guy,” or a “bad guy”? I wasn’t even into the first hour of Soon […]
Tags: audiobook·Audiobooks·Austin Grossman·champions·Coleen Marlo·comic book·fatale·impossible·J. Paul Boehmer·power·Soon I Will Be Invincible·superhero
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 […]
Tags: algonquin·amy rowland·highbridge audio·journalism·language·literary fiction·newspapers·novel·The Transcriptionist·Xe Sands
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 […]
Tags: Boston·Cambridge MA·car talk·Click and Clack·Magliozzi·Pinkwater·Shameless Commerce·stump-the-chumps·WBUR-FM
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 […]
Tags: audiobook·BBC·Beowulf·classic·English·epic·grendel·Literature·Medieval·old english·poem·poet·poetry·scholar·Seamus Heaney·student·translation
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 […]
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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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Sandrine’s Case: The Mystery of Self
March 27th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
In Thomas H. Cook’s most recent novel, Sandrine’s Case (a Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio, read by Brian Holsopple), the first-person narrator, English literature Professor Samuel Madison, is on trial for his life for the premeditated murder of his wife Sandrine, also a professor at tiny Coburn College. Madison contends Sandrine’s death was suicide; the prosecution is certain […]
Tags: audiobook·Brian Holsopple·crime fiction·HighBridge·mysterious press·mystery·Sandrine's Case·Thomas H. Cook