In the spirit of the holidays, we’ve made a list (and checked it twice) of some of our popular seasonal titles. All of these holiday favorites are available for download on our website, so you can start listening now.
Happy Holidays from HighBridge Audio!
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Announcing our top 10 selling titles overall of 2014!
1. The 48 Laws of Power 2. Call The Midwife
3. George Carlin Reads to You 4. The Art of Seduction
5. The Introvert Advantage 6. Star Wars
7. Brain on Fire 8. Life of Pi
9. Water for Elephants 10. Pretty Good Joke Book
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Announcing the top selling titles on our website for 2014!
1. Tattoos on the Heart 2. Star Wars: A New Hope
3. The Goal 4. The Power of Myth
5. A Slave in the White House 6. SPIN Selling
7. The Christmas Companion 8. Mandela: An Audio History
9. A River Runs Through It 10. 1491
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South African president and apartheid leader Nelson Mandela passed away one year ago on December 5. Commemorate his memory by listening to stories of his remarkable life.
 Mandela: An Audio History |
The award-winning radio series documenting the struggle against apartheid through intimate first-person accounts of Nelson Mandela himself as well as those who fought alongside him and against him.
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 Good Morning, Mr. Mandela |
A powerful, intimate portrait of the late South African president and apartheid leader Nelson Mandela from the white Afrikaner woman who overcame her own upbringing and prejudice to serve as one of his private secretaries. |
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Congratulations to Jean Marshall, winner of the previous giveaway, NPR Driveway Moments Love Stories! Thanks to all who participated.
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Don’t miss next month’s giveaway, Driving the King!
LibraryReads just announced their inaugural “Favorite of Favorites” List revealing the top ten titles that public library staff across the country most enjoyed recommending in 2014. The title that got the most votes was The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin!
In 2007, novelist Mat Johnson was named the first USA James Baldwin Fellow by the United States Artists Foundation. In 2011, he was awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature given annually to the best under-recognized American writer. His last novel PYM won the 2011 Salon Book Award and was selected a Best Book of the Year by the Houston Chronicle, Seattle Times, Washington Post and Vanity Fair. His next novel is titled Loving Day.
Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: his marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comic shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish-American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: in the face of the teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl is his daughter and she thinks she’s white. Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter he never knew and a haunted house and history he knows too well. In their search for a new life they struggle with an unwanted house and its ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and inspire a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday that celebrates interracial love.
Loving Day by Mat Johnson is coming June 2015.
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Joseph Ellis challenged our notions of George Washington in His Excellency. David McCullough restored John Adams’ legacy in his epic biography John Adams. Joseph Ellis also again redefined a Founder’s life with his Thomas Jefferson bio American Sphinx. Walter Isaacson reminded us all of Benjamin Franklin’s greatness in Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. All of them were award winners. All of them were New York Times bestsellers.
Question: Whatever happened to James Madison?
Short, plain, balding, neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, Madison cared more about achieving results than taking the credit. To reach his lifelong goal of a self-governing constitutional republic, he blended his talents with those of key partners. It was Madison who led the drive for the Constitutional Convention and pressed for an effective new government as his patron George Washington lent the effort legitimacy; Madison who wrote the Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton to secure the Constitution’s ratification; Madison who corrected the greatest blunder of the Constitution by drafting and securing passage of the Bill of Rights with Washington’s support; Madison who joined Thomas Jefferson to found the nation’s first political party and move the nation toward broad democratic principles; Madison, with James Monroe, who guided the new nation through its first war in 1812, really its Second War of Independence; and it was Madison who handed the reins of government to the last of the Founders, his old friend and sometime rival Monroe. These were the main characters in his life.
But it was his final partnership that allowed Madison to escape his natural shyness and reach the greatest heights. Dolley was the woman he married in middle age and who presided over both him and an enlivened White House. This partnership was a love story, a unique one that sustained Madison through his political rise, his presidency, and a fruitful retirement.
Overshadowed by his fellow Founders, James Madison was arguably the most significant framer of the new nation. Award-winning historian David O. Stewart restores Madison to his proper place in the pantheon, making a compelling case for Madison’s centrality and telling an absorbing story of his friendships with the most influential men of his times.
The book is Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America by David O. Stewart. And it’s a February 2015 HighBridge release.
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The story of letters that continue to arrive from all over the world, addressed simply to Juliet, Verona, Italy. The softer side of Lyndon Johnson revealed in his letters to Lady Bird. A writer’s true love for her beloved Volvo. The legend of Somalia’s lovesick baker and the girl whose love he could not win. Lynda Barry on spring, thunderstorms, memories, and love. This heartfelt edition of Driveway Moments explores the surprising places we find love and the inspiring ways in which our most important relationships flourish.
Featuring:
The Love Story Deconstructed
Happily Married Couples Tell Tales
Father’s Cufflinks Spark Thoughts About Love
Online Dating’s Siren Song
Late-Blooming Aunt Ruth and Her Haphazard Romances
Adopted Son from China Transformed and Healed by Love
Finding Love at the Hebrew Home for the Aged
Alzheimer’s Disease Releases Couple to Love Again
And more.
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Congratulations to Cathryn Wright, winner of the previous giveaway, A Brief History of Seven Killings. Thanks to all who participated.
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Don’t miss next month’s giveaway, Uncle Janice!
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Sarai Walker received her M.F.A. in creative writing from Bennington College. As a magazine writer, her articles appeared in national publications, including Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She subsequently served as an editor and writer for Our Bodies, Ourselves, before moving to London and Paris to complete a Ph.D. She currently lives in the New York City area. Dietland is her debut novel.
Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you’re fat, to be noticed is to be judged. She is biding her time at a job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls’ magazine until she can afford weight-loss surgery. But lately she is being followed by a girl in outlandish clothes and combat boots. When Plum finally confronts her, she finds herself falling into the mysterious world of Calliope House, where an odd collection of women orbit around Verena Baptist, daughter of a famous diet guru. Verena offers to give Plum the money for the surgery, but there is a catch: first Plum must go through a series of seemingly perverse challenges that will force her to confront her past, her doubts, and the real cost of becoming “beautiful.” Dietland is a scathing and revolutionary debut that takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality, and our obsession with weight loss —from the inside out, and with fists flying.
A female Fight Club in spirit, Dietland turns Bridget Jones, Sex in The City, Good in Bed, The Devil Wears Prada, and every other chick lit novel you’ve loved (or hated) on its head. It’s a beautiful blend of gloss and rusty nails – fun and has verve, but also sharp and scathing and totally revolutionary – defiant of falling into just another mainstream woman’s novel.
Dietland audio will be available on May 26, 2015.
A video of the author reading from the first chapter of Dietland:
