Featured Audio Giveaway – July 2013 – The Shanghai Factor

July 15th, 2013 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways

The Shanghai Factor

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The Shanghai Factor

by Charles McCarry; read by Stephen Bowlby

Charles McCarry is back—and in top form!

“Wildly entertaining and further proof that McCarry is a modern master of the genre on a par with le Carré and Robert Littell.”
      —Booklist starred review HC starred review

“A must . . . For genre aficionados and McCarry’s many fans.”
      —Publishers Weekly starred review HC starred review

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2. Put the words “Shanghai” in the subject line.

Entries must be received by no later than 7/21/2013.
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Last Giveaway Winner

Congratulations to ELIZABETH DISHMAN, winner of the last giveaway, the Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead and Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway. Thanks to all who participated.

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Featured Audio Giveaway – Oct 2012 – The Gun Seller, autographed!

September 30th, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Uncategorized

The Gun SellerWin a Hugh Laurie-autographed copy!

The Gun Seller

by Hugh Laurie; read by Simon PrebbleHear an excerpt

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3. Put the words “Gun Seller” in the subject line. Entries must be received by no later than 10/26/2012. See the Win Audiobooks page for more details. Alternatively, you can LIKE HighBridge on Facebook and comment on this post, or become a FOLLOWER on Twitter and tweet or retweet this message by 10/26/2012 (remember to “@HighBridgeAudio”).

About This Month’s Featured Audio

What CAN’T House‘s Hugh Laurie do? He acts, he plays guitar and piano, and it turns out he also can write witty and edgy thrillers.

Simon Prebble, who also appears to be able to narrate just about anything, delivers an international cast of characters as well as well-timed and intoned wry humor.

The plot: Cold-blooded murder just isn’t Thomas Lang’s cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead—a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femme fatales.

Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang’s out to save the leggy lady he has come to love . . . and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.

“Fast, topical, wry, suspenseful, hilarious, witty, surprising, ridiculous and pretty wonderful. And you don’t need a permit to buy it.”
—The Washington Post Book World

“A first-rate thriller . . . an awesome entertainment machine.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“[A] ripping spoof of the spy genre.”
—Vanity Fair
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Last Month’s Winner

Congratulations to GEORGE DOWNS, winner of the last giveaway,  The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. Thanks to all who participated.

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Casting change for Life of Pi

September 6th, 2012 by Julie · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies

According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Ang Lee has replaced Tobey Maguire, who was to play the role of “The Writer” in Life of Pi, with Rafe Spall, recently seen in Prometheus. Apparently, Lee decided that Maguire was too recognizable in a cast of unknowns. I guess he didn’t want the tiger upstaged by a spider(man)!

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Featured Audio Giveaway – Sept 2012 The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

August 27th, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

by Jonathan Evison; read by Jeff WoodmanHear an excerpt
 

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3. Put the words “Caregiving” in the subject line. Entries must be received by no later than 9/21/2012. See the Win Audiobooks page for more details. Alternatively, you can LIKE HighBridge on Facebook and comment on this post, or become a FOLLOWER on Twitter and tweet or retweet this message by 9/21/2012 (remember to “@HighBridgeAudio”).

About This Month’s Featured Audio

Benjamin Benjamin has lost virtually everything—his wife, his family, his home, his livelihood. With few options, Ben enrolls in a night class called The Fundamentals of Caregiving taught in the basement of a local church. There Ben is instructed in the art of inserting catheters and avoiding liability, about professionalism, and how to keep physical and emotional distance between client and provider. But when Ben is assigned to nineteen-year-old Trev, who is in the advanced stages of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, he discovers that the endless mnemonics and service plan checklists have done little to prepare him for the reality of caring for a fiercely stubborn, sexually frustrated adolescent. As they embark on a wild road trip across the American West to visit Trev’s ailing father, a new camaraderie replaces the traditional boundary between patient and caregiver.

Bursting with energy, this big-hearted, soulful, and inspired novel ponders life’s terrible surprises and the heart’s uncanny capacity to mend and become whole again.

“Woodman skillfully navigates between the humor and sadness of the story and neatly telegraphs Ben and Trev’s complex feelings of resignation mixed with hope for something better. Listeners will be captivated by Woodman’s performance of this wonderful novel about finding one’s way in an unfair world.”
      —AudioFile [Earphones Award Winner]

 

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Last Month’s Winner

Congratulations to HELEN BRYAN the winner of the last giveaway, Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach. Thanks to all who participated.

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Featured Audio Giveaway – August 2012 Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach

August 2nd, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways

Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach

Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach

by Colin Cotterill; read by Kim Mai GuestHear an excerpt
 

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About This Month’s Featured Audio

In the sequel to Killed at the Whim of a Hat, crime reporter Jimm Juree discovers that life in rural Thailand with her eccentric family is anything but dull—in fact, it’s downright deadly. How do you respond when you wake up to find a severed head on your resort-front beach in the morning? If you’re frustrated ex-crime reporter Jimm Juree, you take action. With her former cop grandfather as back up, she sets out to discover how the poor fellow ended up where he did—and why. On their journey, with the rest of their disjointed family in tow, they uncover gruesome tales of piracy and slavery, violence and murder in the Gulf of Thailand.

Wait—you haven’t heard Killed at the Whim of a Hat yet? Well, then we’ll have to send you both. So your winning entry will get you both the first and the second story in the Jimm Juree series, written by the creator of award-winning Dr. Siri series.
 

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Last Month’s Winner

Congratulations to DENISE MUNRO the winner of the last giveaway, Heading Out to Wonderful. Thanks to all who participated.

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Hobbit finishes shooting

July 26th, 2012 by Julie · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies

Peter Jackson’s eighth Hobbit production diary video has been posted! It includes some footage of the director and cast at Comic-Con, plus the video they showed there. We get a few more peeks at the sets and characters, and a look at the last few days of principal photography in New Zealand.

Now they’re working on post-production while we anxiously wait for December 14!

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Old Jews on the Radio

July 25th, 2012 by Julie · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First

The off-Broadway adaptation of Old Jews Telling Jokes is going strong since opening in May of this year. The show’s producer, Daniel Okrent, recently visited the WNYC’s Leonard Lopate, along with two of the performers from the show, Todd Susman and Audrey Lynn Weston. Listen here.

Until you can make New York to see the show, you can listen to our audios of Old Jews Telling Jokes and The Joke-Off. You’ll laugh your tuchus off!

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Yet Another Reason to Wish You Were Going to ComicCon

July 6th, 2012 by Kay Weiss · HighBridge at the Movies

EW cover story on Hobbit/ComicConOr, why I went there and back again to the grocery store to pick up a copy of Entertainment Weekly—because the cover story has interviews and pretty much the inside scoop on what’s going down Hobbit-wise at ComicCon.

The interesting (albeit not particularly surprising, given some casting information) news is that director Peter Jackson has incorporated storylines from elsewhere in the Tolkien canon into his film versions of The Hobbit. At least, most of the extra appears in the Tolkien canon. Per EW, Jackson put it this way: “Almost everything we’re doing is from Tolkien somewhere, whether it’s in the book or the subsequent development that wasn’t published in The Hobbit itself.”

As a Tolkien fan (I’ll claim that much. Not perhaps a fanatic, but if you are almost out of fingers and toes to count the number of times you’ve read from Silmarillion through to the very back pages of The Return of the King, I think you can fairly call yourself a fan)—anyway, as a Tolkien fan, I’ll be curious to see what storylines might be there that both are and are not to be found in Tolkien’s writing.

But Jackson has done a trustworthy job thus far, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Although I am still trying to forgive him for having Legolas “skateboard” down the side of Helm’s Deep.

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Featured Audio Giveaway – July 2012 Heading Out to Wonderful

July 2nd, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways

Heading Out to Wonderful

Heading Out to Wonderful

by Robert Goolrick; read by Norman DietzHear an excerpt
 

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The wait for A Reliable Wife author Robert Goolrick’s next novel is over. And critics are finding Heading Out to Wonderful wonderous: “Goolrick’s tale of doomed love resonates like a folk ballad.” (Publishers Weekly). “Goolrick effortlessly creates a timeless, erotically charged tale. . . . Finely crafted fiction from a captivating writer.” (Booklist HC starred review). “Deliciously dark and dangerous.” (O, The Oprah Magazine)

And narrator Norman Dietz does justice to every lyrical word: “Dietz’s calm style adds to the sensuous descriptions. . . . The listener, lulled by Dietz’s tender voice, will feel the horror of the plot’s climax as strongly as young Sam and the people of Brownsburg.” (AudioFile)
 

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Last Month’s Winner

Congratulations to KIMBERLY HARDEE the winner of the last giveaway, The Stonecutter. Thanks to all who participated.

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First Pi scene online!

June 15th, 2012 by Julie · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies

The first clip from the upcoming Life of Pi movie has appeared online, and it’s pretty awesome. All 10 seconds of it!

If we weren’t excited for November 21 before, we sure are now. See the clip, plus a few new images from the movie, at the official Life of Pi movie site.

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