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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3. Put the words “Grandad” in the subject line. Entries must be received by no later than 8/24/2012. 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 8/24/2012 (remember to “@HighBridgeAudio”).

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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3. Put the words “Stonecutter” in the subject line. Entries must be received by no later than 7/20/2012. 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 7/20/2012 (remember to “@HighBridgeAudio”).

About This Month’s Featured Audio

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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Featured Audio Giveaway – June 2012: The Stonecutter

May 31st, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways



The Stonecutter

The Stonecutter

by Camilla Läckberg; read by David ThornHear an excerpt
 

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About This Month’s Featured Audio

Like to head to Sweden on vacation? We don’t recommend visiting the town of Fjällbacka—at least not in person. There’s too much murder going on, as evidenced by this third volume inLäckberg’s internationally bestseller series.

But we definitely recommend the Fjällbacka series for vacation listening—in or outside of Sweden.

And now you can get a taste of Fjällbacka for free. Just enter to win this CD. And that’s a deal that can’t be matched by even the best travel booking site out there. 

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Last Month’s Winner

Congratulations to JIM HUNT the winner of the last giveaway, Black Mask 6. Thanks to all who participated.

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The Search for Hector is successful

May 21st, 2012 by Julie · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies

News out of the Cannes film festival: The movie version of Hector and the Search for Happiness, by François Lelord, has found its leading man. British actor Simon Pegg, known for roles in Shaun of the Dead and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, will play the title role of a psychiatrist who travels the globe trying to find the secrets of happiness. Peter Chelsom will direct, with filming to start after shooting wraps on The World’s End, Pegg’s followup to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

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Featured Audio Giveaway May 2012 – Black Mask 6

May 4th, 2012 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways



Black Mask 6: The Bloody Bokhara

Black Mask 6: The
Bloody Bokara

Edited by Otto Penzler; read by Richard Ferrone, David Ledoux, Jeff Gurner, and Peter Ganim
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3. Put the words “Black Mask 6” in the subject line. Entries must be received by no later than 5/20/2012. See the Win Audiobooks page for more details.
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About This Month’s Featured Audio

If you’re a “hard-boiled” fiction fan, we don’t even need to explain to you the enjoyment to be found in these Black Mask collections. But if you aren’t familiar with the genre, you’re missing a historic time capsule, the inspiration of myriad present-day mystery writers, and the sort of fun-to-narrate material that draws out the best in a narrator. Or, as Library Journal put it more elegantly in a starred review:

“There is gold in every set. . . . Hitting like a Tommy gun blast, these pulse-pounding collections will leave mystery hounds panting for the next installment.”
      —Library Journal  starred review

Includes:

  • “Body Snatcher” by Theodore A. Tinsley; read by Richard Ferrone
  • “Murder on the Gayway” by Dwight V. Babcock; read by David LeDoux
  • “The Key” by Cleve F. Adams; read by Jeff Gurner
  • “The Bloody Bokhara” by William Campbell Gault; read by Peter Ganim

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Last Month’s Winner

Congratulations to NANCY MCENANLY the winner of the last giveaway, Pocket Kings. Thanks to all who participated.

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Early Oscar buzz for Life of Pi

April 27th, 2012 by Julie · Hear It Here First, HighBridge at the Movies

This week, the first images from the upcoming film Life of Pi, based on the book by Yann Martel and directed by Ang Lee, were released, and they’re impressive. Then, 20th Century Fox showed some preliminary footage of the film at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas. According to firstshowing.net, the footage was “…magical, visually stunning, breathtaking, moving, the 3D was fantastic,” and so on. There’s already speculation that the movie will be a Best Picture Oscar nominee, even though the movie doesn’t release until December 21.

Now we’re looking forward to the first teasers and trailers so we can see it for ourselves!

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