Deon Meyer’s book Thirteen Hours has won the Barry Prize for Best Thriller at this year’s Bouchercon mystery convention. Congratulations!
Barry Prize for Thirteen Hours
September 19th, 2011 by Julie · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First, Publishing News
Featured Audio Giveaway – September 2011
September 3rd, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways
Birds of Paradise
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About This Month’s Featured Audio
Diana Abu-Jaber’s latest has been receiving acclaim months before its publication. It was the buzz of the June Book Expo America convention, Kirkus gave it a starred review, and now AudioFile has chimed in with praise for the narration. It’s the story of the Muirs:
Avis Muir is a brilliant pastry chef, Brian Muir a corporate real estate attorney. Their son, Stanley, is the proprietor of a trendy food market. Their beautiful daughter, Felice, is missing. A runaway at 13, Felice has spent five years modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach. She’s about to turn 18. Soon all of the Muirs will be forced to confront their anguish, loss, and sense of betrayal. And Felice must reckon with the guilty secret that drove her away, then face her fear of losing her family and her sense of self forever.
“Narrator Tamara Marston portrays the main characters . . . with feeling and sensitivity. Her reading recognizes that the city of Miami . . . is also a character, and she infuses the descriptions of the landscape and urban setting with meaning.”
—AudioFile
“Nuanced and deftly drawn. . . . Will [also] draw teens.”
—Booklist
“A meticulous, deeply moving portrayal of imperfect human beings struggling to do right.”
—Kirkus Reviews 
starred review
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Last Month’s Winner
Congratulations to DANA POLK the winner of the last giveaway, Killed at the Whim of a Hat. Thanks to all who participated.
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Hear it here first: Prophet’s Prey
August 31st, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Uncategorized
JUST IN: Masters for
PROPHET’S PREY
My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints
by Sam Brower; foreword by Jon Krakauer
read by Jonah Cummings.
Tough but RIVETING story.
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Summary:
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the engrossing, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a facade of religion to further criminal activities and a madman’s vision.
Publication date: 09/27/2011
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A few thoughts on Jerry Leiber
August 25th, 2011 by Frank Randall · Author/Narrator News, Publishing News
Jerry Leiber (at piano) with Stoller and The Coasters
A few days ago Jerry Leiber, the lyricist from the legendary songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller, died. Writing songs for early innovators like Elvis Presley and the Coasters, as well as for singular voices like Ben E. King and Peggy Lee, Leiber had a large hand in shaping the vernacular of rock and roll. Remembering him will be a pleasure for a musician and music fan like myself: He left us mountains of great music. “Hound Dog,” “Kansas City,” “Searchin,” “Stand By Me,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Is That All There Is?” – the list is loooong. One of my personal faves is “Don’t” — a perfect meshing of lyric and melody that Elvis sings with great subtlety.
If you’re looking for insights into the genius of this stellar songwriting team, you can find a tribute and link to an audio interview on the American Routes website. Highly recommended for fans who want to reminisce about the amazing life and career of Jerry Leiber—or anyone who read the list above and now want to know more about one of the musical geniuses behind all those great songs. (The revealing 21-minute interview is also on the 5th Anniversary collection American Routes: Songs and Stories from the Road).
Mysterious Press, HighBridge Company collaborate on two new audio imprints
August 9th, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Publishing News
Starting with five titles this fall, Mysterious Press and HighBridge are collaborating to create two new audio imprints: Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio will feature new titles from the renowned mystery publisher, now an imprint of Grove/Atlantic Books, and Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio Classics will offer outstanding backlist titles, many of which have never been available on audio.
Sallie Neall, President of HighBridge, says “The Mysterious Press titles bring a wonderful richness and depth to our mystery list.” In the last year HighBridge has published mystery/suspense titles by Alafair Burke, Colin Cotterill, Sara Gran, Camilla Läckberg, Deon Meyer, and Håkan Nesser, as well as the Black Mask series, a multi-volume audio collection based on The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories edited by Otto Penzler, who is also the President and Publisher of Mysterious Press. “Our work with Otto on the Black Mask series naturally developed into a larger interest in the entire Mysterious Press line.”
“I’m pleased to be working with HighBridge to publish Mysterious Press titles in audio format,” says Penzler. “HighBridge has an outstanding reputation as an independent audio publisher and will give them the quality production they deserve.”
The first two titles published under the Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio imprint are Headstone by Ken Bruen (October 2011) and The Corn Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates (November 2011).
The three Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio Classics releasing this fall are Dancing Aztecs by Donald E. Westlake, The City When It Rains by Thomas H. Cook, and The Glitter Dome by Joseph Wambaugh, all publishing in November 2011.
HighBridge Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota, is an award-winning independent publisher of spoken word audio. Started by Minnesota Public Radio in the early 1980s to produce and distribute recordings of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, HighBridge now publishes a diverse list of New York Times best-selling fiction and nonfiction, humor, National Public Radio compilations, and more. HighBridge is distributed to the book trade by Workman Publishing, New York.
The Mysterious Press is a publishing company devoted entirely to mystery, crime, and suspense fiction. It was founded in 1975 by Otto Penzler, largely with the intention of raising the stature of mystery fiction. The recent incarnation of The Mysterious Press as an imprint of Grove/Atlantic will feature works by such authors as Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Joseph Wambaugh; Edgar Allan Poe Award–winning authors Thomas H. Cook, Andrew Klavan, and Thomas Perry; two-time nominee Ken Bruen; National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates; PEN West Award winner Robert Ward; and Pulitzer Prize–winner Robert Olen Butler.
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Happy Birthday, Garrison
August 7th, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Uncategorized
A happy 69th to Garrison Keillor, who is currently in the middle of the 2011 Summer Love Tour, taking him and guests to cities across the US.
Another dispatch from Middle-Earth
August 4th, 2011 by Julie · HighBridge at the Movies
Director Peter Jackson has issued a third video blog about filming the two films of Tolkien’s The Hobbit. This one is primarily about the dwarves. Thirteen of them with different looks and costumes, and only one cast member can remember all their names! Check it out.
Featured Audio Giveaway – August 2011
August 2nd, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Featured Audio Giveaways
Killed at the Whim of a Hat
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About This Month’s Featured Audio
Critics have been unanimous in their praise for Killed at the Whim of a Hat, Colin Cotterill’s novel and “What may be the best new international mystery series since the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.” (Booklist)
Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family. When she is forced to follow her family to a rural village on the coast of Southern Thailand, she’s convinced her career—maybe her life—is over. So when a van containing the skeletal remains of two hippies is inexplicably unearthed in a local farmer’s field, Jimm is thrilled. Shortly thereafter an abbot at a local Buddhist temple is viciously murdered.
Suddenly Jimm’s new life becomes somewhat more promising—and a lot more deadly. And if Jimm is to unravel the inexplicable events, it will take luck, perseverance, and the help of her entire family.
See why Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and the New York Times all love it: Enter for your chance to win it!
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Last Month’s Winner
Congratulations to MICHELLE WADDY, the winner of the last giveaway, Claire DeWitt and City of the Dead. Thanks to all who participated.
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CAR TALK’s Tom and Ray tickle fans pink(water) with new collection
August 2nd, 2011 by Kay Weiss · Author/Narrator News, Featured Audio Giveaways
If you already thought the Tappet Brothers had something of the humor of third-graders in them, their new collection featuring children’s book author and NPR commentator Daniel Pinkwater both confirms and explains it. Releasing today, Car Talk Classics: The Pinkwater Files is four complete programs from the Car Talk archives, all featuring Click and Clack’s favorite call-in guest (and favorite crank): Daniel Pinkwater.
** See below for details on how you can win the CD. **
The hands-down highlight of many a Car Talk episode, Daniel Pinkwater is responsible for some of the all-time greatest moments in the program’s storied history on public radio. Whether discussing man’s best friend (but worst passenger) or searching for the perfect vehicle for those who are “circumferentially challenged,” Pinkwater keeps Tom and Ray in stitches, along with the show’s far-flung audience.
Car Talk Classics: The Pinkwater Files, features the official designation of the Pinkwater seating standard, the strange case of the motorhead boyfriend, the presentation of the first Car Talk Peace Prize, Stump the Chumps, a puzzler from the Lying Used Car Salesman series, a stirring recitation from a BMW owner’s manual, a discussion of puking pooches, and more. It’s four perfectly good episodes of laughter and conversation.
The Car Talk comment boards are full of Pinkwater love: one listener writes, “I enjoy all things Pinkwater on NPR, and hearing this gem again was good for a lot of laughs.” And another: “Pinkwater is fine with me, ever since he declared that the VW New Beetle was the easiest car for a fat man to get in and out of.”
Millions of people love Car Talk, and Car Talk Classics: The Pinkwater Files, represents some of the best material that Car Talk has to offer.
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In honor of the trio, we’re giving away 3 copies of Car Talk Classics: The Pinkwater Files.
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