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Congratulations to Linda Leonard, winner of last month’s giveaway, You Are Not Forgotten! Thanks to all who participated.
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In the spirit of the holidays, we’ve made a list (and checked it twice) of some of our “giftiest and niftiest” titles. A nice price and great packaging are sure to make these gifts that your friends and family (or yourself) will love and won’t hurt your wallet! Plus, all of these audio favorites are available for download on our website, so you can start listening now. Here are our top 12 gift recommendations:
Happy Holidays from HighBridge Audio!
A Prairie Home Companion 40th Anniversary Collection by Garrison Keillor and cast, with special guests
A Prairie Home Companion is heard by over 4.3 million listeners each week on over 500 public radio stations across the country.
Keep Your Brain Alive: Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness by Lawrence C. Katz, PH.D., and Manning Rubin; read by Manning Rubin
These fun and easy exercises from the bestselling Keep Your Brain Alive fight the effects of mental aging and keep the mind fit to meet any challenge—and now they are available on audio. Co-author Manning Rubin is your “personal trainer,” through the exercises.
Lake Wobegon Family Reunion by Garrison Keillor
From America’s favorite storyteller, here are 19 memorable monologues, hand-picked from over 15 previously released collections and 40 years of A Prairie Home Companion live broadcasts.
Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen by Arthur Conan Doyle; performed by John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles
Acclaimed, exciting, fully dramatized performances of twelve Conan Doyle classics.
NPR American Chronicles: First Ladies from NPR; hosted by Cokie Roberts
While the role of the first lady has changed dramatically over the course of the nation’s history, one thing remains constant: Americans have always been fascinated by the wives of the President.
Louis L’Amour Collection (Wood Gift Box Edition) by Louis L’Amour; read by Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, and Johnny Cash
This collection gathers seven popular Louis L’Amour stories, performed by a star-studded cast.
Pretty Good Jokes Live! by Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor and an ensemble cast
Even more of a good thing: the latest collection of knee-slappers, toe-tappers, and groaners from A Prairie Home Companion Joke Shows.
NPR Laughter Therapy: A Comedy Collection for the Chronically Serious from NPR; hosted by Peter Sagal
Surprisingly light-hearted, refreshingly self-deprecating, NPR provides bountiful laughs in their funniest collection yet.
Car Talk Classics: No Factory Recalls. So Far. hosted by Tom and Ray Magliozzi; performed by Tom and Ray Magliozzi
There may be an occasional flaw in the auto expert advice of brothers Tom and Ray Maggliozzi, but the complaint box remains empty, with no factory recall in sight. The next entry in the ever popular Car Talk Classics series features four all-time favorite Car Talk episodes, hand-picked by hosts Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, and presented here together for the first time. Car Talk continues to be one of public radio’s most popular and laugh-inducing programs, with a weekly audience of 4 million listeners.
NPR Kitchen Moments: Celebrating Food from NPR; Hosted by Allison Aubrey and Dan Charles
You’re preparing to share the food you love with the friends and family you love—while stories from NPR provide the inspiration. You’re enjoying a Kitchen Moment!
Mandela: An Audio History by Radio Diaries; hosted by Desmond Tutu; commentary by Nelson Mandela; foreword by Joe Richman
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.
The Very Best of Bob and Ray: Legends of Comedy hosted by Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding
A comprehensive, career-spanning collection from the groundbreaking comedy duo Bob Elliott) and Ray (Goulding) that inspired (and continues to inspire) every comedian who came after.
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HighBridge Audio published 5 out of the 20 titles on audio in the Amazon 2015 Best Books of the Year: Science category!
HighBridge has delivered some great science writing to audio fans in the past (The Drunken Botanist, On Immunity, Proust and the Squid, The Seashell on the Mountaintop, among others), but this really moves our Science category to the level of essential.
Other 2015 Amazon picks for HighBridge include:
The Invention of Nature, The Soul of an Octopus, and How to Raise a Wild Child also show up in the Sports and Outdoors category.
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We’re thrilled to share the exciting news that The Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (SOVAS) has announced 3 titles produced by HighBridge Audio, a division of Recorded Books, as 2015 Voice Arts Awards winners!
Audiobook Narration—Non-Fiction, Best Voiceover
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Audiobook Narration—Biography, Best Voiceover
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century’s Most Inquiring Mind by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Narrator: Simon Vance
Audiobook Narration—Author Performance, Best Voiceover
O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound by Garrison Keillor
Narrator: Garrison Keillor
Created by the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences as part of the That’s Voiceover! Conference, the Voice Arts Awards is an international competition showcasing the best work in professional voiceover acting, creative direction and communications for advertising, audiobook narration, movie trailers, video gaming, animation, television, radio and casting realms.
To view the complete list of winners, click here.
Veterans Day, observed annually on November 11, honors persons who served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I; major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. The United States previously observed Armistice Day. The U.S. holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954. Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who gave their lives and those who perished while in service.
In honor of all who served, this month download any NPR American Chronicles title for just $6.99! Shop and save!
*Offer expires Nov. 30, 2015, and applies to digital downloads only.
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Congratulations to Laurie Cavanaugh, winner of last month’s giveaway, Pretty Good Jokes Live!! Thanks to all who participated.
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Don’t miss next month’s giveaway, Splinter the Silence!
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With a three-piece band and Red Stripe beer, Macalester College recognized literary star Marlon James on Wednesday, October 28, which was named Marlon James Day by both Gov. Mark Dayton and Betsy Hodges, mayor of Minneapolis!
James, the Jamaican-born novelist who lives in Minneapolis and is on sabbatical from his teaching job at Macalester, recently won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for his third novel, “A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Read the full story in StarTribune.
Narrated by a full cast, the audiobook is available from HighBridge Audio.
Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris: The People’s City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Luc Sante reveals the city’s hidden past, its seamy underside, one populated by working and criminal classes that, though virtually extinct today, have shaped Paris over the past two centuries.
The Other Paris is read by the author and will be available October 27th.
Publishers Weekly Magazine recently featured a full length author profile of Luc Sante. Here is a highlight:
As The Other Paris bluntly notes, “improving” a city usually means cordoning off its poor people and limiting their control over their neighborhoods and lives. “Look at the American equivalent: urban renewal,” Sante remarks. “In theory it was supposed to make life cleaner and more manageable, but in many cities it also knocked out historically black neighborhoods and their networks of mutual aid; they were never the same again, and suddenly people were living in these barracks.”
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A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James is named as the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction! Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts—A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 1970s, to the crack wars in 1980s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 1990s.
The audiobook is narrated by a full cast and is available here.
Marlon James, aged 44, who lives in Minneapolis, is the first Jamaican author to win the prize in the Man Booker’s 47-year history. The prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom. The winner of the Man Booker Prize receives £50,000 and, like all the shortlisted authors, a cheque for £2,500 and a designer bound copy of their book.
This year’s shortlisted titles included, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler, Satin Island by Tom McCarthy, The Fisherman by Chigozie Obioma, and The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota.
We’re thrilled to share the exciting news that The Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (SOVAS) has announced 9 titles produced by HighBridge Audio, a division of Recorded Books, as nominees for the 2015 Voice Arts Awards!
Audiobook Narration—Non-Fiction, Best Voiceover
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
On Immunity: An Innoculation by Eula Biss
Narrator: Tamara Marston
Audiobook Narration—Biography, Best Voiceover
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century’s Most Inquiring Mind by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Narrator: Simon Vance
So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead by David Browne
Narrator: Sean Runnette
The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Audiobook Narration—Author Performance, Best Voiceover
O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound by Garrison Keillor
Narrator: Garrison Keillor
Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer by Heather Lende
Narrator: Heather Lende
Audiobook Narration—History, Best Voiceover
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée
Narrator: Simon Vance
Audiobook Narration—Fiction, Best Voiceover
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Narrator: Scott Brick
Created by the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences as part of the That’s Voiceover!Conference, the Voice Arts Awards is an international competition showcasing the best work in professional voiceover acting, creative direction and communications for advertising, audiobook narration, movie trailers, video gaming, animation, television, radio and casting realms.
Winners will be announced during the second annual Voice Arts Awards Gala on Sunday, November 15, at the Pacific Design Center in Hollywood, California.
