Veterans Day Sale!

November 11th, 2015 by audioaudio · NPR, Sale

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! 

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*Offer expires Nov. 30, 2015, and applies to digital downloads only.

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Featured Audio Giveaway – November 2015 – You Are Not Forgotten

November 1st, 2015 by audioaudio · Featured Audio Giveaways

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You Are Not Forgotten

Bryan Bender; read by Johnny Heller

The inspiring tale of loss and redemption about two American servicemen: a Marine Corps pilot shot down in WWII and the modern-day soldier determined to bring him home six decades later.

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2. Put the word “Forgotten” in the subject line.

Entries must be received by 11/30/2015.
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October Giveaway Winner

Congratulations to Laurie Cavanaugh, winner of last month’s giveaway, Pretty Good Jokes Live!! Thanks to all who participated.

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December Giveaway

9781622319534-204Don’t miss next month’s giveaway, Splinter the Silence!

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Marlon James Day!

October 29th, 2015 by audioaudio · Author/Narrator News

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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.

KL Narrated by a full cast, the audiobook is available from HighBridge Audio.

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The Other Paris

October 21st, 2015 by audioaudio · Author/Narrator News

KL 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:

KL 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 wins 2015 Man Booker Prize

October 13th, 2015 by audioaudio · Awards

KL 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.

KL 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.

 

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2015 Voice Arts Awards Finalists

October 7th, 2015 by audioaudio · Awards

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
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How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

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On Immunity: An Innoculation by Eula Biss
Narrator: Tamara Marston

Audiobook Narration—Biography, Best Voiceover
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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

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So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead by David Browne
Narrator: Sean Runnette

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The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio
Narrator: Grover Gardner

Audiobook Narration—Author Performance, Best Voiceover
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O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound by Garrison Keillor
Narrator: Garrison Keillor

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Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer by Heather Lende
Narrator: Heather Lende

Audiobook Narration—History, Best Voiceover
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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
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.

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Featured Audio Giveaway – October 2015 – Pretty Good Jokes Live!

October 6th, 2015 by audioaudio · Featured Audio Giveaways

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Pretty Good Jokes Live!

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.

What does IDK stand for? I dont know. OMG, nobody does!. . . . What is a hippies wife called? Mississippi.. . . . What is the recipe for Honeymoon Salad? Lettuce alone without dressing.

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2. Put the word “Jokes” in the subject line.

Entries must be received by 10/31/2015.
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Last Giveaway Winner

Congratulations to Sandra, winner of our previous giveaway, Trumbo! Thanks to all who participated.

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The Mulberry BushDon’t miss next month’s giveaway, The Mulberry Bush!

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New Hosts Join NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’

September 23rd, 2015 by audioaudio · Author/Narrator News, NPR

Congratulations to NPR’s Ari Shapiro and Kelly McEvers, new hosts of All Things Considered! We’re proud to say that Ari hosts our StoryCorps: OutLoud collection and Kelly does the honors on NPR Driveway Moments: Love Stories. Two of our favorite audios – and people!

KL Ari Shapiro has reported from above the Arctic Circle and aboard Air Force One. He has covered wars in Iraq, Ukraine, and Israel, and he has filed stories from five continents. (Sorry, Australia.)

In 2015, Shapiro joined Kelly McEvers, Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel as a weekday co-host of All Things Considered, NPR’s award-winning afternoon newsmagazine.

Shapiro was previously NPR’s International Correspondent based in London, from where he traveled the world covering a wide range of topics for NPR’s national news programs.

Full Biography

 

About Kelly McEvers

KL Kelly McEvers is co-host of All Things Considered, NPR’s award-winning afternoon newsmagazine. She hosts the program from NPR West in Culver City, California, with co-hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, and Ari Shapiro in NPR’s Washington, D.C. headquarters.

McEvers was previously a national correspondent based at NPR West. Prior to that, McEvers ran NPR’s Beirut bureau, where she earned a George Foster Peabody award, an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia award, a Gracie award, and an Overseas Press Club mention for her 2012 coverage of the Syrian conflict. She recently made a radio documentary about being a war correspondent with renowned radio producer Jay Allison of Transom.org.

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Featured Audio Giveaway – September 2015 – Trumbo

September 8th, 2015 by audioaudio · Featured Audio Giveaways, Sale

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Trumbo

Bruce Cook; read by Luke Daniels

An intimate, essential biography of the man who broke the Hollywood blacklist.

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Entries must be received by 9/30/2015.
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Last Giveaway Winner

Congratulations to Terry Welch, winner of our previous giveaway, NPR: The Best of Pop Culture Happy Hour! Thanks to all who participated.

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9781622316069-204Don’t miss next month’s giveaway, Pretty Good Jokes Live!

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Praise for Bob and Ray

September 3rd, 2015 by audioaudio · Reviews

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From the “genius loves company” department: In his new memoir Even This I Get to Experience, comedy legend Norman Lear calls Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding “arguably the greatest comedy team radio ever produced.”

We wholeheartedly agree. Do yourself a favor and check out The Very Best of Bob and Ray, still funny, still edgy, still unpredictable, still ahead of their time (!), still one of our favorites.

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