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Middle-Grade Historical, Literary–and Funny–Mystery Series

May 7th, 2014 · No Comments · Acquisition News

I’m not usually one to have much to say about middle-grade literature, but the first book in a new series is so much fun, I want to let everyone know that it’s coming. The series is The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency by Jordan Stratford, and HighBridge has rights to all three books. The first is The […]

Soon I Will Be Invincible

May 6th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Invincible in·vin·ci·ble /in-ˈvin-sə-bəl/ adjective 1. impossible to defeat or overcome 2. incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued What would you do if you were invincible? Would you save the world? Or would you destroy it? Would you be a “good guy,” or a “bad guy”? I wasn’t even into the first hour of Soon […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – May 2014 – The Hidden Child

April 30th, 2014 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

The Hidden Child Camilla Läckberg; read by Simon Vance The latest in the Fjällbacka Mysteries series!Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among boxes in her late mother’s attic. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig into her family’s past to finally uncover the reasons why.Her inquiries lead […]

New Tom Cook Novel Coming This September from HighBridge

April 16th, 2014 · No Comments · Acquisition News

HighBridge will publish the audio edition of Thomas H. Cook’s new novel, A Dancer in the Dust, which will release this fall in print from Mysterious Press. It will be narrated by the estimable Ray Chase. Cook’s most recent book, Sandrine’s Case, is a well-deserved finalist for the 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel, but […]

Beowulf translated and read by the late Seamus Heaney

April 11th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

When I first read Beowulf in college I was immediately captivated. As an English major, and a huge fan of fantasy literature, I was familiar with the story, but until then had never actually read the verse. I had an amazing Medieval Literature professor who set me on a path to which I began devouring […]

Simon Vance Returns for Deon Meyer’s Cobra

April 9th, 2014 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that Simon Vance will be narrating Cobra, the latest mystery/thriller from internationally bestselling author Deon Meyer. In Cobra, Captain Benny Griessel and South Africa’s top police unit, the Hawks, attempt to track down a thief on the run, save his sister, and capture a mysterious hitman whose calling card is […]

NPR American Chronicles WWI Marks 100 Years of Hard Lessons

April 7th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

One hundred years. Enough time for many changes to alter forever the lives of people, of nations. Most human lives now last longer. People move faster, learning, working, connecting. Most would argue the quality of our lives is better. Technology is our partner in everything we do, and has the potential to help us in […]

On Immunity from Eula Biss, “Didion’s heiress apparent”

April 2nd, 2014 · No Comments · Acquisition News

National Book Critics Circle Award winner Eula Biss first scored hot, independent publisher Graywolf Press to release the print edition of On Immunity, her provocative examination of the flashpoint issue of vaccinations as a difficult but vital choice for personal and societal health. She found an equally hot, independent publisher for the audio edition: HighBridge will proudly release the audio […]

Living and Loving by the Book: Zevin’s THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY

March 31st, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

He looks across the spines, which are, for the most part, black and red with all capitalized fonts in silvers and whites. An occasional burst of fluorescence breaks up the monotony. A. J. thinks how similar everything [looks]. Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A. J. decides, because they […]

Sandrine’s Case: The Mystery of Self

March 27th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

In Thomas H. Cook’s most recent novel, Sandrine’s Case (a Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio, read by Brian Holsopple), the first-person narrator, English literature Professor Samuel Madison, is on trial for his life for the premeditated murder of his wife Sandrine, also a professor at tiny Coburn College. Madison contends Sandrine’s death was suicide; the prosecution is certain […]

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