Entries Tagged as 'audiobook'

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 […]

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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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Ray Chase Returns for The Empire of Night

March 26th, 2014 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that Ray Chase will be reprising his role as narrator for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler’s latest entry in his thrilling Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, The Empire of Night. The historical spy thriller series stars Christopher Marlowe “Kit” Cobb, a World War I–era American journalist turned Allied Spy. Ray […]

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Seeing Red: Star Wars: Crimson Empire Audio Drama

March 14th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

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Narrators selected for upcoming MP-HA classics

March 12th, 2014 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce narrators for the forthcoming Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio Digital Classics: R. C. Bray will be reading The Mordida Man by Ross Thomas, and Donna Postel will be reading 77th Street Requiem by Wendy Hornsby, both available in June. In addition, Derek Perkins will be reading Dark Nantucket Moon by Jane Langton, available […]

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Fresh Air’s Courageous Faith, Reason, and Doubt

March 3rd, 2014 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Quietly, movingly, hidden among their many programs dedicated to Oscar nominated actors, country western singers, and political talking heads, public radio’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross has provided a platform for candid reflections from a diverse group of guests on the subject of faith. The impressive variety and depth of these conversations is made clear […]

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All-Star Cast for High Crime Area

February 26th, 2014 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that the new short story collection from Joyce Carol Oates, High Crime Area, will be narrated by an all-star cast: Julia Whelan, Ray Chase, Donna Postel, Luci Christian, Tamara Marston, and Chris Patton. Julia Whelan will narrate the title story, “High Crime Area,” as well as “The Rescuer.” Julia is […]

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In Like a Lion: Smith’s LION PLAYS ROUGH

February 14th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Lion Plays Rough by Lachlan Smith, read by R. C. Bray, is Smith’s second entry in his Leo Maxwell Series, and proves that the series definitely has staying power. Publishers Weekly called the novel a “finely paced mystery” and went on to say it is “full of intelligent plot twists and should appeal to any […]

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Simon Vance to Read The Zhivago Affair

February 12th, 2014 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that Award-winning audiobook narrator Simon Vance will be reading The Zhivago Affair by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. The Zhivago Affair is the dramatic real-life story of how Russian poet Boris Pasternak’s first novel, Doctor Zhivago, became a CIA secret weapon and the centerpiece of an ideological battle between East […]

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When Books Could Change the World: The Travail and Triumph of Doctor Zhivago

February 6th, 2014 · No Comments · Acquisition News

I’m excited to announce that HighBridge will produce the audio edition of The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn & Petra Couvée, a story that is part Cold War spy thriller, part mesmerizing literary biography, part secret history of the blockbuster book that shook the […]

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