Read by John Lee From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning first collection of acclaimed short fictions, teeming with uncanny characters whose stories unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original. Read the full description. “The eight short stories and one novella in Newbery Medalist Barnhill’s collection are haunting and beautifully […]
Entries Tagged as 'HighBridge'
The Myth of the Mustang
November 13th, 2017 · No Comments · Reviews
By Kaleigh Lawson Imagine standing in the open prairie, feeling the wind whip your hair into a mess of tangles and staring out onto a heard of wild mustangs. Imagine tumbleweeds blowing across the dry sage-covered earth and seeing for miles out to the horizon. Imagine what the Wild West must have looked, sounded and […]
Tags: audio·David Philipps·HighBridge·Horses·Kaleigh Lawson·Mustangs·The Wild West·Wild Horse Country
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 […]
Tags: Ada Lovelace·audiobook·detective fiction·HighBridge·Jordan Stratford·mary Shelley·middle-grade fiction·mystery·Romantic Period·young reader
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 […]
Tags: A Dancer in the Dust·Africa·audiobook·genocide·HighBridge·mysterious press·mystery·Sandrine's Case·The Crime of Julian Wells·Thomas H. Cook
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 […]
Tags: Alan Seeger·american chronicles·audiobook·Christopher Clark·Eddie Rickenbacker·Frank Buckles·Herbert Hoover·HighBridge·NPR·Pete Seeger·Rachel Martin·Robert K. Massie·Stanley Weintraub·Thomas Sopwith·World War One·WWI
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 […]
Tags: audiobook·Eula Biss·Graywolf Press·HighBridge·Joan Didion·On Immunity·vaccinations
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 […]
Tags: audiobook·Brian Holsopple·crime fiction·HighBridge·mysterious press·mystery·Sandrine's Case·Thomas H. Cook
Kit Cobb Is Back–and HighBridge Has Got Him
March 6th, 2014 · No Comments · Acquisition News
Book three of the exciting Christopher Marlowe Cobb series of historical spy thrillers will be coming your way on audio this October. If you haven’t already discovered these terrific books by Robert Olen Butler, go grab a copy of The Hot Country, the first in the series, and give it a listen. It’s brilliantly narrated […]
Tags: Christopher Marlowe Cobb·Empire of Night·espionage·HighBridge·Kit Cobb·mysterious press·Robert Olen Butler·spy novel·The Hot Country·The Star of Istanbul·thriller·World War I