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Featured Audio Giveaway – September 2017 — A Sick Life

September 5th, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “the most effervescent and soulful girl group anyone has seen since the Supremes,” five-time Grammy Award winning supergroup TLC has seen phenomenal fame and success. But backstage, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins has lived a dual life. Read the full description. Watkins is the lead singer of the bestselling female group TLC, […]

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August 26th, 2015 · No Comments · Sale

Share in the childhood tales of A Girl Named Zippy. Hear Kenneth Branagh read Samuel Pepys’ exuberant 17th-century diary. Be transformed by the extraordinary women of Half the Sky. Don’t miss your chance to download these and other remarkable life stories for just $6.99! Offer expires August 31, 2015. Go Shopping!

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Invictus Star Voices Grange’s Mandela Memoir

June 13th, 2014 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that British actress, Adjoa Andoh, will narrate Good Morning, Mr. Mandela, the memoir of Zelda la Grange, Nelson Mandela’s long-time personal assistant. Good Morning, Mr. Mandela tells the story of how the life and beliefs of la Grange, a conservative white Afrikaner who grew up supporting the segregation rules of […]

The Colorful World of London’s East End in the 1950s: Call the Midwife

March 10th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Incredibly moving, compassionate, shocking, funny, disturbing, and evocative of a time and place forever changed by the upheaval of post-World War II: Call the Midwife is Jennifer Worth’s memoir of her experiences as a midwife-in-training with an Anglican order of nuns in London’s Dockland slums in post-war 1950s. These dedicated nuns had worked amongst the poor […]

Three HighBridge Titles Selected for 2014 World Book Night

October 25th, 2013 · No Comments · Publishing News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that three of our titles have been selected for World Book Night US: Pontoon, This Boy’s Life, and Young Men & Fire. Each year, 30 to 35 books are chosen by an independent panel of librarians and booksellers. Authors of the books waive their royalties and the publishers agree to […]

Nicola Barber Returns to Narrate Call the Midwife Audiobooks

October 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

Nicola Barber is returning to read the remaining two titles in the Call the Midwife trilogy: Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to the East End. Nicola Barber is an Award-Winning British voice actor originally from London. She has more than 12 years of voice acting experience. As one reviewer wrote of her reading of […]

Calling All Midwives

October 3rd, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News

I’m pleased to announce . . . I’m thrilled to announce . . . I couldn’t be happier to announce . . . Isn’t there any other way to say this? How about: I’m ‘eaven and ‘ell chuffed ter tell what HighBridge has picked up the bloody rights to produce audiobook editions of the remaining […]

Coming Home

September 18th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

What is the true cost of war? How do we measure it? What are we really asking of the young men and women we send into combat? And if we can actually bring ourselves to answer that last question honestly in all its most horrifying specifics, what are the implications for the future lives of […]

Something about Her

August 19th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Have you ever had to periodically stop listening to an audiobook because it was so intense you just needed a break? Probably not all that uncommon with good thrillers. But with a memoir? That’s what my wife and I had to do on a recent road trip during which we tuned in to Her by […]

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