Entries Tagged as 'Xe Sands'

The Power and Peril of Words: The Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland

April 21st, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Isolated on the 11th floor of the Record, a venerable New York newspaper in the midst of making the awkward transition to the digital age, Lena Respass, the title character of Amy Rowland’s novel The Transcriptionist, spends her days typing other people’s words. These words, the dictations of reporters for the Record, flow in through […]

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Xe Sands to Read The Transcriptionist

January 29th, 2014 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that Xe Sands will narrate The Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland. When Lena, the transcriptionist for big-city newspaper the Record, reads a shocking piece in the paper about a Jane Doe mauled to death by a lion, she recognizes the woman in the picture. Obsessed with understanding what caused the woman […]

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Survival Lessons: A little gem…wise, witty and wonderful.

November 11th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I was drawn to Survival Lessons, the little gem of a book by celebrated fiction author Alice Hoffman, as family members and friends of mine endured  trauma and health challenges this past year.  A cancer survivor herself, Hoffman’s impulse for writing this book was her need for a “guidebook” to help cope with long-term illness, to […]

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HighBridge Narrator Updates

November 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that Xe Sands will be reading My Accidental Jihad by Krista Bremer, and Tomas Marsh will narrate Kicking the Sky by Anthony De Sa. My Accidental Jihad, available in April, is a profoundly moving and often funny meditation on tolerance, and explores what it means to open our hearts to […]

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