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WALTER MOSLEYAll I Did Was Shoot My ManRead by Mirron Willis, UnabridgedWe’ve loved Willis’s calm, measured narration of Mosley’s popular hero Leonid McGill in the past, and…See More
A blog post by AudioFile Magazine was featured yesterday
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A new For the Hell of It is up & ready for your perusal. go to: http://ning.it/zFoFnp and enjoy my open letters to Newt Gingrich and @SimVan
Status posted by Johnny Heller yesterday
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Audiobook Review: When She Woke (read by Heather Corrigan) - a homage to the Classics, The Scarlet Letter - http://ow.ly/8H7dU
Status posted by Tanya Perez yesterday
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Audiobooks.com just announced the launch of their unlimited book streaming service

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Audiobooks.com is offering a service where listeners can access to as many books as they want via an online streaming service.Their catalog seems pretty extensive and at $24.95/month it's not that…See More
JoAnna M. Laskas added a discussion to the group Industry Buzz Wednesday
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Grounded for Life: ALA Media Youth Awards Wrap-Up

"And the winner of the Newbery Medal goes to . . . Jack Gantos for DEAD END IN NORVELT . . .". . . and the crowd at the ALA Midwinter Conference goes wild. Who does not love a roomful of screaming librarians? Those irrepressible librarians were on…See More
A blog post by Sync Head was featured Tuesday
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My Week With Marilyn -- does the film do the book justice?

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I'm wondering if anyone has both listened to My Week With Marilyn and seen the (Oscar-nominated) film? Did you think the movie did the book justice? See More
JoAnna M. Laskas added a discussion to the group Listening NOW! Tuesday
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11/22/63 by Stephen King, read excellently by Craig Wasson. An engrossing tale, well worth the 30hr running time, if a bit draggy at parts.
Status posted by robsmithTX Tuesday
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ALA Announced Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook

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Congratulations to Listening Library, winner of the Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook for ROTTERS.And congratulations to those who received the Odyssey Honor:- Brilliance Audio for GHETTO COWBOY- Listening Library for OKAY FOR…See More
JoAnna M. Laskas added a discussion to the group Industry Buzz Tuesday
 

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Free download from Tantor: YOU ARE NOT YOUR BRAIN by Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD and Rebecca L. Gladding, MD; Narrated by Mel Foster. More ...






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Bookin' with Bingo is holding a contest to give away a free copy of Alyson Noel's audiobook, DREAMLAND (narrated by Kathleen McInerney).
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WALTER MOSLEY

All I Did Was Shoot My Man

Read by Mirron Willis, Unabridged

We’ve loved Willis’s calm, measured narration of Mosley’s popular hero Leonid McGill in the past, and we have high hopes for this next adventure.

Release date: January 24



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Posted by AudioFile Magazine on January 24, 2012 at 5:49pm

Sync Head

Grounded for Life: ALA Media Youth Awards Wrap-Up

"And the winner of the Newbery Medal goes to . . . Jack Gantos for DEAD END IN NORVELT . . ."

. . . and the crowd at the ALA Midwinter Conference goes wild. Who does not love a roomful of screaming librarians? Those irrepressible librarians were on hand for the celebration of the annual ALA Media Youth Awards. Your intrepid SYNC reporter joined the awards via webcast…

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Posted by Sync Head on January 24, 2012 at 2:30pm

JoAnna M. Laskas

Congratulations to Odyssey Award Winner, Listening Library!

The American Library Association (ALA) announced the top awards in children’s and young adult literature as part of the ALA Midwinter Meeting.

And the Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production went to Listening Library, producer of ROTTERS by…

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Posted by JoAnna M. Laskas on January 23, 2012 at 9:30pm

Jonathan Lowe

UNDER THE SKIN by Michel Faber (soon to be movie)

Posted by Jonathan Lowe on January 21, 2012 at 12:50pm

Jonathan Lowe

ENRON by Lucy Prebble from L.A. Theatre Works

Posted by Jonathan Lowe on January 18, 2012 at 7:09am

Robin Whitten

Editors' Picks --the newest of the new

Advance copies of audiobooks are sometimes hard to come by . . .but we made a special effort to select top NEW titles, get review copies early and feature them--and with cool quotes from the narrators--in a e-newsletter Editors' Picks from AudioFile

You can view the newsletter …

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Posted by Robin Whitten on January 17, 2012 at 5:50pm

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THE LADY IN THE VAN by Alan Bennett, read by Maggie Smith

Bennett allowed an eccentric street person to temporarily park her broken-down camper in his London driveway--she stayed 15 years! This BBC Radio production features Maggie Smith as the beguiling, exasperating, and always indomitable Miss Mary Shepherd.

Download the soundreview as an mp3 file. Time 2:48

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SoundReview support comes from Harper Audio and Hachette Audio.

 
 
 
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