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Mystery audiobook family-listening favorites are featured in this Voices in My Head column. Use these suggestions to pack your vacation travel bag or load up the kids’ listening devices. May is Mystery Month here at Booklist, but why not take spend the whole summer with the very best narrators sharing great stories? It’s no mystery [...]

Narrators have a terrific resource: AudioEloquence.com, maintained by Judith West and Heather Henderson. I spoke with these two narrators about the need for a collection of accent and pronunciation aids found on AudioEloquence, and have their interview below. I can’t wait to actually meet Judith & Heather at the Audio Publishers Association’s APAC conference in New York [...]

Audiobooks everywhere! Zombies, celebrities, and media icons – in print, out loud & on video. A round-up of audio awesomeness: I am a HUGE fan on the 2007 abridged audiobook version of Max Brooks’ World War Z, and CANNOT wait for the new & improved unabridged production – here’s some insider info from Brooks himself: [...]

Preacher & teacher – two inspirational audios: Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail &  Educating Esme: A Teacher’s Diary.  Christian Audio is offering the free download of MLK’s classic defense of non-violence against segregation, written from the Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1966, narrated by Dion Graham. Download by April 30th! Here’s the link: http://christianaudio.com/letter-from-birmingham-jail-martin-luther-king-jr Educating [...]

Earth Day classic Walden, Christian self-help, Gatsby, & the Moby Dick Big Read project. Here are the links – grab these quick! Tantor Audio offers Walden by Henry David Thoreau, narrated by Mel Foster, as both an MP3 & PDF eBook: http://www.tantor.com/BookDetail.asp?Product=0693_Walden Christian Audio’s monthly freebie is Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions [...]

Wow! 24 totally free downloadable audiobooks, both current YA bestsellers and classics – a gift from audio publishing partners through the Sync YA Literature promotion. Grab two freebies all summer long, and build your personal audiobook collection. School & public librarians are encouraged to promote this great way to keep tweens & teens (and adults!) [...]

The best audiobook experience? The top four titles of 2013, according to the Audio Publishers Association, are listed below. The organization announce the finalists for the two premier categories recognized at the Audies Awards today. I announced the nominees for Audiobook of the Year earlier today, and the complete list of all 28 categories in [...]

Four finalists: great listening combined with savvy marketing – the criteria for APA’s Audiobook of the Year. You can read the whole list of Audies nominees in this post – 28 categories! But Audiobook of the Year is the highest honor, and the APA just released the titles vying for the top prize – here’s the [...]

A round-up of links featuring all things audiobook. And apologies for my blog absence while I’ve been handling all things family… The Office grappled with the NSFW use of the audiobook of Fifty Shades of Grey: http://youtu.be/uX9fDnS9jU The American Library Association’s ALSC blog has suggestions for Family Listening:  http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2013/03/listen-up/ Romeo and Juliet—Q&A with Blackstone’s Studio [...]

FREE download of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter’s springtime classic, narrated by Pauline Brailsford and published by Weston Woods. Just click on the Audible link to grab this treat: www.audible.com/pd/?asin=B00C2BL9R8&source_code=FBIGB906LWS031513