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Phillip Roth; Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya; Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Boys and The Explicit Gospels, ChristianAudio’s monthly freebie.    In Memory of a Friend, Teacher and Mentor is a wonderful project by author Roth that highlights the importance of teachers while raising money for the author’s public library. Download the free short piece here. More details from the Audible website: In this moving eulogy, [...]

Learn what’s new in summer & fall audio releases. Sign up TODAY for the FREE hour-long webinar on Tuesday, June 11 at 2:00pm Eastern time. Can’t listen to the live session? Sign up and you’ll receive an emailed link to the archived webinar. Click here to register. Celebrate June is Audiobook Month with Booklist and [...]

DFTBA – order author Green reading The Fault in Our Stars, a limited-edition audiobook only available through Green’s website. There’s great additional content for fans who love the book, as well as teachers who include The Fault in Our Stars in literature classes. And for audiobook aficionados, it would be cool to contrast the author-read production with the [...]

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #1 – one of my all-time favorite audiobooks, featuring the amazing Katherine Kellgren, named this year’s Female Narration of the Year at the Audies Awards. The tongue in-cheek humor will satisfy the whole family – perfect for vacation travel time. Read this starred review of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood (first in this [...]

With over 900 audiobooks recorded, Guidall is one of the most respected narrators in the business. June is Audiobook Month is the perfect time to announce his achievements have earned him the recognition as Booklist’s sixth annual Voice of Choice, joining past recipients Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Simon Prebble, Simon Vance, and Barbara Rosenblat - all the very best audiobook voices! Read more about Guidall’s illustrious career [...]

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Best audiobook deal around! 24 FREE titles from current favorites to classics, two each week. Get the whole scoop here http://www.audiobooksync.com/, sign up for FREE Sync membership here, and be sure to download this week’s two titles Of Poseidon by Anna Banks & Shakespeare’s The Tempest, courtesy of AudioGo. What a great way to start the [...]

  The best audiobooks & narrators of the year, awarded by the Audio Publishers Association during the annual Gala event billed as the Oscars of audio. The celebration,  emceed by longtime friend and supporter of the audiobook industry writer Daniel Handler (better known as Lemony Snicket), took place at the New York Historical Society on May [...]

2 stories from Neil Gaiman & 5 best-sellers from Random House Audio. Download these FREE audiobooks for a summer’s worth of listening! You’ll love Random House’s terrific Try Audiobooks promotion. Tailored to give suggestions to first-time listeners as well as audiobook fans, the site targets your “listening style,” whether you listen while you are crafting, [...]

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 [...]