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Win a copy of Audiobooks for Youth: A Practical Guide to Sound Literature! Celebrate the 5th birthday of Audiobooker with a book freebie for audiobook fans, librarians, and teachers, as strangely enough, there’s no audio edition of this title. The best things about my book are the personal reflections and interviews with incredibly knowledgeable narrators, producers, and audiobook experts. [...]

Today is the 5th birthday of Audiobooker! Celebrate with Full Cast Audio’s The Misfits, an essential recording for every school and public library. To mark the fifth anniversary of my blog, I’ll be giving away FIVE freebie copies of The Misfits, hopefully to teachers and school librarians eager to introduce this title to their students. [...]

Today’s roundup of audiobook links… USA Today featured the audiobook mega bestseller Gone Girl narrators Kirby Heyborne and Julia Whelan. For those of you who prefer to listen on a dedicated MP3 player, PC World has a “How to Buy an MP3 Player” by Wendy Sheehan Donnell with shopping tips. So many great webinars! Booklist just [...]

Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball, narrated Ben Hunter, is today’s give-away from Christianaudio. The start of the World Series is the perfect time for this memoir from the New York Mets starting pitcher. Christianaudio describes this audiobook as the story of a man “Sustained by his profound Christian [...]

Win the audiobook written by Delia Sherman, co-winner of the 2012 Prometheus Award for Best Novel, and narrated by Robin Miles. Just leave a comment below and I’ll announce the winner on November 2nd. Thanks to Listening Library for providing this freebie, along with a fascinating 13-minute audio interview by Rebecca Waugh with author Sherman. Robin Miles [...]

Grab two titles focused on faith & politics, or win the audiobook of The Gun Seller, autographed by author Laurie! Renaissance man Hugh Laurie QBE, star of TV’s House, on tour with Hugh Laurie and the Copper Bottom Band -where he turns his talents to New Orleans jazz & blues – stopped off in Minneapolis, home of HighBridge Audio. HighBridge [...]

Use iPad apps in your library or classroom  storytimes? Enter to win a free download of Oceanhouse Media‘s newly-upgraded “Record and Share” storybook apps. Have a preschooler or early reader who loves Dr. Seuss? I’ll bet there are a few grandmas like me who have toddler apps on their cell phone & would love to provide [...]

Red-hot romances read aloud? Fifty Shades of Grey and other steamy audiobooks are the focus of my current “Hot Topics” column in Booklist.  I interviewed Amanda D’Acierno, vice president and publisher, Random House Audio;  Kaite Mediatore Stover, director of Readers’ Services at Kansas City (MO) Public Library and Booklist reviewer and columnist; and  Teri Lesesne, professor at Sam Houston [...]

The 2012 World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement award-winner has an autographed audiobook for your library! What a great addition to your collection – or perhaps a terrific auction item for your next library fundraiser. Naxos Audio is donating the signed copy of the just-released Boneland, read by actor Robert Powell at the request of Alan Garner himself. for [...]

Want to win a copy for your public library? Or would you rather download The Rainbow by D.H. Laurence? Why not both! Today’s titles offer some hot stuff for listeners. And When She Was Good is mega-award-winner Lippman’s tale of a suburban prostitute/madame/single-mom embroiled in a murder committed by her lover, narrated Linda Emond. Check out the title’s starred review [...]