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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 [...]

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!) [...]

FREE – The Unremarkable Heart by Karin Slaughter, Edgar Award nominee for Best Short Story. Download this contender for the Mystery Writers of America’s top award, from the short story collection Vengeance, edited by Lee Child. Thanks to publisher AudioGo for this great Freebie Friday offer! Here’s how to get your one-and-a-half  hour audio edition narrated by Shannon Cochran. [...]

FREE audiobook & eBook download of W.E.B. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folks – Tantor Audio’s well-timed give-away marks an important work especially of interest during Black History Month. You can download both the 9-hour MP3 audiobook narrated by Richard Allen and a PDF file of the eBook by visiting this link: http://www.tantor.com/BookDetail.asp?Product=0995_SoulsBlackFolk Here’s more about [...]

Sci-Fi, self-improvement, Jane Austen & the animal kingdom. Three downloads for fiction fans, financial planning, and those who enjoy live drama or wish to add a touch of audio to their Common Core language arts instruction – plus one off-the-wall resource, the world’s largest natural sound archive. Today’s batch of great FREE listening! The Human Division, Episode 1: [...]

My Brother Sam is Dead & Lincoln’s Speeches and Writings in eBook and audio. Perfect for history lovers, a Common Core combo of classics – one physical, one download. Here’s a a great offer for educators, and school / youth services librarians! Win a special combo from AudioGo: a physical CD audiobook copy of the  Newbery Honor classic [...]

Jack Gantos talks about his Printz Honor memoir Hole in My Life & one of the best audiobooks ever. Read more from Gantos in my interview in this Audiobooker post, where he discusses the power of audiobooks and the need for books that speak to guy readers. I was so honored that Jack wrote a personal reflection [...]