Friday, December 28, 2007

 

THE WORLD WITHOUT US by Alan Weisman, read by Adam Grupper



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What would the Earth be like if there were no more humans? Enhancing this fascinating perspective, narrator Grupper gives an impeccable reading.

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Thursday, December 27, 2007

 

WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy, read by Neville Jason



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Neville Jason's mature rendering of Tolstoy's massive classic gives a fresh and consistently insightful interpretation of the action, atmospheres, and numberless characters. An accompanying booklet, intended to help the listener keep characters and events straight, is unnecessary, thanks to Jason's skill.

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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

 

INSPIRED BY . . . THE BIBLE EXPERIENCE: The New Testament read by Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, et al.



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This 2007 Audiobook of the Year is a full show of music, sound effects, and a dazzling array of celebrity voices. The cast of more than 80 African-American actors delivers a rich, diverse rendering of the contemporary TNIV version in gospel-meeting style.

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Friday, December 21, 2007

 

TALK TALK by T.C. Boyle, read by the author



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When a hearing-impaired woman is mistakenly arrested, her boyfriend must pursue of the real criminal who stole her identity. Boyle’s narration is a wonderful audio experience: His fast pace matches the frantic chase narrative, and he delivers his lushly orchestrated sentences with casual finesse.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

 

THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET by Brian Selznick, read by Jeff Woodman



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This audio gets our vote as the most innovative of the year! Inside a Paris train station in 1932, a boy named Hugo secretly keeps all the clocks running. Like the workings of a clock, the parts of this intriguing story interlock, and the audio program is a marvel. The "soundscape" is unique and the DVD "extras" allow listeners to see Selznick's illustrations.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

 

THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN by James Lee Burke, read by Will Patton



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This stunning, gritty elegy to New Orleans is one of Burke's most brilliant Dave Robicheaux thrillers. The physical and cultural losses from the devastations of Katrina are laid bare by the perfect partnership of author and narrator.

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Monday, December 17, 2007

 

MONTREAL STORIES by Mavis Gallant, read by Margot Dionne



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To call the families in these 15 stories dysfunctional would be an understatement. Gallant's characters are misplaced even in location—not French, British, or American, they always seem uncomfortable in their surroundings. The tension can be heard in Margot Dionne's smooth narration. Listening to Dionne you almost forget this isn't her own life she's describing.

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Friday, December 14, 2007

 

THIS I BELIEVE edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, Read by Bill Gates, Jackie Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Colin Powell, et al.



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For NPR listeners, “This I Believe” will be a familiar broadcast program. Mixed in here are archival programs from the 1950s hosted by Edward R. Murrow. The essays, each read by the author, surprise, inspire, and touch the heart. A must-listen.

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Thursday, December 13, 2007

 

HIDE by Lisa Gardner, read by Maggi-Meg Reed



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An unusual and effective thriller about a young woman whose childhood life involved running from place to place, hiding from she’s-never-known-what. Maggi-Meg Reed gives a fresh, intelligent, and attentive performance that makes the listener feel that the story is happening as she speaks.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

 

LONG TIME LEAVING: Dispatches from Up South by Roy Blount, Jr., read by the author



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Georgia-born and -raised humorist Roy Blount, delivers delicious descriptions of Southern cooking that would make anyone’s mouth water. There are few audiobooks that should be sold with a bib!

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

 

BEHOLD THE BOLD UMBRELLAPHANT and Other Poems by Jack Prelutsky, read by the author.



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The first Children's Poet Laureate for the United States reads and sings from three of his poetry collections. Prelutsky takes obvious pleasure in performing his own work, and images of "pop-up toadsters" and "solitary spatuloons" linger in listeners' ears.

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Monday, December 10, 2007

 

THE ECHO MAKER by Richard Powers, read by Bernadette Dunne



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This winner of the 2006 National Book Award for fiction tells the story of Mark Schluter, a man recovering from severe brain trauma after a mysterious truck accident. Dunne reveals all of the sweetness and devastation in this beautifully written emotional puzzle of a novel.

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Friday, December 07, 2007

 

ROOTS by Alex Haley, read by Avery Brooks



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It is difficult to describe what Avery Brooks does in this audiobook: He neither narrates nor performs, rather, he conjures--bringing the characters to life as memory and as history. It's the 30th anniversary of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and the first time on audio.

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