Tuesday, March 31, 2009
ART by Patrick McDonnell, read by Bobby McFerrin
Art, a little boy who loves to draw, shares his art. Author/illustrator McDonnell's story takes flight with the innovations of Bobby McFerrin's narration. Listeners don't get just one narration and, true to McFerrin's celebrated style, each has different trills, vocal jazz, and improv.
Listen now. Time 2:38
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Comment here: Monday, March 30, 2009
LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER by Maya Angelou, read by the author
With the careful phrasing and emphatic pacing of a poet, and her distinctive and original voice, Angelou offers her meditations on life to the many daughters she's never had yet considers to be her extended family. Listen now. Time 2:34 Download an excerpt as an mp3 file. Size: 1.5 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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Friday, March 27, 2009
CURSE OF THE BLUE TATTOO by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren
With sass and song, Kellgren continues her portrait of Jacky Faber. Fighting off pirates in BLOODY JACK barely prepared Jacky for the battles she faces after being given the heave-ho as midshipman on the HMS Dolphin and being sent to a Boston boarding school. Listen now. Time 2:30 Download an excerpt as an mp3 file. Size: 1.5 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
WINTERGIRLS by Laurie Halse Anderson, read by Jeannie Stith
Two best friends had been competitors in anorexia, and now one is dead. Still alive, Lia hides her self-starvation and cutting from the perplexed adults who want to save her. In print the author uses visual textual representations of Lia's torment. Stith has just her voice. Listen now. Time 2:24 Download an excerpt as an mp3 file. Size: 1.4 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett, read by Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Jenna Lamia, Cassandra Campbell
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. White ladies playing bridge and sipping ice tea. Colored maids cooking, cleaning, and loving the white babies. The separate, intertwined paths of these worlds are going to collide. Audio is the way to be inside this story, brilliantly cast with four voices. Listen now. Time 2:49 Download an excerpt as an mp3 file. Size: 1.7 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
OUTLIERS written and read by Malcolm Gladwell
Did you ever wonder why very successful people become very successful, while other equally smart people don’t thrive? Gladwell's book takes a good look at this question, presenting sociological, cultural, and generational analysis in easy, accessible language. Reviewed by Bob Grundfest. Listen now. Time 2:44 Download an excerpt as an mp3 file. Size: 2.6 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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Monday, March 23, 2009
TOP SECRET by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons, read by John Heard, Susan Sullivan, James Gleason, and a full cast
Urgent, poetically earthy, and extremely listenable, BBC Radio's full-cast dramatization of Odysseus's treacherous ten-year journey home is outstanding audio theater. Listen now. Time 3:09 Download an excerpt as an mp3 file. Size: 3.7 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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This exciting production from LA Theatre Works was recorded before a live audience. It dramatizes the WASHINGTON POST's struggle with the Nixon administration over the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Much of the dialogue is lifted straight from the historical record. Listen now. Time 2:29 Download now as an mp3 file. Size: 2.9 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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Friday, March 20, 2009
THE SECRET SCRIPTURE by Sebastian Barry, read by Wanda McCaddon
Ninety-nine year-old Roseanne McNulty reexamines a life lived during the Irish "troubles" and within the confines of a sectarian, conformist country. The hospital director of the mental hospital where Rose lives tells his version of her story. Listen now. Time 2:33 Download an excerpt as an mp3 file. Size: 1.5 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
THE LAST CENTURION by John Ringo, read by Dan John Miller
Bandit Six, the Last Centurion, and his band of soldiers are trapped in Iran in 2019. Left behind to secure a military base, Bandit Six and his men fight their way back from Iran to Turkey to the U.S. The story is laced with crude language and dark images of the future, and Dan John Miller's reading is straightforward and army tough. Listen now. Time 2:19 Download an excerpt as an mp3 file. Size: 1.4 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
THE ART THIEF by Noah Charney, read by Simon Vance
This deftly plotted mystery is filled with art, French food, and delightful heroes (or are they thieves?). Charney’s knowledge of the art world is extensive, so this romp is not only entertaining, but educational. Vance “ooo-la-las!” his way through a series of gastronomic adventures as the plot shifts between Rome, London, and Paris. Listen now. Time 2:38 Download an excerpt as an mp3 file. Size: 1.6 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
THE BLACK HOLE WAR by Leonard Susskind, read by Ray Porter
Here's a melding of memoir, reportage, and cutting-edge science. It's heady stuff in theoretical physics, but Ray Porter's skilled reading goes beyond Susskind's engaging and (reasonably) comprehensible writing. He delivers the sometimes very challenging material with admirable clarity. Listen now. Time 2:10 Download an excerpt as an mp3 file. Size: 1.3 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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Monday, March 16, 2009
THE LAST GUN FIGHTER 4: The Forbidden, by William W. Johnstone, performed by Ken Jackson and a Full Cast
The latest addition to the Graphic Audio "Movie in Your Mind" series is an epic story of revenge in the Old West. Outlaw Frank Morgan wants to find some peace but instead finds himself between two feuding factions. Remarkable sound effects and a great cast in this rousing adventure transport you to the Wild West. Listen now. Time 2:54 Download an excerpt as an mp3 file. Size: 3.4 MBSoundReview support comes from Harper Audio,
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