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THE AUDIE AWARDS - 2001 |
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| The Audio Publisher's Association [APA] established the Audie Awards to promote audio book sales. It is an equivalent to the Oscar for the spoken-word industry. The awards have been presented annually since 1996. Over the years, both the structure and the categories of the awards have occasionally changed. These changes are reflected in the information listed below. |
| Achievement in Production: Too Dead to Swing: A Katy Green Myst... by Hal Glatzer It`s 1940, and musician Katy Green gets what ought to be a dream gig, playing with the Ultra Belles-an all-female swing band. They travel by Pullman on the luxurious Starlight from Los Angeles to Santa Cruz, Lake Tahoe and San Francisco. So what if the songwriter is Katy`s exboyfriend, and a notorious Casanova? So what if half the women are mad at the other half over politics, music, and sex? There are tensions and rivalries in every band. But that`s not the worst of it. Katy quickly discovers that somebody`s out for blood. Read more... |
| Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium: Lost and Found Sound and... by The Kitchen Sisters Read more... |
| Business and Information: Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Tea... by Robert T. Kiyosaki,Sharon L. Lechter Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs) pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad" (that "the poor and the middle class work for money," but "the rich have money work for them"). Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays out his the p... Read more... |
| Children over 8: The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials, Book II by Dave Barry,Ridley Pearson,Jim Dale From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we`ll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we`ve yet to discern whether this individual`s intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel`s mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. W... Read more... |
| Children up to 8: Ouch! A Tale From Grimm Retold by Natalie Bab... by Natalie Babbitt The story tells all about young Marco, who leads a charmed life if anyone ever did, starting off as nobody special and ending up king. Not that it`s an easy path, the most dangerous part being an errand that takes him down into hell. But thanks to the Devil`s grandmother, as good an old girl as grandmothers everywhere, it all comes right in the end. Read more... |
| Classics: The Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume... by W. Somerset Maugham A selection of short stories written by William Somerset Maugham. 3 cassette tapes (Unabridged: 3 hours, 42 minutes). MASTERSON, set in Southeast Asia, is filled with human compassion and poignancy. It is the story of a colonial whose search for a housekeeper lands him in an ardent attachment to a local native woman who wants more than he is prepared to bestow. Read more... |
| Educational/Training/Instructional: Patton on Leadership: Strat... by Alan Axelrod In a work equally engaging to current or future managers and history buffs alike, General Patton`s leadership in battle is turned into the ultimate manual for victory. Read more... |
| Fiction Abridged: Raveling: A Novel by Peter Moore Smith "Things fall apart, the center cannot hold." Yeats`s words seem fitting for the slowly disintegrating Airie family and their son Pilot, a schizophrenic. Twenty years ago, Pilot`s little sister, Fiona, disappeared. In the aftermath, the Airie family fell apart--"unraveled," Pilot observes. Old sins have long shadows, and Pilot both welcomes and fears the darkness those shadows offer. His memories of Fiona`s disappearance haunt him, but they are also an anchor to a past that seems more authentic than the present.Raveling is a brilliant thriller about two brothers, their mother, and the sad fact of their little sisters unsolved disappearance twenty years earlier. One of the brothers, Pilot, has come back home to take care of his aging m... Read more... |
| Fiction Unabridged: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates: A N... by Tom Robbins The fierce invalid in Tom Robbins`s seventh novel is a philosophical, hedonistic U.S. operative very loosely inspired by a friend of the author. "Sex, drugs, and rock `n` roll are enormously popular in the CIA," claims Switters. "Not with all the agents in the field, but with the good ones, the brightest and the best." Switters isn`t really an invalid, but during his first mission (to set free his ornery grandma`s parrot, Sailor, in the Amazon jungle), he gets zapped by a spell cast by a "misshapen shaman" of the Kandakandero tribe named End of Time. The shaman is reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda`s giggly guru, but his head is pyramid-shaped. In return for a mind-bending trip into cosmic truth--"the Hallways of Always"--Switters must ... Read more... |
| Humor: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by David Sedaris Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is another laugh-out-loud look at the life of 90s Everywoman Bridget Jones. Picking up where the blockbuster bestselling Bridget Joness Diary left off, The Edge of Reason finds Bridget ensconced in an up and down relationship with Mark Darcy, whom she finally decided to give a chance at the end of the first book. Bridgets best Singleton pals Jude and Shaz are on hand to dispense advise about men and relationships culled from the pages of GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT and KEEPING THE LOVE YOU FIND, with unfortunate results. And Bridgets Smug Married friend Magda still mixes phone calls with friends with instructions shouted at her kids: "Bridget, hi! I was just ringing to say in the potty! Do it in the potty!" B... Read more... |
| Inspirational/Spiritual: It`s Not About the Bike: My Journey Ba... by Lance Armstrong,Sally Jenkins People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong--a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de France, the multiday bicycle race famous for its grueling intensity. Armstrong is a thoroughgoing Texan jock, and the changes brought to his life by his illness are startling and powerful, but he`s just not interested in wearing a hero suit. While his vocabulary is a bit on the he-man side (highest compliment to his wife: "she`s a stud"), his actions will melt the most hard-bitten souls: a cancer foundation and benefit bike ride, his astonishing commitment to training that got him past countless hurdles, loyalty to the people and corporations that never gave up on him. There`... Read more... |
| Multi Voiced Performances: Cakewalk by Peter Feibleman By Peter Feibleman Original music by: Carly Simon Starring: Elaine Stritch, Bruce Dvison, Claudette Nevins, Raphael Sbarge, and Samantha Bennett The complete play on 2 CDs. 85 Minutes Broadway ledgend Elaine Stritch starts as literary legend Lillian Hellman in this beguiling account of Hellmans tumultuous relationship across several decades with a man 25 years her junior, played by Oscar-nominee Bruce Davison. Read more... |
| Mystery and Fiction: Naked Detective by Laurence Shames Pete Amsterdam struck it rich through no fault of his own, and he`s put his novelistic ambitions aside with his business suits and retired to Key West to live in relative luxury, surrounded by his wine collection and music library. He never considered his PI license as anything but a tax dodge suggested by his accountant. So when a man who`s supposedly been dead for two years turns up by the side of Pete`s hot tub and asks him to help retrieve the money pouches he buried on a nearby island just before he disappeared, Pete is completely uninterested. But when the man turns up dead again, a beautiful blond yoga teacher who was his best friend convinces Pete to finger the killer and find the treasure--which is how a mild-mannered guy with a ta... Read more... |
| Narration by Author: Measure of a Man, The: A Spiritual Autobio... by Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier wrote The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography because he "felt called to write about certain values, such as integrity and commitment, faith and forgiveness, about the virtues of simplicity, about the difference between `amusing ourselves to death` and finding meaningful pleasures--even joy." Yet Poitier`s book does not speak from on high; its tone is conversational and endearingly self-critical. He begins the first chapter by recounting an evening spent channel-surfing and wondering, as most of us do at one time or another, "What am I doing with my time?" The spiritual reflections in The Measure of a Man are nonsectarian; Poitier`s faith is clearly influenced by his experience in Christian churches, but... Read more... |
| Non Fiction Abridged: The Times of My Life by Max Frankel The retired executive editor of the New York Times grippingly evokes his terror as a young Jewish boy in Nazi Germany and his discomfort as an impoverished immigrant in the United States. But it`s those 45 years at the Times we really want to read about, and Frankel`s account does not disappoint. Yes, he proudly believes his newspaper is America`s most important, revered by its educated, influential readers and unswerving in its commitment to informed, impartial reporting. But Frankel is commendably candid about the Times` institutional failings (in particular its slowness to support and promote women, blacks, and homosexuals) and surprisingly so about behind-the-headlines maneuvers among the staff. He airs his differen... Read more... |
| Non Fiction Unabridged: Measure of a Man, The: A Spiritual Auto... by Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier wrote The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography because he "felt called to write about certain values, such as integrity and commitment, faith and forgiveness, about the virtues of simplicity, about the difference between `amusing ourselves to death` and finding meaningful pleasures--even joy." Yet Poitier`s book does not speak from on high; its tone is conversational and endearingly self-critical. He begins the first chapter by recounting an evening spent channel-surfing and wondering, as most of us do at one time or another, "What am I doing with my time?" The spiritual reflections in The Measure of a Man are nonsectarian; Poitier`s faith is clearly influenced by his experience in Christian churches, but... Read more... |
| Original Work for Audio: The History of Theatre (Non Fiction) by David Timson David Guterson`s first novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, was a true ensemble piece, in which even a high-stakes murder trial seemed like a judgment passed on the community at large. In his eloquent second novel, however, the author swings dramatically in the opposite direction. East of the Mountains is the tale of a solitary, 73-year-old Seattle widower. A retired heart surgeon, Ben Givens is an old hand at turning isolation to his advantage, both professionally and personally: "When everything human was erased from existence except that narrow antiseptic window through which another`s heart could be manipulated--few were as adroit as Dr. Givens." is a bold and beautiful novel of personal discovery. Read more... |
| Package Design: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg One couldn`t select a more delightful and exciting premise for a children`s book than the tale of a young boy lying awake on Christmas Eve only to have Santa Claus sweep by and take him on a trip with other children to the North Pole. And one couldn`t ask for a more talented artist and writer to tell the story than Chris Van Allsburg. Allsburg, a sculptor who entered the genre nonchalantly when he created a children`s book as a diversion from his sculpting, won the 1986 Caldecott Medal for this book, one of several award winners he`s produced. The Polar Express rings with vitality and wonder.The Polar Express book and CD gift set is a charming collage of enchanting sounds, lyrical words, and climatic storytelling. Read by Acad... Read more... |
| Personal Development: The Protein Power Lifeplan by Michael R. Eades The authors of Protein Power are back to advocate the "protein-rich, moderate-fat, carbohydrate-restricted diet" that opposes the high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet that every professional medical and dietetic organization (including those who have no diet books to sell) believes to be your best bet for avoiding heart disease, the number one killer. The authors insist, in the face of all this medical opposition, that "the whole idea that fat and cholesterol cause heart disease is just that: an idea." We`re meant to be hunters, say the authors: bring on the meat. Let`s go back to the Paleolithic diet (no mention of the brief life span of Paleolithic men and women). is not easy reading--most of the book is made up of scientific explanati... Read more... |
| Poetry: Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers by Jewel A very smartly assembled two-disc compilation of African American poetry, Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers digs deep to unearth a wealth of unheard and rare material spanning almost the entire 20th century. The collection features some of the greatest names in black literature, and--as Al Young points out in the liner notes--it can be a revelation to hear, for instance, Harlem Renaissance leader Langston Hughes pronounce the word "Harlem" with utter pride and joy. Other notables include Ishmael Reed, Nikki Giovanni, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gil Scott-Heron, Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, W.E.B. DuBois, the Last Poets, Public Enemy, Wanda Coleman... You get the picture--it`s sort of a greatest-hits of black spoken word. But it`s too scatt... Read more... |
| Short Stories/Essays/Collections: Ten By Maugham: A Collection ... by Somerset Maugham It just isn`t fair: most of us would be lucky to be able to express ourselves in writing half as well as David Sedaris does in his new book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. But on top of his skills with the written word, the author also has substantial gifts as a performer, and he proves this on the audio version of the book. In his essay The Change in Me,Sedaris remembers that his mother was good at imitating people, and it`s clear that he takes after her. Whether he`s doing impressions of high-voiced brother Paul, or recalling times when he and his sisters tried to win good karma by speaking and acting like well-behaved, fairytale children, Sedaris`s nuanced performance hits the right note on both the opening, comed... Read more... |
| Solo Narration Female: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston For 30 years following its publication in 1937, this novel remained little-known and unread. It, like its author who was buried in an unmarked grave in 1960, seemed destined for historical obscurity. Then in 1975, when Alice Walker published an article in Ms. chronicling her search for Hurstons grave, interest in the once-famous Harlem Renaissance writer and her most successful novel soared. The story of Janie Crawford, unlucky in love but resilient in spirit, is now a deserved classic. Read more... |
| Solo Narration Male: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book ... by J.K. Rowling In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight--and any number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one night a vision harrowing enough to make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar burn has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black. Happily, the prospect of attending the season`s premier sporting event, the Quidditch World Cup, is enough to make Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars--the Death Eaters--are out for murder.Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for his fourth year of mag... Read more... |
| Theatrical Performance: Agnes of God by John Pielmeier A dead newborn is found in a wastebasket at a convent. The mother, a devout young nun, lies unconscious nearby. A psychiatrist must evaluate her. The truth goes beyond what happened on the fateful night of conception. Read more... |