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THE AUDIE AWARDS - 2002 |
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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: The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materia... by David Guterson 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... |
| Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium: The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Edward Asner When Isobel Blackwell comes calling unexpectedly on Lew Archer just minutes before her husband is scheduled to meet with the detective, she expresses concern for her stepdaughter, Harriet. The young woman is about to come into a large trust fund, and she wants to marry a handsome, penniless artist named Burke Damis. Isobel has no objection to the marriage, but Harriet`s father, Mark Blackwell, dislikes Damis and is staunchly opposed. Mr. Blackwell asks Archer to investigate Damis, and Archer agrees, partly because he`s attracted to Mrs. Blackwell. Murders past and present crowd the investigation as various leads take Archer to Mexico, Lake Tahoe, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles. The Zebra-Striped Hearse is indeed colored black a... Read more... |
| Business Information and Educational: Rich Dad`s Rich Kid, Smar... by Robert T. Kiyosaki Growing up with two father figures, a "Rich Dad" and a "Poor Dad," Robert Kiyosaki understood the important of financial planning. In this audio-parenting guide, Kiyosaki and co-author Sharon Lechter have designed a step-by-step program for Moms and Dads to explain to their children the basics of our financial economy-the employees, the self-employed, the business owners, and the investors. By providing their children with financial problem-solving skills, parents can help to ensure a profitable future for their loved ones. RICH DAD`S RICH KID, SMART KID is written for parents who value education, want to give their child a financial and academic head start in life, and are willing to take an active role to make it happen. In the Informatio... Read more... |
| Children over 8: The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book I... by David Guterson 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: Ballet Stories: Coppelia/Giselle/Sleeping Bea... by David Angus The extraordinary story of the composer Charles Ives. Read more... |
| Classics: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father`s child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother`s child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. Betty Smith`s poignant, honest novel created a big stir when ... Read more... |
| Fiction Abridged: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 19 sound discs (22 hr.) Read more... |
| Fiction Unabridged: The Talisman by Stephen King,Peter Straub To coincide with the publication of Stephen King and Peter Straub`s extraordinary new thriller, BLACK HOUSE, here is the story that started it all. Read more... |
| Humor: Napalm and Silly Putty by David Sedaris Standup comic George Carlin follows up his dark-horse smash bestseller Brain Droppings with another compendium of cranky meditations, cinching his reputation as the Andy Rooney of boomer hepcats. "Road rage, air rage," Carlin rails. "Why should I be forced to divide my rage into separate categories? To me, it`s just one big, all-around, everyday rage. I don`t have time for fine distinctions." Carlin is not into the lengthy essay--he`s a sprinter of the mind. Most sentences in the book could be lifted out to stand alone and provoke deep thought: "How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it`s a spy satellite?" Good question. "Why do they bother saying `Raw sewage`? Do some people cook that stuff?" Yuck, but yes... Read more... |
| Inspirational/Spiritual: NIV Audio Bible New Testament Dramatiz... by Zondervan Hands down the finest audio Bible you can own.• Fully orchestrated background Read more... |
| Multi Voiced Performances: The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materia... by David Guterson 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... |
| Mystery and Fiction: Tell No One by Harlan Coben David Beck has rebuilt his life since his wife`s murder eight years ago, finishing medical school and establishing himself as a pediatrician, but he`s never forgotten the woman he fell in love with in second grade. And when a mysterious e-mail arrives on the anniversary of their first kiss, with a message and an image that leads him to wonder whether Elizabeth might still be alive, Beck will stop at nothing to find the truth that`s eluded him for so many years. A powerful billionaire is equally determined to make sure his role in her disappearance never comes to light, even if it means destroying an innocent man. Read more... |
| Narration by Author: Ava`s Man by Christopher Reeve The same fierce pride and love that animated All Over but the Shoutin` glow in Rick Bragg`s new book. In fact, he informs us in the prologue that it was the readers of his bestselling 1997 memoir about his mother`s struggle to raise three sons out of dire poverty who told him what he had to write about next. "People asked me where I believed my own momma`s heart and backbone came from ... they said I short-shrifted them in the first book." Bragg sets out to make amends in this heartfelt biography of his maternal grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, who with wife Ava nurtured seven children through hard times that never seemed to ease in rural Alabama and Georgia. "He was a tall, bone-thin man who worked with nails in his teeth and a roofing... Read more... |
| Non Fiction Abridged: John Adams by David McCullough Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a man of the world" and not fond of politics--came to greatness as the second president of the United States, and one of the most distinguished of a generation of revolutionary leaders. He found reason to dislike sectarian wrangling even more in the aftermath of war, when Federalist and anti-Federalist factions vied bitterly for power, introducing scandal into an administration beset by other difficulties--including pirates on the high seas, conflict with France and England, and all the public controversy attendant in ... Read more... |
| Non Fiction Unabridged: John Adams by David McCullough Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a man of the world" and not fond of politics--came to greatness as the second president of the United States, and one of the most distinguished of a generation of revolutionary leaders. He found reason to dislike sectarian wrangling even more in the aftermath of war, when Federalist and anti-Federalist factions vied bitterly for power, introducing scandal into an administration beset by other difficulties--including pirates on the high seas, conflict with France and England, and all the public controversy attendant in ... Read more... |
| Original Work for Audio: The Life and Works of Chopin (Naxos Au... by Jeremy Siepmann 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: Caedmon Short Story Collection by Vladimir; Nabakov, Vladimir Nabokov Caedmon brings together some of the most unforgettable stories in literature, vividly realized both by the authors themselves and by a cast of superb actorsCassette 1Side 1The Diamond Necklace by Guy De Maupaussant, performed by Claire BloomAn Occurrence At owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, Performed by David McCallumSide 2Tobermory by Saki, performed by Keith BaxterA Painful Case by James Joyce, performed by Cirian Hinds Cassette 2Side 1 The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield, performed by Celia JohnsonA Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, performed by Lotte LenyaSide 2The Jelly-Bean by F. Scott Fitzgerald, performed by Dylan Baker Cassette 3Side 1 University Days by james Thurber, performed by Richard KileyA Toast to Harlem by Langs... Read more... |
| Personal Development: The Self Matters Companion : Helping You ... by Phillip C. McGraw Read more... |
| Poetry: The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg A New York Times best-seller, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has sold more than 520,000 copies in hardcover and is still selling. This remarkable and beautiful book is a collection of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis`s favorite poems, including a few of her very own, selected by daughter and best-selling author Caroline Kennedy. Just as beautiful, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 2004 Calendar contains a carefully selected poem that encouraged and inspired Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis such as "I Heart America Singing," "Annabel Lee," and "She Walks In Beauty" on each weekly spread, plus a cherished Kennedy family photograph. Poetry lovers and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis fans will embrace this calendar and cheris... Read more... |
| Short Stories/Essays/Collections: Blood : Stories of Life and D... by Somerset Maugham The Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation`s history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers and observers that includes Abraham Lincoln, General George Pickett, Walt Whitman, Ulysses S. Grant and Stephen Crane. Read more... |
| Solo Narration Female: My Dream Of You by Nuala O`Faolain Nuala O`Faolain`s My Dream of You takes the old feminist adage one step further: the personal is invariably political in this exquisite first novel, while its politics feel very personal indeed. The heroine, Kathleen de Burca, is an Irish travel writer living in London. Estranged from her homeland and her family, pushing 50 but still living in the same dingy basement flat that`s been her home for two decades, Kathleen`s is a life gone "even and dry." Love has been her traditional panacea: "I believed in passion the way other people believed in God: everything fell in place around it." But the only love that comes her way these days takes the form of grim, anonymous sex--and even that grows harder to find. explores the extremes of p... Read more... |
| Solo Narration Male: Coldheart Canyon CD: A Hollywood Ghost St... by Clive Barker "PerfectBound e-book extra: Coldheart Canyon: The Revelations Interview A famous Hollywood actor loses his looks - and is drawn into the dark and twisted world of Coldheart Canyon. Following extensive cosmetic surgery, Hollywood superstar Todd Pickett needs somewhere to hide away while his scars heal. His manager finds the ideal location, Coldheart Canyon - a dream-palace hidden away in a corner of the city so secret it doesn`t even appear on a map. In the `20s, `A` list stars came to the Canyon to have the kind of parties nobody was supposed to know about. It wasn`t just the wild sex and the drugs that made Amorette`s parties so memorable. There was a door in the bowels of the dream-palace, which reputedly opened onto another world - the ... Read more... |