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THE AUDIE AWARDS - 2003 |
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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: Narnia - The Silver Chair (Lions) by C. S. Lewis 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... |
| Audio Drama: The Guys by Anne Nelson First performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production, and soon to be a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia, The Guys is a timeless drama about the surprising truths people can discover in ordinary lives, and the connections we make with others and ourselves in times of tragedy. Paralyzed by grief and unable to put his thoughts into words, Nick, a fire captain, seeks out the help of a writer to compose eulogies for the colleagues and friends he lost in the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001. As Joan, an editor by trade, draws Nick out about “the guys,” powerful profiles emerge, revealing vivid personalities and the substance and meaning that lie beneath the surface of seemingly unremarkable people. As the i... Read more... |
| Biography and Memoir: Lucky Man: A Memoir by Ruth Reichl The same sharp intelligence and self-deprecating wit that made Michael J. Fox a star in the Family Ties TV series and Back to the Future make this a lot punchier than the usual up-from-illness celebrity memoir. Yes, he begins with the first symptoms of Parkinson`s disease, the incurable illness that led to his retirement from Spin City (and acting) in 2000. And yes, he assures us he is a better, happier person now than he was before he was diagnosed. In Fox`s case, you actually might believe it, because he then cheerfully exposes the insecurities and self-indulgences of his pre-Parkinson`s life in a manner that makes them not glamorous but wincingly ordinary and of course very funny. ("As for the question, `Doe... Read more... |
| Business Information and Educational: The Art of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky The bestselling author of The Profit Zone delivers an extraordinary new business plan on how companies can generate greater profits. Presented in 23 compact lessons, THE ART OF PROFITABILITY features a fictional account of a corporate executive`s quest to learn the `art` of generating profit from a Zen-like seasoned master. The tutorial offers numerous business models to examine and analyze how various companies go about making money. Through the master`s teachings, the executive-and readers everywhere-see business in an entirely new light, and discover how to improve profits by taking a step back and gaining a new perspective.Presented in 23 compact lessons, THE ART OF PROFITABILITY features an ongoing tutorial between two fictitious indiv... Read more... |
| Children over 8: Troy (Unabridged) by Adele Geras Read more... |
| Children up to 8: The Blues of Flats Brown by Walter Dean Myers A runaway junkyard dog makes a name for himself playing blues guitar. Read more... |
| Classics: The Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Vol. 2 by W. Somerset Maugham Selections in this Volume: Unabridged Read more... |
| Fiction Abridged: Jackdaws by Ken Follett Penzler Pick, November 2001: Each book by Ken Follett, one of the most successful suspense writers of our time, is a welcome event. With Jackdaws, he returns to his most successful era, the darkest days of World War II., Follett once again strikes Nazi pay dirt." Read more... |
| Fiction Unabridged: Middlesex [Unabridged Audiobook] by Jeffrey Eugenides John Irving`s A Widow For One Year is the epic story of a family, dysfunctional at best, unable to cope with tragedy--or with each other. The unabridged audiobook, narrated by George Guidall (The Cat Who Sang for the Birds, The Inner Sanctum, The Legacy) draws the listener in with a crisp, methodical vocal presentation. Guidall portrays each character with a convincingly distinct voice, accurately impersonating the characters` intonations and verbal habits. The interaction between characters is both conversational and believable.Richly comic as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the... Read more... |
| Humor: Things You Shouldn`t Say Past Midnight (Dramatized) by Peter Ackerman Read more... |
| Inspirational/Spiritual: Conversations With God for Teens by Neale Donald Walsch Hands down the finest audio Bible you can own.• Fully orchestrated background Read more... |
| Multi Voiced Performances: Big Mouth ,&, Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates Performed by Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe"A seasoned pro from the world of adult literature turns her keen observer`s eye to young-adult realism, with notable success. Honest and penetrating" (Kirkus Reviews). Matt Donaghy has always been a BIG MOUTH. But it`s never gotten him in trouble -- until one day when two detectives escort him out of class for questioning. Matt has been accused of threatening to blow up Rocky River High School. Ursula Riggs has always been an UGLY GIRL. A loner with fierce, staring eyes, Ursula has no time for petty high school stuff like friends and dating -- or at least that`s what she tells herself. Ursula is content with minding her own business. And she doesn`t even really know Matt Donaghy. But Ur... Read more... |
| Mystery and Fiction: Jolie Blon`s Bounce 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: Standing in the Rainbow by Anne Garrels Good news! Fannie’s back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel. Read more... |
| Non Fiction Abridged: A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematica... by Sylvia Nasar Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash`... Read more... |
| Non Fiction Unabridged: 3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadl... by Sean Flynn On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick and mortar. Firefighters love the excitement of a "triple." But this was a different beast. Rollovers, flashovers, backdrafts, this one had it all. Once inside, they found themselves trapped in a snarling furnace of blazing orange heat as hot as a crematorium, with smoke so black and predatory they had to feel for their partners next to them. Swallowed deep in the building, with no way out, they struggled to survive an ill-fated ordeal that would push them to the very limits of loyalty and courage. What happened next?and how their lives and community were changed for... Read more... |
| Original Work for Audio: Getting to Know William Shakespeare (R... by Joy Wake GETTING TO KNOW WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE is a fascinating and friendly original audio biography. More like a documentary than a book on tape, GETTING TO KNOW WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE sheds new light on the world`s most famous playwright by featuring world-renowned experts speaking in their own words, a variety of compelling musical selections, a dramatic film clip and discreet sound effects. You`ll discover how approachable and inspirational the Bard can be. (And why is he called the BARD anyway?) You`ve never heard anything like it on audio, and you`ll never think of Shakespeare the same way again. There has never been an easier, more entertaining way to experience the life and world of the word`s most popular author. Read more... |
| Package Design: 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... |
| Personal Development: Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Fin... by Kent M. Keith As the story goes, author Kent M. Keith was a sophomore at Harvard University in the 1960s when he first wrote "The Paradoxical Commandments," a manifesto about doing good in a crazy, ungrateful world. These commandments are the basis of his repackaged and expanded book Anyway. Since his Harvard days, Keith`s commandments have taken on a life of their own. They have been quoted by the Boy Scouts of America and written on inspirational office memos, classroom handouts, and Internet sites around the world. They have even been discovered in Mother Teresa`s children`s home in Calcutta. Now Keith has stepped forward to explain his commandments and speak to his credo for doing "the right thing." Readers will probably recognize the commandm... Read more... |
| Poetry: Good Poems by Various Every day people tune in to The Writer`s Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It`s a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not. Read more... |
| Science Fiction: Dune: The Butlerian Jihad Read more... |
| Short Stories/Essays/Collections: Classic Women`s Short Stories... by Katherine Mansfield,Kate Chopin,Virginia Woolf Read more... |
| Solo Narration Female: Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhoo... by Kate Simon Read more... |
| Solo Narration Male: Tishomingo Blues (Unabridged Books on Disc... 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... |