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THE AUDIE AWARDS - 2007 |
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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 Goose Girl: CD Binder by Shannon Hale When an imposter takes her place at the royal wedding, Princess Anidori Kiladra of Kildenree struggles to regain not only her crown, but her very name. |
| Audio Drama: The Life of Jesus: Dramatic Eyewitness Accounts fr... by Focus on the Family In first century Palestine, the physician Luke is on a mission to save the life of his friend Paul. His task: chronicling the life of a carpenter`s son from Nazareth named Jesus. Luke searches for firsthand witnesses to the miracles and controversies surrounding the man they call "the Christ." Luke`s travels take him through violent roads, and he encounters his own miracles along the way. Be an eyewitness to Luke`s quest for the truth in this Radio Theatre production featuring England`s finest actors and cinema-quality sound design. Read more... |
| Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium: The Hitchhiker`s Guide t... by Douglas Adams Many are familiar with Douglas Adams`s classic Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy series, but few know that these books started out as a multi-part series performed on BBC radio. This installment, part four, is a robust radio dramatization of So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. The Earth has miraculously reappeared and Arthur Dent is in love with the otherworldly Fenchurch, but Ford Prefect has an idea that might burst Arthur`s happy little bubble. What is really going on with Arthur`s dream girl, where have all the dolphins gone, and what was their departing message to mankind? Read more... |
| Audiobook of the Year: TNIV New Testament: Multi-Voice Edition ... by Zondervan Introducing the TNIV New Testament, Audio CD multi-voice edition—an audio Bible for today’s generation, from Zondervan, publisher of the Audie Award-winning NIV Audio Bible Dramatized.•Stylish case for CD storage Read more... |
| Biography and Memoir: Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt For 30 years Frank McCourt taught high school English in New York City and for much of that time he considered himself a fraud. During these years he danced a delicate jig between engaging the students, satisfying often bewildered administrators and parents, and actually enjoying his job. He tried to present a consistent image of composure and self-confidence, yet he regularly felt insecure, inadequate, and unfocused. After much trial and error, he eventually discovered what was in front of him (or rather, behind him) all along--his own experience. "My life saved my life," he writes. "My students didn`t know there was a man up there escaping a cocoon of Irish history and Catholicism, leaving bits of that cocoon everywhere." At the beginning... Read more... |
| Business Information and Educational: The Long Tail: Why the Fu... by Chris Anderson The Long Tail is both a powerful new economic force in the entertainment industry and perhaps the best lens on a big new trend in the business world overall: the economics of abundance. From supermarket shelves to advertising agencies, the rise of the niche is changing everything, and causing us to rethink where our markets lie and how to get to them. Consider this example: In 1988, a British mountain climber named Joe Simpson wrote a book called Touching the Void, an account of near death in the Peruvian Andes. It was only a modest success and was soon forgotten. A decade later, Jon Krakauer wrote Into Thin Air, another book about a mountain-climbing tragedy, which became a publishing sensation. Suddenly Touching the Void started to sell a... Read more... |
| Children over 8: Airborn by Kenneth Oppel This swashbuckling adventure is set in a world where great airships ply the skies-- and where there are unknown lands and strange creatures to be discovered. |
| Children over 8: Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan Read more... |
| Children up to 8: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems Trixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood Laundromat. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixie realizes somebunny was left behind . . . Using a combination of muted black-and-white photographs and expressive illustrations, this stunning book tells a brilliantly true-to-life tale about what happens when Daddys in charge and things go terribly, hilariously wrong. Mo Willems is a six-time Emmy Awardwinning writer and former animator for Sesame Street, and the creator of Cartoon Networks Sheep in the Big City. Both his first book for children, Don`t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, and his fourth book Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale won prestigious Caldecott Honors from the American Library Association. ... Read more... |
| Classics: To Kill a Mockingbird CD by Harper Lee Read more... |
| Fiction Abridged: Restless: A Novel by William Boyd “I am Eva Delectorskaya,” Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village; Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II spy, a woman who carried fake passports and retreated to secret safe houses, a woman taught to lie and deceive, and above all, to never trust anyone. Read more... |
| Fiction Unabridged: Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen`s Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her fascination soon solidified into a marital prison sentence of incessant abuse and the destruction of her ... Read more... |
| Humor: Spoiled Rotten America Low Price CD by Karl E Karalus Read more... |
| Inspirational Faith Based Fiction: The Angels of Morgan Hill by Donna VanLiere The small town of Morgan Hill, Tennessee, is turned upside down in 1947 when the Turners become the only black family ever to move into the area. Nine-year-old Jane Gable first lays eyes on young Milo Turner the day that her trouble-making, alcoholic father is buried in the Morgan Falls cemetery.When the Turners begin work as sharecroppers on a local tobacco farm, their presence challenges the comfort of many in the close-knit town and Jane leans heavily on her best friend, 53-year-old general store owner Henry Walker, for guidance. Then tragedy strikes the Turner household: Jane, her mother Fran (already pregnant with anothermouth to feed), and younger brother John find themselves torn between the people they`ve lived with all their lives ... Read more... |
| Judges` Award: Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and t... by Corn, Michael, David Isikoff ¿Qué misterio se oculta tras la sonrisa de la celebre Mona Lisa? . Durante siglos, la Iglesia ha conseguido mantener oculta la verdad… hasta ahora. FonoLibro, lider en audiolibros en espanol, les trae una afamada historia sobre un apasionante juego de claves escondidas, sorprendentes revelaciones, acertijos ingeniosos, verdades, mentiras, realidades históricas, mitos, símbolos, ritos, misterios y suposiciones en una trama llena de giros inesperados narrada con un ritmo imparable que conduce al oyente hasta el secreto más celosamente guardado del inicio de nuestra era. Read more... |
| Literary Fiction: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield Settle down to enjoy a rousing good ghost story with Diane Setterfield`s debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale. Setterfield has rejuvenated the genre with this closely plotted, clever foray into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies, and half-truths. She never cheats by pulling a rabbit out of a hat; this atmospheric story hangs together perfectly. Read more... |
| Multi Voiced Performances: World War Z: An Oral History of the ... by Max Brooks Read more... |
| Mystery and Fiction: Echo Park by Michael Connelly In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn`t crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney. A man accused of two heinous murders is willing to come clean about several others, including the killing of Marie Gesto. Taking the confession of the man he has sought-and hated-for thirteen years is bad enough. Discovering that he missed a clue back in 1993 that could have stopped nine other murders may just be the straw that breaks Harry Bosch. Read more... |
| Narration by Author: The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacker lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he is a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. These four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding. Read more... |
| Non Fiction Abridged: The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz Read more... |
| Non Fiction Unabridged: Narrow Dog to Carcassonne by Terry Darlington Michael Palin has certainly been busy since his days with Monty Python`s Flying Circus. In Full Circle, Palin and a film crew go on a year-long adventure visiting 18 countries along the Pacific Rim. The film was eventually made into a 10-part PBS series, to which this book serves as a companion. Not for nothing is this part of the world called the "Ring of Fire"; volcanoes punctuate the landscape, and Palin even climbs one still smoking from a recent eruption. But the difficult landscape is only one challenge in this at times hair-raising, at times hilarious, always fascinating journey around the world`s largest ocean. In the Philippines, Palin witnesses "psychic surgery": on the Urubamba River, Palin simultaneously clings for his li... Read more... |
| Original Work for Audio: Hasidic Williamsburg: A Contemporary A... by George Kranzler Hasidic Williamsburg recounts the dramatic emergence of this unique community in the face of major crises. It is the story of the loyalty of its members to their rebbes and their teachings and to the milieu they created in an old Jewish neighborhood Read more... |
| Package Design: The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman`s heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra`s Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal dæmon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied: As for what experimental theology was, L... Read more... |
| Personal Development: For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emot... by Patricia Phd Mcconnell Yes, humans and canines are different species, but current research provides fascinating, irrefutable evidence that what we share with our dogs is greater than how we vary. As behaviorist and zoologist Dr. Patricia McConnell tells us in this remarkable new book about emotions in dogs and in people, more and more scientists accept the premise that dogs have rich emotional lives, exhibiting a wide range of feelings including fear, anger, surprise, sadness, and love. Read more... |
| Romance: If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern Now in paperback: In this charming novel, internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern shows that sometimes not seeing is believing! is a love story with heart -- and just a touch of magic.Elizabeth`s life is an organized mess. The organized part is all due to Elizabeth`s efforts. The mess is all due to her sister, Saoirse (pronounced Seer-sha), whose personal problems challenge Elizabeth`s orderly world and leave her scrambling to pick up the pieces that Saoirse`s whirlwind leaves behind. One of these pieces is Saoirse`s son, Luke. Age 6, Luke is a quiet, contemplative boy whose all-too serious aunt cares for him well, and whose all-too unstable mother is a red headed blur. When Luke is playing on the front lawn of Elizabeth`s... Read more... |
| Science Fiction: The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue Read more... |
| Short Stories/Essays/Collections: This I Believe: Personal Phil... by Dr. Seuss,Theodor Seuss Geisel Based on the NPR series of the same name, THIS I BELIEVE features 80 Americans-from the famous to the unknown-completing the thought that begins with the book`s title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.Featuring a star-studded list of contributors that includes John McCain, Isabel Allende, and Colin Powell (as well as pieces from the original 1950`s series including Helen Keller and Jackie Robinson), the collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer, a woman who sells yellow pages advertising in Fort Worth, TX and a man who serves on the state of Rhode Island`s parole board. Th... Read more... |
| Solo Narration Female: Telegraph Days (Unabridged) by Larry McMurtry 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: Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson In this riveting and adventure-packed follow-up to the award-winning New York Times bestseller Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter leaves the relative safety of Mollusk Island - along with his trusted companion, Tinker Bell - for the cold, damp, dangerous streets of London. On a difficult journey across the sea, he and Tink discover the dark and deadly slithering part-man/part-creature Lord Ombra, who is intent on recovering the missing starstuff - celestial dust that contains unimagined powers. In London, Peter attempts to track down the indomitable Molly, hoping that together they can combat Ombra`s determined forces. But London is not Mollusk Island; Peter is not the boy he used to be; and Lord Ombra - the Shadow Master - is unlike anythin... Read more... |
| Thriller Suspense: The Dead Yard by Adrian McKinty In this breathtaking sequel to Dead I Well May Be, "the most captivating crime novel of 2003" (Philadelphia Inquirer), the mercenary Michael Forsythe is forced to infiltrate an Irish terrorist cell on behalf of the FBI, confronting murder, mayhem, and the prospect of his own execution.In this breathtaking sequel to Dead I Well May Be, which The Philadelphia Inquirer called "the most captivating crime novel" of the year, mercenary bad boy Michael Forsythe is forced to infiltrate an Irish terrorist cell on behalf of the FBI, and thus confront murder, mayhem, and the prospect of his own execution. With the same poetic lilt and heart-stopping suspense that made Dead I Well May Be a critical favorite, the saga continues with The Dead Yard -- a t... Read more... |