Library Journal RSS Feed Library Jounral en_us Thu, 16 May 2013 17:29:18 http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.rss.XMLServer.cls Books on Tape Grisham, John. The Litigators. 12 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 hrs. Books on Tape. Nov. 2011. ISBN 9780307943217. $45; 1 MP3-CD; Playaway digital; digital download. F   Narrated by Scott Brick, Grisham’s latest legal thriller will be ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/891895-287/major_audio_releases.html.csp Audio 816944@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 FICTION  Beattie, Ann. Walks with Men. 2 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 2½ hrs. AudioGO (formerly BBCAA). 2010. ISBN 9780792772347. $39.95; digital download. F   In PEN/Bernard Malamud Award winner Beattie's powerfully stark period novella, Jane, a recen... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/886435-287/audiobook_reviews_september_15_2010.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 637021@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 FICTION   Adams, Will. The Alexander Cipher. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781400114694. $69.99; 11 CDs. retail ed.; 2 MP3-CDs. retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F  Adams (The Lost Labyrinth) presents h... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/886153-287/audiobook_reviews_september_1_2010.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 627675@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:25 The Seductive Pleasures of Audio Memoirs Memoirs offer readers rich evocations of time and place, personal memories made universal, and the pleasures of eavesdropping on another’s life. When memoirs are translated into audiobooks, those pleasures... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/889057-287/the_readers_shelf_the_seductive.html.csp Audio 719511@elibraryjournal.com Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:16:41 The Shack. William Paul Young. 14 hrs. unabridged. Oasis Audio. ISBN 978-1-60640-920-6. $89.99. F A chart-topping debut novel currently being adapted to film; Roger Mueller reads.TailSpin. Catherine Coulter. 12 hrs. unabridged. Brilliance Audio. ISBN 978-... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854662-287/top_audio.html.csp Audio 405496@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 Audiobooks are, of course, about the book, but they are also about the voice, rich, tonal, talented voices that inhabit the narration and breathe life into the characters. As wonderful as a story might be, the narrator can ruin it by changing characters i... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854063-287/hisher_masters_voice_exceptional_audiobook.html.csp Neal Wyatt Audio 402485@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 Brazilian music evokes for many images of Carnival, samba by the beach, Astrud Gilberto's delicate bossa nova-all very real. But raw psychedelia, audience riots, art as protest, musicians disappeared by the government, and other wild happenings? For one t... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/856028-287/tropicália_alegria_alegria.html.csp Matthew Moyer Audio 412302@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 FictionAtwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 hrs. Books on Tape. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4159-6547-4. $100; 11 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; digital download. FIn this freestanding companion novel to Booker Prize-winning aut... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/849961-287/story.csp Audio 378626@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 Digital media distributor OverDrive has launched a new in-school service, AudioBook Classroom (www.audiobookclassroom.com), that enables K-12 schools to offer 1,001 contemporary and classic works in 29 subjects. The titles are available for simultaneous u... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/849975-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 378696@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 I, Alex Cross. James Patterson. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7 hrs. ISBN 978-1-60788-000-4. $79.99; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F See Major Audio Releases, LJ 10/15/09; Tim Cain and Michael Cerveris read this Hachette ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/849979-287/top_audio.html.csp Audio 378716@elibraryjournal.com Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:14:05 FictionFerris, Joshua. The Unnamed. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8¾ hrs. Hachette Audio from BBC Audiobooks America. 2010. ISBN 978-1-60788-336-4. $89.99; 7 CDs. retail ed. Hachette Audio; Playaway digital; digital download. FAttorney Tim Farnsworth ha... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/884373-287/audio.html.csp Audio 580204@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Ingram Content Group Inc. has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to offer its inventory of 3000 downloadable digital audiobooks to military service members, their dependents, and National Guard members through MyiLibrary, ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/884357-287/audio_news_briefs.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 580100@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 If you haven't yet heard of Nigerian musician, composer, and activist Fela Kuti, public enemy No. 1 of that country's repressive military dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s, expect to.The last few months in particular have seen a resurgence of interest i... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/884349-287/the_fela_kuti_revival.html.csp Matthew Moyer Audio 580048@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 In the late Seventies, a Maryland-based traveling salesman named Henry Trentman posted an ad at a local theater seeking an actor to read him a book on tape he could play in his car. One Frank Muller responded to the call, and Recorded Books, LLC (RB), amo... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/884344-287/recorded_books_standing_the_test.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 580039@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesThis expanded online edition of Prepub Alert features big October titles, with authors ranging from Lee Child and Jish Gen to Bill Bryson and Robert Kaplan.Fiction | Nonfiction | My Picks | This Just In | Coming Attra... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/884292-287/prepub_exploded_oct._2010_pt..csp Barbara Hoffert Audio 579784@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Six live sessions divided evenly over two daysEachpresentation to last roughly 30 minutesParticipants include Jennifer Egan, Scott BrickThe Audio Publishers Association (APA) is bringing a fresh facet to its 'Get Caught Listening'; campaign bypartnering w... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/884186-287/apaaap_to_host_audiobookstage_at.html.csp Mike Rogers Audio 579238@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 error: ERROR #6901: XSLT XML Transformer Error: SAXParseException: Expected entity name for reference (, line 3, column 11532)... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/884086-287/the_lowdown_on_audio_downloads.html.csp Beth Farrell Audio 578739@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesIn this expanded version of Prepub Alert, we're continuing our coverage of November titles while casting our eye back on some October titles that should not be missed. With Bush and Palin both pubilshing in November, ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/883965-287/prepub_exploded_november_2010_pt..csp Barbara Hoffert Audio 578124@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Thrillers from Lee Child and Elmore Leonard, a prequel to Treasure Island, and old favorites like Elizabeth Berg and Elinor Lipman,plus nonfiction highlightscovering the economy, memoir,biography, and one heart-warming tale. All in this new edition of Pre... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/883689-287/prepub_exploded_may_2009.html.csp Barbara Hoffert Audio 551419@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 It takes a virtual media maelstrom to cover an election, so here's a rundown of compelling politically themed A/V and other nonbook materials for your patrons. From Sarah Palin to Michael Moore, all the firebrands are represented here. Vote media!DVDsAmer... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/883687-287/media_mashup_election_2008.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 551416@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 PRINTGiddins, Gary. Visions of Jazz: The First Century. Oxford Univ. 1998. ISBN 978-0-19-507675-2. $35. MUSICGiddins, one of the more vocal (and established) critics excited about the "new thing" of free jazz from the first sax squeal, gave space in this ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/862687-287/story.csp Matthew Moyer Audio 445644@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Top-circulating adult/YA media, 2008 to dateSTATS 41 branches, 1.1 million servedAudiobook CDCITY LIBRARIESI Am America (and So Can You!) Stephen ColbertSUBURBAN LIBRARIESThe Appeal John GrishamDVDCITY LIBRARIESTransformers Michael BaySUBURBAN LIBRARIESJu... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/862563-287/story.csp Audio 445019@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Browne, Sylvia. All Pets Go to Heaven: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World. 4 CDs. retail ed. abridged. 5 hrs. HighBridge Audio. ISBN 978-1-59887-697-0. $26.95. PETS/SPIRITUALITYNineteen of the spiritual guide/psychic's books have been N... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/862562-287/story.csp Audio 445014@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Two HighBridge Audio titles for those wanting to commemorate the life and work of the late Pulitzer® Prize-winning author/Peabody® Award-winning radio host Studs Terkel: Voices of Our Time (6 CDs. retail ed. 7½ hrs. ISBN 978-1-56511-969-7. $34.95), a c... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/862561-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 445010@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Prepub explodes again, with details ranging from author tours to Facebook links. What's more, this edition offersmore titles than can be found in the print edition, including poetry from Rita Dove and Kay Ryan.Fiction | Nonfiction | PoetryFictionBarthelme... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/862537-287/story.csp Barbara Hoffert Audio 444890@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 5500 MP3 audiobooks available; 25% of catalogNew Media Console for the MacApple's share of PC market 9.5%OverDrive today announcedthe launch of its Media Console for the Mac, a beta version of which the digital media distributor debuted in August as part ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/862455-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 444480@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/862358-287/story.csp Audio 443994@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/862356-287/behind_the_mike_simon_vance.html.csp Audio 443984@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 No other category of library materials has grown more quickly in the last several decades than audiovisual (AV), nor has any other category undergone so many changes in format. The transitions from vinyl records to 8-tracks to audiocassettes to CDs and fr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/862332-287/story.csp Nanette Donohue Audio 443865@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Whether in the mood for the heartwarming, the humorous, or the horror-laden, patrons should welcome this range of media titles covering Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. Happy holiday hunting! DVDs Black Christmas. color. 98 min.KOCH Entertainment; www.ko... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/862277-287/media_mashup_holiday_tidings.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 443590@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Movie tie-ins are no longer strictly the stuff of sticker-slapped paperbacks; these days, all imaginable media are getting in on the action. Below are three forthcoming 2008 flicks-Quantum of Solace, The Road [as of 10/21, bumped to 2009], and The Curious... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/862074-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 442574@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 New Zune® firmware supports e-audiobooksBoth WMA and MP3 formats transferableFiles must still be downloaded prior to transferDigital distributor OverDrive's e-audiobooks,throughits third-generation library platform, Media Console 3.1,are now transferable... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/861990-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 442155@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Next month, audiobook devices can be sent back for reloadRevamped web site to offer more tools, optionsIs Playaway lifespan 1000 plays?Not all audiobooks sustain interest over the long term, but libraries that circulate the preloaded audiobook device Play... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/861731-287/playaway_preloaded_audiobooks_to_gain.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 440860@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesRecommendation: HatHeads:1 Man + 2 Knitting Needles = 50 Fun Hat Designsby Trond Anfinnsen, aka Knitkid, for its down-to-earth author and real-life models. Anfinnsen, a new, self-taught knitter, knit 200 hats in about... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/856316-287/anna_katterjohn_recommends_hatheads.html.csp Anna Katterjohn Audio 413742@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesThe year's best audiobooks, nominated by our distinguished roster of 65 audio reviewers and all recipients of starred LJ reviews, are more varied than ever-they include a posthumously published novel (The Girl Who Pla... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/856284-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 413583@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/856175-287/music_for_the_masses_romantic.html.csp Audio 413037@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionBrockmann, Suzanne. Otherwise Engaged. 5 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 6 hrs. BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7927-6356-9. $59.95; Playaway digital; digital download. ROMANCEAvailable for the first time on audio and following The Kissing Ga... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/856037-287/audio.html.csp Audio 412347@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Holiday-themed series entries available in multiple audio formats this month: Kate Jacobs's third "Friday Night Knitting Club" title, Knit the Season (Blackstone Audio), read by Carrington MacDuffie, and A Christmas Promise (BBC Audiobooks America), Anne ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/856027-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 412297@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Dion Graham won an Audie Award for his reading of Athol Dickson's River Rising (Recorded Bks., 2006), and his recordings of George Pelecanos's The Turnaround (BBC Audiobooks America) and Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard A. Long's Maya Angelou: A Glorious ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/856026-287/story.csp Ophelia Lo Audio 412293@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionThe Lost Symbol. Dan Brown. unabridged. 17¾ hrs. Books on Tape. 2009. ISBN 978-0-307-70406-1. $NA. F The Doubleday hc received a starred review, LJ Xpress Review, 9/18/09; Paul Michael reads.The Time Traveler's Wife. Audrey Niffenegger. unabri... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/856023-287/top_audio.html.csp Audio 412277@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Since recording his first audiobook in 1999, Audie Award winner Scott Brick (Dune: The Butlerian Jihad) has become one of the most recognized voices and highly regarded figures in the industry. He's recorded some 500 audiobooks to date and in 2007 was nam... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855936-287/story.csp Lance Eaton Audio 411842@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Carlin, Peter Ames. Paul McCartney: A Life. 12 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 hrs. Tantor Media. ISBN 978-1-4001-4385-6. $79.99; 12 CDs. retail ed.; 2 MP3-CDs. retail ed.; Playaway digital (2010). BIOGSimultaneous release with the Touchstone print editio... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855935-287/story.csp Audio 411837@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 OverDrive's new Media Console for Windows Mobile allows patrons with cards from a subscriber library and whose phones have the Windows Mobile operating system to download OverDrive's entire catalog of 300,000 audiobook, music, and video titles wirelessly.... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855933-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 411828@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855921-287/audio.html.csp Audio 411769@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855911-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 411733@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Tropicália: Web-exclusive Resources for Further Reading ONLINEAnti-: Os MutantesWhat a long, strange trip it's been! Os Mutantes, still going strong despite losing some original members, today rub elbows with Tom Waits, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Nick Cav... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855904-287/tropicãlia_web-exclusive_resources_for_further.html.csp Audio 411703@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Panelists: author Spencer-Fleming,narrator TorenChallengesof narration, productiondiscussedAccess webcast archive through September 2010LJ's September 15"From the Page to Your Ears" webcaston the creation of an audiobook, sponsored by BBC Audiobooks Ameri... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855841-287/story.csp Dodie Ownes Audio 411385@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855831-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 411332@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionBarton, Beverly. Cold Hearted. 10 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 11 hrs. Phoenix Audio. 2009. ISBN 978-1-59777-212-9. $39.95; Playaway digital. FPI Rick Carson's instant attraction to the widow of a murdered senator complicates his investigation of th... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855822-287/story.csp Audio 411287@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Gary Giddins (garygiddins.com), whose Visions of Jazz won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1998, is perhaps best known for his longtime "Weather Bird" column for the Village Voice. His forthcoming book, Jazz (Norton, Oct. 26), cowri... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855814-287/story.csp Matthew Moyer Audio 411247@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The Ascent of Money. Niall Ferguson. unabridged. 11½ hrs. Tantor Media. ISBN 978-1-61545-663-5. $64.99. HIST/ECON The Penguin Pr. hc was described as "a lighthearted but thoughtful stroll through financial history," LJ 11/1/08; Simon Prebble reads.Bu... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855813-287/top_audio.html.csp Audio 411244@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Recorded Books LLC has partnered with Transparent Language Inc. to offer Byki® (short for "Before You Know It"), a new online language-learning system designed for use by public library patrons. Users can access the system from inside or outside the libr... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855811-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 411232@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionAsimov, Isaac. The Currents of Space. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7½ hrs. BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7927-6057-3. $74.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; digital download. SFThis second title in Asimov's three-book "Galactic Empire" series... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855748-287/story.csp Audio 410917@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BBC Audiobooks America partners this month with Hachette Audio to become the exclusive library distributor of its catalog of unabridged fiction and nonfiction audios on CD and MP3-CD and as digital downloads. Hachette titles can be purchased through the a... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855735-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 410852@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Finger Lickin' Fifteen. Janet Evanovich. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7 hrs. ISBN 978-0-7927-6377-2. $74.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F See Major Audio Releases (LJ 5/1/09); an LJ Best Seller, read by Lorelei King.R... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855731-287/story.csp Audio 410831@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 OverDrive Console released for Windows Mobile operating systemAudiobooks, music, and video downloadable "over the air"Applications in the works for leading smartphones like iPhone and BlackBerryLast week, Sony hyped its new wireless ebook reader at an eve... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855709-287/story.csp Josh Hadro Audio 410721@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Fiction Allston, Aaron. Star Wars®: Fate of the Jedi; Outcast. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10½ hrs. Books on Tape. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4159-6007-3. $80; 8 CDs. retail ed. Random House Audio; digital download. SFNew York Times best-selling author Allston... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855590-287/audio.html.csp Audio 410138@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 When purchasing hip-hop for library collections, it's tempting to get caught up in the now. This summer's hot track, however, inevitably becomes fall's "Who's that?" and then we're left with ringtone singles and flash-in-the-pan gangsta overkill collectin... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855582-287/hip-hop_must-haves.html.csp Matthew Moyer Audio 410102@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Medusa. Clive Cussler. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13½ hrs. ISBN 978-1-4159-6628-0. $100; digital download. F Scott Brick reads; the Putnam hc was recommended as "great summer escape reading," LJ 6/1/09.The Scarecrow. Michael Connelly. 10 CDs. li... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855580-287/top_audio.html.csp Audio 410091@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Through digital media distributor OverDrive's new Advantage Program, consortium member libraries sharing downloadable media catalogs can reduce waiting lists with access to additional copies of popular digital titles on the same shared web site to which t... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855579-287/audio_news_briefs.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 410086@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855577-287/top_circulators.html.csp Audio 410075@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionBrown, Dale. Rogue Forces. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-162950-1. $51.75; 10 CDs. retail ed. HarperAudio; digital download. FIn this action-filled 15th entry in Brown's (www.megafortress.com) Patrick McCl... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855497-287/audio.html.csp Audio 409672@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Films Media Group (FMG) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with the newest-generation release of Films on Demand, its web-based digital video delivery service, which now gives viewers access to more than 5600 educational titles and 56,000 individua... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855482-287/story.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 409597@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Stephen Kijak's 2008 documentary about notoriously reclusive singer Scott Walker, 30 Century Man (Oscilloscope Laboratories), which features lengthy testimonials from musicians including David Bowie (also executive producer) and Radiohead about the hold W... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855309-287/scott_walker_30_century_man.html.csp Matthew Moyer Audio 408731@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Brooks, Terry. A Princess of Landover. 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 hrs. Brilliance Audio. ISBN 978-1-4233-9846-2. $99.97; 10 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library/retail eds.; digital download. FBrooks's sixth "Magic Kingdom of Landover" title in 14 y... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855307-287/major_audio_releases.html.csp Audio 408721@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Blur.The Great Escape. Virgin. 1995. UPC 7-24384-08552-0.Blur contrarily celebrated Britpop domination with this album; key track "The Universal" was a florid Walker homage.Jarvis Cocker. Jarvis. Rough Trade. 2006. UPC 8-05551-05012-8.Walker produced the ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855176-287/web_exclusive_-_scott_walker.html.csp Matthew Moyer Audio 408062@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Fiction Archer, Jeffrey. Paths of Glory. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 11 hrs. Macmillan Audio from Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America. ISBN 978-0-7927-6009-2. $89.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; 10 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. Macmillan Audio; 5 CDs. abrid... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855152-287/audio.html.csp Audio 407942@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855143-287/reggae_beyond_bob_marley.html.csp Matthew Moyer Audio 407897@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Any authorized public library employee can enter15-title collection to feature frontlist adult and YA titles$1200 value per giveaway, plus marketing materialsFor 30 weekdays, beginning June 1 and continuing through July 10, Findaway World, creators of Pla... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855001-287/playaway_to_give_away_preloaded.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 407187@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Most of OverDrive's 21,000 WMA files to become iPod-friendlyPreviously, only MP3 files transferable to Apple devicesSoftware modification keeps WMA files copyright protected.With digital media distributor OverDrive's forthcoming (mid-June) upgrade to its ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/855000-287/overdriveaposs_audiobook_software_upgrade_to.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 407182@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 It used to be that a book was published first as a hardcover, then as a lower-cost paperback. With increasingly tech-savvy consumers demanding instantaneous access to content in various formats, that publishing protocol has in the last decade changed to o... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854913-287/books_born_digital.html.csp Lance Eaton Audio 406747@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Bernadette Dunne has recorded more than 250 titles since her reading of Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha (Books on Tape [BOT], 1998) helped put her on the map. She's voiced the works of everyone from actress Katharine Hepburn (Me: Stories of My Life) t... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854902-287/qampa_bernadette_dunne.html.csp Ophelia Lo Audio 406692@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Plum Spooky. Janet Evanovich. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7½ hrs. Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America. ISBN 978-0-7927-5999-7. $74.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F See Major Audio Releases, LJ 12/08; Lorelei King ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854899-287/top_audio.html.csp Audio 406677@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionArmstrong, Kelley. Men of the Otherworld. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 11 hrs. Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7927-6046-7. $89.95. FANTASYKnown for her New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling "Women of the Oth... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854891-287/audio.html.csp Audio 406637@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionBaker, Tiffany. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County. 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12½ hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4332-4695-1. $29.95; 10 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. FBaker's quickly p... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854774-287/audio.html.csp Audio 406057@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854760-287/major_audio_releases.html.csp Audio 405986@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionThe Associate. John Grisham. WMA file. unabridged. 10¾ hrs. Books on Tape. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4159-5890-2. $85. See Major Audio Releases, LJ 12/08; Erik Singer reads.Plum Spooky. Janet Evanovich. WMA file. unabridged. 6½ hrs. Sound Library: BBC... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854759-287/top_audio.html.csp Audio 405981@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Digital audio publishing company Creative Content just signed a deal with digital media distributor OverDrive to sell its business etiquette and self-improvement titles in libraries and schools as well as through online retailers. Creative Content, cofoun... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854758-287/audio_news_briefs.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 405976@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Meacham, Jon. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.14 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 17¼ hrs. Books on Tape. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4159-5711-0. $129; NA CDs. retail ed. abridged. NA hrs. Random House Audio; abridged/unabridged digital download. BIOG... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854694-287/audio_review_spotlight_jon_meachamaposs.html.csp Audio 405656@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionBazell, Josh. Beat the Reaper. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2009. ISBN 978-1-60024-432-2. $41.75; 6 CDs. retail ed. Hachette Audio. FIn this debut thriller, an intern at a run-down Manhattan hospital who's atoning for his for... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854675-287/audio.html.csp Audio 405561@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854609-287/mm_addendum.html.csp Matthew Moyer Audio 405231@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 At the dawn of the 1980s, disaffected American youth, feeling burned by Reagan and left out of disco and new wave's nonstop party, were looking for a noise to give vent to their anger and fear. UK-produced punk rock pointed the way for these kids to bash ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854564-287/hardcore_wild_in_the_streets.html.csp Matthew Moyer Audio 405006@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Top-circulating media for 2008STATS four branches; 250,000 servedAudiobook CDs-Fiction Simple GeniusDavid BaldacciTo Darkness and to DeathJulia Spencer-FlemingThe WatchmanRobert CraisAudiobook CDs-Nonfiction Inglés I: English for Spanish Speakers; el cur... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854560-287/top_circulators.html.csp Audio 404986@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 You'd have to be trying hard to miss Tantor Media (www.tantor.com) these days. From its scrappy start above a San Clemente, CA, garage to its 2004 move to its current Old Saybrook, CT, location, where it's grown from five to 60 employees in three years, t... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854559-287/tantor_media_the_elephant_in.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 404981@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Thomas Nelson's new NelsonFree program makes available a book's content in multiple formats at no extra charge. Readers purchasing a physical book with the NelsonFree logo can, after registering online, download the select hardcover title as both an audio... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854558-287/audio_news_briefs.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 404976@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Buckley, Christopher. Losing Mum and Pup. 9 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 10½ hrs. Hachette Audio. May 6, 2009. ISBN 978-1-60024-683-8. $34.98; digital download. AUTOBIOGThe political satiriston his famous parents; read by the author. Other Buckley titles ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854474-287/major_audio_must-haves_for_may.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 404556@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Go back to the Academic Newswire for more stories10. Gorilla Biscuits. Start Today. 1989. Revelation. UPC 0-98796-00122-6.New York's straight-edge icons injected humor into the usually dour straight-edge ideology (i.e., no drinking, no drugs)... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854347-287/hardcore_wild_in_the_streets.html.csp Audio 403921@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Asimov, Isaac. The Stars, Like Dust. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7½ hrs. Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7927-5786-3. $64.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. SF Not all of Hugo and Nebula award winner... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854338-287/web-exclusive_audio_reviews_lj_4109.html.csp Audio 403876@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 BOT lowers cost of titles, offers new category imprintsRedesigns web site, logo, packagingChangesintroduced today androlling out through yearIn a bid to gain a leg up in the competitive audiobook market, Books on Tape (BOT), a division of Random House, ha... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854297-287/books_on_tape_lowers_prices.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 403671@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854266-287/audio.html.csp Audio 403516@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Armstrong, Kelley. Broken (Women of the Otherworld). 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 hrs. Tantor Media. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4001-3741-1. $69.99; 10 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. retail ed.; digital download. FANTASYElena, the most popular character in New Yo... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854218-287/audio_sequels_greats_from_apos08.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 403275@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. tr. by Burton Raffel. 18 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 22½ hrs. Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America. 2008. ISBN 976-7927-5650-7. $129.95; 2 MP3-CDs. library ed.; Playaway digital. CLASSICThis new translation by R... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854216-287/audiobook_oldies_but_goodies.html.csp Audio 403264@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. David Wroblewski. 18 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 21¾ hrs. ISBN 978-1-4361-4958-7. $123.75; Playaway® digital; digital download. F The Ecco hc and audio edition of this Oprah's Book Club pick both received starred revie... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854105-287/top_audio.html.csp Audio 402697@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Following the Apple January 6 announcement that it will be dropping digital rights management (DRM) protections from the music tracks in its iTunes store, LJ asked audiobook providers how this development might impact audiobooks in the library market. Tho... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854104-287/newsbriefs.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 402692@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionAcito, Marc. Attack of the Theater People. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9¾ hrs. Recorded Bks. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4361-3798-0. $123.75; Playaway® digital. FIn this follow-up to Acito's How I Paid for College (2004), aspiring actor Edward Zanni att... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/854092-287/audio.html.csp Audio 402632@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The year opened with Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway cat-fighting their way to the altar (Bride Wars; 1/9; Fox 2000 Pictures) and Renée Zellweger finding love in small-town Minnesota (New in Town; 1/30; Lionsgate). Helping to ring in Valentine's Day this m... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/853958-287/media_amore_a_cupid-themed_quartet.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 401956@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Music from Apple's iTunes store to go DRM-freeRecorded Books, OverDrivesuggestsome additional DRM-free contentcoming tolibrariesOther audiobook providers generally optimistic about Apple developmentApple's January 6 announcement that it would be dropping ... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/853874-287/appleaposs_drmnewssaid_to_have_little.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 401533@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Ladies andgents of library land, lend us your ears! The best listens of 2008, selected by ourintrepid band of audio reviewers, range from tales ofBengali and Haitianimmigrantsto political autobiographies and take us from locales as diverse as North Dak... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/853785-287/best_audiobooks_of_2008.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 401084@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionAuster, Paul. Invisible. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8½ hrs. Macmillan Audio from BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7927-6707-7. $74.95; 6 CDs. retail ed. Macmillan Audio; digital download. FAuster himself narrates his 15th novel-followi... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/853725-287/audio.html.csp Audio 400778@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 In the late 1960s, a new generation of postwar youth in a divided Germany began making music that reflected their own surroundings and lack of a voice in the popular culture.They were influenced by the Velvet Underground, experimental jazz, modern classic... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/853704-287/donapost_call_it_krautrock.html.csp Matthew Moyer Audio 400669@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 Carey, Peter. Parrot and Olivier in America. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13½ hrs. Blackstone Audio. ISBN 978-1-4417-2975-0. $109; 11 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. FFrom the two-time Booker Prize winner; s... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/853701-287/major_audio_releases.html.csp Audio 400654@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/853700-287/top_audio.html.csp Audio 400649@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 And the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album goes to...Always Looking Up (LJ 6/15/09), read by the author, Michael J. Fox, from Hyperion Audio. (The Hyperion print edition was an LJ Best Seller.) Also nominated in that category were The Lincoln-Do... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/853699-287/news_briefs.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 400644@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 U Is for Undertow. Sue Grafton. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 hrs. ISBN 978-1-4159-6670-9. $100; digital download. F The New York Times best-selling Marian Wood: the Putnam hc was described as "fresh, complex, fast-paced, and immensely enjoyable,... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/853654-287/top_audio.html.csp Audio 400419@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionBlack, Sonny F. Bulletproof Love. 4 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 4½ hrs. Blackstone Audio and Buck 50 Prods. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4417-2078-8. $49; 4 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. FIn narrating Black's lat... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/853630-287/story.csp Audio 400304@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 FictionBaldacci, David. True Blue. 12 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 14 hrs. Hachette Audio from BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-1-60024-973-0. $94.99; 2 MP3-CDs. library ed.; 12 CDs. retail ed. Hachette Audio; 7 CDs. retail ed. abridged. 8 hrs.; Play... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/853531-287/audio.html.csp Audio 399805@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45 The past year's best audiobooks, all recipients of starred LJ reviews, are more varied than ever-they include a posthumously published novel (The Girl Who Played with Fire), two debut works of hard-boiled fiction (The Manual of Detection and Bad Things Ha... http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/reviews/audio/849894-287/top_audiobooks_of_2009.html.csp Raya Kuzyk Audio 378247@elibraryjournal.com Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:13:45