Reviews of audio books on tape, CD, and MP3 download from Library Journal.
Mind, Body, & Soul By Beth Farrell - 08/15/2009
Serenity. Fulfillment. Happiness. Wisdom. Hot sex (yes, hot sex). A multitude of current and forthcoming self-help audiobooks promise listeners that, despite the constant doom and gloom in today's headlines, these higher states of being are well within reach. Seeking more enlightenment Forbes recently reported that Americans spent $11 billion in 2008 on self-help books, CDs, seminars, coaching... More
Audio 11/01/2009
Fiction Brockmann, 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. ROMANCE Available for the first time on audio and following The Kissing Game (1996), also available from BBC Audiobooks America, this 1997 title completes RITA Award-winning author Brockmann's (www.
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Tropicália: Alegria, Alegria! By Matthew Moyer - 11/01/2009
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 tumultuous year, in 1968, that all happened in Brazil, where a tightly knit group of musicians and artists took on a military dictatorship.
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Top Audio 11/01/2009
Fiction Nonfiction For the month of September 2009; all above titles are iPod-compatible WMA files
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Behind the Mike: Dion Graham By Ophelia Lo - 11/01/2009
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 Celebration (Brilliance Audio) were both LJ Best Audiobooks of 2008.
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News Briefs By Raya Kuzyk - 11/01/2009
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 Perry's seventh Victorian-era holiday novella, read by Terrence Hardiman.
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Behind The Mike: Scott Brick By Lance Eaton - 10/15/2009
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 named Publishers Weekly's Narrator of the Year. Forthcoming titles include John Lutz's Urge To Kill (Books on Tape, Oct.
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Major Audio Releases 10/15/2009
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). BIOG Simultaneous release with the Touchstone print edition (125,000-copy first printing); John Lee reads.
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Music for the Masses Matthew Moyer, Reference Librarian, Popular Media Dept., Jacksonville P.L., FL, August 28, 2009 New Rakim Single Released
Earlier this summer, the unexpected new single "Holy Are You" by ... More
Music for the Masses Matthew Moyer, Reference Librarian, Popular Media Dept., Jacksonville P.L., FL, August 25, 2009 A Chat With Lullatone
It's a pretty safe bet that one of the earliest uses of what would become music was c... More
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