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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race; read by Jon Stewart Back-of-the-Box blurb: Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn of time, but when [...] Did you enter the giveaway for Emma Donoghue’s Room? Click over here to my Giveaways page to see if you’re a winner! Congratulations to the three winners, and many thanks to Hachette Book Group, who sponsored this giveaway. Oh, yeah! It’s on the shortlist of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for fiction. It’s one of the hottest books of the fall season. It’s up for giveaway by Hachette Audio. Click over to my Giveaways page to enter to win Room by Emma Donoghue! update 11/20/10: the Giveaway has ended and this post is now closed to comments. [...]
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova Back-of-the-box blurb: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow has a perfectly ordered life–solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order [...] Homer & Langley: A Novel written by E. L. Doctorow; read by Arthur Morey Back-of-the-box blurb: Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers – the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They [...] Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson; read by Joshilyn Jackson Back-of-the-box blurb: Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As “Mrs. Ro Grandee” she’s trapped in a marriage that’s thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self [...] What better way to wrap up Audiobook Week than with a giveaway?! Click over to the Giveaways page to read all the details and to enter the giveaway for one of THREE copies of Joshilyn Jackson’s Backseat Saints. Update: winners have been selected (see the Giveaways page); this post is now closed to Comments. Have you seen all the excitement over at Devourer of Books? Jen has organized an entire week dedicated to celebrating audiobooks – reviews, giveaways, and – my favorite – discussion posts. Check out the topics she’s covering this week – why do you listen to audiobooks? do they ‘count’ as reading? what are some tips [...] What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell; read by the author Back-of-the-box blurb: Now the very best and most famous of Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorkerpieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology. Among the pieces: his investigation into why there are so many different kinds of mustard [...] Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater; read by Nick Sullivan Back-of-the-case blurb: Mr. Popper dreams about leaving his boring life and going on an adventure to the Antarctic. When the legendary Admiral Drake sends him a live penguin in response to his letter, [...] |
 
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