Dan Brown’s new novel Inferno features the return of Brown’s popular protagonist Robert Langdon, the Harvard symbologist at the center of The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. Inferno takes place in Italy and was inspired by Dante’s iconic 14th century poem of the same name. The book cover, exclusively revealed on The Today Show, [...]
Title: Splendors and Glooms Author: Laura Amy Schlitz Narrators: Davina Porter Genre: Fantasy Length: 12 Hours Publisher: Recorded Books Review: “Set in London in 1860, this 2013 Newbery Medal Honor Book begins at lonely 12-year-old Clara’s birthday party, when a cruel puppet master kidnaps Clara for ransom and then disappears, leaving his two assistants, Lizzie Rose and Parsefall, in charge of Clara. [...]
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel The Great Gatsby continues to enthrall generations years later after first being published in 1925. Many of our notions about that period are taken from the pages of this book. Bathtub gin, flappers and house parties that last all week enliven Fitzgerald’s stylish tale. This beloved classic is offered in any format from [...]
Cold Days by acclaimed author Jim Butcher, who Booklist refers to as “the dean of contemporary urban fantasy”, is #1 on the New York Times Adult Best-sellers list! Cold Days is Book 14 in the wildly popular Dresden Files series. This fantasy adventure will keep readers invested from start to finish, dazzling with wizards, magic, and [...]
We’re just a couple of days away from Thanksgiving. How about an inspirational audiobook to get us in the holiday state of mind? The Giving Quilt is the 20th novel in New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s The Elm Creek Quilts series. The week after Thanksgiving—Quiltsgiving—residents of Elm Creek Manor find creative ways to [...]
And the National Book Award for Fiction goes to … The Round House by Louise Erdrich! The National Book Award winners were announced last night, Wednesday, November 14, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Erdrich’s novel was 1 of 5 Fiction finalists. The 4 finalists include Junot Díaz’s This Is How You Lose [...]
Today is October 31st—Halloween—A day and night full of frightening ghosts, terrifying goblins and evil witches! What better way to get in the spirit than by talking about a scary audiobook? I’ve picked one of my personal favorite thrillers, WITCHES!, The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem. WITCHES! , written by Rosalyn Schanzer and [...]
Have you ever looked at the car next to you while driving to see someone applying make-up, eating, texting, or…READING A BOOK?! No kidding, I passed a car the other day and a woman had her book spread out across the steering wheel. I didn’t realize they needed to pass a ‘no reading while driving’ [...]
We here at Recorded Books are thankful for all of our wonderful customers, and to say thanks we’re offering a free audio excerpt from The Adventurous Life of Myles Standish and accompanying lesson plans. Click here for information on how to download the audio and lesson plans. Two other excellent suggestions for Thanksgiving reading are [...]
This year the British Library is celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of Beowulf. If you happen to be in London on October 25-28, you can see their copy of Beowulf on display. For those of us who can’t make it to London, listening to the audiobook version of the Seamus Heaney translation is another great way [...]
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