Collection Development, Collection Development, Featured Our Recommendations for First-Time Listeners Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on June 21, 2018

To celebrate listening to audiobooks (and that June Is Audiobook Month), we’re giving away a tote bag full of classic productions and new favorites! From children’s titles to adult titles and fiction to nonfiction, it is the ultimate audiobook tote. To enter to win it, click here. For official rules, click here.

The benefits of listening to audiobooks are clear: audiobooks are the ultimate tool for multitaskers, as well as a great way to relax. Read more

Tagged: Amie Kaufman, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher, Douglas Adams, Elizabeth Strout, Ernest Cline, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, I've Got Your Number, ILLUMINAE, J.K. Rowling, Jay Kristoff, Jayne Entwistle, Jim Dale, Johnathan McClain, Kimberly Farr, Lincoln Hoppe, Max Brooks, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Philip Pullman, READY PLAYER ONE, Sophie Kinsella, Stephen Fry, the golden compass, THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, The Princess Diarist, Wil Wheaton, WORLD WAR Z

Collection Development, Listening Library Jumpstart Summer Reading with Audiobooks Submitted by Erin Murphy on May 22, 2018

From the American Southwest all the way to another place in time, audiobooks take us on incredible adventures. Read more

Tagged: A Wrinkle in Time, Amie Kaufman, angel pineda, anna dwedney, brian amador, carla corvo, Hope Davis, Jay Kristoff, jeanne birdsall, llama llama loves to read, Madeleine L'Engle, munro leaf, Olivia Taylor Dudley, reed duncan, Rick Riordan, Robbie Daymond, Susan Denaker, the penderwicks at last, the story of ferdinand

Promotions & Events Teen Read Week 2016: Listen for the Fun of It Submitted by Kristen Luby on October 10, 2016

Teen Read Week is a national literacy initiative created by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) to encourage teens to be regular readers, listeners, and library users. Celebrate Teen Read Week October 9-15, 2016.

This year YALSA announced a multilingual “Read for the Fun of It” theme, encouraging librarians “to highlight all of the resources and services available to the 22% of the nation’s youth who speak a language other than English at home.” Read on for fun listening suggestions, learn why audiobooks are a great resource for English Language Learners, and find more language learning tools for your library. Read more

Tagged: A SHADOW BRIGHT AND BURNING, Amie Kaufman, Dan Brown, GEMINA, James Dashner, Jay Kristoff, Jessica Cluess, Teen Read Week, THE DA VINCI CODE (YOUNG ADULT ADAPTATION), THE FEVER CODE

Awards & Recognition, Awards & Recognition, Featured-LL 2016 Audie Award winners Submitted by Kristen Luby on May 13, 2016

We’re extremely proud to announce that Books on Tape had four winners at the 21st annual Audie Awards! View our featured collection of winners here. Read more

Tagged: Amie Kaufman, Audie Awards, GHETTOSIDE, ILLUMINAE, January LaVoy, Jay Kristoff, Jill Leovy, LAIR OF DREAMS, Libba Bray, Paula Hawkins, Rebecca Lowman, THE DIVINERS, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

Featured Titles With 20 narrators and a special sound bed, the ILLUMINAE audiobook is out-of-this-world Submitted by Kristen Luby on May 12, 2016

Update May 2016: ILLUMINAE is the 2016 Audie Award winner for Multi-Voiced Performance! If you’ve seen a copy of ILLUMINAE, filled with scratched out emails and interview transcripts, you probably thought how are they going to bring this story to audiobook? Only the team at Listening Library could create a production this extraordinary. It’s Battlestar Galatica meets 10 Things I Hate About You and it’s unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Read more

Tagged: Amie Kaufman, ILLUMINAE, Janet Stark, Jay Kristoff, Johnathan McClain, Lincoln Hoppe, Olivia Taylor Dudley

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