Awards & Recognition, Featured, Featured Titles Rave audiobook reviews for Michelle Obama’s BECOMING Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on November 21, 2018

Listen to the first audiobook clip from the former First Lady and hear why BECOMING, written and read by Michelle Obama, is a must for your audiobook collection. BECOMING is also Oprah’s newest book club selection! As Michelle Obama shared to a room of thousands of librarians at the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans, “We all belong and I think my book is just the ordinariness of a very extraordinary story… Read more

Tagged: author-read, BECOMING, Michelle Obama, starred reviews

Featured-LL, Interview, Video VIDEO: Bryan Stevenson on adapting JUST MERCY for YA listeners Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on October 10, 2018

Bestselling author, lawyer, and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson knows that young people have a lot of questions about what’s happening in their communities. Step into the studio with Bryan to learn about his new audiobook, Read more

Tagged: Author Interview, author-read, Bryan Stevenson, JUST MERCY, Read by the Author, Video, YA Adaptation

Collection Development, Featured, Featured Titles Toni Morrison narrates two new recordings of her beloved classics Submitted by Kristen Luby on September 27, 2017

Award-winning author Toni Morrison returned to the studio to record never-before-available unabridged editions of SONG OF SOLOMON and PARADISE. Her brilliant readings add another level of musicality and magic to her already-poetic written words. AudioFile raves, “Morrison sets the gold standard for a writer narrating her own work.” Read more

Tagged: author-read, Classics, Fall '17, PARADISE, SONG OF SOLOMON, Toni Morrison

Featured, Featured Titles Tom Hanks makes Mindy Kaling’s storytelling wish come true Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on September 1, 2017

We have ALL been excited about the arrival of Tom Hanks’s delightful collection of short stories, and October LibraryReads pick, UNCOMMON TYPE (on sale Oct 17). And it turns out, another one of our favorite celebrity authors is thrilled, too. Read more

Tagged: author-read, Celebrity Reads, Mindy Kaling, Tom Hanks, UNCOMMON TYPE