Audie Award Winners of 2008
2008 Audie Award Winners
The Audie Awards took place on May 30th in Los Angeles. For those of you who've not heard of the Audies, they are basically the Oscars for audio books.
Here are some highlights of the winners which we offer through LearnOutLoud.com:
Audiobook of the Year
The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller (Only available on Audible.com)
Publisher: Audible, Inc.
Author: Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline, Joseph Finder, David Hewson, James Grady, S. J. Rozan, Erica Spindler, John Ramsey Miller, David Corbett, John Gilstrap, Jim Fusilli, Peter Spiegelman, Ralph Pezzullo and P. J. Parrish
Narrator: Alfred Molina
Classics
Treasure Island
Publisher: Listening Library
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator: Alfred Molina
Personal Development/Motivational
Fit to Live
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Author: Pamela Peeke
Narrator: Pamela Peeke
Biography/Memoir
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Author: Walter Isaacson
Narrator: Edward Herrmann
Business Information/Educational
Words That Work
Publisher: Hyperion Audiobooks
Author: Frank Luntz
Narrator: L.J. Ganser & Frank Luntz
Humor
I Am America (and So Can You!)
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Author: Stephen Colbert
Narrator: Stephen Colbert
Inspirational/Spiritual
Inspired By...the Bible Experience: Old Testament
Publisher: Zondervan
Narrator: Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, and more
Narration by the Author or Authors
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Author: Garrison Keillor
Narrator: Garrison Keillor
Non-Fiction
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation
Author: Alex Haley
Narrator: Avery Brooks
Check out these award-winning audio books on LearnOutLoud.com!
List of Top Free Titles from FORA.tv
In our last E-Magazine we featured 500 Free Titles from FORA.tv, which we recently added to our site. In this issue we wanted to further promote this wealth of free offerings by displaying some of the highlights from FORA.tv's providers. You can also check out these highlights on our most recent blog:
500 Free Titles From FORA.tv
We've divided the FORA.tv titles up according to their providers. Here are the top providers you can browse with some highlights of the titles they offer:
Asia Society:
Henry Kissinger
Joseph Stiglitz: The Economics of Information
President's Forum with Thich Nhat Hanh
Aspen Institute:
The Clash Between Faith and Reason by Sam Harris
A Conversation with Lance Armstrong
A Conversation with Richard Branson
Karl Rove in Conversation with Walter Isaacson
Book Passage:
Death Experiences: Stan Grof and Scott Eberle
John Gray: Why Mars and Venus Collide
Joyce Carol Oates: The Gravedigger's Daughter
Madeleine Albright: The Mighty and The Almighty
Books Inc.:
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong
Calvin Trillin
Made to Stick by Chip Heath
A Portrait of Harper Lee
Brookings Institution:
Immigration Reform: Prospects and Possibilities
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons?
Cato Institute:
Andrew Sullivan: The Conservative Soul
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End
John McCain: The Myth of a Maverick
Chatham House:
Ban Ki-moon: Why the UN Matters Today
Chautauqua Institution:
Boosting the Brain's Power Into Old Age by Dharma Singh Khalsa
Music: Heart, Soul and Dollar - Robert Greenberg
Nutrition and Physical Activity for a Lifetime by Christina Economos
City Arts & Lectures:
Chris Elliott in Conversation with Dave Eggers
Eric Schlosser, Author of Fast Food Nation
Jared and Susan Diamond in Conversation
Cody's Books:
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood
Ralph Nader: The Good Fight
Shelby Steele on Why Barack Obama Cannot Win
Commonwealth Club of California:
Alan Alda Reflects on Career, Life and Family
Frank McCourt: Angela and the Baby Jesus
Jimmy Wales and Andrew Keen Debate Web 2.0
PJ O'Rourke: The Wealth of Nations
YouTube Co-founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen
Council on Foreign Relations:
A Conversation with Benazir Bhutto
Hillary Rodham Clinton at Council on Foreign Relations
C-SPAN:
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Gay Marriage Debate with David Blankenhorn & Evan Wolfson
The Joke's Over: Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson
Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival
President George W. Bush at the NAACP
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
Tom Wolfe: What's Southern Today?
Heritage Foundation:
The President, The Pope and The Prime Minister by John O'Sullivan
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Policy in Northeast Asia
Hoover Institution:
Harvey Mansfield: Anger and Self-Importance
Norman Podhoretz: World War IV
Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Institute of Ideas:
Battle of Ideas: Debating Darwin
Debating Matters: Human Genetic Engineering
LinkTV:
$100 Laptop - NetSquared 2006
Sen. Barbara Boxer
Long Now Foundation:
Bruce Sterling on The Singularity
Francis Fukuyama: The End Of History Revisited
Will Wright and Brian Eno
New School:
An Evening with John Pilger and Amy Goodman
Film Historian David Thomson on Hollywood
The Oxonian Society:
Deepak Chopra at the Oxonian Society
Malcolm Gladwell at the Oxonian Society
The Oxonian Society Honors Michael Palin
The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston
Politics and Prose:
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
Tom Brokaw: Boom! Voices of the Sixties
Transatlantic Institute:
Hamas and the National Unity Government
World Affairs Council:
A Conversation with Ted Turner
George Lucas
Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U
Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem
Journeys of a Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes
And about 120 titles from their other providers we've consolidated under the publisher FORA.tv:
FORA.tv:
The 20th Century on Trial: Norman Mailer
Al Gore: The Global Environmental Crisis
Al Sharpton and Christopher Hitchens Debate
Bill Clinton: A Call to Action
Dan Gediman: This I Believe
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
Fritjof Capra: The Science of Leonardo
Garrison Keillor on Life, Cheerfulness and Aging
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Malcolm X: Address to the Ford Hall Forum
Mind Set! Reset Your Thinking and See the Future by John Naisbitt
Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia
Salman Rushdie
Vietnam and the Rise of the New Left by Michael Medved
Enjoy the offerings from this brilliant ideas network for discourse and debate.
New Audio Book: The Madman by Kahlil Gibran
Our new audio book for the month of June is the The Madman by Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran, who also authored one of the bestselling books of the 20th century: The Prophet.
Download The Madman by Kahlil Gibran
Published in 1918, this work introduced Americans to the thought-provoking poems and parables of Kahlil Gibran. The audio book is unabridged and, while only 45 minutes in length, it probably demands a second listen in order to better comprehend this clever, enigmatic work.
It is available on MP3 download. This audio book can be downloaded exclusively through LearnOutLoud.com.
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