December 16, 2010

Audio Book Boxed Sets

Boxed Sets always make excellent gifts for those extra special people in your life. There are a number of audio book boxed sets, but they’re not necessarily the easiest to find so we decided to put together this list of the some of the best boxed sets and collections on audio. These include literature sets as well sets of audio books from specific authors and a number of other collections. We’ve divided them up by fiction & nonfiction. Starting with nonfiction boxed sets:

Nonfiction Boxed Sets:

The C.S. Lewis Signature Classics Audio Collection: The Problem of Pain, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, & Mere Christianity

Malcolm Gladwell Box Set: The Tipping Point, Blink, & Outliers

The Essential Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope & Dreams from My Father

Eminent Lives: The Presidents Collection

Martin Luther King: The Essential Box Set

The Giants of Philosophy Boxed Set

Rich Dad’s Advisors: Box Set

John C. Maxwell’s Complete Leadership Series

The Eckhart Tolle Audio Collection

The James Herriot Collection: All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and All Things Wise and Wonderful

The Making of Music: Volumes One & Two

ESV Hear the Word Audio Bible

The Bible: The New Testament Narrated by Gregory Peck

The Ultimate Bible: The Old Testament, King James Version

Fiction Boxed Sets:

The Chronicles of Narnia CD Box Set by C.S. Lewis

Lewis Carroll Box Set: Alice Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

The Complete Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Neil Simon Collection

The Noel Coward Collection

Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Stephenie Meyer Twilight Saga CD Set: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, & Breaking Dawn

A.A. Milne’s Pooh Classics Boxed Set: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, and Now We Are Six

Complete Arkangel Shakespeare

Shakespeare: The Essential Comedies, Volume 1: Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare: The Essential Tragedies, Volume 1: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, King Lear

Collector’s Limited Edition Complete Star Wars Trilogy

The J. R. R. Tolkien Collection

December 15, 2010

50 Stocking Stuffers For Under $20

Still don’t know what to get a friend or family member for Christmas? We’ve got a great (and a bit biased…) suggestion: Audiobooks. Why are audiobooks such great gifts? Because they don’t require the recipient to take any extra time out of his or her day. They can just pop the audiobook on while driving to work, exercising, etc. and each time they’ll think of you and thank you for making their commute or workout a little more interesting.

To help you out in finding an affordable stocking stuffer we’ve put together all of our titles on sale for less than $20 in LearnOutLoud.com’s Audiobook Outlet. Here you can browse titles by category that are Under $5.00, Under $10.00, Under $15.00, and Under $20.00. Find a great affordable gift in the LearnOutLoud.com’s Outlet:

LearnOutLoud.com Bargain Bin Outlet

Also if you missed out last newsletter be sure to checkout our “2010 Audio Book Gift Guide” which features almost 100 of the best audio books released in 2010:

2010 Audio Book Gift Guide

We’ve also put together this list of the 50 best stocking stuffers available for under $20. Along with being available on Audio CD, many of these are also available on Audio Download.

Arts & Entertainment:
A Life in Comedy by Garrison Keillor
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Live in Concert by Douglas Adams
The Woman I Was Born to Be by Susan Boyle
Put on Your Crown by Queen Latifah
Tinsel Tales: Favorite Christmas Stories from NPR
The Story of Classical Music by Darren Henley

Other Notable Releases:
Idiots Unplugged by Glenn Beck
Speak Spanish with Confidence by Angela Howkins
Putting Out of Your Mind by Dr. Bob Rotella
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
Aristotle by Thomas C. Brickhouse
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman

Get a great little gift for a loved one this holiday season to aid them in their lifelong learning!

December 9, 2010

2010 Audio Book Gift Guide

Looking for some great holiday gifts? At LearnOutLoud.com we’ve assembled a list of the best new and most popular audio book releases from 2010. You can check out all of our new releases here:

All 2010 Audiobook New Releases

All the audio books on our list are available on Audio CD and are in stock and ready to ship from LearnOutLoud.com. And many of them are available on Audio Download. No matter who you’re giving gifts to this year, you’re sure to find an audio book they’ll enjoy and learn from. To make it easy, we’ve divided this list of the best new releases from 2010 into categories. We’ve picked a selection of potential audio book gifts from our most popular categories. Here is a selection of great audio book gifts from the categories of Self Development, Business, and Religion & Spirituality:

Self Development Audio Book Gifts:

1. Manifesting Change by Mike Dooley

2. The Essence of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

3. The Power by Rhonda Byrne

4. Chicken Soup for the Soul Series by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen

5. Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done by Ian Ayres

6. The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

7. The Genius in All of Us by David Shenk

8. What Would Napoleon Hill Do? by Napoleon Hill

9. Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success by John Wooden

10. The Fearless Heart by Pema Chodron

11. The Shadow Effect by Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, & Marianne Williamson

12. Relieve Stress with Medical Hypnosis by Steven Gurgevich

13. Women Food and God by Geneen Roth

14. Living in Favor, Abundance, and Joy by Joel Osteen

15. Living from the Overflow by Michael Beckwith

16. As Long as We Both Shall Live by Dr. Gary Smalley

17. The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely

18. Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Dr. Daniel Siegel

19. Click: The Magic of Instant Connections by Ori & Rom Brafman

20. The Courage to Be Free by Guy Finley

Business Audio Book Gifts:

1. Think and Grow Rich: Gold Standard Edition by Napoleon Hill

2. Sell Like a Pro by Dale Carnegie

3. The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working by Tony Schwartz

4. The Big Short by Michael Lewis

5. The Leader Who Had No Title by Robin Sharma

Religion & Spirituality Audio Book Gifts:

1. The Christmas Spirit by Joel Osteen

2. One Year Chronological Bible – NLT MP3 CD

3. The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis

4. Toward a True Kinship of Faiths by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

5. The Message Remix: Solo: An Uncommon Devotional MP3 CD

6. Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet by Deepak Chopra

7. What Good Is God? by Philip Yancey

8. Buddhism: A Beginner’s Guide to Inner Peace and Fulfillment by Jack Kornfield

9. Storm Warning by Billy Graham

10. The Art of Letting Go: Living the Wisdom of Saint Francis by Fr. Richard Rohr

Biographies as Audio Book Gifts:

1. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 by Mark Twain

2. Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens

3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

4. Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

5. Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela

Arts & Entertainment Audio Book Gifts:

1. Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan

2. I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron

3. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth by Jon Stewart

4. They Call Me Baba Booey by Gary Dell’abate

5. A Life in Comedy by Garrison Keillor

Literature Audio Book Gifts:

1. Nemesis by Philip Roth

2. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris

3. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

4. The Neil Simon Collection: 10 Plays by Neil Simon

5. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

History Audio Book Gifts:

1. At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

2. American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H.W. Brands

3. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester

4. NPR: The First 40 Years

5. The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas

Politics Audio Book Gifts:

1. Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House by Richard Wolffe

2. Decision Points by George W. Bush

3. A Journey: My Political Life by Tony Blair

4. America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag by Sarah Palin

5. Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward

6. Pinheads and Patriots by Bill O’Reilly

7. Dismantling the Empire by Chalmers Johnson

8. Idiots Unplugged by Glenn Beck

9. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann & Mark Halperin

10. The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter

Science Audio Book Gifts:

1. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow

2. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris

3. The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion by Herman Wouk

4. Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James D. Tabor

5. NPR Sound Treks: Animals & NPR Sound Treks: Birds

And you can check out 100s more in our 2010 new releases divided up by category:

Arts & Entertainment New Releases

Biography New Releases

Business New Releases

Education & Professional New Releases

History New Releases

Languages New Releases

Literature New Releases

Philosophy New Releases

Politics New Releases

Religion & Spirituality New Releases

Science New Releases

Self Development New Releases

Social Sciences New Releases

Sports & Hobbies New Releases

Technology New Releases

Travel New Releases

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