Archive for the ‘Audiobooks’ Category
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
After seeing the trailer for this soon-to-be-released film, I immediately reserved the book by José Saramago. I couldn't wait for the movie.
The Portuguese author published the book about a city ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined... In 1998, Saramago received The Nobel Prize ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The plague of doves, is performed by two readers, Kathleen McInerney and Peter Francis James. These narrators share stories of several families and generations in a corner of North Dakota near a Ojibwe Indian Reservation. The experience of listening to these distinct voices ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Junot Diaz' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel headed for big screen
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saturday, May 3rd 2008, 12:19 PM
Dominican author Junot Diaz announced Friday that Miramax is turning his Pulitzer Prize-winning book into a movie, but that he worries how the story will be portrayed.
Diaz, who lives in ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Recent biographies of intriguing and influential people are available for listening: Examples include
B-ALLENDE ALLENDE The sum of our days by Isabel Allende
B-BLACK ELK BLACK E Black Elk speaks being the life story of ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Library Journal published its BEST list on January 15, 2008. Links in blue are to the non-fiction audiobooks which are in the Spokane Public Library collection. Find a favorite and reserve today! Fiction titles are in last week's entry.
Best Audiobooks of 2007
By Ann Burns -- Library Journal, ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Library Journal published its BEST list on January 15, 2008. Links in blue are to the fiction audiobooks which are in the Spokane Public Library collection. [Next week I'll publish the non-fiction audiobooks.]
Best Audiobooks of 2007
By Ann Burns -- Library Journal, 1/15/2008
Heard any good books lately? Apparently, lots ...
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