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HighBridge– Red Moon Rising – Audio Book Excerpt for 09-14-07

On October 4, 1957, Sputnik was launched--and stunned the world. Character driven, suspenseful, and dramatic,Red Moon Risingunveils the politics, people, science, and mindset behind this critical and transformative world event.Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says“The writing is fast-paced and crisp, the stakes high and the tension palpable from the first pages of this high-flying account of the early days of the space race.”HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presentsRED MOON RISING, ...

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HighBridge– Pontoon – Audio Book Excerpt for 09-07-07

The fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon is real to millions of A Prairie Home Companion fans, who tune in each week for the latest news about its strong women and good-looking men. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Gopher Prairie, it is part of literary legend. Four novels have been set among its quiet streets:Lake Wobegon Days, Wobegon Boy, Lake Wobegon Summer 1956, and nowPONTOON.Angels and Elvises, lovers and Lutherans come together in this gently humorous and deeply thoughtful story about ri ...

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HighBridge – Summerland – Audio Book Excerpt for 08-31-07

Unless you're a parent looking for a little relief, you're probably less than happy to see Labor Day and the end of summer bearing down upon you. In a small effort to prolong the season, HighBridge offers this excerpt from Michael Chabon's ode to this time of baseball, magic, and the joys of youth.HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents SUMMERLAND, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/summerlandbr.html) by Michael Chabon; read by the author.

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HighBridge – Away – Audio Book Excerpt for 08-24-07

A masterful story requires a masterful narrator, and Barbara Rosenblat deliver on the audio edition of Amy Bloom's Away. Rosenblat skillfully handles a multitude of characters and accents in this transatlantic quest, which begins in Russia, and makes its way across the territory of the United States. This epic, intimate novel follows a young immigrant, Lillian Leyb, who is determined to make her way—and find her daughter—regardless of the cost. Praise for Bloom's writing is pouring in: ...

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HighBridge – Heaven’s Net Is Wide – Audio Book Excerpt for 08-17-07

As Tolkien’s The Silmarillion is to The Lord of the Rings, Liam Hearn’s Heaven’s Net Is Wide is the backstory fans of the Tales of the Otori series have been yearning for. And for those as of yet unfamiliar with the four-part series, Heaven’s Net is your entry into a fantastic new world of ninjas, samurais, and mysticism. Set before the Tales of the Otori begins, Heaven’s Net recounts the life of Lord Otori Shigeru, the series’ spiritual warrior-godfather and adoptive father ...

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HighBridge – The Scandal of the Season – Audio Book Excerpt for 08-10-07

For those who love a novel of manners--particularly when some of those manners are bad--debut novelist and Princeton professor Sophie Gee has a treat in store for you. THE SCANDAL OF THE SEASON is a sexy, sparkling debut about the real-life scandal that inspired the 18th century poem that made Alexander Pope's career: "The Rape of the Lock." The Washington Post calls SCANDAL "charming and witty . . . a thoroughly enjoyable submersion in early 18th-century London, when the wittiest writers ...

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HighBridge – Psychic Children – Audio Book Excerpt for 08-03-07

Psychic Sylvia Browne believes all children are gifted; these gifts have merely been either stifled or exploited by society over the centuries. The gifts usually appear at very tender ages; they are, in Browne's view, special blessings from God. In PSYCHIC CHILDREN Browne illuminates this phenomenon and issues a call to society for more understanding and acceptance of these remarkable children. She talks about her own experiences as a child and shares stories of how children can be channe ...

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HighBridge – Mary Modern – Audio Book Excerpt for 07-27-07

Lucy Morrigan finds herself in a situation all too familiar to many women: her professional career seems stalled and so even is her family life, as she tries unsuccessfully to conceive. But Lucy has one thing going for her: her field is genetic research--and she has an idea how she might be able to solve both her problems with the use of some of her grandmother's DNA. Thus begins this imaginative debut novel, whose parallels to Mary Shelley's classic are as intriguing as are its divergences ...

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HighBridge – Last Link – Audio Book Excerpt for 07-20-07

Your business has followed all the best advice and developed a great strategic vision. Yet, when it comes to execution, something always falls short. But what? Gregg Crawford knows. He'll help you close the gap between strategy and execution that is sabotaging your business. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE LAST LINK, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/lastlink.html) by Gregg Crawford, read by Adam Grupper.

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HighBridge – Bagombo Snuffbox – Audio Book Excerpt for 07-13-07

HighBridge Company was honored to re-release this collection of Kurt Vonnegut short stories entitled BAGOMBO SNUFFBOX this June, and only saddened that the occasion was the death of the author. There isn't a critic, a student, or an aspiring writer who hasn't praised or cursed--or alternately praised and cursed--Vonnegut for his contribution to American writing. He forced us to think right when we thought we were just being entertained--and that made the review, or the book report, or our o ...

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HighBridge – Never Better: Flying Elvises on the Fourth of July – Audio Book Excerpt for 07-06-07

For those of you celebrating, we hope you had a pleasant Independence Day. We doubt, though, that it was as exciting as one that occurred in Lake Wobegon last year, as related by Garrison Keillor on his latest collection of Lake Wobegon monologues. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents FLYING ELVISES ON THE 4TH OF JULY from NEVER BETTER, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/neverbetter.html) by Garrison Keillor.

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HighBridge – The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness – Audio Book Excerpt for 06-29-07

When professional storyteller Joel ben Izzy discovered after waking up from thyroid cancer surgery that he had lost his voice, he felt himself falling head long into a story as odd as any he had ever told. His life, his livelihood, his personal identity all seemed open to interpretation and threatened by a meaningless, incomprehensible twist of fate. Weaving together stories and fables with the events of his own life, ben Izzy takes listeners on a surprisingly humorous and deeply moving jou ...

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HighBridge – Soon I Will Be Invincible – Audio Book Excerpt for 06-22-07

If you're going into withdrawal now that Heroes is in reruns, we've got a witty remedy that will tide you over at least a couple days. Doctor Impossible—evil genius, mad scientist, and wannabe world dominator—is tired of ALMOST taking over the world. This time he means business. Enter the beautiful Fatale, a gleaming technological marvel designed by the NSA. She's just received her dream mission: to join up with a group of formerly famous but still fabulous young heroes—Damsel, Black ...

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HighBridge – NPR Driveway Moments for Dads – Audio Book Excerpt for 06-15-07

It's the man of the hour: dear old dad. And to honor (or embarrass or harrass--you know, like usual) Dad this Father's Day weekend, we offer up this podcast. Actually, it's a touching story of a Vietnam airman and his family exchanging audio letters. It just might even make Dad cry. . . not that he'd admit it. . . . HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents NPR DRIVEWAY MOMENTS FOR DADS (www.highbridgeaudio.com/drivewaymomentsfordads.html).

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HighBridge – Stephanie Pearl McPhee, The Yarn Harlot – Audio Book Excerpt for 06-08-07

Knit one and listen too, as Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot, shares her humorous insights into the so-called relaxing hobby of knitting. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents AT KNIT'S END: Meditiations for Women Who Knit Too Much (www.highbridgeaudio.com/atknitsend.html) and STEPHANIE PEARL-MCPHEE CASTS OFF: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting (www.highbridgeaudio.com/spmcastsoff.html), both read by the author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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HighBridge – Memorial Day Special – Audio Book Excerpt for 06-01-07

In memory of those who have served, excerpts of two recent releases from HighBridge: HALSEY'S TYPHOON: A Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, an Untold Rescue, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/halseystyphoon.html), by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Read by Eric Conger and SCORPION DOWN, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/scorpiondown1.html) by Ed Offley. Read by Richard Ferrone.

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HighBridge – Long Time Leaving – Audio Book Excerpt for 05-25-07

The first collection from beloved humorist Roy Blount JR in more than a decade focuses on a perennially popular topic: the South vs. theNorth. Roy's sly, dry, hilarious essays prove the truth of his own observation "The South has more of a way with words."Roy will be at the Book Expo America conference in New York June 1-3, appearing with the band The Rock Bottom Remainders on Friday and speaking at the Audio Publisher Association's Tea on Saturday. If you'll be there, you won't want to mis ...

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HighBridge – Voices of Our Time – Audio Book Excerpt for 05-18-07

In honor of Stud Terkel's 95th birthday yesterday, HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presentsVOICES OF OUR TIME: FIVE DECADES OF STUDS TERKEL INTERVIEWS(www.highbridgeaudio.com/voicofourtim.html), featuring folk legend Pete Seeger.

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HighBridge – Car Talk Classics – Audio Book Excerpt for 05-11-07

Now you can waste not one, not two, but four perfectly good hours listening to these classic, completeCar Talkepisodes. Every call, every joke, every "don't drive like my brother" admonition, the puzzler, even those bogus closing credits--it's all there. Waste a few perfectly good moments--I believe the number is two--right now asHighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presentsCAR TALK CLASSICS(www.highbridgeaudio.com/cartalkclassics1.html), with Tom and Ray Magliozzi.

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HighBridge – The New Yorkers – Audio Book Excerpt for 05-04-07

New York is going to the dogs in this light-hearted romance by Cathleen Schine, author of the The Love Letter. And it's a good thing, too, as animals are what bring together and keep together the motley collection of humans that share this story. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE NEW YORKERS, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/newyorkers.html) by Cathleen Schine; read by Nicole Roberts.

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HighBridge – The 33 Strategies of War | The Prince – Audio Book Excerpt for 04-27-07

We continue our two-part podcast of Robert Greene titles with an excerpt from Greene's The 33 Strategies of War, plus a special "guest appearance" by the godfather of political manuevering, Machiavelli. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE 33 STRATEGIES OF WAR, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/33strategiesofwar.html) by Robert Greene; read by Don Leslie. And also an excerpt from THE PRINCE, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/prince.html)

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HighBridge – The 48 Laws of Power – Audio Book Excerpt for 04-20-07

His books are controversial and so are some of his fans in the hip hop community. So how did Robert Greene, author of The 33 Strategies of War, The 48 Laws of Power, and The Art of Seduction and self-proclaimed "geeky white guy" get to be such a source for the knowledge to master one's universe (whether one's universe likes it or not)? From his résumé, one would have to say: By reading the classics and working in Hollywood. Greene has a degree in classical studies. He has worked in New Yo ...

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HighBridge – The Canon – Audio Book Excerpt for 04-13-07

Most of the profound questions we will explore in our lives--evolution, global warming, stem cells--have to do with science. So do a lot of everyday things, like our ice cream melting and our coffee getting cold and our vacuum cleaner running (or not). What does our liver do when we eat a caramel? How does the horse demonstrate evolution at work? Are we really made of stardust? (Yes, we are.) Natalie Angiers (bestselling author of Woman: An Intimate Geography) sets out to remind us why scie ...

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HighBridge – Scorpion Down – Audio Book Excerpt for 04-06-07

It wasn't just the Bay of Pigs that could have turned the Cold War into a very hot war indeed. We're only just learning now the details surrounding the sinking of the USS Scorpion by the Soviets. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents SCORPION DOWN, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/scorpiondown1.html) by Ed Offley. Read by Richard Ferrone.

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HighBridge – Never Better – Audio Book Excerpt for 03-30-07

Garrison Keillor has never been better, as attested to by his latest collection of Lake Wobegon monologues--the first such collection in over four years.HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents NEVER BETTER, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/neverbetter.html) by Garrison Keillor.

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HighBridge– More Than a Game – Audio Book Excerpt for 03-23-07

As the NCAA counts down to the final four, listen to a coaching legend of the professional league, Phil Jackson, along with colleague and co-author Charley Rosen.HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presentsMORE THAN A GAME,(www.highbridgeaudio.com/morethangame.html) by Phil Jackson and Charley Rosen. Read by the authors.

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HighBridge – A Sand County Almanac. – Audio Book Excerpt for 03-16-07

With World Earth Day approaching and former Vice President (and Oscar winner) Al Gore set to tell Congress a few "inconvenient truths," hear from one of Gore's inspirations: a work referenced in his film.HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presentsA SAND COUNTY ALMANAC,(www.highbridgeaudio.com/sancounbral.html) by Aldo Leopold. Read by Stewart L. Udall.

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HighBridge – The Glory of Their Times – Audio Book Excerpt for 03-09-07

It's America's game, baseball, and Lawrence S. Ritter has helped keep alive its history through these audio interviews with legends of its past. On this excerpt, introduced by Ritter, hear Fred Snodgrass as he starts to relate the story of Charles Victory Faust.HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presentsTHE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES.,(www.highbridgeaudio.com/gloroftheirt.html) by Lawrence S. Ritter, with original audio interviews with old-time players.

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HighBridge – Buried in the Bitter Waters – Audio Book Excerpt for 03-02-07

Racial cleansing here in the US? That's the painful history – with present day ramifications – that a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist reveals in his new work.HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presentsBURIED IN THE BITTER WATERS,(www.highbridgeaudio.com/buriedinbitterwaters.html) by Elliot Jaspin. Read by Don Leslie.

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HighBridge – You, Inc. – Audio Book Excerpt for 02-23-07

Life, according to authors Harry and Christine Beckwith, is one big sales call, with you being not just the seller but what is being sold. So it's imperative you don't sell yourself short. The Beckwiths have the advice you need, whether you're starting out in life or re-assessing your direction. And it's not just about securing yourself a better job or a bigger raise, it's about building a better life.HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presentsYOU, INC.,(www.highbridgeaudio.com/youinc.html) by ...

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HighBridge – The Writer in the Garden – Audio Book Excerpt for 02-16-07

Wish you could see spring? You can at least hear it on this original audio anthology. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE WRITER IN THE GARDEN, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/writeringarden.html) edited by Jane Garmey. Read by an ensemble cast.

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HighBridge – How to Be a Great Lover – Audio Book Excerpt for 02-09-07

Heat up your Valentine's Day with advice from sex expert Lou Paget. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents HOW TO BE A GREAT LOVER, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/howtobegreatlover.html) and HOW TO GIVE HER ABSOLUTE PLEASURE, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/howtogiveherabsolutepleasure.html) by Lou Paget. Read by the author. (Excerpt includes some explicit content.)

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HighBridge – Fresh Air: Stars – Audio Book Excerpt for 02-02-07

Terry Gross is arguably the best interview in any media today. This new collection features more of her amazing interviews with stars of stage and screen. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents FRESH AIR: STARS, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/freshairstars.html), with Terry Gross.

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HighBridge – Anna Karenina – Audio Book Excerpt for 01-26-07

Count Leo Tolstoy's epic story of passion, infidelity, vengeance, and retribution has held readers spellbound since it was first published in the late 1800s. You'll love this edition, read by two-time Tony nominee Alfred Molina. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents ANNA KARENINA, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/annakarenina.html), by Leo Tolstoy.

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HighBridge – Dead Fathers Club – Audio Book Excerpt for 01-19-07

Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem. His dad has appeared to him as a member of the Dead Fathers Club, a club for “ghost dads” whose murders are unavenged. His father’s road accident, it turns out, was no accident at all. Uncle Alan is responsible for his dad’s death, and if Philip doesn't succeed in killing his uncle before his dad's birthday, just ten weeks away, his dad's spirit will never rest. The Dead Fathers Club gives more than a nod towards Hamlet. Hilarious and ...

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HighBridge – Halsey's Typhoon – Audio Book Excerpt for 01-12-07

In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Flags of Our Fathers: a gripping true account of courage and survival at sea against impossible odds—and one of the finest untold World War II sagas of our time. Special extended excerpt! HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents HALSEY'S TYPHOON: A Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, an Untold Rescue, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/halseystyphoon.html), by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Read by Eric Conger.

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HighBridge – The Best of 'Not My Job' – Audio Book Excerpt for 01-05-07

Barack Obama demonstrates that politicians can be funny--and win quiz shows, as demonstrated by his appearance on NPR and Chicago Public Radio's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me'. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents WAIT WAIT ... DON'T TELL ME: THE BEST OF 'NOT MY JOB', (www.highbridgeaudio.com/notmyjob.html).

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HighBridge – Cure Your Cravings – Audio Book Excerpt for 12-29-06

Finally succeed in your New Year's resolution to lose weight or quit smoking: HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents CURE YOUR CRAVINGS, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/cureyourcravings.html), by Yefim Shubentsov and Barbara Gordon. Read by Bill Morelock.

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HighBridge – Wobegon Boy – Audio Book Excerpt for 12-22-06

Now available on CD: Keillor's follow up to Lake Wobegon Days has his protagonist, John Tollefson, returning years later to Minnesota for a life-changing visit. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents WOBEGON BOY, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/wobegonboy.html), by Garrison Keillor. Read by the author.

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HighBridge – The Teahouse Fire – Audio Book Excerpt for 12-15-06

The fates of two women—one Japanese, one American—become entwined in this sweeping novel of 19th century Japan on the cusp of radical change and westernization. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE TEAHOUSE FIRE, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/teahousefire.html), by Ellis Avery. Read by Barbara Caruso (hear an interview with Barbara on the HighBridge website).

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HighBridge – The Mystical Life of Jesus – Audio Book Excerpt for 12-08-06

America’s leading psychic explores the details of Christ’s inspiring life from her unique perspective—as someone familiar with this world and the next. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE MYSTICAL LIFE OF JESUS, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/mysticallifeofjesus.html), by Sylvia Browne. Read by Jeanie Hackett.

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HighBridge – W. B. Yeats: Poems – Audio Book Excerpt for 11-24-06

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Born in Dublin, a leader of the Irish Renaissance, he dreamed of creating a new cultural identity for his country. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents WB YEATS: POEMS, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/wbyeatspoems.html). Read by T. P. McKenna.

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HighBridge – The Goal: Third Revised Edition – Audio Book Excerpt for 11-17-06

A business book disguised as a novel, a love story about the manufacturing process, and an exhilarating adventure in human potential, The Goal is changing how America does business. First published in 1984, it became an underground bestseller; today it's used by thousands of companies and taught in hundreds of business schools. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE GOAL, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/goalrevised.html), by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Read by an ensemble cast.

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HighBridge – The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle – Audio Book Excerpt for 11-10-06

In honor of all veterans, we offer a clip this week from the true story of a WWII pilot and his twenty-five daring daylight missions over the flak- and enemy-fighter-filled skies of Occupied France and Nazi Germany. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE MAN WHO FLEW THE MEMPHIS BELLE: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/manwhoflewth.html), by Col. Robert Morgan, USAFR, Ret., with Ron Powers. Read by Ron McLarty.

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HighBridge – There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say – Audio Book Excerpt for 11-03-06

What do the lives of Lincoln, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, and other historical figures have in common with Paula Poundstone? In the hands of this wryly observant and self-deprecating comedian, the answer is outrageously funny and unexpectedly touching. Poundstone compares her crazy life to theirs, as she holds forth on her children, her career, and the time in her life when it appeared she would lose both. Poundstone treats that stressful experience and the rest of her life - successes and ...

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HighBridge – Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense – Audio Book Excerpt for 10-27-06

Get in the Halloween spirit. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents a classic dramatization of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES from the collection CLASSIC TALES OF HORROR AND SUSPENSE (www.highbridgeaudio.com/clastalofsus.html). It's a real treat.

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HighBridge – Art of Raising a Puppy – Audio Book Excerpt for 10-20-06

There are still a few days left in October to participate in "Adopt a Shelter Dog Month." HighBridge is doing its part with this excerpt from THE ART OF RAISING A PUPPY. The Monks of New Skete have been breeding, raising, and training German Sheperds for more than 25 years. Their extraordinary grasp of eery facet of puppy behavior has gained them worldwide attention, and their training materials is among the most trusted. All the fundamentals are covered, using methods that build bonds of t ...

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HighBridge – Car Talk: Greatest Stories Ever Told – Audio Book Excerpt for 10-13-06

Gather 'round, kiddies. Tom and Ray, the Car Talk guys, have got some tales to tell you: You'll hear about amazing, flying plywood, how Dougie got the nickname "the subway fugitive," and the definitive answer to the question "How many engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb?" HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents CAR TALK: GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD (ONCE UPON A CAR FIRE) (www.highbridgeaudio.com/cartalkgreateststoriesevertold.html), with Tom and Ray Magliozzi.

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HighBridge – Through the Children's Gate – Audio Book Excerpt for 10-06-06

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik and his family return to New York after a stay in Paris (chronicled in PARIS TO THE MOON) in 2000. It was an almost idyllic New York, unexpectedly child-friendly. Gopnik's reflections, which take their name from the entrance in Central Park that leads to the children's playground, describe not just a city but an extended urban family, and a home charmed by the civilization of childhood. It's a charm that is simultaneously protect from, challenged by, and even ...

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HighBridge – The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot – Audio Book Excerpt for 09-29-06

ANational Geographicspecial introduced tens of millions of viewers to one of the most important biblical discoveries of modern times: the Gospel of Judas, a text lost for nearly 1,700 years, newly restored and authenticated.Now a leading historian of the early church (and a featured commentator in the special) Bart D. Ehrman offers the first comprehensive account of this Gospel that claims Judas did not betray Jesus but rather acted at Jesus’ request.The Gospel of Judas is a controversial ...

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HighBridge – The Harsh Cry of the Heron – Audio Book Excerpt for 09-22-06

Critics have described Lian Hearn's epic tales of a mythical, mystical Japan as "Part Shogan, part Lord of the Rings, and entirely enchanting." (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Its world of honor and code, customs, war, and love has captured the imaginations of a growing number of people around the world. The stories are now available in 32 countries and several languages. When Hearn first envisioned the Tales, it was as a three-part saga that she wrote in close succession. But, much to the l ...

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HighBridge – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Audio Book Excerpt for 09-15-06

In honor of the late Ken Kesey's birthday on September 17, HighBridge offers this edition of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, read by the author. It releases this month for the first time on CD and includes a Fresh Air with Terry Gross interview with Kesey. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (www.highbridgeaudio.com/oneflewovercuckoosnest.html), read by the author Ken Kesey.

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HighBridge – Cats, Cats, and More Cats – Audio Book Excerpt for 09-08-06

Cats have always intrigued writers. In CATS, CATS, AND MORE CATS, an original audio anthology, fictional and nonfictional cats, their graceful, impenetrable charms are elegantly described by some of the world's greatest writers. Today's excerpt is from The Story of Webster by the beloved author P.G. Wodehouse. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents CATS, CATS, AND MORE CATS (www.highbridgeaudio.com/catscatsandmorecats.html), selection read by Michael Wager.

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HighBridge – There Is No Me Without You – Audio Book Excerpt for 09-01-06

When Haregewoin Teferra's husband and daughter died within a few years of each other, her middle-class life in Ethiopia was shattered, and she became a recluse. Her self-imposed exile was interrupted when a priest delivered first one, then another orphaned child into her care. To everyone's surprise, the children thrived--and so did Haregewoin.Suddenly, Haregewoin's home became the trusted place where AIDS-stricken parents could leave their children. Soon Haregewoin and everyone her efforts ...

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HighBridge – The Discomfort Zone – Audio Book Excerpt for 08-25-06

Jonathan Franzen reportedly prefers not to do interviews; he'd rather let his works do the talking for him. But in the case of the audio edition of THE DISCOMFORT ZONE, his memoir about growing up "middle American," he does do the talking--or, rather, narrating. Those seeking to know more about the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, will find it here, and perhaps a little bit of their own history as well, if they grew up in the Midwest of the 60's and 70's. Franzen manag ...

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HighBridge – How to Study Program – Audio Book Excerpt for 08-18-06

Ready or not, here comes school again. And if you do find that you or your teen- or college-aged kids are more in the "not" than the "ready" column when it comes to their study techniques, HighBridge has the audio for you. It will help you improve your memory, take notes, manage your time, and improve your reading. The author, Ron Fry, is a seminar leader and has over 30 titles to his credit as either editor or author. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents HOW TO STUDY (www.highbridgeaud ...

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HighBridge – Small Is the New Big – Audio Book Excerpt for 08-11-06

The man who knows aPurple Cowwhen he sees one and who can tell thatAll Marketers Are Liarsis back to advise you thatSMALL IS THE NEW BIG. Seth Godin, the avant-garde marketer and international bestselling author, explores how small companies with targeted ideas and savvy marketing are turning out to be the next "big" thing. Big business used to be a good thing. Big meant economies of scale, lots of resources, and more power. Big meant better. Then small happened. Seth explains what it means ...

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HighBridge – Mommies Who Drink – Audio Book Excerpt for 08-04-06

Desperate Housewives meets Sex and the City in this wickedly hilarious true story of modern motherhood, its conflicting demands, and nostalgia for one's carefree past. Brett Paesel (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under) and her group of friends find themselves not quite ready for a G-rated world. But while they might be "formerly fabulous," they're also just ordinary moms who love their kids. Witty, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny, these are the voices of real moms today. HighBridge Au ...

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HighBridge – Grayson – Audio Book Excerpt for 07-28-06

"Compelling enough as a fable. . . The fact that it's true makes the story wonderous, and unforgettable." That's how author Carl Hiaasen describes GRAYSON, swimming legend Lynne Cox's story of her encounter with a lost baby gray whale and her attempt to reunite it with its mother - somewhere out in the vastness of the Pacific. Kirkus Reviews calls GRAYSON "an inspirational, almost spiritual" tale. It's an experience you don't want to miss, and one that you'll want to share with family and f ...

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HighBridge – Insight: Case Files form the Psychic World – Audio Book Excerpt for 07-21-06

Sylvia Browne is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and a frequent quest of Montel Williams. INSIGHT is her most personal book to date: a sharing of intimate stores about her more than 50-year career giving psychic readings. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents INSIGHT: CASE FILES FROM THE PSYCHIC WORLD (www.highbridgeaudio.com/insight.html), by Sylvia Browne, with Lindsay Harrison. Read by Jeannie Hackett.

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HighBridge – Loving Your Child Is Not Enough – Audio Book Excerpt for 07-14-06

The kids have been home from school for over a month now. Undoubtedly, there's many a parent who is secretly - and with no little sense of guilt - already looking forward to the start of school. Parenting is a tough job – rewarding, but tough.Parenting expert Nancy Samalin can help you get more joy out of parenting. Her straightforward approach to raising children is practical and positive.HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presentsLOVING YOUR CHILD IS NOT ENOUGH: POSITIVE DISCIPLINE THAT WOR ...

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HighBridge – The Dead Hour – Audio Book Excerpt for 07-07-06

Deadlines can be murder for Scottish mystery writer Denise Mina’s protagonist, the young Paddy Meehan. In THE DEAD HOUR, she’s a reporter – or trying to be – for the Scottish Daily News. But it’s the 1980s, and between the office sexism, her repressive Catholic family, and her constant battle with her weight, it’s hard to catch a break. Luckily for Paddy, what she can seem to catch is criminals. And that’s good copy. Mina paints her characters and 1980s Scotland in vivid deta ...

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HighBridge – Thy Kingdom Come – Audio Book Excerpt for 06-30-06

“I write as a jilted lover. The evangelical faith that nurtured me as a child and sustains me as an adult has been hijacked by right-wing zealots.” These are not the words of a radical anti-Christian, but of Randall Balmer, Columbia University religion professor and author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture of America.In his latest book, THY KINGDOM COME: An Evangelical’s Lament: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America, ...

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HighBridge – The Abortionist's Daughter – Audio Book Excerpt for 06-23-06

Murder mystery lovers who like their suspects and victims to be three dimensional and who enjoy unraveling those characters as much as they do unraveling the mystery itself will appreciate Elisabeth Hyde's THE ABORTIONIST'S DAUGHTER. Two weeks before Christmas, Dr. Diana Duprey is found floating face-up in a small lap pool in her back yard. A medical doctor with an abortion practice, and a national figure who inspired passion and ignited tempers, she had been the target of violent threats b ...

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HighBridge – A River Runs Through It – Audio Book Excerpt for 06-16-06

In A RIVER RUNS THOUGH IT, Norman Maclean claims that “in my family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing.” Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother can connect with brother and father with son, bridging troubled relationships at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana. It is therefore a fitting selection for this father’s day weekend, when we celebrate those men – literal fathers and father figu ...

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HighBridge – Water for Elephants – Audio Book Excerpt for 06-09-06

Take a crotchety old man, an elephant, and a circus full of freaks, grifters, entertainers, and down-on-their luck individuals and what do you get? You get the best audio experience you’ll have all summer! WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is Sara Gruen’s atmospheric tale, told by ninety- (or is that ninety-three?) year-old Jacob Jankowski, who reflects back on his experience as a young man in a Depression-era circus. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler calls it “utterly transporting,” a ...

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HighBridge – The Lemon Tree – Audio Book Excerpt for 06-02-06

THE LEMON TREE, the true story of two families--one Arab, one Jewish--accomplishes what no mere news report or history about the Middle East has done: It presents the human face of this seemingly endless conflict. Award-winning journalist Sandy Tolan expands on his documentary, first broadcast in 1998 on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, where he first introduced us to Bashir, the Palestinian forced from his home as a teenager in 1948 and Dalia, whose family took possession of that apparently des ...

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HighBridge – The Way We Eat – Audio Book Excerpt for 05-26-06

Before you slap hamburgers down on the grill this Memorial Day weekend, you might want to hear from Peter Singer and Jim Mason regarding the very real ramifications of our food choices, from the epidemic of obesity in children to the impact on the environment, both local and global. And what about food labels such as “organic,” “certified humane,” and “fair trade”--how valid are they? The authors present some hard lessons, but with practical advice to help you make informed choi ...

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HighBridge – Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street Dozen – Audio Book Excerpt for 05-19-06

In celebration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday this coming Monday, HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents SHERLOCK HOLMES: A BAKER STREET DOZEN (www.highbridgeaudio.com/bakerstreetdozen.html). A BAKER STREET DOZEN features twelve stories, fully dramatized, with the great Sir John Gielgud as Sherlock Holmes, Ralph Richardson as Dr. Watson, and Orson Welles as the nefarious Professor Moriarty. Classic stories, classic radio dramatizations - elementary!

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HighBridge – Eye Contact – Audio Book Excerpt for 05-12-06

In the woods of a small town, Adam, a nine-year-old autistic boy, is discovered next to the body of his classmate. Now the police are relying on Adam as the only witness to an appalling crime. But he can’t tell them anything. Barely verbal on the best of days, Adam has retreated into a silent world that Cara, his mother, knows only too well. A thrilling novel of psychological syspense, Cammie McGovern’s EYE CONTACT is, above all, the powerful story of the complex bond between a mother ...

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HighBridge – Pepys’ Diary - Audio Book Excerpt for 05-05-06

Kenneth Branagh lends his considerable skills to this reading of the diary of the seventeenth century man-about-town Samuel Pepys. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents PEPYS’ DIARY (www.highbridgeaudio.com/pepysdiary.html).

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HighBridge – Three Nights in August - Audio Book Excerpt for 04-28-06

It’s the national past time and, for some, the national obsession: We’re talking baseball, and who knows it better than love-him/hate-him coach Tony La Russa? THREE NIGHTS IN AUGUST: STRATEGY, HEARTBREAK, AND JOY INSIDE THE MIND OF A MANAGER is Buzz Bissinger’s tribute to both the sport and the man. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THREE NIGHTS IN AUGUST (www.highbridgeaudio.com/thniinaubybu.html) read by Jeffrey Nordling. Play ball!

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HighBridge – To Hell With All That - Audio Book Excerpt for 04-21-06

Provocative New Yorker staff writer Caitlin Flanagan looks at women’s lives today and considers the price of progress. The New York Observer calls her work “biting and witty, full of a writerly flair hard to find in discussions of ‘women’s issues.’” HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents TO HELL WITH ALL THAT: LOVING AND LOATHING OUR INNER HOUSEWIFE (www.highbridgeaudio.com/tohellwithallthat.html) by Caitlin Flanagan; read by Julia Fletcher.

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HighBridge - The Gospel of Jesus - Audio Book Excerpt for 04-14-06

HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents a special Good Friday podcast of THE GOSPEL OF JESUS (www.highbridgeaudio.com/gospelofjesus.html). Garrison Keillor narrates this harmonization (blending of the four gospels into a single story), edited by Daniel L. Johnson. Musical interludes by The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, directed by Philip Brunelle. This excerpt relates the events of Good Friday, from Pilate’s interrogation of Jesus through Jesus’ death on the cross.

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HighBridge - The Last Week - Audio Book Excerpt for 04-07-06

Next week is, for many Christians, what is known as 'Holy Week': the last week before Jesus' crucifixion. Recognizing its centrality to how Christianity is practiced, controversial historical Jesus scholars John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg turn their attention to what can be learned about that week, day by day. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE LAST WEEK (www.highbridgeaudio.com/lastweek.html).

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HighBridge - Suite Francaise - Audio Book Excerpt for 03-31-06

Irene Nemirovsky, an already renowned novelist--and a Jew--living in France during the WWII, completed two parts of an intended five-part novel SUITE FRANCAISE about the Nazi occupation before being sent to Auschwitz, where she later died. Her daughters survived in hiding, carrying among their few personal belongings their mother's manuscript. For decades they thought it was a journal and couldn‘t bear to read it. Only when they planned to turn it over to an organization that preserves me ...

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HighBridge - Firefly Cloak by Sheri Reynolds - Audio Book Excerpt 03-24-06

The follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick The Rapture of Canaan: A quirky, charming story of a young girl‘s journey to find the mother who abandoned her. Eight-year-old Tessa Lee and her little brother, Travis, are left at a campground by their mother and her boyfriend with little more than their mother‘s housecoat--with its print of tiny fireflies--and a phone number printed in magic marker on Travis‘s back. So begins Tessa Lee‘s journey, a qu ...

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HighBridge - Blessed Are the Cheesemakers - Audio Book Excerpt for 03-17-06

This St. Patrick's Day, journey to County Cork, Ireland, where something's fermenting. Is it just cheese? Or could it be love? HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents BLESSED ARE THE CHEESEMAKERS by Sarah-Kate Lynch, read by Heather ONeill (www.highbridgeaudio.com/blesarechees.html).

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HighBridge - DUSTY AND LEFTY - Audio Book Excerpt for 03-10-06

Before there were cowboys on Brokeback Mountain, there was Dusty and Lefty on Garrison Keillor's PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION. This pair--the crotchety Dusty and the yodeling, poetry-loving Lefty--bring humor to the range as they cope with citrusy aftershave, hangovers, and the difficulties of herding 10,000 free range chickens. Tim Russell is Dusty and Garrison Keillor is Lefty. Come June, this cowboy pair also hits the bring screen in the Robert Altman film A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION. In the film ...

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HighBridge - What Jesus Meant - Audio Book Excerpts for 03-03-2006

Religion has been co-opted by politics in recent years. When it comes to Christianity, one Pulitzer Prize-winning author would like to suggest that, rather than assuming an understanding of how this faith should play out in the public sector, a very fundamental question should be revisited. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents WHAT JESUS MEANT (www.highbridgeaudio.com/whatjesusmeant.html) by Garry Wills; read by the author.

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HighBridge - Car Talk Animals and Cars - Audio Book Excerpt for 02-24-06

"Doesn't anyone screen these calls?" is the often heard lament of Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers, otherwise known as Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of NPR's CAR TALK. In this case, it's the title of their latest collection of calls about the times when cars and animals collide--figuratively. Over the years, the CAR TALK guys have learned that it's not just a dog-eat-dog world out there. Sometimes it's also horse-eat-steering-wheel--and you might as well just have a good laugh about it. ...

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HighBridge - 1491 - Audio Book Excerpt for 02-17-06

Take a trip back in history--before U.S. presidents Washington and Lincoln, before even Columbus. Does the history we've been taught in school--the history that has shaped American attitudes and policies--have much to do with what scientists now know? HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents Charles C. Mann's 1491: NEW REVELATIONS OF THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS (www.highbridgeaudio.com/1491.html). If you'd rather not cast your mind back that far, revisit the 10-07-05 podcast of LINCOLN' ...

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HighBridge - Voices of Love - Audio Book Excerpt for 02-10-06

In honor of Valentine's Day, HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents Alfred Lord Tennyson's "After the Ball," from the collection VOICES OF LOVE (www.highbridgeaudio.com/voicesoflove.html). The selection is read by Simon Prebble.

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HighBridge Audio - It's Only a Show (Keillor) - Excerpt for 02-03-06

This June a whole lot of big-name stars will appear in a movie based on a little old radio show. What's the attraction for Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Cline, Woody Harrelson, and others? Well, partly it's working with legendary film director Robert Altman. But there's also something about Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion." Sure, just as the name of this collection attests, IT'S ONLY A SHOW, but it's also a Pretty Good show. Some might even say it's Above ...

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HighBridge - Time Travelers Wife Unabrgd - Audio Book Excerpt for 01-27-06

HighBridge Audio invites you to "do the time warp again" with this complete and unabridged edition of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffenegger (www.highbridgeaudio.com/timetravelersunabridged.html). HighBridge previously released an abridged edition, but now is offering this unabridged edition for the U.S. audience. This bestseller and book club favorite tells the story of Clare and her husband Henry, one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: Periodically ...

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HighBridge - She Got Up Off the Couch - Audio Book Excerpt for 01-20-06

HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents SHE GOT UP OFF THE COUCH (www.highbridgeaudio.com/shegotupoffcouch.html) by Haven Kimmel, read by the author. Picking up where The #1 New York Times bestseller and Today Show book club pick A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY left off, Haven Kimmel crafts a tender portrait of her mother, a modestly heroic woman who took the odds that life gave her and somehow managed to win. When we last saw Zippy, she was oblivious to the storm that was brewing in her home. Her mot ...

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HighBridge - The House of Scorta - Audio Book Excerpts for 01-13-06

Recipient of France's most prestigious literary award, the Goncourt Prize, Laurent Gaude's THE HOUSE OF SCORTA is an epic tale of love, lies, and a family's relentless faith in its own power. Set in the south of Italy in 1870 and spanning five generations, it tells the story of the Scorta family. Founded on an act of violence, they yet persevere through a belief in the pursuit of happiness. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE HOUSE OF SCORTA (www.highbridgeaudio.com/houseofscorta.h ...

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HighBridge - The Accidental - Audio Book Excerpt for 01-06-06

A stranger comes to your door, you invite her in, and then she proceeds to turn your family's life upside down--or, possibly, right side up. That's part of the challenge of this Whitbread Novel of the Year winner and Man Booker Prize shortlisted title. THE ACCIDENTAL by Ali Smith (www.highbridgeaudio.com/accidental.html) challenges not just its characters but its audience to grapple with the nature of truth and the power of fiction. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE ACCIDENTAL b ...

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HighBridge - Walter Mosley's The Wave - Audio Book Excerpt for 12-30-05

HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE WAVE by Walter Mosley (www.highbridgeaudio.com/wave.html). The New York Times bestselling author returns to science fiction with an eerie, transcendent novel of the near future. Errol's father has been dead for several years. Yet lately Errol has been awakened in the middle of the night by a caller claiming to be his father. Is it a prank, or a message from the grave? When he hears the unmistakable sound of a handset being put down on a table, ...

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HighBridge - Master Your Money Type Audio Book Excerpt for 12-23-05

It may seem a little unfair to bring up questions of personal finance this painfully close to the biggest buying season of the year. But what better time to get a handle on how your money type--your personal attitude toward money--is impacting your finance future? Jordan E. Goodman, "America's Money Answers Man," will show you how to make your money attitudes work for you rather than against you. So whether you're dreading the arrival of your January credit cards bills, or you're wonderin ...

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HighBridge - The Cold War Audio Book Excerpt for 12-16-2005

HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE COLD WAR(http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/coldwar.html). From the dean of Cold War historians (New York Times) an important new reckoning with the hostile relationship that defined our age. Drawing on new and often startling information from newly opened Soviet, Eastern European, and Chinese archives, this thrilling account explores the strategic dynamics that drove the Cold War, provides illuminating portraits of its major personalities, and off ...

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HighBridge - The Romantic Poets - Audio Book Excerpt for 12-09-05

HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE ROMANTIC POETS (http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/romanticpoets.html). Evocative, emotional, imaginative, personal, and powerful, the poetry of the Romantic period still inspires us today. This collection includes the works of Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth12 hours in all. The following is commentary on and then a reading of Wordsworths I wandered lonely as a cloud.

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HighBridge Audio - Fresh Air Stage and Screen - Excerpt for 12-02-05

FRESH AIR fans have reason to celebrate this season with the release of THE BEST OF STAGE AND SCREEN on CD. Award-winning host Terry Gross engages actors, directors, playwrights, producers, icons, and legends in intelligent and entertaining discussions of their craft. The three CD-set includes 17 interviews the following excerpt features actor Robert Duvall discussing his famous line from Apocalypse Now I love the smell of Napalm in the morning. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents FRE ...

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HighBridge - Commercial Radio - Audio Book Excerpt for 11-25-05

It's Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, when retailers expect Christmas sales to turn their balance sheets from red to black (thus the name). And so HighBridge Audio excerpts presents COMMERICAL RADIO (www.highbridgeaudio.com/cora.html) from Garrison Keillor. The quirky official sponsors of A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION remind you to eat more ketchup, fly to your holiday destination on Lutheran Air, and appreciate the many uses for duct tape (Christmas wrapping probably among th ...

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HighBridge - Christmas Companion (Keillor) - Audio Excerpt for 11-18-05

HighBridge Audio Excerpts presents THE CHRISTMAS COMPANION with Garrison Keillor (http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/christmascompanion.html). Go Prairie Ho-Ho-Home for the Holidays with this first Christmas collection in over a decade. It features lots of music from special guests Rene Fleming, Diana Krall, Ricky Skaggs, Sarah Jessica Parker, and more--as well as plenty of sketches and stories, including one memorable Christmas in Lake Wobegon when the dark angel of stomach flu visited. In th ...

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HighBridge - Articles of War - Audio Book Excerpt 11-11-05

On this Veterans Day, a reminder that war is Heck. Nick Arvins ARTICLES of WAR tells the WWII story of George Tilson, an 18-year-old Iowa farm boy, nicknamed Heck because he won't curse. Other than that, he's a typical soldier, willing to do his duty without much fuss or musing about grand goals. During his first horrific exposure to combat, Heck discovers a dark truth about himself He is a coward. As the stark reality of combat--and the knowledge that he could cease to exist at any moment ...

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HighBridge - The Age of Anxiety - Audio Book Excerpt for 11-04-05

In this masterful history of the McCarthy era, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson recreate that time of crisis, painting vivid portraits of the main players Eisenhower, who hated McCarthy but would not attack him the politicians who both used and feared McCarthy the media that feed on the controversy journalist Edward R. Murrow and lawyer Joseph Welch, whose courageous stances exposed the lies and, most striking, figure of Joseph McCarthy himself. Publishers Weekly calls the A ...

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HighBridge - Trail Mix Louis L'Amour Stories - Audio Book Excerpt 10-28-05

Louis L'Amour was arguably the greatest writer of Westerns the world has ever known. Seven of his classic stories are presented on two collections TRAIL MIX VOLUME ONE (http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/trailmix1.html) and TRAIL MIX VOLUME TWO (http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/trailmix2.html). The stories are read by legendary country singer Willie Nelson. On the following excerpt from 'Riding for the Brand' (VOLUME ONE) Willie is joined by friends Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, and Waylon Jen ...

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HighBridge - Lincoln's Melancholy - Audio Book Excerpt for 10-07-05

Highbridge Audio Book Excerpts presents 'LINCOLN'S MELANCHOLY How Depression Challendged a President And Fueled His Greatness' by Joshua Wolf Shenk read by Richard Davidson. ('www.highbridgeaudio.com/lincolnsmelancholy.html'). An American Bookseller's Association 'BookSense Pick' for November, LINCOLN'S MELANCHOLY offers a wholly new perspective on how our greatest president brought America through its greatest crisis. Shenk describes how Lincoln harnessed his depression and gained the ...

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HighBridge - Year of Magical Thinking - Audio Book Excerpt for 09-30-05

Life changes fast. Life changes in an instant. Thus begins Joan Didion's account of a year that began with her daughter in a coma and her husband and collaborator John Dunne dead of a sudden heart attack. What follows is an profoundly moving story that will touch anyone who has loved and lost. Highbridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion read by Barbara Caruso(www.highbridgeaudio.com/yearofmagicalthinking.html). "A lyrical, disciplined entry in the ...

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HighBridge A Million Little Pieces - Audiobook Excerpt - 09-23-05

Our inaugural issue of Highbridge Audio Book Excerpts is James Frey's A Million Little Pieces (www.highbridgeaudio.com/millitpiec.html). Yesterday Oprah Winfrey selected A Million Little Pieces as her new Oprah Book Club title. A Million Little Pieces tells the story of Frey's drug and alcohol addiction and his path to sobriety. An uncommonly genuine account of a life destroyed and reconstructed, it offers a provocative alternative understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning ...

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