spring/summer 2011 recent releases — young & middle grade
spring/summer 2011 recent releases — young & middle grade
spring/summer 2011 recent releases — young & middle grade
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Beyond Young Adult Novels: Crossover Adult Books with Teen Appeal<br />
All educators recognize the importance of getting students to read and develop a love of stories. Finding the right<br />
stories for teen readers, whether they are advanced, intermediate or reluctant readers, can be challenging.<br />
Here are popular “adult” audiobooks that have special interest to <strong>young</strong> adults. In addition to these selections, visit www.booksontape.com for<br />
more adult titles that will appeal to a broad cross-section of independent teen readers. All titles available as audiobook download unless noted.<br />
ALEX AWARD WINNERS<br />
THE PARTICULAR<br />
SADNESS OF<br />
LEMON CAKE<br />
by Aimee Bender<br />
New!<br />
read by the Author<br />
A luminous and memorable tale about<br />
the enormous difficulty of loving someone<br />
fully when you know too much<br />
about them.<br />
“A funny, haunting, hurting, comingof-age<br />
story.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>Christian Science Monitor<br />
7 CDs • 978-0-3077-3715-1 • $35.00<br />
8 hrs. 52 mins.<br />
THE VANISHING OF<br />
KATHERINA LINDEN<br />
by Helen Grant<br />
New!<br />
read by Justine Eyre<br />
“A stunning debut with a richly evoked<br />
setting, a smart sympathetic heroine,<br />
and the best opening line for a novel I’ve<br />
ever read.”<strong>—</strong>Rick Riordan, bestselling<br />
author of the Percy Jackson series<br />
7 CDs • 978-0-3077-3741-0 • $40.00<br />
8 hrs. 55 mins.<br />
GIRL IN TRANSLATION<br />
by Jean Kwok<br />
New!<br />
read by Grayce Wey<br />
An unforgettable and classic novel of an<br />
American immigrant<strong>—</strong>a moving tale of<br />
hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love,<br />
and all that gets lost in translation.<br />
“The listener comes away with new<br />
appreciation for immigrants who fight<br />
impossible odds to enrich this melting<br />
pot we call the U.S.A.”<strong>—</strong>AudioFile<br />
8 CDs • 978-0-3077-3618-5 • $39.95<br />
9 hrs. 5 mins.<br />
EVERYTHING MATTERS!<br />
by Ron Currie, Jr.<br />
New!<br />
Multi-cast Performance<br />
“For anyone who enjoyed The Time<br />
Traveler’s Wife will enjoy this literate,<br />
almost poetic, science-fiction and<br />
romance story in which the end of the<br />
world is the least important idea.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>AudioFile<br />
11 CDs • 978-1-4159-6470-5 • $80.00<br />
13 hrs.<br />
THE BRIDE’S FAREWELL<br />
by Meg Rosoff<br />
read by Susan Duerden<br />
ALEX AWARD<br />
“Rosoff’s first adult title is as finely<br />
crafted as her Printz Award-winning<br />
How I Live Now.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
5 CDs • 978-1-4159-6506-1• $50.00<br />
5 hrs. 46 mins.<br />
See page 72 for HOW I LIVE NOW.<br />
A LONG WAY GONE<br />
See Fascinating Memoirs &<br />
Biographies<br />
THE MAGICIANS<br />
by Lev Grossman<br />
read by Mark Bramhall<br />
★“Fantasy fans can’t afford to miss the<br />
darkly comic and unforgettably queasy<br />
experience of reading this book and be<br />
glad for reality.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>Booklist, starred review<br />
Library Journal Best Audiobook<br />
14 CDs • 978-1-4159-6245-9 • $100.00<br />
17 hrs. 25 mins.<br />
BLACK SWAN GREEN<br />
by David Mitchell<br />
read by Kirby Heyborne<br />
A glorious, sinewy, meditative novel of<br />
boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the<br />
old on the cusp of the new.<br />
KLIATT Editors’ Choice<strong>—</strong>Audiobooks<br />
Library Journal Best Audiobook<br />
11 CDs • 978-1-4159-2850-9 • $99.00<br />
13 hrs. 8 mins.<br />
THE BLIND SIDE<br />
See Sports & Movie Tie-Ins<br />
MY LOSING SEASON<br />
by Pat Conroy<br />
read by Chuck Montgomery<br />
In this powerful memoir, Pat Conroy<br />
explores the profound effect of his final year<br />
on the Citadel’s basketball team and his<br />
growing fondness for books and writing.<br />
12 CDs • 978-0-7366-8834-5 • $112.00<br />
14 hrs. 24 mins.<br />
NEVER LET ME GO<br />
by Kazuo Ishiguro<br />
read by Rosalyn Landor<br />
An English boarding school conceals a<br />
shocking secret.<br />
“Ishiguro conveys with exquisite sensitivity<br />
the emotional texture of the threesome's<br />
relationship, their bonds of<br />
personal loyalty that overcome fractures<br />
of trust, the palpable boundaries of<br />
hope, and the human capacity for forgiveness.”<strong>—</strong>School<br />
Library Journal<br />
A Major Motion Picture<br />
8 CDs • 978-1-4159-1629-2 • $40.00<br />
9 hrs. 43 mins.<br />
SHADOW DIVERS<br />
by Robert Kurson<br />
read by Michael Prichard<br />
In 1991 two scuba divers discovered<br />
a sunken German U-boat off the New<br />
Jersey coast and become determined to<br />
solve the mystery.<br />
VOYA A+ Audiobook<br />
13 CDs • 978-1-4159-0283-7 • $96.00<br />
15 hrs. 36 mins.<br />
FICTION & LITERATURE<br />
New!<br />
THE BOOK<br />
OF TOMORROW<br />
by Cecelia Ahern<br />
read by Ali Coffey<br />
“A veritable modern-day Gothic, Ahern’s<br />
engrossing new novel is filled with family<br />
secrets, intrigue, and magic aplenty.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>Booklist<br />
7 CDs • 978-0-3078-8150-2 • $45.00<br />
8 hrs. 25 mins.<br />
ROMANCING MISS<br />
BRONTË<br />
by Juliet Gael<br />
read by Rosalyn Landor<br />
Juliet Gael skillfully captures the<br />
passions, hopes, dreams, and sorrows<br />
of literature’s most famous sisters<strong>—</strong>and<br />
imagines how love dramatically and most<br />
unexpectedly found Charlotte Brontë.<br />
“A moving view of a literary giant and<br />
the emotion that fueled her work.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>Booklist<br />
12 CDs • 978-0-3077-3639-0 • $50.00<br />
14 hrs. 24 mins.<br />
JAMRACH’S MENAGERIE<br />
by Carol Birch<br />
read by Steve West<br />
“...a vividly written tall tale of 19th New!<br />
century<br />
adventure which takes its <strong>young</strong><br />
hero from the banks of the Thames to<br />
the South Seas...”<strong>—</strong>The Guardian (UK)<br />
10 CDs • 978-0-3079-3240-2 • $40.00<br />
12 hrs.<br />
THE MAGICIAN KING<br />
by Lev Grossman<br />
reader to be announced New!<br />
THE MAGICIAN KING picks up<br />
with protagonist Quentin Coldwater five<br />
years after The Magicians, when he and his<br />
friends became royalty in the fantasy world<br />
of Fillory. Now Quentin must embark on<br />
a dark quest that will change his life forever.<br />
14 CDs • 978-0-3079-6662-9 • $45.00<br />
Approx. 18 hrs.<br />
On Sale September <strong>2011</strong><br />
ANTHROPOLOGY OF<br />
AN AMERICAN GIRL<br />
by Hilary Thayer Hamann<br />
read by Rebecca Lowman<br />
★“…Hamann’s debut traces the sensual,<br />
passionate, and lonely interior of a <strong>young</strong><br />
woman artist growing up in windswept<br />
East Hampton at the end of the 1970s.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>Publishers Weekly, starred review<br />
20 CDs • 978-0-3077-3632-1 • $50.00<br />
24 hrs. 54 mins.<br />
THE LOST SUMMER OF<br />
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT<br />
by Kelly O’Connor McNees<br />
read by Emily Janice Card<br />
“McNees does a good job of re-creating<br />
the nineteenth-century milieu, and her<br />
readers will doubtless be inspired to read<br />
more<strong>—</strong>about and by<strong>—</strong>Alcott. Little<br />
Women, anyone?”<strong>—</strong>Booklist<br />
7 CDs • 978-0-3077-3721-2 • $29.95<br />
8 hrs. 50 mins.<br />
THE NIGHT CIRCUS<br />
by Erin Morgenstern<br />
read by Jim Dale<br />
New!<br />
Combining an intoxicating love story<br />
reminiscent of TheTimeTraveler’sWife with<br />
the kind of sparkling descriptions of practical<br />
magic that made Jonathan Strange &<br />
Mr. Norrell such a delight, THE NIGHT<br />
CIRCUS is a singular, hypnotic, spell-casting<br />
story. Written in rich, seductive prose,<br />
this dazzling debut is an exciting introduction<br />
to the talented Erin Morgenstern.<br />
10 CDs • 978-0-3079-3892-3 • $45.00<br />
Approx. 12 hrs.<br />
On Sale September <strong>2011</strong><br />
THE TIGER’S WIFE<br />
by Téa Obreht<br />
New!<br />
read by Susan Duerden<br />
“Tèa Obreht’s writing is gorgeous,<br />
descriptive, and strong, creating vivid,<br />
unforgettable…For mature teen readers,<br />
the time spent savoring the writing, the<br />
stories, and the intricacies of their<br />
connections will be well rewarded.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
9 CDs • 978-0-3078-7702-4 • $40.00<br />
11 hrs. 22 mins.<br />
SWAMPLANDIA!<br />
by Karen Russell<br />
read by Arielle Sitrick<br />
★“[A] cunning first novel…a potent<br />
punch and announces an enthralling<br />
new beginning for a quickly evolving<br />
<strong>young</strong> author.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>Publishers Weekly, starred review<br />
11 CDs • 978-0-3077-4889-8 • $45.00<br />
13 hrs. 8 mins.<br />
DREAMS OF JOY<br />
by Lisa See<br />
read by Janet Song<br />
Lisa See returns to sisters Pearl and May<br />
from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strongwilled<br />
nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy who<br />
has fled to China.<br />
11 CDs • 978-0-3078-7879-3 • $40.00<br />
13 hrs. 30 mins.<br />
More Lisa See titles available.<br />
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY<br />
AND POTATO PEEL PIE<br />
SOCIETY<br />
by Mary Ann Shaffer<br />
and Annie Barrows<br />
Multi-cast Performance<br />
“...the different voices is completely<br />
charming, joyful, sad, and uplifting…<br />
astute casting and scintillating performances.”<strong>—</strong>AudioFile<br />
AudioFile Best Audiobook & Earphones Award<br />
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Audiobook<br />
Library Journal Best Audiobook<br />
7 CDs • 978-1-4159-5440-9 • $80.00<br />
8 hrs. 7 mins.<br />
THE HELP<br />
by Kathryn Stockett<br />
Multi-cast performance<br />
Three extraordinary women start a<br />
movement of their own that forever<br />
changes a town and themselves.<br />
“Audio is THE way to be inside this<br />
story, brilliantly cast with four voices.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>AudioFile<br />
Audie Award<br />
AudioFile Best Audiobook<br />
Library Journal Best Audiobook<br />
Soon-to-be a Major Motion Picture<br />
15 CDs • 978-1-4159-6125-4 • $120.00<br />
18 hrs. 8 mins.<br />
VACLAV & LENA<br />
by Haley Tanner<br />
read by Kirby Heyborne<br />
& Rebecca Lowman<br />
Vaclav and Lena, best friends and both<br />
the children of Russian émigrés, are at the<br />
same time from radically different worlds.<br />
But after a horrific discovery, the two are<br />
ripped apart. Years later, they meet again,<br />
but will their past keep them apart?<br />
7 CDs • 978-0-3079-3273-0 • $35.00<br />
8 hrs. 30 mins.<br />
All titles listed above are available at a 10% discount<strong>—</strong>Standing Order Plan discounts do not apply.<br />
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