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Beyond Young Adult Novels: Crossover Adult Books with Teen Appeal All educators recognize the importance of getting students to read and develop a love of stories. Finding the right stories for teen readers, whether they are advanced, intermediate or reluctant readers, can be challenging. Here are popular “adult” audiobooks that have special interest to young adults. In addition to these selections, visit www.booksontape.com for more adult titles that will appeal to a broad cross-section of independent teen readers. All titles available as audiobook download unless noted. ALEX AWARD WINNERS THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE by Aimee Bender New! read by the Author A luminous and memorable tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. “A funny, haunting, hurting, comingof-age story.” —Christian Science Monitor 7 CDs • 978-0-3077-3715-1 • $35.00 8 hrs. 52 mins. THE VANISHING OF KATHERINA LINDEN by Helen Grant New! read by Justine Eyre “A stunning debut with a richly evoked setting, a smart sympathetic heroine, and the best opening line for a novel I’ve ever read.”—Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series 7 CDs • 978-0-3077-3741-0 • $40.00 8 hrs. 55 mins. GIRL IN TRANSLATION by Jean Kwok New! read by Grayce Wey An unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant—a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation. “The listener comes away with new appreciation for immigrants who fight impossible odds to enrich this melting pot we call the U.S.A.”—AudioFile 8 CDs • 978-0-3077-3618-5 • $39.95 9 hrs. 5 mins. EVERYTHING MATTERS! by Ron Currie, Jr. New! Multi-cast Performance “For anyone who enjoyed The Time Traveler’s Wife will enjoy this literate, almost poetic, science-fiction and romance story in which the end of the world is the least important idea.” —AudioFile 11 CDs • 978-1-4159-6470-5 • $80.00 13 hrs. THE BRIDE’S FAREWELL by Meg Rosoff read by Susan Duerden ALEX AWARD “Rosoff’s first adult title is as finely crafted as her Printz Award-winning How I Live Now.” —School Library Journal 5 CDs • 978-1-4159-6506-1• $50.00 5 hrs. 46 mins. See page 72 for HOW I LIVE NOW. A LONG WAY GONE See Fascinating Memoirs & Biographies THE MAGICIANS by Lev Grossman read by Mark Bramhall ★“Fantasy fans can’t afford to miss the darkly comic and unforgettably queasy experience of reading this book and be glad for reality.” —Booklist, starred review Library Journal Best Audiobook 14 CDs • 978-1-4159-6245-9 • $100.00 17 hrs. 25 mins. BLACK SWAN GREEN by David Mitchell read by Kirby Heyborne A glorious, sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. KLIATT Editors’ Choice—Audiobooks Library Journal Best Audiobook 11 CDs • 978-1-4159-2850-9 • $99.00 13 hrs. 8 mins. THE BLIND SIDE See Sports & Movie Tie-Ins MY LOSING SEASON by Pat Conroy read by Chuck Montgomery In this powerful memoir, Pat Conroy explores the profound effect of his final year on the Citadel’s basketball team and his growing fondness for books and writing. 12 CDs • 978-0-7366-8834-5 • $112.00 14 hrs. 24 mins. NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro read by Rosalyn Landor An English boarding school conceals a shocking secret. “Ishiguro conveys with exquisite sensitivity the emotional texture of the threesome's relationship, their bonds of personal loyalty that overcome fractures of trust, the palpable boundaries of hope, and the human capacity for forgiveness.”—School Library Journal A Major Motion Picture 8 CDs • 978-1-4159-1629-2 • $40.00 9 hrs. 43 mins. SHADOW DIVERS by Robert Kurson read by Michael Prichard In 1991 two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat off the New Jersey coast and become determined to solve the mystery. VOYA A+ Audiobook 13 CDs • 978-1-4159-0283-7 • $96.00 15 hrs. 36 mins. FICTION & LITERATURE New! THE BOOK OF TOMORROW by Cecelia Ahern read by Ali Coffey “A veritable modern-day Gothic, Ahern’s engrossing new novel is filled with family secrets, intrigue, and magic aplenty.” —Booklist 7 CDs • 978-0-3078-8150-2 • $45.00 8 hrs. 25 mins. ROMANCING MISS BRONTË by Juliet Gael read by Rosalyn Landor Juliet Gael skillfully captures the passions, hopes, dreams, and sorrows of literature’s most famous sisters—and imagines how love dramatically and most unexpectedly found Charlotte Brontë. “A moving view of a literary giant and the emotion that fueled her work.” —Booklist 12 CDs • 978-0-3077-3639-0 • $50.00 14 hrs. 24 mins. JAMRACH’S MENAGERIE by Carol Birch read by Steve West “...a vividly written tall tale of 19th New! century adventure which takes its young hero from the banks of the Thames to the South Seas...”—The Guardian (UK) 10 CDs • 978-0-3079-3240-2 • $40.00 12 hrs. THE MAGICIAN KING by Lev Grossman reader to be announced New! THE MAGICIAN KING picks up with protagonist Quentin Coldwater five years after The Magicians, when he and his friends became royalty in the fantasy world of Fillory. Now Quentin must embark on a dark quest that will change his life forever. 14 CDs • 978-0-3079-6662-9 • $45.00 Approx. 18 hrs. On Sale September 2011 ANTHROPOLOGY OF AN AMERICAN GIRL by Hilary Thayer Hamann read by Rebecca Lowman ★“…Hamann’s debut traces the sensual, passionate, and lonely interior of a young woman artist growing up in windswept East Hampton at the end of the 1970s.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review 20 CDs • 978-0-3077-3632-1 • $50.00 24 hrs. 54 mins. THE LOST SUMMER OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT by Kelly O’Connor McNees read by Emily Janice Card “McNees does a good job of re-creating the nineteenth-century milieu, and her readers will doubtless be inspired to read more—about and by—Alcott. Little Women, anyone?”—Booklist 7 CDs • 978-0-3077-3721-2 • $29.95 8 hrs. 50 mins. THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern read by Jim Dale New! Combining an intoxicating love story reminiscent of TheTimeTraveler’sWife with the kind of sparkling descriptions of practical magic that made Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell such a delight, THE NIGHT CIRCUS is a singular, hypnotic, spell-casting story. Written in rich, seductive prose, this dazzling debut is an exciting introduction to the talented Erin Morgenstern. 10 CDs • 978-0-3079-3892-3 • $45.00 Approx. 12 hrs. On Sale September 2011 THE TIGER’S WIFE by Téa Obreht New! read by Susan Duerden “Tèa Obreht’s writing is gorgeous, descriptive, and strong, creating vivid, unforgettable…For mature teen readers, the time spent savoring the writing, the stories, and the intricacies of their connections will be well rewarded.” —School Library Journal 9 CDs • 978-0-3078-7702-4 • $40.00 11 hrs. 22 mins. SWAMPLANDIA! by Karen Russell read by Arielle Sitrick ★“[A] cunning first novel…a potent punch and announces an enthralling new beginning for a quickly evolving young author.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review 11 CDs • 978-0-3077-4889-8 • $45.00 13 hrs. 8 mins. DREAMS OF JOY by Lisa See read by Janet Song Lisa See returns to sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strongwilled nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy who has fled to China. 11 CDs • 978-0-3078-7879-3 • $40.00 13 hrs. 30 mins. More Lisa See titles available. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Multi-cast Performance “...the different voices is completely charming, joyful, sad, and uplifting… astute casting and scintillating performances.”—AudioFile AudioFile Best Audiobook & Earphones Award Booklist Editors’ Choice: Audiobook Library Journal Best Audiobook 7 CDs • 978-1-4159-5440-9 • $80.00 8 hrs. 7 mins. THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett Multi-cast performance Three extraordinary women start a movement of their own that forever changes a town and themselves. “Audio is THE way to be inside this story, brilliantly cast with four voices.” —AudioFile Audie Award AudioFile Best Audiobook Library Journal Best Audiobook Soon-to-be a Major Motion Picture 15 CDs • 978-1-4159-6125-4 • $120.00 18 hrs. 8 mins. VACLAV & LENA by Haley Tanner read by Kirby Heyborne & Rebecca Lowman Vaclav and Lena, best friends and both the children of Russian émigrés, are at the same time from radically different worlds. But after a horrific discovery, the two are ripped apart. Years later, they meet again, but will their past keep them apart? 7 CDs • 978-0-3079-3273-0 • $35.00 8 hrs. 30 mins. All titles listed above are available at a 10% discount—Standing Order Plan discounts do not apply. New! New! New! Adult Crossover Audiobooks 81
Adult Crossover Audiobooks 82 MODERN CLASSICS FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury read by Scott Brick The lessons of this American classic, the dangers of censorship and government control, continue to be relevant today. AudioFile Earphones Award 5 CDs • 978-1-4159-1619-3 • $32.00 6 hrs. • Download not available INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison New! read by Joe Morton “INVISIBLE MAN belongs on the shelf with the classical efforts man has made to chart the river Lethe from its mouth to its source.” —New York Times Book Review 16 CDs • 978-0-3079-1513-9 • $50.00 18 hrs. 30 mins. 1ST TIME ON AUDIO New! MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert; translated by Lydia Davis; read by Kate Reading In this landmark translation, Lydia Davis honors the nuances of a style that has long beguiled readers of French, giving new life in English to Flaubert’s masterwork. 11 CDs • 978-0-3078-7816-8 • $39.95 13 hrs. 46 mins. 1ST TIME ON AUDIO ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac; read by Will Paton “...one of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century… A pillar of American literature.” —Library Journal AudioFile Earphones Award 9 CDs • 978-1-4159-4340-3 • $90.00 11 hrs. 9 mins. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO by Boris Pasternak New! read by John Lee Published in 1957 amid international controversy, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is the story of the life and loves of a physicianpoet during the Russian Revolution. 19 CDs • 978-0-3079-3438-3 • $55.00 Approx. 24 hrs. 1ST TIME ON AUDIO CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY by Alan Paton read by Richard Green This award-winning novel was the first to take aim at South Africa’s apartheid. An old Zulu finds his boy in prison, charged with the murder of a white man. 7 CDs • 978-1-4159-0054-3 • $63.00 8 hrs. 24 mins. • Download not available Ayn Rand’s Timeless Works read by Kate Reading ATLAS SHRUGGED The astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. 45 CDs • 978-1-4159-4924-5 • $129.00 55 hrs. 37 mins. • Download not available THE FOUNTAINHEAD Addressing a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good & evil, and the threat of fascism, the confrontation of these themes gives this novel its enduring influence. 29 CDs • 978-1-4159-4925-2 • $129.00 34 hrs. 35 mins. • Download not available A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Betty Smith read by Bernadette Dunne The beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the century, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache.The story of young, idealistic Francie Nolan has enchanted and inspired listeners for decades. AudioFile Earphones Award 13 CDs • 978-0-7366-7504-8 • $104.00 15 hrs. 48 mins. • Download not available MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, & NARRATIVE NON-FICTION A LONG WAY GONE by Ishmael Beah read by Dominic Hoffman ALEX AWARD “[T]his powerful record of war ends as a beacon to all teens experiencing violence around them by showing them that there are other ways to survive than by adding to the chaos.” —School Library Journal 7 CDs • 978-1-4159-3803-4 • $70.00 7 hrs. 56 mins. A SLAVE NO MORE by David W. Blight read by Arthur Morey Three fascinating works in one: two unpublished manuscripts by former slaves Wallace Turnage (1846–1916) and John Washington (1838–1918), and an illuminating analysis of them by award-winning historian David W. Blight. 8 CDs • 978-1-4159-4248-2 • $50.00 9 hrs. 6 mins. A WALK IN THE WOODS by Bill Bryson read by Rob McQuay Bryson and his gloriously out-of-shape buddy decide to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail. 9 CDs • 978-0-7366-5147-9 • $72.00 10 hrs. 48 mins. • Download not available BROTHER ONE CELL by Cullen Thomas read by Dan Woren The harrowing and powerful story of a young American learning hard lessons in strange prisons on the other side of the world. With its gritty descriptions and acute insights, this is part cautionary tale and part insightful travelogue about places few of us will ever see. ★“[Thomas’] account of that journey is gripping.” —Booklist, starred review 10 CDs • 978-1-4159-3785-3 • $110.00 11 hrs. 47 mins. THE LOST CITY OF Z by David Grann read by Mark Deakins ★“By interweaving the great story of Fawcett with his own investigative escapades in South America and Britain, Grann provides an in-depth, captivating character study that has the relentless energy of a classic adventure tale.” —Library Journal, starred review 8 CDs • 978-1-4159-6024-0 • $90.00 10 hrs. 4 mins. LITTLE PRINCES by Conor Grennan New! read by the Author LITTLE PRINCES is a true story of families and children, and what one person is capable of accomplishing when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds. ★“Conor Grennan’s work is by turns self-pokingly humorous, exciting, and inspiring.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review 8 CDs • 978-0-3078-7989-9 • $40.00 9 hrs. 38 mins. SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME by Lawrence Hill read by Adenrele Ojo Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, this is the story of Aminata Diallo’s remarkable experience that spans six decades and brings to life a crucial chapter in world history. ★“Stunning, wrenching and inspiring.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review 14 CDs • 978-1-4159-4590-2 • $129.00 18 hrs. 4 mins. IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS by Erik Larson New! read by Stephen Hoye ★“Erik Larson has written a brilliant and often infuriating account of the experiences and evolving attitudes of the Dodd family during Hitler’s critical first year in power.”—Booklist, starred review 11 CDs • 978-0-3079-1459-0 • $45.00 12 hrs. 53 mins. THE RIVER OF DOUBT by Candice Millard read by Paul Michael THE RIVER OF DOUBT is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. “Millard turns this incredible story into one that easily matches an Indiana Jones adventure. Essential.” —Library Journal 10 CD • 978-1-4159-2456-3 • $104.00 12 hrs. 18 mins. HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL by Hampton Sides read by the Author Magnificent in scope, drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished material, this non-fiction thriller illuminates one of the darkest hours in American life. ★“The counterpoint between two driven men—one by a quest for justice, the other by an atavistic hatred—propels this engrossing study of the Martin Luther King assassination.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review 12 CDs • 978-0-3077-1411-4 • $45.00 15 hrs. 9 mins. VANISHED SMILE by R.A. Scotti read by Kathe Mazur At the start of a radically new century, the most famous face in the history of art stepped out of her frame and into a sensational mystery. “Scotti’s avid, exciting true-life mystery yields intriguing disclosures.”—Booklist 6 CDs • 978-1-4159-6052-3 • $70.00 6 hrs. 44 mins. ESCAPE FROM THE LAND OF SNOWS by Stephan Talty read by Shishir Kurup Here, for the first time, is the story of the Dalai Lama’s 14-day escape from Tibet to India in 1959, an awe-inspiring feat of courage and endurance that foiled Mao’s plans and made the Dalai Lama into a worldwide symbol and celebrity. 7 CDs • 978-0-3077-1254-7 • $45.00 8 hrs. 48 mins. LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram by Dang Thuy Tram read by Kim Mai Guest Written between 1968 and ’70 by Tram, a young doctor who served on the front lines in Vietnam, her passionate account is now available in English. 6 CDs • 978-1-4159-4230-7 • $70.00 6 hrs. 42 mins. MYSTERY, THRILLER, SUSPENSE FLAVIA de LUCE SERIES BY ALAN BRADLEY READ BY JAYNE ENTWISTLE A RED HERRING WITHOUT MUSTARD ★“Whether battling with her odious sisters or verbally sparing with the longsuffering Inspector Hewitt, our cheeky heroine is a delight.” —Library Journal, starred review 9 CDs • 978-0-3077-0479-5 • $35.00 10 hrs. 46 mins. THE WEED THAT STRINGS THE HANGMAN’S BAG “Flavia, the precocious, imaginative, and adorable 11-year-old sleuth, returns for her 2nd adventure…Thank goodness Bradley is not allowing Flavia to grow up too quickly; we need more sleuths whose mode of transportation is a bicycle.” —Booklist AudioFile Earphones Award 8 CDs • 978-0-3077-0477-1 • $80.00 9 hrs. 50 mins. THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces a most engaging heroine: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. “Mystery fans, Anglophiles, and science buffs will delight in this book...” —School Library Journal AudioFile Earphones Award 8 CDs • 978-1-4159-6448-4 • $80.00 9 hrs. 54 mins. JENNIFER GOVERNMENT by Max Barry read by Michael Kramer When merchandising officer Hack Nike signs a contract that involves shooting teenagers to build up street credibility for Nike’s new line of $2,500 sneakers, he goes to the police, only to be pursued by Jennifer Government, a tough-talking agent with a bar-code tattoo under her eye. 8 CDs • 978-0-7366-9231-1 • $88.00 9 hrs. 36 mins. All titles listed above are available at a 10% discount—Standing Order Plan discounts do not apply. New!
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