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THE AUDIES® FINALISTS 2007
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 The
Audiobook of the Year Finalists meet the high standards of the traditional
awards and also include excellence in the marketing campaign, sales, and
overall impact on the audio publishing field.
The finalists for
this prestigious award represent the depth and breadth of audio publishing.
The awards, given
in 31 categories, were announced June 1, 2007 at an awards ceremony held in
New York.
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TO KILL A
MOCKINGBIRD
By Harper
Lee
Narrated by
Sissy Spacek
Harper
Audio/ Caedmon
To Kill a
Mockingbird was one of the most requested
yet
unavailable audiobooks – until this past year. Author Harper Lee
personally approved the fine performance of Sissy Spacek, who deftly
gives voice to this Pulitzer Prizewinning story of racial tension in
a small southern town. Now in its fifth printing, and featuring the
novel’s original 1960 artwork, the audiobook’s strong sales are a
testament to customer demand and Caedmon’s great media outreach,
including ample coverage in People, Entertainment Weekly and
Variety.
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THIS I
BELIEVE
Edited by
Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
Narrated by
Bill Gates, Martha Graham, Isabel Allende,
Jackie
Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Eleanor Roosevelt, et al. (Audio
Renaissance)
Audio
Renaissance’s This I Believe captures the ongoing history of
the American people. Adapted
from the NPR
special series, men and women express in their own voices the core
beliefs by which they live. Essays from the original Edward R.
Murrow radio series from the 1950s – including those spoken by
Jackie Robinson, Helen Keller, and Eleanor Roosevelt – intermingle
with the thoughts of contemporaries,
both famous
and ordinary, to provide an insightful look at the spirit that
continues to drive us.
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2007Winner
THE BIBLE
EXPERIENCE: NEW TESTAMENT
Narrated by
Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Samuel L.
Jackson, Blair Underwood, Denzel
Washington,
et al.
(Zondervan
Publishing)
The Bible
Experience
is a tribute to innovative marketing. Packed with an impressive cast
of over 200 prominent African Americans – including Alfre Woodard,
Samuel L. Jackson, Blair Underwood, Denzel Washington and Angela
Bassett – Zondervan didn’t stop at letting the talent attract
listeners. They conducted a church-driven awareness program,
utilized MySpace as a promotional vehicle, and received a wealth of
positive press for this superb production.
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WORLD WAR Z
By Max
Brooks
Narrated by
Max Brooks and a Full Cast, including
Alan Alda,
Mark Hamill, Carl Reiner, Henry Rollins,
and John
Turturro
(Random
House Audio)
An oral
history of the fictitious zombie wars has been preserved by Max
Brooks in
World War Z.
The audio features a full cast that includes Hollywood luminaries
Alan Alda, John Turturro and Rob Reiner; each of the novel’s
characters offers up first-hand experiences of those apocalyptic
years. Random House kicked off promotion of the program at Comic
Con, offered web samples of the variety of narrators, and targeted
thousands of Zombie fans with emails and web-based promotions.
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