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Narration by the Author or Authors
The Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle
Narrated by T.C. Boyle
(Blackstone Audio, Inc.)


Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacker lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he is a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and América Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine.
From the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delany into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
Nominated Titles
  Marian Mcpartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time, by Marian McPartland,
  narrated by Marian McPartland
    (Blackstone Audio, Inc.)
  Speedbumps, by Teri Garr, narrated by Teri Garr
    (Penguin Audio)
  Teacher Man, by Frank McCourt, narrated by Frank McCourt
    (Simon & Schuster Audio)
  The Mighty and the Almighty, by Madeleine Albright, narrated by Madeleine Albright
    (Harper Audio)



Multi-Voiced Performance
World War Z, by Max Brooks
Narrated by Max Brooks and a full cast
(Random House Audio)


The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Driven by the urgency of preserving the harrowing first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, Max Brooks traversed the globe, from its decimated cities to its most remote and inhospitable areas, to record their raw and vivid testimony. In World War Z, he powerfully documents the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years. Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the North American redoubt where the tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.
Nominated Titles
  Airborn, Kenneth Oppel, narrated by David Kelly
  and a full cast
    (Full Cast Audio)
  Operation Homecoming, by Andrew Carroll, narrated by Joe Barrett,
  David Birney, et al.
    (Blackstone Audio, Inc.)
  Suite Francaise, by Nemirovsky, narrated by Daniel Oreskes
  and Barbara Rosenblat
    (HighBridge Audio)
  The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield, narrated by Ruthie Henshall
  and Lynn Redgrave
    (Simon & Schuster Audio)




Audio Drama
The Life of Jesus, by Paul McClusker
Narrated by a full cast
(Tyndale / Focus on the Family)


In first century Palestine, the physician Luke is on a mission to save the life of his friend Paul. His task: to chronicle the life of a carpenter's son from Nazareth named Jesus. Luke searches for firsthand witnesses to the miracles and controversies surrounding the man they call "the Christ." Luke's travels take him through violent roads, and he encounters his own miracles along the way. Be an eyewitness to Luke's quest for the truth in this Radio Theatre production featuring England's finest actors and cinema-quality sound design.
Nominated Titles
  Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel, narrated by David Kelly and a full cast
    (Full Cast Audio)
  King Kong, by Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland,
  narrated by David Baker and a full cast
    (Full Cast Audio)
  Nightmares on Congress Street V, by Fitz-James O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe,
  Alex Irvine, Michael Duffy, Ray Bradbury, Hugh B. Cave,
  H.P. Lovecraft,
  narrated by a full cast
    (Tantor Media, Inc.)
  The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, narrated by Jamie Glover
  and a full cast
    (BBC Audiobooks America)



Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Quintessential Phase, by Douglas Adams
Narrated by Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and a full cast
(BBC Audiobooks America)


Panic! It's the last installment of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with a brand new full-cast dramatization of Mostly Harmless, the final book in Douglas Adams' famous "trilogy in five parts." While frequent flyer Arthur Dent searches the universe for his lost love, Ford Prefect discovers a disturbing blast from the past at The Hitchhiker's Guide HQ. Meanwhile, on one of many versions of Earth, a blonder, more American Trillian gets tangled up with a party of lost aliens having an identity crisis. A stolen ship, a dramatic stampede, and a new and sinister Guide lead to a race to save the earth...again.
Nominated Titles
  Letter From America: Volumes 1-3, by Alistair Cooke, narrated by Alistair Cooke
    (BBC Audiobooks America)
  Selected Shorts: Vol. 19 Timeless Classics, by James Thurber, Edith Wharton, Jack London,
  D.H. Lawrence, Shirley Jackson, Richard Connell, Raymond Carver,
  narrated by Isaiah Sheffer, Maria Tucci, Steven Gilborn, John Shea,
  Marian Seldes, Charles Keating, James Naughton
    (Symphony Space, Inc.)
  This I Believe, by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman,
  narrated by Bill Gates, Martha Graham, et al.
    (Audio Renaissance)
  Twelve Angry Men, by Reginald Rose, narrated by a full cast
    (L.A. Theatre Works)



Package Design
The Golden Compass, Tenth Anniversary Edition, by Philip Pullman
Narrated by Philip Pullman and cast
(Random House Audio)


In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life is shattered when her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, arrives with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North. Asriel's secret research includes photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the golden compass. All around her children are disappearing and being used as subjects in terrible experiments-and somehow, Lord Asriel is involved.
Nominated Titles
  The Bible Experience, narrated by Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding, Jr.,
  Samuel L. Jackson, Blair Underwood, Denzel Washington and more
    (Zondervan Publishing)
  The James Herriot Collection, by James Herriot, narrated by Christopher Timothy
    (Audio Renaissance)
  The Jamie Lee Curtis Audio Collection, by Jamie Lee Curtis, narrated by Jamie Lee
    (Harper Audio)
  Zodiac, by Robert Graysmith, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki
    (Blackstone Audio, Inc.)



Achievement in Production
The Goose Girl, by Shannon Hale
Narrated by Cynthia Bishop and a full cast
(Full Cast Audio)


Princess Anidori has the gift of speaking to animals, but finding her place in the royal family isn't so easy. On her way to marry a prince she's never met, her jealous lady-in-waiting concocts a scheme to replace her. Now Ani must disguise herself as a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity. Her quest to reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers leads to into many exciting adventures and teaches her about love, loyalty, and friendship. With courage an perseverance, this plucky young heroine will achieve justice against overwhelming odds.
Nominated Titles
  Father Gilbert Mysteries: The Silver Cord, by Dave Arnold and Paul McClusker,
  narrated by a full cast
    (Tyndale / Focus on the Family)
  Marked Man, by William Lashner, narrated by Richard Rohan
    (Harper Audio)
  Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts, narrated by Humphrey Bower
    (Blackstone Audio, Inc.)
  Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, by Julian Rubinstein, narrated by Julian Rubinstein et al.
    (Hachette Audio)
  The Bible Experience
  Narrated by Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson,
  Blair Underwood, Denzel Washington and more
    (Zondervan Publishing)



Spanish Language
Angeles y Demonios, by Dan Brown
Narrated by Raul Amundaray
(FonoLibro Inc.)


En un laboratorio de máxima seguridad, aparece asesinado un científico con un extraño símbolo grabado a fuego en su pecho. Para el profesor Robert Langdon no hay duda: los Illuminati, los hombres enfrentados a la Iglesia desde los tiempos de Galileo, han regresado. Y esta vez disponen de la más mortífera arma que ha creado la humanidad, un artefacto con el que pueden ganar la batalla final contra su eterno enemigo. Acompañado de una joven científica y un audaz capitán de la Guardia Suiza, Langdon comienza una carrera contra reloj, en una búsqueda desesperada por los rincones más secretos de El Vaticano. Necesitará todo su conocimiento para descifrar las claves ocultas que los Illuminati han dejado a través de los siglos en manuscritos y templos, y todo su coraje para vencer al despiadado asesino que siempre parece llevarle la delantera.

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization--the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth…the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.
Nominated Titles
  Caballo de Troya 7: Nahum, by J.J. Benitez, narrated by full cast
    (FonoLibro Inc.)
  El Rey de los Pleitos, by John Grisham, narrated by Karl Hoffman
    (FonoLibro Inc.)
  La Cena Secreta, by Javier Sierra, narrated by Francisco Rivela
    (Recorded Books, LLC)
  Las Cinco Personas Que Encontraras en el Cielo, by Mitch Albom, narrated by Francisco Rivela
    (Hyperion Audio)



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