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ALSC recommends their 2012 Notable Children’s Recordings

Looking for the best of the best listens for your little ones? The Association of Library Services for Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, selects a list of Notable Children’s Recordings to honor their favorite audiobooks for kids from the previous year. This year’s selections include some fantastic selections–how many have you heard?


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THRAWN TRILOGY Books 2 & 3 will be available UNABRIDGED for the first time in June 2012

Thanks to outspoken response from Star Wars fans worldwide, Random House Audio will produce new unabridged recordings of books two and three in Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, DARK FORCE RISING and THE LAST COMMAND.


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Win the Top 11 Audiobooks of 2011!

We’re celebrating a year of fantastic new audiobooks with our Top 11 Audiobooks of 2011! We’ll be revealing a new top title each day on Facebook and Twitter, with one lucky winner receiving a prize pack of all 11 top audios. Check back on Facebook and Twitter each day as a new top audio is posted. Complete details on how to enter are below.


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New audiobook recording of George R.R. Martin’s A FEAST FOR CROWS, now narrated by Roy Dotrice

Dotrice’s narration will be available as a digital download December 15, 2011 for U.S. listeners
NEW YORK, NY (December 12, 2011)—Random House Audio announces today that it will release a new recording of George R.R. Martin’s A FEAST FOR CROWS, the fourth book in Martin’s bestselling series, A Song of Ice and Fire, narrated by fan [...]


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Enter to win audiobooks signed by George R.R. Martin!

To celebrate our new recording of A FEAST FOR CROWS read by Roy Dotrice (available 12/15 as a digital download and on CD in March 2012), we’re giving away 6 audiobooks signed by George R.R. Martin himself!


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Stop by the Random House Audio Tent at the Boston Book Festival

Random House Audio will be making its first appearance at the Boston Book Festival on October 15, delighting attendees with activities, games, and giveaways!


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Test your history IQ at the Boston Book Festival (and win prizes!)

Test your knowledge of Beantown history with bestselling author and historian Kenneth C. Davis (creator of the bestselling Don’t Know Much About… series). Davis will select quiz contestants from the audience for this interactive event to vie for prizes, Jeopardy®-style!


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Behind the scenes during the INHERITANCE recording sessions

Recording began last week for Christopher Paolini’s anxiously awaited final book in the Inheritance Cycle. Narrator Gerard Doyle is back to voice the series’ beloved characters for the last time, and Christopher and his editor, Random House Children’s Books’ Michelle Frey, stopped by the studio for a visit.


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Christopher Paolini & George R.R. Martin podcast

Authors Christopher Paolini (whose fourth book in his Inheritance Cycle, INHERITANCE, will be on sale Nov 8th) and George R.R. Martin (the fifth book in his Song of Ice and Fire series, A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, is on sale now) got together at this year’s Comic Con International in San Diego to discuss topics in [...]


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A-List Cast Narrates Lost Dr. Seuss Stories

A cast of A Listers will narrate THE BIPPOLO SEED AND OTHER STORIES, a collection of rare stories by Dr. Seuss originally published in magazines between 1950 and 1951–a literary “buried treasure” discovered by Seuss scholar and collector Charles D. Cohen.


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