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Audio Book of the Month
Our Featured Audio Book for November is The March by E.L. Doctorow.
Call Number: PS3554.O3M37 2005c
Summary: In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant.
Subject: South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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Free audio books for listening can be found at the Project Gutenberg: The Audio Books Project . The audio books can be either human-read or computer-read and are available in over 50 languages. The audio books are large files and require a high-speed Internet connection, but they are all FREE of charge.
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Audie Awards
The APA (Audio Publishers Association) recognizes excellence in the audio book format every year with the Audie Awards. "APA and its members work to bring all audio publishers together to create increased public awareness for the audiobook industry through joint publicity efforts, national consumer surveys, trade show exhibits, an association newsletter, the annual APA conference – APAC and the Audie Awards competition and gala."
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AudioFile
The AudioFile Magazine's current reviews page offers audio book reviews by subject or on an alphabetical list. Also offered on its website are links to audio book retailers, editors' picks, author interviews, and podcasts. The free podcasts have excerpts from audio books, so you can get a preview before purchase or library check-out.