May 31, 2011

Personal Development for Smart People Blog on Audio Book

Steve Pavlina’s popular blog “Personal Growth for Smart People” gets over 2 million visitors per month. Writing on topics as diverse as sleep optimization, natural food diets, relationships, and time management, Pavlina has displayed a fascinating willingness to adjust his lifestyle for the better. We’ve been avid readers of his blog for years and are excited to present his ideas on audio for the first time!

You can check out our sampler audio book which features six of his most popular blog posts of all time. Download this 1-hour audio book as an introduction to his unique take on personal growth:

The Best of Steve Pavlina’s Blog: Personal Growth for Smart People

Included in this free sampler program are audio renditions of these classic Pavlina blog postings:

• How to Discover Your Life Purpose
• 30 Days to Success
• How to Become an Early Riser
• Ten Reasons Not to Get a Job
• How to Decide When to End a Long-Term Relationship
• The Law of Attraction

And if you enjoy this sampler audio book you might also want to check out the full 7-hour unabridged audio book we’ve recorded of over 25 of Steve Pavlina’s best blog posts:

The Best of Steve Pavlina’s Blog (Unabridged)

This 7-hour unabridged audio book contains audio renditions of all of the most popular Pavlina blog entries:

• How to Discover Your Life Purpose
• 30 Days to Success
• How to Become an Early Riser
• Ten Reasons Not to Get a Job
• How to Decide When to End a Long-Term Relationship
• The Law of Attraction
• Self Discipline Part 1-6
• How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off
• 10 Tips for College Students
• How to Be a Man
• 30 Day Facebook Fast
• Levels of Consciousness
• Deciding What To Do With Your Life
• How to Make Lots of Money During a Recession
• How to Achieve Stretch Goals
• Don’t Die With Your Music Still in You
• Cause-Effect vs. Intention-Manifestation
• 33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity
• How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog)
• How to Manifest Money
• The-Power-Of-Now
• How to Squash Negative Thought Patterns
• Understanding Family Relationship Problems
• How to Make Money From Your Blog

A treasure trove of inspiration from a man who has dedicated his life to personal growth:

The Best of Steve Pavlina’s Blog (Unabridged)

We’d like to thank Mr. Steve Pavlina for Releasing His Copyrights. Definitely check out his popular “Personal Development for Smart People” blog at www.stevepavlina.com.

April 21, 2011

Bible on Audio

On this Easter weekend we wanted to update our Bible on Audio category and provide you with the ultimate Bible on Audio resource. We’ve gone through and added many new editions in our attempt to have the most comprehensive audio bible resource on the web. We now feature over 150 audio bibles on audio download, CD, MP3-CD, podcast, and even free download!

Listening to the Bible is a rewarding way to pass the time and feed your soul while driving, cleaning house, or taking a walk. Browse the Bibles on LearnOutLoud.com, listen to the samples we provide, and find a version of the Bible that you can listen to and finish within the next year. You probably never thought you’d be able to get through the whole Bible in your lifetime, but with audio books you’d be surprised how much progress you can make on the greatest epic of all time.

You can check out all the audio bibles we have right here:

The Bible On Audio

We’ll devote this blog to highlighting the best audio bibles out there. We’ll start with some of the Bibles we have on audio download right here on LearnOutLoud.com:

Bible on Audio Download:

ESV Hear the Word Audio Bible

The Bible: The New Testament Narrated by famed actor Gregory Peck

The Ultimate Bible: The Old Testament, King James Version Narrated by Theodore Bikel, Alfre Woodard, Michael York, and more

And we also feature a number of individual books of the Bible. They can all be found right here:

The Bible on Audio Download

Bible on Audio CD:

We’ll also point out some of the very best Bibles on Audio CD that we are currently selling. Check out some of these bestselling Bibles:

Inspired By…the Bible Experience – TNIV Dramatized Complete Bible on CD and MP3 CD featuring performances by Angela Bassett, James Brown, Levar Burton, Dr. Juanita Bynum, Ruby Dee, Kirk Franklin, Cuba Gooding Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Bishop T. D. Jakes, Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Vanessa Williams, and many more.

If you’d like to hear more about this popular Bible check out: The Bible Experience Podcast

The Word of Promise: Complete Audio Bible NKJV – Dramatized Complete Bible with compelling narration by Michael York and outstanding performances by Jim Caviezel as Jesus, Richard Dreyfuss as Moses, Gary Sinise as David, Jason Alexander as Joseph, Marisa Tomei as Mary Magdalene, Stacy Keach as Paul, Louis Gossett, Jr. as John, Jon Voight as Abraham, Marcia Gay Harden as Esther, Joan Allen as Deborah, Max von Sydow as Noah, and Malcolm McDowell as Solomon.

Truth and Life Dramatized Audio Bible: New Testament – RSV Dramatized Complete Bible with 70 actors including international stars: Neal McDonough as ‘Jesus,’ Julia Ormond as ‘Mary, Mother of God,’ Blair Underwood as ‘Mark,’ Stacy Keach as ‘John,’ Michael York as ‘Luke,’ Brian Cox as ‘The Voice of God,’ Sean Astin as ‘Matthew,’ Kristen Bell as ‘Mary Magdalene, ‘ Malcolm McDowell as ‘Caiaphas,’ and John Rhys-Davies as the Narrator.

Bible Alive!: Dramatized New Living Translation – Superb acting by a cast of Tony Award-winning performers, inspirational music and dramatic sound effects enhanced with state-of-the-art digital sound, and rich narration by Emmy Award winner Stephen Johnston make this world-class, dramatized production of the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, an unforgettable listening experience.

And you can find many more in our Bible audio book sale section:

Over 75 Bible Audio Books on Sale on CD, Download, and MP3-CD

And we sell the Bible in just about every imaginable translation. We’ll highlight some of the most popular ones that we sell:

Popular Bible Translations:

NIV Audio Bible Dramatized

TNIV Audio Bible: Complete Bible

The Holy Bible – Complete KJV Bible

NKJV Complete Bible

Holy Sanctuary Bible Dramatized – New Living Translation

One Year Chronological Bible – NLT on MP3-CD

ESV Hear the Word Audio Bible

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language by Eugene H. Peterson

Try out these many translations of the Bible on Audio!

There are also a number of popular narrations of the Bible by outstanding voice actors and narrators. Here are a few:

Great Narrators of Bible:

James Earl Jones Reads the Bible – New Testament

Over a Dozen Listener’s Bible Editions of the Bible Narrated by Max McLean and the Fellowship for the Performing Arts

Numerous Edition Narrated by renowned actor Alexander Scourby

The Gospel of Jesus Narrated by Garrison Keillor

Johnny Cash Reads The Complete New Testament – NKJV (This one is out of print but you can get it used on Amazon or on audio download on Audible.com)

There are many more great narrations with audio samples available to listen to.

And finally on Kids.LearnOutLoud.com we’ve got over 30 Audio Bibles to choose from. You can browse all of our Audio Bible for Kids & Teens right here:

The Bible on Audio For Kids

And we’ll point out some of the best ones:

Audio Bibles for Kids & Teens:

REMIXED: The Greatest Bible Stories Ever Told!

Bible Stories for Growing Kids

The Singing Bible

The Word of Promise: Next Generation – New Testament – International Children’s Bible Translation Dramatized New Testament features the voices of such world-class young actors as Annasophia Robb, Marshall Allman, Emily Osment, Cody Linley, Sean Astin, Jordin Sparks, and Corbin Bleu.

Share the Bible with children with these engaging audio bibles for kids.

And we’d like to point out that in our Bible section we also have some great audio books and courses that are about the Bible. Here are some ones we offer on audio download on LearnOutLoud.com:

Audio Books & Courses About the Bible:

The Bible and the Roots of Western Literature Audio Course by Professor Adam Potkay

The Hebrew Bible Audio Course by Professor of Jewish Studies Lawrence H. Schiffman

Don’t Know Much about the Bible by Kenneth C. Davis

A Book You’ll Actually Listen To on the Old Testament & A Book You’ll Actually Listen To on the New Testament by Mark Driscoll

What the Bible Is All About by Henrietta C. Mears

The Invitation: A Simple Guide to the Bible by Eugene H. Peterson

Learn more about the Bible with these helpful resources.

And lastly we’ll feature some of the great free bibles and Bible podcasts that are out there.

Free Bibles on Audio:

The King James Bible: New Testament

The King James Version Bible Professionally Narrated by Emmy Award winning narrator Stephen Johnston

The World English Bible

World English Bible: Old Testament Narrated by Volunteers at Librivox.org

World English Bible: New Testament Narrated by Volunteers at Librivox.org

Twentieth Century New Testament Narrated by Volunteers at Librivox.org

In addtion to free complete Bibles there are also a lot of free books of the Bible and other parts of the Bible that can downloaded:

Free Parts of the Bible:

The Words of Christ presented by ThoughtAudio.com

The Song of Songs by King Solomon

The Book of Job

Ecclesiastes

Psalms

And we think you’ll enjoy these free Bible podcasts:

Bible Podcasts:

1 Year Daily Audio Bible Podcast

King James’ Version of the Holy Bible: New Testament Podcast

Scriptures Podcast: New Testament Podcast

The Bible Podcast

And for kids there is also these podcasts:

1 Year Daily Audio Bible for Kids Podcast

Once Upon a World: Bible Stories for Children Podcast

We could go on talking all of the Bibles we have but I think we’ll stop there. Have a great Easter every one!

January 19, 2011

Books That Changed the World

We’ve added a new series of audio books entitled “Books That Changed the World”. This series features “biographies” of some of the most influential books in history. These nine books you’ve probably heard of, but you may not have had a chance to read them in their entirety. The series features nine of today’s great writers and historians providing an in-depth look at these works and the ways in which they have shaped our world. Here are the nine books in the series:

On the Wealth of Nations by P.J. O’Rourke

The Qur’an: A Biography by Bruce Lawrence

Darwin’s Origin of Species: A Biography by Janet Browne

Plato’s Republic by Simon Blackburn

Clausewitz’s on War by Hew Strachan

Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man by Christopher Hitchens

The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong

Marx’s Das Kapital by Francis Wheen

Homer’s the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography by Alberto Manguel

And if you want some good introductions to these books check out this podcast series from NPR’s Talk of the Nation which features interviews with most of the authors:

NPR Series: Books That Changed the World Podcast

Dive deeper into some of the great books in history!

December 16, 2010

Audio Book Boxed Sets

Boxed Sets always make excellent gifts for those extra special people in your life. There are a number of audio book boxed sets, but they’re not necessarily the easiest to find so we decided to put together this list of the some of the best boxed sets and collections on audio. These include literature sets as well sets of audio books from specific authors and a number of other collections. We’ve divided them up by fiction & nonfiction. Starting with nonfiction boxed sets:

Nonfiction Boxed Sets:

The C.S. Lewis Signature Classics Audio Collection: The Problem of Pain, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, & Mere Christianity

Malcolm Gladwell Box Set: The Tipping Point, Blink, & Outliers

The Essential Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope & Dreams from My Father

Eminent Lives: The Presidents Collection

Martin Luther King: The Essential Box Set

The Giants of Philosophy Boxed Set

Rich Dad’s Advisors: Box Set

John C. Maxwell’s Complete Leadership Series

The Eckhart Tolle Audio Collection

The James Herriot Collection: All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and All Things Wise and Wonderful

The Making of Music: Volumes One & Two

ESV Hear the Word Audio Bible

The Bible: The New Testament Narrated by Gregory Peck

The Ultimate Bible: The Old Testament, King James Version

Fiction Boxed Sets:

The Chronicles of Narnia CD Box Set by C.S. Lewis

Lewis Carroll Box Set: Alice Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

The Complete Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Neil Simon Collection

The Noel Coward Collection

Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Stephenie Meyer Twilight Saga CD Set: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, & Breaking Dawn

A.A. Milne’s Pooh Classics Boxed Set: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, and Now We Are Six

Complete Arkangel Shakespeare

Shakespeare: The Essential Comedies, Volume 1: Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare: The Essential Tragedies, Volume 1: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, King Lear

Collector’s Limited Edition Complete Star Wars Trilogy

The J. R. R. Tolkien Collection

November 25, 2010

Complete Arkangel Shakespeare on Audio Download

One of the best ways to encounter the plays of William Shakespeare is listening to them dramatized on audio with a great cast. LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to present for the first time on “a la carte” audio download the Complete Arkangel Shakespeare collection which features all 38 fully-dramatized unabridged plays of William Shakespeare. You can browse all the plays along with over 100 other editions of Shakespeare’s plays on our Shakespeare author page:

All William Shakespeare Plays on Audio

The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare represents one of the great achievements in audio book history. This collection features nearly 400 actors, almost all past or present members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Eileen Atkins, Joseph Fiennes, Sir John Gielgud, Ciaran Hinds, Alan Howard, Jane Lapotaire, Amanda Root, David Tennant, Sophie Thompson, Samuel West, and Timothy West.

All of these plays are produced by a single creative team with state-of-the-art technology, along with original music and subtle sound effects that heighten the drama. We are offering them as MP3 downloads at 192 kbps bit rate which is CD quality audio.

All 38 plays are produced in their entirety, based on the authoritative Complete Pelican Shakespeare, under the supervision of scholars. The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare audio plays are a multimillion dollar production that was five years in the making.

Here they all are divided up by genre:

COMEDIES:

All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter’s Tale

HISTORIES:

Cymbeline
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III

TRAGEDIES:

Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida

December 15, 2009

100 More Great 2009 New Releases

Looking for some great holiday gifts? At LearnOutLoud.com we’ve compiled a list of 100 more new and most popular audio book releases. You can check out all of our new releases here:

LearnOutLoud.com Audiobook New Releases

All the audio books on our list are available on Audio CD and are in stock and ready to ship from LearnOutLoud.com. Also many of these titles are available on Audio Download. No matter who you’re giving gifts to this year, you’re sure to find an audio book they’ll enjoy and learn from. To make it easy, we’ve divided this list of 50 new releases into categories:

Arts & Entertainment:
Car Talk: Tales of the Brothers Grime by Tom & Ray Magliozzi

Dirk Gently: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman

Church People: The Lutherans of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor

The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment by A.J. Jacobs

The Making of Music: Volumes One & Two by James Naughtie

NPR Favorite Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won’t Let You Go by Rene Montagne

The Renaissance in a Nutshell by Peter Whitfield

Biography:
Barack Like Me by David Alan Grier

American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane by Walter Isaacson

Cowboy & Wills: A Love Story by Monica Holloway

Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life Without Opening the Fridge by Valerie Bertinelli

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

Unthinkable: The True Story About the First Double Amputee to Complete the World-Famous Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon by Scott Rigsby

Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks by Lisa Lampanelli

Noel Coward: An Audio Biography by Sheridan Morley

The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi

This Family of Mine: What It Was Like Growing Up Gotti by Victoria Gotti

Duchess of Death: The Unauthorized Biography of Agatha Christie by Richard Hack

My Remarkable Journey by Larry King

Business:
Warren Buffett’s Management Secrets by Mary Buffett

Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Jim Cramer’s Getting Back to Even by Jim Cramer

Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know by John C. Maxwell

The Spencer Johnson Audio Collection by Spencer Johnson

The Speed of Trust: Live from L.A. by Stephen M.R. Covey

Cash in a Flash: Fast Money in Slow Times by Robert G. Allen

The Sticking Point Solution by Jay Abraham

Catastrophe: The Story of Bernard L. Madoff, the Man Who Swindled the World by Deborah Strober

Gimme My Money Back by Ali Velshi

History:
The French Revolution in a Nutshell by Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President by Taylor Branch

The Essential Letters from America: The 1940s and 1950s by Alistair Cooke

Yes We Can!: Speeches of Barack Obama by Barack Obama

Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America by Adam Cohen

Literature:
The Complete Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

The Christmas List by Richard Paul Evans

Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy

The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett

A Rumpole Christmas by John Mortimer

The True Gift: A Christmas Story by Patricia MacLachlan

Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon

The Complete Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope

Day After Night by Anita Diamant

The Essential Agatha Christie Stories by Agatha Christie

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

The History of English Poetry by Peter Whitfield

Earthlight & Other Stories by Arthur C. Clarke

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway

Politics:
America for Sale by Jerome R. Corsi

Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck

The Governor by Rod Blagojevich

Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court by James MacGregor Burns

The Age of the Unthinkable by Joshua Cooper Ramo

The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation by Edward Klein

Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin

Speaking of Freedom by George H.W. Bush

Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy by Peter S. Canellos

A Slobbering Love Affair by Bernard Goldberg

The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation by Philip Shenon

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land by Jimmy Carter

Religion & Spirituality:
It’s Your Time by Joel Osteen

The Memory Quilt: A Christmas Story for Our Times by T.D. Jakes

The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas by William J. Bennett

The Source of Miracles: 7 Steps to Transforming Your Life Through the Lord’s Prayer by Kathleen McGowan

The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

A Praying Life by Paul Miller

Guideposts Inspiration

Words from the Fire: Hearing the Voice of God in the 10 Commandments by Albert Mohler

You’re It!: On Hiding, Seeking, and Being Found by Alan Watts

The Love Revolution by Joyce Meyer

Self Development:
Emotional Freedom Practices by Judith Orloff

Embrace the Struggle by Zig Ziglar

Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief by Jon Kabat-Zinn

True Abundance by Michael Beckwith

Unconditional Confidence by Pema Chodron

You: Having a Baby by Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz

Meditations for Emotional Healing by Tara Brach

Codependent No More and Beyond Codependency by Melody Beattie

Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World by Harold S. Kushner

How to Rule the World from Your Couch by Laura Day

Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul by David A. Kessler

Self-Healing with Energy Medicine by Andrew Weil & Ann Marie Chiasson

Bounce Back: Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business and in Life by John Calipari

The Secret to True Happiness by Joyce Meyer

Detox Flow Yoga by Seane Corn

How to Instantly Connect with Anyone by Leil Lowndes

The Mind-Body Code by Mario Martinez

Reconnecting: A Self-Coaching Solution to Revive Your Love Life by Joseph Luciani

10-10-10: 10 Minutes, 10 Months, 10 Years by Suzy Welch

Masters of Sex by Thomas Maier

Enough Already! by Peter Walsh

Other Notable Releases:
The Making of Modern Medicine by Andrew Cunningham

Favourite Essays by Michel de Montaigne

Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie

Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

From Naked Ape to Superspecies by David Suzuki

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis

Hella Nation by Evan Wright

Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime by William H. Gates, Sr.

Enjoy these great new releases in audio books from 2009!

December 2, 2009

100 Gifts from Audio Books Released in 2009

Looking for some great holiday gifts? At LearnOutLoud.com we’ve assembled a list of the 100 best new and most popular audio book releases from 2009. You can check out all of our new releases here:

LearnOutLoud.com Audiobook New Releases

All the audio books on our list are available on Audio CD and are in stock and ready to ship from LearnOutLoud.com. No matter who you’re giving gifts to this year, you’re sure to find an audio book they’ll enjoy and learn from. To make it easy, we’ve divided this list of 100 new releases into categories:

Arts & Entertainment:
A Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor
David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure by David Sedaris
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Last Words by George Carlin
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Secondary Phase by Douglas Adams
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
Discover Music of the Romantic Era by David McCleery
Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz

Biography:
Going Rogue by Sarah Palin
American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane by Walter Isaacson
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit by Mike Huckabee
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
Lance Armstrong: The Making of the World’s Greatest Champion by John Wilcockson
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

Business:
Jim Cramer’s Getting Back to Even by Jim Cramer
Rich Dad’s Conspiracy of the Rich by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Stop Acting Rich: And Start Living Like a Real Millionaire by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D.
The E-Myth Enterprise by Michael Gerber
The Leader’s Way: The Art of Making the Right Decisions in Our Careers, Our Companies, and the World at Large by His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Lauren Van Den Muyzenberg
The Master-Key to Riches by Napoleon Hill
Passion and Purpose: The Power of Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey
Think Like a Champion by Donald Trump
A Gift to My Children: A Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing by Jim Rogers
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
Leadership from the Inside Out by Kevin Cashman

History:
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea by Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns
Afghanistan: In A Nutshell by Timothy Albone
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas (Narrated by David Strathairn & Richard Dreyfuss)
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Cokie Roberts
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner

Literature:
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
The Essential Agatha Christie Stories by by Agatha Christie
The J. R. R. Tolkien Collection by J. R. R. Tolkien
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales by Nelson Mandela
When She Was Good by Philip Roth
My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
Great Classic Humor: Edited by Mark Twain by Mark Twain
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Precious by Sapphire
Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection by Lorraine Hansberry
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

Politics:
Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck
End the Fed by Ron Paul
FDR: The First Hundred Days by Anthony J. Badger
Renegade: The Making of a President by Richard Wolffe
Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died by Edward Klein
Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin
Speaking of Freedom by George H.W. Bush
The Essential Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century by Tony Blankley
America’s March to Socialism by Glenn Beck
The Obama Revolution by Alan Kennedy-Shaffer

Religion & Spirituality:
It’s Your Time by Joel Osteen
The Memory Quilt: A Christmas Story for Our Times by T.D. Jakes
The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas by William J. Bennett
The Word of Promise: Complete Audio Bible NKJV
Becoming Enlightened by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
Church People: The Lutherans of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor
Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear by Max Lucado
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Self Development:
The Ultimate Happiness Prescription by Deepak Chopra
Embrace the Struggle by Zig Ziglar
Why Our Health Matters by Andrew Weil
The Attractor Factor by Joe Vitale
Deep Sleep with Medical Self-Hypnosis by Steven Gurgevich
Living Without Stress or Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh
Love Is a Verb by Jeffrey Kluger
Reconnecting: A Self-Coaching Solution to Revive Your Love Life by Joseph Luciani
Your Soul’s Evolution by Michael Beckwith
Choose Them Wisely: Thoughts Become Things! by Mike Dooley
The End of Overeating by David A. Kessler
The Mystery of 2012 by John Major Jenkins
The Hourglass Solution: A Boomer’s Guide to the Rest of Your Life by Jeff Johnson
Life Is Friends by Jeanne Martinet
Making It All Work by David Allen
The Power of Slow by Carl Honore
The Body Fat Solution by Tom Venuto
Feeling Good Together by David D. Burns
Still the Mind: Simple Breathing Practices for Inner Peace by Bodhipaksa
The UltraMind Solution by Mark Hyman
The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey

Other Notable Releases:
Berlitz Mexican Spanish Phrase Book & CD
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore
Hope for Animals and Their World by Jane Goodall
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid by Howard J. Morris
The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business by Tara Hunt
How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn’t Have to Be Forever by Jack Horner

Enjoy these great new releases in audio books from 2009!

July 10, 2009

2009 Audie Award Winners

The Audie Awards took place on May 29th in New York City. For those of you who’ve not heard of the Audies, they are basically the Oscars for audio books.

Here are some highlights of the winners which we offer through LearnOutLoud.com:

Audiobook of the Year
The Graveyard Book
Publisher: Harper Audio
Author: Neil Gaiman
Narrator: Neil Gaiman

Audio Drama
The Odyssey
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Author: Homer
Narrator: Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman and a Full Cast

Audiobook Adaptation
A Prairie Home Companion: English Majors
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Author: Garrison Keillor
Narrator: Garrison Keillor et al.

Classics
Great Expectations
Publisher: Tantor Media
Author: Charles Dickens
Narrator: Simon Vance

Personal Development
You: Staying Young
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Author: Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz
Narrator: Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz

Biography/Memoir
The Last Lecture
Publisher: Harper Audio
Author: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Narrator: Erik Singer, Randy Pausch

Business Information/Educational
The Little Red Book of Selling
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Author: Jeffrey Gitomer
Narrator: Jeffrey Gitomer

Children’s Titles for Ages Up to 8
James Herriot’s Treasury for Children
Publisher: MacMillan Audio
Author: James Herriot
Narrator: Jim Dale

History
Gandhi & Churchill
Publisher: Recorded Books
Author: Arthur Herman
Narrator: John Curless

Inspirational/Faith-Based Non-Fiction
The Word of Promise: Next Generation – New Testament
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Word
Narrator: Sean Astin, Codey Linley, Anna-Sophia Robb and Jordin Sparks

Literary Fiction
Elmer Gantry
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Narrator: Anthony Heald

Narration by the Author or Authors
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Author: David Sedaris
Narrator: David Sedaris

Non-Fiction
Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Publisher: MacMillan Audio
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Narrator: Oliver Wyman

And check out the Audie Award Winners from the past three years:

2008 Audie Award Winners

2007 Audie Award Winners

2006 Audie Award Winners

June 11, 2008

2008 Audie Award Winners

The Audie Awards took place on May 30th in Los Angeles. For those of you who’ve not heard of the Audies, they are basically the Oscars for audio books.

Here are some highlights of the winners which we offer through LearnOutLoud.com:

Audiobook of the Year
The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller (Only available on Audible.com)
Publisher: Audible, Inc.
Author: Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline, Joseph Finder, David Hewson, James Grady, S. J. Rozan, Erica Spindler, John Ramsey Miller, David Corbett, John Gilstrap, Jim Fusilli, Peter Spiegelman, Ralph Pezzullo and P. J. Parrish
Narrator: Alfred Molina

Classics
Treasure Island
Publisher: Listening Library
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator: Alfred Molina

Personal Development/Motivational
Fit to Live
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Author: Pamela Peeke
Narrator: Pamela Peeke

Biography/Memoir
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Author: Walter Isaacson
Narrator: Edward Herrmann

Business Information/Educational
Words That Work
Publisher: Hyperion Audiobooks
Author: Frank Luntz
Narrator: L.J. Ganser & Frank Luntz

Humor
I Am America (and So Can You!)
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Author: Stephen Colbert
Narrator: Stephen Colbert

Inspirational/Spiritual
Inspired By…the Bible Experience: Old Testament
Publisher: Zondervan
Narrator: Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, and more

Narration by the Author or Authors
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Author: Garrison Keillor
Narrator: Garrison Keillor

Non-Fiction
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation
Author: Alex Haley
Narrator: Avery Brooks

February 11, 2008

Barack Obama takes home Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Again

Beating out the likes of Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, actor Alan Alda, and poet Maya Angelou, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took home the Best Spoken Word Album Grammy last night for his audio book The Audacity Of Hope which he authored and narrated. He previously won a Best Spoken Word Album Grammy for Dreams from My Father back in 2006.

I listened to The Audacity Of Hope, and found it be a very engaging listen as Obama describes his experiences as a Senator and conveys his views on the issues and challenges in American politics. Obama’s narration is superb so it was not surprising to me that his audio book and his narration were Grammy worthy.

For these audio books and more audio & video resources from Obama visit:

The Barack Obama Audio & Video Resource Page

(Note: The Audacity Of Hope is currently out of stock with us, but we hope to get it back in stock soon)