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ARCHENEMY by Frank Beddor, read by Gerard Doyle
This is the third volume in Beddor's popular Looking Glass Wars series, and it does not disappoint! Narrator Doyle does a bang-up job of bringing both the action and characters to life.
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Author Derek Landy has had a stutter since the age of 3, and though it has improved with age, when he was young, he could never voice his wit. When Landy began to write, he invented intelligent, confident characters like Skulduggery Pleasant who talked with a speed equaled by the swiftness of their comebacks. "Everything I couldn't do in speech I did in writing," he says. Read more
ALMOST ASTRONAUTS won the 2010 Siebert Medal as well as AudioFile's Earphones Award. Susan Ericksen skillfully performs this compelling account of thirteen female pilots, known as the "Mercury 13," who attempted join the U.S. space program in the 1950s and '60s. "Nothing is more pleasurable than when you know that an author has an ear--that they hear the words, not just write them," Susan says. "As a narrator, you can tell the difference." Read More
John Green, David Levithan, read by MacLeod Andrews, Nick Podehl Two teenage boys, both named Will Grayson, find a world of humor and heart (and even music) as their worlds overlap in this clever novel written by a duo of popular YA authors.
Release date: April 6, 2010
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