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Audiobooks

The Digital Media Division positions HBGUSA content in the expanding world of Internet technology and other currently evolving business models, which includes any e-book or audio book business as well as Internet downloads, podcasting, and digital delivery to cellphones and PDAs. The Digital Media Division also houses the Hachette Audio imprint, publisher of a variety of popular genres in audio form, matching HBGUSA material with talented actors, composers and producers to find its fullest expression. Abridged, unabridged and original audio, including Grammy award-winning programs, are primarily based on books published by Grand Central Publishing and Little, Brown & Company. Gildan Audio, a line of self-help and language learning programs, is a distribution client. Programs are available on CD and cassette, and digital download.

Maja Thomas is SVP, Digital and Audio Publishing. She also holds the position of VP Digital Publishing for the Group Hachette Livre. Maja is the Co-Chair of the AAP Digital Issues Working Group, focusing on digital publishing strategy, and Chair of Hachette’s International Board for Digital Issues. In the U.S., Maja is responsible for Hachette’s audio, ebook, print-on-demand and large print programs, some of the fasting growing segments of the publishing business. In addition, she heads up a team re-imagining and re-designing the Hachette Book Group website. Under her aegis, the audio division has had ten Grammy award nominations, and in the year 2000 received the Best Spoken Word Album Grammy for THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., which Maja produced and directed.  In 2005, The Daily Show and Jon Stewart’s AMERICA (The Audiobook) received the Grammy for best Comedy Album as well as the Quills Award for best Audio of the Year. In 2007, Hachette Audio shared the Grammy Award for Spoken Word Album for OSSIE AND RUBY: IN THIS LIFE TOGETHER.

Anthony Goff (Publisher Director) started his career in 1993 at Dow Jones Inc. working for The Wall Street Journal and Barrons. In 1995 he made his foray into book publishing in marketing at St. Martin's Press, before jumping into sales at Penguin USA during the Stephen King Green Mile phenomenon, and then managing Advertising and Promotions for Dutton/Plume. In 1997 Anthony was hired by Simon & Schuster, where he stayed, in various positions, for 7 years. In 2003 he moved to Time Warner AudioBooks as Marketing Director, and was responsible for making a run at Audiobook of the Year with THE DAILY SHOW PRESENTS: AMERICA (the Audiobook) before being promoted to Associate Publisher and the rest is history, as they say...

Hachette Audio is publisher of a variety of popular genres in audio form, matching HBG books with talented actors, composers, and producers to find its fullest expression. Abridged, unabridged, and original audio, including Grammy award-winning programs, are primarily based on books published by Grand Central Publishing, Little, Brown & Company, and Faith Words, and are available on CD, cassette, and as digital download.

Audiobooks

Featured Books

  • The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
  • The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

  • By James Patterson

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    Read by Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia!
     
    The greatest superpower of all isn't to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells--the greatest power is the power to create.
     
    Daniel X has that power.

    Daniel's secret abilities -- like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses -- have helped him survive. But Daniel doesn't have a normal life. He is the protector of the earth, the Alien Hunter, with a mission beyond what anyone's imagining.

    From the day that his parents were brutally murdered before of his very eyes, Daniel has used his unique gifts to hunt down their assassin. Finally, with the help of The List, bequeathed to him in his parents' dying breath, he is closing in on the killer.

    Now, on his own, he vows to take on his father's mission--and to take vengeance in the process.
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  • By Martina Cole

  • The #1 bestselling novelist in the UK now makes her U.S. debut with a hardhitting story that combines the brutality and deep family ties of The Sopranos with an unparalleled look at the underbelly of London's gang land.

    Patrick Brodie is on the way up. He is a risk-taker like his alcoholic father, and knows exactly how far he is prepared to go to get what he wants. Before long, Patrick has ruthlessly taken out the old guard of the criminal underworld and become a legend in his own lifetime.

    The kind of women he is normally attracted to have no foolish dreams of marriage, children, or, God help them, love. But Lily Diamond is different. There's something about her that has gotten under Patrick's skin, and all he can think about is making her happy and keeping her safe.

    Eventually they settle down and have a family, and grow determined that their children will not have to face the same kind of lives they did. But then, the unthinkable happens, and everything is suddenly, irreversibly changed.

    Spanning over forty years in the underbelly of crime, CLOSE is powerful, shocking, unsettling, and utterly addictive.
     
     

  • A Summer Affair
  • A Summer Affair

  • By Elin Hilderbrand

  • Sheila Crispin Cook, mother of four young children and nationally renowned glassblower, bites off more than she can chew when she agrees to co-chair the Nantucket's Children Summer Gala.  Sheila is asked to chair the benefit, in part, because she is the former high school sweetheart of rock star Max West.  Max agrees to play the gala and it looks like smooth sailing for Sheila-until she promises a "museum-quality"  piece of glass for the auction, offers her best friend the catering job, goes nose-to-nose with her Manhattan socialite co-chair, and begins a "good-hearted" affair with the charity's Executive Director, Lockhart Dixon.
    Hearts break and emotions are pushed to the limit in this riveting story of one woman's attempt to deal with loves past and present, family, business, and high-powered social pressures. Elin Hilderbrand's unique understanding of the joys and longings that animate women's lives will make this her newest summer bestseller.

    Read by Isabel Keating

Featured Authors

  • Robert Ludlum

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  • Robert Ludlum

  • ROBERT LUDLUM was the author of twenty-one novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. He is the author of The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum--among others. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March, 2001. The newest audiobook in the Bourne series, written by Eric Van Lustbader, is ROBERT LUDLUM'S THE BOURNE SANCTION, to be released by Hachette Audio July 29.  ERIC VAN LUSTBADER (pictured above) is most widely known as the author of twenty international bestselling thrillers. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages. Lustbader was born and raised in Greenwich Village. He and his wife, Victoria, have been residents of the South Fork of Long Island for more than fifteen years.

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  • Kate Braestrup

  • Kate Braestrup is one of the first chaplains ever appointed to the Maine Warden Service.  She is the author of a novel, Onion, and has written for Mademoiselle, Ms., City Paper, Hope, and Law and Order.  She in lives in Maine with her husband, Simon van der Ven, and their six children.

    Regarding HERE IF YOU NEED ME, now a value-priced <replay> audiobook edition, Publishers Weekly raved: “Braestrup’s narration…is filled with the same comfort she offers those she ministers to. Her friendly, easygoing northeastern-accented voice is instantly soothing….Her reading has an often prayerful cadence, though she goes easy on Bible quotation and her discussions of theological issues are so wise and well-thought-out that even the nonreligious won’t be put off.”

News

  • Hachette Audio News
    Publishers Weekly Recent STARRED Reviews:
    * CHILD 44 "Dennis Boutsikaris expertly conveys the fear and paranoia that permeates Smith's outstanding debut novel of murder in 1950s Stalinist Russia....Using Russian accents to their full advantage, Boutsikaris infuses his characters' dialogue with a deep sense of downtrodden melancholia."
    * THE WHOLE TRUTH "If there is such a category as a guys' audio, THE WHOLE TRUTH fits the bill perfectly. Ron McLarty's gruff voice enhances this fast-moving thriller as he takes the listener through barrages of deadly assaults featuring gunfire, knives, bombs and hacksaws.... The sound track is comparable to a terrific cinematic score: darkly foreboding or quietly romantic when appropriate, raising this audio to an art form and enhancing the already gripping tale."
    *WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES "Sedaris's sparkling essays always shimmer more brightly when read aloud by the author. And his expert timing, mimicry and droll asides are never more polished than during live performances in front of an audience. Happily, four of the 22 pieces are live recordings, and listeners can hear Sedaris's energy increase from the roaring, rolling laughter of the appreciative audience.... Sedaris's brilliant magnum opus, 'The Smoking Section' (about his successful trip to Tokyo to quit smoking) stretches across the final two CDs."

    Now in value-priced editions: For the romantic, DEAR JOHN by Nicholas Sparks, narrated by Holter Graham, at $14.98. And for the family, the first and second audiobooks in the MAX RIDE series by James Patterson, both only $9.98!

Contact Information

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