Academy Awards on Audio

Slumdog Millionaire
Author: Vikas Swarup, Reader: Christopher Simpson

It's the dream of a lifetime: a young, uneducated Indian orphan wins the jackpot on the quiz show Who Will Win a Billion? But the tightfisted producers have him arrested for cheating. How else could this poor waiter know so much? He explains to his lawyer in his compelling, comic story. Winner of a 2005 Publishers Weekly Listen Up award. The Academy Award-winning movie stars Dev Patel. Formerly titled Q & A. "Simpson's superb performance shows remarkable facility with accents... [He makes] every meticulously recounted moment engaging, convincing, and riveting."—AudioFile

Unabridged, 9 CDs, Fiction-Modern, Contemporary, M9K466, 9781602834668, $29.95
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
And Other Jazz Age Tales
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Reader: Grover Gardner

Four tales from the magnificent Jazz Age spokesman. In the title story, audaciously and hilariously, Button is born in his 70s and ages backward. Also includes The Diamond As Big As the Ritz, Tarquin of Cheapside, and O Russet Witch! Includes bonus PDF e-book. The Oscar-winning movie stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. "Fitzgerald's four stories amuse as well as amaze the listener... Gardner gives each of [the] stories tinges of irony, amusement, and bemused marvel."—AudioFile

Unabridged, 3 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F3M977, 9781400109777, $17.99
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The Reader
Author: Bernhard Schlink, Reader: Campbell Scott

In postwar Germany, a 15-year-old boy has an affair with an older woman, who suddenly disappears. When next they meet, she is on trial for Nazi war crimes. An Oprah Book Club pick. The movie stars Academy Award winner Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes. "Scott, whose perfect pacing and gentle voice animate the simple, engrossing prose, performs this recording beautifully... His eloquence with the spoken word complements Schlink's gentle touch with the written one."—AudioFile

Unabridged, 4 CDs, Fiction-Modern, Literary, M3R595, 9780739375952, $14.99
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Q & A
Author: Vikas Swarup, Reader: Kerry Shale

Audie and Benjamin Franklin Award winner. Wow! This young, uneducated Indian orphan has won the jackpot on the quiz show Who Will Win a Billion? But the tightfisted producers have him arrested for cheating. How else could this poor waiter know so much? His lawyer learns the explanation in his compelling, comic story. The basis of the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire.
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Abridged, 5 CDs, Fiction-Modern, Contemporary, M55487, 9781572704879, Now $27.95 $19.95
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The Age of Innocence
Author: Edith Wharton, Reader: David Horovitch

In upper-class 1870s New York, a young man plans to marry a suitable young woman. Then the beautiful nonconformist Countess Olenska arrives to steal his heart, and he discovers the anguish of breaking rigid societal rules. This classic earned its author the first Pulitzer ever given to a woman. "One of the best novels of the twentieth century."—The New York Times Book Review
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Unabridged, 8 cassettes, Fiction-Classic, F81116, 9781572701168, Now $34.95 $19.95
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Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan, Reader: Jill Tanner

One shattering mistake colors many lives across 64 years, from pre-WWII England to a family reunion in 1999. A remarkable story of childhood, love, war, shame, and forgiveness by the Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam. 2002 Listen Up Award from Publishers Weekly. The Oscar-winning film stars Keira Knightley. "A grand old novel with a wicked spin... Few other novels offer so much magic."—Entertainment Weekly

Unabridged, 12 CDs, Fiction-Modern, Literary, M9X777, 9781428177772, $29.99
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