Check out our book, popular reading, DVD and audiobook (including Playaway) acquisitions for the month of September. Go to our New Books & DVDs page or use the links in the left hand column.
Category: audiobooks
August Acquisitions: New Books, Bestsellers, DVDs & Audiobooks
Check out our book, popular reading, DVD and audiobook (including Playaway) acquisitions for the month of August. Go to our New Books & DVDs page or use the links in the left hand column.
July Acquisitions: New Books, Bestsellers, DVDs & Audiobooks
Check out our book, popular reading, DVD and audiobook (including Playaway) acquisitions for the month of July. Go to our New Books & DVDs page or use the links in the left hand column.
June Acquisitions: New Books, Bestsellers, Hit Movies & More
Check out our book, popular reading, DVD and audiobook (including Playaway) acquisitions for the month of June. Go to our New Books & DVDs page or use the links in the left hand column.
June is Audiobook Month! We Have 2010 Audie Award Winners, HD Audio & More…
Get Caught Listening!
Celebrate Audiobook Month by stopping by to check out our collection of audiobooks on CD and Playaway. With over 500 titles to choose from, you’ll find that we have a great selection of best-selling fiction and non-fiction, literary classics, and language instruction.
We also have several audiobook announcements to share with you! Keep reading for information about the 2010 Audie Award Winners, the exciting new changes to Playaways (now in HD Audio), and details about finding and submitting audiobook reviews at the BookBuzz @ Bentley blog.
2010 Audie Award Winners
On May 25, 2010, the Audio Publishers Association (APA) announced the winners of the 2010 Audies at its 15th Annual Audies Gala. The Audies are the most prestigious awards program in the United States honoring audiobooks.
Here are the 2010 award-winning titles that you’ll find on our shelves:
AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR
NELSON MANDELA’S FAVORITE AFRICAN FOLKTALES [check availability]
Read by Gillian Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, LeVar Burton, Ricardo Chavira, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Hayes, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Parminder Nagra, Sophie Okonedo, CCH Pounder, Alan Rickman, Jurnee Smollett, Charlize Theron, Blair Underwood, Forest Whitaker, Alfre Woodard
FICTION
THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett [check availability]
Read by Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Jenna Lamia, Cassandra Campbell
LITERARY FICTION
WOLF HALL by Hilary Mantel [check availability]
Read by Simon Slater
AUDIOBOOK ADAPTATION
THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett [check availability]
Read by Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, Edward Herrmann, and a Full Cast
BUSINESS/EDUCATION
RAIN: WHAT A PAPERBOY LEARNED ABOUT BUSINESS by Jeffrey J. Fox [check availability]
Read by Jeffrey J. Fox
NON-FICTION
THE NATIONAL PARKS by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan [check availability]
Read by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan
In addition to the winners listed above, we have several of this year’s Audies finalists available at the library. To view a complete list of finalists and winners, including reviews and audio clips, visit http://www.theaudies.com. If you need assistance with finding an audiobook please ask us for help.
Playaway Enhancements: Now in HD Audio
If you haven’t checked out a Playaway (portable, pre-loaded digital audiobook) yet, or haven’t checked one out recently, you should come take a look at the new enhanced Playaways that have recently hit the shelves. In March 2010, Findaway World (the publisher of Playaways) began issuing Playaways in high-definition audio. These new Playaways also come with enhanced features, including new audio speeds and improved keypad functionality. Finally, battery life has been extended to over 30 hours of playtime per battery with HD Audio.
Our growing collection of Playaways currently contains 60 titles. To make it easier for you to find the Playaway collection we’ve temporarily relocated all of our Playaways to the “Popular Reading” area of the Library (shelved along the cafe wall).
BookBuzz @ Bentley
As you might imagine, most of us who work here in the library are avid book readers and/or audiobook listeners, and we love to share our opinions. Pop on over to the BookBuzz @ Bentley blog to read our reviews. We’d love to hear what YOU have to say, so BookBuzz is now also soliciting your reviews and suggestions! Visit the BookBuzz blog and click on “Your Turn To Share With Us” to submit your review or to make a purchase recommendation.
New Audiobook Titles
You can find a listing of our newest audiobook titles on our New Books page. Listings are updated on or around the first of each month.
May Acquisitions: New Books, Bestsellers, Hit Movies & More
Check out our book, popular reading, DVD and audiobook (including Playaway) acquisitions for the month of May. Go to our New Books page or use the links in the left hand column.
Bentley Library Top 10 Most Circulated Items Lists
You’re probably familiar with the The New York Times weekly bestseller lists and Amazon’s Top 100 books and DVDs lists. But did you know that here at the Bentley Library we track our own “best sellers” each academic year?
Check out the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2009-2010 in the categories of POPULAR READING, STACKS (regular book collection), AUDIOBOOKS and POPULAR DVDs.
Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection
- THE LOST SYMBOL by Dan Brown [check availability]
- ALEX CROSS’S TRIAL by James Patterson & Richard Dilallo [check availability]
- I, ALEX CROSS by James Patterson [check availability]
- THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson [check availability]
- I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL by Tucker Max [check availability]
- DEAD AND GONE by Charlaine Harris [check availability]
- THE LAST SONG by Nicholas Sparks [check availability]
- THE SHACK: A NOVEL by William P. Young [check availability]
- THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson [check availability]
- OUTLIERS: THE STORY OF SUCCESS by Malcolm Gladwell [check availability]
Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks
- FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner [check availability]
- A COLOSSAL FAILURE OF COMMON SENSE: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE COLLAPSE OF LEHMAN BROTHERS by Lawrence G. McDonald with Patrick Robinson [check availability]
- HOUSE OF CARDS: A TALE OF HUBRIS AND WRETCHED EXCESS ON WALL STREET by William D. Cohan [check availability]
- PRINCIPLES OF CORPORATE FINANCE by Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers & Franklin Allen [check availability]
- BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING by Malcolm Gladwell [check availability]
- POT POLITICS: MARIJUANA AND THE COSTS OF PROHIBITION by Mitch Earleywine [check availability]
- THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger [check availability]
- ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS by Ulric J. Gelinas, Jr., Steve G. Sutton & James E. Hunton [check availability]
- THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE: A NOVELby Audrey Niffenegger [check availability]
- RICH DAD, POOR DAD: WHAT THE RICH TEACH THEIR KIDS ABOUT MONEY – – THAT THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS DO NOT! by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter [check availability]
Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks
- SUPERFREAKONOMICS: GLOBAL COOLING, PATRIOTIC PROSTITUTES, AND WHY SUICIDE BOMBERS SHOULD BUY LIFE INSURANCE by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner [check availability]
- THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson [check availability]
- THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett [check availability]
- THE PROFESSIONAL by Robert B. Parker [check availability]
- THE INFORMANT by Kurt Eichenwald [check availability]
- THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC by Richard Russo [check availability]
- THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson [check availability]
- TWILIGHT by Stephenie Meyer [check availability]
- PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: THE HIDDEN FORCES THAT SHAPE OUR DECISIONS by Dan Ariely [check availability]
- I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!) by Stephen Colbert [check availability]
Top 10 Most Circulated Popular DVDs
- BLOW [check availability]
- GRAN TORINO [check availability]
- THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX [check availability]
- THE READER [check availability]
- WALL-E [check availability]
- ENTOURAGE, SEASON 3 [check availability]
- WEEDS, SEASON 4 [check availability]
- GANGS OF NEW YORK [check availability]
- THE PROPOSAL [check availability]
- WATCHMEN [check availability]
April Acquisitions: New Books, Bestsellers, Hit Movies & More
Check out our book, popular reading, DVD and audiobook (including Playaway) acquisitions for the month of April. Go to our New Books page or use the links in the left hand column.
