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Earphones AwardAudioFile awards Earphones to truly exceptional presentations that excel in all the following criteria:
Narrative voice and style
Vocal characterizations
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May 2013
Earphones Award Winners

THE ACCIDENT
Linwood Barclay, Read by Peter Berkrot

Glenn Garber's wife is killed in an apparent drunk driving accident, and, even worse, she was the one who was drunk. Then thi . . .

Brilliance Audio
Mystery & Suspense

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BEND, NOT BREAK
Ping Fu, Read by Robin Miles

Robin Miles’s narration is perfect for this absorbing memoir. The author was expelled from communist China as a teenager and . . .

Penguin Audio
Biography & Memoir

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THE BRIDE WORE BLACK LEATHER
Simon R. Green, Read by Marc Vietor

Mark Vietor, the undisputed voice of the Nightside, is in top form delivering Green’s final Nightside book. This quick-paced . . .

Audible, Inc.
Fantasy

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CALLED TO THE FIRE
Cheston M. Bush, Read by David Cochran Heath

Like a reluctant Old Testament prophet, the Reverend Charles Johnson resisted going to serve as pastor of a small church in M . . .

ChristianAudio
Biography & Memoir

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CIVIL WAR
Stuart Moore, Read by a Full Cast

Forty-nine actors come together in a tour de force to create an amazing audiobook version of Marvel Comics' game-changing ser . . .

GraphicAudio
Science Fiction

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ELEANOR & PARK
Rainbow Rowell, Read by Rebecca Lowman, Sunil Malhotra

Two narrators tell the nuanced story of an unlikely first love. The actors excel at differentiating the multiple shifting vie . . .

Listening Library
Young Adult

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GULP
Mary Roach, Read by Emily Woo Zeller

What an amazing science writer and explorer Mary Roach, the author of STIFF, has become! Here she fearlessly delves into more . . .

Tantor Media
Contemporary Culture

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THE HIT
David Baldacci, Read by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

Agent Will Robie is a master of killing, and David Baldacci’s thriller is an excellent match for audio. Ron McLarty and Orlag . . .

Hachette Audio/ AudioGO
Mystery & Suspense

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INFINITE PROGRESS
Byron Reese, Read by Grover Gardner

The author’s thesis—that the doomsday blinders many of us wear are not justified by history or current events—may be a tough . . .

Greenleaf Book Group Press
Contemporary Culture

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THE INTERESTINGS
Meg Wolitzer, Read by Jen Tullock

There’s something so appealing about books with a whole cast of main characters. It’s as if the listener has the chance to id . . .

Penguin Audio/ Dreamscape
Fiction

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LIFE AFTER LIFE
Kate Atkinson, Read by Fenella Woolgar

Kate Atkinson’s hugely ambitious novel is set amid the World Wars of the twentieth century. Its protagonist, Ursula Todd, die . . .

Hachette Audio/ AudioGO
Fiction

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THE RESTORER
Amanda Stevens, Read by Khristine Hvam

Amelia Gray is a Southern gal who repairs gravestones and restores cemeteries to their former glory. And Gray can see ghosts— . . .

Audible, Inc./ Harlequin Enterprises, Ltd.
Fantasy

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SPEAKS THE NIGHTBIRD
Robert McCammon, Read by Edoardo Ballerini

In 1699, the citizens of Fount Royal, North Carolina, just off the Dismal Swamp, accuse the widow Rachel Howarth of witchcraf . . .

Audible, Inc.
Fiction

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THE STORM KING
Pete Seeger, Jeff Haynes [Ed.], Read by Pete Seeger

This marvelous presentation of Pete Seeger’s words and music is a gift to all lovers of folk music, as well as anyone interes . . .

Hachette Audio
Biography & Memoir

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A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING
Ruth Ozeki, Read by Ruth Ozeki

Ozeki’s novel illustrates the interconnectedness of all things. Despite being stuffed full of topics—from quantum physics to . . .

Penguin Audio/ Blackstone Audiobooks
Fiction

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TALES OF THE CITY
Armistead Maupin, Read by Frances McDormand, Rachel Maddow

With an introduction by the fabulous Rachel Maddow and a narration by the incomparable Frances McDormand, listeners can settl . . .

Harper Audio
Fiction

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A THOUSAND PARDONS
Jonathan Dee, Read by Mark Deakins

When overwhelming ennui causes Ben Armistead to cross the line from discontented suburban husband to prisoner in a jail cell, . . .

Random House Audio/ Books on Tape
Fiction

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ZERO THE HERO
Joan Holub, Read by L.J. Ganser

L.J. Ganser animatedly narrates this story about nothing. Zero wants to prove that he’s not a doughnut or a Fruit Loop but a . . .

Recorded Books
Children

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