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Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpts (35)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt A Song for Arbonne Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt And Then There's This Bill Wasik (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Ariel Steven R. Boyett (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Belladonna Anne Bishop (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Bitter is the New Black Jen Lancaster (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Blood Bound Patricia Briggs (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Bone Crossed Patricia Briggs (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Bright Lights Big Ass Jen Lancaster (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Candy Girl Diablo Cody (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Cry Wolf Patricia Briggs (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Dark Hunger Christine Feehan (Penguin Audio)

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Berkley Author Julie Hyzy Wins Two Awards at the 2009 Boucheron

Berkley Prime Crime author Julie Hyzy has won two awards for her book, State of the Onion: A White House Chef Mystery: the Anthony Award and the Barry Award in the Best Paperback Original category. Both awards were presented this past weekend in Indianapolis at Bouchercon, the largest annual meeting in the world for mystery lovers.

The Barry Awards are named for one of the most beloved ambassadors of mystery fiction, Barry Garner, and are voted on the readers of Mystery News and Deadly Pleasures. The Anthony Awards are named for Anthony Boucher, one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America, and are among the most prestigious awards in the world of mystery writers.

Julie Hyzy’s new White House Chef Mystery, Eggsecutive Orders will be out in January 2010 and features the White House Easter Egg Roll.
 

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Patricia Cornwell Launches the Seventeenth Novel in her Internationally Bestselling Kay Scarpetta Series 

Patricia Cornwell, the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer, launched the seventeenth novel in her bestselling Kay Scarpetta series this week, The Scarpetta Factor. Cornwell was interviewed on ABC Radio’s “Imus in the Morning” on the morning of publication, which was simulcast on the FOX Business network; click here to watch a clip of the interview. She was interviewed on almost 40 different programs across the country during her national television and radio satellite tours. Yesterday, Cornwell taped an interview for CNN.com’s "Book Report", which reaches millions of viewers online, and was interviewed live on WOR-AM’s “Joan Hamburg Show.. Parade magazine interviewed Cornwell for last Sunday’s issue, and her Q&A for “Pop Matters 20 Questions” went up this week on Popmatters.com and was syndicated nationwide on the McClatchy Newswire.
 

George Putnam, Grandson of Putnam Founder and Husband of Amelia Earhart, Featured in a New Movie

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Penguin Young Readers Group Dominates the New York Times Bestseller Lists

Penguin Young Readers Group dominates this week’s New York Times bestseller list, landing an impressive ten titles on the lists. The Young Readers Group occupies five slots on the children’s picture books list alone: Skippyjon Jones, Lost in Spice by Judy Schachner (Dutton) is #4 in its fifth week; Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth (Dial) is #6 in its 38th week; and Otis, written and illustrated by Loren Long (Philomel) is #7 in its fourth week; The Runaway Mummy by Michael Rex (Putnam) is #8 in its second week; and Strega Nona’s Harvest, written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola (Putnam) is #9 in its fifth week. In addition, DK’s Lego Star Wars holds the #2 position for a second consecutive week.

On the children's chapter books list, Fire by Kristin Cashore (Dial) is #4 in its second week; and Return to the Hundred Acre Wood by David Benedictus (Dutton) is #7 in its second week. On the children's paperback books list, Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Puffin) is #3 in its 39th week; and Impossible by Nancy Werlin (Speak) is #9 in its fourth week. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (Razorbill) rounds out the total, appearing at #8 in its fourteenth week on the children’s series list.
 

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I want to thank Penguin for inviting me to join them here this week. I'm CJ Lyons, a pediatric ER doctor who has turned to a life of crime.

My crimes take place in and around Pittsburgh's Angels of Mercy medical center, a place where no one is immune to danger.

Caught up in my murder and mayhem are four special women:

 Lydia Fiore, a street-smart newly fledged emergency medicine attending who lives her life guided by the first law of the ER: trust no one. She's new to Pittsburgh and quickly overwhelmed not by her new job of saving lives, but rather by the people who invite her to join their family--the men and women of Angels of Mercy whose lives she now feels responsible for. She starts her new life at Angels of Mercy on the most dangerous day of the year, in Lifelines.

Amanda Mason, a medical student, the first in her family to leave her rural home and go to college. Her family means everything to her, yet she's still compelled to break away and find her own path--something they see as a betrayal. Alone in the big city, far from home, Amanda finds friends who become her new family, but more importantly she learns that she is smart enough and strong enough to do anything she wants with her life. But even that knowledge isn't enough to protect her when she begins to investigate patients' mysterious deaths and then experiences their same deadly symptoms in Warning Signs.