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Audiobooks

Hachette Audio is an imprint within the Digital Media Division—a publisher of a variety of popular genres in audio form, which matches HBG material with talented actors, composers, and producers to find its fullest expression. Our audiobooks are primarily based on material published in print and as ebooks by Grand Central Publishing, Little, Brown & Company, FaithWords, Center Street, Orbit, and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, and have been recognized for the highest quality of content and production with numerous GRAMMY, Audie, Listen Up! and Earphone awards. Gildan Audio, a line of nonfiction programs, is a distribution client. Unabridged and abridged titles are available on CD and as digital downloads. Both of this year's prestigious audiobook Grammys were awarded to Hachette Audio titles; for The Daily Show with John Stewart presents EARTH (The Audiobook) in Spoken Word, and Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies in the Children's Spoken Word category. Keith Richards’ memoir Life won the highest honor, Audiobook of the Year, at the 2011 Audies Award gala hosted by the Audio Publishers Association. Hachette Audio partnered with Artists for a New South Africa on 2010’s Audiobook of the Year: Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales, and is also the publisher of the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., which were recently released in a deluxe Essential Box Set. Some of Hachette Audio’s most popular audiobooks come from authors James Patterson, Malcolm Gladwell, David Baldacci, Emma Donoghue, Michael Connelly, David Sedaris, Anita Shreve, Nicholas Sparks, Joel Osteen, Preston & Child, David Foster Wallace, Nelson DeMille, Elin Hilderbrand, Brad Meltzer, Joyce Meyer, and Scott Turow.

Maja Thomas, Senior Vice President, Hachette Digital

Maja Thomas is Senior Vice President, Hachette Digital for Hachette Book Group. She leads Hachette Digital and works across divisions on digital strategy, investment, and the pursuit of new digital publishing businesses.  She has been the co-chair of the Digital Working Group at the Association of American Publishers, chair of Hachette Livre’s International Board for Digital Issues, and Vice President of the Audio Publisher’s Association.

Hachette Digital is the proud publisher of many bestselling and critically acclaimed audio books, eBooks, and applications.

Since joining the company in 1991, Maja has served as an audio director and producer, Director of Production, and as Editor at Large, editing the New York Times bestseller, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris. She became Publisher, Audiobooks in 2000, and has had the pleasure of working with many celebrated writers and actors, including Madeleine Albright, David Foster Wallace, Julie Andrews, and Oprah Winfrey.

Under her direction the audio department has been nominated for sixteen Grammy awards, taking home trophies for Best Spoken Word Album for The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents AMERICA  and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents EARTH, In This Life Together. In 2011 Hachette Audio also won in the category Best Spoken Word Album for Children, with Julie Andrews Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies.

Recently, Hachette Digital has focused on creating enhanced eBooks for some of our most celebrated authors, including David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, and Brad Meltzer, and groundbreaking applications for James Patterson, Stephanie Meyer, Ansel Adams, and Yen Press.


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 and as digital download.

Audiobooks

Featured Books

  • Now You See Her
  • Now You See Her

  • By James Patterson , Michael Ledwidge ,

  • The perfect life

    A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. 

    The perfect lie

    Nina's secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West. When she learned she was pregnant with their first child, her happiness was almost overwhelming. But Nina's world is shattered when she unearths a terrible secret that causes her to run for her life and change her identity.

    The perfect way to die

    Now, years later, Nina risks everything she's earned to return to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled. In a story of wrenching suspense, James Patterson gives us his most head-spinning, action-filled story yet--a Hitchcock-like blend of unquenchable drama and pleasure.

  • By Elin Hilderbrand ,

  • Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing - because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars.

    Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can't offer complete escape, and they're plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie's brother Toby - Meredith's high school boyfriend - arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had. 

    Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness.

  • One Summer
  • One Summer

  • By David Baldacci ,

  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci comes a moving family drama about learning to love again after heartbreak and loss.

    ONE SUMMER

    It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured family back together. Struggling to rebuild their lives after Lizzie's death, he reunites everyone at Lizzie's childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. And there, over one unforgettable summer, Jack will begin to learn to love again, and he and his children will learn how to become a family once more.

Featured Books

Featured Authors

  • Luis Alberto Urrea

  • Get To Know

  • Luis Alberto Urrea

  • At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, and riotously funny, QUEEN OF AMERICA reconfirms Luis Alberto Urrea's status as a writer of the first rank.

     

    Unfortunately, you'll have to wait for December's publication date to listen to him narrate this new novel. 

     

    However, for the first time ever, Urrea's important work of nonfiction, The Devil's Highway, will be available for the first time, unabridged, as an audiobook read by the author.

     

    Follow Luis on Twitter, or visit his site for more.

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Pelecanos Short Story

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