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Joe Jameson delivers an impressive performance of this comprehensive text. AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff and host Jo Reed discuss how his pace and cadence work well with this fact-filled audiobook. Smil, an energy expert, has long been a student of the planet’s food. He argues astonishingly that with some improvements in diet choices, technology, and wise use of how and where we grow crops, the planet may be able to feed its projected 10 billion inhabitants in 2050. His data-driven focus balances energy needs and real-world preferences for meat with the issues surrounding land use and climate change.

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After MSNBC host Chris Hayes begins his audiobook with what behavioral science knows about voluntary and involuntary attention, he explains how this fundamental human faculty is being hijacked by corporate America and slick political operatives. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss how Hayes is an authentic narrator of his important message. His easy-listening performance conveys a comfortable command of his emotional tone and engagement with his thinking without underplaying the gravitas of his concerns. He says our attention is becoming a commodity that corporations and political interests are exploiting without our knowledge or consent. 

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Author Ewing delivers her introduction, which sets up the arguments. She then turns the body of the text over to Golden Voice narrator Robin Miles. AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff and host Jo Reed discuss how Miles is a gifted performer whose tone, tempo, and cadence enhance the dark truths of this provocative work on the failure of our educational system. Ewing, who is a scholar and poet, indicts American schools as historically rigged against Black and Native American students. Packed with telltale episodes, this work provides sociological context. A must-listen.

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The tone, tempo, and lilting intonation of all four narrators make this Earphones Award-winning listening experience rewarding. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss how Adichie’s first novel in more than a decade—really four connected, finely crafted novellas—simply engages the listener from the start. Three of the major characters are Nigerian women: a travel writer, a successful lawyer, a powerful business woman—and the fourth, also West African, a maid at a posh hotel. A compelling audiobook. 

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Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Laura Rossi discuss three recent Earphones Award-winning audiobooks. AudioFile awards Earphones to exceptional audio experiences—it’s our version of a starred review, specifically for the audiobook. Laura and Jo highlight Mary Oliver’s poetry collection DEVOTIONS, read by Kimberly Farr; Karen Thompson Walker’s novel THE STRANGE CASE OF JANE O, read by Jay Myers and Alex Sarrigeorgioiu; and Alton Brown’s essay collection FOOD FOR THOUGHT, which he narrates himself. They share why these audiobooks won Earphones, and why they are well worth your listening time. 

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DEVOTIONS: https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/268465/ Published by Penguin Audio

THE STRANGE CASE OF JANE O.: https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/266653/ Published by Random House Audio

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/261405/ Published by SImon & Schuster Audio

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Sebastian Humphreys and Vivien Carter perform this complex story about Hannah, her family, and Max, Hannah’s late boyfriend who’s now haunting their London apartment. After he dies, Max watches Hannah move on with her life and marvels at how much he still had to learn about her. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Kendra Winchester discuss how each perspective sounds unique. As the plot unfolds, Carter’s narration maintains the tension leading to every plot twist and holds the listener’s attention to the end. 

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AudioFile’s Kendra Winchester and host Jo Reed discuss how narrator Ailsa Piper evokes the stark Australian Outback in her performance of this captivating novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. To escape her busy life in the city, a middle-aged woman visits a small religious community for peace and quiet. Years later, she returns to the community, this time for good. But not long after she joins the nuns in their daily life, a plague of mice descends upon the entire state. As the mice invade every nook and cranny of the nuns’ home, Piper conveys all of the eeriness of the event.

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Megan Tooley and Ussani Taylor deliver moving performances of Amanda Peters’s short stories, which explore the Indigenous experience throughout American history. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Kendra Winchester discuss this new work from the author of THE BERRY PICKERS. Tooley performs most of the stories, using a sweet lilting voice, gentle delivery, and subtle shading of personality. Taylor, who reads four deeply moving, emotionally difficult pieces, gives a tough and perceptive performance. Together, they create an important listening experience. 

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Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Kendra Winchester discuss Rebecca Lowman’s evocative performance of this atmospheric novel—with a large dash of fabulism—set in the Alaskan wilderness. Birdie is a single mom who is waitressing at a lodge when a man walks in and changes her life. Arthur is an outdoorsman, a man of few words, but it’s love at first sight. Birdie and her daughter, Emaleen, go to live with Arthur in his remote cabin, spending the summer days basking in the beautiful Alaskan mountains. It’s all idyllic—until a dark element enters the story. 

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Host Jo Reed talks with Ann Powers, critic and correspondent for NPR Music, and editor Alison Fensterstock about collaborating on HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC, AudioFile’s spring Audiobook Club Pick. A mosaic of essays with archival recordings of the artists, HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music is an Earphones Award winner and was one of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2024. Alison and Ann talk about the origins of this vibrant and ambitious project, the use of archival audio, what this recentering reveals about music history, and more.

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Published by Harper Audio.

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