The end of another year has brought with it "best of" awards and lists, with HighBridge titles among those being honored.

First, the Audio Publishers Association has just announced finalists for the 2008 Audie^® Awards. HighBridge finalists include:

Narration by author: Pontoon by Garrison Keillor read by the author Produced by Jason Keillor

Adapted from another medium: Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me: The Best of "Not My Job" hosted by Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell Produced by Doug Berman

Solo narration - female: The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery Produced by Paul Ruben

Publishers Weekly cited the following for 2007 Listen Up Awards:

	Fiction: The Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig; read by Andrew Dennis Produced by Paul Ruben PW said, “[The} decision to cast 11-year-old Andrew Dennis to read the novel pays off. His most impressive feat is the level of emotion and intensity he maintains through many of the scenes.”				Fiction: Away by Amy Bloom read by Barbara Rosenblat Produced by Paul Ruben
	Fantasy: Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman read by J. Paul Boemer and Coleen Marlo Produced by John Runnette		History/Politics: Buried in the Bitter Waters by Elliot Jaspin read by Don Leslie Produced by Paul Ruben		Classics: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens performed by Jonathan Winters with Mimi Rogers; introduction by Susan Stamberg Produced by Kerry Thompson

Booklist furthered honored The Dead Fathers Club with an Editors Choice Award.

Library Journal recognized Scorpion Down as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2007.

Nonfiction: Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon; The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion by Ed Offley read by Richard Ferrone Produced by Paul Ruben "Richard Ferrone's 'gravelly voice fairly crackles with intensity' throughout this account of the 1968 sinking of the USS Scorpion, which journalist Offley believes was deliberate owing to Cold War tensions between the United States and the then Soviet Union. 'First class.'" (LJ 9/15/07)

And last, but not least, StoryTelling World has selected The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness for a 2008 Story Telling World.
 
Adult storytelling:
The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
by Joel ben Izzy
read by the author