Working the Floor: Audio Publishers

ACADEMY CHICAGO PUBLISHERS
Produces the Facets Multimedia line of videos; offers DVDs and combination book packages. Featured video:Celibidache! Serge Ioan Celibidachi, edited by Klaus Gerke, translated by Tania Calingaert. Booth: 3743.

ANTHONY AGEE
This first-time exhibitor publishes Christian audio and video product. Featured audio and video:Preview of a Guide Book for Correct Teachings of Jesus Christ. Discounts: 30-day risk-free trial. Booth: SP243.

AUDIO PARTNERS
Publishes abridged and unabridged audiobooks in the mystery, fiction and nonfiction categories. Featured audio:Touch the Top of the World by Erik Weihenmayer; Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman; Rumpole Rests His Case by John Mortimer; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro; My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. Booth: 4782.

AUGUST HOUSE AUDIO
Produces more than 75 titles recorded by professional storytellers. Featured audio:Sandburg Out Loud: A Selection of Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories, Poetry, & Folksongs Collected in The American Songbag, told and sung by Carol Birch, Angela Lloyd, and Bill Harley, with music by David Holt; Mama Learns to Drive by Donald Davis. Booth: 4935.

BRILLIANCE AUDIO
Publishes fiction and nonfiction audiobooks, specializing in commercial and literary fiction and nonfiction. Featured audio:The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children series) by Jean M. Auel; The Art of Deception by Ridley Pearson; Without Fail by Lee Child; A Thousand Country Roads by Robert James Waller; Midnight Voices by John Saul; Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah; The Tutor by Peter Abrahams; The Last Detective by Robert Crais; Death of a Stranger by Anne Perry; The Eleventh Hour by Catherine Coulter; Mind Catcher by John Darnton; Killjoy by Julie Garwood. Drawings: win a free Earth's Children Series (audio). Discounts: 50%, free freight (two-unit minimum). Booth: 4968.

CAPITALENTER
Publishes a multimedia training CD for online investors. Featured:Training for Online Investors. Booth: 2242.

CARDINAL PUBLISHERS GROUP
Distributes instructional video tapes. Featured video: Five-Star Basketball Camps, instructional series by America's top coaches. Booth: 3574.

L.A. THEATRE WORKS
Produces classic and contemporary drama in audio format; distributed by Publishers Group West. Featured audio: more than 300 audio-theater titles, including the works of Arthur Miller, Jon Robin Baitz, George Bernard Shaw, Joyce Carol Oates, José Rivera, Paula Vogel and David Henry Hwang. Drawings: twice daily for a new CD release; drop business card at booth. Discounts: see PGW booth for details. Booth: 2752.

LISTEN & LIVE AUDIO
This first-time exhibitor is an independent audiobook publisher offering bestsellers, fiction, nonfiction, outdoor adventure, SF/fantasy, business, motivational, children's, career development, relationships. Featured audio: new imprint launches, Defiance Audio (SF/fantasy) and Appleseed (original full-cast productions for children). Giveaways: daily for booksellers and librarians. Discounts: booksellers: free freight; libraries: 25%. Booth: 4770.

NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS
Produces audiobooks on cassette and CD on biography, children's, classics, fiction, history, poetry/drama, religion/philosphy and storytelling; exhibiting with the Publishers Marketing Assn. Featured audio:William Shakespeare's King Lear, a full-cast dramatization with Paul Scofield, Kenneth Branagh and others; Voices of Black America: Historical Recordings of Speeches, Poetry, Humor & Drama; Famous Americans in History; Naxos Educational, a new series combining the works of major composers with narrated histories. Giveaways: posters, sampler CDs. Discounts: extra 2% plus free freight. Booth: 4778.

NEW MILLENNIUM AUDIO
Publishes fiction and nonfiction audiobooks in such categories as bestsellers, Hollywood classics, biography, autobiography, business and mystery. Featured audio:The Theory of Everything by Stephen W. Hawking; The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams, performed by Chris Cerf, Stephen Fry, Simon Jones and Richard Dawkins; The Company by Robert Littell, performed by Scott Brick; The Scorpion and the Frog by Donato Rippelli. Discounts: show special allowance, free freight. Booth: 3462.

OASIS AUDIO
Publishes audiobooks in the Christian fiction, foreign-language instruction, business/self-help, humor, mystery and inspirational categories. Featured audio:Wil's Bones by Kevin Bowen; The Many Faces of Islam by Nabeel Jabbour; Raising Kids in Really Scary Times by Steve and Valerie Bell; Munich Signature by Bodie Thoene; Voice Mail Secrets by Val Chevron; Becoming a Promotable Woman by Sally Jenkins; Living in Excellence by Patricia Wilson. Discounts: 50%; free freight (select packages). Booth: 4772.

PARACLETE PRESS
This ecumenical Christian publisher offers books, sacred and secular music and videos. Featured audio:Appalachian Sketches, a collection of hymns/folk songs performed by Gloriae Dei Cantores with Mark O'Connor. Featured video:A Cry for Help and Warning Signs, on suicide prevention. Booth: 3481.

PARABOLA
Publishes magazines and related books, videos and audios on myth, tradition and search for meaning. Featured video:Rumi, the Wings of Love, written, produced and directed by Shems Friedlander, narrated by Peter Boyle; In the Hands of Alchemy: The Life and Workof Jerry Wennstrom, filmed by Phil Lucas. Booth: 4432.

PENTON OVERSEAS
Produces and distributes audio, video and CD-ROM titles, specializing in language instruction, travel and special-interest publishing for adults and children. Featured audio:Terrorism: The Official Reports by various authors, Movies in My Mind (Vol. 1) by Mark Carl Johnson; Peace in Our Land by Bunny Hull; Classical Babies series; Love & Logic for Early Childhood by Jim Fay and Charles Fay; Musical Spanish by Stacy Tipton; Funtime Español series; TravelTalk: Brazilian Portuguese; VocabuLearn Music--Enhanced French/English Level 2; VocabuLearn Music--Enhanced Spanish/English Level 3; Big Brands, Big Trouble by Jack Trout, read by Jeff Woodman; Empire by Mitchell Pearce, read by Dan Cashman; Fighting for Your Marriage by Howard J. Markman, read by Celeste Lawson; China's Century by Laurence Brahm, read by Anna Fields. Booths: 4779-4783.

SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO
Publishes general-interest audiobooks including fiction, nonfiction, business/finance, self-improvement, inspiration, language learning programs and original audiobook productions under the Audioworks, Pimsleur Language Programs and Sound Ideas imprints; a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.; distributes Franklin Covey Audio. Booths: 3832, 3833.

SOUNDS TRUE AUDIO
Publishes audio titles about spiritual traditions, meditation, psychology, creativity, health and healing, self-discovery and relationships, as well as instructional videos and world sacred music; a part of the NAPRA Pavilion. Featured audio:Taking Care of Yourself by Andrew Weil, M.D.; Yoga Chant by Shiva Rea; Hafiz: The Scent of Light, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, read by Nataraja; The Beginner's Guide series. Giveaways: CD sampler of new audio releases. Discounts: 50%, free freight. Booth: 2457.

TIME WARNER AUDIOBOOKS
Publishes general-interest audiobook titles by newsmakers, leading experts, literary success stories, popular commercial authors. Featured audio:Four Blind Mice by James Patterson; Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks; Rich Dad by Robert Kiyosaki with Sharon Lechter; The Merciful God of Prophecy by Tim LaHaye; The F Word by Louie Anderson; The Kingmaker by Brian Haig; What Clients Love by Harry Beckwith; The Fifth Angel by Tim Green; Running with the Giants by John Maxwell. Booths: 3532-3539.

WILLOWBANK VIDEO
Distributes videos on gardens and gardening, British heritage and stately homes under Arthur Schwartz & Co. Inc. Booth: 4320.