July 2006--Volume IV, Issue 7 Welcome to The Heard Word! Check here for reviews of audiobooks for adults, young adults, and children, as well as forthcoming titles. Featured Publishers Listener's Advisory Each month, we feature handy selection lists that help you identify forthcoming audio titles in a variety of subjects and formats. For the ultimate in convenience, please open ipage®. If your library would like a free subscription to ipage Basic, please e-mail ics.techsupport@ingrambook.com. • August Fiction on CD • August Nonfiction on CD • August Audiobooks on MP3 Auditor's Pick Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival Written and Read by Anderson Cooper Unabridged, 6 hours on 5 CDs HarperAudio Emmy award winning news correspondent Anderson Cooper reads the audio edition of his highly-anticipated memoir, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival. In his story of personal and professional evolution, Cooper weaves his struggle with the deaths of his father and older brother against the backdrop of his experience as a global citizen. He witnesses first-hand the social and political conflicts of countries around the world, while taking us along on his professional journey to become the respected news anchor he is today. Anderson Cooper was born to Wyatt Cooper, a writer who grew up poor in Mississippi, and Gloria Vanderbilt, the wealthy heir to an American aristocracy. Cooper's young life may have been one of privilege (growing up in a series of luxurious apartments on Manhattan's Upper East Side), but it was also filled with pain and loss. His father, whom he idolized, died while undergoing heart surgery at the age of 50. Unfortunately, his father's untimely death would not be the only one to leave an open emotional wound. Cooper's older brother Carter would later leap fourteen stories to his death from his younger brother's bedroom window terrace at the family home. His first job as a fact-checker with Channel One, a news program broadcast in many junior high and high schools across the US, was the first step toward his goal of becoming a field correspondent. When his contract with Channel One expired, he took it upon himself to travel to Burma, shooting footage with his own video camera and using a fake press pass made by a friend, so that he could gain access to people and places available only to journalists. His footage would eventually impress Channel One enough to renew his contract, this time footing the bill for his overseas reporting. Eventually, his travels would take him from Niger, where starvation was claiming an astounding number of lives, to Sarajevo, Somalia, and Rwanda, where poverty and war were a part of residents' everyday lives. He grew from reporting for Channel One to becoming a correspondent and co-anchor for ABC, and then to his current position as a correspondent and prime time anchor for CNN. Cooper moved into the public eye when he covered the tsunami damage in Sri Lanka in January 2005, and his role as a respected, hard-hitting reporter was solidified later that year when he covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Cooper's narration is strong and delivered with a punch, much like his field reporting. He speaks to the painful, private moments of loss with the same passion as he does his public anguish for the poor and malnourished of Africa and the lack of official response to the recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast of the US post-Katrina. This CD-set includes an interview with Cooper, where the listener learns that the genesis for this book began long ago. Don't miss out on this audiobook; there is an element of honesty and rawness that exists in his reading that makes this production stand out among the summer releases. --Linda Arrington Lusk, Product Marketing Manager Contact Us | Privacy Policy | About Further Developments | Ingram Library Services | ipage.ingrambook.com © Copyright 2006, Ingram Library Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved.