News in Brief: Chemikal Underground Anthology, the Parting Gifts, the Greenhornes, Fern Knight

-- Glasgow label Chemikal Underground has teamed up with Cargo Publishing to release the audiobook version of the anthology The Year of Open Doors . The audiobook is out today and features contributions from Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat and many authors. -- Greg Cartwright of the Oblivions and the Reigning Sound and the Ettes' Coco Hames have formed the Parting Gifts . Their debut album, Strychnine ...

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Morton Gro ve Library needs your vote

A recently hired Morton Grove librarian is working on a big contest and the voting is extremely close. Reader Services librarian Leah White, who started this past July, entered the library in a contest with a company called Playaway. A Playaway machine is an mp3 player that plays a specific audiobook title.

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Brilliance Audio, Inc. to Publish and Lou Diamond Phillips to Narrate the Audiobook Editions of Tom Clancy’s Upcoming ...

Brilliance Audio today announced that they will be publishing Tom Clancy’s eagerly-awaited next novel in the popular Jack Ryan series, “Dead or Alive,” in all audio formats simultaneously with the print edition on December 7, 2010.

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