Broadway has the Tonys and Hollywood has the Oscars. On May 29th, publishers, producers, and narrators in the audio publishing world gathered at a formal gala at the New York Historical Society for the 14th Annual Audies, honoring the year's best spoken word entertainment. Audies were awarded to the most engaging and innovative audiobooks of the 2008 publishing year. Garden City residents are invited to come to the Library to check out the winning audiobook titles of the year.

Newberry Medal Winner, The Graveyard Book , written and read by Neil Gaiman, won the coveted Audie for the Best Audiobook of the Year. Already an acclaimed young adult novel, the audiobook has been praised for its "original musical composition" as well as the author's "haunting performance." The Fiction category had a tie with Audies awarded to both The Duma Key by Stephen King and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan, also a fiction title, won the Audie for Best Multi-Voiced Performance.

Other Audie winners included Child 44 by Tom Robb Smith, Thriller & Suspense; The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Biography & Memoir; and, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, as read by Simon Vance, Classic. Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman, won the Non-Fiction Audie, Politics-Judges' Award. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris, won the Audie for the Best Narration by an Author. The Garden City Library owns all of these titles for listeners to experience the best in spoken word entertainment. Visit the Library's Audio-Visual Center located on the lower level during June, which is Audiobook Month, to select your summer listening from bestselling and award winning titles in every genre.