Amazon Whispersync -- Amazon First Reads -- exp 30 Apr
Four of the six selections for April have Whispersync pairs. For those with Prime memberships, your first Kindle selection is free (1st Kindle price) and the remaining selections are $4.99 each (2nd Kindle price). For those without Prime memberships, the Kindle books are the current selling price (3rd Kindle price). After purchasing the ebooks, the audiobooks are available for $1.99 each.
See this post for additional details and discussions about this month's ebook selections.
For those with
Kindle Unlimited and/or
Prime Reading, some of the selections may have Whispersync pairs. After borrowing the "free" ebooks, the audiobooks are available for $1.99 each. Kindle Unlimited subscribers can borrow these books when they are officially released next month.
When Never Comes -- Barbara Davis/ Shannon McManus --> 11.7 hrs --> contemp
- Whispersync --> Audible ($1.99) | Kindle (free/$4.99/$4.99)
- Kindle Unlim --> Audible ($1.99) | Kindle (free)
Bandwidth -- Eliot Peper/ PJ Ochlan --> 9.9 hrs --> sci-fi
- Whispersync --> Audible ($1.99) | Kindle (free/$4.99/$4.99)
- Kindle Unlim --> Audible ($1.99) | Kindle (free)
An American Princess -- Annejet van der Zijl/ Teri Schnaubelt --> 5.8 hrs --> biography
- Whispersync --> Audible ($1.99) | Kindle (free/$4.99/$4.99)
- Kindle Unlim --> Audible ($1.99) | Kindle (free)
Spoiler:
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An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
The true story of a girl from the wilderness settlements of a burgeoning new America who became one of the most privileged figures of the Gilded Age.
Born to a pioneering family in Upstate New York in the late 1800s, Allene Tew was beautiful, impetuous, and frustrated by the confines of her small hometown. At eighteen, she met Tod Hostetter at a local dance, having no idea that the mercurial charmer she would impulsively wed was heir to one of the wealthiest families in America. But when he died twelve years later, Allene packed her bags for New York City. Never once did she look back.
From the vantage point of the American upper class, Allene embodied the tumultuous Gilded Age. Over the course of four more marriages, she weathered personal tragedies during World War I and the catastrophic financial reversals of the crash of 1929. From the castles and châteaus of Europe, she witnessed the Russian Revolution and became a princess. And from the hopes of a young girl from Jamestown, New York, Allene Tew would become the epitome of both a pursuer and survivor of the American Dream.
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Monsoon Mansion -- Cinelle Barnes/ Cinelle Barnes --> 9.0 hrs --> memoir
- Whispersync --> Audible ($1.99) | Kindle (free/$4.99/$4.99)
- Kindle Unlim --> Audible ($1.99) | Kindle (free)
Spoiler:
Quote:
Told with a lyrical, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark, troubled waters of a family’s rise and fall from grace in the Philippines. It would take a young warrior to survive it.
Cinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her mother’s opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her father’s self-made success, it was a girl’s storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits, her father leaves, and her mother’s terrible lover takes the reins, Cinelle’s fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined. Formerly a home worthy of magazines and lavish parties, Mansion Royale becomes a dangerous shell of the splendid palace it had once been.
In this remarkable ode to survival, Cinelle creates something magical out of her truth - underscored by her complicated relationship with her mother. Through a tangle of tragedy and betrayal emerges a revelatory journey of perseverance and strength, of grit and beauty, and of coming to terms with the price of family - and what it takes to grow up.
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