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SYNC Audio -- Weekly Offers -- FAQs -- exp 26 May @ 11:59 pm ET

NOTE -- you MUST use the Sora app in order to download these books for free

Week 4 -- In the following week, the fourth of this year’s SYNC season (May 20 through 26), we explore what it means to be human, in both serious and more lighthearted ways. Thanks to GraphicAudio, we can make available ALIVE, a full cast performance of Scott Sigler’s sci-fi thriller. Colleen Delaney leads the cast, and sound effects keep the fast action moving through your mind as soon as it reaches your ears. If you haven’t heard a comic book brought to life in audio format, be prepared to be fully immersed . . . which shows that you, too, are Alive!

Paired with that title is the Earphones Award-winning WHAT MAKES US, by Rafi Mittlefehldt, performed by Graham Halstead for Candlewick Press on Brilliance. In this contemporary novel, we meet a teenager whose family hides secrets that point to terrorism. Halstead provides character voices that vary widely and present realistic diversity. You can find out more about how and why Mittlefehldt wrote this book here. and we visit with Graham Halstead to hear about his work that led to the title's Earphones Award.

FREE -- Alive -- Scott Sigler/ full cast -- 6.2 hrs -- sci-fi

Generations Trilogy (book 1)

NOTE: this is a dramatized adaptation. The unabridged novel is 9.7 hrs long.

Colleen Delaney has mastered leading a cast narrating nonstop sci-fi thrillers. The Generations Trilogy features groups of teens who awaken after centuries of sleep to an unknown world filled with dangerous creatures. Delaney delivers the narrative and portrays Em Savage as she becomes the leader of a ragtag gang of survivors. Bradley Smith portrays Bishop, a chest-thumping warrior; Elizabeth Jernigan portrays Spingate, a tremulous genius; and Michael John Casey plays O'Malley, guardian of the weaker children. The intrepid gang works together to survive all odds and figure out what it means to be human in outer space. Sound effects, music, a diverse cast, and perpetual action drive the story to a cliff-hanger conclusion.

FREE -- What Makes Us -- Rafi Mittlefehldt/ Graham Halstead -- 8.2 hrs -- fiction

Narrator Graham Halstead soars as he uses his versatile voice to portray multiple characters in this poignant and sometimes painfully honest young adult novel. Halstead's talent is on full display as he delivers varied accents in a story about about culture, religion, and fear of the unknown. As the sins of the main character's extremist father surface, a Houston community reacts. Halstead seamlessly transitions from an angry and emotional 17-year-old to his Israeli mother, who is the picture of stoicism and firmness in the face of new and old allegations. Halstead delivers the shouting of a mob with accents ranging from upper-class tones to a stereotypical Southern drawl. The listener will be convinced this is a full cast.