SYNC - Free Audiobooks for Summer 2014

[goldilocks]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

YW - you squeaked in just under the wire. Week 10 titles should appear in about 9 min.

They actually change titles every Thur at 7am ET. It's easier to say they expire the full day before. Most people don't think of offers expiring during the early hours of the morning.

Oh! Lucky me! Now to get the new ones...

[tubemonkey]

Week 10 -- valid 17~23 Jul 2014 -- download here

* Note - these audiobooks are only free during the above time frame

The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline --> no restrictions

• Author: Nancy Springer
• Narrator: Katherine Kellgren
• Published: 2009 / Recorded Books

Enola’s landlady, Mrs. Tupper, is the closest thing Enola has to family these days, besides her occasional run-ins with her brother Sherlock. Even though Mrs. Tupper is nearly deaf and can barely cook, she’s an endearing presence as Enola longs for her absent mother. So imagine her horror when Enola comes home to find Mrs. Tupper kidnapped! Who would take her, and why? And what does Florence Nightingale have to do with it? From the master of mystery Nancy Springer, here’s another absorbing adventure for our award-winning, unstoppable heroine, Enola Holmes.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II --> no restrictions

• Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrator: David Timson
• Published: 1892 / Naxos Audiobooks

In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes: The Engineer’s Thumb, The Silver Band, The Scandal in Bohemia, The Five Orange Pips, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr Watson. What was the mystery of the engineer’s thumb? What was behind the disappearance of the race horse? Why did masked royalty walk up to see Holmes in Baker Street? These and other puzzles are solved by this bloodhound of a genius.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Week 10 -- valid 17~23 Jul 2014 -- download here

* Note - these audiobooks are only free during the above time frame

The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline --> no restrictions

• Author: Nancy Springer
• Narrator: Katherine Kellgren
• Published: 2009 / Recorded Books

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II --> no restrictions

• Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrator: David Timson
• Published: 1892 / Naxos Audiobooks

Again this week, don't overlook the accompanying 8-page reference guide, this time for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II (which SYNC does not mention, AFAIK). Audible has posted the link under the audiobook's Publisher's Summary on this page, which link directs one to this downloadable PDF document.

[Shane R]

This has been kind of a 'meh' Sync summer for me. Not much I'm really interested in listening to.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Shane R

This has been kind of a 'meh' Sync summer for me. Not much I'm really interested in listening to.

They haven't had enough classics this year.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by Catlady

They haven't had enough classics this year.

Or to put it another way, the "classics" haven't been so "classic."

[tubemonkey]

Week 11 -- valid 24~30 Jul 2014 -- download here

* Note - these audiobooks are only free during the above time frame

Headstrong --> no restrictions

• Author: Patrick Link
• Narrator: full cast by LA Theatre Works
• Published: 2012 / LA Theatre Works

In the wake of increasing concern over brain trauma in professional athletes, Patrick Link has crafted a story about a retired NFL linebacker who must deal with a family tragedy and his own suffering because of the violence of his chosen sport. Includes a conversation about brain injuries and sports with Dr. Robert Cantu, the Senior Advisor to the NFL Head, Neck, and Spine Committee.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Deidrie Henry, Ernie Hudson, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, and Scott Wolf. Directed by Bart DeLorenzo.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde --> no restrictions

• Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Narrator: Scott Brick
• Published 1886 / Tantor Audio

When a brute of a man tramples an innocent girl, apparently out of spite, two bystanders catch the fellow and force him to pay reparations to the girl’s family. The brute’s name is Edward Hyde. A respected lawyer, Utterson, hears this story and begins to unravel the seemingly manic behavior of his best friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and his connection with Hyde. Several months earlier, Utterson had drawn up an inexplicable will for the doctor naming Hyde as his heir in the event that he disappears. Fearing his friend has been blackmailed into this arrangement, Utterson probes deeper into both Jekyll and his unlikely protégé. He is increasingly unnerved at each new revelation.

In a forerunner of psychological dramas to come, Robert Louis Stevenson uses Hyde to show that we are both repulsed and attracted to the darker side of life, particularly when we can experience it in anonymity.

[tubemonkey]

Week 12 -- valid 31 Jul ~ 06 Aug 2014 -- download here

* Note - these audiobooks are only free during the above time frame

Divided We Fall --> US, Canada, & Philippines ONLY

• Author: Trent Reedy
• Narrator: Andrew Eiden, et al
• Published: 2014 / Scholastic Audio

From the author of Words in the Dust: an action-packed YA novel set in a frighteningly plausible near future, about what happens when the States are no longer United.

Danny Wright never thought he’d be the man to bring down the United States of America. In fact, he enrolled in the National Guard because he wanted to serve his country the way his father did. When the Guard is called up on the governor’s orders to police a protest in Boise, it seems like a routine crowd-control mission . . . but then Danny’s gun misfires, spooking the other soldiers and the already fractious crowd. By the time the smoke clears, twelve people are dead.

The president wants the soldiers arrested. The governor swears to protect them. And as tensions build on both sides, the conflict slowly escalates toward the unthinkable: a second American civil war.

With political questions that are popular in American culture yet rare in YA fiction, and a plot that’s both excitingly provocative and frighteningly plausible, Divided We Fall is Trent Reedy’s very timely YA debut.

The Red Badge of Courage --> no restrictions

• Author: Stephen Crane
• Narrator: Frank Muller
• Published: 1895 / Recorded Books

At the time he wrote The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane had never witnessed a battle. Crane’s older brother fought in the Battle of Chancellorsville, however, and Crane listened carefully to his brother’s reminiscences. The result is the classic Civil War novel, and one of the greatest stories of all time. Henry Fleming was always playing soldier at home on the farm. Now, on the battlefield, shells burst in front of him like strange flowers, gunfire rips toward him in great crackling sheets of flame, and all around him, blue-coated figures lie still on the blood-drenched grass. The Battle of Chancellorsville has begun. Stephen Crane’s most famous work stands alone as the testimony of a young man compelled to mature during a bloody Civil War battle.

[tubemonkey]

Week 13 -- valid 07~13 Aug 2014 -- download here

* Note - these audiobooks are only free during the above time frame

Living a Life that Matters --> no restrictions

• Author: Ben Lesser
• Narrator: J Silverman & B Lesser
• Published: 2012 / Remembrance Publishing

In his highly readable, educational, and inspiring memoir, Holocaust Survivor Ben Lesser’s warm, grandfatherly tone invites the reader to do more than just visit a time when the world went mad. He also shows how this madness came to be–and the lessons that the world still needs to learn.

In this true story, the reader will see how an ordinary human being–an innocent child–not only survived the Nazi Nightmare, but achieved the American Dream–and how you can achieve it too.

The Shawl --> no restrictions

• Author: Cynthia Ozick
• Narrator: Yelena Shmulenson
• Published: 1989 / HighBridge Audio

At once fiercely immediate and complex in its implications, The Shawl succeeds in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the emptiness of its aftermath. It was written in 1977 but was first published in the early 1980s in The New Yorker. The Shawl won first prize in the O. Henry Prize Stories and was chosen for Best American Short Stories.

In The Shawl, a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. And there is a shawl–a shawl that can sustain a starving child or inadvertently destroy her, or even magically conjure her back to life.

[tubemonkey]

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