FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2015

[GtrsRGr8]

This great Whispersync deal is possible because of a markdown on the ebook (all the way to nada). Thanks to ATDrake for the post of the ebook, that allowed me to find this Whispersync deal.

My posting of this book does not necessarily indicate my agreement with any doctrinal positions taken in the book.

Title: Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Family).
Author(s): Stasi Eldredge.
Price: $3.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $14.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.8 stars/15 reviews (Amazon); 4.37/35 reviews (GoodReads).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 5.0/2 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 224/6 hours and 15 minutes.
Narrator(s): Aimee Lilly.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoi...1328736&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Free-Be-Me-Bec...=free+to+be+me.
Comments: The author is a New York Times bestselling author.
Book Description (Amazon):
Who am I, really? How do I figure out what to do with my life? Does anybody really care about me? Why can't I be as pretty as her?

Stasi Eldredge understands the doubts, struggles, and fears you are facing. She has been there! Now Stasi invites you to walk with her as she helps you understand the lies this world tries to sell you, and believe that God sees you as beautiful and worthy—right now. With honesty and grace, Stasi will help you see the hand of God in your story and trust Him with your every hope and dream.

[GtrsRGr8]

This book is aimed at age level "12 and up," grade level "9 and up." It is published by the children's division of Bloomsbury USA. I don't know fiction books well at all, but because of those facts and others, I think that this book is aimed at late preteens, and teens.

Title: Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass series Book 1).
Genre: Fiction (Fantasy & Magic).
Author(s): Sarah J. Maas.
Price: $4.48 ($0.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.49 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $25.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.4 stars/1,328 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.3/1,644 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 416/12 hours and 47 minutes.
Narrator(s): Elizabeth Evans.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Teens/Thro...1346195&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Throne-Glass-B...ries+Book+1%29.
Comments: This is the #1 best seller in Kindle Children's Fantasy & Magic.
There are 4 books in the Throne of Glass series.
Book Description (Amazon):
After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom.

Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.

Then one of the other contestants turns up dead... quickly followed by another. Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.

[tubemonkey]

For all you biography fans out there, LearnOutLoud has released it's free audiobook for Sep:

• FREE -- Great Biographies in Time -- Plutarch, Rousseau, et al (3.5 hrs) -- exp 30 Sep

Great Biographies in Time explores the lives of some of the most intriguing figures in history. Ranging in time from the ancient to the present and populated by everyone from world leaders to social advocates, here you will find the stories of people that have forever altered the world with their presence. It is our hope that with these classic excerpts from great biographies you will gain deeper insight into what made these people become what they are to us today.

Biographies included here are:

• Alexander the Great by Plutarch
• Life of Sir Isaac Newton by Sir David Brewster
• Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Life of George Washington by Washington Irving
• Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
• Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

[GtrsRGr8]

The author is the Chairman of the Board of Thomas Nelson Publishers, a company that publishes books directed to Christians. The ebook is published by Thomas Nelson. However, religious references and allusions seem to be nonexistent or, at the most, very low key.

Title: Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Business).
Author(s): Michael Hyatt.
Price: $5.98 ($1.49 ebook (marked down) + $4.49 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $21.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.7 stars/518 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.30/301 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 288/5 hours and 13 minutes.
Narrator(s): Michael Hyatt.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/P...1420034&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Platform-Get-N...43435TRRPRX0NA.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
Michael Hyatt, one of the top business bloggers in the world, provides down-to-earth guidance for building and expanding a powerful platform.

To be successful in the market today, you must possess two strategic assets: a compelling product and a meaningful platform. In this step-by-step guide, Michael Hyatt, former CEO and current Chairman of Thomas Nelson Publishers, takes readers behind the scenes, into the new world of social media success. He shows you what best-selling authors, public speakers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and other creatives are doing differently to win customers in today’s crowded marketplace. Hyatt speaks from experience. He writes one of the top 800 blogs in the world and has more than 100,000 followers on Twitter. His large and growing platform serves as the foundation for his successful writing, speaking, and consulting practice.

In Platform, Hyatt will teach readers not only how to extend their influence, but also how to monetize it and build a sustainable career. The key? By building a platform. It has never been easier, less expensive, or more possible than right now. . . The book includes:

- proven strategies
- easy-to-replicate formulas
- practical tips

Social media technologies have changed everything. Now, for the first time in history, non-celebrities can get noticed—and win big!—in an increasingly noisy world.

[GtrsRGr8]

The book was published by David C. Cook, a company which publishes books directed to Christians. This book is considered religious fiction. Reviewers, however, speak of "so-and-so [character in the book] learning a spiritual lesson," or something to that effect. It sounds like it's pretty subdued stuff--maybe even so subdued that even atheists would teach their children those things as values.

I love it when an ebook has been marked down to zero, like the one in this post, because sometimes great Whispersync deals are to be had because of it, like the one that this post is about.

Title: Waterfall: A Novel (River of Time Book 1).
Genre: Fiction (Religious Science Fiction).
Author(s): Lisa T. Bergren.
Price: $3.49 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $3.49 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $19.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/573 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.00/125 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 387/10 hours and 30 minutes.
Narrator(s): Pam Turlow.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Teens/Wate...1421561&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Waterfall-Nove...H4X5960KK7W8PX.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the Bentarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives with their parents, famed Etruscan scholars, among the romantic hills. In Book One of the River of Time series, Gabi and Lia are stuck among the rubble of medieval castles in rural Tuscany on yet another hot, boring, and dusty archeological site … until Gabi places her hand atop a handprint in an ancient tomb and finds herself in fourteenth-century Italy. And worse yet, in the middle of a fierce battle between knights of two opposing forces.

And thus she comes to be rescued by the knight-prince Marcello Falassi, who takes her back to his father’s castle—a castle Gabi has seen in ruins in another life. Suddenly Gabi’s summer in Italy is much, much more interesting. But what do you do when your knight in shining armor lives, literally, in a different world?

[tubemonkey]

It's romance time at Tantor. If the new rules for Scribd audiobooks are creating problems for you, be sure to check out Tantor's 1,300+ romance titles on sale.

• $6.99 -- Romance September (1,353 titles) -- exp 30 Sep

This fall your fantasies are back in session. Shop our romance titles throughout September for $6.99 downloads and 50% off MP3 CDs.

* Preorders are excluded from all sales.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

"Pick up any book in Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark Series for just $4.95 each, and get caught up for the next series installment, due out in December! Sale ends September 9, 2015 at 11:59 PM PT."

http://www.audible.com/mt/Kresley_Co..._rd_s=center-2

Adult Paranormal Romances

Thanks - added to OP

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Title: Flowers in the Snow (Betty's Book) (The Edenville Series Book 1).
Genre: Fiction (Saga).
Author(s): Danielle Stewart.
Price: $1.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $17.46.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.7 stars/632 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.7/3 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 200/5 hours and 21 minutes.
Narrator(s): Robin Rowan.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Fl...1526049&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Snow-B...enville+series.
Comments: The author is a USA Today best selling author.
There are currently three books in The Edenville Series.
Book Description (Amazon):
Remembering the past can be like buying a return ticket for a train you aren't sure you want to board.

Rocking away on her peaceful front porch, Betty Grafton receives sad news which forces her to relive the darkest moments of her life. Surrounded by her family, a captive audience hanging onto her every word, she weaves the tale of how an unlikely and controversial friendship shaped her into the woman she is today. Exposing her own mistakes, fears, and soul deep heartbreak, Betty shares the hard truth about growing up in the South in the 1960's.

Though the years have blown by with hurricane force, the ache in her heart feels fresh. The threat of harm still chills her to the core. But the joy of friendship continues to sustain her.

[thatworkshop]

There are 3 audiobooks that I have issues with:

- Roger Ascham & King's Lost Girl -- Matthew Reilly (48 min) : Dead link
- The Story of Miss Moppet: Unavailable in your country
- Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business: Unavailable in your country

Any solutions so I can have them too?

[GtrsRGr8]

This Whispersync deal serves to highlight what a fantastic bargain the Whispersync deals can be. The Audible audiobook, by itself (no ebook and no syncing with it), is $35.95. With this deal you get the audiobook, ebook, and syncing for only $4.98. Wow!

Title: The Night Before (Savannah Book 1).
Genre: Fiction (Scary Romance).
Author(s): Lisa Jackson.
Price: $4.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $2.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $35.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.1 stars/253 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 3.90/55 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 468/18 hours and 22 minutes.
Narrator(s): Alyssa Bresnahan.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Romance/Th...1601549&sr=1-2.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Night-Before-S...e+night+before.
Comments: The author is a New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly (and maybe others that I didn't find out about) bestselling author. She's certainly written a lot of them--over 75, according to the Amazon webpage for this book.
Book Description (Amazon):
Blood Will Be Spilled. . .

In the dark shadows of a sultry southern town, a serial killer strikes. It's an act of sinister precision that has happened many times before. . .every victim an offering to a hunger that can never be sated. . .

Night After Night. . .

The next morning, Caitlyn Montgomery Bandeaux wakes covered in blood. But Caitlyn has no memory of the night before, when her estranged husband was brutally murdered like so many others she has known. . .

After Night. . .

Wanted by the police and haunted by horrifying, fragmented memories, Caitlyn turns to Adam Hunt, the town's new psychologist. But how far can she really trust him? For as a twisted killer strikes again and again, Caitlyn's about to discover that those who appear the most innocent are usually the most evil. . .

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

This Whispersync deal serves to highlight what a fantastic bargain the Whispersync deals can be. The Audible audiobook, by itself (no ebook and no syncing with it), is $35.95. With this deal you get the audiobook, ebook, and syncing for only $4.98. Wow!

Title: The Night Before (Savannah Book 1).
Genre: Fiction (Scary Romance).
Author(s): Lisa Jackson.
Price: $4.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $2.99 Whispersync audio).

Thanks, I got the library book and then the audio book, so $2.99 for me. Love it! Suspense works great for me in audio.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by idoit

There are 3 audiobooks that I have issues with:

- Roger Ascham & King's Lost Girl -- Matthew Reilly (48 min) : Dead link
- The Story of Miss Moppet: Unavailable in your country
- Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business: Unavailable in your country

Any solutions so I can have them too?

1. this title is no longer available
2. this title is geo-restricted
3. this title is geo-restricted

Sorry, you're out of luck on these three titles. I keep this list updated every month or two. During that time, it's not unusual for Audible to withdraw free titles. I'll remove this title from the list.

As to geo-restricted titles, the only way to get them legally is to have an account in a country where they're not restricted. It's a publisher thing, not an Audible thing.

Note: your post was moved to this thread in the deals forum. That's where questions about free Audible titles belong.

[tubemonkey]

I updated the list of Free Audible Titles and removed three titles that are no longer free:

• The Conservative Nanny State -- Dean Baker (6.5 hrs) --> $19.95
• Roger Ascham & King's Lost Girl -- Matthew Reilly (48 min) --> deleted
• Three Shots Rang Out -- Darren Reynolds (2.0 hrs) --> $3.95

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by booklover6

Thanks, I got the library book and then the audio book, so $2.99 for me. Love it! Suspense works great for me in audio.

Kewl. I might start mentioning that in the WS posts from time to time. I knew about that arrangement--in fact, I just used it a few days ago on an ebook/audiobook--but I really didn't think about it when making WS posts. Thanks.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

X-link to the DRM-free megathread:

Humble Audiobook Bundle Star Wars will be available for the next 2 weeks and contains readings of the tie-in novels, as well as the radio drama adaptations starring Mark Hamill himself.

Also, StoryBundle's Women in Science Fiction Bundle has a freebie mp3 song bonus for newsletter subscribers (no purchase necessary).

Time is running out for this promo -- exp Wed 09 Sep @ 11am PT

There are a total of nine titles in this bundle, including all three NPR radio dramatizations --> Star Wars -- The Empire Strikes Back -- Return of the Jedi.