FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2015

[ApK]

Btw, the radio play of Star Wars is awesome. An expanded telling of the story of the original movie, it's my favorite version of one of my favorite films. I re-listen to it frequently.

[AnemicOak]

Agreed, the radio dramas are fun (especially the first one) I remember listening to them on the radio and have them as cassettes (which I have no way to play anymore). Not sure about the other stuff, I don't think I've ever listened to an audiobook based on comics.

[GtrsRGr8]

Title: Hillbilly Heart.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Biography/Memoir).
Author(s): Billy Ray Cyrus.
Price: $2.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $0.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $16.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.3 stars/277 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.90/8 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 292/7 hours and 38 minutes.
Narrator(s): Eric G. Dove.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Arts-Enter...1871384&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Hear...illbilly+Heart.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
Billy Ray Cyrus is an award-winning country music legend whose “Achy Breaky Heart” propelled his debut album, “Some Gave All,” to the top of the charts for a record-breaking seventeen weeks. He’s also father of Miley Cyrus, one of Hollywood’s most successful young stars, who grew up on stage and on screen, most famously as the lead on the Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana,” where Billy Ray Cyrus played her father. But sometimes the truth is even better than fiction. Now, for the first time, fans can read about Cyrus’s tenacious and inspiring struggle to find his own way to faith, family, and the power of music.

Hillbilly Heart opens during Cyrus’s turbulent childhood in Kentucky, where he sought refuge in music and sports after his parents’ divorce. He was a troublemaker in training, known more for pulling pranks than for following in his preacher grandfather’s much-vaunted footsteps. But when he heard a voice telling him to get a left-handed guitar and start a band, this rebel found his cause. Ten years later, after tirelessly working the club circuit and knocking on the closed doors of music executives from Nashville to Los Angeles, Cyrus finally made a stratospheric breakthrough, becoming a multi-platinum selling artist and taking his rock-and-roll twist on country music to the world’s stage.

Cyrus fans have always been able to piece together the details of his life through his lyrics—the ups and downs, adventures and disappointments—but Hillbilly Heart gives them a front row seat for his most candid performance ever.

[Catlady]

Christian Audio is offering several different versions of the Bible, including the complete King James version, for $5 through 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on September 11. No global restrictions, and can be downloaded as both mp3 and m4b files.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Christian Audio is offering several different versions of the Bible, including the complete King James version, for $5 through 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on September 11. No global restrictions, and can be downloaded as both mp3 and m4b files.

Thanks - added to OP

[GtrsRGr8]

This deal is definitely for the more sophisticated and refined among us. Which leaves me out. ha

I've posted less expensive Whispersync deals, but this one has some mitigating factors that make it a must-post. The primary ones are: first, the outstanding reviews. Second, the huge difference between the price of this deal ($7.98) which gives you the audiobook, and the price of the audiobook at Audible by itself ($32.95). Third, the lengthiness of the audio--nearly 24 hours--giving great "bang for the buck."

An additional benefit of the Whispersync deal over the audiobook alone comes from the fact that the book is lavishly and beautifully illustrated. With the Whispersync deal you get to see all of those photos and other images, because the ebook, with those things, is included as a part of the deal. And, don't forget, the audiobook and ebook sync up.

Title: Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Arts).
Author(s): Jennifer Homans.
Price: $7.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $5.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $32.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.5 stars/77 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.00/58 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 672/23 hours and 26 minutes.
Narrator(s): Kirsten Potter.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/History/Ap...1940332&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Apollos-Angels...tory+of+Ballet.
Comments: The ebook is a New York Times bestseller. It was also named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly. It is the #1 selling Amazon Kindle ebook in Classical Dance.
Book Description (Amazon):
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history of ballet ever written—is a groundbreaking work. From ballet’s origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France’s Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. In the twentieth century, émigré dancers taught their art to a generation in the United States and in Western Europe, setting off a new and radical transformation of dance. Jennifer Homans, a historian, critic, and former professional ballerina, wields a knowledge of dance born of dedicated practice. Her admiration and love for the ballet, as Entertainment Weekly notes, brings “a dancer’s grace and sure-footed agility to the page.”

[GtrsRGr8]

Title: Marking Time (The Immortal Descendants, Book 1).
Genre: Fiction (Historical Fantasy/Romance).
Author(s): April White.
Price: $1.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $21.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.7 stars/817 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.30/119 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 438/16 hours and 19 minutes.
Narrator(s): Em Eldridge.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fan...2038330&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Marking-Time-I...s=marking+time.
Comments: The Immortal Descendants is a 3 book series.
Book Description (Amazon):
Seventeen-year-old tagger Saira Elian can handle anything … a mother who mysteriously disappears, a stranger who stalks her around London, and even the noble English grandmother who kicked Saira and her mother out of the family. But when an old graffiti tag in a Tube station transports Saira to the nineteenth century and she comes face-to-face with Jack the Ripper, she realizes she needs help after all.

Saira meets Archer, a charming student who helps her blend in as much as a tall, modern American teen can in Victorian England. He reveals the existence of the Immortals: Time, Nature, Fate, War, and Death, and explains to Saira that it is possible to move between centuries – if you are a Descendant of Time.

Saira finds unexpected friendships at a boarding school for Immortal Descendants and a complicated love with a young man from the past. But time is running out for her mother, and to save her, Saira must embrace her new identity as she hides from Archer a devastating secret about his future that may cost him his life.

[GtrsRGr8]

Title: The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA.
Genre: Fiction (Military/Political).
Author(s): Antonio J. Mendez.
Price: $6.98 ($3.99 ebook (marked down) + $2.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $23.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.1 stars/435 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.1/178 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 382/11 hours and 31 minutes.
Narrator(s): John Pruden.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoi...2039295&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Master-Disguis...isguise+mendez.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
From the author of Argo comes an unforgettable behind-the-scenes story of espionage in action. In the first ever memoir by a top-level operative to be authorized by the CIA, Antonio J. Mendez reveals the cunning tricks and insights that helped save hundreds from deadly situations.

Adept at creating new identities for anyone, anywhere, Mendez was involved in operations all over the world, from "Wild West" adventures in East Asia to Cold War intrigue in Moscow. In 1980, he orchestrated the escape of six Americans from a hostage situation in revolutionary Tehran, Iran. This extraordinary operation inspired the movie Argo, directed by and starring Ben Affleck.

The Master of Disguise gives us a privileged look at what really happens at the highest levels of international espionage: in the field, undercover, and behind closed doors.

[skinmaan]

Various Audible sales:

http://www.audible.com/mt/Sept-Win-Sale
(members only)

http://www.audible.com/mt/SRS_Sale_1...3MFACZ3R1KGHV8
(members and non-members)

No other details. Don't hesitate if interested.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Various Audible sales:

http://www.audible.com/mt/Sept-Win-Sale
(members only)

http://www.audible.com/mt/SRS_Sale_1...3MFACZ3R1KGHV8
(members and non-members)

No other details. Don't hesitate if interested.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks!

Apparently, ListenerLight members are eligible for the first one, as well as the second one. I'm an LL member and when I'm not eligible for a sale I get a message on the main sale webpage saying so. I didn't get the message for this sale.

UPDATE: A little more information . . . . the second sale is on Romance titles: Pick up these romantic series starters for just $4.95 each, and find a new obsession. Sale ends September 25, 2015 at 11:59 PM PT. And there's more to love! Chat live with authors Katy Evans, Anna Todd, and Christina and Lauren of Christina Lauren. Wednesday, September 16 at 8 PM ET on our Romance Facebook page.

The second sale is a mixed bag of genres and subgenres.

The audiobooks are all $4.95 each, in both sales.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Various Audible sales:

http://www.audible.com/mt/Sept-Win-Sale
(members only)

http://www.audible.com/mt/SRS_Sale_1...3MFACZ3R1KGHV8
(members and non-members)

No other details. Don't hesitate if interested.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thanks!

Apparently, ListenerLight members are eligible for the first one, as well as the second one. I'm an LL member and when I'm not eligible for a sale I get a message on the main sale webpage saying so. I didn't get the message for this sale.

UPDATE: A little more information . . . . the second sale is on Romance titles: Pick up these romantic series starters for just $4.95 each, and find a new obsession. Sale ends September 25, 2015 at 11:59 PM PT. And there's more to love! Chat live with authors Katy Evans, Anna Todd, and Christina and Lauren of Christina Lauren. Wednesday, September 16 at 8 PM ET on our Romance Facebook page.

The second sale is a mixed bag of genres and subgenres.

The audiobooks are all $4.95 each, in both sales.

Thanks - added to OP

[GtrsRGr8]

Title: Sweetland: A Novel.
Genre: Fiction (Literary/Contemporary Fiction).
Author(s): Michael Crummey.
Price: $4.98 ($0.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $23.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.0/stars/72 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.10/29 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 330/9 hours and 12 minutes.
Narrator(s): John Lee.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Sw...2113993&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here):
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon): http://www.amazon.com/Sweetland-Nove...ords=sweetland.
The epic tale of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.

The scarcely populated town of Sweetland clings to the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline has finally reached a head, with the mainland government offering each islander a generous resettlement package— the only stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the island, is determined to refuse. As one by one his neighbors relent, he recalls the town’s rugged history and its eccentric cast of characters. For fans of The Shipping News, Michael Crummey’s prose conjures up the mythical, sublime world of Sweetland’s past amid a storm-battered landscape haunted by local lore. In a spare style that belies “huge emotional depth and heart” (Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You), Crummey masterfully weaves together the past and present, creating in Sweetland a spectacular portrait of one man’s battle to survive as his world vanishes around him.

[copyrite]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Various Audible sales:

http://www.audible.com/mt/Sept-Win-Sale
(members only)

Listener Light member here who is not getting the sale price for titles on this list I add to my cart. I'll check back later and maybe give them a call.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Various Audible sales:

http://www.audible.com/mt/Sept-Win-Sale
(members only)

Thanks! Great timing--the book I planned to purchase and read next (The Ice Twins) is included in the sale!

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by copyrite

Listener Light member here who is not getting the sale price for titles on this list I add to my cart. I'll check back later and maybe give them a call.

I know that it's working for this LL member. I get the sale prices on the product webpage. Then, when I put the product in the shopping cart, the shopping cart shows the correct (sale) price. I haven't actually purchased anything yet, but I can't imagine a scenario where I would end up being charged more than the sale price.

Yeah, I'd definitely give Audible a call, if the Audible website shows that you are a member.