FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2015

[tubemonkey]

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[GtrsRGr8]

Title: The Trouble with Goodby (Fairhope Series Book 1).
Genre: Fiction (Romance).
Author(s): Sarra Cannon.
Price: $1.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $17.95 (currently on sale for $9.97).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.4 stars/294 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.10/16 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 347/6 hours and 10 minutes.
Narrator(s): Carly Robins.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Romance/Th...ok/B00QJ9O5EI/.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Goodby...dp/B00CWF1HWG/.
Comments:
While each book in the Fairhope small town romance series can stand alone, you will see updates on your favorite characters throughout. You will get the most enjoyment out of them if you read them in order.
1. The Trouble With Goodbye (free)
2. The Moment We Began
3. A Season For Hope
4. The Fear of Letting Go
5. A Life With No Regrets (Preorder now!)
Book Description (Amazon):
Two years ago, Leigh Anne Davis shocked everyone in tiny Fairhope, Georgia when she broke up with her wealthy boyfriend to attend an Ivy League university a thousand miles away. At school, she finds a happiness and independence she's never known.

Until one terrifying night takes it all away from her.

With no place else to go, Leigh Anne heads home to reclaim her old life. A life she worked so hard to escape. On the outside, she seems like the same girl everyone has always known. But deep inside, she's hiding a terrible secret.

That's when she meets Knox Warner, a troubled newcomer to Fairhope. His eyes have the same haunted look she sees every day in the mirror, and when she's near him, the rest of the world fades away. But being with Knox would mean disappointing everyone all over again. If she wants to save what's left of her old life, she has no choice but to say goodbye to him forever.

Only, the trouble with goodbye is that sometimes it's about courage and sometimes it's about fear. And sometimes you're too broken to know the difference until it's too late.

[skinmaan]

Page 100! (At least for those of us you don't adjust our post/page count.) And that's just for 1 year! Have you ever looked at the stats for the various yearly threads? This thread gets more post than any of them except for Romance (which includes a discussion component), and it gets more views than all of them but romance and sci-fi.

What does any of that mean? Well, I guess it means that you guys rock! This little thread gets so much participation, with so many people finding and sharing deals and freebies they find, that we have become one of the most active threads on the site. All of this for a format that was almost disallowed back in the day because some were of the opinion that audiobooks weren't "reading," IIRC.

I guess this is just me wanting to say thanks for all the activity and interest here. My TBR pile wouldn't be over 3,000 hours without all of you. In particular thanks to our "curator," tubemonkey, (or should that be zookeeper?) for the work you do in maintaining our tidy little corner. I'm glad you've healed up this year and hopefully will be with us long into the future! Bananas all around.

skinmaan

[tubemonkey]

This Offer is Now Live -- exp 18 Dec @ 10:30am ET

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Per the latest PRH newsletter:

[badgoodDeb]

Thanks for the reminder! (I've never heard the story, or seen the movie/show. I'm probably behind the times.)

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Thanks for the reminder! (I've never heard the story, or seen the movie/show. I'm probably behind the times.)

YW - it's a Christmas classic. I believe TBS plays it for a solid 24 hours on Christmas.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Thanks for the reminder! (I've never heard the story, or seen the movie/show. I'm probably behind the times.)

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

YW - it's a Christmas classic. I believe TBS plays it for a solid 24 hours on Christmas.

I've never seen it either--at least not in its entirety; various family members usually are watching it on Christmas and I've seen bits and pieces. For me the must-see Christmas movie is It's a Wonderful Life.

[badgoodDeb]

I must fess up to not having seen that either! We only regularly watched the Rudolph cartoon (with the dentist & the Abominable Monster) and maybe the Grinch. And nowadays I'd far rather spend my time with a good book!

[tubemonkey]

Audible has a series of free introductions for 17 works by Charles Dickens. They're written and narrated by David Timson and published by Naxos Audiobooks. They range in length from 20 to 39 min.

FREE -- The Novels of Charles Dickens: An Introduction -- David Timson

1. A Christmas Carol -- 29 min
2. A Tale of Two Cities -- 25 min
3. Barnaby Rudge -- 30 min
4. Bleak House -- 28 min
5. David Copperfield -- 28 min
6. Dombey and Son -- 24 min
7. Great Expectations -- 25 min
8. Hard Times -- 25 min
9. Little Dorrit -- 31 min
10. Martin Chuzzlewit -- 24 min
11. Nicholas Nickleby -- 39 min
12. Oliver Twist -- 27 min
13. Our Mutual Friend -- 35 min
14. Sketches by Boz -- 28 min
15. The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- 32 min
16. The Old Curiosity Shop -- 20 min
17. The Pickwick Papers -- 28 min

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible has a series of free introductions for 17 works by Charles Dickens. They're written and narrated by David Timson and published by Naxos Audiobooks. They range in length from 20 to 39 min.

FREE -- The Novels of Charles Dickens: An Introduction -- David Timson

They are also available here DRM-free from the publisher. You can get them individually or as a single .zip file.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

They are also available here DRM-free from the publisher. You can get them individually or as a single .zip file.

Thanks - even better

[badgoodDeb]

Do you know if these are "Clif Notes" kind of things? Or just intros? Some books I'd love to get the clifnotes and not have to read the whole book!

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Do you know if these are "Clif Notes" kind of things? Or just intros? Some books I'd love to get the clifnotes and not have to read the whole book!

The only one I've listened to was A Christmas Carol. If I remember correctly, there was some background info followed by excerpts from the audiobook; which pretty much covered the entire book.

Give A Christmas Carol a listen since you already know that one.

[Catlady]

These have been available for a while. They consist of a rather brief synopsis and comments by David Timson, followed by maybe a half dozen brief excerpts from the Naxos editions of the audiobooks. I was on a Dickens kick earlier this year and after I'd finish one of the books, I'd listen to Timson.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

These have been available for a while. They consist of a rather brief synopsis and comments by David Timson, followed by maybe a half dozen brief excerpts from the Naxos editions of the audiobooks. I was on a Dickens kick earlier this year and after I'd finish one of the books, I'd listen to Timson.

They came out in 2012 to help commemorate Dickens' 200th birthday.