FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[tubemonkey]

LearnOutLoud -- Free Audiobook of the Month -- exp 31 Mar


FREE -- Great American Presidents -- Wikipedia / Tony LaHood, Jon Reiss (3.5 hrs) --> R= 3.8

Bios & Memoirs > Political Figures

LearnOutLoud's Great American Presidents collects four biographies of some of America's most celebrated leaders. Here we journey through history, as we examine the lives of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Beginning with Washington's story as he formulates the presidency and ending with FDR's firm command during the Second World War, this audiobook offers American history as seen through the lense of the men that helped shape its course. These biographies are the Wikipedia articles for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 05 Mar @ 11:59pm ET


$1.95 -- Really Professional Internet Person -- Jenn McAllister / J McAllister (5.5 hrs) --> R= 4.8

Arts & Entertainment > TV & Film

Through her pranks, sketches, and videos about everyday life, Jenn has become a mouthpiece for millennials and one of YouTube's fastest rising stars!

Jenn McAllister, better known as JennxPenn, has been obsessed with making videos since she found her parents' video camera at the age of eight. A shy child, Jenn turned to film because, unlike with life, you can always have a do-over.

Really Professional Internet Person offers both an insider's guide to building a successful YouTube channel and an intimate portrait of the surreality of insta-fame and the harsh reality of high school. Brimming with honesty, heart, and Jenn's patented sense of humor, Really Professional Internet Person features top 10 lists, photos, screenshots, social media posts, and never-before-posted stories chronicling Jenn's journey from an anxious middle schooler just trying to fit in to a YouTube sensation unafraid to stand out.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 05 Mar


$6.95 -- Dead I Well May Be -- Adrian McKinty / Gerard Doyle (12.4 hrs) --> R= 4.1


Note: also available as a Whispersync deal for $4.49, if you already own or borrow the Kindle ebook.

Mysteries & Thrillers > Suspense

Series: Michael Forsythe, book 1

In this graphically violent novel, Michael Forsythe, a young illegal immigrant from Northern Ireland, joins a gang of thugs in New York. But when Darkey, the gang boss, is betrayed, he is murderously intent on planning a very hard fall for young Michael.

"I didn't want to go to America, I didn't want to work for Darkey White. I had my reasons. But I went."

So admits Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping the troubles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. But young Michael is strong and fearless and clever, just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a crime boss, to join a gang of Irish thugs struggling against the rising Dominican powers in Harlem and the Bronx. The time is pre-Giuliani New York, when crack rules the city, squatters live furtively in ruined buildings, and hundreds are murdered each month. Michael and his lads tumble through the streets, shaking down victims, drinking hard, and fighting for turf, block by bloody block.

Dodgy and observant, not to mention handy with a pistol, Michael is soon anointed by Darkey as his rising star. Meanwhile Michael has very inadvisably seduced Darkey's girl, Bridget, saucy, fickle, and irresistible. Michael worries that he's being followed, that his affair with Bridget will be revealed. He's right to be anxious; when Darkey discovers the affair, he plans a very hard fall for young Michael, a gambit devilish in its guile, murderous in its intent.

But Darkey fails to account for Michael's toughness and ingenuity or the possibility that he might wreak terrible vengeance upon those who would betray him.

A natural storyteller with a gift for dialogue, McKinty introduces to readers a stunning new noir voice, dark and stylish, mythic and violent, complete with an Irish lilt.

Don't miss these other noir thrillers in the Michael Forsythe series: The Dead Yard (Unabridged) and The Bloomsday Dead (Unabridged).

[GtrsRGr8]

I'd like to share my pick for the best listen/best value audio in the non-fiction choices in Audible's current $5.95 sale.

It is Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science, a course from The Great Courses company. It consists of 36 lectures of approximately 30 minutes each; that ends up being 18 hours and 6 minutes. It is rated 4.6 (695) at Audible and 4.5 (28) at The Great Courses' website.

I have bought lots of courses of theirs from them and Audible for quite a few years and except for one course (I didn't like the topic as much as I thought that I would), I thought that all of the ones that I have listened to thus far were excellent. I have not bought and listened to this one, but it is in my shopping cart at Audible right now.

Folks, this course is regularly priced $219.95 at The Great Courses (it's that selling price currently)! That makes this course only 3% of the regular price at The Great Courses' website. "No one" ever buys at full price at The Great Courses (okay, maybe Bill Gates (who does purchase and listen to The Great Courses' courses)), however. There are always sales of one kind or another at which you can purchase them for much less. But you see the point. At Audible, the regular price is $51.95 (just one credit, however). But even at that price, the sale price of this course is only 11% of what you would ordinarily pay for it at Audible. Do you see why this is my pick for the "best value" in the Audible sale?

As if that is not enough of a deal, The Great Courses throws in an ebook, too. It's the Course Guidebook, in pdf format. I've found them to be extremely helpful in courses that I've purchased.

Of course, for it to be a "best listen" for you, the course has to be on a topic that you're interested in. Here is the course description, from The Great Courses:
No subject is bigger than reality itself, and nothing is more challenging to understand, since what counts as reality is undergoing continual revision and has been for centuries. For example, the matter that comprises all stars, planets, and living things turns out to be just a fraction of what actually exists. Moreover, we think that we control our actions, but data analytics can predict, with astonishing accuracy, when we will wake up, what we will buy, and even whom we will marry.

The quest to pin down what's real and what's illusory is both philosophical and scientific, a metaphysical search for ultimate reality that goes back to the ancient Greeks. For the last 400 years, this search has been increasingly guided by scientists, who create theories and test them in order to define and redefine reality. And we have developed the power to alter our own reality in major ways - to defeat diseases, compensate for disabilities, and augment our intellect with computers. Where is that trend going?

Experience the thrill of this exciting quest in 36 wide-ranging lectures that touch on many aspects of the ceaseless search for reality. From the birth of the universe to brain science, discover that separating the real from the illusory is an exhilarating intellectual adventure.

Scientists and philosophers are not alone in grappling, at an intellectual level, with reality. Some of the most accessible interpretations are by painters, novelists, filmmakers, and other artists whose works not only draw on the latest discoveries but also sometimes inspire them. Explore examples such as Alice in Wonderland, pointillism, cubism, surrealism, and reality TV.

And since dealing with reality is an experience we all share, this course is designed for people of all backgrounds.

This and much more information, including a list of the lectures and a description of each one (by mouse rollover) is at the webpage at The Great Courses for this course.

Here is the direct link to the course's webpage at Audible.

Remember: the sale ends at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on March 6.

[GtrsRGr8]

I just posted, on the Non-Fiction thread, information about a sale that RosettaBooks has going on now on biographies and memoirs.

Three of the books have great Whispersync deals on them now because of the drops in prices on the ebooks. I've posted already, on this thread, full information on Kurt Vonneguts' Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons. Here are two other books in this sale that have great Whispersync deals, along with the prices on the whole deals (ebooks + Whispersync audio companions):
Lawrence and the Arabs, by Robert Graves. $5.98.
The Magnificent Elmer: My Life with Elmer Bernstein, by Pearl Bernstein Gardner. $5.48.

Here's a linky that you can use.

[tubemonkey]

LAST DAY

• $5.95 -- Audible Members Only Sale (220 titles) -- exp 06 Mar --> details
• $6.00 -- Downpour $6 Sale (100 titles) -- exp 06 Mar --> details

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 06 Mar @ 11:59pm ET


$2.95 -- Broadcasting Happiness -- Michelle Gielan / Michelle Gielan (7.6 hrs) --> R= 4.6

Self Development > Motivation & Inspiration

Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change

We are all broadcasters. And the messages we choose to broadcast predict our success.

All of us constantly broadcast information to others, even when we don't say a word. Sales professionals broadcast to potential clients in a way that wins new business. Managers broadcast to their teams about projects. Colleagues broadcast to one another about available resources. The messages we choose to broadcast shape others' beliefs in the potential for success and their ability to create positive change.

Working as a CBS news anchor, Michelle Gielan saw how nonstop coverage of the 2009 recession left many viewers feeling paralyzed. She had an idea: a new interview series focused on positive psychology and creating happiness in the face of tragedy. "Happy Week” generated the greatest viewer response of the year.

In Broadcasting Happiness, Gielan shows us how our words can move people from fear-based mind-sets to positive mind-sets. Using scientifically proven communication strategies, we have the ability to increase others' happiness and success at work as well as our own, instantly making us more effective leaders.

Learn the seven keys of communicating more effectively to influence others and drive measurable results. Gielan, a happiness researcher and expert on positive communication, will teach you how to:

• Inoculate your brain against stress and negativity by fact checking challenges
• Drive success by leading a conversation or communication with positivity
• Rewrite debilitating thought patterns and turn them into fuel for resilience and growth
• Deal with negative people in a way that lessens their power
• Share bad news more effectively to increase future social capital
• Create and sustain a positive culture at work by creating contagious optimism

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 06 Mar


$4.99 -- Part Time Cowboy -- Maisey Yates / Lillian Thayer (9.7 hrs) --> R= 4.1

Romance > Contemporary

Series: Copper Ridge, book 1

A onetime bad girl comes home to small-town Oregon in the first in a sexy, heartfelt new series from USA TODAY bestselling author Maisey Yates

Sadie Miller isn't expecting any welcome-home parades on her return to Copper Ridge. Least of all from part-time rancher, full-time lawman Eli Garrett. The straitlaced, impossibly hot deputy sheriff glares at her as if she's the same teenage hoodlum who fled town ten years ago. But running from her demons has brought Sadie full circle, ready to make a commitment at last. Not to a man, but to a bed-and-breakfast. On Garrett land. Okay, so her plan has a tiny flaw…

Eli works too hard to let a blonde ball of trouble mess up his town. But keeping an eye on Sadie makes it tough to keep his hands off her. And if she's so wrong for him, why does being with her feel so right?

[tubemonkey]

LAST DAY -- Downpour

• $0.99 -- Rental of the Week --> Proto Zoa -- exp 07 Mar --> details
• $4.95 -- Deal of the Week --> Faceless Killers -- exp 07 Mar --> details
• SALE -- other Weekly Deals (7 titles) -- exp 07 Mar --> details

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 07 Mar @ 11:59pm ET


$4.95 -- White Heat -- MJ McGrath / Kate Reading (13.2 hrs) --> R= 3.8


Note: also available as a Whispersync deal for $3.99, if you already own or borrow the Kindle ebook.

Fiction > Contemporary

Series: Edie Kiglatuk, book 1

Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. But as a woman, she gets only grudging respect from the elders who rule her isolated community on Ellesmere Island. When a man is shot and killed while out on an “authentic” Arctic adventure under her watch, the murder attracts the attention of police sergeant Derek Palliser. As Edie sets out to discover what those tourists were really after, she is shocked by the suicide of someone very close to her. Though these events are seemingly unrelated, Edie’s Inuit hunter sensibility tells her otherwise. With or without Derek’s help, she is determined to find the key to this connection—a search that takes her beyond her small village and into the far reaches of the tundra.

White Heat is a stunning debut novel set in an utterly foreign culture amid an unforgiving landscape of ice and rock, of spirit ancestors and never-rotting bones. A suspense-filled adventure story that will captivate fans of Henning Mankell’s bestselling mysteries, this book marks the start of an exciting new series.

[tubemonkey]

Audible -- Win Your Wish List -- exp 13 Mar

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. AFFIDAVIT OF ELIGIBILITY / RELEASE OF LIABILITY / PRIZE ACCEPTANCE AGREEMENT REQUIRED. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Must be a legal resident of the 50 United States or D.C., 18 or older. Entry period: 3/7/2016 – 3/13/2016. Limit one entry per person and email address. Odds depend on number of eligible entries received. See Official Rules for details.

After we confirm the winners, we will post the winners' names on the Official Rules page until September 1, 2016.

PRIZES. We will award ten prizes to ten winners (one prize per winner). Each prize consists of up to $300 in credit for Audible audiobooks from the winner’s Audible wish list (the “Prize”).
Each winner must have or create an Amazon.com or Audible.com account (which requires acceptance of the Audible.com Conditions of Use available at http://www.audible.com/conditions-of-use) in order to add titles to his or her wish list and access and download the Audible audiobooks. Creating an Amazon.com or Audible.com account and adding titles to an Audible wish list is free. The approximate retail value (“ARV”) of all Prizes is $3,000.00.

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 08 Mar @ 11:59pm ET


$4.95 -- The Feminine Mystique -- Betty Friedan / Parker Posey (15.7 hrs) --> R= 4.1

Classics > Nonfiction

First published in 1963, The Feminine Mystique ignited a revolution that profoundly changed our culture, our consciousness, and our lives. Today it newly penetrates to the heart of issues determining our lives - and sounds a call to arms against the very real dangers of a new feminine mystique. The underlying issues raised by Betty Friedan strike at the core of the problems women still face at home and in the marketplace. As women continue to struggle for equality, to keep their hard-won gains, to find fulfillment in their careers, marriages, and families, The Feminine Mystique remains the seminal consciousness-raising work of our times.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Betty Friedan's book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview added to your library.

This production is part of our Audible Modern Vanguard line, a collection of important works from groundbreaking authors.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 08 Mar


$5.95 -- Roman Pilgrimage-- George Weigel / Bob Souer (11.7 hrs) --> R= 4.5


Note: also available as a Whispersync deal for $4.99, if you already own or borrow the Kindle ebook.

Visual Arts > Religious & Spiritual

Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches

In recent decades, Americans in Rome have revived an ancient Christian custom: the daily pilgrimage to dozens of Rome's most striking churches during Lent and Easter Week. Along this historical and spiritual pathway, pilgrims encounter hidden artistic wonders and treasured Christian commentaries while also confronting the great mysteries of the Christian faith through a program of biblical and early Christian readings. The itinerary of the Roman station church pilgrimage offers Christians an opportunity to reflect on their religion and ponder the quality of their discipleship.

In Roman Pilgrimage, best-selling theologian George Weigel, art historian Elizabeth Lev, and photographer Stephen Weigel guide listeners along this religious and aesthetic journey with gorgeous photographs and revealing essays on the pilgrimage's art, architecture, and liturgies.

A reminder of the call for renewal and conversion during each Lenten season, Roman Pilgrimage reflects on the deepest truths of Christianity and the exquisite beauty of the station churches of Rome.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Nook Daily Find -- exp 08 Mar


$5.95 -- Roman Pilgrimage-- George Weigel / Bob Souer (11.7 hrs) --> R= 4.5


Note: also available as a Whispersync deal for $4.99, if you already own or borrow the Kindle ebook.

Just a passing comment to anyone who might be interested in this: the book (which is quite hefty) has many beautiful color plates which relate to the text. IMO, you'd want the book in conjunction with the audiobook and if an ebook, to be read on a tablet; but this is one of those cases where I think you'd be better served by the paper book.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by issybird

Just a passing comment to anyone who might be interested in this: the book (which is quite hefty) has many beautiful color plates which relate to the text. IMO, you'd want the book in conjunction with the audiobook and if an ebook, to be read on a tablet; but this is one of those cases where I think you'd be better served by the paper book.

Kindle ebook is $20.60 and hardcover is $21.68