FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[tubemonkey]

Monthly Whispersync Deals -- exp 31 Mar

Amazon Whispersync / Kindle eBooks / Whispersync Info

Note: the Audible book is available at this price, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook


Free Monthly Offer

• FREE -- Black Beauty -- Anna Sewell/ S Vance --> 5.1 hrs/ R-4.4 --> childrens classic

Kindle Monthly Deals (172 titles) --> details

• $1.99 -- A Fall of Moondust -- Arthur C Clarke/ O Wyman --> 8.1 hrs/ R-3.9 --> sci-fi classic
• $3.99 -- Ireland -- Frank Delaney/ F Delaney --> 19.5 hrs/ R-4.1 --> historical fiction
• $0.99 -- The Outer Rims -- Clint Morey/ N Podehl --> 8.5 hrs/ R-3.9 --> sci-fi thriller
• $3.99 -- Agent Garbo -- Stephan Talty/ C Wade --> 8.9 hrs/ R-4.3 --> WWII history
• $3.99 -- Frozen in Time -- Mitchell Zuckoff/ M Zuckoff --> 9.0 hrs/ R-4.2 --> WWII history
• $3.99 -- Stuff Matters -- Mark Miodownik/ M Page --> 6.6 hrs/ R-4.3 --> science
• $3.99 -- Rosemary -- Kate Clifford Larson/ B Dunne --> 7.7 hrs/ R-4.3 --> biography
• $3.99 -- The Eerie Silence -- Paul Davies/ GK Wilson --> 10.2 hrs/ R-4.1 --> astronomy
• $1.99 -- The Short Drop -- Matthew FitzSimmons/ JP Cronin --> 11.9 hrs/ R-4.3 --> espionage

50 Kindle Books for $2 (38 titles) --> details


Kindle Countdown Deals (26 titles) --> details


Kindle First -- Mar 2016 --> details

• $1.99 -- The Big Fear -- Andrew Case/ P Berkrot --> 8.4 hrs/ R-4.0 --> mystery
• $1.99 -- The Queen's Poisoner -- Jeff Wheeler/ K Rudd --> 10.4 hrs/ R-4.5 --> fantasy
• $1.99 -- Orchids and Stone -- Lisa Preston/ C Dukehart --> 9.4 hrs/ R-3.6 --> mystery
• $1.99 -- Light of the Fireflies -- Paul Pen/ S Merriman --> 10.3 hrs/ R-4.1 --> mystery

Kindle for Samsung -- Mar 2016 --> details

• $1.99 -- Mercy of the Night -- David Corbett/ D de Vries --> 10.4 hrs/ R-3.8 --> suspense
• $1.99 -- Through the Smoke -- Brenda Novak/ J Eyre --> 9.7 hrs/ R-4.0 --> romance

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[tubemonkey]

Kindle Monthly Deals (172 titles) --> exp 31 Mar


$1.99 -- A Fall of Moondust -- Arthur C Clarke/ Oliver Wyman --> 8.1 hrs/ R-3.9 --> sci-fi classic

Whispersync: the Audible book is $1.99, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($1.99)

Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, A Fall of Moondust is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension by the field's foremost author.

$3.99 -- Ireland -- Frank Delaney/ Frank Delaney --> 19.5 hrs/ R-4.1 --> historical fiction

Whispersync: the Audible book is $3.99, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($1.99)

One evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller arrives unannounced at a house in the Irish countryside. In exchange for a bed and a warm meal, he invites his hosts and their neighbors to join him by the wintry fireside, and begins to tell formative stories of Ireland's history. Ronan, a 9-year-old boy, grows so entranced by the storytelling that, when the old man leaves abruptly under mysterious circumstances, the boy devotes himself to finding him again.

Ronan's search for the Storyteller becomes both a journey of self-discovery, long unspoken family secrets, and an immersion into the sometimes conflicting histories of his native land.

A sweeping novel of huge ambition, Ireland is the beautifully told story of a remarkable nation. It rings with the truth of a writer passionate about his country and in full command of his craft.

[Catlady]

Free audiobook from AmericanCatholic.org: The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering, by Daniel P. Horan.

Much has been written on the last words of Jesus, the traditional phrases taken from Scripture that depict the final moments of Jesus’s life as he dies on the cross.

In this new take on the last words, author Daniel P. Horan, OFM, brings a fresh perspective to this time-honored meditation as he challenges readers to look at their lives through the lens of Jesus’s suffering and death. Though interlaced with suffering, the focus throughout is on the immense love of God for human beings, shown in the gift of Jesus, God made flesh.

Requires e-mail address to get the download.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Free audiobook from AmericanCatholic.org: The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering, by Daniel P. Horan.

Requires e-mail address to get the download.

Thanks - added to OP

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 22 Mar @ 11:59pm ET


$3.95 -- Never Broken -- Jewel / Jewel --> 10.4 hrs / 4.5 stars

Genre: Bios & Memoirs > Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Title: Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

New York Times best-selling poet and multiplatinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventional upbringing and extraordinary life in an inspirational memoir that covers her childhood, rise to fame, marriage, and motherhood.

When Jewel's first album, Pieces of You, topped the charts in 1995, her emotional voice and vulnerable performance were groundbreaking. In the tradition of Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell (she has been compared to both), a singer-songwriter of her kind had not emerged in decades. Now, with over 30 million albums sold worldwide, Jewel tells the story of her life and the lessons learned from her experience and her music.

Living on a homestead in Alaska, Jewel learned to yodel at age three and joined her parents' act, working in hotels, honky-tonks, and biker bars. Behind a strong-willed and independent family life, with an emphasis on music and artistic talent, was also instability, abuse, and trauma.

At age 15 Jewel was accepted into the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, where she began writing her own songs as a means of expression. She was 18, homeless, and living out of her car in San Diego when a radio DJ aired a bootleg version of one of her songs. It was requested in the top-10 countdown, something unheard of for an unsigned artist. By age 21, her debut album went multiplatinum.

There is so much more to Jewel's story, one complicated by family and financial woes, by crippling fear and insecurity, by parents who forced a child to grow up far too quickly, and by the extraordinary circumstances in which she became a world-famous singer and songwriter. Here Jewel reflects on how she survived and how writing songs, poetry, and prose have saved her life many times over. She writes beautifully about the natural wonders of Alaska, about pain and childhood trauma, and about discovering her own identity years after the entire world had discovered the beauty of her songs.

[avantman42]

Audible UK is having a members-only sale, "up to 40% off every book". Sale ends 10am, 27th March.

[tubemonkey]

Whispersync Daily Deals (4 titles) -- exp 22 Mar

• Aud= $3.99 / Kin= $1.99 --> Pretty Baby -- M Kubica / C Campbell; et al --> suspense
• Aud= $2.99 / Kin= $0.99 --> Celebration -- F Michaels/ L Merlington --> romance
• Aud= $3.99 / Kin= $2.99 --> Chasing Justice -- HT Griffin / SR Grimsley --> thriller
• Aud= $1.99 / Kin= $1.99 --> Fountains of Paradise -- AC Clarke / M Vietor --> sci-fi

Note: the Audible book is available at this price, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook.

Pretty Baby (12.1 hrs/ 4.1 stars) --> Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: She works for a nonprofit and takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal - or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home.

Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow's past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she's willing to go to help a stranger. What begins as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated.

Celebration (13.2 hrs/ 4.2 stars) --> Kristine Kelly married her high-school sweetheart, followed him around the globe for the 20 years of his military career, then preceded him back home to start life anew on their farm in Virginia. But her husband never came home. And her bank accounts were suddenly empty. Kristine was alone, with three children to raise and only a memory of a lifetime of love.

From the bottom up, Kristine rebuilds her life, her career, her family, even finding a new love....Until the day her husband suddenly reappears and casts her life into chaos once more.

Chasing Justice (10.6 hrs/ 4.1 stars) --> Matt Royal is going back to the courtroom. He has agreed to defend his good friend and wife of Longboat Key's police chief. Abby Lester has been charged with the murder of Nate Bannister, an unlikeable, shady character. He was found shot to death in his downtown Sarasota condo, and the evidence points to Abby as the killer.

Matt cannot refuse Abby's pleas for help, despite having retired from the practice of law several years earlier. Now he must face a hotshot prosecuting attorney with a record of 22 wins and zero losses in murder trials. As Matt begins to investigate, he finds that nothing is what it seems. Police, politicians, academics, real estate moguls, and other powerful forces are tied together in a cauldron of issues that Matt must untangle to get at the truth. Can he rekindle his legal skills and outwit the prosecution pitted against him? Matt knows he must, as the life of his friend hangs in the balance.

The Fountains of Paradise (8.5 hrs/ 4.0 stars) --> Vannemar Morgan's dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all time: a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgans Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 22 Mar


$5.95 -- The King's Bed -- Don Jordan, Michael Walsh / Steve West --> 12.5 hrs / not rated

Genre: Bios & Memoirs > Political Figures > England

Title: The King’s Bed: Sex and Power in the Court of Charles II

From two veteran historians comes an intelligent and spirited history of Charles II's dissolute life and surprising legacy. To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends, courtiers, and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated throughout the kingdom. Charles spent most of his wealth and his intellect on gaining and keeping the company of women, from the lowest of society such as the actress Nell Gwyn to the aristocratic Louise de Kérouaille. Some of Charles' women played their part in the affairs of state, coloring the way the nation was run.

The authors take us inside Charles' palace, where we will meet court favorites, amusing confidants, advisors jockeying for political power, mistresses past and present, as well as key figures in Charles' inner circle, including his "pimpmasters" and his personal pox doctor.

The astonishing personal life of Charles II reveals much about the man he was and why he lived and ruled as he did. The King's Bed tells the compelling story of a king ruled by his passion.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 28 Mar


$0.99 -- Pack -- Jeaniene Frost / Tavia Gilbert --> 1.6 hrs / 4.3 stars --> 30 day rental


Note: also available as a Whispersync deal for $2.99, if you already own or borrow the Kindle ebook.

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Lost in the woods...

Marlee Peters is tired of putting her dreams on hold. So when her friends can't continue on a long-anticipated hike through Yellowstone National Park, she goes on without them. But Marlee isn't alone in the woods: She is being hunted by a pack of frighteningly intelligent wolves. When a fight for survival takes an impossible turn, Marlee realizes that the enigmatic stranger who saves her might be her dream come true - or her waking nightmare.

Big, bad wolf...

As the pack's enforcer, Daniel has sworn to keep the existence of werewolves a secret. He knows that Marlee's bites may change her life in a way she can't imagine, but if they don't, he can't let her tell others about his race. Yet Marlee is awakening Daniel's most primal urges, and soon neither one of them will be able to resist the call of the wild.

[Catlady]

If you like suspense and twisty domestic thrillers, one of the Kindle deals today is Pretty Baby, by Mary Kubica, for $1.99; it's only another $3.99 to add the Audible narration.

A chance encounter sparks an unrelenting web of lies in this stunning new psychological thriller from national best-selling author Mary Kubica.

Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: She works for a nonprofit and takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal - or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home.

Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow's past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she's willing to go to help a stranger. What begins as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated.

I enjoyed this even more than Kubica's first book, The Good Girl.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 28 Mar


$5.95 -- The Queen of the Night -- Alexander Chee / Lisa Flanagan --> 19.1 hrs / 4.1 stars


Note: also available as a Whispersync deal for $3.47, if you already own or borrow the Kindle ebook.

Genre: Historical Fiction > French

From a ferociously talented writer, praised as "the fire, in my opinion. And the light" by Junot Diaz, comes a blazing portrait of one woman's rise from courtesan to world-renowned diva.

Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer's chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all.

As she mines her memories for clues, she recalls her life as an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept up into the glitzy, gritty world of Second Empire Paris. To survive, she transformed herself from hippodrome rider to courtesan, from empress' maid to debut singer, all the while weaving a complicated web of romance, obligation, and political intrigue.

Featuring a cast of characters drawn from history, The Queen of the Night follows Lilliet as she moves closer to the truth behind the mysterious opera and the role that could secure her reputation - or destroy her with the secrets it reveals.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Weekly Deals -- exp 28 Mar

• $3.95 -- The Sun is God -- A McKinty/ G Doyle --> 7.7 hrs/ R-3.5 --> historical mystery
• $6.95 -- What is the What -- D Eggers/ D Graham --> 20.5 hrs/ R-4.1 --> literary fiction
• $4.99 -- Boy in the Water -- S Dobyns/ G Newbern --> 14.9 hrs/ R-3.7 --> psych thriller
• $5.95 -- Hard Work -- R Williams; et al/ A Winter; et al --> 8.2 hrs/ R-4.3 --> sports bio
• $4.95 -- All This Life -- J Mohr/ M Andrews --> 9.0 hrs/ R-3.7 --> literary fiction
• $3.95 -- Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok -- B Waggoner/ R Chase --> 2.8 hrs/ R-4.1 --> hist fiction
• $5.95 -- Forensics -- V McDermid/ S Barron --> 11.3 hrs/ R-4.3 --> non-fic science

[skinmaan]

ChristianAudio has a 50% sale going on.

Use discount code "MARCH50" at checkout to get 50% off ANY single audiobook or audio Bible. This offer is limited to one use per customer and ends this Sunday (March 27th).

*Make sure you have only one item in your cart for this discount code to work.*

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Further details about the book --> starts 22 Mar

FREE -- Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery -- James Howe / Victor Garber (1.7 hrs) --> R= 4.2

I believe the freebie is active, BTW. (I can't see Facebook from work but I've seen posts noting the freebie elsewhere this afternoon.) It says 24 hours, but these generally last until the next big thing. If you want it I wouldn't wait, though.

skinmaan

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

I believe the freebie is active, BTW. (I can't see Facebook from work but I've seen posts noting the freebie elsewhere this afternoon.) It says 24 hours, but these generally last until the next big thing. If you want it I wouldn't wait, though.

skinmaan

Thanks - it be live