FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[Froide]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Thanks, but to me, it's no big deal. I never liked the karma system.

Anyway, I haz bananas to give away. Lots and lots of bananas.

Love, love, love the picture! (It's timely, since I"m on a liquid diet this week, and so I am consuming lotsa banana-based smoothies.)

This song does NOT apply "Yes! We Have No Bananas".

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Froide

Love, love, love the picture! (It's timely, since I"m on a liquid diet this week, and so I am consuming lotsa banana-based smoothies.)

This is also a liquid diet...

...it has secret ingredient... hic...

[Froide]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

This is also a liquid diet...

...it has secret ingredient... hic...

Tee hee! Just the trick for a feeling no pain banana diet. When I can eat solid foods again, maybe I'll break the fast with Drunk Banana Cake.

Folks unamused by Monkey's and my witty repartee and anxious to get back on topic: get thyselves to an audiobookery, and pick (get it?) a fresh audiobook about bananas.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 30 Mar @ 11:59pm ET


$0.99 -- A Doll's House -- Henrik Ibsen/ full cast --> 2.2 hrs/ R-4.2 --> classic drama

A new recording of Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece, starring Calista Flockhart. Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora's well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsen's play is as fresh today as it was when it first stormed the stages of 19th-century Europe.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Calista Flockhart as Nora Helmer; Tony Abatemarco as Dr. Rank; Tim Dekay as Torvald Helmer; Jeannie Elias as Anne-Marie and Helene; Gregory Itzin as Nils Krogstad; Jobeth Williams as Mrs. Linde. Translated by Rolf Fjelde. Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded before a live audience at the James Bridges Theater at UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.

Note: these productions are also available on other platforms (Audible, Downpour, OverDrive); including $0.99 apps (Google, iTunes). See this post for additional information.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 30 Mar


$4.95 -- Walking with Jesus -- Pope Francis/ Paul Michael --> 4.2 hrs/ R-4.7 --> Christianity


Whispersync: the Audible book is $4.49, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($11.82)

Walking with Jesus - A Way Forward for the Church

Two thousand years ago, Jesus said, "Follow me." What if the 21st-century Church actually heeded that call? What would the world look like if the Church were truly on the move? Simply put, very different. But these ponderings beg one more critical question: What exactly should the Church be moving toward?

In Walking with Jesus: A Way Forward for the Church, Pope Francis' own words lead us to the answer. Francis urges us to make Jesus central in our individual lives and in the collective life of the Church - to walk toward him and ultimately to walk with him at all times and in all places.

With a foreword by Archbishop of Chicago Blase J. Cupich, Pope Francis' first major appointment in the United States, Walking with Jesus offers the Church a much-needed way forward, past its inner and outer walls, as it fearlessly follows Christ toward the future.

[tubemonkey]

Kindle Daily Deals (3 titles) -- exp 30 Mar

Note: the Audible books are available at this price, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebooks ($2~$3)

• $1.99 -- She Has Your Eyes -- Elisa Lorello/ Cynthia Barrett --> 10.1 hrs/ R-3.8 --> chick lit
• $3.99 -- Exclusive -- Fern Michaels/ Natalie Ross --> 7.6 hrs/ R-4.2 --> contemp
• $11.99 -- Above the Waterfall -- Ron Rash/ Ferrone, Gilbert --> 5.5 hrs/ R-3.7 --> literary

She Has Your Eyes --> Andi Cutrone (book 3 of 3)

"What's a marriage license going to give us that we don’t already have?" "Proof," he said. "Of what?" "That we're a family." Andi and David have settled happily into Andi's Northampton home, but David wants more. He wants them to get married. But their discussion is put on hold when Wylie, a fifteen-year-old girl, shows up in their backyard, bearing news that takes David’s mind off the future and sends it spiraling into the past. Reeling from David's news, Andi receives a startling announcement of her own, one that leads to a relationship with her estranged mother. As Andi and her mother get closer and Wylie weaves her way into their lives, Andi finds solace in an old comfort: her ex-fiancé. With the past threatening to eclipse their future, the timing for a wedding is all wrong. But if Andi knows anything about timing, it's that there's no time to waste.

Exclusive --> Godmothers (book 2 of 7)

When Toots Loudenberry relocated to Los Angeles from South Carolina to be near her daughter, Abby, she expected to bump into the occasional celebrity. She just never expected them to be dead. Meanwhile, Toots, Sophie, and Mavis are concerned that the prestigious Dr. Sameer’s budding romance with Ida may have something to do with his ailing bank balance. And Abby’s attempted makeover of the celebrity magazine The Informer into the most talked-about tabloid in town could end more than just her career. But the Godmothers wouldn’t be the Godmothers if they weren’t pulling a few behind-the-scenes strings, and Abby’s hopes of changing the fortunes of The Informer are still alive. Yet it’ll take an assist from a source no one could have predicted, let alone see, to secure a story that will shake Tinseltown to its very core Fairies, they're not: listen to another Godmothers title.

Above the Waterfall

In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times best-selling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land. Les, a longtime sheriff just three weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and his own duplicity in his small Appalachian town. Becky, a park ranger with a harrowing past, finds solace amid the lyrical beauty of this patch of North Carolina. Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have indelibly marked them, they are drawn together by a reverence for the natural world. When an irascible elderly local is accused of poisoning a trout stream, Les and Becky are plunged into deep and dangerous waters, forced to navigate currents of disillusionment and betrayal that will force them to question themselves and test their tentative bond - and threaten to carry them over the edge. Echoing the heartbreaking beauty of William Faulkner and the spiritual isolation of Carson McCullers, Above the Waterfall demonstrates once again the prodigious talent of "a gorgeous, brutal writer" (Richard Price) hailed as "one of the great American authors at work today" (Janet Maslin, New York Times).

[Shane R]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I've scooped the 'monkey!

Ugh. Hope you wore gloves.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Shane R

Ugh. Hope you wore gloves.

I'm trying to erase that image from my mind.

[tubemonkey]

Kindle Monthly Deal --> exp 31 Mar

Whispersync: the Audible book is $3.99, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($2.99)


$3.99 -- The Eerie Silence -- Paul Davies/ George K Wilson --> 10.2 hrs/ R-4.1 --> astronomy

The Eerie Silence - Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). But after a half century of scanning the skies, astronomers have little to report but an eerie silence---eerie because many scientists are convinced that the universe is teeming with life. The problem, argues leading physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies, is that we've been looking in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in the wrong way. Davies should know. For more than three decades, he has been closely involved with SETI and now chairs the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup, charged with deciding what to do if we're confronted with evidence of alien intelligence. In this extraordinary book, he shows how SETI has lost its edge, then offers a new and exciting road map for the future.

Davies believes that our search so far has been overly anthropocentric: we tend to assume an alien species will look, think, and behave like us. He argues that we need to be far more expansive in our efforts, and in this book he completely redefines the search, challenging existing ideas of what form an alien intelligence might take, how it might try to communicate with us, and how we should respond if we ever do make contact. A provocative and mind-expanding journey, The Eerie Silence will thrill fans of science and science fiction alike.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Shane R

Ugh. Hope you wore gloves.

Ain't going there

[tubemonkey]

Kindle Monthly Deal --> exp 31 Mar

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


$1.99 -- The Short Drop -- Matthew FitzSimmons/ James P Cronin --> 11.9 hrs/ R-4.3 --> espionage

A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard - then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency - disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation's history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession.

For legendary hacker and marine Gibson Vaughn, the case is personal - Suzanne Lombard had been like a sister to him. On the tenth anniversary of her disappearance, the former head of Benjamin Lombard's security asks for Gibson's help in a covert investigation of the case, with new evidence in hand.

Haunted by tragic memories, he jumps at the chance to uncover what happened all those years ago. Using his military and technical prowess, he soon discovers multiple conspiracies surrounding the Lombard family - and he encounters powerful, ruthless political players who will do anything to silence him and his team. With new information surfacing that could threaten Lombard's bid for the presidency, Gibson must stay one step ahead as he navigates a dangerous web to get to the truth.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Froide

Love, love, love the picture! (It's timely, since I"m on a liquid diet this week, and so I am consuming lotsa banana-based smoothies.)

This song does NOT apply "Yes! We Have No Bananas".

I fixed your YouTube link. To properly add a YouTube video, copy/paste the part between the "=" and "&" in the URL; then wrap it with the YouTube tag.

URL --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HygopC4S5W0

Copy/Paste --> HygopC4S5W0

Wrap --> YOUTUBE]HygopC4S5W0[/YOUTUBE

[Froide]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I fixed your YouTube link. To properly add a YouTube video, copy/paste the part between the "=" and "&" in the URL; then wrap it with the YouTube tag.

URL --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HygopC4S5W0

Copy/Paste --> HygopC4S5W0

Wrap --> YOUTUBE]HygopC4S5W0[/YOUTUBE

Thanks, Monkey!

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 31 Mar @ 11:59pm ET


$2.95 -- Shelter -- Harlan Coben/ Nick Podehl --> 7.3 hrs/ R-4.1 --> mystery


Whispersync: the Audible book is $2.95, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($8.99)

Shelter --> Mickey Bolitar (book 1 of 3)

Mickey Bolitar’s year can’t get much worse. After witnessing his father’s death and sending his mom to rehab, he’s forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools.

A new school comes with new friends and new enemies, and lucky for Mickey, it also comes with a great new girlfriend, Ashley. For a while, it seems like Mickey’s train wreck of a life is finally improving - until Ashley vanishes without a trace. Unwilling to let another person walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley’s trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that this seemingly sweet, shy girl isn’t who she claimed to be. And neither was Mickey’s father. Soon, Mickey learns about a conspiracy so shocking that it makes high school drama seem like a luxury - and leaves him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew.

First introduced to readers in Harlan Coben’s latest adult novel, Live Wire, Mickey Bolitar is as quick-witted and clever as his uncle Myron, and eager to go to any length to save the people he cares about.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 31 Mar


$3.99 -- On Calvary's Hill -- Max Lucado/ Ben Holland --> 2.3 hrs/ R-5.0 --> Christianity


Whispersync: the Audible book is $9.49, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($6.99)

On Calvary's Hill - 40 Readings for the Easter Season

It's early in the final week. The props and players for Friday's drama are in position. Five-inch spikes are in the bin. A cross-beam leans against a shed wall. The players are nearing the stage - Pilate, Annas and Caiaphas, Judas, the centurions. Players and props. Only this is no play; it's a divine plan. A plan begun before Adam felt heaven's breath, and now all heaven waits and watches. All eyes are on one figure - the Nazarene. Commonly clad. Uncommonly focused. He's on his final journey.

Join best-selling author Max Lucado in an exploration of the final days in the life of Christ. Draw near to the Savior and prepare to celebrate the greatest miracle ever conceived. Feel the passion. Sense the truth. Hear the promise. Death has no power.