FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I didn't do it intentionally, but I have seen Dick Van Dyke portray Stan Laurel on several TV shows.

He did a skit on his own show--I tried finding it on Youtube, but no luck. I'm pretty sure it was the episode entitled "The Sam Pomerantz Scandals," from season 2.

But here's are a couple of clips of him now:

[ApK]

Originally Posted by Catlady

He did a skit on his own show--I tried finding it on Youtube, but no luck. I'm pretty sure it was the episode entitled "The Sam Pomerantz Scandals," from season 2.

It's apparently available free to watch on Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/30482
The skit starts right around the 14:00 minute mark.

[tubemonkey]

Penguin Random House Free Offers --> Apr 2016

• FREE -- Secret Garden -- FH Burnett/ F Hughes --> 8.4 hrs/ R-4.6 --> kids classic --> expired
• FREE -- Bunnicula -- J Howe/ V Garber --> 1.7 hrs/ R-4.2 --> kids mystery --> expired
• FREE -- Short Stories -- various/ various --> sci-fi, literary fiction, humor
• FREE -- LA Dead -- S Woods/ T Roberts --> 10.8 hrs/ R-4.3 --> suspense
• FREE -- Project Alpha -- DJ MacHale/ R Daymond --> 5.5 hrs/ R-4.8 --> kids sci-fi
• FREE -- Insanely Simple -- K Segall/ K Segall --> 7.1 hrs/ R-4.3 --> business
• FREE -- Blue Monday -- N French/ B Chalmers --> 11.2 hrs/ R-4.0 --> detective

Note: these free offers are subject to change without warning

Spoiler:

The Secret Garden --> details / details --> starts 21 Apr @ 12pm ET

Spoiler:

Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her as an orphan, Mary is sent to England to live with her reclusive uncle, Archibald Craven, at Misselthwaite Manor. Unloved and unloving, Mary wanders the desolate moors until one day she chances upon the door of a secret garden. What follows is one of the most beautiful tales of transformation in children's literature, as Mary her sickly and tyrannical cousin Colin and a peasant boy named Dickson secretly strive to make the garden bloom once more.

A unique blend of realism and magic, The Secret Garden remains a moving expression of every child's need to nurture and be nurtured—a story that has captured for all time the rare and enchanted world of childhood.

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery --> Bunnicula (book 1 of 7) --> details --> starts 22 Mar

Spoiler:

This story from the popular and critically acclaimed series has been read by the talented actor, Victor Garber. Now fans who can't get enough of the vampire bunny, Bunnicula, will have something new to add to their collections.

Beware the Hare! Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household, a suspicious looking bunny with unusual habits...and fangs!

Short Stories (7 titles)

Spoiler:

Part 1: Sci-Fi --> Summer People | Ava Wrestles the Alligator
Part 2: Literary --> Alphin Land | To Reach Japan | Tenth of December | Part 1
Part 3: Humor --> No One Goes to Heaven to See Dan Fogelberg

LA Dead --> Stone Barrington (book 6 of 37) --> details

Spoiler:

Cop-turned-lawyer-and-investigator Stone Barrington ventures out to the west coast-and out on a limb-in this "stylish whodunit" (Detroit News) filled with romance and murder.

Stone's trip to Venice -with a fiery Mafia princess- is cut short by a frantic phone call from half a world away. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar and has a former flame pining for Stone's help-in more ways than one...

Project Alpha --> Voyagers (book 1 of 6) --> details

Spoiler:

#1 New York Times bestseller D. J. MacHale launches this part sci-fi, all action adventure, multiplatform series.

Earth is about to go dark. Without a new power source, life as we know it will be toast. A global competition is under way to determine which four kids will join the secret mission that might just save us all. Project Alpha is a contest of physical challenges, mental puzzles, and strategic alliances. The battle is fierce. Who will lead the team? Who will pilot the most complicated space ship ever built? Who will be a friend? An enemy? And how will they survive over a year stuck on a space ship together?

Once chosen, the Voyagers will journey to the far reaches of space, collecting unique elements and facing unbelievable dangers. The future of our planet is in their hands. Sure, they’ll be the best in the world . . . but can they save the world?

The action is on the page, on your device, and out of this world! And you don't have long to wait, 6 books are coming all in one year!

Do you have what it takes to be a Voyager? Find out at VoyagersHQ.com

Insanely Simple: The Obsession that Drives Apple's Success

Spoiler:

Simplicity isn’t just a design principle at Apple—it’s a value that permeates every level of the organization. The obsession with Simplicity is what separates Apple from other technology companies. It’s what helped Apple recover from near death in 1997 to become the most valuable company on Earth in 2011.

Thanks to Steve Jobs’s uncompromising ways, you can see Simplicity in everything Apple does: the way it’s structured, the way it innovates, and the way it speaks to its customers.

It’s by crushing the forces of Complexity that the company remains on its stellar trajectory.

As ad agency creative director, Ken Segall played a key role in Apple’s resurrection, helping to create such critical marketing campaigns as Think different. By naming the iMac, he also laid the foundation for naming waves of i-products to come.

Segall has a unique perspective, given his years of experience creating campaigns for other iconic tech companies, including IBM, Intel, and Dell. It was the stark contrast of Apple’s ways that made Segall appreciate the power of Simplicity—and inspired him to help others benefit from it.

Blue Monday --> Frieda Klein (book 1 of 5)

Spoiler:

The stunning first book in a new series of psychological thrillers introducing an unforgettable London psychotherapist

Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. This attitude is reflected in her own life, which is an austere one of refuge, personal integrity, and order.

The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, Frieda cannot ignore the coincidence: one of her patients has been having dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A red-haired child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. She finds herself in the center of the investigation, serving as the reluctant sidekick of the chief inspector.

Drawing readers into a haunting world in which the terrors of the mind have spilled over into real life, Blue Monday introduces a compelling protagonist and a chilling mystery that will appeal to readers of dark crime fiction and fans of In Treatment and The Killing.

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[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

PRH has once again updated the TryAudiobooks.com website. "Killer Heat" is now gone. "Insanely Simple" and "Blue Monday" are still available. Added to the mix is:

• "L.A. Dead" by Stuart Woods (Fitness)
  
• "Voyagers: Project Alpha" by D.J. Machale (Family Travel)
  

You Never can tell when these will come or go, so if you're interested don't delay.

Thanks for posting - finally added to OP

I also consolidated all of the current free offers in post 828

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Per the latest PRH newsletter:

This means if you haven't gotten "Bunnicula" yet your days are numbered. I'll try and remember to post an update when the freebie goes live.

Thanks - added to OP and post 828
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[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Downpour is having a Thriller sale here. 80 titles, $5.95 each. Their sales usually last a week, but you never can tell.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks again - added to OP


I think I'm finally caught up.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 20 Apr @ 11:59pm ET

$2.95 -- The Girl from Krakow -- Alex Rosenberg/ Michael Page --> 13.6 hrs/ R-4.2 --> historical

Whispersync: the Audible book is $1.99, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($6.49)

It's 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store - marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the shadows of the oncoming war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so enormous that it could cost the Allies everything, even as it gives her the will to live. She must find a way both to keep her secret and to survive amid the chaos of Europe at war. Living by her wits among the Germans as their conquests turn to defeat, she seeks a way to prevent the inevitable doom of Nazism from making her one of its last victims. Can her passion and resolve outlast the most powerful evil that Europe has ever seen?

In an epic saga that spans from Paris in the '30s and Spain's Civil War to Moscow, Warsaw, and the heart of Nazi Germany, The Girl from Krakow follows one woman's battle for survival as entire nations are torn apart, never to be the same.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 20 Apr

$4.99 -- Citizens Creek -- Lalita Tademy/ multiple --> 15.5 hrs/ R-4.3 --> historical

Whispersync: the Audible book is $4.49, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($11.99)

The New York Times best-selling author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Cane River brings us the evocative story of a once-enslaved man who buys his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian Wars, and his granddaughter, who sustains his legacy of courage.

Cow Tom, born into slavery in Alabama in 1810 and sold to a Creek Indian chief before his 10th birthday, possessed an extraordinary gift: the ability to master languages. As the new country developed westward, and Indians, settlers, and blacks came into constant contact, Cow Tom became a key translator for his Creek master and was hired out to US military generals. His talent earned him money - but would it also grant him freedom? And what would become of him and his family in the aftermath of the Civil War and the Indian Removal westward?

Cow Tom's legacy lives on - especially in the courageous spirit of his granddaughter Rose. She rises to leadership of the family as they struggle against political and societal hostility intent on keeping blacks and Indians oppressed. But through it all, her grandfather's indelible mark of courage inspires her - in mind, in spirit, and in a family legacy that never dies.

Written in two parts portraying the parallel lives of Cow Tom and Rose, Citizens Creek is a beautifully rendered novel that takes the listener deep into a little known chapter of American history. It is a breathtaking tale of identity, community, family - and above all, the power of an individual's will to make a difference.

[tubemonkey]

Final Day -- Penguin Random House -- exp 20 Apr


FREE -- Bunnicula -- J Howe/ V Garber --> 1.7 hrs/ R-4.2 --> kids mystery --> details

Starting tomorrow, The Secret Garden will be PRH's next monthly giveaway --> details

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 20 Apr @ 11:59pm ET

$2.95 -- The Girl from Krakow -- Alex Rosenberg/ Michael Page --> 13.6 hrs/ R-4.2 --> historical

It seems like there's a trend at Audible to offer as Daily Deals books that were Kindle First e-book choices--I've noticed a few recently that I had considered and/or picked up.

[tubemonkey]

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[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Penguin Random House Free Offers -- Apr 2016
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Insanely Simple[/B] -- K Segall/ K Segall --> 7.1 hrs/ R-4.3 --> business[*][B]FREE --
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4.2 stars, from 169 reviews, at Amazon. I know what you're thinking, tube guy.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

It seems like there's a trend at Audible to offer as Daily Deals books that were Kindle First e-book choices--I've noticed a few recently that I had considered and/or picked up.

I was wondering why some of these titles sounded familiar.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

4.2 stars, from 169 reviews, at Amazon. I know what you're thinking, tube guy.

I'm thinking you like non-fiction books, like self-improvement and business

[ApK]

Has anyone gotten that "Voyagers: Project Alpha" download to work?
It won't for me.
I called PRH support, but haven't heard back yet.