FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

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Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 16 May

$4.95 -- Marine One -- James Huston/ Joe Barrett --> 12.5 hrs/ R-4.3 --> legal thriller

Whispersync: the Audible book is $3.49, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($7.99)

Late at night, the president rushes through the pounding rain to Marine One. His advisors plead with him not to fly, but he insists. He has arranged a meeting that only three people in his administration know about. In the midst of a brutal thunderstorm on the way to Camp David, Marine One crashes into a ravine, killing all aboard.

When the government blames the European manufacturer of the helicopter for killing the president, Mike Nolan, a Marine Corps Reserve helicopter pilot and trial attorney, is hired to defend the company. What begins as a criminal investigation soon becomes the highest-profile trial of the century, as the First Lady sues the company for wrongful death. To clear his client, Nolan must find out what really caused Marine One to crash, and why the president threw caution aside to go to a meeting no one seems to know about.

Marine One expertly mixes political intrigue with courtroom drama and fast-paced action.

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Title: INSATIABLE (A Sydney Rye Mystery, #3)
Genre: Fiction (Mystery/Crime).
Author(s): Emily Kimelman.
Price: $1.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $14.95 (1 credit).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.3 stars/249 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.5/19 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 303/7 hours and 41 minutes.
Narrator(s): Sonja Field.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-...ook/B00NMMB0EI.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/INSATIABLE-Sy.../dp/B00ASZSVYO.
Comments: There are 7 books in the Sydney Rye series; this is #3.
Book Description (Amazon):
Vigilante crime mystery with a dash of romance, reader’s call INSATIABLE “thrilling” . . . .

Private detective Sydney Rye is living a simple, disciplined life in London. But when a dangerous man from her past calls, Rye finds she cannot turn him away. Robert Maxim explains that the daughter of a powerful friend has gone missing and he wants Rye to find her. In exchange he offers her something she had given up hope of ever having; freedom from her past.

With her dog, Blue, at her side, Rye meets up with her new partner, a handsome man she's not sure she can trust. Heading for Mexico City, they go undercover, posing as husband and wife. After meeting with the bereaved parents, Rye starts to sense that there is more going on than just a missing girl. But it isn't until they arrive in the Yucatan Peninsula, hot on the girl's trail in Paradise, that all hell breaks loose. Sydney has to reach out for help from old friends and deal with the consequences of her past, if she's going to find the girl and keep them all alive.

Emily Kimelman's best selling Sydney Rye series feature a strong female protagonist and her canine best friend, Blue. It is recommended for the 18+ who enjoy some violence, don't mind dirty language, and are up for a dash of sex. Not to mention an awesome mystery with tons of action that will keep you reading late into the night!

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Title: The Twilight Warriors.
Genre: Non-Fiction (History/Military).
Author(s): Robert Gandt.
Price: $5.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $17.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.5 stars/233 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.30/84 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 402/11 hours and 53 minutes.
Narrator(s): John Pruden.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Th...ok/B004BP5SXO/.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Warr.../dp/B003EY7IFY.
Comments: This ebook is currently the #1 seller in the Kindle Store in the History > Military > Aviation category. This book also received the 2011 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature.
Book Description (Amazon):
April 1945. The end of World War II finally appears to be nearing. The Third Reich is collapsing in Europe, and the Americans are overpowering the once-mighty Japanese Empire in the Pacific. For a group of young pilots trained in the twilight of the war, the greatest worry is that it will end before they have a chance to face the enemy. They call themselves Tail End Charlies. They fly at the tail end of formations, stand at the tail end of chow lines, and now they are catching the tail end of the war. What they don’t know is that they will be key players in the bloodiest and most difficult of naval battles—not only of World War II but in all of American history.

The Twilight Warriors relives the drama of the world’s last great naval campaign. From the cockpit of a Corsair fighter we gaze down at the Japanese task force racing to destroy the American amphibious force at Okinawa. Through the eyes of the men on the destroyers assigned to picket ship duty, we experience the terror as wave after wave of kamikazes crash into their ships. Standing on the deck of the legendary superbattleship Yamato, we watch Japan’s last hope for victory die in a tableau of gunfire and explosions.

Among the Tail End Charlies are men such as a twenty-two-year-old former art student who grows to manhood on the day of his first mission over Japan and his best friend, a ladies’ man and intrepid fighter pilot whose life abruptly changes when his Corsair goes down off the enemy shore. Another is a young Texan lieutenant who volunteers for the most dangerous flying job in the fleet—intercepting kamikazes at night over the blackened Pacific. Their leader is a charismatic officer who rises to greatness in the crucible of Okinawa. Directing the vast armada of sea, air, and land forces is a cast of brilliant and flawed commanders—from the imperturbable admiral and master of carrier warfare to the controversial soldier assigned to command the land forces.

The fate of the Americans at Okinawa is intertwined with the lives of the “young gods”— the honor-bound Japanese airmen who swarm like killer bees toward the U.S. ships. The kamikazes are dispatched on their deadly one-way missions by a classic samurai warrior who vows that he will follow them to a warrior’s grave.

The ferocity of the Okinawa fighting stuns the world. Before it ends, the long battle will cost more American lives, ships, and aircraft than any naval engagement in U.S. history. More than simply the account of a historic battle, The Twilight Warriors brings to life the human side of an epic conflict. It is the story of young Americans at war in the air and on the sea—and of their enigmatic, fanatically courageous enemy.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Downpour -- Weekly Deals -- as of 10 May

Note: these deals are subject to withdrawal without warning / last week's titles

New Titles

• $3.95 -- Letters from Atlantis -- Robert Silverberg/ Grover Gardner --3.0 hrs --> sci-fi
• $4.99 -- The Burn Palace -- Stephen Dobyns/ George Newbern -- 13.5 hrs --> mystery
• $5.95 -- The Legacy of Heorot -- Larry Niven, et al/ Tom Weiner -- 12.7 hrs --> sci-fi
• $4.99 -- It’s All Your Fault -- Paul Rudnick/ Stephanie Drake -- 8.0 hrs --> teen humor

Previous Titles

• $4.95 -- The Secret Agent -- Joseph Conrad/ Ralph Cosham -- 8.8 hrs --> classics
• $4.95 -- Dreamsnake -- Vonda McIntyre/ Anna Fields -- 9.7 hrs --> sci-fi
• $5.95 -- Seven Days -- Deon Meyer/ Simon Vance -- 11.0 hrs --> mystery

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 11 May @ 11:59pm ET

$1.95 -- Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde -- : RL Stevenson/ Scott Brick --> 3.1 hrs/ R-4.1 --> horror


Note: get the Whispersync deal --> free Kindle | $0.99 Audible

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Whispersync: the Audible book is $0.99, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook (free)

When a brute of a man tramples an innocent girl, apparently out of spite, two bystanders catch the fellow and force him to pay reparations to the girl's family. The brute's name is Edward Hyde.

A respected lawyer, Utterson, hears this story and begins to unravel the seemingly manic behavior of his best friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and his connection with Hyde. Several months earlier, Utterson had drawn up an inexplicable will for the doctor, naming Hyde as his heir in the event that he disappears. Fearing his friend has been blackmailed into this arrangement, Utterson probes deeper into both Jekyll and his unlikely protégé. He is increasingly unnerved at each new revelation.

In a forerunner of psychological dramas to come, Stevenson uses Hyde to show that we are both repulsed by and attracted to the darker side of life, particularly when we can experience it in anonymity.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 11 May

$3.99 -- Blindsighted -- Karin Slaughter/ Kathleen Early --> 12.2 hrs/ R-4.2 --> thriller

Blindsighted --> Grant County (book 1 of 7)

Whispersync: no deals at this time

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear.

Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation - a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later. But he's got more than a sadistic serial killer on his hands, for the county's sole female detective, Lena Adams - the first victim's sister - want to serve her own justice.

But it is Sara who holds the key to finding the killer. A secret from her past could unmask the brilliantly malevolent psychopath.... or mean her death.

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SYNC Audio -- Last Day -- exp 12 May @ 7am ET

• FREE -- Wk 1 -- The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial --> details
• FREE -- Wk 1 -- Vivian Apple at the End of the World --> details

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Free Trial -- exp unknown

Downpour is now offering a free one-month trial period. Previously, they offered a free trial when you used the code: FIRSTDP. See this post for details of that offer.

I took advantage of that offer last Feb and picked up a free audiobook. When I saw the current offer, I figured I wouldn't get it because of the previous offer. But, it never hurts to try. Long story short, I got the offer. So, give it a shot!

[issybird]

Thanks!

[bathos]

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is the deal of the day for £2.99 on audible UK. And if I could have figured out how to do a link on my iPad I'd put one on the post.

Daily Deal
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[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by bathos

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is the deal of the day for £2.99 on audible UK. And if I could have figured out how to do a link on my iPad I'd put one on the post.

Daily Deal
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Thanks for posting - I added the link to your post

[bathos]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Thanks for posting - I added the link to your post

Cheers! An excellent book and I nearly bought the audio book yesterday.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Downpour -- Free Trial -- exp unknown

Downpour is now offering a free one-month trial period. Previously, they offered a free trial when you used the code: FIRSTDP. See this post for details of that offer.

I took advantage of that offer last Feb and picked up a free audiobook. When I saw the current offer, I figured I wouldn't get it because of the previous offer. But, it never hurts to try. Long story short, I got the offer. So, give it a shot!

Great, thanks! Just last week I canceled the membership I started in February, and I still was able to use this new offer.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by bathos

Cheers! An excellent book and I nearly bought the audio book yesterday.

What a difference a day makes

The ebook is available here in the States, but not the audiobook. I just love geo-restrictions

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by issybird

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Catlady

Great, thanks! Just last week I canceled the membership I started in February, and I still was able to use this new offer.

Y'all are welcome