FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Thanks for checking. I removed the reference from the description.

UPDATE: The kind people at Sync e-mailed me a copy of the pdf. They haven't updated their web site, but if you want it you might consider dropping them a note.

[Froide]

Can't remember whether or not I've already shared this:

In response to my inquiry, SYNC YA emailed me (on June 23) this link to the e-book that's supposed to accompany The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man audiobook (labelled "e-book included"): https://tantor-marketing-assets.s3.a...ColoredMan.pdf

[Froide]

This month's freebie at ChristianAudio:
The Mingling of Souls
Scott Chandler & Jared C. Wilson (Narrator)

FREE audiobook download for this month (normally $14.98)
In a culture where the foundations of attraction, love, marriage, and sex are rapidly eroding, Matt Chandler offers an eternal, counter-intuitive perspective from the biblical book of Song of Solomon. Scripture says we’re to nurture our hearts above all else — yet we are inundated with songs, movies, and advice that contradict and cheapen God’s design for love and intimacy. In The Mingling of Souls, he reveals the process Solomon himself followed — Attraction, Courtship, Marriage...even Arguing.

Cross-posted to the Christian Interest - 2016 thread.

[skinmaan]

An eagle-eyed freebie finder spotted a freebie I missed over at PRH's TryAudioBooks.com, and it's a pretty good one. If you're interested in Steve Berry's "The Templar Legacy" a series I've been considering buying), you can get it free here. I have no idea how long it'll be available so if you're interested don't delay.

The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was, and its true nature could change the modern world.

Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he'd left behind.

It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cotton's former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, who's far from home on a mission that has nothing to do with national security. Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune-hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the 14th century. But she's not alone. Competing for the historic prize, and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possesses, is Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot with an army of assassins at his command.

Welcome or not, Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. But the more he learns about the ancient conspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar, the more he realizes that even more than lives are at stake. At the end of a lethal game of conquest, rife with intrigue, treachery, and craven lust for power, lies a shattering discovery that could rock the civilized world and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 01 Jul

$3.95 -- Curse of Jacob Tracy -- Holly Messinger/ LJ Ganser --> 12.8 hrs/ R-4.0 --> paranormal

Whispersync: Audible ($3.95) | Kindle ($12.99)

St. Louis in 1880 is full of ghosts - mangled soldiers, tortured slaves, the innocent victims of war - and Jacob Tracy can see them all. Ever since Antietam, when he lay delirious among the dead and dying, Trace has been haunted by the country's restless spirits. The curse cost him his family, his calling to the church, and damn near his sanity.

He stays out of ghost-populated cities as much as possible these days, guiding wagon trains west with his pragmatic and skeptical partner, Boz. Then, just before the spring rush, Trace gets a letter from the wealthy and reclusive Sabine Fairweather. Sickly, sharp tongued, and far too clever for her own good, Miss Fairweather needs a worthy man to retrieve a dead friend's legacy from a nearby town - or so she says. When the errand proves far more sinister than advertised, Miss Fairweather admits to knowing about Trace's curse and suggests she might be able to help him - in exchange for a few more odd jobs.

Trace has no interest in being her pet psychic, but he's been searching 18 years for a way to curb his unruly curse, and Miss Fairweather's knowledge of the spirit world is too tempting to ignore. As she steers him into one macabre situation after another, his powers flourish, and Trace begins to realize some good might be done with this curse of his. But Miss Fairweather is harboring some dark secrets of her own, and her meddling has brought Trace to the attention of something much older and more dangerous than any ghost.

Rich in historical detail and emotional depth, The Curse of Jacob Tracy is a fast-paced and inventive debut, an intriguing introduction to a bold new hero.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 01 Jul

$1.99 -- A July Bride -- Beth Wiseman/ Kristy Ragland --> 2.5 hrs/ R-4.5 --> romance

A July Bride --> A Year of Weddings Series (book 8 of 12)

Whispersync: Audible ($7.93) | Kindle ($3.99)

A year's worth of novellas from 12 inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed. Can she forgive the man who left her at the altar? Alyssa Pennington dated Brendan Myers for three years before she accepted his proposal. For almost a year, Alyssa's friends and family helped her plan a lovely wedding to take place in the church she'd grown up in. It was the happiest day of her life when she walked down the aisle to be united with the man of her dreams. But when Brendan left her at the altar, Alyssa was consumed by humiliation, embarrassment, and a broken heart that wouldn't allow her to trust anyone. Especially Brendan. Brendan Myers knows he will spend the rest of his life regretting what he did to Alyssa, the only woman he's ever loved. Without her, his life is empty. In one fateful moment, he'd panicked, destroyed their future, and ruined everything. Now he plans to win her back. But winning back his bride might prove much more difficult than he can imagine. And even if he does get her to the altar again, will she think turnabout is fair play?

[GtrsRGr8]

Thanks to a big drop in the price of the ebook component.

Title: The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon.
Genre: Non-Fiction (History/Biography).
Author(s): John Ferling.
Price: $5.98 (ebook ($1.99 marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $23.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.0 stars/127 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.2/65 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 461/17 hours and 25 minutes.
Narrator(s): Norman Dietz.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoi...ok/B002V19WNW/.
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Ascent-George...TY2#nav-subnav.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
Perhaps the most revered American of all, George Washington has long been considered a stoic leader who held himself above the fray of political infighting. What has gone unnoticed about the much-researched life of Washington is that he was in fact a consummate politician, as historian John Ferling shows in this revealing and provocative new book. As leader of the Continental Army, Washington's keen political savvy enabled him not only to outwit superior British forces, but--even more challenging--to manage the fractious and intrusive Continental Congress. Despite dire setbacks early in the war, Washington deftly outmaneuvered rival generals and defused dissent from officers below him, ending the war with the status of a national icon. His carefully burnished reputation allowed Washington, as president, to lead the country under the guise of non-partisanship for almost all of his eight years in office. Washington, Ferling argues, was not only one of America's most adroit politicians, he was easily the most successful of all time--so successful, in fact, that he is no longer thought of as having been political.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Froide

Can't remember whether or not I've already shared this:

In response to my inquiry, SYNC YA emailed me (on June 23) this link to the e-book that's supposed to accompany The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man audiobook (labelled "e-book included"): https://tantor-marketing-assets.s3.a...ColoredMan.pdf

Thanks - added to post description

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Froide

This month's freebie at ChristianAudio:
The Mingling of Souls
Scott Chandler & Jared C. Wilson (Narrator)

Cross-posted to the Christian Interest - 2016 thread.

Thanks - added to OP

In conjunction with the monthly freebies, a selection of other books by the author are on sale.

Other Matt Chandler Audiobooks Are Only $4.98 Each! -- exp 31 Jul

• Recovering Redemption -- M Chandler, M Snetzer/ P Michael --> 6.0 hrs
• Creature of the Word -- M Chandler, E Geiger, J Patterson/ D Heath --> 7.9 hrs
• The Explicit Gospel -- M Chandler, J Wilson/ D Heath --> 8.4 hrs
• To Live Is Christ, To Die Is Gain -- M Chandler, J Wilson/ D Heath --> 5.6 hrs

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

An eagle-eyed freebie finder spotted a freebie I missed over at PRH's TryAudioBooks.com, and it's a pretty good one. If you're interested in Steve Berry's "The Templar Legacy" a series I've been considering buying), you can get it free here. I have no idea how long it'll be available so if you're interested don't delay.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Great find! Here's a link to the book --> The Templar Legacy

Interesting thing is that its category is "gym" and it's not listed under fitness or as a separate category in the website's header. Makes me wonder if there aren't other hidden categories lurking about.

Anyway, added to OP
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[tubemonkey]

Penguin Random House Free Offers --> Jul 2016

• FREE -- Lightless -- CA Higgins/ Fiona Hardingham --> 11.6 hrs/ R-3.5 --> sci-fi
  
• FREE -- Short Stories (7 titles) -- various/ various --> sci-fi, literary, humor
  
• FREE -- LA Dead -- Stuart Woods/ Tony Roberts --> 10.8 hrs/ R-4.3 --> suspense
  
• FREE -- Project Alpha -- DJ MacHale/ R Daymond --> 5.5 hrs/ R-4.8 --> sci-fi
  
• FREE -- Insanely Simple -- Ken Segall/ Ken Segall --> 7.1 hrs/ R-4.3 --> business
  
• FREE -- Nova -- Margaret Fortune/ Jorjeana Marie --> 9.2 hrs/ R-3.6 --> sci-fi
  
• FREE -- Blue Monday -- Nicci French/ Beth Chalmers --> 11.2 hrs/ R-4.0 --> detective
  
• FREE -- Templar Legacy -- Steve Berry/ Brian Corrigan --> 7.0 hrs/ R-3.3 --> thriller
  
• FREE -- Secret Garden -- FH Burnett/ F Hughes --> 8.4 hrs/ R-4.6 --> kids classic

Note: these free offers are subject to change without warning

Spoiler:

Lightless --> Lightless Trilogy (book 1 of 2) --> details --> exp 29 Jul @ 11:59am ET

Spoiler:

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

• With deeply moving human drama, nail-biting suspense—and bold speculation informed by a degree in physics—C. A. Higgins spins a riveting science fiction debut guaranteed to catapult readers beyond their expectations.

Serving aboard the Ananke, an experimental military spacecraft launched by the ruthless organization that rules Earth and its solar system, computer scientist Althea has established an intense emotional bond—not with any of her crewmates, but with the ship’s electronic systems, which speak more deeply to her analytical mind than human feelings do. But when a pair of fugitive terrorists gain access to the Ananke, Althea must draw upon her heart and soul for the strength to defend her beloved ship.

While one of the saboteurs remains at large somewhere on board, his captured partner—the enigmatic Ivan—may prove to be more dangerous. The perversely fascinating criminal whose silver tongue is his most effective weapon has long evaded the authorities’ most relentless surveillance—and kept the truth about his methods and motives well hidden.

As the ship’s systems begin to malfunction and the claustrophobic atmosphere is increasingly poisoned by distrust and suspicion, it falls to Althea to penetrate the prisoner’s layers of intrigue and deception before all is lost. But when the true nature of Ivan’s mission is exposed, it will change Althea forever—if it doesn’t kill her first.

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 Series (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 Series (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.

Nova

Spoiler:

*36:00:00*

The clock activates so suddenly in my mind, my head involuntarily jerks a bit to the side. The fog vanishes, dissipated in an instant as though it never was. Memories come slotting into place, their edges sharp enough to leave furrows, and suddenly I know. I know exactly who I am.

My name is Lia Johansen, and I was named for a prisoner of war. She lived in the Tiersten Internment Colony for two years, and when they negotiated the return of the prisoners, I was given her memories and sent back in her place.

And I am a genetically engineered human bomb.

Lia Johansen was created for only one purpose: to slip onto the strategically placed New Sol Space Station and explode. But her mission goes to hell when her clock malfunctions, freezing her countdown with just two minutes to go. With no Plan B, no memories of her past, and no identity besides a name stolen from a dead POW, Lia has no idea what to do next. Her life gets even more complicated when she meets Michael Sorenson, the real Lia’s childhood best friend.

Drawn to Michael and his family against her better judgment, Lia starts learning what it means to live and love, and to be human. It is only when her countdown clock begins sporadically losing time that she realizes even duds can still blow up. If she wants any chance at a future, she must find a way to unlock the secrets of her past and stop her clock. But as Lia digs into her origins, she begins to suspect there’s far more to her mission and to this war, than meets the eye. With the fate of not just a space station but an entire empire hanging in the balance, Lia races to find the truth before her time—literally—runs out.

Blue Monday --> Frieda Klein Series (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.

The Templar Legacy --> Cotton Malone Series (book 1 of 7) --> details

Spoiler:

The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was–and its true nature could change the modern world.

Cotton Malone, onetime top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts–and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he’d left behind.

It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cotton’s former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, who’s far from home on a mission that has nothing to do with national security. Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century. But she’s not alone. Competing for the historic prize–and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possesses–is Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot with an army of assassins at his command.

At the end of a lethal game of conquest, rife with intrigue, treachery, and craven lust for power, lies a shattering discovery that could rock the civilized world–and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.

The Secret Garden --> details

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.

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[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 02 Jul

$1.95 -- The Diva Rules -- Michelle Visage/ Michelle Visage --> 3.9 hrs/ R-4.8 --> motivational

The Diva Rules: Ditch the Drama, Find Your Strength, and Sparkle Your Way to the Top

Whispersync: no deals at this time

Michelle Visage is not your average diva. Powerful, positive, and polished, this diva's not only glamorous, she's a savvy businesswoman with serious credentials who works her tail off. From her days vogueing in the downtown Manhattan clubs in the '90s to her successful career in radio and her ultimate cult status as a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race, Michelle has achieved her dreams and then some!

In The Diva Rules, Visage shares her rules and advice for living life to the fullest and finding success no matter the hand you're dealt. With her no-nonsense style and super sassy voice, Michelle tells listeners to "Keep Your Shit Together", "Give Good Face", and "Be Thankful You're a Misfit" in addition to 22 other invaluable life lessons on finding your power and sparkling your way to the top.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 02 Jul

$3.99 -- Immortal Who Loved Me -- Lynsay Sands/ Samantha Quan --> 9.8 hrs/ R-4.4 --> vampire

The Immortal Who Loved Me --> Argeneau Series (book 21 of 23)

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

A few hours ago, Sherry Carne would have sworn that vampires didn't exist. That's before rogue immortals rampage through her store, leaving bloody chaos (literally) in their wake. The kicker comes when Sherry learns that one of the vamps on the bad guys' trail may be her life mate. Her head says it's impossible. The rest of her takes one look at Basileios Argeneau and has much more interesting ideas.

Whatever Basil expected in a life mate, funny, outspoken Sherry isn't it. But mind-blowing chemistry and instinct don't lie. They tell him something else, too - that Sherry's connection to the immortal world goes deeper than she knows. And that she's in the kind of danger only Basil can save her from - if she'll just trust him, now and forever....

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

FREE -- Short Stories (7 titles) -- various/ various --> sci-fi, literary, humor

Just an FYI - these actually appear to be excerpts, rather than short stories. I could be wrong, I didn't look up the books they said they were "from". But all are listed as being "from" a book by the author.

[StewartM]

Originally Posted by FizzyWater

Just an FYI - these actually appear to be excerpts, rather than short stories. I could be wrong, I didn't look up the books they said they were "from". But all are listed as being "from" a book by the author.

The "from" books are all collections of short stories by that particular author.