FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

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Penguin Random House -- Free Monthly Offer -- exp 26 Aug @ 11:59 AM ET

FREE -- The Fenway Foul-up -- David Kelly/ Marc Cashman --> 1.2 hrs/ R-n/a --> YA mystery

The summer games may be over, but we still have sports on our minds! That's why we're giving away the audio of THE FENWAY FOUL-UP by David A. Kelly as this month's 24-Hour Free Download!

Click here to download: http://app.snapapp.com/FenwayFoulUp

NOTE: You can also listen on your phone when you download the Volumes app. Free on the App Store℠ for iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® in the U.S. and Canada.
Offer ends August 26, 2016 at 11:59 AM ET.

Save the Date -- One Day Only -- 25 Aug

Batter up for a chance to download a FREE audio book of "The Fenway Foul-Up" (of the Ballpark Mysteries Series) by David A. Kelly.

Check out a clip of the audio while you wait for the 25th: http://ow.ly/V9G4303oDNs

The Fenway Foul-up --> Ballpark Mysteries (book 1 of 13)

Whispersync: Audible ($3.49) | Kindle ($4.99)

Now leading off the line-up—book #1 in a brand-new early chapter book mystery series where each book is set in a different American ballpark!

Thanks to Kate's mom, a sports reporter, cousins Mike Walsh and Kate Hopkins have tickets to the Red Sox game and All Access passes to Fenway Park. But as they're watching batting practice before the game, the lucky bat of Red Sox star slugger Big D is stolen . . . right in front of dozens of people. Without the bat, Big D can't seem to hit a thing. Can Kate and Mike figure out who pinched the bat before Big D and the Sox chalk up a loss?

The Fenway Foul-Up includes a fun fact page about Boston's Fenway Park.

Cross Ron Roy's mystery series with Matt Christopher's sports books and you get the Ballpark Mysteries: fun, puzzling whodunnits aimed right at beginning readers.

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Last Day -- Audible -- exp 22 Aug

• SALE -- Audible 2 for 1 Sale (200+ titles) --> details

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Last Day -- Downpour -- exp 22 Aug

• $1.99 -- The Castle of Kings --> details
  
• $5.95 -- Cyberspies --> details
  
• SALE -- Weekly Deals (15 titles) --> titles change frequently

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 22 Aug

$4.95 -- Never Eat Alone -- Keith Ferrazzi, et al/ Richard Harries --> 13.8 hrs/ R-4.4 --> business

Never Eat Alone: Expanded and Updated, And the Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

Whispersync: Audible ($4.95) | Kindle ($14.99)

Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success? The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered in early life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships - so that everyone wins.

In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps - and inner mindset - he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his contacts list, people he has helped and who have helped him. And in the time since Never Eat Alone was published in 2005, the rise of social media and new, collaborative management styles have only made Ferrazzi’s advice more essential for anyone hoping to get ahead in business.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 22 Aug

$2.99 -- The Art of Memoir -- Mary Karr/ Mary Karr --> 7.4 hrs/ R-4.5 --> writing skills

Whispersync: Audible ($12.49) | Kindle ($13.99)

Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash best sellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.

For 30 years, Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed, Keith Gessen, and Koren Zailckas.) In The Art of Memoir, she synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and "black belt sinner", providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in the genre.

Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process. (Plus all those inside stories about how she dealt with family and friends get told - and the dark spaces in her own skull probed in depth.) As she breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, she breaks open our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminates the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.

Joining such classics as Stephen King's On Writing and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, The Art of Memoir is an elegant and accessible exploration of one of today's most popular literary forms - a tour de force from an accomplished master pulling back the curtain on her craft.

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Originally Posted by skinmaan

I've got two Audible freebies (that aren't author interviews) for you today. One I'm getting, the other I'm not. It's up to you to figure out which is which.

First, we have a mysterious pre-order. You can get "The Dispatcher" by John Scalzi and read by Zachary Quinto (the latest "Star Trek" and TV's "Heroes") you can get it free here. There is a chance this is a pricing error so I don't know if it will be free until the release date (10-4-16). I can't even tell you how long it is - the entry says "Not Yet Known."

The second freebie is a speech, "Annihilation of Caste: An Undelivered Speech 1936" by B. R. Ambedkar, which can be found here.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks -- added to OP and Free Audible Titles

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You might consider $7.48 expensive (I do. ha) to get the audio of a book. But the audiobook alone at Audible is over $28 more! And you get lots of listening pleasure for that $7.48, what with the audio being 29 1/2 hours long! Oh, and don't forget that, being a Whispersync deal, that means that you get the ebook and syncing thrown in.

Title: Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Biography/History).
Author(s): Arthur Herman.
Price: $7.48 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $5.49 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $35.95 (1 credit).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.2 stars/72 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.1/466 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 736/29 hours and 22 minutes.
Narrator(s): John Curless.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoi...ook/B002V0KSIG.
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Gandhi-Church...dp/B000YJ66ZU/.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.<b><br><br></b>They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious middle-class household in a provincial town in India. Yet Arthur Herman reveals how their lives and careers became intertwined as the twentieth century unfolded. Both men would go on to lead their nations through harrowing trials and two world wars—and become locked in a fierce contest of wills that would decide the fate of countries, continents, and ultimately an empire. <br><br><b>Gandhi & Churchill</b> reveals how both men were more alike than different, and yet became bitter enemies over the future of India, a land of 250 million people with 147 languages and dialects and 15 distinct religions—the jewel in the crown of Britain’s overseas empire for 200 years.<br><br>Over the course of a long career, Churchill would do whatever was necessary to ensure that India remain British—including a fateful redrawing of the entire map of the Middle East and even risking his alliance with the United States during World War Two.<br><br>Mohandas Gandhi, by contrast, would dedicate his life to India’s liberation, defy death and imprisonment, and create an entirely new kind of political movement: <i>satyagraha,</i> or civil disobedience. His campaigns of nonviolence in defiance of Churchill and the British, including his famous Salt March, would become the blueprint not only for the independence of India but for the civil rights movement in the U.S. and struggles for freedom across the world.<br><br>Now master storyteller Arthur Herman cuts through the legends and myths about these two powerful, charismatic figures and reveals their flaws as well as their strengths. The result is a sweeping epic of empire and insurrection, war and political intrigue, with a fascinating supporting cast, including General Kitchener, Rabindranath Tagore, Franklin Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. It is also a brilliant narrative parable of two men whose great successes were always haunted by personal failure, and whose final moments of triumph were overshadowed by the loss of what they held most dear.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>

[skinmaan]

Audible has another new freebie. For I don't know how long you can get "Lock and Key: The Gadwall Incident" by Ridley Pearson for free here. Please not this is a different series and writer from the "Locke & Key" audiobook we received for free last year.

The New York Times best-selling author of the Peter and the Starcatcher and Kingdom Keepers series, Ridley Pearson, brings us the stirring digital prequel to the Lock and Key series, which reimagines the origins of the rivalry between Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty.

In The Gadwall Incident, listeners get a glimpse into James' life a mere 24 hours before the tipping point - before life as he knows it changes irrevocably and his childhood slips into the shadows. Listeners will come to know the dangers that surround the Moriartys before James and Moria are sent off to the hallowed halls of Baskerville Academy, where they first meet the insufferable, inexhaustible Sherlock Holmes. It's a tale full of intrigue and false starts and daring getaways, one that will leave listeners desperate to know what's next.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 23 Aug

$3.95 -- How to Create a Mind -- Ray Kurzweil/ Christopher Lane --> 10.2 hrs/ R-4.4 --> psychology

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

Whispersync: Audible ($3.95) | Kindle ($13.99)

Ray Kurzweil, the bold futurist and author of the New York Times best seller The Singularity Is Near, is arguably today’s most influential technological visionary. A pioneering inventor and theorist, he has explored for decades how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand human capabilities. Now, in his much-anticipated How to Create a Mind, he takes this exploration to the next step: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works, then applying that knowledge to create vastly intelligent machines.

Drawing on the most recent neuroscience research, his own research and inventions in artificial intelligence, and compelling thought experiments, he describes his new theory of how the neocortex (the thinking part of the brain) works: as a self-organizing hierarchical system of pattern recognizers. Kurzweil shows how these insights will enable us to greatly extend the powers of our own mind and provides a road map for the creation of super-intelligence - humankind’s most exciting next venture. We are now at the dawn of an era of radical possibilities in which merging with our technology will enable us to effectively address the world’s grand challenges.

How to Create a Mind is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books in many years - a touchstone for any consideration of the path of human progress.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 23 Aug

$11.99 -- Virgin River -- Robyn Carr/ Therese Plummer --> 12.4 hrs/ R-4.2 --> romance

Virgin River --> Virgin River Series (book 1 of 18)

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

Fan-adored author Robyn Carr presents the story of a woman who “needs a change [and] gets something very different than she bargained for” (Booklist, starred review). Recently widowed, grieving Los Angeles midwife/nurse Melinda Monroe answers a small upstate town’s ad for help. Nestled amongst California’s giant redwoods, quaint Virgin River is host to many quirky characters—including bar owner Jack Sheridan, who may be just the man to make Melinda smile again.

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Originally Posted by skinmaan

Audible has another new freebie. For I don't know how long you can get "Lock and Key: The Gadwall Incident" by Ridley Pearson for free here. Please not this is a different series and writer from the "Locke & Key" audiobook we received for free last year.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks -- added to OP and Free Audible Titles

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Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 29 Aug

$1.99 -- Marked for Death -- J Hamilton-Paterson/ Gildart Jackson --> 12.2 hrs/ R-n/a --> history

Marked for Death: The First War in the Air

Whispersync: Audible ($4.99) | Kindle ($14.99)

A dramatic and fascinating account of aerial combat during World War I, revealing the terrible risks taken by the men who fought and died in the world’s first war in the air

Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war’s massive overall death toll, some 50,000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations’ fledgling air forces.

The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focusing on gallant air “aces” who become national heroes. The reality was horribly different. Marked for Death debunks popular myth to explore the brutal truths of wartime aviation: of flimsy planes and unprotected pilots; of burning, screaming nineteen-year-olds falling to their deaths; of pilots blinded by the entrails of their observers.

James Hamilton-Paterson also reveals how four years of war produced profound changes both in the aircraft themselves and in military attitudes and strategy. By 1918 it was widely accepted that domination of the air above the battlefield was crucial to military success, a realization that would change the nature of warfare forever.

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Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 29 Aug

$4.95 -- Tumbling Turner Sisters -- Juliette Fay/Katie Schorr, et al --> 11.2 hrs/ R-4.4 --> historical

SALE -- Weekly Deals (15 titles) --> titles change frequently

The Tumbling Turner Sisters

Whispersync: Audible ($4.49) | Kindle ($12.99)

Set against the turbulent backdrop of American Vaudeville, four sisters embark on an unexpected adventure—and a last-ditch effort to save their family.

In 1919, the Turner sisters and their parents are barely scraping by. Their father is a low-paid boot stitcher in Johnson City, New York, and the family is always one paycheck away from eviction. When their father’s hand is crushed and he can no longer work, their irrepressible mother decides that the vaudeville stage is their best—and only—chance for survival.

Traveling by train from town to town, teenagers Gert, Winnie, and Kit, and recent widow Nell soon find a new kind of freedom in the company of performers who are as diverse as their acts. There is a seamier side to the business, however, and the young women face dangers and turns of fate they never could have anticipated.

Heartwarming and surprising, The Tumbling Turner Sisters is ultimately a story of awakening—to unexpected possibilities, to love and heartbreak, and to the dawn of a new American era.

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 23 Aug

$3.95 -- How to Create a Mind -- Ray Kurzweil/ Christopher Lane --> 10.2 hrs/ R-4.4 --> psychology

If you don't already have a mind, how are you going to be able to read the book? ha

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From taking a look at the OP, it looks like there is no deficit of free or cheap Audible trial offers right now. Anyway, here's another one.

It's through a company called SkillWise.

Here are the essential facts:
- Gold membership.
- 30-Days Free.
- 2 Free Audiobooks.
- The website says that the promotion will end in 5 days.

You have to have an account with SkillWise. Annoyingly, they also require you to share the deal with Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ before you can obtain the deal yourself. Start at this webpage.