FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 26 Aug

$2.95 -- Gut -- Giulia Enders/ Katy Sobey --> 7.4 hrs/ R-4.5 --> biology

Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ

Whispersync: no deals at this time

Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain, yet we know very little about how it works. Gut: The Inside Story is an entertaining, informative tour of the digestive system from the moment we raise a tasty morsel to our lips until the moment our body surrenders the remnants to the toilet bowl. No topic is too lowly for the author's wonder and admiration, from the careful choreography of breaking wind to the precise internal communication required for a cleansing vomit. Along the way, the author provides practical advice, such as the best ways to sit on the toilet to have a comfortable bowel movement, how clean your kitchen should be for optimum gut health, and how different laxatives work. She tells stories of gut bacteria that can lead to obesity, autoimmune diseases, or even suicide, and she discusses the benefits of dietary supplements, such as probiotics.

This book is a fascinating primer for anyone interested in how our ideas about the gut are changing in the light of cutting-edge scientific research. In the words of the author, "We live in an era in which we are just beginning to understand just how complex the connections are between us, our food, our pets, and the microscopic world in, on, and around us. We are gradually decoding processes that we used to believe were part of our inescapable destiny."

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 26 Aug

$9.99 -- Open Season -- CJ Box/ David Chandler --> 7.9 hrs/ R-4.1 --> mystery

Open Season --> Joe Pickett Series (book 1 of 17)

Whispersync: Audible ($9.99) | Kindle ($9.99)

The first Joe Pickett novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way—is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die in. Even after the "outfitter murders," as they have been dubbed by the local press after the discovery of the two more bodies, are solved, Joe continues to investigate, uneasy with the easy explanation offered by the local police.

As Joe digs deeper into the murders, he soon discovers that the outfitter brought more than death to his backdoor: he brought Joe an endangered species, thought to be extinct, which is now living in his woodpile. But if word of the existence of this endangered species gets out, it will destroy any chance of InterWest, a multi-national natural gas company, building an oil pipeline that would bring the company billions of dollars across Wyoming, through the mountains and forests of Twelve Sleep. The closer Joe comes to the truth behind the outfitter murders, the endangered species and InterWest, the closer he comes to losing everything he holds dear.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by melmac

Audible Daily Deal Anniversary sale celebrating 3 years of daily deals.
200 previous daily deals in the sale, prices range up to $5.95 with most being $3.95 or less ends 31st August
https://www.audible.com/mt/DD-Sale-2016

edit - This sale would be perfect for anyone that received that $10 credit recently as it expires on 7th Sept

Thanks for posting this offer - added to OP

[sakura-panda]

Originally Posted by melmac

Audible Daily Deal Anniversary sale celebrating 3 years of daily deals.
200 previous daily deals in the sale, prices range up to $5.95 with most being $3.95 or less ends 31st August
https://www.audible.com/mt/DD-Sale-2016

edit - This sale would be perfect for anyone that received that $10 credit recently as it expires on 7th Sept

Thanks! I've been wondering what I was going to do with that $10 -- I was hoping for a sale.

[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by melmac

Audible Daily Deal Anniversary sale celebrating 3 years of daily deals.
200 previous daily deals in the sale, prices range up to $5.95 with most being $3.95 or less ends 31st August
https://www.audible.com/mt/DD-Sale-2016

edit - This sale would be perfect for anyone that received that $10 credit recently as it expires on 7th Sept

Very scary sale. ~$2 is my I'll-buy-anything-that-looks-interesting point, and there are about 75 books fitting that category.

[badgoodDeb]

I bought 5, and recommended a half dozen or so to my brother. Was a membership needed? I have one now (for the first time) so I can't tell.

[skinmaan]

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.

BTW, this title is also free over at Audiobooks.com.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

I bought 5, and recommended a half dozen or so to my brother. Was a membership needed? I have one now (for the first time) so I can't tell.

I bought 4 (including today's Daily Deal), and I'm not a member, so, no.

And I'll be buying more before the sale runs out.

[WT Sharpe]

One of the 200 DD sale items I couldn't buy was Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. Got an error warning the first time I tried it, and twice afterward it said "added to cart" when it was, in fact, very much not added to cart.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I bought 4 (including today's Daily Deal)....

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

One of the 200 DD sale items I couldn't buy was Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. Got an error warning the first time I tried it, and twice afterward it said "added to cart" when it was, in fact, very much not added to cart.

SUCCESS! Whatever the problem was with the Frankl book, it's now been resolved. Grand total: 5 books today, more to come.

[koland]

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

Kindle edition is also free

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 27 Aug

$2.95 -- The Oddfits -- Tiffany Tsao/ Nico Evers-Swindell --> 8.9 hrs/ R-4.4 --> fantasy

Whispersync: Audible ($1.99) | Kindle ($3.99)

Eight-year-old Murgatroyd Floyd doesn't fit in - not as a blue-eyed blonde living in Singapore, not in school, and certainly not with his aloof expatriate parents, who seem determined to make his life even harder. Unbeknownst to him, there's a reason why he's always the odd boy out: he is an Oddfit, a rare type of human with access to the More Known World, a land invisible to most people. Yet unfortunate circumstances keep Murgatroyd stranded in the Known World, bumbling through life with the feeling that an extraordinary something is waiting for him just beyond reach.

Seventeen years later, that something finally arrives when a secret organization dedicated to exploring the More Known World invites Murgatroyd on a mission. But as the consummate loser begins to grow into the Oddfit he was meant to be, the Known World becomes bent on exterminating him. For once in his underachieving life, will Murgatroyd Floyd exceed expectations and outsmart those trying to thwart his stupendous destiny?

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 27 Aug

$4.99 -- Cast in Honor -- Michelle Sagara/ Khristine Hvam --> 16.7 hrs/ R-4.5 --> fantasy

Cast in Honor --> Chronicles of Elantra Series (book 11 of 12)

Whispersync: Audible ($12.99) | Kindle ($7.49)

In the aftermath of a vicious battle between darkness and light, the city of Elantra has emerged victorious. But Shadows continue to haunt every corner of its streets....

Elantra stands strong, but countless numbers of Hawks, the city's staunchest protectors, were lost in the brutal attack. Humans, Barrani, Aerians, Leontines - none of the races emerged unscathed from the defense of the city. Homes were lost, families were scattered - and the outcast Barrani Lord Nightshade is missing from his castle in the fiefs.

Yet as the chaos surrounding the battle begins to wane, Private Kaylin Neya's duties must resume, despite her grief. Called in to investigate a triple murder in a quiet part of town, Kaylin and her companions are soon embroiled in a case that is anything but routine. Evidence of the deadly Shadows that still threaten the city leads to hints of ancient, forgotten magics - and everything can be traced directly to Ravellon, the heart of the Shadows and the darkness they contain.

But it is there that Lord Nightshade will be found - if he still survives.

[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by koland

Kindle edition is also free

https://www.amazon.com/Lock-Key-Inci...key#nav-subnav

Doesn't show up as whispersync, but it's a short story so I guess that doesn't matter quite as much.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 28 Aug

$2.95 -- Skewed -- Anne McAneny/ Emily Sutton-Smith --> 11.0 hrs/ R-4.0 --> detective

Whispersync: Audible ($1.99) | Kindle ($3.99)

No birth announcement could top the headlines from the day Janie and Jack Perkins entered the world. As twins born to a mother in a coma - courtesy of a bullet from their father - the sensational story of their birth never quite died down. While Jack still craves the flash of a camera, Janie seeks sanctuary behind the lens - as a crime scene photographer.

Thanks to Janie's line of work, she's comfortable around gruesome murders. But when old photos of her mother's body arrive in the mail, they open deep-seated wounds and raise chilling new questions about who really was responsible for that deadly night.

Did Janie's father spend decades in jail as an innocent man? Did an infamous serial killer actually take her mother's life? With photos in hand, Janie brings the truth into focus. But when her investigation ends up evoking the wrath of the long-dormant killer, she must race to piece together the final evidence - before she becomes the target.