FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[GtrsRGr8]

Audible shows the regular price of the audiobook as $24.95; Amazon shows the regular price as $31.95. Either way, $5.98 is a fantastic price to get this awesome audiobook and ebook, with syncing, by springing for the Whispersync deal.

Title: Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad.
Genre: Non-Fiction (History/World War II).
Author(s): William Craig.
Price: $5.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $31.95 (1 credit).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/212 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.50/256 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 455/13 hours and 27 minutes.
Narrator(s): David Baker.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/History/En...ok/B017T1RS9S/
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-at-Gate.../dp/B013S434Y8
Comments: The ebook is a #1 seller in the Kindle store and a #1 seller in the regular Amazon store. It is also a #2 seller in a separate category in the Kindle store.
Book Description (Amazon):
A New York Times bestseller that brings to life one of the bloodiest battles of World War II—and the beginning of the end of the Third Reich.

On August 5, 1942, giant pillars of dust rose over the Russian steppe, marking the advance of the 6th Army, an elite German combat unit dispatched by Hitler to capture the industrial city of Stalingrad and press on to the oil fields of Azerbaijan. The Germans were supremely confident; in three years, they had not suffered a single defeat.The Luftwaffe had already bombed the city into ruins. German soldiers hoped to complete their mission and be home in time for Christmas.

The siege of Stalingrad lasted five months, one week, and three days. Nearly two million men and women died, and the 6th Army was completely destroyed. Considered by many historians to be the turning point of World War II in Europe, the Soviet Army’s victory foreshadowed Hitler’s downfall and the rise of a communist superpower.

Bestselling author William Craig spent five years researching this epic clash of military titans, traveling to three continents in order to review documents and interview hundreds of survivors. Enemy at the Gates is the enthralling result: the definitive account of one of the most important battles in world history. It became a New York Times bestseller and was also the inspiration for the 2001 film of the same name, starring Joseph Fiennes and Jude Law.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Audible shows the regular price of the audiobook as $24.95; Amazon shows the regular price as $31.95. Either way, $5.98 is a fantastic price to get this awesome audiobook and ebook, with syncing, by springing for the Whispersync deal.

Bought the book. I've been reading Holocaust books (not if they're fiction; ugh) but I'm not certain if I'll like a military book. Might as well try it though.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Bought the book. I've been reading Holocaust books (not if they're fiction; ugh) but I'm not certain if I'll like a military book. Might as well try it though.

Thanks. Knowing that even just one person benefited from a post makes the trouble worthwhile.

I'd much prefer to listen to the book. I think that I'm going to see if either one of the two libraries that I have borrowing privileges with has the audiobook. Might buy it if I like it enough.

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I never use "all y'all", but sometimes I use "youse" or "you'uns"

You'uns is the favorite of the hillbilly branch of my mom's side of the family (from when they lived in West Virginia).

[GtrsRGr8]

And there's always "you guys" ("guys" in this case being male and/or female or, I suppose even and/or transgender).

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 15 Sep

$3.99 -- Dakota Born -- Debbie Macomber/ Carly Robins --> 11.6 hrs/ R-4.5 --> romance

Dakota Born --> Dakota Series (book 1 of 4)

Whispersync: Audible ($12.99) | Kindle ($1.99)

Buffalo Valley, North Dakota. A second-chance town!

Like many small towns, Buffalo Valley is dying. Stores are boarded up, sidewalks are cracked, houses are in need of coats of paint. But despite all that, there's a spirit of hope here, of defiance. The few people still left here are fighting for their town.

Lindsay Snyder is a newcomer. She's an outsider even though she spent childhood vacations here. Now she returns to see the family house again, to explore family secrets, and to reevaluate her life. And soon after she arrives, she meets a local farmer named Gage Sinclair....

Lindsay decides to stay in North Dakota. Her decision marks a new beginning for Buffalo Valley and for her. Because in this broken little town, she discovers the love and purpose she's been seeking.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I never use "all y'all", but sometimes I use "youse" or "you'uns"

Say, I always associated "youse" with certain downstate Noo Yawkas, or with James Cagney-era movie toughs and molls, see.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 16 Sep @ 11:59 PM BST

£1.99 -- Sharp Ends -- Joe Abercrombie/ Steven Pacey, et al --> 11.8 hrs/ R-4.6 --> fantasy

Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law

First Law World Series (extra book in 3 book series)

Whispersync: Audible (£1.99) | Kindle (£8.99)

Read by Steven Pacey, and featuring Joe Abercrombie narrating 'Freedom'. This audio edition also includes an interview with Steven and Joe.

The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's only one who thinks he can save the day singlehanded when the Gurkish come calling: the incomparable Colonel Sand dan Glokta.

Curnden Craw and his dozen are out to recover a mysterious item from beyond the Crinna. Only one small problem: no one seems to know what the item is. Shevedieh, the self-styled best thief in Styria, lurches from disaster to catastrophe alongside her best friend and greatest enemy, Javre, Lioness of Hoskopp. And after years of bloodshed, the idealistic chieftain, Bethod, is desperate to bring peace to the North.

There's only one obstacle left - his own lunatic champion, the most feared man in the North: the Bloody-Nine....

Sharp Ends combines previously published award-winning tales with exclusive new short stories. Violence explodes, treachery abounds and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue's gallery of sideshows, backstories and sharp endings from the world of the First Law.

[tubemonkey]

ChristianAudio -- exp 07 Oct


$4.99 -- New Audiobooks Sale (16 titles)

NEW AUDIOBOOKS ONLY $4.99

Shop this selection of new audiobooks on sale for $4.99 each. Our 4 Credit Membership gets you 4 at this price. The Sale ends at 11:59pm PT on October 7th.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 19 Sep

$1.99 -- An Untimely Frost -- Penny Richards/ Christine Williams --> 7.5 hrs/ R-3.3 --> mystery

An Untimely Frost --> Lilly Long Mysteries (book 1 of 2)

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

Solving crimes is not a dress rehearsal.

Chicago, 1881. The idea of a female detective is virtually unheard of. But when famed crime buster Allan Pinkerton opens his agency’s doors to a handful of women, one intrepid actress with her own troubled past is driven to defy convention and take on a new and dangerous role.

Since the age of eleven, when her mother was murdered, the life of the theater is all Lilly Long has known. Now twenty-two, she has blossomed into an accomplished Shakespearean actress. But after her innocence—and her savings—are taken from her by a seductive scoundrel, Lilly vows to leave the stage, enter the real world, and save others from a similar fate. Following in the footsteps of the country’s first female detective, Lilly persuades Allan Pinkerton to take her on.

Lilly’s acting skills are a perfect fit for her real-life role as a Pinkerton operative. But her first case is a baptism by fire as she is sent to the small town of Vandalia to solve the mystery of a pastor who disappeared with his family—and the church’s funds. When Lilly arrives, she finds the mere mention of the reverend’s name provokes enmity or suspicious silence. Shadowed by a second Pinkerton agent with an agenda of his own, Lilly begins to uncover Vandalia’s sordid secrets. But she’ll have to deliver the performance of a lifetime to survive the final act of this drama.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 19 Sep

$4.95 -- Muhammad Ali -- Thomas Hauser/ Joe Barrett --> 7.9 hrs/ R-n/a --> biography

Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

Stripping away the revisionism to reveal the true nature of the man himself, this new book recounts the life journey of a fighter universally recognized as a unique and treasured world icon.

Few global personalities have commanded an all-encompassing sporting and cultural audience like Muhammad Ali. Now, Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest allows us to more fully appreciate the truth—and understand both the man and the ways in which he helped recalibrate how the world perceives its transcendent figures.

In this celebratory volume, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Hauser provides a compelling retrospective of Ali’s life. Relying on personal insights, interviews with close associates and other contemporaries, and memories gathered over the course of decades on the cutting edge of boxing journalism, Hauser explores Ali in colorful detail inside and outside the ring.

Muhammad Ali has attained mythical status. But in recent years, he has been subjected to an image makeover by corporate America as it seeks to homogenize the electrifying nature of his persona. Hauser argues that there has been a deliberate distortion of what Ali believed, said, and stood for, and that making Ali more presentable for advertising purposes by sanitizing his legacy is a disservice to history as well as to Ali himself.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 16 Sep @ 11:59 PM PDT

$3.95 -- Fool Me Once -- Harlan Coben/ January LaVoy --> 10.1 hrs/ R-4.2 --> suspense

Whispersync: Audible ($3.95) | Kindle ($9.99)

#1 New York Times bestseller Harlan Coben delivers his next impossible-to-put-down thriller

In the course of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, millions of readers have discovered Harlan Coben's thrillers, filled with his trademark edge-of-your-seat suspense and gut-wrenching emotion. In Fool Me Once, Coben once again outdoes himself.

Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya's husband, Joe - who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband - and herself.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 17 Sep @ 11:59 PM BST

£1.99 -- The Alloy of Law -- Brandon Sanderson/ Michael Kramer --> 10.8 hrs/ R-4.5 --> fantasy

The Alloy of Law --> Mistborn Series (book 4 of 6)

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The Mistborn trilogy has become a firm favourite with fantasy fans the world over. The imagination that Sanderson brought to the series and his skill at marshalling epic storylines and dramatic action, plus his ability to create vivid characters, made him a natural choice to complete Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time sequence. But with Mistborn, his standalone fantasies, and his new series, The Stormlight Archive, Sanderson has shown his bountiful talents in his own fiction.

Now he returns to the series that made his name with a new story set years after the events of Hero of Ages.

In a world recovering only slowly from evil, a world where allomancers wield immense power through their ability to unleash the magic bound up in common metals, someone who can burn metals that no-one has burned before can tip the balance....

Sanderson has the knack of giving the epic fantasy reader exactly what they want. This ability has thrown him to the forefront of the genre and the dramatic story within The Alloy of Law shows off this skill to its very best.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 17 Sep @ 11:59 PM PDT

$2.95 -- We -- Yevgeny Zamyatin/ Grover Gardner --> 6.9 hrs/ R-4.0 --> sc-fi classic

Whispersync: no deals at this time

Set in the 26th century A.D., Yevgeny Zamyatin's masterpiece describes life under the regimented totalitarian society of OneState, ruled over by the all-powerful "Benefactor." Recognized as the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984, We is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-Utopia: a great prose poem detailing the fate that might befall us all if we surrender our individual selves to some collective dream of technology and fail in the vigilance that is the price of freedom. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than 60 years' suppression.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 17 Sep

$4.99 -- Night Broken -- Patricia Briggs/ Lorelei King --> 10.1 hrs/ R-4.7 --> paranormal

Night Broken --> Mercy Thompson Series (book 8 of 9)

Whispersync: Audible ($4.49) | Kindle ($7.99)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson series has been hailed as “one of the best” (Fiction Vixen Book Reviews). Now Mercy must deal with an unwanted guest—one that brings a threat unlike anything she’s ever known.

An unexpected phone call heralds a new challenge for Mercy. Her mate Adam’s ex-wife is in trouble, on the run from a stalker. Adam isn’t the kind of man to turn away a person in need—and Mercy knows it. But with Christy holed up in Adam’s house, Mercy can’t shake the feeling that something about the situation isn’t right.

Soon her suspicions are confirmed when she learns that Christy has the furthest thing from good intentions. She wants Adam back, and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get him, including turning Adam’s pack against Mercy.

Mercy isn’t about to step down without a fight, but there’s a more dangerous threat circling. Christy’s stalker is more than a bad man—in fact, he may not be human at all. As the bodies start piling up, Mercy must put her personal troubles aside to face a creature with the power to tear her whole world apart.