FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[skinmaan]

I just got an e-mail from Downpour.com with a big sale going on (here). The sale has 100 audiobooks on sale for $4.99 each (not including the Deal of the Week, which is $4.95). The sale will be going on through 9/30/16.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 23 Sep @ 11:59 PM BST

£2.99 -- Middlemarch -- George Eliot/ Juliet Stevenson --> 35.7 hrs/ R-4.4 --> British classic

Whispersync: Audible (£2.99) | Kindle (£0.49)

Whispersync: Audible (£2.99) | Kindle (£0.49)

Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of duty and Casaubon's mean spirit? Meanwhile, in the little world of Middlemarch, the broader world is mirrored: the world of politics, social change, and reforms, as well as betrayal, greed, blackmail, ambition, and disappointment.

Dorothea Brooke is an outstanding heroine; Middlemarch is filled with characters that are vivid and true, comic and moving. It is one of the greatest novels in the English language.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

I just got an e-mail from Downpour.com with a big sale going on (here). The sale has 100 audiobooks on sale for $4.99 each (not including the Deal of the Week, which is $4.95). The sale will be going on through 9/30/16.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks - added to OP

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 23 Sep @ 11:59 PM PDT

$2.95 -- Property of a Noblewoman -- Danielle Steel/ Dan Miller --> 8.7 hrs/ R-4.4 --> contemp

Whispersync: Audible ($2.95) | Kindle ($14.99)

In Danielle Steel's thrilling novel, a woman's legacy - shaped by tragedy, fortitude, and undying devotion - transforms lives and hearts long after she is gone, and fulfills at last her most precious bequest.

Faded photographs of a glamorous couple in postwar Europe. Old letters hinting of tragic loss. And a breathtaking array of magnificent jewelry, spectacular stones in exquisite settings. These are the contents of a safe-deposit box long abandoned in a New York City bank. If no heir can be identified, the jewelry will be auctioned. But who was the woman who left such a fortune and no will?

Two people, drawn together by chance, begin to unravel the mystery. Jane Willoughby is a law clerk at the surrogate's court and Phillip Lawton a fine arts expert for Christie's auction house. They are simply doing their jobs when they come to the bank to inspect the contents of the box. But for both Jane and Phillip the search turns personal - and their efforts to reconstruct an enigmatic life will lead from New York to London and Paris, to Rome and Naples, and a series of stunning revelations.

Eighteen-year-old Marguerite Pearson left America with a broken heart in the shadow of World War II. She found a new life in Europe but forever mourned what she left behind. As the truth about Marguerite's extraordinary history - her forbidden love affair and her family's treachery - is slowly revealed, more people are drawn into the puzzle that Jane and Phillip have pieced together, and one among them will inherit the most unexpected gift of all.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 23 Sep

$5.95 -- A Christmas Blizzard -- Garrison Keillor/ Garrison Keillor --> 5.0 hrs/ R-3.6 --> humor

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy, he's not quite rich enough to expand his cache of paintings by Vincent Van Guy, the famed Dutch realist) bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. The electricity goes out, and when it does, figures from his childhood appear, and historical figures too, for a festive candlelit holiday.

In his reverie, our man reaches an epiphany worthy of the season - he hears the harkening angels sing, he is awed by the silence of the night (dead quiet: not even TV), and when he is finally rescued, leaves North Dakota resolved to simplify his life.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

I just got an e-mail from Downpour.com with a big sale going on (here). The sale has 100 audiobooks on sale for $4.99 each (not including the Deal of the Week, which is $4.95). The sale will be going on through 9/30/16.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Thanks - added to OP

I looked through the whole list. "Genre" filter was unhelpful. I think that every one of the ebooks is fiction. It would have been nice if Downpour had said something about that or, at least, had a useful genre filter.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 24 Sep @ 11:59 PM BST

£2.99 -- Hope and Red -- Jon Skovron/ Jon Skovron --> 12.8 hrs/ R-4.7 --> fantasy

Whispersync: Audible (£2.99) | Kindle (£2.99)

In a fracturing empire spread across savage seas, two people find a common cause.

Hope, the lone survivor of a village massacred by the emperor's forces, is secretly trained as a warrior and instrument of vengeance.

Red, an orphan adopted by a notorious matriarch of the criminal underworld, learns to be an expert thief and con artist. Together they will take down an empire.

Perfect for fans of Brent Weeks, Brandon Sanderson and Peter V. Brett, Hope and Red is destined to be the next fantasy blockbuster.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 24 Sep @ 11:59 PM PDT

$2.95 -- Brotherhood of Wheel -- RS Belcher/ Bronson Pinchot --> 14.9 hrs/ R-4.5 --> fantasy

The Brotherhood of the Wheel

Whispersync: Audible ($2.95) | Kindle ($9.99)

R. S. Belcher, the acclaimed author of The Six-Gun Tarot and The Shotgun Arcana, launches a gritty new urban fantasy series about the mysterious society of truckers known only as The Brotherhood of the Wheel.

In AD 1119, a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon - a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land. In time, the Knights Templar would grow in power and, ultimately, be laid low. But a small offshoot of the Templars endure and have returned to the order's original mission: to defend the roads of the world and guard those who travel on them.

Theirs is a secret line of knights: truckers, bikers, taxi hacks, state troopers, bus drivers, RV gypsies - any of the folks who live and work on the asphalt arteries of America. They call themselves the Brotherhood of the Wheel. Jimmy Aussapile is one such knight. He's driving a big rig down South when a promise to a ghostly hitchhiker sets him on a quest to find out the terrible truth behind a string of children gone missing all across the country. The road leads him to Lovina Hewitt, a skeptical Louisiana State Police investigator working the same case and, eventually, to a forgotten town that's not on any map - and to the secret behind the eerie Black-Eyed Kids said to prowl the highways.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 24 Sep

$5.99 -- Ask the Past -- Elizabeth Archibald/ G Malcolm, et al --> 2.6 hrs/ R-4.7 --> NF humor

Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice From Yesteryear

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

Chock-full of advice that's stood the test of time, Ask the Past is the tongue-in-cheek compilation of hilarious and true answers to life's questions, drawn from actual antique sourcebooks by a historian and bibliophile.

Based on the popular blog, Ask the Past offers absolutely serious yet now uproariously funny advice culled by Yale University-trained historian Archibald from the rare books she's uncovered in her research. Whether it's 18th-century tips for ridding your abode of bedbugs (sprinkle bed with gunpowder and let smolder) or a 16th-century guide on how to score (do not pass gas), Ask the Past is a wildly entertaining take on classic advice books, a postmillennial Miss Manners for the overeducated, overread, and overly ironic.

Ask the Past is the perfect gift full of tips, tricks, and curiosities that no one can resist.

[skinmaan]

Audible has a new freebie for pre-order. If you're interested in "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff" by Pappy Pariah, you can pre-order the title here.

By turns tender and terrifying, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff captures America on the verge of political upheaval in 2016 and introduces us to a man who just might be able to save us from the oncoming horror. Yes, Bob Honey - carnival carny, sewage specialist, and government operative, among other occupations - has spent years in preparation, crisscrossing the world in the employ of a mysterious government program that pays in small bills. He stopped in New Orleans to help Katrina victims; traveled to Baghdad, Beirut, South Sudan, and elsewhere on sewage emergencies; and submerged himself in the Pacific Ocean in search of sea life - all while living out of a quiet house on a residential street in Woodview, California, where he sometimes disturbs the neighbors with the sound of his lawn mower.

Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff marks the debut of a dazzling literary talent. With comic bravado and an urgent agenda, Pappy Pariah has created a haunting, hilarious vision of an American middle-aged man with a mission - a loner struggling to find truth amid the chaos of a political campaign that threatens to destroy the values of the country he loves.

Bringing Pariah's revelatory prose to life is actor, director, and filmmaker Sean Penn (Mystic River, Milk, Dead Man Walking), whose knack for choosing nuanced roles and delivering emotionally rich character studies finds an apt bedfellow in Bob Honey. Penn's distinct voice - here, an expertly crafted tightrope walk between oddball jocularity and grave prophecy - perfectly captures the caustic truth telling of Pariah's message. With brazen and unabashed affection for Pariah's hero, Penn takes the story of Bob Honey to dizzying new heights.

About the author: Pappy Pariah was disputably born in Summerton Feathers, Iowa, in the year of our Lord 1960. He has written voluminous travelogues and articles under a pseudonym for many mainstream American press outlets. At the age of 13, his appendix exploded while he was playing flag football, and it was during treatment for extreme peritonitis that he was first driven to put pen to paper. This is his first work of fiction.

The book is scheduled to be released on October 18, and I'm not sure it will be free after that. Considering the subject matter, though, it's likely to be free through the first Tuesday in November.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Audible has a new freebie for pre-order. If you're interested in "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff" by Pappy Pariah, you can pre-order the title here.

The book is scheduled to be released on October 18, and I'm not sure it will be free after that. Considering the subject matter, though, it's likely to be free through the first Tuesday in November.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks - added to OP and Free Audible Titles

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I looked through the whole list. "Genre" filter was unhelpful. I think that every one of the ebooks is fiction. It would have been nice if Downpour had said something about that or, at least, had a useful genre filter.

It's a fictitious world out there

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

It's a fictitious world out there

So . . . . you . . . . you're not a real tubemonkey????? 

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 25 Sep @ 11:59 PM BST

£1.99 -- Red Dwarf -- Rob Grant, et al/ Chris Barrie --> 8.3 hrs/ R-4.6 --> sci-fi

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers --> Red Dwarf Series (book 1 of 2)

Whispersync: no deals at this time

When Lister got drunk, he really got drunk!

After celebrating his birthday with a Monopoly-board pub crawl around London, he came to in a burger bar on one of Saturns moons, wearing a lady's pink crimplene hat and a pair of yellow fishing waders, with no money and a passport in the name of "Emily Berkenstein".

Joining the Space Corps seemed a good idea. Red Dwarf, a clapped out spaceship, was bound for Earth. It never made it, leaving Lister as the last remaining member of the human race, three million light years from Earth, with only a dead man, a senile computer, and a highly evolved cat for company.

They begin their journey home. On the way, they'll break the light barrier. They'll meet Einstein, Archimedes, God, and Norman Wisdom...and discover an alternative plane of reality.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 25 Sep @ 11:59 PM BST

£1.99 -- Red Dwarf -- Rob Grant, et al/ Chris Barrie --> 8.3 hrs/ R-4.6 --> sci-fi

They need to make that the US Daily Deal!