FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[tubemonkey]

Halloween Offers 2016



I created a Halloween section in the OP to link back to this post. Last year, there were quite
a few freebies and sales going on. As Halloween approaches, expect more offers to drop.

Halloween Offers 2016 --> archives

• FREE -- Alien: Out of the Shadows --> details --> exp 02 Nov
  
• FREE -- Best of Edgar Allan Poe --> details / details
  
• FREE -- Bloodsuckers --> details --> expired
  
• FREE -- Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde --> details --> exp 31 Oct
  
• FREE -- Phantom of the Opera --> details

Prime Exclusive Offers --> Prime only | streaming only

• FREE -- Dracula --> details
  
• FREE -- Jaws --> details
  
• FREE -- Psycho --> details

Halloween Sales

• $3.95 -- Horror Sale (100 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Oct
  
• $6.66 -- October Thriller Sale (50 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Oct
  
• $6.99 -- Horror Downloads (119 titles) --> details

Public Domain

• FREE -- The War of the Worlds -- 1938 radio broadcast --> details
  
• FREE -- 12 Creepy Tales by Poe --> details
  
• FREE -- Carmilla --> details
  
• FREE -- Horror & Halloween Audiobooks (26 titles) --> YouTube
  
• FREE -- Six Creepy Stories by Poe --> details
  
• FREE -- The Book of Hallowe'en --> details
  
• FREE -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow --> details

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[tubemonkey]

Dang, forgot it again:

Nook Daily Find -- exp 19 Oct

$4.99 -- The Monkey's Raincoat -- Robert Crais/ Patrick Lawlor --> 8.2 hrs/ R-3.6 --> mystery

The Monkey's Raincoat --> Elvis Cole Series (book 1 of 16)

Whispersync: Audible ($3.49) | Kindle ($7.99)

When Ellen Lang's husband disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. A quiet and seemingly submissive wife, Ellen can't even write a check without him. All she wants is to get him and her son back - no questions asked.

The search for Ellen's errant husband leads Elvis into the seamier side of Hollywood. He soon learns that Mort Lang is a down-on-his-luck talent agent who associates with a schlocky movie producer, and the last place he was spotted was at a party thrown by a famous and very well-connected ex-Matador. But no one has seen him since - including his B-movie girlfriend.

At the same time the police find Mort in his parked car with four gunshots in his chest - and no kid in sight - Ellen disappears. Now nothing is what it seems, and the heat is on. It's up to Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike to find the connection between sleazy Hollywood players and an ex-Matador.

"Far and away the most satisfying private eye novel in years. Grab this one - it's a winner!" - Lawrence Block

"Is Bob Crais good? Put it this way: if they're taking you out to put you against the firing squad wall, and you want to enjoy your last moments on earth, pass on the last cigarette and ask for an Elvis Cole novel." - Harlan Ellison

"Robert B. Parker has some competition on his hands....Elvis Cole is an appealing character and Crais' style is fresh and funny." - Sue Grafton

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 20 Oct @ 11:59 PM BST

£1.99 -- Life-Changing Magic of... -- Sarah Knight/ Sarah Knight --> 3.9 hrs/ R-4.0 --> self-help

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k

Whispersync: Audible (£1.99) | Kindle (£6.99)

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

A brilliant, hilarious homage to The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, showing how to shed your mental clutter for good. Aimed at overachieving but dissatisfied people everywhere. Sarah's inspirational two-step 'NotSorry' program shows how unleashing the power of not giving a f**k will help you shed unwanted guilt and obligations to redirect time, energy and enthusiasm to your true priorities.

Sarah reveals why giving a f**k about what other people think is your worst enemy - and how to stop doing it; how to sort your f**ks into four essential categories; simple criteria for whether or not you should give a f**k (i.e., 'Does this affect anyone other than me?'); and the two keys to successfully not giving a f**k without also being an asshole.

So, get rid of the mental clutter, ditch the perfectionism and create the life you want - for good.

[tubemonkey]

Tantor Sale -- exp unknown

• $6.99 -- Horror Downloads (119 titles) --> Enter if You Dare

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 20 Oct @ 11:59 PM PDT

$2.95 -- Burying Honeysuckle Girls -- Emily Carpenter/ Kate Orsini --> 10.0 hrs/ R-4.3 --> horror

Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

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

Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother's tragic, premature death - and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea's ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She'll find you, I think, but if she doesn't, you find her.

Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn't expect him, or her politically ambitious brother, to welcome her with open arms, she's not prepared for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried family secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors' lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing history...and the part she's meant to play in it.

Gripping and visceral, this unforgettable debut delves straight into the heart of dark family secrets and into one woman's emotional journey to save herself from a sinister inheritance.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 20 Oct

$4.99 -- The Orchardist -- Amanda Coplin/ Mark Bramhall --> 14.5 hrs/ R-4.0 --> historical

Whispersync: Audible ($12.99) | Kindle ($10.99)

At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison. In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense of place, mixing tenderness and violence as she spins an engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions.

At the turn of the 20th century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the quiet, beating heart of the land he cultivates. One day, two teenage girls appear and steal his fruit from the market; they later return to the outskirts of his orchard to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and very pregnant, the girls take up on Talmadge's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion.

Just as the girls begin to trust him, men arrive in the orchard with guns, and the shattering tragedy that follows will set Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect but also to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past.

Transcribing America as it once was before railways and roads connected its corners, Amanda Coplin weaves a tapestry of solitary souls who come together in the wake of unspeakable cruelty and misfortune. She writes with breathtaking precision and empathy, and in The Orchardist she crafts an astonishing debut novel about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of an ordered life when he opens his heart and lets the world in.

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War of the Worlds

"The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on Sunday, October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It became famous for allegedly causing mass panic, although the reality of the panic is disputed as the program had relatively few listeners.

Radio Adaptations

• FREE -- War of the Worlds -- 1938 -- Orson Welles --> 59 min
  
• FREE -- War of the Worlds -- 1968 -- WKBW Buffalo --> 77 min
  
• FREE -- War of the Worlds -- 1971 -- WKBW Buffalo --> 83 min
  
• FREE -- War of the Worlds -- 1988 -- Natl Pub Radio --> 57 min

Audiobooks

• FREE -- War of the Worlds -- HG Wells/ Michael Scott --> 6.6 hrs

Articles

• The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic -- Slate (2013)
  
• 'War Of The Worlds' Started A Panic. Or Did It? -- NPR (2013)

Documentaries

• War of the Worlds Documentary -- RadioLab (2013) --> 62 min podcast
  
• War of the Worlds Documentary -- PBS WBGH (2013) --> 52 min video

Radio Adaptation Synopses

• Spoiler:

  Orson Welles - Mercury Theatre (1938)
  
  "The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on Sunday, October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode [script by Howard E. Koch] was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It became famous for allegedly causing mass panic, although the reality of the panic is disputed as the program had relatively few listeners.
  
  The first two-thirds of the one-hour broadcast was presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. The illusion of realism was furthered because the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a sustaining show without commercial interruptions, and the first break in the program came almost 30 minutes into the broadcast. Popular legend holds that some of the radio audience may have been listening to Edgar Bergen and tuned in to "The War of the Worlds" during a musical interlude, thereby missing the clear introduction that the show was a drama, but recent research suggests this only happened in rare instances.
  
  In the days following the adaptation, widespread outrage was expressed in the media. The program's news-bulletin format was described as deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast and calls for regulation by the Federal Communications Commission. The episode secured Welles's fame as a dramatist.

  WKBW Buffalo NY (1968)
  
  The War of the Worlds was a radio drama, originally aired by Buffalo, New York radio station WKBW 1520 on October 31, 1968. It was a modernized version of the original radio drama aired by CBS in 1938.
  
  Danny Kriegler served as the director of the radio drama while Jefferson Kaye served as its producer.
  
  WKBW program director Jefferson Kaye, a big fan of the original Orson Welles version from three decades earlier, wondered what The War of the Worlds would sound like if it was made using up-to-date (for 1968) radio news equipment, covering the "story" of a Martian invasion. Until this point, most radio renditions of the 1938 broadcast were simply script re-readings with different actors or had minor variations to account for significantly different geographical locations. Kaye decided to disregard the original script entirely, move the action to Grand Island, New York, and use actual WKBW disc jockeys and news reporters as actors. Other changes reflected the changing state of the industry: instead of the old-time radio programming fare of the 1930s, WKBW's War of the Worlds broadcast was interwoven into the station's top 40 programming.

  WKBW Buffalo NY (1971)
  
  Jackson Armstrong was the DJ at the beginning of this broadcast replacing Sandy Beach. This version was edited down to 63 minutes from the 78-minute original. Kaye reprised Danny Neaverth's role in the 1968 broadcast ,but added more emphasis on the aftermath of the adaptation from that year. This was rebroadcast in 1988 by the station in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the original broadcast, then in 1998 and 2001.

  National Public Radio (1988)
  
  The War of the Worlds, an NPR 50th Anniversary radio adaptation with Jason Robards, using a slightly updated version of the Howard E. Koch script.

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[Red Falcon]

Silence in Hanover Close (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Series Book 9)

The ebook is on sale for $1.99 and you can get the audiobook for $3.99 when bought\borrowed with the eBook

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0052ZEIW4

The book is in the Brooklyn and New York City Overdrive catalog and may be available at other Libraries.

When Thomas Pitt is required to reopen an unsolved murder case in exclusive Hanover Close, he doesn’t know how dangerous it will be for his family—and himself. Three years before, Robert York, an important member of the British Foreign Office, was murdered. Pitt believes a mysterious woman may hold the key to the York’s death, and his suspicion deepens when a York housemaid dies suddenly after a revealing talk with Pitt. Charlotte, meanwhile, goes undercover as a friend’s country cousin to snoop around the drawing rooms of Hanover Close. Disaster hits home when Pitt himself is accused of murdering the woman he’d been seeking and is thrown in prison. Only Charlotte and her recently widowed sister, Emily, Lady Ashworth, stand between Pitt and the gallows. Ignoring the danger, Charlotte advances her charade, diving deeper into the confidences of the York family and their friends, while Emily infiltrates the below-stairs of the York household by masquerading as Veronica York’s new ladies maid. With Pitt in prison and a murderer among the inhabitants of Hanover Close, Charlotte and Emily play a deadly game. It is only a matter of time before the killer beats them at it.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Sale -- exp 23 Oct @ 11:59 PM PT

• $6.95 -- Jack Reacher Series (14 titles)

Hit the Jack Pot!

The best of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series are just $6.95 each

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Dang, forgot it again:

Nook Daily Find -- exp 19 Oct

$4.99 -- The Monkey's Raincoat -- Robert Crais/ Patrick Lawlor --> 8.2 hrs/ R-3.6 --> mystery

Um .... so they found your raincoat, did they?

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Um .... so they found your raincoat, did they?

Yep, and just in time. It's raining here.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 21 Oct @ 11:59 PM BST

£1.99 -- The Hanging Club -- Tony Parsons/ Colin Mace --> 8.1 hrs/ R-4.5 --> detective

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

A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them. Sentenced to death is the gang member who abused vulnerable girls, the wealthy drunk driver who mowed down a child and the hate preacher calling for the murder of British troops.

As the bodies pile up and riots explode all over the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe embarks on his most dangerous investigation yet: hunting a gang of killers whom many believe to be heroes....

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 21 Oct @ 11:59 PM PDT

$4.95 -- The Obsession -- Nora Roberts/ Shannon McManus --> 14.3 hrs/ R-4.5 --> romance

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

The riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Liar.

Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous.

Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, thousands of miles away from everything she's ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up - especially the determined Xander Keaton.

Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something she's always secretly craved. But as she's learned time and again, her past is never more than a nightmare away.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 21 Oct

$4.99 -- Pacific -- Simon Winchester/ Simon Winchester --> 14.0 hrs/ R-4.6 --> history

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

Whispersync: Audible ($12.99) | Kindle ($16.99)

Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature.

As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to the New World, the Pacific Ocean defines our tomorrow. With China on the rise, so, too, are the American cities of the West coast, including Seattle, San Francisco, and the long cluster of towns down the Silicon Valley.

Today, the Pacific is ascendant. Its geological history has long transformed us—tremendous earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis—but its human history, from a Western perspective, is quite young, beginning with Magellan's sixteenth-century circumnavigation. It is a natural wonder whose most fascinating history is currently being made.

In telling the story of the Pacific, Simon Winchester takes us from the Bering Strait to Cape Horn, the Yangtze River to the Panama Canal, and to the many small islands and archipelagos that lie in between. He observes the fall of a dictator in Manila, visits aboriginals in northern Queensland, and is jailed in Tierra del Fuego, the land at the end of the world. His journey encompasses a trip down the Alaska Highway, a stop at the isolated Pitcairn Islands, a trek across South Korea and a glimpse of its mysterious northern neighbor.

Winchester's personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical understanding of the region is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.

[skinmaan]

Over at Audiobooks.com their latest batch of weekend Halloween freebies are up and ready for download. These should be free through Sunday.

• The Island by Tim Lebbon
  

  The worst has come and one man must rise to lead the fight against it...
  He thought he'd seen the worst
  
  No one knew about the Strangers from beyond Noreela, and it was the Core's job to make sure it stayed that way. Kel Boon was once an agent of the land's most secret organization, tracking, observing, and eliminating the Strangers as part of an elite Core team. But then one horrifying encounter left his superior officer - and lover - dead, along with many innocents. And Kel has been running ever since.
  But the worst was still to come
  
  Forsaking magic, living as a simple wood-carver, Kel came to the fishing village of Pavmouth Breaks to hide. But when a mysterious island appears out to sea during a cataclysmic storm, sending tidal waves to smash the village, his Core training tells him to expect the worst. How can he warn the surviving villagers - especially the beautiful young witch Namior - that the visitors sailing in from the island may not be the peace-loving pilgrims they claim to be? That this might be the invasion the Core has feared all along...and that he, Kel Boon, may be Noreela's last chance?

• Werewolf Society Trilogy by Lisa Renee Jones
  

  Includes all THREE Werewolf Society books.
  
  A series connected to the Vampire Wardens.
  
  WICKED WEREWOLF NIGHT
  
  Nico's Story
  
  A witch after his secret. A wolf after her pleasure.
  
  Nico Moore is the leader of The Werewolf Society's elite Royal Guard. Aylia Richardson is the witch who calls to the beast in Nico, but destiny has also made her the keeper of a gift that threatens the very existence of his race. To destroy this gift will destroy this woman... the only one he has ever dared to call 'mate'.
  
  WICKED WEREWOLF SECRET
  
  Kole's Story
  
  Kile Smith will soon become the leader of his pack, and not just any pack. He will lead the Royal Guard of The Werewolf Society. Before he accepts his role, he has unfinished business and her name is Sarah.
  
  Sarah's family ran the Casino Operation used as a front for The Werewolf Society, until the greed of the rebels trying to overthrow their government led to her family's murder. Kole saved her life, gave her the opportunity to live, and to deliver the vengeance she craves against the rebels.
  
  WICKED WEREWOLF PASSION
  
  Shi's Story
  
  Shi is a wolf who's been shunned by the Royal Guard he once fought for, the head of a mercenary team that does the jobs too dirty for everyone else. His newest job is to find, and kidnap, the gorgeous daughter of a high-ranking member of the coucil, and make him confess he's working for the enemy. Dirty work, but someone has to do it. Only this gorgeous wolf isn't about to believe her father is on the bad side of the fence, nor does she have plans to be anyone's captive. In fact... she might just make Shi her captive.

Remember, to claim these books either play through the preview on your desktop and click "continue," or go to your mobile device (Android or iThing) and do the same or simply click "download."

Enjoy!
skinmaan
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