FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[abqkjh]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

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

It's always raining there, that's why I moved to the SW

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

It's always raining there, that's why I moved to the SW

I hadn't noticed ...and I moved from the SW to NW

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

It's always raining there, that's why I moved to the SW

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I hadn't noticed ...and I moved from the SW to NW

I don't get it. All of these big companies start out there--Starbucks, Amazon, Boeing (yes, I know that the HQ is in Chicago, but you know what I'm saying), Microsoft . . . .

I've got a theory. In the NW it rains so much that the kids there can't go outside to play. So, they stay indoors and create stuff. Little stuff, at first, but eventually computer operating systems, a line of excellent coffees from all over the world, MobileRead moderators . . . . well, you get the point.

BTW--it rains here in Florida (the "Sunshine State") almost as many days of the year as in the NW. The difference is, when it rains in Florida, it very often does so for about 5 minutes, and then the sun comes out for the rest of the day.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by 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
  
• Werewolf Society Trilogy by Lisa Renee Jones
  

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
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks - added to OP

[tubemonkey]

ChristianAudio Sale -- exp 31 Oct

$4.99 -- Audiobooks for Mom (24 titles)

Shop this selection of audiobooks for moms on sale for only $4.99 each. Our 4 Credit Membership gets you 4 at this price. Browse the sale!

Hurry! The Sale ends October 31st.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 22 Oct @ 11:59 PM BST

£2.99 -- Fingerprints of the Gods -- Graham Hancock/ G Hancock --> 18.5 hrs/ R-4.8 --> history

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues

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Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of listeners throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society.

An intellectual detective story, this unique history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 22 Oct @ 11:59 PM BST

£2.99 -- Fingerprints of the Gods -- Graham Hancock/ G Hancock --> 18.5 hrs/ R-4.8 --> history

Hope it is an Audible special here in the Colonies one of these days. Sounds interesting.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 22 Oct @ 11:59 PM PDT

$3.95 -- How Great Sci-Fi Works -- Great Courses/ Gary Wolfe --> 12.5 hrs/ R-4.4 --> writing

How Great Science Fiction Works -- Prof Gary K Wolfe

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

Robots, spaceships, futuristic megacities, planets orbiting distant stars. These icons of science fiction are now in our daily news. Science fiction, once maligned as mere pulp, has motivated cutting-edge scientific research, inspired new technologies, and changed how we view everyday life - and its themes and questions permeate popular culture. Take an unparalleled look at the influence, history, and greatest works of science fiction with illuminating insights and fascinating facts about this wide-ranging genre. If you think science fiction doesn't have anything to do with you, this course deserves your attention. And if you love science fiction, you can't miss this opportunity to trace the arc of science fiction's evolution, understand the hallmarks of great science fiction, and delve deeply into classics while finding some new favorites.

These 24 captivating lectures reveal the qualities that make science fiction an enduring phenomenon that has been steadily gaining popularity. You'll grasp the context and achievements of authors like Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. LeGuin, and many more. You'll experience the wonder, horror, and incredible imagination of works like Frankenstein, the Foundation series, Stranger in a Strange Land, and dozens of more recent stories as well. You'll also see this genre's influence in movies like Star Wars and TV shows like The Twilight Zone.

Science fiction can take us places in time and space where no other form of fiction can - outer space, the far future, alternate universes, unfathomable civilizations. The best science fiction expands our imaginations and makes its mark on our reality. And while few writers would ever claim to predict the future, sometimes authors get it almost eerily right: Gernsback describing radar in 1911, Bradbury describing giant flatscreen TVs in 1951, Gibson inventing "cyberspace" in 1984, and so on.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 22 Oct

$7.95 -- Wild Sky -- Suzanne Brockmann, et al/ M Brockmann --> 11.9 hrs/ R-4.4 --> YA sci-fi

Wild Sky --> Night Sky Series (book 2 of 2)

Whispersync: Audible ($3.49) | Kindle ($6.70)

Destiny has chosen Skylar, and now it might destroy her.

Skylar is a girl with extraordinary power—a girl with a mission to use her Greater-Than gifts to stop the makers of Destiny from getting people hooked on their deadly drug. But Sky is still mastering her new abilities, and her first mission to destroy a Destiny lab leaves her best friend addicted to the drug. For a few days Cal will be able to walk again—until it kills him. Time is running out for Sky to save the world without sacrificing her friends—to become truly Greater-Than.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann and her daughter Melanie Brockmann have written a pulse-pounding novel set in a near future both fantastic and frightening.

[Red Falcon]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Hope it is an Audible special here in the Colonies one of these days. Sounds interesting.

There is a lot of Graham Hancock stuff on Youtube.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Red Falcon

There is a lot of Graham Hancock stuff on Youtube.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll check it out right now.

[tubemonkey]

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

£2.99 -- Demelza -- Winston Graham/ Clare Corbett --> 14.5 hrs/ R-4.8 --> historical romance

Demelza: A Novel of Cornwall 1788-1790 --> Poldark Series (book 2 of 12)

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The second book in the legendary Poldark series. Demelza Carne, the impoverished miner's daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. But the events of these turbulent years test their marriage and their love.

Demelza's efforts to adapt to the ways of the gentry - and her husband - bring her confusion and heartache despite her joy in the birth of their first child. Ross begins a bitter struggle for the rights of the mining communities - and sows the seed of an enduring enmity with powerful George Warleggan.

[tubemonkey]

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

$3.95 -- Are We Smart Enough... -- Frans de Waal/ Sean Runnette --> 10.7 hrs/ R-4.5 --> biology

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

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From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.

What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded - or even disproved outright - by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools; elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language; or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame.

Based on research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and of course chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence. He offers a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are - and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long. People often assume a cognitive ladder from lower to higher forms, with our own intelligence at the top. But what if it is more like a bush, with cognition taking different, often incomparable forms? Would you presume yourself dumber than a squirrel because you're less adept at recalling the locations of hundreds of buried acorns? Or would you judge your perception of your surroundings as more sophisticated than that of an echolocating bat?

De Waal reviews the rise and fall of the mechanistic view of animals and opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed. De Waal's landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal - and human - intelligence.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 23 Oct

$3.99 -- Part Time Cowboy -- Maisey Yates/ Lillian Thayer --> 9.7 hrs/ R-4.1 --> romance

Part Time Cowboy --> Copper Ridge Series (book 1 of 6)

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A onetime bad girl comes home to small-town Oregon in the first in a sexy, heartfelt new series from USA TODAY bestselling author Maisey Yates

Sadie Miller isn't expecting any welcome-home parades on her return to Copper Ridge. Least of all from part-time rancher, full-time lawman Eli Garrett. The straitlaced, impossibly hot deputy sheriff glares at her as if she's the same teenage hoodlum who fled town ten years ago. But running from her demons has brought Sadie full circle, ready to make a commitment at last. Not to a man, but to a bed-and-breakfast. On Garrett land. Okay, so her plan has a tiny flaw…

Eli works too hard to let a blonde ball of trouble mess up his town. But keeping an eye on Sadie makes it tough to keep his hands off her. And if she's so wrong for him, why does being with her feel so right?

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Audiobooks.com -- exp 23 Oct

• FREE -- The Island --> details
  
• FREE -- Werewolf Society Trilogy --> details