FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 20 Feb

• Audible ---> $5.95 -- Miles: The Autobiography -- Miles Davis --> biography
  
• BN Nook --> erotica (not appropriate for MR)

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Downpour -- exp 20 Feb

• $1.99 -- Brave New World --> details
  
• $5.95 -- Watch Your Back --> details
  
• SALE --- Weekly Deals (10 titles) --> titles change frequently

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 21 Feb

• £1.99 -- The Devil's Work -- Mark Edwards --> thriller

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 21 Feb

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- An Unattractive Vampire -- Jim McDoniel --> fantasy
  
• BN Nook --> $3.99 -- Under the Never Sky -- Veronica Rossi --> YA dystopian

[Catlady]

Audible has a new first-in-series sale, members only, through Monday, February 27, at 11:59 PM PT. Prices start at $4.95.

Audible doesn't mention it, but it looks like series starters not explicitly included in the sales listings are also marked down, to half of list price.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Audible has a new first-in-series sale, members only, through Monday, February 27, at 11:59 PM PT. Prices start at $4.95.

Audible doesn't mention it, but it looks like series starters not explicitly included in the sales listings are also marked down, to half of list price.

Thanks - will add to OP

[tubemonkey]

Penguin Random House -- Free Monthly Offer -- exp 24 Feb @ 11:59 AM ET

FREE -- Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat -- Edward Moore/ A Ojo, et al --> 12.4 hrs --> literary


So far, there's been no notice for this month's freebie. I didn't see it early yesterday but did see it a little bit ago. These giveaways are valid for 48 hours, so this one should expire either 48 hours from noon ET yesterday or noon ET today.

Edit: PRH finally posted this deal (22 Feb). See below for details.

The monthly Free Download is here! We're celebrating Black History Month with a giveaway of the audio of THE SUPREMES AT EARL'S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT by Edward Kelsey Moore, author.

Click here to download: https://app.snapapp.com/TheSupremes

NOTE: You can also listen on your phone when you download the Volumes app. Free on the App Store℠ for iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® in the U.S. and Canada.

Offer is for 48 hours and ends on February 24, 2017 at 11:59 AM ET.

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

Meet Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean in the New York Times best-selling novel . . .

Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat is home away from home for this inseparable Plainview, Indiana, trio. Dubbed “the Supremes” by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they weather life’s storms together for the next four decades. Now, during their most challenging year yet, dutiful, proud, and talented Clarice must struggle to keep up appearances as she deals with her husband’s humiliating infidelities. Beautiful, fragile Barbara Jean is rocked by the tragic reverberations of a youthful love affair. And fearless Odette engages in the most terrifying battle of her life while contending with the idea that she has inherited more than her broad frame from her notorious pot-smoking mother, Dora.

Through marriage, children, happiness, and the blues, these strong, funny women gather each Sundayat the same table at Earl’s diner for delicious food, juicy gossip, occasional tears, and uproarious banter.

With wit and love, style and sublime talent, Edward Kelsey Moore brings together four intertwined love stories, three devoted allies, and two sprightly earthbound spirits in a big-hearted debut novel that embraces the lives of people you will never forget.

[GtrsRGr8]

The Whispersync deal for the ebook below is a must-post. Why? The ebook has very good ratings; it's long (think: great bang for the buck), making for a nearly 19 hour audio; and with a huge markdown on it right now the Whispersync sync deal is a super price, especially compared to the audio alone at Audible. And with the Whispersync deal you get the ebook "free"!

The ebook is a reprint edition, reprinted from an edition of 25 years ago, I think. I don't know what differences, if any, there are between the two.

Title: The Berlin Wall: August 13, 1961 - November 9, 1989.
Genre: Non-Fiction (History/Politics/Germany).
Author(s): Frederick Taylor.
Price: $5.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $26.98 (1 credit).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.3 stars/57 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.20/73 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 514/18 hours and 57 minutes.
Narrator(s): Daniel Philpott.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/History/Th...ok/B0065OBNOM/.
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Berlin-Wall-A.../dp/B000RH0E2U.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: it became an imposing 103-mile-long wall guarded by three hundred watchtowers. A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism—totalitarianism and freedom—that would stand for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the high-risk fault line between East and West on which rested the fate of all humanity. Many brave people risked their lives to overcome this lethal barrier, and some paid the ultimate price.

In this captivating work, sure to be the definitive history on the subject, Frederick Taylor weaves together official history, archival materials and personal accounts to tell the complete story of the Wall's rise and fall, from the postwar political tensions that created a divided Berlin to the internal and external pressures that led to the Wall's demise. In addition, he explores the geopolitical ramifications as well as the impact the wall had on ordinary lives that is still felt today. For the first time the entire world faced the threat of imminent nuclear apocalypse, a fear that would be eased only when the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on the historic night of November 9, 1989.

Gripping and authoritative, The Berlin Wall is the first comprehensive account of a divided city and its people in a time when the world seemed to stand permanently on the edge of destruction.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 27 Feb

$1.99 -- Queen of the Night -- Alexander Chee/ Lisa Flanagan --> 19.1 hrs --> literary

The Queen of the Night

From a writer praised by Junot Díaz as “the fire, in my opinion, and the light,” comes a mesmerizing novel that follows one woman’s rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva.

Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer’s chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all.

As she mines her memories for clues, she recalls her life as an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept up into the glitzy, gritty world of Second Empire Paris. To survive, she transformed herself from hippodrome rider to courtesan, from empress’ maid to debut singer, all the while weaving a complicated web of romance, obligation, and political intrigue.

Featuring a cast of characters drawn from history, The Queen of the Night follows Lilliet as she moves closer to the truth behind the mysterious opera and the role that could secure her reputation—or destroy her with the secrets it reveals.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 27 Feb

$5.95 -- Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance -- Lois Bujold/ Grover Gardner --> 16.6 hrs --> sci-fi

Vorkosigan Saga (16 titles)

Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor’s life as a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Cousin to imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, Ivan is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr, far from the byzantine court politics of his home system. But when an old friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks Ivan to protect an attractive young woman who may be on the hit list of a criminal syndicate, his chivalrous nature takes over. It seems danger and adventure have once more found Captain Vorpatril.

Tej Arqua and her half-sister and servant Rish are fleeing the violent overthrow of their clan on free-for-all planet Jackson’s Whole. Now it seems Tej may possess a secret of which even she may not be aware—a secret that could corrupt the heart of a highly regarded Barrayaran family and provide the final advantage for the thugs who seek to overthrow Tej’s homeworld. But none of Tej’s formidable adversaries have counted on Ivan Vorpatril. For behind Ivan’s façade of wry and self-effacing humor lies a true and cunning protector who will never leave a distressed lady in the lurch—making the ultimate sacrifice to keep her from harm: the treasured and hard-won freedom from his own fate as a scion of Barrayar.

[skinmaan]

I don't usually post streaming audio, but since I've been encouraged to do so, here goes. BBC currently has "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead available for streaming here. It should be available for the next 28 days.

The Newest Oprah Book Club 2016 Selection

From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood-where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned-Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.

In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor-engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.

Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey-hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Penguin Random House -- Free Monthly Offer -- exp unknown @ 11:59 AM ET

FREE -- Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat -- Edward Moore/ A Ojo, etc --> 12.4 hrs --> literary


So far, there's been no notice for this month's freebie. I didn't see it early yesterday but did see it a little bit ago. These giveaways are valid for 48 hours, so this one should expire either 48 hours from noon ET yesterday or noon ET today.

Thanks for posting. You'd know I check every day and they wait until I go out of town.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

I don't usually post streaming audio, but since I've been encouraged to do so, here goes. BBC currently has "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead available for streaming here. It should be available for the next 28 days.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks for posting it. I planned on doing it later tonight, but you beat me to it.

Here's some additional info on this book. It's an abridged version coming in at 2.5 hours. The unabridged version is 10.8 hours long. There are 10 episodes, 15 minutes each.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 22 Feb

• £2.99 -- Somme: Into the Breach -- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore --> NF history

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

I don't usually post streaming audio, but since I've been encouraged to do so, here goes. BBC currently has "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead available for streaming here. It should be available for the next 28 days.



Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

I don't usually post questions about streaming audio, but since you broached the subject, here goes.

Have any of ya'll had any experience using a software program (there are several out there, some of which I think are freeware or shareware) that supposedly record the sounds that come out of a computer? So, for example, if you have a free streaming audio that's not available as a free download, you can still save it on your computer.

And is there anyone knowledgeable about the legality of using these programs or downloading items that a website doesn't want you to be able to download, but only to stream?

I've wondered about both of those questions for quite some time, but never seen an answer to them (I know that there's bound to be a better thread for this question on MobileRead than this one, but I like you guys better ).