FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[tubemonkey]

Amazon Whispersync -- Monthly Offer -- exp 31 May

• FREE -- The Beautiful and Damned -- F Scott Fitzgerald/ Wm Dufris --> 13.0 hrs --> classic

Whispersync: Kindle (free) | Audible (free)

F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, "marks an advance over This Side of Paradise," Edmund Wilson wrote. "The style is more nearly mature and the subject more nearly unified, and there are scenes that are more convincing than any in his previous fiction."

Published in 1922, it chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, it is also a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth. The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, "was all true."

Lyrical, romantic, yet cruelly incisive, it signaled a new stage in Fitzgerald's career. With The Beautiful and Damned, H.L. Mencken commented in The Smart Set, "Fitzgerald ceases to be a wunderkind, and begins to come into his maturity.

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Downpour -- exp 01 May

• $1.99 -- Marine One --> details
  
• $3.95 -- NK3 --> details
  
• SALE --- Weekly Deals (10 titles) --> titles change frequently

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

ChristianAudio -- Monthly Offers -- exp 31 May
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FREE -- Martyn Lloyd-Jones -- Steven Lawson/ Simon Vance --> 4.2 hrs --> biography
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For some reason, when I follow your link to the free audiobook (Martyn Lloyd-Jones), I get a different audiobook (that's not a special). The coding looks fine. Of course, you could be hiding the correct URL somewhere--you have been known to do that, you know.

This link does work on my computer.

While I'm on the subject, I love the way that ChristianAudio has simplified a person getting their freebies of the month. If I remember correctly, you used to have to log in--with an email address or maybe a user name, and a password (which I always would forget because for some reason I had a unique one for this website). Then, maybe you would be sent a link by email or something. Now it is easy peasy. Now, they keep me logged in, and I just click a button to have it added to my library. Sweet.

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I feel like MobileReaders aren't generally much into sports, but I had to post this Whispersync deal for those who are.

Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty, by Jeff Pearlman. 4.4 (161) at Amazon. 420 pages. Whispersync deal only $4.98.

Not a Cowboys fan myself, but I'd enjoy reading and/or listening about Tom Landry. He was a great coach and I believe that if you look in the dictionary under "class," there will be a picture of him. He exuded it, IMHO.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001F76U0G

[tubemonkey]

Amazon Alexa -- Monthly Offer -- exp 31 May

• FREE -- The Black Echo -- Michael Connelly/ Dick Hill --> 13.8 hrs --> detective
  
• FREE -- A Darkness More than Night -- M Connelly/ R Davidson --> 13.1 hrs --> detective

Note: these titles are borrowed, you do not own them -- just ask: "Alexa, what's free from Audible?"

Free Audible books

Spoiler:

"Alexa, what's free from Audible?"

For fans of the detective Harry Bosch, Audible is offering two books from the series. For the month of May, enjoy The Black Echo and A Darkness More than Night for free on your Echo devices.

To get started, ask Alexa...

• "Read The Black Echo"
• "Read A Darkness More than Night"

Publisher's Summaries

Spoiler:

The Black Echo --> Harry Bosch Series 1 of 21

For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch - hero, maverick, nighthawk - the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal.

The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell. Now, Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city to the torturous link that must be uncovered, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.

Joining with an enigmatic and seductive female FBI agent, pitted against enemies inside his own department, Bosch must make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, as he tracks down a killer whose true face will shock him.

A Darkness More than Night --> Harry Bosch Series 7 of 21

Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy.

Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It's a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff's office is asking McCaleb to take a quick look at the murder book to see if he turns up something they've missed.

McCaleb's first reading of the crime scene leads him to look for a methodical killer with a taste for rituals and revenge. As his quick look accelerates into a full-sprint investigation, the two crimes - his murdered loner and Bosch's movie director - begin to overlap strangely. With one unsettling revelation after another, they merge, becoming one impossible, terrifying case, involving almost inconceivable calculation. McCaleb believes he has unmasked the most frightening killer ever to cross his sights. But his investigation tangles with Bosch's lines, and the two men find themselves at odds in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.

[tubemonkey]

Audible - the following free offer has been extended for another month:

• FREE -- Ponzi Supernova --> details --> exp 31 May

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 02 May

• £1.99 -- The Breakdown -- BA Paris --> suspense

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 02 May

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Suggestible You -- Erik Vance --> NF psychology
  
• BN Nook --> $7.99 -- Hoodwinked -- Karen Ehman, et al --> NF parenting

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Moved.

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible - the following free offer has been extended for another month:

• FREE -- Ponzi Supernova --> details --> exp 31 May

I don't know . . . . it smells like a Ponzi deal to me.

[GtrsRGr8]

The Whispersync deal is only $4.98, for The Scourge of the Swastika: A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II, by Lord Russell of Liverpool.

I've gotten into the pattern of not giving book descriptions, but I want--maybe need--to quote this one:
When discussing the German war crimes of the Second World War, modern histories have focused on the Holocaust. While the Final Solution was a unique and unparalleled horror, German atrocities did not end there. The Nazis terrorized their own citizens, tortured and murdered POWs, and carried out countless executions throughout occupied Europe. Lord Russell of Liverpool was part of the legal team that brought Nazi war criminals to justice, and from this first-hand position, he published the sensational, bestselling The Scourge of the Swastika in 1954. Liverpool shows that the actions of the Third Reich, including the Holocaust, were illegal, not merely immoral.

According to BookBub,
Lord Russell, Britain’s legal adviser at Nuremberg, was forced to resign after penning a book about German war crimes. Here is the controversial work that ended his career — a shocking exposé of atrocities committed under the Nazi regime.
Although I have not independently verified the information about Lord Russell being deep-sixed over his book, I have a lot of trust in BookBub's statements.

May I make a short political statement? Thank you. I think that far more defendants at Nuremberg and other post-War trials (U.S. Army, et al.) should have been hung. Same goes for Japanese who participated in atrocities. There was far too much leniency, IMHO. If Lord Russell was fired for revealing the truth, shame on those responsible for firing him!

Rated 4.2 at Amazon; a very good 3.93 (162) at GoodReads.

87% off of the digital list price--$1.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Scourge-Swast.../dp/B004UMRYDU.

[Red Falcon]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

The Whispersync deal is only $4.98, for The Scourge of the Swastika: A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II, by Lord Russell of Liverpool.

I've gotten into the pattern of not giving book descriptions, but I want--maybe need--to quote this one:
When discussing the German war crimes of the Second World War, modern histories have focused on the Holocaust. While the Final Solution was a unique and unparalleled horror, German atrocities did not end there. The Nazis terrorized their own citizens, tortured and murdered POWs, and carried out countless executions throughout occupied Europe. Lord Russell of Liverpool was part of the legal team that brought Nazi war criminals to justice, and from this first-hand position, he published the sensational, bestselling The Scourge of the Swastika in 1954. Liverpool shows that the actions of the Third Reich, including the Holocaust, were illegal, not merely immoral.


According to BookBub,
Lord Russell, Britain’s legal adviser at Nuremberg, was forced to resign after penning a book about German war crimes. Here is the controversial work that ended his career — a shocking exposé of atrocities committed under the Nazi regime.
Although I have not independently verified the information about Lord Russell being deep-sixed over his book, I have a lot of trust in BookBub's statements.

May I make a short political statement? Thank you. I think that far more defendants at Nuremberg and other post-War trials (U.S. Army, et al.) should have been hung. Same goes for Japanese who participated in atrocities. There was far too much leniency, IMHO. If Lord Russell was fired for revealing the truth, shame on those responsible for firing him!

Rated 4.2 at Amazon; a very good 3.93 (162) at GoodReads.

87% off of the digital list price--$1.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Scourge-Swast.../dp/B004UMRYDU.

This book gives a blow by blow account of not only Nazi atrocities in regards to the victims of the Holocaust but it's own people. The SS and other organizations acted with complete impunity against anyone who did not tow the line. This include both the people they occupied and there own citizens. It is a gut wrenching read that shows how despicable people can be given the opportunity.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

The Whispersync deal is only $4.98, for The Scourge of the Swastika: A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II, by Lord Russell of Liverpool.

I've gotten into the pattern of not giving book descriptions, but I want--maybe need--to quote this one:
When discussing the German war crimes of the Second World War, modern histories have focused on the Holocaust. While the Final Solution was a unique and unparalleled horror, German atrocities did not end there. The Nazis terrorized their own citizens, tortured and murdered POWs, and carried out countless executions throughout occupied Europe. Lord Russell of Liverpool was part of the legal team that brought Nazi war criminals to justice, and from this first-hand position, he published the sensational, bestselling The Scourge of the Swastika in 1954. Liverpool shows that the actions of the Third Reich, including the Holocaust, were illegal, not merely immoral.

According to BookBub,
Lord Russell, Britain’s legal adviser at Nuremberg, was forced to resign after penning a book about German war crimes. Here is the controversial work that ended his career — a shocking exposé of atrocities committed under the Nazi regime.
Although I have not independently verified the information about Lord Russell being deep-sixed over his book, I have a lot of trust in BookBub's statements.

May I make a short political statement? Thank you. I think that far more defendants at Nuremberg and other post-War trials (U.S. Army, et al.) should have been hung. Same goes for Japanese who participated in atrocities. There was far too much leniency, IMHO. If Lord Russell was fired for revealing the truth, shame on those responsible for firing him!

Rated 4.2 at Amazon; a very good 3.93 (162) at GoodReads.

87% off of the digital list price--$1.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Scourge-Swast.../dp/B004UMRYDU.

Reading the "free sample" of the book (by clicking on the book cover, still on Amazon, not on my kindle): the introduction is written by a guy who was sued for libel for stating that Lord Russell was fired for writing the book. Russel's contention was that he was given a choice of surpressing his book, or resigning. He resigned instead. (He also won the libel suit.) Germany was just being resuscitated at that point, so bad-mouthing them was thought a bad thing. Right NOW, we really need to know this stuff, so I'm glad he published.
Looks interesting.

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Reading the "free sample" of the book (by clicking on the book cover, still on Amazon, not on my kindle): the introduction is written by a guy who was sued for libel for stating that Lord Russell was fired for writing the book. Russel's contention was that he was given a choice of surpressing his book, or resigning. He resigned instead. (He also won the libel suit.) Germany was just being resuscitated at that point, so bad-mouthing them was thought a bad thing. Right NOW, we really need to know this stuff, so I'm glad he published.
Looks interesting.

Thanks.

And I'm glad to have some evidence that BookBub is on the up and up. I've checked their list of deals for the day for years, and had no reason to think that they took liberties with the truth. But I hate to state things that are not correct, even if it's because I've been snookered by someone else.

[tubemonkey]

LearnOutLoud -- Monthly Offer -- exp 31 May

• FREE -- The Madman -- Kahlil Gibran/ Antonia Bath --> 45 min --> religious poetry

The Madman: His Parables and Poems

Download our audio book: The Madman: His Parables and Poems by Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran. Gibran also authored one of the bestselling books of the 20th century: The Prophet. The Madman was published in 1918, and this work introduced Americans to the thought-provoking poems and parables of Kahlil Gibran. This audio book is unabridged and, while only 45 minutes in length, it probably demands a second listen in order to better comprehend this clever, enigmatic work.