FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

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Daily Deals -- exp 31 Jul

• Audible ---> $5.95 -- Not Alone -- Craig Falconer --> sci-fi
  
• BN Nook --> $4.95 -- Boston Strong -- Casey Sherman, et al --> true crime

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Last Day -- Monthly Offers -- exp 31 Jul


Amazon Alexa

• FREE -- Ponzi Supernova --> details | details

Amz Whispersync

• FREE --- Far from the Madding Crowd --> details
  
• $1.99 -- Kindle for Samsung (4 titles) --> details

ChristianAudio

• FREE --- Risen --> details
  
• $4.98 -- other Related Titles (8 titles) --> details

LearnOutLoud

• FREE -- The Jefferson Bible --> details

Penguin Random House

• FREE -- We the People Listen --> details

Tantor Media

• FREE -- Main Street --> details

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Last Day -- Downpour -- exp 31 Jul

• $1.99 -- Murder in the Bayou --> details
  
• $5.95 -- Borne --> details
  
• SALE --- Weekly Deals (~10 titles) --> titles change frequently

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 01 Aug

• £2.99 -- Good Me Bad Me -- Ali Land --> suspense

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Daily Deals -- exp 01 Aug

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Everything You Told Me -- Lucy Dawson --> suspense
  
• BN Nook --> $2.99 -- Marley & Me -- John Grogan --> memoir

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Tantor Media -- Monthly Offer -- exp 31 Aug

• FREE -- Utopia -- Sir Thomas More/ Simon Prebble --> 4.2 hrs --> political fiction

Short Synopsis
Sir Thomas More's Utopia describes a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean that possesses a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system.

Full Synopsis
Sir Thomas More's Utopia has spurred debate, reflection, and critical thinking since its original publication in the sixteenth century. More's fictional island of Utopia provides an exploration of issues that shook him and his contemporaries and that continue to be problematic in the modern day. The details of More's utopian society, such as the permissibility of euthanasia and comments on chastity in the priesthood, combine with proposals of coexisting varied religions to put forth a work that incorporates the totality of More's religious, sociological, and philosophical talents.

This version of Utopia is the translation by Bishop Gilbert Burnet.

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ChristianAudio -- Monthly Offers -- exp 31 Aug

• FREE -- Everything Is Possible -- Jen Bricker/ Jen Bricker --> 3.8 hrs --> memoir

Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams

Born without Legs, She Inspires Others to Overcome

Jen Bricker was born without legs. Shocked and uncertain they could care for her, her biological parents gave her up for adoption. In her loving adoptive home, there was just one simple rule: "Never say 'can't.'" And pretty soon, there was nothing this small but mighty powerhouse set her sights on that she couldn't conquer: roller-skating, volleyball, power tumbling, and spinning from silk ribbons thirty feet in the air.

Everything Is Possible is her incredible story--a story of God working out his plan for her life from beforeday one. Readers follow Jen from the challenges of growing up different to holding captive audiences numbering in the tens of thousands. Everything Is Possible shows readers what they can accomplish when they remove the words coincidence and limitation from their vocabulary. Filled with heart and spirit, as well as Jen's wit, wisdom, and no-holds-barred honesty, this inspiring true story points the way to purpose and joy. Foreword by Nick Vujicic.

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Amazon Alexa -- Monthly Offer -- exp 31 Aug

• FREE -- Cosmos -- Carl Sagan/ LeVar Burton, et al --> 14.5 hrs --> astronomy

Note: streaming only

"Alexa, what's free from Audible?"

Each month Audible offers free audiobooks on Echo devices.

Free for the month of August, listen to Cosmos by Carl Sagan, and voyage through the vast oceans of space and time. Just ask, read Cosmos.

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan's collaborator, Ann Druyan, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science.

Includes introductory music: "Heaven and Hell" by Vangelis from Cosmos: A Personal Voyage used with permission from Druyan-Sagan Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Penguin Random House Free Offers --> Aug 2017

Note: these free offers are subject to change without notice

• FREE -- Short Stories --> details
  
• FREE -- Lyra's Oxford --> details --> expired
  
  
• TryAudiobooks (8 categories)
  
• FREE -- Pride and Prejudice --> details
  
• FREE -- Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life --> details
  
• FREE -- TBA
  
• FREE -- My Father's Dragon --> details
  
• FREE -- The Lean Startup --> details
  
• FREE -- The Knockoff --> details
  
• FREE -- TBA
  
• FREE -- TBA

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Alright nonfiction lovers (and you know who you are) I stumbled on just the freebie for you. I usually resist podcast-style homebrew audiobooks. I also tend to shy away from books read by the author. In this case, the book sounds good, and it is available (for purchase) on Audible. If you'd like to check out "Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship" by Bill Hammack, you can get it for free here.

Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.

Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.

The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships, but R.101 flew again, its scrap melted down and sold to the Zeppelin Company, who used it to create LZ 129, an airship even more mighty than R.101—and better known as the Hindenburg.

Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.

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Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 07 Aug

• $1.99 -- His Bloody Project -- Graeme Burnet/ Antony Ferguson --> 10.4 hrs --> thriller

His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country’s finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence. Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows.

Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible and original story about the provisional nature of truth, even when the facts seem clear. His Bloody Project is a mesmerizing literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary.

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Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 07 Aug

• $2.95 -- The Metamorphosis -- Franz Kafka/ Ralph Cosham --> 2.1 hrs --> classic

“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.”

With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.

A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W. H. Auden wrote, “Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 02 Aug

• £2.99 -- 4 3 2 1 -- Paul Auster --> contemp

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Daily Deals -- exp 02 Aug

• Audible ---> $1.95 -- Does This Baby Make... -- Dan Bucatinsky --> memoir
  
• BN Nook --> $3.95 -- Cracking the Code to a... -- Evan Pellett --> career skills

* Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad

* Cracking the Code to a Successful Interview: 8 Secrets from a Top-Level Recruiter

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LearnOutLoud -- Monthly Offer -- exp 31 Aug

• FREE -- Creative Mind -- Ernest Holmes/ Seth Anderson --> 2.4 hrs --> self-dev

With the Creative Mind, Ernest Holmes explains that each soul stands in the midst of an eternal creative power which presses itself around his own thought, and casts back to him, glorified, all that he thinks. Holmes goes on to explore how we might all tap into this inherent creative source in order to realize our truest natures. Written with an instructional basis, Creative Mind serves as a great entry-level seminar on how we might all transform our outer reality by tuning in to an enduring inner reality that is behind all.

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (January 21, 1887 – April 7, 1960) was an American writer and spiritual teacher. He was the founder of a spiritual movement known as Religious Science, a key figure in the New Thought movement, and the author of The Science of Mind.