FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Catlady

I think it's more likely that libraries will stop allowing nonresident users, or will up the nonresident price. Or will limit the number of Hoopla checkouts.

Or more than one of these. FLP is one example of a library that ended its sale of nonresident cards; they also cut the number of Hoopla checkouts from ten to four. And still couldn’t make it work. My local library limits it to six Hoopla checkouts per month which is ample for my purposes - in fact, I suspect checkout limits are my friend. They keep the heavy readers of genre fiction or children’s books from crashing the system and I can only listen to a few audiobooks a month anyway.

Are there really so many people, though, outside of this bunch of reading fanatics, who actively seek out multiple libraries and overwhelm them by excessive borrowing?

As the number of nonresident options becomes fewer and the price for the cards goes up, only the heaviest users will continue to use that option.

[tubemonkey]

Audible AU -- Bonus Audiobooks -- exp unknown

FREE -- Bonus Audiobooks (15 titles) --> details -- Members Only

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FREE -- The Long Haul -- Austin Grossman, et al/ full cast -- 8.6 hrs -- sci-fi/fantasy

New Found Land: The Long Haul

Imagine two worlds at war. In one, citizens with jetpacks and ray guns have colonized Venus. In the other, magic reigns supreme, and history turns on swords and spells. Now imagine they have just discovered a third world.

Our world.

Our timeline of rideshare apps and strip malls is about to become the newest battlefield in the long war between science fiction and fantasy.

In Florida, assassins are hunting down optical scientist Felicia Scurry. Her only chance of survival lies with long haul trucker Bucephalus Troy, who has stumbled into a world he calls Bamalot, a swords and sorcery version of today where magic works and science never happened. In Seattle, YouTube blogger Charity Kong is on the trail of a jetpack-wearing secret agent who broke her heart. And in a sinister secret college deep under Oxford, a failed comic book artist just might have started a Three Worlds War.

Legendary science fiction writer Neal Stephenson teams up with World Fantasy Award-winning author Sean Stewart (Galveston; Cathy’s Book) and Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible) to present New Found Land: The Long Haul, a thrilling, hilarious, and mind-bending audio drama in the tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Fast-paced, funny, and deeply weird, The Long Haul is a warm-hearted, rollicking adventure about ordinary people rising to an extraordinary moment.

New Found Land: The Long Haul is performed by Amber Williams, Jay Snyder, Gregory Connors, Izabel Mar, John Zdrojeski, Steve Routman, Graeme Malcolm, John Pirkis, Elizabeth Evans, LJ Ganser, Marc Vietor, Elizabeth Jasicki and features the voices of Allyson Johnson, Carrie Seim, Josh Hurley, Kevin T. Collins, Khristine Hvam, Lauren Fortgang, Nick Sullivan, Raphael Corkhill, and Steve Rimpici.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 17 Jun @ 11:59 pm BST

• TBA -- Carrying the Fire -- Michael Collins -- NF memoir

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Daily Deals -- exp 17 Jun @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> TBA ---- A Most English Princess -- Clare McHugh -- historical
  
• Audible CA ---> $3.75 -- The Way of the SEAL -- Mark Divine, et al -- NF self-help
  
• Downpour ----> TBA

* A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter

* The Way of the SEAL: Think like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed

[ApK]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Daily Deals -- exp 17 Jun @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> TBA ---- A Most English Princess -- Clare McHugh -- historical
  
• Audible CA ---> $3.75 -- The Way of the SEAL -- Mark Divine, et al -- NF self-help
  
• Downpour ----> TBA

* A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter

* The Way of the SEAL: Think like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed

I find it slightly amusing that Canada's book is about US special forces, and the US's book is about Canada's monarchy.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 18 Jun @ 11:59 pm BST

• TBA -- Nice Work (If You Can Get It) -- Celia Imrie -- humor/satire

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by ApK

I find it slightly amusing that Canada's book is about US special forces, and the US's book is about Canada's monarchy.

Same here and they've done that several times before and I suspect they'll do it again.

[skinmaan]

Free for now on Google Play.

https://play.google.com/store/audiob...DMEhpSxM&gl=US

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Daily Deals -- exp 18 Jun @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> TBA ---- Infinite -- Brian Freeman -- mystery
  
• Audible CA ---> $6.25 -- Storm and Fury (book 1) -- Jennifer L Armentrout -- YA fantasy
  
• Downpour ----> $3.95 -- The Queen’s Gambit -- Walter Tevis -- literary

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Downpour -- Monthly Offers -- exp 30 Jun @ 11:59 pm PT

$4.99 -- Unsung Eagles -- Jay A Stout/ Traber Burns -- 11.5 hrs -- NF history

Editor's Pick

True Stories of America’s Citizen Airmen in the Skies of World War II

The nearly half-million American air crewmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories.

Award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay A. Stout uses Unsung Eagles to save an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion. These are not rehashed tales from the hoary icons of the war. Rather, they are stories from the masses of largely unrecognized men who—in the aggregate—actually won it. They are the recollections of your Uncle Frank who shared them only after having enjoyed a beer, of your old girlfriend’s grandfather who passed away about the same time she dumped you, and of the craggy guy who ran the town’s salvage yard, a dusty, fly-specked B-24 model hung over the counter. These are “everyman” accounts that are important but fast disappearing.

Ray Crandall describes how he was nearly knocked into the Pacific Ocean by a heavy cruiser’s main battery during the second battle of the Philippine Sea. Jesse Barker, a displaced dive-bomber pilot, tells of dodging naval bombardments in the stinking mud of Guadalcanal. Bob Popeney relates how his friend and fellow A-20 pilot was blown out of formation by German anti-aircraft fire: “I could see the inside of the airplane—and I could see Nordstrom’s eyes. He looked confused … and then immediately he flipped up and went tumbling down.”

The combat careers of twenty-two different pilots from all the services are captured in this crisply written book that captivates the listener not only as an engaging oral history but also by putting personal context into the great air battles of World War II.

$4.99 -- The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things -- JT LeRoy/ multiple -- 9.5 hrs -- shorts

Staff Pick

The classic JT LeRoy story collection is now available in audio for the first time ever, featuring eleven previously uncollected stories, including one never before published, and an all-star line-up of twenty-one narrators.

“Beautifully structured and written.”—Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn

This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with his teenage mother. When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster parents, he finds himself catapulted into her world of motels and truck stops, exposed to the abusive, exploitative men she encounters. As he learns to survive in this harrowing environment, Jeremiah also learns to love his mother, even as she descends into drug-fueled madness. Told in spare, lyrical prose, rich with imagination and dark humor, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things transforms the savagery of Jeremiah’s world into an indelible experience of compassion.

Foreword written and read by Jeff Feuerzeig

Narrators include: Laura Albert, Shirley Manson, Joshua Caleb Johnson, SOKO, Michael Imperioli, Winsome Brown, Pamela Sneed, Robin Weigert, Lawrence Rothman, Kerris Dorsey, Julie Mintz, Paul Mendez, Donovan Leitch, Daniel Newman, Darnell Martin, Alissa Bennett, Libby Mintz, Laura Desiree, Christelle de Castro, and Laila Hayani.

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Amazon Original Stories -- KU/Prime only -- rental only

This is Amazon's latest collection of Original Stories

FREE -- House of Crows (4 titles) -- mystery

1. All My Darkest Impulses -- Lisa Unger -- 1.3 hrs
   
2. Fog Descending -- Lisa Unger -- 1.4 hrs
   
3. Circling the Drain -- Lisa Unger -- 1.4 hrs
   
4. Love the Way You Lie -- Lisa Unger -- 1.8 hrs

Where secrets spread their wings

That long-ago summer, four friends came face-to-face with strange, dark events they couldn’t explain away. As they grew up and left town, they all tried to forget. Instead, their secrets shaped their lives, haunting each of them in their own way. Now, in this chilling four-part serial by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, it’s time to come home.

4 short Kindle books with audio narration

Amazon Original Stories

Launched in 2017, Amazon Original Stories brings unforgettable short fiction and nonfiction to Kindle. Past collections include the Amazon Original Stories and Amazon Studios joint acquisition The Fairer Sex by Michelle Miller, Warmer by Lauren Groff, Jane Smiley, Jess Walter, and more, and Dark Corners, which features Lisa Unger’s Edgar Award-nominated short The Sleep Tight Motel. Each story is available free to Prime members, as well as Kindle Unlimited subscribers, and is available for download for non-subscribers beginning at $1.99.

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Amazon Original Stories -- KU/Prime only -- rental only

This is Amazon's latest collection of Original Stories

FREE -- Nameless (Season 2) -- Dean Koontz/ Edoardo Ballerini -- thriller

1. The Lost Soul of the City -- 2.2 hrs
   
2. Gentle Is the Angel of Death -- 1.7 hrs
   
3. Kaleidoscope -- 1.5 hrs
   
4. Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not -- 1.3 hrs
   
5. Corkscrew -- 1.1 hrs
   
6. Zero In -- 1.5 hrs

The killer finale

Behind a wall of amnesia, he can’t remember anything. Maybe he can’t bear to. Nameless knows only the mission: Directed by the mysterious Ace of Diamonds, he travels the country, turning predators into prey. But the pain in his past can’t hold him back when dark visions of the future lead him toward his greatest test yet. Nameless is closing in on a revelatory endgame in this collection of short thrillers from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.

6 short Kindle books with audio narration

FREE -- Nameless (Season 1) --> details

Launched in 2017, Amazon Original Stories brings unforgettable short fiction and nonfiction to Kindle. Past collections include the Amazon Original Stories and Amazon Studios joint acquisition The Fairer Sex by Michelle Miller, Warmer by Lauren Groff, Jane Smiley, Jess Walter, and more, and Dark Corners, which features Lisa Unger’s Edgar Award-nominated short The Sleep Tight Motel. Each story is available free to Prime members, as well as Kindle Unlimited subscribers, and is available for download for non-subscribers beginning at $1.99.

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[copyrite]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Kindle Unlimited -- limited time

Thanks for this. My KU expires next month and was hoping for a deal!

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 19 Jun @ 11:59 pm BST

• TBA -- The Olive Tree -- Lucinda Riley -- fiction