FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

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Daily Deals -- exp 05 Sep @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $3.95 -- The Marlow Murder Club (bk 1) -- Robert Thorogood -- mystery
  
• Audible CA ---> $3.95 -- Get Over Your Damn Self -- Romi Neustadt -- NF business

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 06 Sep @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PDT)

• TBA -- Digital Minimalism -- Cal Newport -- NF self-help

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Audible AU -- Editor's Extra -- exp 03 Oct @ 11:59 pm AEDT (5:59 am PT)

FREE -- The Hitchhiker -- Gabriel Bergmoser/ Lee Cormie, et al -- 6.0 hrs -- thriller

members only

The Driver: Ahead he could see only the stretch of unending road, on either side brown-scorched plains of dirt and scrub, above it all a soaring blue sky and blinding sun. Desolation that looked, to him, a hell of a lot like freedom. He wasn’t playing by anyone’s rules anymore.

The Hitchhiker: Have you ever done something bad? The question was like a clawed hand seizing his guts. It had taken everything he’d had not to whimper, to cower away and beg. But as he’d deflected, he’d told himself to stay calm. To be in control. He had to be in control here.

The Fugitive: She’d made a mistake. Wasn’t the first time and wouldn’t be the last. Ever since she’d left, all she’d found was more trouble. More fights. More secrets. More scars. Now here she was, still alive but a long way from anywhere, and with options dwindling fast.

From the award-winning author of The Hunted comes a fast-paced outback thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

"The Hitchhiker straps the listener into the chair and slowly turns up the voltage for six terrifying hours. I haven't found a cat-and-mouse game this captivating since Misery." (Jack Heath, author of Kill Your Brother)

"Two things I will never do again after devouring The Hitchhiker: miss a book by Gabriel Bergmoser; ever get in a car with him..." (Benjamin Stevenson, author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone)

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Daily Deals -- exp 06 Sep @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $1.95 -- A Forest of Vanity and Valour (book 1) -- AP Beswick -- fantasy
  
• Audible CA ---> $4.95 -- Meet Cute -- Helena Hunting -- rom-com

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 07 Sep @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

• TBA -- The Champagne War -- Fiona McIntosh -- historical

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Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 12 Sep @ 11:59 pm PT

$1.99 -- Walking with Abel -- Anna Badkhen/ E Rodgers -- 9.4 hrs -- NF anthropology

rental only

Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah

The Fulani are the largest surviving group of nomads on the planet. In Walking with Abel, Anna Badkhen embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboys—nomadic herders in Mali’s Sahel grasslands—as they embark on their annual migration across the savannah. It’s a cycle that connects the Fulani to their past even as their present is increasingly under threat—from Islamic militants, climate change, and the ever-encroaching urbanization that lures away their young. The Fulani, though, are no strangers to uncertainty—brilliantly resourceful and resilient, they’ve contended with famines, droughts, and wars for centuries.

Dubbed “Anna Bâ” by the nomads who embrace her as one of their own, Badkhen narrates the Fulani’s journeys and her own with compassion and keen observation,transporting us from the Neolithic Sahara crisscrossed by rivers and abundant with wildlife to obelisk forests where the Fulani’s Stone Age ancestors painted tributes to cattle. Together they cross the Sahel—the savannah belt that stretches from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic—with Fulani music they download to their cellphones and tales infused with the myths that ground their past, make sense of their identity, and safeguard their future.

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Downpour -- Bi-Monthly Offers -- exp 12 Sep @ 11:59 pm PT

$4.99 -- A Higher Call -- Adam Makos, et al/ Robertson Dean -- 13.4 hrs -- NF history

Editor's Pick

An Incredible True Story of Combat & Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber's tail—a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.

This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day—the American—Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17—and the German—Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.

A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz's harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the flaming wreckage of his buddies' planes, flak bursts so close they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, a crash alone at sea, and the spectacle of one thousand bombers, each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack.

Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American Eighth Air Force would later classify as top secret. It was an act that Franz could never mention without facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever.

$4.99 -- Life & Times of Wm Shakespeare -- P Levi/ W McCaddon -- 18.2 hrs -- biography

Staff Pick

This authoritative and extremely readable biography is the first since the Victorian Age to pay full attention to Shakespeare’s life and times and their numerous subtle connections to his works. Peter Levi emphasizes the background of Shakespeare’s life: the local and national events that shaped his experiences, his family and friends, and the Elizabethan people with whom he shared his life and populated his plays. Bringing together new research and new discoveries and reexamining the famous legends about Shakespeare, Levi uses the writings of modern historians to shed light on the poet’s life. This valuable work will be the definitive life of Shakespeare for many years to come.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 07 Sep @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PDT)

• TBA -- The Fall of Hyperion (book 2) -- Dan Simmons -- sci-fi

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Daily Deals -- exp 07 Sep @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $5.95 -- In the Long Run -- Haley Cass -- romance
  
• Audible CA ---> $4.95 -- I Can't Make This Up -- Kevin Hart -- NF memoir

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 08 Sep @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

• TBA -- Counterfeit -- Kirstin Chen -- historical

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 08 Sep @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PDT)

• TBA -- Big Magic -- Elizabeth Gilbert -- NF self-help

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Audible -- limited time


Free Trial Offers -- YMMV

I just received two free 30-day trial offers from Audible US and Audible UK. I'm fairly certain these were targeted offers from the way the banners were worded.

I saw the Aud US banner while browsing in Prime Reading and the Aud UK banner on its home page. The Aud US offer came with two free credits because I'm a Prime member.

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Audible CA -- exp 30 Sep @ 11:59 pm PT -- membership NOT required

Anniversary Sale -- $5 deals -- over 1,000 titles -- new deals every 5 days

BIGGEST SALE OF THE YEAR

Celebrate our 5th anniversary with $5 deals

Over 1,000 titles will be on sale, new deals added every 5 days

Sale ends September 30, 2022, at 11:59 PM PT. Offer is available only on Audible.ca, is not transferable, and cannot be combined with any other offer. Sale price listed does not include applicable taxes. Offer is not available from within the iOS version of the Audible app or the Audible Google Play app. Audible reserves the right to modify or cancel the offer at any time. If you violate any of these terms, the offer will be invalid.

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Audible -- limited time


Free Trial Offers -- YMMV

I just received two free 30-day trial offers from Audible US and Audible UK. I'm fairly certain these were targeted offers from the way the banners were worded.

I saw the Aud US banner while browsing in Prime Reading and the Aud UK banner on its home page. The Aud US offer came with two free credits because I'm a Prime member.

Worked for me! First free credit deal I've gotten in a while. Didn't work for my wife, perhaps because she ended an annual membership fairly recently.

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Daily Deals -- exp 08 Sep @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $4.95 -- Anticipation -- Melodie Winawer -- historical
  
• Audible CA ---> $7.95 -- Project Hail Mary -- Andy Weir -- sci-fi