FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[GtrsRGr8]

I try to have a good mixture of genres and subgenres in my Whispersync deal posts. I've had difficulty lately finding good non-fiction ones to post, however. I was glad to have run across this one.

This is not one of my better Whispersync deals, as far as price is concerned. But the book is: 1) a #1 New York Times bestseller, 2) Rated #1 in three categories in Amazon books, and 3) Very highly rated at Amazon (the audiobook, at Audible, is too). And, despite the price, the Whispersync deal (audiobook, ebook, automatic syncing) is still 68% less than the audio alone at Audible.

Go ahead and get out your hanky, though, because this one looks like a real tearjerker.

Title: The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, The Horse That Inspired a Nation.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Animals).
Author(s): Elizabeth Letts.
Price: $6.48 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $4.49 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $19.95 (1 credit).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/1,193 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.5/865 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 353/10 hours and 38 minutes.
Narrator(s): Bronson Pinchot.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sports/The...ok/B005J68DG8/.
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Eighty-Dollar.../dp/B004J4WKY2.
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Book Description (Amazon):
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry’s modest farm on Long Island, he ultimately taught Snowman how to fly. Here is the dramatic and inspiring rise to stardom of an unlikely duo. One show at a time, against extraordinary odds and some of the most expensive thoroughbreds alive, the pair climbed to the very top of the sport of show jumping. Their story captured the heart of Cold War–era America—a story of unstoppable hope, inconceivable dreams, and the chance to have it all. They were the longest of all longshots—and their win was the stuff of legend.

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FREE -- Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen/ Kate Reading -- 11.9 hrs/ R-4.6 --> classic romance

Available 24 Jun @ 10am ET

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s witty comedy of manners—one of the most popular novels of all time—that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the “most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author’s works,” and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as “irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.”

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Audiobooks.com -- $10 Tuesdays -- exp 20 Jun

Tue: $10 Tuesdays (4 titles) --> details --> members only

• $10 -- Luckiest Girl Alive -- Jessica Knoll/ Madeleine Maby --> 11.8 hrs/ R-4.0 --> suspense
• $10 -- How Successful People Lead -- JC Maxwell/ C Sorensen --> 3.6 hrs/ R-4.7 --> self-help
• $10 -- The Secret -- Rhonda Byrne/ Rhonda Byrne --> 4.5 hrs/ R-4.2 --> self-help
• $10 -- Seriously...I'm Kidding -- Ellen Degeneres/ E Degeneres --> 3.1 hrs/ R-3.9 --> memoir

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Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 20 Jun

$5.95 -- Babel-17 -- Samuel Delany/ Stefan Rudnicki --> 6.7 hrs/ R-4.3 --> classic sci-fi

Whispersync: Audible ($3.99) | Kindle ($7.99)

Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy’s deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack.

At twenty-six, Rydra Wong is the most popular poet in the five settled galaxies. Almost telepathically perceptive, she has written poems that capture the mood of mankind after two decades of savage war. Since the invasion, Earth has endured famine, plague, and cannibalism—but its greatest catastrophe will be Babel-17.

Sabotage threatens to undermine the war effort, and the military calls in Rydra. Random attacks lay waste to warships, weapons factories, and munitions dumps, and all are tied together by strings of sound, broadcast over the radio before and after each accident. In that gibberish Rydra recognizes a coherent message, with all of the beauty, persuasive power, and order that only language possesses. To save humanity, she will master this strange tongue. But the more she learns, the more she is tempted to join the other side . . .

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Downpour -- Weekly Deals -- as of 14 Jun

Note: these deals are subject to change without warning / last week's titles

New Titles

• $4.95 -- More Die of Heartbreak -- Saul Bellow/ R Monsef --> 12.9 hrs/ R-n/a --> literary
• $n/a -- Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible
  
  
• $4.99 -- Looking Glass Wars -- Frank Beddor/ G Doyle --> 8.7 hrs/ R-4.1 --> steampunk
• $3.99 -- Whispersync: Audible ($3.99) | Kindle ($9.99) --> Looking Glass Wars (1 of 3)

Previous Titles

• $5.95 -- Hunter & Other Stories -- D Hammett/ multiple --> 10.0 hrs/ R-3.8 --> detective
  
• $4.95 -- South -- Sir Ernest Shackleton/ G Howard --> 12.2 hrs/ R-4.2 --> NF adventure
  
• $3.95 -- Tigerheart -- Peter David/ Simon Vance --> 8.7 hrs/ R-3.9 --> fantasy
  
• $4.95 -- Sacred Book of Werewolf -- V Pelevin/ C Campbell --> 12.0 hrs/ R-2.5 --> romance
  
• $3.95 -- Escape from Alcatraz -- JC Bruce/ Patrick Cullen --> 8.7 hrs/ R-3.9 --> NF crime
  
• $4.95 -- Shortest Way Home -- Juliette Fay/ S Runnette --> 13.7 hrs/ R-3.8 --> contemp
  
• $5.99 -- The Mothers -- Jennifer Gilmore/ Tavia Gilbert --> 8.2 hrs/ R-2.8 --> contemp
  
• $4.95 -- K Blows Top -- Peter Carlson/ Malcolm Hillgartner --> 10.8 hrs/ R-4.3 --> NF history
  
• $5.00 -- The Children's Crusade -- Ann Packer/ multiple --> 13.2 hrs/ R-3.9 --> literary
  
• $5.00 -- Did You Ever Have a Family -- Bill Clegg/ Bill Clegg --> 6.9 hrs/ R-4.1 --> literary
  
• $5.00 -- Short Tragic Life Rob Peace -- J Hobbs/ G Newbern --> 13.3 hrs/ R-4.4 --> NF social
  
• $5.00 -- Etta & Otto & Russell & James -- E Hooper/ R Slade --> 8.0 hrs/ R-4.0 --> literary
  
• $4.95 -- Bino (Bino Phillips 1/4) -- AW Gray/ Joe Barrett --> 7.5 hrs/ R-3.7 --> mystery

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[GtrsRGr8]

GARusell posted The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones on the Less than $3 thread. It's $1.99.

The WS deal is only $6.48. That's a great price, especially considering the fact that the Audible audio is $26.95 and the book/narration are long.

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Audible Daily Deal: Bulls-Eye: The Power of Focus, by Brian Tracy. 99 cents. Linky.

The following are my musings about the book (so, I'm going to be expressing my opinion).

The audio is only about 1 1/2 hours long. Still, there's still pretty good bang for the buck. That would make it about $7, if the audio were about 10 hours long. If you care about such things.

I don't know who writes the book descriptions, but he or she says, "Your aim in life should be to achieve all of the wonderful things that are possible for you. There is no reason for you not to be earning twice as much as you are today, or even five or ten times as much. Your potential is practically limitless, if you could just learn how to utilize it." The writer seems to equate success with money. If money equals success, then people like Mother Teresa were utter failures. I'm going to buy the audiobook, though, because I feel sure that what the author says about how to be successful is probably great information even for people who do not gauge success by the amount of money that one earns and/or owns.

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 15 Jun @ 11:59pm ET

$0.99 -- Bull's-Eye -- Brian Tracy/ Brian Tracy --> 1.5 hrs/ R-4.6 --> business self-help

Bull's-Eye: The Power of Focus

Whispersync: no deals at this time

Clarity, Focus, and Concentration: Three strong attributes needed to hit the bull's eye! And just as you can develop your physical muscles through hard work and concentration, you can develop your mental muscles through continuous repetition. Bull's Eye will teach you how to unleash your powers for success and accomplish more in the next few months than many people do in a lifetime.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 15 Jun

$4.99 -- Chase -- Dean Koontz/ Nick Podehl --> 4.3 hrs/ R-4.1 --> suspense

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

A frightening novella from the #1 New York Times master of suspense…

Ben Chase is a war hero, but a reluctant one. He struggles with bitter memories and feels alienated from the culture to which he has returned. When he claims that a psychopath is stalking him, he has by then made such an outsider of himself that no one believes him. He must resurrect the repressed warrior within to save himself and a woman he comes to love. Heroes need monsters to slay, and they can always find them - within if not without.

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LAST DAY -- SYNC Audio -- exp 16 Jun @ 7am ET

• FREE -- Wk 6 -- I'll Give You the Sun --> details
• FREE -- Wk 6 -- Zac and Mia --> details

[Tarana]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

GARusell posted The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones on the Less than $3 thread. It's $1.99.

The WS deal is only $6.48. That's a great price, especially considering the fact that the Audible audio is $26.95 and the book/narration are long.

Thanks for this! Fabulous deal!

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Thanks for this! Fabulous deal!

You're welcome. Thanks for the thanks. But I piggybacked off of a post by GARussel (he posted the ebook).

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 16 Jun @ 11:59pm ET

$2.95 -- Wonders of the Invisible World -- C Barzak/ M Crouch --> 9.0 hrs/ R-4.4 --> paranormal

Whispersync: Audible ($2.95) | Kindle ($10.99)

Seventeen-year-old Aidan Lockwood lives in the sleepy farming community of Temperance, Ohio - known for its cattle ranches and not much else. That is until Jarrod, a friend he hasn't seen in five years, moves back to town and opens Aidan's eyes in startling ways: to Aidan's ability to see the spirit world; to the red-bearded specter of Death; to a family curse that has claimed the lives of the Lockwood men one by one...and to the new feelings he has developed for Jarrod.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 16 Jun

$3.99 -- Moriarty -- Anthony Horowitz/ J Rhind-Tutt, D Jacobi --> 9.9 hrs/ R-4.0 --> detective

Moriarty --> Sherlock Holmes (Horowitz) Series (book 2 of 2)

Whispersync: Audible ($12.99) | Kindle ($11.99)

The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from the best-selling author of The House of Silk, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls.

Internationally best-selling author Anthony Horowitz's nail-biting new novel plunges us back into the dark and complex world of detective Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty - dubbed the "Napoleon of crime" by Holmes - in the aftermath of their fateful struggle at the Reichenbach Falls.

Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. Moriarty's death has left an immediate, poisonous vacuum in the criminal underworld, and there is no shortage of candidates to take his place - including one particularly fiendish criminal mastermind.

Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction originally introduced by Conan Doyle in The Sign of Four, must forge a path through the darkest corners of England's capital - from the elegant squares of Mayfair to the shadowy wharfs and alleyways of the London Docks - in pursuit of this sinister figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty's successor.

A riveting, deeply atmospheric tale of murder and menace from the only writer to earn the seal of approval from Conan Doyle's estate, Moriarty breathes life into Holmes's dark and fascinating world.

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SYNC Weekly Deals -- Week 7 -- exp 23 Jun @ 7am ET

Note: further info can be found here --> SYNC 2016 | SYNC FAQs

• FREE -- How It Went Down -- Kekla Magoon/ multiple --> 7.2 hrs/ R-3.6
  
• FREE -- Autobio of Ex-Colored Man -- James Johnson/ Alan Jones --> 5.0 hrs/ R-4.1

How It Went Down --> US, Canada, Philippines only

When 16-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.

In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth. Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. In their own words, they grapple for a way to say with certainty: This is how it went down.

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction.

The first fictional memoir ever written by a black, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. In the 1920s and since, it has also given white readers a startling new perspective on their own culture, revealing to many the double standard of racial identity imposed on black Americans.

Note: Free PDF eBook Included

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