FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 08 Aug

• Audible ---> $2.95 -- Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland -- Rebekah Crane --> YA fiction
  
• BN Nook --> $4.95 -- The Making of a Leader -- J Robert Clinton --> leadership

* The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 14 Aug

• $1.99 -- Nights of the Living Dead -- J Maberry, et al/ full cast --> 11.9 hrs --> horror

In 1968, the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero’s landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new—and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture.

But it all started on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse. Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night, to the outbreak, to where it all began. New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry teams with the godfather of the living dead himself, George A. Romero, to present a collection of all-new tales set during the forty-eight hours of that legendary outbreak.

Nights of the Living Dead includes stories by some of today’s most important writers: Brian Keene, Carrie Ryan, Chuck Wendig, Craig E. Engler, David J. Schow, David Wellington, Isaac Marion, Jay Bonansinga, Joe R. Lansdale, John A. Russo, John Skipp, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Max Brallier, Mike Carey, Mira Grant, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, and Ryan Brown. Plus original stories by Romero and Maberry!

For anyone who loves scary stories, take a bite out of this!

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 14 Aug

• $5.95 -- Walkaway -- Cory Doctorow/ Amber Benson, et al --> 19.3 hrs --> sci-fi

Cory Doctorow’s first adult novel in eight years is an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.

Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza―known to his friends as Hubert, Etc―was too old to be at that Communist party.

But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has nowhere left to be―except among the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. Falling in with Natalie, an ultrarich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society―and walk away.

After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life―food, clothing, shelter―from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system.

It’s still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators, animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultrarich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. Now it’s war, a war that will turn the world upside down.

Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multigenerational SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years—and the very human people who will live their consequences.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 09 Aug

• £2.99 -- Little Deaths -- Emma Flint --> thriller

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 09 Aug

• Audible ---> $2.95 -- The Winter Over -- Matthew Iden --> detective
  
• BN Nook --> $3.99 -- My Life Among the Serial Killers -- Helen Morrison --> true crime

* My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 09 Aug

• £2.99 -- Little Deaths -- Emma Flint --> thriller

I've listened to Little Deaths. It is a fictionalized version of the Alice Crimmins case, which was major tabloid fodder back in the sixties--two cutie-pie children vanished from their beds and later found murdered, a mother of questionable morals. Because of what I knew about the Crimmins case, I had eagerly looked forward to Little Deaths and had sky-high expectations, which the book didn't meet. I would recommend this book if you've never heard of Alice Crimmins and/or have no preconceived notions about her and the murders; otherwise it may be a bit of a letdown.

[dandelioncottage]

Cult of Mac sent me an email offer for a free month of Audible with two free audiobooks. I was able to use it, even though I'm a lapsed Audible member.

https://deals.cultofmac.com/sales/fr...p-2-free-books

You do have to sign up for their newsletter, though I don't know if they can tell if you're a Mac user or not. They also want you to share on social media, but I chose the option of not having any social media, which lets you just copy the link to share via email (but doesn't actually require you to email it to anyone).

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Sync Audio -- exp 10 Aug @ 7 AM ET

• FREE -- Between Shades of Gray --> details
  
• FREE -- In My Hands --> details

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 10 Aug

• £1.99 -- The Naked Trader -- Robbie Burns --> finances

* The Naked Trader: How Anyone Can Make Money Trading Shares

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 10 Aug

• Audible ---> $2.95 -- Get Well Soon -- Jennifer Wright --> history
  
• BN Nook --> $4.95 -- 24/6 -- Matthew Sleeth --> spirituality

* Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

* 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

[tubemonkey]

Sync Audio -- Weekly Offers -- FAQs & Help -- exp 17 Aug @ 7 AM ET

Our final week [16] of the AudiobookSYNC 2017 season features a pair of powerful novels about do-over lives, performed in artful celebrations of the audiobook medium. We hope you find them an excellent last call for SYNC 2017 and that you want to come back to them again as well as to SYNC in 2018.

FREE -- Shadowshaper -- Daniel Older/ Anika Rose --> 7.4 hrs --> fantasy

US, Canada, and Mexico ONLY

Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging out with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears... Well, something more sinister than the usual Brooklyn ruckus is going on.

With the help of a fellow artist named Robbie, Sierra discovers shadowshaping, a thrilling magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories. But someone is killing the shadowshapers one by one -- and the killer believes Sierra is hiding their greatest secret. Now she must unravel her family's past, take down the killer in the present, and save the future of shadowshaping for generations to come.

Full of a joyful, defiant spirit and writing as luscious as a Brooklyn summer night, Shadowshaper introduces a heroine and magic unlike anything else in fantasy fiction, and marks the YA debut of a bold new voice.

FREE -- Metamorphosis -- Franz Kafka/ Martin Jarvis --> 2.2 hrs --> classic

Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. This extraordinary tale of imagination was written by Kafka against the backdrop of increasing turmoil in central Europe and remains not just an affecting tale but a disturbing allegory. It is read here, in a new translation, by master storyteller Martin Jarvis.

[Jenga5238]

I found this in my email from mashable - 2 free audiobooks

https://shop.mashable.com/sales/free...m_medium=email

it didn't work for me, so YMMV, but I wanted to share in the hope it'll be handy for someone!

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by dandelioncottage

Cult of Mac sent me an email offer for a free month of Audible with two free audiobooks. I was able to use it, even though I'm a lapsed Audible member.

https://deals.cultofmac.com/sales/fr...p-2-free-books

You do have to sign up for their newsletter, though I don't know if they can tell if you're a Mac user or not. They also want you to share on social media, but I chose the option of not having any social media, which lets you just copy the link to share via email (but doesn't actually require you to email it to anyone).

Originally Posted by Jenga5238

I found this in my email from mashable - 2 free audiobooks

https://shop.mashable.com/sales/free...m_medium=email

it didn't work for me, so YMMV, but I wanted to share in the hope it'll be handy for someone!

Thanks, y'all - will add both free trials to the OP

[specficwriter]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Thanks, y'all - will add both free trials to the OP

no love for me, yet again.

[skinmaan]

I just got an e-mail from Downpour. They are having a sale on over 300 sci-fi titles for $4.95 each. The note says sale ends 8-23.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound