FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[GtrsRGr8]

I love finding free ebooks, 'cause that sometimes means some great Whispersync deals.

Title: Beyond The Veil: A Muse Urban Fantasy (The Veil Series Book 1).
Genre: Fiction (Paranormal/Fantasy).
Author(s): Pippa DaCosta.
Price: $1.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $17.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.3 stars/183 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.1/154 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 244/8 hours and 2 minutes.
Narrator(s): Hollie Jackson.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fan...ok/B00P85ZU66/.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IA3S97K/.
Comments: There appears to be 5 books currently in The Veil Series, plus a prequel novel. This book was awarded the "Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2014 Quarter-Finalist Top 100 in Genre."
Book Description (Amazon):

“They say I’m half demon, but I like to think of myself as half human, especially as the demons want me dead.”

Charlie Henderson is living a lie. Her real name is Muse and her attempt at a normal life is about to go up in smoke.

When a half-demon assassin walks into her life, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake, Muse must return to the one man she hoped never to see again and ask for help. The Prince of Greed isn’t known for his charity. The price is high, and the cost could tear her apart.

Trapped between the malevolent intentions of a Prince of Hell and an assassin with ulterior motives, Muse must embrace the lure of chaos at her core; the demon inside her, in order to survive.

When your ex is the Prince of Greed, you'd better be ready to raise hell.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Two free Bible's at Google Play (audio dramas with music and sound effects)...

KJV Complete Bible - King James Version (Dramatized)

ESV Complete Bible - English Standard Version (Dramatized)

Also available on Amazon (ESV New / ESV Old / KJV New / KJV Old)

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Also available on Amazon (ESV New / ESV Old / KJV New / KJV Old)

New Revised Standard

• FREE -- Old Testament
• FREE -- New Testament

Contemporary English Version

• FREE -- Old Testament
• FREE -- New Testament

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Also available on Amazon (ESV New / ESV Old / KJV New / KJV Old)

You've noted it, but I want to point out to peeps that this is a dramaticized version.

I personally do not like audio of anything dramaticized, including the Bible. But that's just me, you may be fine with it or even enjoy it more that way. If you are not quite sure what dramaticization entails, I would recommend that you first listen to one or both of the samples, before you burn through your month's data for your smartphone or whatever device downloading the whole thing. And maybe even if you are downloading at home, where you have a pretty basic Internet plan.

Still, it's a nice offer. It seems that the copyright holders, publishers, or whoever of ESV and HCSB are the two most generous with freebie Bibles, study Bibles, and, as in this case, audio Bibles. I appreciate that of them.

[koland]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

You've noted it, but I want to point out to peeps that this is a dramaticized version.

I personally do not like audio of anything dramaticized, including the Bible. But that's just me, you may be fine with it or even enjoy it more that way.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0080GVXMK?

may be others, as well.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by koland

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0080GVXMK?

may be others, as well.

You've got it. Both Amazon and Google have about every flavor imaginable.

https://play.google.com/store/music/...w5cikafa&hl=en

[tubemonkey]

Last Day - Downpour - Free Rental -- I Am Legend

[tubemonkey]

SYNC has announced the dates for this year's program. It'll run for 15 weeks, giving away 30 books. That's a week longer and two books more than last year. A full list of titles hasn't been posted yet.

SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens 13+, running May 5th - August 17th 2016. SYNC 2016 will give away 30 titles - two thematically paired audiobook downloads a week!

I won't be doing a dedicated thread this year. The deals will be posted here. The OP will contain links to key topics - schedule, FAQs, help, geo-restrictions, etc - for easy reference.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Weekly Sales

• $1.99 -- Rental of the Week --> 88 Days to Kandahar -- exp 15 Feb
• $5.95 -- Deal of the Week -- Closer Than You Think -- exp 15 Feb
• $15.75 -- Editor's Pick --> Between the World and Me -- exp unk

• SALE -- other Weekly Deals (7 titles) -- exp 15 Feb
• SALE -- other Sales -- see Home Page / see Browse (On Sale Now) -- exp unk

88 Days to Kandahar -- Robert L Grenier -- read by Joe Barrett (15.2 hrs)

The “first” Afghan War, the CIA’s war in response to 9/11, was approved by President Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani intelligence, Grenier defeated the Taliban and put Hamid Karzai in power in eighty-eight days. Later, as head of CIA counterterrorism, he watches as bureaucratic dysfunction in the CIA, Pentagon, and the White House lead to failure in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In his gripping narrative we meet General Tommy Franks, who bridles at CIA control of “his” war; General “Jafar Amin,” a gruff Pakistani intelligence officer who saves Grenier from committing career suicide; Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s brilliant ambassador to the US, who tries to warn her government of the al-Qaeda threat; “Mark,” the CIA operator who guides Gul Agha Shirzai to bloody victory over the Taliban; General Kayani, a cautious man who will become the most powerful man in Pakistan, struggling with Grenier’s demands while trying to protect his country; and Hamid Karzai, the puzzling anti-Taliban insurgent, a man of courage, petulance, and vacillating moods.

Closer Than You Think -- Karen Rose -- read by Hillary Huber (28.5 hrs)

Cincinnati Series (book 1)

Psychologist Faith Corcoran is desperate to escape the stalker who’s made her life a nightmare for the past year—desperate enough to run to the one place that has been her nightmare far longer. Both boon and bane, her recent inheritance of her grandmother’s old house in Cincinnati offers a sanctuary in which she can start her life anew, but requires that she face dark memories that resonate to this day.

She has no idea, however, just how close to home her fears still are …

Two college girls have gone missing in the area, and FBI special agent Deacon Novak is called to work on the case. When his inquiry unexpectedly leads him to Faith, he finds a beautiful and brave woman he can’t help but fall for. Soon they’ll discover that this seemingly simple investigation is anything but. Reaching back decades into Faith’s own past, it will shatter everything she believes to be true and will give terrifying new meaning to “flesh and blood.”

Between the World and Me -- Ta-Nehisi Coates -- read by author (3.6 hrs)

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

[abqkjh]

50% Off all Romances sitewide!*


*This special 50% offer is for Audible members only and is valid only on the Audible U.S. site. The offer applies to audiobooks on the Audible U.S. site as of February 9, 2016 that are classified as Romance. Audiobooks that are in the pre-order stage are not included. Sale ends February 15, 2016 at 11:59 PM PT.

http://www.audible.com/mt/RomanceSal..._rd_s=center-2

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

50% Off all Romances sitewide!*


*This special 50% offer is for Audible members only and is valid only on the Audible U.S. site. The offer applies to audiobooks on the Audible U.S. site as of February 9, 2016 that are classified as Romance. Audiobooks that are in the pre-order stage are not included. Sale ends February 15, 2016 at 11:59 PM PT.

http://www.audible.com/mt/RomanceSal..._rd_s=center-2

Thanks - added to OP

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

50% Off all Romances sitewide!*


*This special 50% offer is for Audible members only and is valid only on the Audible U.S. site. The offer applies to audiobooks on the Audible U.S. site as of February 9, 2016 that are classified as Romance. Audiobooks that are in the pre-order stage are not included. Sale ends February 15, 2016 at 11:59 PM PT.

As an FYI, even non-romance readers may want to check this out, as the romance label seems to be pretty broad, or else some books have snuck in accidentally--some suspense/mystery titles (e.g., Laura by Vera Caspary, some books by Phillip Margolin and James M. Cain) on my wish list are showing sale prices.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I personally do not like audio of anything dramaticized

Not even old-time radio shows or the Star Wars radio plays??? Blasphemer!

[Froide]

Upcoming freebie from Penguin Random House Audio:

Free Download - Save the Date!
On February 18th starting at 12:00PM ET, for 24 hours we're giving away the free full audio download of A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens. Visit our Facebook page or our Volumes app on that day to access the download.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Froide

Upcoming freebie from Penguin Random House Audio:

This looks to be the same narration, by John Lee, as the one that's free at audiobooks.org.