FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Maybe it was out of stock?

A digital download???

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 18 Jul

$3.95 -- Orphan X -- Gregg Hurwitz/ Scott Brick --> 11.3 hrs/ R-4.5 --> suspense

Orphan X --> Evan Smoak Series (book 1 of new series)

Whispersync: Audible ($3.95) | Kindle ($12.99)

The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them.

But he's no legend.

Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He's also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as part of the off-the-books black box Orphan program, designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence assets - i.e. assassins. He was Orphan X. Evan broke with the program, using everything he learned to disappear.

Now, however, someone is on his tail. Someone with similar skills and training. Someone who knows Orphan X. Someone who is getting closer and closer. And will exploit Evan's weakness - his work as The Nowhere Man - to find him and eliminate him.

Grabbing the listener from the beginning, Orphan X is a masterful thriller, the first in Gregg Hurwitz's electrifying new series featuring Evan Smoak.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

A digital download???

Exactly!

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 18 Jul

$11.99 -- Big Sky Country -- Linda Miller/ Jack Garrett --> 12.1 hrs/ R-4.0 --> romance

Big Sky Country --> Parable Series (book 1 of 6)

Whispersync: Audible ($2.99) | Kindle ($1.99)

New York Times best-selling author Linda Lael Miller has earned a large and growing following for her wildly popular novels starring the Creeds and the McKettricks. As her many fans will attest, no one brings cowboys - and their affairs of the heart - to life in quite the way she does. With the author’s signature style, Big Sky Country delivers a scintillating tale that you will not want to miss.

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Downpour -- exp 18 Jul

• $1.99 -- Rental of Week --> The Last Days of Stalin --> details
• $3.95 -- Deal of Week --> Indignation --> details
• SALE -- Weekly Deals --> 15 titles --> titles change frequently

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

[*]You can download the audiobooks through your PC. I got a download link immediately on purchasing my title.

Good news. Surprised they don't mention this under download methods on the support pages.

[*]The books are DRM-free mp3 format.

Good

[*]The only negative I've found so far: the files are all 32 bps - a pretty low quality overall.

Bad. Very bad.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I've always been a big history buff; along with astronomy, most sciences and nature stuff.

No need for an animal hospital. I have a special room reserved at my local PetSmart. I check in every now and then.

Okay, but if you ever mention buying a business title, your friends here at MobileRead are going to have to stage an intervention for you and have you admitted to the psychology unit at your PetSmart.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I attempted to get this book yesterday -- The Vikings (Great Courses) -- and got this message:



No idea why this popped up. Now I have to decide all over again.

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Maybe it was out of stock?

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

A digital download???

Reminds me of advertisements of promos at various companies (their names withheld here to protect the guilty) for "clearance sales" and such like, when at least some of what they have on sale are digital downloads.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Okay, but if you ever mention buying a business title, your friends here at MobileRead are going to have to stage an intervention for you and have you admitted to the psychology unit at your PetSmart.

...if you see me buy a business or self-help title, get your ice skates out. Lucifer would love to go ice skating with you.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Reminds me of advertisements of promos at various companies (their names withheld here to protect the guilty) for "clearance sales" and such like, when at least some of what they have on sale are digital downloads.

Those ones and zeroes build up if you don't clear them out every once in a while...

[GtrsRGr8]

The Nick Nolte movie of 1996, of the same title, was based on this book.

Title: Mother Night.
Genre: Fiction (Satire).
Author(s): Kurt Vonnegut.
Price: $3.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $25.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/292 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.2/641 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 290/6 hours and 7 minutes.
Narrator(s): Victor Bevine.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Mo...ok/B002V57S2U/.
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Night-.../dp/B005IHWB5C.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
Best known now by the 1996 Nick Nolte film of the same title, Mother Night (1961) is a dazzling narrative of false, shifting identity. The story tells of the odyssey of Howard Campbell, Jr., the book's protagonist, and is a paradigm of shifting loyalties, ambiguous commitment, and tales of personal compromise. Campbell is an American emigre in Germany at the time of Hitler's ascension; he is married to a German, his relations with the Nazi regime are excellent, and he agrees to spy for them and to become a broadcaster for the regime; but then, increasingly disaffected, Campbell becomes a double agent, then perhaps a triple agent, sending coded messages to the Allies.

After the War, he is tried for war crimes but is exonerated. The novel is written in memoir format from the point of view of the exiled Campbell, who, indifferent to outcome, plots suicide.

Here is a moral tale without a moral, or perhaps, according to Vonnegut, a tale with several morals. Vonnegut, a science fiction writer in his early career, knew the science fiction community very well, and it is more or less accepted that the conflicted and indecipherable Howard Campbell is modeled upon John W. Campbell, Jr. (1910-1971), the great editor of Astounding and Analog whose decades long rightward drift led him to endorse George Wallace in 1968.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 19 Jul

$3.95 -- Beside Myself -- Ann Morgan/ Lisa Coleman --> 12.3 hrs/ R-4.1 --> suspense

Whispersync: Audible ($3.95) | Kindle ($10.99)

Six-year-old Helen and Ellie are identical twins, but Helen is smarter, more popular, and their mother's favorite. Ellie, on the other hand, requires special instruction at school, is friendless, and is punished at every turn. Until they decide to swap places - just for fun, and just for one day - and Ellie refuses to switch back. Everything of Helen's, from her toys to her friends to her identity, now belongs to her sister.

With those around her oblivious to her plight, the girl who used to be Helen loses her sense of self and withdraws into a spiral of behavioral problems, delinquency, and mental illness. In time, she's not even sure of her memory of the switch. Twenty-five years later, she receives a call that threatens to pull her back into her sister's dangerous orbit. Will she take this chance to face her past?

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 19 Jul

$3.99 -- Carrying Albert Home -- Homer Hickam/ Adam Verner --> 10.7 hrs/ R-4.5 --> contemp

Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Woman, a Husband, and Her Alligator

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is a moving tribute to love, from the New York Times best-selling author of the award-winning memoir Rocket Boys - the basis of the movie October Sky.

Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando, where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed, and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields, married to Homer.

Unfulfilled as a miner's wife, Elsie was reminded of her carefree days with Buddy every day because of his unusual wedding gift: an alligator named Albert she raised in the only bathroom in the house. When Albert scared Homer by grabbing his pants, he gave Elsie an ultimatum: "Me or that alligator!" After giving it some thought, Elsie concluded there was only one thing to do: Carry Albert home.

Carrying Albert Home is the funny, sweet, and sometimes tragic tale of a young couple and a special alligator on a crazy 1,000-mile adventure. Told with the warmth and down-home charm that made Rocket Boys a beloved best seller, Homer Hickam's rollicking tale is ultimately a testament to that strange and marvelous emotion we inadequately call love.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 19 Jul

$3.95 -- Beside Myself -- Ann Morgan/ Lisa Coleman --> 12.3 hrs/ R-4.1 --> suspense

This one is pretty interesting; I listened to it earlier this year.

By the way, what time is Audible posting the Daily Deals? They used to do it by around 12:30 a.m. ET, and I was in the habit of checking it then, just about when I usually turn in. But now I keep forgetting to check in the morning.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

This one is pretty interesting; I listened to it earlier this year.

By the way, what time is Audible posting the Daily Deals? They used to do it by around 12:30 a.m. ET, and I was in the habit of checking it then, just about when I usually turn in. But now I keep forgetting to check in the morning.

I believe it's still around that time. I've frequently seen it posted just after midnight ET (9pm my time).