FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 03 Aug

$4.99 -- Seveneves -- Neal Stephenson/ Mary Kowal, et al --> 31.9 hrs/ R-4.2 --> sci-fi

Whispersync: Audible ($5.49) | Kindle ($9.99)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anatham, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic - a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.

What would happen if the world were ending?

A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.

But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain....

Five thousand years later, their progeny - seven distinct races now three billion strong - embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown...to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.

A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

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Penguin Random House Free Offers --> Aug 2016

• FREE -- The Fenway Foul-up -- D Kelly/ M Cashman --> 1.2 hrs/ R-n/a --> YA mystery
  
• FREE -- Short Stories (7 titles) -- various/ various --> sci-fi, literary, humor
  
• FREE -- LA Dead -- Stuart Woods/ Tony Roberts --> 10.8 hrs/ R-4.3 --> suspense
  
• FREE -- Project Alpha -- DJ MacHale/ R Daymond --> 5.5 hrs/ R-4.8 --> sci-fi
  
• FREE -- Insanely Simple -- Ken Segall/ Ken Segall --> 7.1 hrs/ R-4.3 --> business
  
• FREE -- Nova -- Margaret Fortune/ Jorjeana Marie --> 9.2 hrs/ R-3.6 --> sci-fi
  
• FREE -- Blue Monday -- Nicci French/ Beth Chalmers --> 11.2 hrs/ R-4.0 --> detective
  
• FREE -- Templar Legacy -- Steve Berry/ Brian Corrigan --> 7.0 hrs/ R-3.3 --> thriller
  
• FREE -- Secret Garden -- FH Burnett/ F Hughes --> 8.4 hrs/ R-4.6 --> kids classic

Note: these free offers are subject to change without warning

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The Fenway Foul-up --> Ballpark Mysteries (book 1 of 13) --> details

exp 26 Aug @ 11:59 AM ET

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Whispersync: Audible ($3.49) | Kindle ($4.99)

Now leading off the line-up—book #1 in a brand-new early chapter book mystery series where each book is set in a different American ballpark!

Thanks to Kate's mom, a sports reporter, cousins Mike Walsh and Kate Hopkins have tickets to the Red Sox game and All Access passes to Fenway Park. But as they're watching batting practice before the game, the lucky bat of Red Sox star slugger Big D is stolen . . . right in front of dozens of people. Without the bat, Big D can't seem to hit a thing. Can Kate and Mike figure out who pinched the bat before Big D and the Sox chalk up a loss?

The Fenway Foul-Up includes a fun fact page about Boston's Fenway Park.

Cross Ron Roy's mystery series with Matt Christopher's sports books and you get the Ballpark Mysteries: fun, puzzling whodunnits aimed right at beginning readers.

Short Stories (7 titles)

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Part 1: Sci-Fi --> Summer People | Ava Wrestles the Alligator
Part 2: Literary --> Alphin Land | To Reach Japan | Tenth of December | Part 1
Part 3: Humor --> No One Goes to Heaven to See Dan Fogelberg

LA Dead --> Stone Barrington Series (book 6 of 37) --> details

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Cop-turned-lawyer-and-investigator Stone Barrington ventures out to the west coast-and out on a limb-in this "stylish whodunit" (Detroit News) filled with romance and murder.

Stone's trip to Venice -with a fiery Mafia princess- is cut short by a frantic phone call from half a world away. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar and has a former flame pining for Stone's help-in more ways than one...

Project Alpha --> Voyagers Series (book 1 of 6) --> details

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#1 New York Times bestseller D. J. MacHale launches this part sci-fi, all action adventure, multiplatform series.

Earth is about to go dark. Without a new power source, life as we know it will be toast. A global competition is under way to determine which four kids will join the secret mission that might just save us all. Project Alpha is a contest of physical challenges, mental puzzles, and strategic alliances. The battle is fierce. Who will lead the team? Who will pilot the most complicated space ship ever built? Who will be a friend? An enemy? And how will they survive over a year stuck on a space ship together?

Once chosen, the Voyagers will journey to the far reaches of space, collecting unique elements and facing unbelievable dangers. The future of our planet is in their hands. Sure, they’ll be the best in the world . . . but can they save the world?

The action is on the page, on your device, and out of this world! And you don't have long to wait, 6 books are coming all in one year!

Do you have what it takes to be a Voyager? Find out at VoyagersHQ.com

Insanely Simple: The Obsession that Drives Apple's Success --> no longer free

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Simplicity isn’t just a design principle at Apple—it’s a value that permeates every level of the organization. The obsession with Simplicity is what separates Apple from other technology companies. It’s what helped Apple recover from near death in 1997 to become the most valuable company on Earth in 2011.

Thanks to Steve Jobs’s uncompromising ways, you can see Simplicity in everything Apple does: the way it’s structured, the way it innovates, and the way it speaks to its customers.

It’s by crushing the forces of Complexity that the company remains on its stellar trajectory.

As ad agency creative director, Ken Segall played a key role in Apple’s resurrection, helping to create such critical marketing campaigns as Think different. By naming the iMac, he also laid the foundation for naming waves of i-products to come.

Segall has a unique perspective, given his years of experience creating campaigns for other iconic tech companies, including IBM, Intel, and Dell. It was the stark contrast of Apple’s ways that made Segall appreciate the power of Simplicity—and inspired him to help others benefit from it.

Nova

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*36:00:00*

The clock activates so suddenly in my mind, my head involuntarily jerks a bit to the side. The fog vanishes, dissipated in an instant as though it never was. Memories come slotting into place, their edges sharp enough to leave furrows, and suddenly I know. I know exactly who I am.

My name is Lia Johansen, and I was named for a prisoner of war. She lived in the Tiersten Internment Colony for two years, and when they negotiated the return of the prisoners, I was given her memories and sent back in her place.

And I am a genetically engineered human bomb.

Lia Johansen was created for only one purpose: to slip onto the strategically placed New Sol Space Station and explode. But her mission goes to hell when her clock malfunctions, freezing her countdown with just two minutes to go. With no Plan B, no memories of her past, and no identity besides a name stolen from a dead POW, Lia has no idea what to do next. Her life gets even more complicated when she meets Michael Sorenson, the real Lia’s childhood best friend.

Drawn to Michael and his family against her better judgment, Lia starts learning what it means to live and love, and to be human. It is only when her countdown clock begins sporadically losing time that she realizes even duds can still blow up. If she wants any chance at a future, she must find a way to unlock the secrets of her past and stop her clock. But as Lia digs into her origins, she begins to suspect there’s far more to her mission and to this war, than meets the eye. With the fate of not just a space station but an entire empire hanging in the balance, Lia races to find the truth before her time—literally—runs out.

Blue Monday --> Frieda Klein Series (book 1 of 5)

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The stunning first book in a new series of psychological thrillers introducing an unforgettable London psychotherapist

Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. This attitude is reflected in her own life, which is an austere one of refuge, personal integrity, and order.

The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, Frieda cannot ignore the coincidence: one of her patients has been having dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A red-haired child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. She finds herself in the center of the investigation, serving as the reluctant sidekick of the chief inspector.

Drawing readers into a haunting world in which the terrors of the mind have spilled over into real life, Blue Monday introduces a compelling protagonist and a chilling mystery that will appeal to readers of dark crime fiction and fans of In Treatment and The Killing.

The Templar Legacy --> Cotton Malone Series (book 1 of 7) --> details

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The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was–and its true nature could change the modern world.

Cotton Malone, onetime top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts–and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he’d left behind.

It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cotton’s former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, who’s far from home on a mission that has nothing to do with national security. Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century. But she’s not alone. Competing for the historic prize–and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possesses–is Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot with an army of assassins at his command.

At the end of a lethal game of conquest, rife with intrigue, treachery, and craven lust for power, lies a shattering discovery that could rock the civilized world–and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.

The Secret Garden --> details

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Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her as an orphan, Mary is sent to England to live with her reclusive uncle, Archibald Craven, at Misselthwaite Manor. Unloved and unloving, Mary wanders the desolate moors until one day she chances upon the door of a secret garden. What follows is one of the most beautiful tales of transformation in children's literature, as Mary her sickly and tyrannical cousin Colin and a peasant boy named Dickson secretly strive to make the garden bloom once more.

A unique blend of realism and magic, The Secret Garden remains a moving expression of every child's need to nurture and be nurtured—a story that has captured for all time the rare and enchanted world of childhood.

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Last Day -- SYNC Audio -- exp 04 Aug @ 7am ET

• FREE -- Wk 13 -- Pennies for Hitler --> details
• FREE -- Wk 13 -- Juba --> details

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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
https://mises.org/library/omnipotent...nd-total-war-1

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Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
https://mises.org/library/omnipotent...nd-total-war-1

Great find - thanks for posting - will add to OP

FREE -- Omnipotent Government -- L von Mises/ M Quinteros --> 10.0 hrs/ R-4.5 --> poly sci

Note: please, do not discuss the politics of this book in this forum. The correct venue for that discussion is the Politics & Religion forum - thanks, tm

other Sources

• FREE -- SoundCloud --> 15 files --> 10.0 hrs
• FREE -- iTunes --> 15 files -->
• FREE -- PDF Version --> 304 pages
• FREE -- EPUB Version -->

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Omnipotent Government was published in 1944, when the battle against Nazism held the world’s attention. How had this terrible system gained power? Mises considers and rejects several explanations popular at the time he wrote, such as inherent defects in the German national character. Instead, he looks to the rise of a malignant ideology, which he terms etatism.

Mises begins by showing how Prussian liberalism collapsed. Intellectuals spurned the free market in favor of schemes, lacking all support in sound economic theory, which stressed the role of the state in promoting national power and prosperity.

The Nazi system developed and extended the earlier etatist trends of the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine epochs. Hitler claimed, in classic etatist fashion, that Germany needed to expand in order to feed its growing population. Hitler’s idea made sense within his etatist presuppositions: in order to see what is wrong with it, one needs to understand correct economic theory. This teaches that free trade, not conquest of foreign territories, is the best means to advance prosperity.

Mises resolutely rejects the Marxist canard that Nazism was an expression of monopoly capitalism. To the contrary, Nazism was a form of socialism: the forms of private property were retained, but control and planning were in the hands of the state.

Mises concludes with a discussion of reform measures to be undertaken after the hostilities of World War II end. He calls for peace and the free market and subjects to withering criticism proposals for global central planning.

Omnipotent Government displays to the full Mises’s immense historical knowledge and his unrivaled grasp of economic principles. It is an indispensable guide to understanding nineteenth and twentieth-century European history.

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 04 Aug

$3.95 -- American Pain -- John Temple/ Charlie Thurston --> 10.3 hrs/ R-4.4 --> crime

American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

Whispersync: Audible ($3.95) | Kindle ($9.35)

The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a megaclinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortresslike former bank building, American Pain's doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of customers a day, mostly traffickers and addicts who came by the vanload. Inked muscleheads ran the clinic's security. Former strippers operated the pharmacy, counting out pills and stashing cash in garbage bags. Under their lab coats, the doctors carried guns, and it was all legal...sort of.

American Pain chronicles the rise and fall of this game-changing pill mill and how it helped tip the nation into its current opioid crisis. The narrative, which swings back and forth between Florida and Kentucky, is populated by a diverse cast of characters. This includes the incongruous band of wealthy bad boys, thugs, and esteemed physicians who built American Pain as well as the penniless Kentucky clans who transformed themselves into painkiller trafficking rings. It includes addicts whose lives were devastated by American Pain's drugs and the federal agents and grieving mothers who labored for years to bring the clinic's crew to justice.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 03 Aug

$3.99 -- Natural Born Charmer -- Susan Phillips/ Anna Fields --> 12.1 hrs/ R-4.4 --> romance

Natural Born Charmer --> Chicago Stars Series (book 7 of 7)

Whispersync: Audible ($12.99) | Kindle ($7.49)

Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country trip to figure out what's gone wrong. When he hits a lonely stretch of Colorado highway, he spies something that will shake up his gilded life in ways he can't imagine. A young woman . . . dressed in a beaver suit.

Blue Bailey is on a mission. As for the beaver suit she's wearing . . . Is it her fault that life keeps throwing her curve balls? Witness the expensive black sports car pulling up next to her on the highway and the Greek god stepping out of it.

They're soon heading for his summer home, where their already complicated lives and inconvenient attraction to each other will become entangled with a charismatic but aging rock star; a beautiful, fifty-two-year-old woman trying to make peace with her rock and roll past; an eleven-year-old who desperately needs a family; and a bitter old woman who hates them all.

Natural Born Charmer . . . for anyone who's ever thought about leaving their old life in the dust and never looking back. Susan Elizabeth Phillips takes us home again . . . and shows us where love truly lives.

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SYNC Weekly Deals -- Week 14 -- exp 11 Aug @ 7:00 AM ET

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

• FREE -- Most Dangerous -- S Sheinkin/ R Porter --> 7.9 hrs/ R-4.7
• FREE -- Book of Unk Americans -- C Henríquez/ various --> 9.2 hrs/ R-4.1 --> see below

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War

Book Length --> SYNC= h m | Audible= 7h 52m

From Steve Sheinkin, the Award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Bomb comes a tense, exciting exploration of what The New York Times deemed “the greatest story of the century”: how Daniel Ellsberg transformed from obscure government analyst into “the most dangerous man in America,” and risked everything to expose the government’s deceit.

On June 13, 1971, the front page of The New York Times announced the existence of a 7,000-page collection of documents containing a secret history of the Vietnam War. Known as The Pentagon Papers, these documents had been commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Chronicling every action the government had taken in the Vietnam War, they revealed a pattern of deception spanning over twenty years and four presidencies, and forever changed the relationship between American citizens and the politicians claiming to represent their interests.

A provocative audiobook that interrogates the meanings of patriotism, freedom, and integrity, Most Dangerous further establishes Steve Sheinkin as a leader in children’s nonfiction.

The Book of Unknown Americans

NOT Available in UK or British Commonwealth (including Canada)

Book Length --> SYNC= h m | Audible= 9h 12m

When Mayor Toro sees Maribel Rivera in a Dollar Tree store, it is love at first sight.

It’s also the beginning of a friendship between the Rivera and Toro families, whose web of guilt and love is at this audiobook’s core. Woven into their stories are the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America. Their journeys and their voices will inspire you, surprise you, and break your heart.

Suspenseful, wry and immediate, rich in spirit and humanity, The Book of Unknown Americans is a work of rare force and originality that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American.

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 04 Aug

$3.95 -- American Pain -- John Temple/ Charlie Thurston --> 10.3 hrs/ R-4.4 --> crime

It's abuse by idiots like these who have made life difficult for people who are genuinely in need of the strong stuff. It almost takes an act of Congress around here now for someone who genuinely needs the stuff to get it. Then, the patient now has to see a doctor (nurse practitioner, physician's assistant, etc. won't do) every month now even for a chronic pain condition. And it's not just here. I have a friend in another state who lives in chronic pain (due to scarring, etc. from numerous back surgeries; she has a metal rod now up her back) now because the doctors will no longer prescribe a morphine pump for her because of fear of the feds and maybe the state also.

I have no doubt that the pendulum will swing back the other way eventually, but it might take a while. I'll withhold comment about the politicians whose knee-jerk reaction to pill mills and such has brought about the change in law and policy and the honest physicians' fears of stepping across the line.

This book is certainly timely.

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Audible Sale -- exp 09 Aug

$4.95 -- Fargo Adventures -- Clive Cussler (7 titles)

Clive Cussler's Fargo Adventures on Sale. Travel the world with the husband and wife treasure-hunting team before Book 8 is released. Just $4.95 each.

Books 1-7 in Clive Cussler's action-packed series are now on sale for $4.95 each. Sale ends August 9, 2016, at 11:59 PM PT (US).

1. Spartan Gold
2. Lost Empire
3. The Kingdom
4. The Tombs
5. The Mayan Secrets
6. The Eye of Heaven
7. The Solomon Curse

[tubemonkey]

Audiobooks.com Sale -- exp 31 Aug

$7.99 -- Adult Sale (58 titles)

Great sales on spring favorites

Take your pick of these fabulous spring 2016 releases at the low price of $7.99!

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 05 Aug

$3.95 -- The Flood Girls -- Richard Fifield/ Kathleen Early --> 12.3 hrs/ R-3.9 --> contemp

Whispersync: Audible ($3.95) | Kindle ($11.99)

This snappy, sassy redemption story set in small-town Montana is "a wild and crazy debut novel by a talented young writer" (Jackie Collins), filled with an uproarious and unforgettable cast of characters you won't want to leave behind.

Welcome to Quinn, Montana, population: 956. A town where nearly all of the volunteer firemen are named Jim, where the Dirty Shame - the only bar in town - refuses to serve mixed drinks (too much work), where the locals hate the newcomers (then again, they hate the locals, too), and where the town softball team has never even come close to having a winning season. Until now.

Rachel Flood has snuck back into town after leaving behind a trail of chaos nine years prior. She's here to make amends, but nobody wants to hear it, especially her mother, Laverna. But with the help of a local boy named Jake and a little soul searching, she just might make things right.

In the spirit of Empire Falls and A League of Their Own, with the caustic wit of Where'd You Go, Bernadette thrown in for good measure, Richard Fifield's hilarious and heartwarming debut will have you laughing through tears.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 05 Aug

$2.99 -- InterWorld -- Neil Gaiman, et al/ Christopher Welch --> 5.6 hrs/ R-4.0 --> sci-fi

InterWorld --> InterWorld Trilogy (book 1 of 3)

Whispersync: Audible ($9.49) | Kindle ($5.99)

Joey Harker isn't a hero.

In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. And one day Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension.

Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces: armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions. When he sees the evil those forces are capable of, Joey makes the only possible choice. He joins an army of his own, an army of versions of himself from different dimensions who all share his amazing power and who are all determined to fight to save the worlds.

Master storyteller Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award-winning science-fiction writer Michael Reaves team up to create a dazzling tale of magic, science, honor, and the destiny of one very special boy and all the others like him.

[GtrsRGr8]

For those who are interested in such things, this deal also delivers huge bang for the buck, with the ebook being nearly 500 pages long and the narration being over 20 hours.

Title: Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Sports/Business).
Author(s): Kenny Moore.
Price: $4.98 ($0.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $29.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/92 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.5/77 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 480/20 hours and 17 minutes.
Narrator(s): Paul Cirzan.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_...ywords&x=0&y=0.
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Bowerman-Men-.../dp/B004INH4MM.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
No man has affected more runners in more ways than Bill Bowerman. During his 24-year tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon, he won four national team titles and his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. He also ignited the jogging boom, invented the waffle-sole running shoe that helped establish Nike, and coached the US track and field team at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

With the full cooperation of the Bowerman family and Nike, plus years of taped interviews with friends, relatives, students, and competitors, two-time Olympic marathoner Kenny Moore--himself one of Bowerman's champion athletes--brilliantly re-creates the legendary track coach's life.

[GtrsRGr8]

Today's Audible deal is The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. It's by Ken Robinson Ph.D. It's only $2.95. Even though no one has posted the deal, that I can see, I wanted to make an observation about it.

It's got a 4.3-star rating and is a bestseller at the Kindle store. Ordinarily those are very good signs. But there is a pretty high percentage of 1's and 2's. I encourage you to read at least some of those reviews before deciding to purchase. One criticism that came up several times is that while the book portrays a lot of successful people, there is not much practical information (therefore, the book is not relevant enough) for the ordinary person.

While I have a tendency to buy every "self-development" bargain that comes along, I had to nix this one.