FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Booooo! They put out some good ones. Sad to see it end for the year.

But thanks, Sync.

I'll second that

[skinmaan]

I've got two Audible freebies (that aren't author interviews) for you today. One I'm getting, the other I'm not. It's up to you to figure out which is which.

First, we have a mysterious pre-order. You can get "The Dispatcher" by John Scalzi and read by Zachary Quinto (the latest "Star Trek" and TV's "Heroes") you can get it free here. There is a chance this is a pricing error so I don't know if it will be free until the release date (10-4-16). I can't even tell you how long it is - the entry says "Not Yet Known."

Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi.

One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life.

Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher - a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death's crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher and former friend is apparently kidnapped, Tony learns that there are some things that are worse than death and that some people are ready to do almost anything to avenge a supposed wrong.

It's a race against time for Valdez to find his friend before it's too late...before not even a Dispatcher can save him.

The second freebie is a speech, "Annihilation of Caste: An Undelivered Speech 1936" by B. R. Ambedkar, which can be found here.

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) was one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of India. He was born in poor circumstances as an Untouchable - high castes regarded physical contact with Untouchables as polluting and condemned them to do the dirtiest of jobs, sweeping and the collection of human detritus. But Dr. Ambedkar's natural ability and determination (and some good fortune) enabled him to rise above caste prejudice and become one of the founding fathers of modern India.

He was the chief architect of the Indian constitution introduced at Independence in 1947 and saw the concept of Untouchability made illegal. But he had campaigned for decades. In 1936, Dr. Ambedkar wrote a speech - famously not delivered - in which he outlined the case against the whole existence of caste divisions in India.

In Annihilation of Caste, rationally and methodically, he takes apart the basis on which caste exists, and which has delivered harm, pain and misery on untold generations - and continues to do so. Individuals such as Mahatma Gandhi shamefully continued to defend caste distinctions (his response is included here).

Even today, in modern India, many of the 200 million Dalits (as the ex-Untouchables now call themselves) experience severe prejudice and violence.

Annihilation of Caste is as important a political statement concerning basic human rights as The Rights of Man or The Communist Manifesto, and is just as relevant in the 21st century , where caste and class still exercise a baleful effect on society.

In 1956, despairing of true justice for the ex-Untouchables within Hinduism, Dr. Ambedkar, and millions of his followers, converted to Buddhism.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[Froide]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Booooo! They put out some good ones. Sad to see it end for the year.

But thanks, Sync.

Ditto. Thank you, SYNC YA, and thank you, tubemonkey.

I'm also saddened for another reason: whenever the SYNC YA season ends; it signals the winding down of summer. Double booooo!!

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 19 Aug

$4.95 -- Locke & Key -- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez/ full cast --> 13.4 hrs/ R-3.9 --> horror

Day 5 of Audible Studios Week

Whispersync: no deals at this time

Contains explicit language and adult situations

Based on the best-selling, award-winning graphic novel series Locke & Key - written by acclaimed suspense novelist Joe Hill (NOS4A2, Horns) and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez - this multicast, fully dramatized audio production brings the images and words to life.

A brutal and tragic event drives the Locke family from their home in California to the relative safety of their ancestral estate in Lovecraft, Massachusetts, an old house with powerful keys and fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. As siblings Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode Locke discover the secrets of the old house, they also find that it's home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all....

Featuring performances by Haley Joel Osment (Entourage, The Sixth Sense), Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Kate Mulgrew (Orange Is the New Black, Star Trek: Voyager), Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez, and Stephen King (The Stand, 11-22-63), as well as a cast of more than 50 voice actors, this audio production preserves the heart-stopping impact of the graphic novel's astounding artwork through the use of richly imagined sound design and a powerful original score.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 19 Aug

$4.95 -- Locke & Key -- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez/ full cast --> 13.4 hrs/ R-3.9 --> horror

Day 5 of Audible Studios Week

This was a freebie at some point; I have it in my library and I know I never bought it!

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

This was a freebie at some point; I have it in my library and I know I never bought it!

Yep, it was. I also have it.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by Catlady

This was a freebie at some point; I have it in my library and I know I never bought it!

Halloween last year.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Halloween last year.

That's scary. What else might the ghosts and goblins sneak into our computers on All Hallow's Eve?

[TrevorViking]

The comic books are fantastic, but I've yet to listen to this freebie.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 19 Aug

$4.99 -- Rich Dad Poor Dad -- Robert Kiyosaki/ Tim Wheeler --> 6.2 hrs/ R-4.6 --> business

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Whispersync: Audible ($1.99) | Kindle ($4.67)

Rich Dad Poor Dad will….
* Explode the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich
* Challenge the belief that your house is an asset
* Show parents why they can’t rely on the school system to teach their kids about money
* Define once and for all an asset and a liability
* Teach you what to teach your kids about money for their future financial success

Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money. With perspectives that often contradict conventional wisdom, Robert has earned a reputation for straight talk, irreverence, and courage. He is regarded worldwide as a passionate advocate for financial education.

"The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money… but never learn to have money work for them."
—Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad Poor Dad – The #1 Personal Finance Book of All Time!

“Rich Dad Poor Dad is a starting point for anyone looking to gain control of their financial future.” (USA Today)

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 20 Aug

$2.95 -- Exclusively Yours -- Shannon Stacey/ Lauren Fortgang --> 7.7 hrs/ R-4.0 --> romance

Exclusively Yours --> Kowalski Family Series (book 1 of 9)

Whispersync: Audible ($2.95) | Kindle ($5.99)

When Keri Daniels’ editor finds out she has previous carnal knowledge of reclusive best-selling author Joe Kowalski, she gives Keri a choice: get an interview or get a new job.

Joe’s never forgotten the first girl to break his heart, so he’s intrigued to hear Keri’s back in town—and looking for him. Despite his intense need for privacy, he’ll grant Keri an interview if it means a chance to finish what they started in high school.

He proposes an outrageous plan—for every day she survives with his family on their annual camping and four-wheeling trip, Keri can ask one question. Keri agrees; she’s worked too hard to walk away from her career.

But the chemistry between them is still as potent as the bug spray, Joe’s sister is out to avenge his broken heart, and Keri hasn’t ridden an ATV since she was 10. Who knew a little blackmail, a whole lot of family, and some sizzling romantic interludes could make Keri reconsider the old dream of Keri & Joe 2gether 4ever.

[bathos]

Many thanks! Also free to pre-order on audible UK.

Originally Posted by skinmaan

First, we have a mysterious pre-order. You can get "The Dispatcher" by John Scalzi and read by Zachary Quinto (the latest "Star Trek" and TV's "Heroes") you can get it free here. There is a chance this is a pricing error so I don't know if it will be free until the release date (10-4-16). I can't even tell you how long it is - the entry says "Not Yet Known."


Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 20 Aug

$3.99 -- Darkness the Color of Snow -- Thomas Cobb/ T Cobb --> 8.9 hrs/ R-3.0 --> suspense

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

Like No Country for Old Men and Snow Falling on Cedars, a haunting, suspenseful, and dazzlingly written novel of secrets, corruption, tragedy, and vengeance from the author of Crazy Heart - the basis of the 2009 Academy Award-winning film - an electrifying crime drama and psychological thriller in which a young cop becomes the focal point for a community's grief and rage in the aftermath of a tragic accident.

Out on a rural highway on a cold, icy night, Patrolman Ronny Forbert sits in his cruiser, trying to keep warm and make time pass until his shift ends. Then a familiar beater Jeep Cherokee comes speeding over a hill, forcing the rookie cop to chase after it. The driver is his old friend turned nemesis Matt Laferiere, the rogue son of a man as beaten down as the town itself.

Within minutes what begins as a clear-cut arrest for drunk driving spirals out of control into a heated argument between two young men with a troubled past and ends in a fatal hit and run on an icy stretch of blacktop.

As the news spreads around town, Police Chief Gordy Hawkins remains certain that Ronny Forbert followed the rules, at least most of them, and he's willing to stand by the young cop. But a few manipulative people in town see opportunity in the tragedy. As uneasy relationships, dark secrets, and old grievances reveal themselves, the people of this small, tightly woven community decide that a crime must have been committed, and someone - Officer Ronny Forbert - must pay a price, a choice that will hold devastating consequences for them all.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 21 Aug

$2.95 -- Breaking Wild -- Diane Becquets/ T Plummer, et al --> 8.7 hrs/ R-4.2 --> detective

Whispersync: Audible ($2.95) | Kindle ($12.99)

In captivating prose, Diane Les Becquets tells the story of one woman missing in the Colorado wilderness and another bent on discovering the missing woman's whereabouts in an unforgettably moving and thrilling literary debut.

It is the last weekend of the season for Amy Raye Latour to get away. Driven to spend days alone in the wilderness, Amy Raye, mother of two, is compelled by the quiet and the rush of nature. But this time, her venture into a remote area presents a different set of dangers than Amy Raye has planned for, and she finds herself on the verge of the precarious edge that she's flirted with her entire life.

When Amy Raye doesn't return to camp, ranger Pru Hathaway and her dog respond to the missing person call. After an unexpected snowfall and few leads, the operation turns into a search and recovery. Pru, though, is not resigned to that. The more she learns about the woman for whom she is searching, and about Amy Raye's past, the more she suspects that Amy Raye might yet be alive. Pru's own search becomes an obsession for a woman whose life is just as mysterious as the clues she has left behind.

As the novel follows Amy Raye and Pru in alternating threads, Breaking Wild assumes the white-knuckled pace of a thriller laying bare Amy Raye's ultimate reckoning with the secrets of her life and Pru's dogged pursuit of the woman who, against all odds, she believes she can find.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 21 Aug

$3.99 -- The Lost Landscape -- Joyce Oates/ Cassandra Campbell --> 11.4 hrs/ R-4.4 --> memoir

The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age

Whispersync: Audible ($12.99) | Kindle ($14.99)

Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed best seller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.

The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural Western New York State. From memories of her relatives to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm, from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of the romance of childhood and its indelible influence on the woman and the writer she would become.

In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. While reading Alice in Wonderland changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to view life as a series of endless adventures, growing up on a farm taught her harsh lessons about sacrifice, hard work, and loss. With searing detail and an acutely perceptive eye, Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision, transporting us to a forgotten place and time - the lost landscape of her youth, reminding us of the forgotten landscapes of our own earliest lives.