FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 10 Sep

$3.99 -- Pitch Perfect -- Bill McGowan/ Bill McGowan --> 7.9 hrs/ R-4.1 --> career skills

Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

Media guru and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan - coach to some of the biggest names in business and entertainment, including Eli Manning, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Welch, Thomas Keller, and Kenneth Cole - teaches you how to get your message across and get what you want with pitch-perfect communication. He is also a trusted advisor in the C-suites of tech companies like Facebook, Spotify, AirBnB, Dropbox, and Salesforce.com.

Saying the right thing the right way can make the difference between sealing the deal or losing the account, getting a promotion, or getting a pink slip. It's essential to be pitch perfect - to get the right message across to the right person at the right time. In Pitch Perfect, Bill McGowan shows you how to craft the right message and deliver it using the right language - both verbal and nonverbal.

Pitch Perfect teaches you how to overcome common communication pitfalls using McGowan's simple Principles of Persuasion, which are highly effective and easy to learn, implement, and master. With Pitch Perfect you can harness the power of persuasion and have people not only listening closely to your every word but also remembering you long after you've left the room.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 11 Sep

$5.95 -- The Medusa Amulet -- Robert Masello/ David Colacci --> 15.7 hrs/ R-4.4 --> espionage

Whispersync: Audible ($3.99) | Kindle ($7.99)

Benvenuto Cellini, master artisan of Renaissance Italy, once crafted a beautiful amulet prized for its unimaginable power - and untold menace. Now the quest to recover this legendary artifact depends upon one man: David Franco, a brilliant but skeptical young scholar at Chicago's world-renowned Newberry Library. What begins as a simple investigation spirals into a tale of dangerous intrigue as Franco races from the châteaux of France to the palazzos of Rome in a desperate search for the ultimate treasure and an answer to a riddle that has puzzled mankind since the beginning of time. Aided by a beautiful young Florentine harboring dark secrets, pursued by deadly assassins, and battling demons of his own, Franco must ultimately confront an evil greater than anything conjured in his worst nightmares.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 11 Sep

$5.99 -- A Crown for Cold Silver -- Alex Marshall/ Angele Masters --> 25.0 hrs/ R-4.4 --> fantasy

A Crown for Cold Silver --> Crimson Empire Series (book 1 of 2)

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

"It was all going so nicely, right up until the massacre."

Twenty years ago feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history.

Now the peace she carved for herself has been shattered by the unprovoked slaughter of her village. Seeking bloody vengeance, Zosia heads for battle once more, but to find justice she must confront grudge-bearing enemies, once-loyal allies, and an unknown army that marches under a familiar banner.

Five villains. One legendary general. A final quest for vengeance.

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Audible -- exp 11 Sep

• SALE -- 3 Books for 2 Credits (200+ titles) --> details

[tubemonkey]

While updating the OP, I discovered that I forgot to post the descriptions for this week's offers from Downpour. Sorry for such a late post.

Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 12 Sep

$1.99 -- The Unseen World -- Liz Moore/ Lisa Flanagan --> 14.4 hrs/ R-4.2 --> literary

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

A heartbreaking and moving story about a daughter’s quest to discover the truth about her father’s hidden past

Ada Sibelius is raised by David, a single father and head of a computer science lab in Boston. Homeschooled, she accompanies her loving father—brilliant, eccentric, socially inept—to work every day. By twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. At the same time that the lab begins to gain acclaim, David’s mind begins to falter and his mysterious past comes into question. When her father moves into a nursing home, Ada is taken in by one of David’s colleagues. She embarks on a mission to uncover her father’s secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. Eventually, Ada pioneers a type of software that enables her to make contact with her past and to reconcile the man she thought she knew with the truth.

Praised for her ability to create quirky and unforgettable characters, Liz Moore has written a piercing story of a daughter’s quest to restore the legacy of the father she desperately loves.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 12 Sep

$2.95 -- Hell Divers -- Nicholas Smith/ RC Bray --> 10.2 hrs/ R-4.4 --> sci-fi

Hell Divers --> Hell Divers Trilogy (book 1 of new series)

Whispersync: Audible ($3.49) | Kindle ($5.38)

More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers—men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.

When one of the remaining airships is damaged in an electrical storm, a Hell Diver team is deployed to a hostile zone called Hades. But there’s something down there far worse than the mutated creatures discovered on dives in the past—something that threatens the fragile future of humanity.

[skinmaan]

Heads up! There's a new 2-month Audible offer from Groupon. As usual, YMMV, bit it worked for me, and I just came off a 3-month Prime membership. Check it out here.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Heads up! There's a new 2-month Audible offer from Groupon. As usual, YMMV, bit it worked for me, and I just came off a 3-month Prime membership. Check it out here.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks for the heads up - it's the same offer already linked in the OP

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 12 Sep

$2.95 -- Hell Divers -- Nicholas Smith/ RC Bray --> 10.2 hrs/ R-4.4 --> sci-fi

I listened to that (via Overdrive) and it was GREAT!

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Thanks for the heads up - it's the same offer already linked in the OP

Oops. Apparently the freebie sites just realized it 'cause it was posted on like 30 of them this weekend.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Oops. Apparently the freebie sites just realized it 'cause it was posted on like 30 of them this weekend.

I say it's better to repeat something (inadvertently) than to fail to have one listed.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Oops. Apparently the freebie sites just realized it 'cause it was posted on like 30 of them this weekend.

NP

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I say it's better to repeat something (inadvertently) than to fail to have one listed.

Exactly - there's no downside to a reminder

[badgoodDeb]

Agreed. A lot of us don't re-read the first note; we get notices about additions to the thread, and we read *those*. So, thanks!

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 12 Sep

$2.95 -- Spill Simmer Falter Wither -- Sara Baume/ John Keating --> 8.0 hrs/ R-3.8 --> literary

Whispersync: Audible ($2.95) | Kindle ($9.99)

A debut novel already praised as "unbearably poignant and beautifully told" (Eimear McBride), this captivating story follows - over the course of four seasons - a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog.

It is springtime, and two outcasts - a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life - find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection. As their friendship grows, their small seaside town suddenly takes note of them, falsely perceiving menace where there is only mishap. The unlikely duo must take to the road.

Gorgeously written in poetic and mesmerizing prose, Spill Simmer Falter Wither has already garnered wild support in its native Ireland, where the Irish Times pointed to Baume's "astonishing power with language" and praised it as "a novel bursting with brio, braggadocio and bite". It is also a moving depiction of how - over the four seasons echoed in the title - a relationship between fellow damaged creatures can bring them both comfort. One of those rare stories that utterly, completely imagines its way into a life most of us would never see, it transforms us in our understanding not only of the world but also of ourselves.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 12 Sep

$4.99 -- Silencing Eve -- Iris Johansen/ Elisabeth Rodgers --> 12.6 hrs/ R-4.2 --> detective

Silencing Eve --> Eve Duncan Series (book 18 of 21)

Whispersync: Audible ($4.49) | Kindle ($7.99)

When it comes to Eve Duncan, never say never…Is she dead or alive? That is the question on everybody's lips. Eve appears to have been the victim of James Doane, the psychopath who kidnapped her and forced her to use her skills as a forensic sculptor to reconstruct the skull of his depraved son. That's what everyone attending her funeral thinks, at least. But not even some of her top-brass colleagues know for sure whether her death is a hoax - a way to ensnare her brutal captor once and for all. But even if Eve really is still alive, how much longer can this charade continue before she falls into even greater danger? CIA agent Catherine Ling will waste no time trying to find out. Years ago, Eve risked everything to help Catherine find her missing son. Now Catherine, along with Eve's beloved Joe Quinn and Jane MacGuire, will go to the ends of the earth to save her.