FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Thanks - added to OP

Poe is my favorite American author

This will be my third year listening to a Poe collection for Halloween. Now I have another 2 years still to go. If this keeps going I'll pass my "A Christmas Carol" streak.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Tantor has updated their freebie for October. if you're interested in getting the highly appropriate "The Best of Edgar Allan Poe" you can get it free here. While we've had some free Poe in past years we've never gotten this particular version. I compared this with other freebies and while it has the usual suspects it also has some titles that were not in the other versions.

Originally Posted by skinmaan

I found a new freebie over at Audible; it's a short story collection from LA Theatre Works. If you're interested in "Five Short Stories by Women" you can get it free here.

Thanks for both of these, especially the Poe!

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 01 Oct

$1.95 -- Agatha's First Case -- MC Beaton/ Alison Larkin --> 1.2 hrs/ R-4.2 --> detective

Agatha's First Case --> Agatha Raisin Series (book 0 of 30)

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

At age twenty-six, Agatha Raisin has already come a long way. She has clawed her way up since leaving the Birmingham slum where she was born. She’s lost her Birmingham accent, run away from her drunken husband, and found a job at a public relations office as a secretary. Then her boss asks Agatha to go to the home of Sir Bryce Teller to tell him that he is soon to be arrested for the murder of his wife and that the agency no longer wants to represent him.

Teller, impressed with the pugnacious Agatha, asks her to handle PR for him and even offers her an office and tells her she can hire a staff. Certainly the best thing Agatha can do for her first client is to find out who really murdered his wife and clear his name. And with her wits and gumption, Agatha sets out to do just that.

New York Times bestselling author M. C. Beaton’s character Agatha Raisin is beloved by millions, and this brand-new short story takes us back to where it all began with Agatha’s first case.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 02 Oct @ 11:59 PM BST

£2.99 -- Bridget Jones -- Helen Fielding/ Samantha Bond --> 11.4 hrs/ R-4.0 --> humour

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy --> Bridget Jones Series (book 3 of 3)

Whispersync: Audible (£2.99) | Kindle (£0.99)

When Helen Fielding first wrote Bridget Jones' Diary, charting the life of a 30-something singleton in London in the 1990s, she introduced audiences to one of the most beloved characters in modern literature. The book was published in 40 countries, sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, and spawned a best-selling sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

The two books were turned into major blockbuster films starring Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Colin Firth. With her hotly anticipated third instalment, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Fielding introduces us to a whole new enticing phase of Bridget's life set in contemporary London, including the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by and the nightmare of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous email CC, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need 90 buttons and three remotes to simply turn on.

An uproariously funny novel of modern life, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a triumphant return of our favourite Everywoman.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 02 Oct @ 11:59 PM PDT

$3.95 -- Algorithms to Live By -- B Christian, et al/ B Christian --> 11.8 hrs/ R-4.6 --> leadership

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Whispersync: Audible ($3.95) | Kindle ($14.99)

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.

All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such problems for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us.

In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the simple, precise algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

I found a new freebie over at Audible; it's a short story collection from LA Theatre Works. If you're interested in "Five Short Stories by Women" you can get it free here.

No idea how long it'll be free so if you're interested don't delay.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks - added to OP and Free Audible Titles

[Froide]

This month's free audiobook at Christianaudio:

http://christianaudio.com/free

THE POVERTY OF NATIONS
FREE audiobook download for this month (normally $19.98)
The whole world has a stake in the war against poverty and leaders across the globe are looking for a permanent solution. That’s why economist Barry Asmus and theologian Wayne Grudem have teamed up to outline a robust proposal for fighting poverty on a national level. Speaking to the importance of personal freedom, the rule of law, private property, moral virtue, and education, this book offers a clear path for promoting economic prosperity and safeguarding a country’s long-term stability—a sustainable solution for a world looking for the way forward.

More details about the book are posted here.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 02 Oct

$7.95 -- NERVE -- Jeanne Ryan/ Caitlin Davies --> 6.8 hrs/ R-3.8 --> YA peer pressure

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

A high-stakes online game of dares turns deadly …

When Vee is picked to be a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, she discovers that the game knows her. They tempt her with prizes taken from her ThisIsMe page and team her up with the perfect boy: sizzling-hot Ian. At first it’s exhilarating—Vee and Ian’s fans cheer them on to riskier dares with higher stakes. But the game takes a twisted turn when they’re directed to a secret location with five other players for the grand prize round. Suddenly they’re playing all-or-nothing—with their lives on the line. Just how far will Vee go before she loses NERVE?

With NERVE, debut author Jeanne Ryan delivers an intensely gripping suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Hunger Games.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 03 Oct @ 11:59 PM BST

£1.99 -- Ringworld -- Larry Niven/ Tom Parker --> 11.4 hrs/ R-4.1 --> sci-fi

Ringworld --> Ringworld Series (book 1 of 5)

Whispersync: Audible (£1.99) | Kindle (£3.95)

Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. Ninety-three million miles in radius - the equivalent of one Earth orbit or 600 miles long - 1,000 meters thick, and much sturdier than a Dyson sphere. What other advantages are there to this world? The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of 770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping. Larry Niven's novel Ringworld is the winner of the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 03 Oct @ 11:59 PM PDT

$1.95 -- Pietr the Latvian -- Georges Simenony/ G Armstrong --> 4.0 hrs/ R-3.8 --> suspense

Pietr the Latvian --> Inspector Maigret Series (book 1 of 75)

Whispersync: Audible ($1.95) | Kindle ($2.99)

The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.

Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man. His firm muscles filled out his jacket and quickly pulled all his trousers out of shape. He had a way of imposing himself just by standing there. His assertive presence had often irked many of his own colleagues.

In Simenon's first novel featuring Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces the true identity of Pietr the Latvian. Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

David Bellos is Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University and has won many awards for his translations including the Man Booker International Translator's Award (2005).

Audible will be producing all 75 Maigret titles. The next two in the series are:
The Late Monsieur Gallet on 5th Dec 2013
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien on 2nd January 2014

[skinmaan]

Per the Big Finish newsletter, you can get 3 free stories from The Confessions of Dorian Gray series by going here and entering code "everafter" at the prompt. This should be good for the rest of the month.

• This World Our Hell
  

  Paris, 1900. One of Dorian Gray's oldest friends is on his deathbed, locked away in a room at the notorious Hotel D'Alsace, where he is fighting a duel to the death. And when Dorian comes to visit him one last time, both men realise they may never be allowed to check out…

• The Prime of Deacon Brodie
  

  Edinburgh, 1920. Seizing upon the possibility of a reunion with his closest comrade from the trenches, Dorian arrives in the capital city of Scotland on Halloween! Guisers are out in force, disapproving gentlemen walk the streets… and a sinister department store has a great deal more on offer than it might initially advertise.

• Murder on 81st Street
  

  New York, 1939. Running into his old friend Dorothy Parker on the street, Dorian finds himself accompanying her to the opening of an antiquities exhibition. But when one of the guests is murdered, Dorian and Dorothy have no choice but to find the killer before their culprit has a chance to strike again…

Please note that BF lists this series as containing adult material and may not be suitable for children. This is, in my experience, a result of dealing with LGBT themes and not as a result of any explicit content. I did want to warn you, though.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Downpour -- exp 03 Oct

• $1.99 -- Dust --> details
  
• $5.95 -- It Can’t Happen Here --> details
  
• SALE -- Weekly Deals (10 titles) --> titles change frequently

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[GtrsRGr8]

In my opinion, the subject of this book, William Seward, has to be one of the most underrated, unappreciated public servants that the United States has ever had. He was even vilified at times in his own day--for example, for his part in the U.S. purchase of Alaska (for 2 cents an acre! How outlandish!), and other things.

Although more expensive of a Whispersync deal than I like to post, being the hyper-frugal person that I am, when considering the subject matter, the fine ratings, a 22 1/2 hour listening time, and discount over buying the audiobook alone at Audible (75%), this was a must-post for me.

Title: Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man.
Genre: Non-Fiction (History (U.S.)/Biography).
Author(s): Walter Stahr.
Price: $7.48 ($3.99 ebook (marked down) + $4.49 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $29.95 (1 credit).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.3 stars/149 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.2/49 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 721/22 hours and 29 minutes.
Narrator(s): William Dufris.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/History/Se...ok/B00DCZA26C/.
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Seward-Lincol.../dp/B006IDDAOG.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
From one of our most acclaimed new biographers– the first full life of the leader of Lincoln’s “team of rivals” to appear in more than forty years. William Henry Seward was one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. Progressive governor of New York and outspoken U.S. senator, he was the odds-on favorite to win the 1860 Republican nomination for president. As secretary of state and Lincoln’s closest adviser during the Civil War, Seward not only managed foreign affairs but had a substantial role in military, political, and personnel matters.

Some of Lincoln’s critics even saw Seward, erroneously, as the power behind the throne; this is why John Wilkes Booth and his colleagues attempted to kill Seward as well as Lincoln. Seward survived the assassin’s attack, continued as secretary of state, and emerged as a staunch supporter of President Andrew Johnson, Lincoln’s controversial successor. Through his purchase of Alaska (“Seward’s Folly”), and his groundwork for the purchase of the Canal Zone and other territory, Seward set America on course to become a world empire.

Seward was not only important, he was fascinating. Most nights this well-known raconteur with unruly hair and untidy clothes would gather diplomats, soldiers, politicians, or actors around his table to enjoy a cigar, a drink, and a good story. Drawing on hundreds of sources not available to or neglected by previous biographers, Walter Stahr sheds new light on this complex and central figure, as well as on pivotal events of the Civil War and its aftermath.

[tubemonkey]

I keep forgetting to do the Nook deal

Nook Daily Find -- exp 03 Oct

$5.95 -- The Wild Inside -- Christine Carbo/ RC Bray --> 13.0 hrs/ R-4.1 --> suspense

Whispersync: Audible ($4.49) | Kindle ($11.99)

For fans of Louise Penny, C. J. Box, and Nevada Barr comes a haunting crime novel set in Glacier National Park, where one man finds himself on a collision course with the dark heart of the wild and the even darker heart of human nature.

It was a clear, starry night in Glacier National Park. Fourteen-year-old Ted Systead and his father were camping peacefully beneath the rugged peaks and sweeping sky when the unimaginable happened: Ted’s father was mauled by a grizzly bear and dragged to his death.

Now, twenty years later, as special agent for the Department of the Interior, Ted is called back to investigate a crime that echoes the horror of that night. Only this time, the victim was tied to a tree before the animal’s attack. Ted teams up with one of the park officers—a man named Monty, whose pleasant exterior masks an all-too-vivid knowledge of the area. Residents of the nearby community are less than forthcoming. Suspicious of outsiders and intimately connected to the wilderness that surrounds them, they confront their fellow man and nature with equal measures of reverence and brutality. As the days pass with no clear answers, not only is human life at stake, so too is that of a majestic creature who carries with it valuable evidence. Ted’s search for truth takes him far into the wilderness, on the trail of a killer, and eventually to a shocking and unexpectedly personal conclusion.

Rich in atmosphere and evocative, lush descriptions, The Wild Inside is a gripping debut novel about the wondrously perilous intersection between man and nature.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 04 Oct @ 11:59 PM BST

£2.99 -- Everyone Brave Is Forgiven -- C Cleave/ L Thompson --> 12.7 hrs/ R-4.3 --> contemp

Whispersync: Audible (£2.99) | Kindle (£9.99)

The breathtaking new novel from the multiaward-winning author of The Other Hand.

When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up.

Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss - until his flatmate, Alistair, unexpectedly enlists, and the conflict can no longer be avoided.

Young, bright and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy. When she is - bewilderingly - made a teacher, she instead finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget.

Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary. And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love as well as war that will test them in ways they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence and passion, friendship and deception, inexorably shaping their hopes and dreams.

In a powerful combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history and a perfect love story through the vast sweep of the Second World War - daring us to understand that against the great theatre of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs that change us most.