FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I get the drop down menu, but it disappears immediately after I open it. No time to click any links. I've never had this problem after cancelling other trial periods. This is the first time it's happened to me.

That's really strange. Works fine for me on Chrome.

[issybird]

In a related issue, does anyone know how to access Downpour's weekly rental? I've got the Deals page bookmarked for sale books, but I can't find a link or come up with a search that gets the rental deal.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by issybird

In a related issue, does anyone know how to access Downpour's weekly rental? I've got the Deals page bookmarked for sale books, but I can't find a link or come up with a search that gets the rental deal.

Sorry, I can't help you with that. I found a "Deal of the Week." It's A Man Called Love by Fredrik Backman, and I found a page giving the purchase information for it here.

I noticed that there are 7 other downloads on sale at Downpour. They range in price from $3.95 to $6.95. There are some fiction and some non-fiction titles. You can find information about all of them at the link that I gave above.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour Rental of the Week -- exp 29 Feb


$1.99 -- Zero Day -- Jan Gangsei -- read by Andi Arndt (9.3 hrs)

Eight years ago Addie Webster was the victim of the most notorious kidnapping of the decade. She vanished—and her high-profile parents were forced to move on.

Mark Webster is now president of the United States and fighting to keep the Oval Office after a tumultuous first term. Then the unthinkable happens: the president’s daughter resurfaces. Addie is brought back into the family fold, but who is this sixteen-year-old girl with a quiet, burning intelligence now living in the White House? There are those in the president’s political circle who find her timely return suspicious.

When a national security advisor approaches Darrow Fergusson, Addie’s childhood best friend and the son of the president’s chief of staff, he doesn’t know what to think. How could the girl he’s missed for all these years be a threat to national security? Still, at the risk of having his own secrets exposed, Darrow agrees to spy on Addie and soon realizes that his old friend is much more than the traumatized victim of a sick political fringe group. Addie has come with a mission … but will she choose to complete it?

[tubemonkey]

Downpour Deal of the Week -- exp 29 Feb


$4.99 -- A Man Called Ove -- Fredrik Backman -- read by George Newbern (9.2 hrs)

In this bestselling and delightfully quirky debut novel from Sweden, a grumpy yet lovable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.

Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?

Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox. It is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul—all of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents’ association to their very foundations.

A feel-good story in the spirit of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Fredrik Backman’s novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful and charming exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others.

Also on Sale

• $5.95 -- Memories and Adventures -- Sir A Conan Doyle -- read by Simon Vance (14.0 hrs)
• $4.99 -- Adrift -- Paul Griffin -- read by Paul Griffin (5.3 hrs)
• $3.95 -- The Terror Alliance -- Jack D Hunter -- read by Tom Weiner (8.6 hrs)
• $5.95 -- Candyfreak -- Steve Almond -- read by Oliver Wyman (6.7 hrs)
• $6.95 -- When the Killing's Done -- TC Boyle -- Anthony Heald (16.2 hrs)
• $5.95 -- Tokyo Year Zero -- David Peace -- read by Mark Bramhall (14.2 hrs)
• $4.99 -- Summerlong -- Dean Bakopoulos -- read by Luke Daniels (10.3 hrs)

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by issybird

In a related issue, does anyone know how to access Downpour's weekly rental? I've got the Deals page bookmarked for sale books, but I can't find a link or come up with a search that gets the rental deal.

I haven't found it yet. So I just bookmark the home page and scroll down to the Rental of the Week.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 24 Feb @ 11:59pm ET


$3.95 -- Five Days Left -- Julie Lawson Timmer -- read by R Lowman & K Heyborne (12.9 hrs)

Mara Nichols, a successful lawyer, and devoted wife and adoptive mother, has recently been diagnosed with a terminal disease. Scott Coffman, a middle school teacher, has been fostering an eight-year-old boy while the boy’s mother serves a jail sentence. Scott and Mara both have five days left until they must say good-bye to the ones they love the most.

Through their stories, Julie Lawson Timmer explores the individual limits of human endurance, the power of relationships, and that sometimes loving someone means holding on, and sometimes it means letting go.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 24 Feb


$3.99 -- Truth Stained Lies -- Terri Blackstock -- read by Gabrielle de Cuir (8.1 hrs)

When truth doesn't make sense, will lies prevail?

Cathy Cramer is a former lawyer and investigative blogger who writes commentary on high-profile homicides. When she finds a threatening note warning her that she's about to experience the same kind of judgment and speculation that she dishes out in her blog, Cathy writes it off as mischief . . . until her brother's wife is murdered and all the 'facts' point to him. The killer has staged the crime to make the truth too far-fetched to believe. Working to solve the murder and clear her brother's name, Cathy and her two sisters, Holly and Juliet, moonlight as part-time private investigators. Juliet, a stay-at-home mom of two boys, and Holly, a scattered ne'er-do-well who drives a taxi, put aside their fear to hunt down the real killer.

Stakes rise when their brother's grieving five-year-old son is kidnapped. As police focus on the wrong set of clues, the three sisters and their battered detective friend are the only hope for solving this bizarre crime, saving the child, and freeing their brother.

[TrevorViking]

^^ Looks interesting, but since we have several days to think about it I'll wait for now.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

^^ Looks interesting, but since we have several days to think about it I'll wait for now.

Which books are you referring to? The offers in the two posts just before yours expire later today.

[bookmarked]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

^^ Looks interesting, but since we have several days to think about it I'll wait for now.

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Which books are you referring to? The offers in the two posts just before yours expire later today.

Perhaps he was joking because of the Audible title "Five Days Left"?

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by bookmarked

Perhaps he was joking because of the Audible title "Five Days Left"?

Probably not the best book to put on 24-hour sale.

[TrevorViking]

Missed my I guess. Gotcha!

[ApK]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

Missed my I guess. Gotcha!

Remember, the quote feature saves lives. Of jokes.

[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by ApK

Remember, the quote feature saves lives. Of jokes.

I got ninjad there actually, tube snuck in a post as I was typing. Although I guess a joke is a truth stained lie, right?