FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 08 Oct @ 11:59 PM PDT

$3.95 -- The Dawn Patrol -- Don Winslow/ Ray Porter --> 9.6 hrs/ R-4.3 --> detective

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Every morning, Boone Daniels is out with the Dawn Patrol: four men and one woman as single-minded about surfing as he is, or nearly. They have real jobs; Boone works as a P.I. just enough to keep himself in fish tacos and in the water.

But Boone is also obsessed with the unsolved case of a young girl named Rain who was abducted while he was with the San Diego police. He blames himself, just as almost everyone in the department did, for not being able to save her.

Unexpectedly, he finds himself with the chance to make amends, and this new investigation gives him a wilder ride than any he's ever imagined.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 08 Oct

$4.99 -- Evolution of Everything -- Matt Ridley/ S Crossley --> 13.2 hrs/ R-4.4 --> world affairs

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.

The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch—the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than evolution, for direction rather than emergence. Drawing on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics and philosophy, Matt Ridley's wide-ranging, highly opinionated opus demolishes conventional assumptions that major scientific and social imperatives are dictated by those on high, whether in government, business, academia, or morality. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the bottom up. Patterns emerge, trends evolve. Just as skeins of geese form Vs in the sky without meaning to, and termites build mud cathedrals without architects, so brains take shape without brain-makers, learning can happen without teaching and morality changes without a plan.

Although we neglect, defy and ignore them, bottom-up trends shape the world. The growth of technology, the sanitation-driven health revolution, the quadrupling of farm yields so that more land can be released for nature—these were largely emergent phenomena, as were the Internet, the mobile phone revolution, and the rise of Asia. Ridley demolishes the arguments for design and effectively makes the case for evolution in the universe, morality, genes, the economy, culture, technology, the mind, personality, population, education, history, government, God, money, and the future.

As compelling as it is controversial, authoritative as it is ambitious, Ridley's stunning perspective will revolutionize the way we think about our world and how it works.

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Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 09 Oct @ 11:59 PM BST

£2.99 -- Elantris -- Brandon Sanderson/ Jack Garrett --> 28.8 hrs/ R-4.3 --> fantasy

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Elantris was built on magic, and it thrived. But then the magic began to fade, and Elantris began to rot. Now its shattered citizens face domination by a powerful Imperium. Can a young Princess unite the people of Elantris and lead a rebellion against the imperial zealots?

Brandon Sanderson's debut fantasy showed his skill as a storyteller and an imaginer of baroque magical systems to be fully developed from the start.

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 09 Oct @ 11:59 PM PDT

$2.95 -- Gateway -- Frederik Pohl/ Oliver Wyman, et al --> 8.6 hrs/ R-4.1 --> sci-fi

Gateway --> Heechee Saga Series (book 1 of 5)

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Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror.

When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!

BONUS AUDIO: In an exclusive introduction, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer explains why Gateway is one of science fiction's all-time greatest novels.

PLEASE NOTE: Some changes were made to the original text with the permission of the author.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 09 Oct @ 11:59 PM PDT

$2.95 -- Gateway -- Frederik Pohl/ Oliver Wyman, et al --> 8.6 hrs/ R-4.1 --> sci-fi

Robert J. Sawyer is a MobileRead author.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Robert J. Sawyer is a MobileRead author.

Cool; didn't know that

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 09 Oct

$4.99 -- Huntress of Thornbeck Forest -- M Dickerson/ J O'Shea --> 8.9 hrs/ R-3.6 --> romance

The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest --> Medieval Fairy Tale Romance Series (book 1 of 3)

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Swan Lake meets Robin Hood when the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant by day becomes the region’s most notorious poacher by night, and falls in love with the forester.

Jorgen is the forester for the wealthy margrave, and must find and capture the poacher who has been killing and stealing the margrave’s game. When he meets the lovely and refined Odette at the festival and shares a connection during a dance, he has no idea she is the one who has been poaching the margrave’s game.

Odette justifies her crime of poaching because she thinks the game is going to feed the poor, who are all but starving, both in the city and just outside its walls. But will the discovery of a local poaching ring reveal a terrible secret? Has the meat she thought she was providing for the poor actually been sold on the black market, profiting no one except the ring of black market sellers?

The one person Odette knows can help her could also find out her own secret and turn her over to the margrave, but she has no choice. Jorgen and Odette will band together to stop the dangerous poaching ring . . . and fall in love. But what will the margrave do when he discovers his forester is protecting a notorious poacher?

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Robert J. Sawyer is a MobileRead author.

Would you, or someone else, briefly explain what a MobileRead author is or does?

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Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 10 Oct @ 11:59 PM BST

£2.99 -- Jump! -- Jilly Cooper/ Gerri Halligan --> 26.7 hrs/ R-4.1 --> contemp

Jump! --> Rutshire Chronicles Series (book 9 of 9)

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Following the death of her bullying husband, Etta Bancroft's selfish children move her to a village in the Cotswolds. One night, she discovers a filly, left to die in the snow. With help, Etta rescues the horse, and she and her friends form a syndicate to pay for her upkeep. As the horse recovers, she begins to show racing pedigree, so the syndicate enters her into a maiden hurdle - and are shocked at the result.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Would you, or someone else, briefly explain what a MobileRead author is or does?

I read it to mean they are an author who has posted here on MR.

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 10 Oct @ 11:59 PM PDT

$1.95 -- Long Story Short -- Margot Leitman/ Margot Leitman --> 4.9 hrs/ R-4.5 --> how to

Long Story Short: The Only Storytelling Guide You'll Ever Need

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This is a practical storytelling guide from comedian, winner of multiple Moth storytelling competitions, and founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade storytelling program Margot Leitman.

Did you ever wish you could tell a story that leaves others spellbound? Storytelling teacher and champion Margot Leitman will show you how! With a fun, irreverent, and infographic approach, this guide breaks a story into concrete components with ways to improve content, structure, emotional impact, and delivery through personal anecdotes, relatable examples, and practical exercises.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 10 Oct

$3.99 -- Happily Ever After -- Kiera Cass/ Amy Rubinate, et al --> 9.1 hrs/ R-4.3 --> YA fantasy

Happily Ever After: Companion to the Selection Series

The Selection Series (books 0.4, 0.5, 2.5. 3.5 of 5)

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Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America, and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn't the prince. This gorgeous collection features four novellas from the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times best-selling Selection series, as well as exclusive, never-before-seen bonus content.

This series companion is a must-have for any Selection fan, and includes:

* The Prince
* The Guard
* The Queen
* The Favorite

* Exclusive new scenes from The Selection, The Elite, and The One
* Introductions to each novella from Kiera Cass
* And more!

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Last Day -- Audible -- exp 10 Oct

• 50% -- Escape This Realm Sale (23,000+ titles) --> details

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Last Day -- Downpour -- exp 10 Oct

• $1.99 -- Hunter --> details
  
• $2.95 -- Red Planet --> details
  
• SALE -- Weekly Deals (10 titles) --> titles change frequently

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Penguin Random House -- exp unknown

FREE -- Sword of Shannara -- Terry Brooks/ Scott Brick --> 27.5 hrs/ R-4.3 --> fantasy

The Annotated Sword of Shannara --> Sword Of Shannara (book 1 of 3) --> details

35th Anniversary Edition --> Free Teachers Guide - download PDF

THE PHENOMENAL EPIC OF GOOD AND EVIL LIKE IT’S NEVER BEEN EXPERIENCED BEFORE

Thirty-five years ago, Terry Brooks brought to life a dazzling world in The Sword of Shannara. Nineteen more Shannara volumes would follow, making the series one of the most popular fantasy epics of all time. Now comes a fully annotated collector’s edition of the novel that started it all—featuring never-before-shared insights into the classic tale, an all-new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author, and replicas of the original sketches for some of the long-lost, black-and-white paintings by the Brothers Hildebrandt that decorated the original edition, and a replica of the original Hildebrandt central color plate on the back of the jacket..

Long ago, wars ravaged the world. In peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knows little of such troubles. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon reveals that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord is plotting to destroy everything in his wake. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness is the Sword of Shannara, which can be used only by a true heir of Shannara. On Shea, last of the bloodline, rests the hope of all the races.

Soon a Skull Bearer, dread minion of a mighty evil, flies into the Vale, seeking to destroy Shea. To save his home, Shea must flee, drawing the Skull Bearer after him in menacing pursuit.

Thus begins the enthralling Shannara epic, a spellbinding tale of adventure, magic, and myth.