FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

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Here's another $3.98 Vonnegut WS deal, that I just came across. This is on Vonnegut's _God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater_.

The vital information: ebook 290 pages, and 4.4-star (265)-rated at Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005IHWBSY.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 10 Feb

• £2.99 -- Wilde Like Me -- Louise Pentland --> romance

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Daily Deals -- exp 10 Feb

• Audible -----> $3.95 -- Never Quit -- Jimmy Settle, et al --> memoir
  
• Downpour --> $4.95 -- Freeing David McCallum -- Ken Klonsky --> NF social science
  
• eStories ----> $2.99 -- Otherworld Renegade -- Jane Godman --> romance

* Never Quit: From Alaskan Wilderness Rescues to Afghanistan Firefights as an Elite Special Ops PJ

* Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

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PRH looks to be updating TryAudiobooks. Stay tuned for developments

• FREE -- Before Happiness -- Shawn Achor, Mike Chamberlain / 8.2 hrs --> Psychology

In his international best seller, The Happiness Advantage, Harvard-trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. This book is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that positive change is possible. Only once we learn to see the world through a more positive lens can we summon all our motivation, emotion, and intelligence to achieve our personal and professional goals.

In Before Happiness, Achor reveals five actionable, proven strategies for changing our lens to positive:

• The Most Valuable Reality: See a broader range of ideas and solutions by changing the details on which your brain chooses to focus
• Success Mapping: Set goals oriented around the things in life that matter to you most, whether career advancement or family or making a difference in the world
• The X-spot: Use success accelerants to propel you more quickly towards those goals, whether finishing a marathon, reaching a sales target, learning a language, or losing 10 pounds
• Noise-Canceling: Boost the signal pointing you to opportunities and possibilities that others miss
• Positive Inception: Transfer these skills to your team, your employees, and everyone around you

By mastering these strategies, you'll create a renewable source of positivity, motivation, and engagement that will allow you to reach your fullest potential in everything you do.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[skinmaan]

I've been meaning to post about this for a while but keep forgetting. Those of you who don't mind full-cast audios, serialized distribution, and the occasional commercial might be interested in the new Graphic Audio podcast. You can find the details here, but here's the short-short version. Basically, they have been serializing a few select new releases before they even publish. So far they have released the following for free:

• Owl & Spencer 1: The Beginning of the End by Michael John Casey (Western)
• Warlock Holmes: The Reigateway to Another World by G. S. Denning (paranormal detective)
• Nuclear Bombshell 9: The Raven-Haired Rogue by John Zakoor (Sci-Fi)
• Ishmael Jones Mystery 3: Very Important Corpses by Simon R. Green (paranormal detective)
• A Tony Mandolin Mystery 3: What the Puck? by Robert Lee Beers (paranormal detective) - in progress

You can still get most of the books on their RSS feed here or from their podcast on iTunes. I'm not as sure about other sources. If interested, good luck.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[skinmaan]

For those of you who requested streaming sources, LA Theatre Works has a Soundcloud page where you can stream many of their titles for free.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 11 Feb

• £1.99 -- Locked On (book 12) -- Tom Clancy, et al --> espionage

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Amazon has announced a new slate of "Kindle Exclusives" for the week. Actually, many of the titles are carry-overs from last week. But there are still a lot of new ones, too.

It appears that all, or at least the great majority, of Kindle Exclusives are published by Amazon or one of its numerous imprints.

What the new list of Kindle Exclusives means is that there are a lot of new, cheap Whispersync deals to be had. It is obvious to me, at least, that Amazon has quit offering reasonably priced Whispersync narrations for all, or practically all, of the ebooks that it sells, _except for ebooks that it, or one of its imprints, publishes_. That still amounts to a lot of ebooks, however, because Amazon has, in the last few years, rather quietly gone about making itself into one of the largest publishers of paper-based books, ebooks, and audiobooks in the U.S.

Take a gander at the ebooks in the Kindle Exclusives for this week. For your convenience, I am giving the URL of those Kindle Exclusives with Whispersync narrations, sorted by price from low to high: https://amazon.com/s/ref=is_r_p_n_fe...o=digital-text.

I also noticed that among the "Kindle Deals of the Month" there are _some_ great Whispersync deals to be had. I noticed, for example, that the WS deal for Billy Ray Cyrus' highly rated autobiography is only $2.98 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AQ...BFL&ref=plSrch).

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Daily Deals -- exp 11 Feb

• Audible -----> $3.95 -- Working Fire -- Emily Bleeker --> contemp
  
• Downpour --> $4.95 -- Shame Nation -- Sue Scheff, et al --> NF social science
  
• eStories ----> $10.00 -- Lonely Boy -- Steve Jones --> NF memoir

* Shame Nation: The Global Epidemic of Online Hate

* Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 12 Feb

• £1.99 -- October -- China Mieville --> history

* October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

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Amazon offers Prime members an Audible 30-Day Trial Membership bundled with two Audiobook Credits and a $15 Prime Now Credit (on an order of $35 or more) for free.

I was able to get the 2 Audible credits, but I'm not in a Prime Now location. This is the 1st Audible trial I was able to get in about a year.

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Daily Deals -- exp 12 Feb

• Audible -----> $1.95 -- One Crazy Summer (book 1) -- Rita Williams-Garcia --> kids
  
• Downpour --> $3.95 -- Nobody Knows My Name -- James Baldwin --> NF essay
  
• eStories ----> $3.99 -- Attract Love While You Sleep -- Kelly Howell --> NF meditation

* Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 13 Feb

• £2.99 -- Wild Chamber (book 14) -- Christopher Fowler --> detective

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Daily Deals -- exp 13 Feb

• Audible -----> $5.95 -- Three Wishes -- Kristen Ashley --> romance
  
• Downpour --> $15.96 -- Open Season (book 1) -- Archer Mayor --> mystery
  
• eStories ----> $2.99 -- To Have and to Kill (book 1) -- Mary Jane Clark --> mystery

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 14 Feb

• £2.99 -- Bridget Jones's Baby (book 4) -- Helen Fielding --> romance