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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 31 May

• £2.99 -- Patrick Melrose, Vol 1 (books 1-3) -- Edward St Aubyn --> humour

* Patrick Melrose, Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope

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Daily Deals -- exp 31 May

• Audible -----> $2.95 -- This Is Your Brain on Parasites -- Kathleen McAuliffe --> NF biology
  
• Downpour --> $3.95 -- The Dictator Pope -- Marcantonio Colonna --> NF biography
  
• eStories ----> $5.99 -- The Magnolia Story -- Chip Gaines, et al --> NF memoir

* This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

* The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy

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Last Day -- Monthly Offers -- exp 31 May


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[*]Downpour --> $3.95 -- The Dictator Pope -- Marcantonio Colonna --> NF biography

My opinion . . . .

I am basing the following paragraphs upon the description of the audiobook at Downpour: Marcantonio Colonna’s The Dictator Pope has rocked Rome and the entire Catholic Church with its portrait of an authoritarian, manipulative, and politically partisan pontiff. Occupying a privileged perch in Rome during the tumultuous first years of Francis’ pontificate, Colonna was privy to the shock, dismay, and even panic that the reckless new pope engendered in the Church’s most loyal and judicious leaders. The Dictator Pope discloses that Father Mario Bergoglio (the future Pope Francis) was so unsuited for ecclesiastical leadership that the head of his own Jesuit order tried to prevent his appointment as a bishop in Argentina. Behind the benign smile of the “people’s pope” Colonna reveals a ruthless autocrat aggressively asserting the powers of the papacy in pursuit of a radical agenda.

Frankly, I think that this probably is more suitable as fodder for the tabloids found at the supermarket checkout lanes, and consumed by people who are easily duped or find such caca posing as news to be entertaining. (For the benefit of those in the U.K., and maybe elsewhere, where this is not the case with tabloids, I think that I can safely say that people here in the 'States generally have a very negative view of tabloids published here in the United States (they're considered trash) than containing real news, such as the results of serious, honest pieces of investigative work). (As a side note, I wish that all of the newspapers in the U.S. would go to a tabloid format--that format is so much more convenient to use than the big, standard, unwieldy one that newspaper publishers inevitably use! What is preventing that? Probably the negative image of publications in tabloid form!)

I consider myself relatively well informed about current events, and I have never heard anything about any of the things that the description mentions about Pope Francis. From Day One, I've heard almost nothing negative against Pope Francis (other than by people who are opposed to the Roman Catholic Church, its teachings, and the papacy in general), at all. But, perhaps the author genuinely has uncovered some secrets--I'll try to be open-minded.

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Sync Audio -- Weekly Offers -- FAQs & Help -- exp 07 Jun @ 7 AM ET

Week 6 -- Both of the audiobooks you can download during this Week 6 of our 2018 program have won AudioFile Magazine’s Earphones Award for excellence. Listeners will be quick to understand why as they settle into these stellar teen novels.

FREE -- Extraordinary Means -- Robyn Schneider/ K Hvam, et al --> 8.1 hrs --> fiction

NOT Available in UK or British Commonwealth (except Canada)

John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this darkly funny novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Beginning of Everything.

Up until his diagnosis, Lane lived a fairly predictable life. But when he finds himself at a tuberculosis sanatorium called Latham House, he discovers an insular world with paradoxical rules, med sensors, and an eccentric yet utterly compelling confidante named Sadie - and life as Lane knows it will never be the same.

Robyn Schneider's Extraordinary Means is a heart-wrenching yet ultimately hopeful story about the miracles of first love and second chances.

FREE -- Love and First Sight -- Josh Sundquist/ P Young --> 6.4 hrs --> romance

In his debut novel, YouTube personality and author of We Should Hang Out Sometime Josh Sundquist explores the nature of love, trust, and romantic attraction.

On his first day at a new school, blind 16-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student in the cafeteria, and somehow drove a classmate to tears. High school can only go up from here, right?

As Will starts to find his footing, he develops a crush on a charming, quiet girl named Cecily. Then an unprecedented opportunity arises: an experimental surgery that could give Will eyesight for the first time in his life. But learning to see is more difficult than Will ever imagined, and he soon discovers that the sighted world has been keeping secrets. It turns out Cecily doesn't meet traditional definitions of beauty - in fact everything he'd heard about her appearance was a lie engineered by their so-called friends to get the two of them together. Does it matter what Cecily looks like? No, not really. But then why does Will feel so betrayed?

Told with humor and breathtaking poignancy, Love and First Sight is a story about how we relate to each other and the world around us.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 01 Jun

• £1.99 -- The Outcasts of Time -- Ian Mortimer --> historical

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christianaudio -- Monthly Offers -- exp 30 Jun

• FREE -- Love Lives Here -- Maria Goff/ Maria Goff --> 5.4 hrs --> NF Christian

Love Lives Here: Finding What You Need in a World Telling You What You Want

This is a book about discovering what we really need.

There are a lot of second-best options, but we weren’t made to live a second-best life. Finding what we actually need is different than what we are often offered. There are many books full of opinions, steps and programs. This isn’t one of them. This is about craving the things that matter. Things that don’t just work, but last.

In a life that may seem to be all fun and games with an endless supply of balloons, author Maria Goff shows how this life is also lived with intentionality, passionate purpose, and a little planning—all of which make a life rich in legacy. But she had to figure out the help she needed first in order to live the beautiful life God wanted for her and wants for us.

Love Lives Here is a collection of stories that include the ways Maria and her husband, Bob, navigated family their way, without clear instructions or a road map. It’s about what they learned to make their lives meaningful and whimsical and how they created a space for their family to grow together while they reached outward.

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Amazon Alexa -- Free Rental -- exp 30 Jun

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FREE -- Ponzi Supernova -- Steve Fishman/ S Fishman, et al --> 2.5 hrs --> NF documentary

To find out how the greatest financial fraud in history imploded, journalist Steve Fishman tracks down the victims, the federal investigators, the accomplices, and the mastermind, Bernie Madoff himself. Ponzi Supernova takes listeners through the calculated lies, frantic hi-jinx, and lax financial oversight that ultimately weaponized a Ponzi scheme into a $65 billion destructive force that reached across the globe and still has lasting effects today.

When you add Ponzi Supernova to your library you will receive all 6 episodes, each with a runtime of approximately 25 minutes.

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christianaudio -- exp 23 Jun

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Daily Deals -- exp 01 Jun

• Audible -----> $2.95 -- The Return -- Hisham Matar --> NF memoir
  
• Downpour --> $3.95 -- Food Sanity -- David Friedman --> NF health
  
• eStories ----> $1.99 -- Accidentally Flirting... (#1-3) -- Shadonna Richards --> romance

* The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

* Food Sanity: How to Eat in a World of Fads and Fiction

* Accidentally Flirting with the CEO
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Penguin Random House Free Offers --> Jun 2018

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wrong thread

That'll be 30 lashes with a wet banana peel.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 02 Jun

• £2.99 -- Meditations -- Marcus Aurelius --> classic

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Daily Deals -- exp 02 Jun

• Audible -----> $4.95 -- How Music Works -- David Byrne --> NF music
  
• Downpour --> $4.95 -- Alter Ego (book 9) -- Brian Freeman --> detective
  
• eStories ----> $9.99 -- Fearless in 21 Days -- Sarah E Ball --> NF Christian