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Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 27 May

• $1.99 -- Freedom’s Fate -- Bobby Adair/ Greg Tremblay --> 5.1 hrs --> sci-fi

Freedom's Fire Series (book 6) -- Rental Only

War in the Heavens for Freedom on Earth

In this finale of the Freedom’s Fire series, the Free Army tries to salvage victory from what looks like a total loss. They’ve found a weakness in the Gray-Trog alliance they think they can exploit. But they’ll need to ally themselves with the hated MSS and put their trust in people they’ve sworn to overthrow.

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Last Day -- Sync Audio -- exp 23 May @ 7 AM ET

• FREE -- Spill --> details
  
• FREE -- Meet the Sky --> details

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 23 May @ 11:59 PM BST

• TBA -- A Short History of England -- Simon Jenkins --> NF history

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Daily Deals -- exp 23 May @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audbl --> $2.95 -- Murder at Archly Manor (book 1) -- Sara Rosett --> detective
  
• Down --> $4.95 -- Gone Haunting in Deadwood (book 9) -- Ann Charles --> mystery
  
• eStor --> $4.99 -- Secrets in Summer -- Nancy Thayer --> romance

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Last Day -- Audible -- exp 23 May

• Class Action Lawsuit --> details

• OBJECT --> DEADLINE: May 23, 2019
  
• REQUEST TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE SETTLEMENT --> DEADLINE: May 23, 2019

If you have used Audible services, your rights could be affected by a class action settlement.

A Settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuits Grant McKee et al. v. Audible, Inc., Case No. 2:17-cv-01941 (C.D. Cal.), and Eric Weber and Bryan Rees v. Amazon.com, Inc., and Amazon Services LLC, Case No. 2:17-cv-08868 (C.D. Cal.). These two lawsuits, as well as two similar lawsuits pending in other courts, challenge the sufficiency of information provided to Audible customers about how membership credits work, claiming that customers may not understand that unredeemed credits are lost upon cancellation of a membership plan or upon reaching rollover limits and, for gift memberships, that credits expire following the end of the gift membership term. The lawsuits also challenge the adequacy of information provided to Audible customers related to Audible’s practice of charging other credit or debit cards on file with a customer’s Amazon account if a customer’s primary card is declined. Audible and its parent company, Amazon, dispute the claims by the Plaintiffs in each of the lawsuits and believe that their business practices, and the information provided about them, are clear and understandable to customers and comply with all applicable laws.

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Sync Audio -- Weekly Offers -- FAQs & Help -- exp 30 May @ 7 AM ET

Week 5 -- From 1961 to 1989, a barbed wire-topped concrete wall divided Berlin, Germany, preventing free movement of family members, friends, and anyone engaged in daily business from crossing the more than 800-year-old city. Our audiobook pair this week bookends the night that wall was built with the call for its destruction in a speech by a U.S. President. With the topic of border wall building frequently in today’s news, we think this visit to the recent past is in order.

FREE -- A Night Divided -- Jennifer A Nielsen/ Kate Simses -- 7.2 hrs -- historical

From New York Times best-selling author Jennifer A. Nielsen comes a stunning thriller about a girl who must escape to freedom after the Berlin Wall divides her family between east and west. With the rise of the Berlin Wall, 12-year-old Gerta finds her family divided overnight. She, her mother, and her brother, Fritz, live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself.

She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their own citizens; she, her family, her neighbors, and her friends are prisoners in their own city. But one day, while on her way to school, Gerta spots her father on a viewing platform on the western side, pantomiming a peculiar dance.

Then, when she receives a mysterious drawing, Gerta puts two and two together and concludes that her father wants Gerta and Fritz to tunnel beneath the wall, out of East Berlin. However, if they are caught, the consequences will be deadly. No one can be trusted. Will Gerta and her family find their way to freedom?

FREE -- Tear Down This Wall -- Romesh Ratnesar/ Wes Bleed -- 7.3 hrs -- NF history

Available in North America ONLY

Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War

On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan addressed a crowd of 20,000 people in West Berlin in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. The words he delivered that afternoon would become among the most famous in presidential history: "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate," Reagan said. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!"

In this riveting and fast-paced audiobook, Romesh Ratnesar provides an account of how Reagan arrived at his defining moment and what followed from it. The audio is based on interviews with numerous former Reagan administration officials and American and German eyewitnesses to the speech, as well as recently declassified State Department documents and East German records of the president's trip.

Ratnesar provides new details about the origins of Reagan's speech and the debate within the administration about how to issue the fateful challenge to Gorbachev. Tear Down This Wall re-creates the charged atmosphere surrounding Reagan's visit to Berlin and explores the speech's role in bringing about the fall of the Berlin Wall less than two years later. At the heart of the story is the relationship between two giants of the late 20th century: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Departing from the view that Reagan "won" the Cold War, Ratnesar demonstrates that both Reagan and Gorbachev played indispensable roles in bringing about the end of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. It was the trust that Reagan and Gorbachev built in each other that allowed them finally to overcome the suspicions that had held their predecessors back. Calling on Gorbachev to tear down the Wall, in Reagan's mind, might actually encourage him to do it.

Reagan's speech in Berlin was more than a good sound bite. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we can now see the speech as the event that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War.

[David Munch]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

FREE --
Available in North America ONLY
Tear Down This Wall -- Romesh Ratnesar/ Wes Bleed -- 7.3 hrs -- NF history

No georestrictions for me here in Scandinavia.

[ApK]

Georestrictions on a book about tearing down the Berlin Wall. Hehe. Irony.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 24 May @ 11:59 PM BST

• £1.99 -- Wild Fire (book 8) -- Ann Cleeves --> detective

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Daily Deals -- exp 24 May @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audbl --> $2.95 -- Walkable City -- Jeff Speck --> NF social science
  
• Down --> $4.95 -- American Shaolin -- Matthew Polly --> NF memoir
  
• eStor --> $1.99 -- Texas Secrets (book 1) -- Jean Brashear --> romance

* Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

* American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch; An Odyssey in the New China

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Google Audio -- exp unknown

• FREE -- Meditations -- Marcus Aurelius -- 4.3 hrs -- NF philosophy

'The Meditations' is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, in 12 short chapters called 'books'. It was written in the 70s of the II century AD, mostly during the Emperor's campaigns in Central Europe, at the north-east border of the Roman Empire and in Sirmium. In essence, it is a rethink of the philosophy of Epictetus, often quoted in the book: it is useless to attempt to change the world to suit one's needs, one should accept calmly and dispassionately whatever is destined to happen, and every lot is good in its own way.

United States President Bill Clinton said that 'The Meditations' was his favorite book, and former United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis carried his own personal copy of 'The Meditations' of Marcus Aurelius throughout his deployments as a Marine Corps officer in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus is one of the prominent philosophers, alongside Seneca, Aristotle, Plato, Homer, Socrates, Machiavelli and others.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 25 May @ 11:59 PM BST

• £1.99 -- The Prince -- Niccolo Machiavelli --> classic

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Daily Deals -- exp 25 May @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audbl --> $0.99 -- Ayiti -- Roxane Gay --> fiction
  
• Down --> $2.95 -- Martian Sands -- Lavie Tidhar --> sci-fi
  
• eStor --> $4.99 -- The First Prophet (book 1) -- Kay Hooper --> thriller

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 26 May @ 11:59 PM BST

• £2.99 -- Not Dead Enough (book 3) -- Peter James --> detective

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Google Audio -- exp unknown

• FREE -- Meditations -- Marcus Aurelius -- 4.3 hrs -- NF philosophy

This shows as free, but it requires a pay method or redeem code? I never got that popup before with free Google books...