FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

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Daily Deals -- exp 11 Jun @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Bird Box (book 1) -- Josh Malerman --> suspense
  
• Down -----> TBA
  
• eStories --> $4.99 -- Whiskey Sour (book 1) -- JA Konrath --> suspense

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 12 Jun @ 11:59 PM BST

• £TBA -- Swan Song -- Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott --> literary

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Daily Deals -- exp 12 Jun @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $1.95 -- The Wisdom of Wolves -- Jim Dutcher, et al --> NF biology
  
• Down -----> $2.95 -- How to Murder Your Wealthy... -- Jane Ammeson --> NF true crime
  
• eStories --> $4.99 -- A Most Wanted Man -- John le Carré --> espionage

* The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons from the Sawtooth Pack

* How to Murder Your Wealthy Lovers and Get Away with It: Money & Mayhem in the Gilded Age

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Last Day -- Sync Audio -- exp 13 Jun @ 7 AM ET

• FREE -- An Enemy of the People --> details
  
• FREE -- A Girl Like That --> details

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Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 17 Jun

• $1.99 -- The Power of the Dog -- Don Winslow/ Ray Porter --> 20.2 hrs --> thriller

The Cartel Trilogy (book 1) -- Rental Only

This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge.

Art Montana is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father Parada is a powerful and incorruptible Catholic priest. Callan is an Irish kid from Hell’s Kitchen who grows up to be a merciless hit man. And they are all trapped in the world of the Mexican drug Federación. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you’ve never seen it.

Rental FAQ

• Spoiler:

  When does my rental period begin?
  
  Your rental timer will begin counting down when you first initiate the download on your device or 10 days after purchase, whichever comes first.

  How long can I listen to a title?
  
  All digital rentals provide a minimum of 30 days to listen to a book from the time you initiate your first download. With some of our longer books, such as Atlas Shrugged (63hrs), we extend the listening period to 60 days. You do have the option of purchasing a 5, 10, or 20 day extension after you have made your rental purchase.

  How many times can I listen to my rental?
  
  You may listen to a rental as many times as you would like until it expires.

  Can I extend my rental time period?
  
  Once you are logged into your Downpour.com account, you can purchase a time extension for any of your previous rentals via THIS link. After clicking “Extend Rental,” you have the option of purchasing a 5-day ($1.95), 10-day ($2.95) or 20-day ($4.95) extension. If your rental has not yet expired, the purchased time will be added onto your rental. (Example: if your rental has one day remaining, and you purchase a five-day extension, you will now have six days total before your rental expires.) If your rental has already expired, the extension will allow you to listen to your book again for the amount of time purchased.

  Can I have the same rental on more than one device?
  
  You may listen to your audiobook rental on as many personal devices as you own. Your rental time will be synced across all devices on which you have installed the Downpour app.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 13 Jun @ 11:59 PM BST

• £TBA -- Patriot Games (book 1) -- Tom Clancy --> suspense

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Daily Deals -- exp 13 Jun @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Lies and Other Acts of Love -- Kristy Woodson Harvey --> contemp
  
• Down -----> $3.95 -- The Golden State -- Lydia Kiesling --> literary
  
• eStories --> $4.99 -- Liars & Thieves (book 1) -- Stephen Coonts --> espionage

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Sync Audio -- Weekly Offers -- FAQs & Help -- exp 20 Jun @ 7 AM ET

Week 8 -- This week we’ve paired fiction and nonfiction, both of which will appeal to anyone who is curious about what happens out of view. Thank you to Candlewick on Brilliance and to Tantor Audio for these contributions to SYNC.

FREE -- The Golden Day -- Ursula Dubosarsky/ Kate Rudd -- 3.7 hrs -- fiction

Available in the US and Canada ONLY

There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family...

On the television news they heard gunfire and the sound of helicopter blades and bombs falling. The little girls hung on to the brink of a hugeness that they knew was there but had no way of discovering.

The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing on a field trip. Who was the mysterious poet they met in the garden? What actually happened that day? And most important, who can they tell about it?

In beautifully crafted prose that shimmers and fades, Ursula Dubosarsky reveals how a single shared experience can alter the course of young lives forever. Part gripping thriller, part ethereal tale of innocence lost, The Golden Day is a poignant study of fear and friendship, and of what it takes to come of age with courage.

FREE -- Gulp -- Mary Roach/ Emily Woo Zeller -- 8.4 hrs -- NF biology

Available in North America ONLY

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Best-selling author Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. Roach takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour.

The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: The questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis?

In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of - or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. With Roach as our guide, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists - who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts. Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I'm guessing no, but it really depends on how Audible defines "next listens" and "Audible content" and "audio products".

Originally Posted by ApK

Yes, but I could add on a month or two if it would work this way. Worth asking them, I guess, depending what would give the best value: extending membership, buying extra credits or buying content directly.

I do believe that Audible must have at least one lawyer and one accountant on staff.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 14 Jun @ 11:59 PM BST

• £1.99 -- Dark Imperium -- Guy Haley --> sci-fi

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Daily Deals -- exp 14 Jun @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- A Queer and Pleasant Danger -- Kate Bornstein --> NF memoir
  
• Down -----> $3.95 -- Death at Sea (series) -- Andrea Camilleri --> mystery
  
• eStories --> $4.99 -- Reamde -- Neal Stephenson --> sci-fi

* Death at Sea: Montalbano’s Early Cases

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 15 Jun @ 11:59 PM BST

• £1.99 -- Closer -- KL Slater --> thriller

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Thanks (again?) to the person who mentioned Chirp audiobooks' website, a month or two ago.

I found two or three audiobooks in my last email from them that I'd like to own.

A couple of weeks ago, there was a discussion, on another thread, about the Oxford English Dictionary. Chirp is offering, at the present time, the book by Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything, which is about the OED.

The blurb:
From a New York Times bestselling author comes the true account of the clever and surprisingly eccentric men who created the Oxford English Dictionary. Narrated by the author himself, The Boston Globe heralds this fascinating story as “devastatingly brilliant… Winchester makes words exciting.”

The narration runs a little over 7 hours. I listened to the sample of the audiobook that Chirp provideded, and the narration is good.

That discussion that we had piqued my interest in the OED, and makes this $4.99 audiobook a must-buy for me.

You might want to do some vetting of your own.

To purchase or learn more about the audiobook, I suggest one of the following two approaches. First, you can navigate to https://www.chirpbooks.com/deals. Select "Non-Fiction" in the horizontal menu near the top of the page. Scroll down until you see the information about the audiobook. Second, I haven't found a way to do a search of the site for a particular audiobook (without doing a specialized Google search); I recommend that you navigate to Chirp's homepage, and scan over the entire selection, in order to find this audiobook.

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Daily Deals -- exp 15 Jun @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- The Girl in the Corner -- Amanda Prowse --> contemp
  
• Down -----> $4.95 -- The Wildlands -- Abby Geni --> literary
  
• eStories --> $4.99 -- Dog On It (book 1) -- Spencer Quinn --> mystery

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 16 Jun @ 11:59 PM BST

• £2.99 -- Lancelot -- Giles Kristian --> fantasy