FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 19 Aug @ 11:59 PM BST

• TBA -- A Nearly Normal Family -- MT Edvardsson, et al --> suspense

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

It's a place holder which is why I ignored it. They're not very consistent with their daily deals. The weekly rental is $1.99 and is posted.

Yes, I remember you mentioning, a week or two ago, that your use of "TBA" was as a placeholder. I was curious to see if Downpour had yet posted one, so I looked to see if they had. Hope you don't mind.

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 19 Aug @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $5.95 -- Skeptics' Guide to Universe -- Steven Novella, et al --> NF physics
  
• Down -----> TBA
  
• eStories --> $4.99 -- Morrigan's Cross -- Nora Roberts --> romance

* The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Downpour -- exp 19 Aug

• $1.99 -- Deep River --> details --> rental only

[tubemonkey]

Audible Originals -- Pre-Orders for Sep -- exp 04 or 05 Sep

• FREE -- Mystwick School of Musicraft -- Jessica Khoury/ unknown -- ?? hrs -- kids fantasy

Members Only

Humor, heart, and a symphony of magic take center stage in this middle-grade fantasy, perfect for fans of Nevermoor and The School for Good and Evil series.

Amelia Jones has always dreamed of attending the Mystwick School of Musicraft, where the world’s most promising musicians learn to create magic. But then she botches her audition and her dream comes to an abrupt and humiliating end—until the school agrees to give her a trial period. Amelia is determined to prove herself, vowing to do whatever it takes to become the perfect musician. Even if it means pretending to be someone she isn't.

Between a teacher who really dislikes her and a roommate who wants to see her expelled, life at Mystwick is harder than Amelia thought it would be. And that’s not even counting the mysterious something that’s starting to make the teachers worry. When supernatural powers threaten the school, can Amelia find the courage to be true to her herself, save Mystwick, and prove once and for all where she belongs?

Jessica Khoury is the author of multiple books for teens. In addition to writing, she is an artistic mapmaker and spends far too much time scribbling tiny mountains and trees for fictional worlds. Her spare hours are spent video gaming, painting, or cooking badly. She lives in Greenville, SC with her husband, daughter, and sassy husky Katara.

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 20 Aug @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- The Beantown Girls -- Jane Healey --> historical
  
• Down -----> $3.95 -- Hold On Tight (book 3) -- Shelley Shepard Gray --> romance
  
• eStories --> $4.99 -- Invitation (book 1) -- Bill Myers, et al --> supernatural

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 20 Aug @ 11:59 PM BST

• TBA -- A Vintage Summer -- Cathy Bramley --> romance

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Don't forget that Chirpbooks (no "audio" in the name, but audiobooks is all that they sell as far as I can tell) has a "Deal of the Week."* This week it is My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir. By Mark Lukach; narrated by Josh Bloomberg.

There's 8 hours, 40 minutes of listening time.

It's an "Editor's Pick," and a winner of something called (appropriately enough) the "Earphones Award." Amazon rates the ebook an almost amazing 4.6 stars, from 216 ratings, and describes the ebook as an "International Bestseller." Audible's customers rate it a stellar 4.5 stars, from 374 ratings.

Marked down to $3.99, from $21.99 (82%).

Publisher's Description
A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.

Mark and Giulia’s life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal, convinced that her loved ones were not safe.

Eventually, Giulia fully recovered, and the couple had a son. But, soon after Jonas was born, Giulia had another breakdown, and then a third a few years after that. Pushed to the edge of the abyss, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended.

A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity of the human spirit, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is, above all, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor, radiant with compassion, and written with dazzling lyricism, Lukach’s is an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife’s mental illness, anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers’ faith in the power of love.

Direct link to the audiobook.

* I put that in quotation marks because these deals last longer than a week. For example, the preceding one is good through 9/1/19.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 21 Aug @ 11:59 PM BST

• TBA -- Awful Auntie -- David Walliams --> kids 5-7

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 21 Aug @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- How to Behave Badly in... -- Ruth Goodman --> NF history
  
• Down -----> $3.95 -- MIB International -- RS Belcher --> sci-fi
  
• eStories --> $4.99 -- Every Dead Thing -- John Connolly --> sci-fi

* How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 26 Aug

• $1.99 -- Flynn (book 1) -- Gregory Mcdonald/ Donald Corren --> 6.1 hrs --> mystery

Rental Only

Infusing elements of dark reality into this richly detailed, comical series, Mcdonald’s first volume, Flynn, delves deeper into the curious character first introduced in the bestselling Fletch series—Francis Xavier Flynn.

Early one morning as Boston’s only investigator is returning home from solving another peculiar case, he has the displeasure of witnessing a spectacularly horrible show outside his front door: a massive aircraft, carrying over one hundred souls, exploding in midair over the harbor. Almost immediately, the Human Surplus League takes credit for the heinous act of terrorism. But “Reluctant Flynn” isn’t so easily convinced, unlike his partner and governmental counterparts.

Now finding himself at the whim of the tedious and ill-mannered FBI agents as they follow bunk leads and question all the wrong suspects, he decides to do his own digging, employing family and encountering new friends and old acquaintances along the way. As the truth begins to trickle forth, Flynn finds himself staring down a much bigger—and much deadlier—problem.

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[tubemonkey]

Time's running out for free use of these programs. You have 2 weeks left.

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible -- Free Rental for Members -- exp 05 Sep 2019

• FREE -- Aaptiv Fitness Programs -- rental only (you do not own these)

What do you mean, free for members through September 5, 2019?

We wanted to give everyone a chance to access these programs, so we made them free for members to access through September 5, 2019. After this date, all Aaptiv audio-fitness programs will no longer be available in your library. Of course, we will send you a reminder before this happens.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 22 Aug @ 11:59 PM BST

• TBA -- PS, I Love You (book 1) -- Cecelia Ahern --> romance

[GtrsRGr8]

Was $29.99, so it's 97% off now.

The Anatomy of Evil. By Michael H. Stone, MD.

Very good ratings, and all those sorts of things.

Description
What exactly is the nature of evil? What causes someone to commit murder? A forensic psychiatrist and former host of Discovery Channel’s Most Evil analyzes personality traits and immoral behavior — using case studies of over 600 violent criminals.

Linky.

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 22 Aug @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Generation Z (book 1) -- Peter Meredith --> sci-fi
  
• Down -----> $3.95 -- The Way Home -- Mark Boyle --> NF memoir
  
• eStories --> $4.99 -- The Sky is Everywhere -- Jandy Nelson --> YA fiction

* The Way Home: Tales from a Life without Technology