FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

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Kindle Daily Deals (2 titles) -- exp 31 Mar

Note: the Audible books are available at this price, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebooks ($1~$2)

• $3.99 -- Once Upon a Prince -- Rachel Hauck/ E Pappageorge --> 10.0 hrs/ R-4.3 --> romance
• $1.99 -- Power Negative Thinking -- B Knight, et al/ D Hill --> 6.1 hrs/ R-3.6 --> motivational

Once Upon a Prince --> Royal Wedding (book 1 of 3)

A royal prince. An ordinary girl. An extraordinary royal wedding. Once Upon a Prince, the first novel in the Royal Wedding series by bestselling author Rachel Hauck, treats you to a modern-day fairy tale. Susanna Truitt never dreamed of a great romance or being treated like a princess - just to marry the man she has loved for twelve years. But life isn't going according to plan. When her high-school sweetheart breaks up with her instead of proposing, Susanna scrambles to rebuild her life. The last thing Prince Nathaniel expects to find on his American holiday to St. Simons Island is the queen of his heart. A prince has duties, and his family's tense political situation has chosen his bride for him. When Prince Nathaniel comes to Susanna's aid under the fabled Lover's Oak, he is blindsided by love. Their lives are worlds apart. He's a royal prince. She's an ordinary girl. But everything changes when Susanna receives an invitation to Nathaniel's coronation. It's the ultimate choice: his kingdom or her heart? God's will or their own? --> Download the accompanying reference guide.

Power of Negative Thinking - An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results

Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking, a classic best seller, has inspired an optimistic perspective for millions of Americans. Now, in an inspirational and entertaining rebuttal, the legendary basketball coach Bob Knight explains why "negative thinking" will actually produce more positive results, in sports and in daily life. Coach Knight, the second-winningest coach in NCAA history with 902 victories, explains that victory is often attained by the team that makes the fewest mistakes. His coaching philosophy was to instill discipline by "preparing to win" rather than hoping to win. That meant understanding the downside and drilling his teams to prevent the things that could go wrong. And when his teams did win, he made sure they didn’t dwell on their success, but rather looked immediately to the challenges of the next game. He applies this lesson to business strategy as well.

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Last Day for these Offers


Amazon Whispersync / Kindle eBooks

• FREE -- Monthly Offer --> Black Beauty --> details --> exp 31 Mar
• SALE -- Kindle Monthly Deals (172 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Mar
• SALE -- 50 Kindle Books for $2 (38 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Mar
• SALE -- Kindle Countdown Deals (26 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Mar
• SALE -- Kindle for Samsung (2 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Mar
• SALE -- Kindle First (0 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Mar

ChristianAudio

• FREE -- Monthly Offer --> Teach Us To Want --> details --> exp 31 Mar
• $4.98 -- Monthly Sale (4 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Mar
• SALE -- New Year Redux (4 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Mar

Downpour

• $5.00 -- Spring Break Sale (50 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Mar

LearnOutLoud

• FREE -- Monthly Offer --> Great American Presidents --> details --> exp 31 Mar

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[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 01 Apr @ 11:59pm ET


$4.95 -- A Confederacy of Dunces -- John K Toole/ Barrett Whitener --> 13.5 hrs/ R-3.9 --> humor


Whispersync: the Audible book is $3.99, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($8.31)

"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once." So enters one of the most memorable characters in recent American fiction.

The hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable, Pulitzer Prize-winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter". His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 01 Apr


$4.95 -- How to Survive Robot Uprising -- Daniel Wilson/ S Rudnicki --> 3.1 hrs/ R-3.4 --> humor


Whispersync: no offer

How to Survive a Robot Uprising - Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

How do you spot a robot mimicking a human? How do you recognize and deactivate a rebel servant robot? How do you escape a murderous "smart" house, or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies?

In this dryly hilarious survival guide, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson teaches worried humans the secrets to quashing a robot mutiny. From treating laser wounds to fooling face and speech recognition, outwitting robot logic to engaging in hand-to-pincer combat, How to Survive a Robot Uprising covers every possible doomsday scenario facing the newest endangered species: humans.

Based on extensive interviews with prominent scientists and including a thorough overview of cutting edge robot prototypes like humanoid walkers, insect, gecko, and snake robots, this one-of-a-kind audiobook makes a witty yet legitimate introduction to contemporary robotics.

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Kindle Daily Deals (4 titles) -- exp 01 Apr

Note: the Audible books are available at this price, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebooks ($1.99)

• $3.99 -- Pandora's Star -- Peter F Hamilton/ John Lee --> 37.4 hrs/ R-4.1 --> sci-fi
• $1.99 -- A Woman of Note -- Carol M Cram/ Susan Duerden --> 11.0 hrs/ R-3.9 --> historical
• $3.49 -- This Heart of Mine -- Brenda Novak/ Carly Robins --> 11.1 hrs/ R-4.6 --> romance
• $1.99 -- Decaying Empire -- Laura Thalassa/ Rachel Vivette --> 9.3 hrs/ R-4.2 --> YA sci-fi

Pandora's Star --> Commonwealth Saga (book 1 of 3)

Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such SF giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamilton's best-selling fiction - powered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelling skills - has also earned him comparison to Tolstoy and Dickens. Hugely ambitious, wildly entertaining, philosophically stimulating: the novels of Peter F. Hamilton will change the way you think about science fiction. Now, with Pandora's Star, he begins a new multi-volume adventure, one that promises to be his most mind-blowing yet. The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some 400 light-years in diameter, contains more than 600 worlds, interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over 1,000 light-years away, a star...vanishes. It does not go supernova. It does not collapse into a black hole. It simply disappears.

A Woman of Note

Virtuoso pianist Isabette Grüber captivates audiences in the salons and concert halls of early nineteenth-century Vienna. Yet in a profession dominated by men, Isabette longs to compose and play her own music - a secret she keeps from both her lascivious manager and her resentful mother. She meets and loves Amelia Mason, a dazzling American singer with her own secrets, and Josef Hauser, an ambitious young composer. But even they cannot fully comprehend the depths of Isabette's talent. Her ambitions come with a price when Isabette embarks on a journey that delicately balances the line between duty and passion. Amid heartbreak and sacrifice, music remains her one constant. With cameos from classical music figures such as Chopin, Schubert, and Berlioz, A Woman of Note is an intricately crafted and fascinating tale about one woman's struggle to find her soul's song in a dissonant world.

This Heart of Mine --> Whiskey Creek (book 8 of 9)

As the daughter of a hoarder, Phoenix Fuller had a tough childhood. So when the handsome, popular Riley Stinson became her boyfriend in high school, she finally felt as though she had something to be proud of. Phoenix was desperate not to lose him - especially once she found out that she was pregnant. Yes, she might have acted a bit obsessive when he broke up with her. But she did not run down the girl he started dating next. Unfortunately there was no way to prove her innocence. Now, after serving her time in prison, Phoenix has been released. All she wants to do is return to Whiskey Creek and get to know her son. But Jacob's father isn't exactly welcoming. Riley doesn't trust Phoenix, and he doesn't want her in Jacob's life. He is, however, ready to find someone to love. And he wants a good mother for his son. He has no idea that he's about to find both.

The Decaying Empire --> The Vanishing Girl (book 2 of 2)

When eighteen-year-old teleporter Ember Pierce wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, she remembers only the basics: she's been trained by the government as a spy, she's sent on dangerous missions, and her last assignment - the one that landed her in the hospital - was a setup. Caden Hawthorne has spent the past ten months of his life grieving Ember's death. So when she shows up in his room like an apparition, he can't believe his eyes. But this Ember is different. Her hair is longer, her skin is paler, her gaze is haunted. She tells him what he's already begun to suspect: someone he trusted betrayed her. Now, uncertain who is friend and who is foe, Ember and Caden face the toughest mission of their lives - to stay together and survive, as they run from danger toward an unknown future.

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ChristianAudio -- Free Audiobook of the Month -- exp 30 Apr

Note: to get the book free, start the download process from the link above

FREE -- Taking God at His Word -- Kevin DeYoung/ Lee DeYoung --> 3.5 hrs/ R-4.2 --> Christian

Taking God at His Word - Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me

There isn’t really a “go to” book on Scripture. Sure, there are plenty of theological books on Scripture, and lots of popular-level works on how to read Scripture, and more and more books on the whole story line of Scripture. But there is not one book that people turn to for the basics on the Bible. We need a book that college freshmen will read when they have questions, a book that mentors can use and small groups will employ, a book that a Bible class in high school or college might assign. We need a book on the Good Book that is relevant enough to get a hearing, but timeless enough to be read with profit twenty years from now.


That’s the sort of book popular author, pastor, and blogger Kevin DeYoung has aimed to write. Addressing the issues of our day—questions related to the reliability, authority, and readability of the Bible—DeYoung tackles these head on, but without complex terminology or a long list of footnotes. Taking God at His Word serves as a comprehensive and comprehensible introduction to a classic, orthodox doctrine of Scripture for the average man or woman in the pew, helping Christians across the globe gain confidence that the Bible really is knowable, necessary, and enough.

[skinmaan]

Okay, that's just too funny. Did you know Audible has an April Fool's Day joke up? (Well, sorta.) How many of you have ever said something like "The narrator for this book was so good I could listen to them reading the dictionary"? Well, now you can - well, sorta. For the month of April you can get your favorite narrators reading excerpts from the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's only 13 minutes, but that is funny (IMHO). If you're interested check it out here.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[tubemonkey]

ChristianAudio -- Monthly Sale -- exp 30 Apr

Other Kevin DeYoung Audiobooks Are Only $4.98 Each! -- narrated by Adam Verner

• What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? --> 4.1 hrs
• Just Do Something --> 3.0 hrs
• Crazy Busy --> 3.0 hrs
• What is the Mission of the Church? --> 8.9 hrs
• The Hole in Our Holiness --> 4.5 hrs
• The Good News We Almost Forgot --> 8.0 hrs
• Why We're Not Emergent --> 7.7 hrs
• Why We Love the Church --> 6.5 hrs

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[ApK]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Okay, that's just too funny. Did you know Audible has an April Fool's Day joke up? (Well, sorta.) How many of you have ever said something like "The narrator for this book was so good I could listen to them reading the dictionary"? Well, now you can - well, sorta. For the month of April you can get your favorite narrators reading excerpts from the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's only 13 minutes, but that is funny (IMHO). If you're interested check it out here.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

That's brilliant. I would get that for my wife, but her favorite, Susan Erikcsen, doesn't appear to be among the narrators, nor does my favorite, Grover Gardner, unless they are using pseudonyms, as those folks are wont to do.

[badgoodDeb]

I wanted to see Stephen Fry in the reader list!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 01 Apr @ 11:59pm ET


$4.95 -- A Confederacy of Dunces -- John K Toole/ Barrett Whitener --> 13.5 hrs/ R-3.9 --> humor


Whispersync: the Audible book is $3.99, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($8.31)

Oh, yes. If I didn't already own this title I'd jump on it in a heartbeat. This is one funny book!

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Okay, that's just too funny. Did you know Audible has an April Fool's Day joke up? (Well, sorta.) How many of you have ever said something like "The narrator for this book was so good I could listen to them reading the dictionary"? Well, now you can - well, sorta. For the month of April you can get your favorite narrators reading excerpts from the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's only 13 minutes, but that is funny (IMHO). If you're interested check it out here.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks, it now has a treasured spot in my collection.

Want to know what an audience is?

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Editor's Pick -- exp unk

$19.19 -- The Caped Crusade -- Glen Weldon/ Glen Weldon --> 9.4 hrs/ R-4.8 --> social science

The Caped Crusade - Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

A witty, intelligent cultural history from NPR book critic Glen Weldon explains Batman’s rises and falls throughout the ages—and what his story tells us about ourselves.

Since his creation, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop-art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim and gritty ninja of the urban night. For more than three quarters of a century, he has cycled from a figure of darkness to one of lightness and back again; he’s a bat-shaped Rorschach inkblot who takes on the various meanings our changing culture projects onto him. How we perceive Batman’s character, whether he’s delivering dire threats in a raspy Christian Bale growl or trading blithely homoerotic double-entendres with partner Robin on the comics page, speaks to who we are and how we wish to be seen by the world. It’s this endlessly mutable quality that has made him so enduring.

And it’s Batman’s fundamental nerdiness—his gadgets, his obsession, his oath, even his lack of superpowers—that uniquely resonates with his fans who feel a fiercely protective love for the character. Today, fueled by the internet, that breed of passion for elements of popular culture is everywhere. Which is what makes Batman the perfect lens through which to understand geek culture, its current popularity, and social significance.

In The Caped Crusade, with humor and insight, Glen Weldon, book critic for NPR and author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, lays out Batman’s seventy-eight-year cultural history and shows how he has helped make us who we are today and why his legacy remains so strong.

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Downpour -- Editor's Pick -- exp unk


$19.19 -- The Caped Crusade -- Glen Weldon/ Glen Weldon --> 9.4 hrs/ R-4.8 --> social science

The cynic in me wonders if the reason that they are editor's picks at Downpour is because they are big money-makers for them.

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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

The cynic in me wonders if the reason that they are editor's picks at Downpour is because they are big money-makers for them.

Could be. These editor picks are overpriced in my opinion. Not sure who'd pay this price. If you get a monthly membership, this book is only 1 credit ($12.99); quite a bit cheaper. After getting the book, you can cancel your membership.