FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 20 Apr @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $1.95 -- New Teeth -- Simon Rich -- humorous
  
• Audible CA ---> $4.95 -- Take Control of Your Life -- Mel Robbins -- NF self-help
  
• Downpour ----> see post 9840

[tubemonkey]

Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 21 Apr @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

• TBA -- In Darkness Visible -- Tony Jones -- thriller

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 21 Apr @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PDT)

• TBA -- Moneyball -- Michael Lewis -- NF sports

* Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

[Loosheesh]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Better deal here. Three months of KU free.

Shockingly, I got this deal. I just came off of six months of free access (from two back-to-back trials) and, checking my renewal options today, I was able to sign up for the three months deal

[Dr. Drib]

Downpour -- Daily Steal

Title: V Wars: Blood and Fire: New Stories of the Vampire Wars [The V Wars Series: Book 2]
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Price: $3.95 U.S.
Listen time: 12.8 hours
Link: https://www.downpour.com/v-wars-bloo...fire?sp=100836

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 21 Apr @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $3.95 -- How High We Go in the Dark -- Sequoia Nagamatsu -- sci-fi
  
• Audible CA ---> $3.95 -- The One and Only Crystal Druid (bk 1) -- Annette Marie -- fantasy
  
• Downpour ----> see post 9845

[tempest@de]

Originally Posted by Loosheesh

Shockingly, I got this deal. I just came off of six months of free access (from two back-to-back trials) and, checking my renewal options today, I was able to sign up for the three months deal

I just tried the link and got offered 6 months for 30$

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Better deal here. Three months of KU free.

Originally Posted by Loosheesh

Shockingly, I got this deal. I just came off of six months of free access (from two back-to-back trials) and, checking my renewal options today, I was able to sign up for the three months deal

Originally Posted by tempest@de

I just tried the link and got offered 6 months for 30$

You can't trust Amazon's offers to be the same for everyone. I still get the same offer of 2 months for $4.99 that I originally posted.

Amazon's algorithms are one of the universe's greatest unknowns.

[Dr. Drib]

Downpour -- Daily Steal - April 22

Title: Orphans of the Sky
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Price: $3.95 U.S.
Listen time: 4.49 hours [Unabridged]
Link: https://www.downpour.com/orphans-of-the-sky?sp=189344

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 22 Apr @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PDT)

• TBA -- Wild -- Cheryl Strayed -- NF memoir

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 22 Apr @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $2.95 -- Back to Earth -- Nicole Stott -- NF ecology
  
• Audible CA ---> $4.95 -- The Sun Is a Compass -- Caroline Van Hemert -- NF adventure

* Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet - and Our Mission to Protect It

* The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

[tubemonkey]

Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 23 Apr @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

• TBA -- The Glass House -- Eve Chase -- suspense

[tubemonkey]

Audiobooks.com -- exp 01 May @ 11:59 pm ET

• SALE -- Audiobooks $4.99 and Under (153 titles)

From now until May 1, get these audiobooks at super low prices!

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 25 Apr @ 11:59 pm PT

$1.99 -- Coco at the Ritz -- Gioia Diliberto/ Gabrielle de Cuir -- 10.6 hrs -- historical

rental only

Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, as World War II drew to a close, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to France.

Many of the facts are lost to history, partly through Chanel’s own obfuscation, but this much is known: the charges grew out of her wartime romance with a German spy, and one morning two soldiers from the French Forces of the Interior—the loose band of Resistance fighters, soldiers, and private citizens who took up arms in the wake of the Liberation of Paris—led Chanel from her suite at the Ritz Hotel in Paris to an undisclosed location for questioning.

What transpired during her interrogation, who was present, and why she was set free when so many other women who’d been involved with German men (willingly or otherwise) had their heads shaved or were imprisoned, remains a mystery.

In this brilliantly insightful and compulsively readable novel from the author of I Am Madame X, Gioia Diliberto explores the motivations of this complex woman and portrays the gripping battle of wits that could have been her interrogation. Was Chanel truly a collaborator?

Though the Occupation of France offered a stark contrast between good and evil, few people are wholly heroes or villains in wartime. Most citizens, as the writer André Gide noted, were like old shoes floating in murky waters: battered and torn, riding the turbulent flow, just trying to survive.

By turns raw and vulnerable, steely and flawed, Chanel emerges from this book as a woman who owns her decisions, no matter the consequences. Rich with history and filled with emotional truths, Coco at the Ritz is a story about the choices one woman made when the stakes were the highest. In today’s world, it is a cautionary tale about the necessity of standing against evil when it’s staring you in the face.

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Downpour -- Bi-Monthly Offers -- exp 30 Apr @ 11:59 pm PT

$4.99 -- The Roberts Court -- Marcia Coyle/ B Dunne -- 12.9 hrs -- NF political science

Editor's Pick

The Struggle for the Constitution

Seven minutes after President Obama put his signature to a landmark national health care insurance program, a lawyer in the office of Florida GOP attorney general Bill McCollum hit a computer key, sparking a legal challenge to the new law that would eventually reach the nation's highest court. Health care is only the most visible and recent front in a battle over the meaning and scope of the US Constitution. The battleground is the Supreme Court, and one of the most skilled, insightful, and trenchant of its observers takes us close up to watch it in action.

The Roberts court, seven years old, is at the center of a constitutional maelstrom. Four landmark decisions—concerning health care, money in elections, guns at home, and race in schools—reveal the fault lines in a conservative-dominated court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr.

Marcia Coyle's brilliant inside account of the high court captures how those cases began—the personalities and conflicts that catapulted them onto the national scene—and how they ultimately exposed the great divides among the justices, such as the originalists versus the pragmatists on guns and the Second Amendment, and corporate speech versus human speech in the controversial Citizens United campaign case. Most dramatically, her analysis shows how dedicated conservative lawyers and groups are strategizing to find cases and crafting them to bring up the judicial road to the Supreme Court with an eye on a receptive conservative majority. The Roberts Court offers a ringside seat at the struggle to lay down the law of the land.

$4.99 -- Showtime -- Jeff Pearlman/ Malcolm Hillgartner -- 18.6 hrs -- NF sports

Staff Pick

Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s

The New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports' most-revered—and dominant—dynasties.

The Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s personified the flamboyance and excess of the decade over which they reigned. Beginning with the arrival of Earvin "Magic" Johnson as the number one overall pick of the 1979 draft, the Lakers played basketball with gusto and pizzazz, unleashing their famed "Showtime" run-and-gun style on a league unprepared for their speed and ferocity—and became the most captivating show in sports and, arguably, all-around American entertainment. The Lakers' roster overflowed with exciting all-star-caliber players, including center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and they were led by the incomparable Pat Riley, known for his slicked-back hair, his Armani suits, and his arrogant strut. Hollywood's biggest celebrities lined the court, and gorgeous women flocked to the arena. Best of all, the team was a winner. Between 1980 and 1991, the Lakers played in an unmatched nine NBA championship series, capturing five of them.

Bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman draws from almost three hundred interviews to take the first full measure of the Lakers' epic Showtime era. A dazzling account of one of America's greatest sports sagas, Showtime is packed with indelible characters, vicious rivalries, and jaw-dropping behind-the-scenes stories of the players' decadent Hollywood lifestyles. From the Showtime era's remarkable rise to its tragic end—marked by Magic Johnson's 1991 announcement that he had contracted HIV—Showtime is a gripping narrative of sports, celebrity, and 1980s-style excess.