FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 03 May @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

• TBA -- When You Are Mine -- Michael Robotham -- mystery

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LAST DAY -- Downpour -- exp 02 May @ 11:59 pm PT

• $1.99 -- Shackleton --> details -- rental only

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Audible AU -- Editor's Extra -- exp 30 May @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

NOTE: extended another month -- exp 04 July

FREE -- Love Stories -- Trent Dalton/ Trent Dalton -- 9.1 hrs -- anthology

members only

Uplifting True Stories about Love

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story?

A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of 30 years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a priest. A geologist discovers a three-minute video recorded by his wife before she died. A tree lopper's heart falls in a forest. A working mum contemplates taking photographs of her late husband down from her fridge. A girl writes a last letter to the man she loves most, then sets it on fire. A palliative care nurse helps a dying woman converse with the angel at the end of her bed. A renowned 100-year-old scientist ponders the one great earthly puzzle he was never able to solve: What is love?

Endless stories. Human stories. Love stories.

Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, Trent Dalton, best-selling author and one of Australia's finest journalists, spent two months in 2021 speaking to people from all walks of life, asking them one simple and direct question: Can you please tell me a love story? The result is an immensely warm, poignant, funny, and moving book about love in all its guises, including observations, reflections and stories of people falling into love, falling out of love, and never letting go of the loved ones in their hearts. A heartfelt, deep, wise, and tingly tribute to the greatest thing we will never understand and the only thing we will ever really need: love.

"It's the kind of book that has some impact on the reader...a Chaucerian endeavour, a rich caravanserai of real, living people with something important to tell." (Sydney Morning Herald)

What is Editors' Extra?

Each month, you'll get a free listen that our members love, chosen by our editors, on top of your monthly credit. Once you’ve listened, visit our Facebook group, What’s The Story?, to discuss the latest Editors' Extra with other audio fans.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 03 May @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PDT)

• TBA -- One Summer -- Bill Bryson -- NF history

* One Summer: America 1927

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Daily Deals -- exp 03 May @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $2.95 -- Funny Farm -- Laurie Zaleski -- NF memoir
  
• Audible CA ---> TBA ---- Raven Black (book 1) -- Ann Cleeves -- mystery
  
• Downpour ----> TBA

* Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 04 May @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

• TBA -- The Sweetness of Water -- Nathan Harris -- literary

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Daily Deals -- exp 04 May @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $2.95 -- Count to Three -- TR Ragan -- mystery
  
• Audible CA ---> $4.95 -- The Water Keeper (book 1) -- Charles Martin -- fiction
  
• Downpour ----> $3.95 -- Barrayar (book 2) -- Lois McMaster Bujold -- sci-fi

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 05 May @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

• TBA -- The Scomo Diaries -- Tosh Greenslade -- political humour

* The Scomo Diaries: My First Eighteen Months at the Coalface

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LAST DAY -- SYNC Audio -- exp 04 May @ 11:59 pm ET

• FREE -- Black Panther | Four Short Stories --> details

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Audiobooks.com -- exp 15 May @ 11:59 pm ET

• SALE -- Audiobooks $6.99 and Under (199 titles)

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Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 09 May @ 11:59 pm PT

$1.99 -- Road of Bones -- Christopher Golden/ Robert Fass -- 8.6 hrs -- thriller

rental only

A stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about the Kolyma Highway, a road built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag.

Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia’s Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle. A narrow path where drivers face such challenging conditions as icy surfaces, limited visibility, and an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero, fatal car accidents are common.

But motorists are not the only victims of the highway. Known as the Road of Bones, it is a massive graveyard for the former Soviet Union’s gulag prisoners. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to death and left where their bodies fell, consumed by the frozen elements and plowed beneath the permafrost road.

Fascinated by the history, documentary producer Felix “Teig” Teigland is in Russia to drive the highway, envisioning a new series capturing Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to the town of Akhust, “the coldest place on Earth,” collecting ghost stories and local legends along the way. Only, when Teig and his team reach their destination, they find an abandoned town, save one catatonic nine-year-old girl—and a pack of predatory wolves, faster and smarter than any wild animals should be.

Pursued by the otherworldly beasts, Teig’s companions confront even more uncanny and inexplicable phenomena along the Road of Bones, as if the ghosts of Stalin’s victims were haunting them. It is a harrowing journey that will push Teig beyond endurance and force him to confront the sins of his past.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 05 May @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PDT)

• TBA -- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts -- Gabor Maté -- NF health

* In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

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Daily Deals -- exp 05 May @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $1.95 -- Something from the Nightside (bk 1) -- Simon R Green -- mystery
  
• Audible CA ---> $4.95 -- One for the Money (book 1) -- Janet Evanovich -- mystery
  
• Downpour ----> $3.95 -- Howards End -- EM Forster -- classic

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 06 May @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

• TBA -- A Little Devil in America -- Hanif Abdurraqib -- NF history

* A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

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Alexa US -- Monthly Offer -- exp 01 Jun @ 11:59 pm PT

FREE -- The Stand-In -- Lily Chu/ Phillipa Soo -- 10.9 hrs -- romance

streaming only (on Alexa-enabled devices)

HOW TO UPEND YOUR LIFE:

• Get fired by gross, handsy boss
• Fail to do laundry (again)
• Be mistaken for famous Chinese actress
• Fall headfirst into glitzy new world

Gracie Reed is doing just fine. Sure, she was fired by her overly "friendly" boss, and, yes, she still hasn’t gotten her mother into the nursing home of their dreams, but she’s healthy, she’s (somewhat) happy, and she’s (mostly) holding it all together.

But when a mysterious SUV pulls up beside her, revealing Chinese cinema's golden couple Wei Fangli and Sam Yao, Gracie’s world is turned on its head. The famous actress has a proposition: due to their uncanny resemblance, Fangli wants Gracie to be her stand-in. The catch? Gracie will have to be escorted by Sam, the most attractive—and infuriating—man Gracie’s ever met.

If it means getting the money she needs for her mother, Gracie’s in. Soon Gracie moves into a world of luxury she never knew existed. But resisting Sam, and playing the role of an elegant movie star, proves more difficult than she ever imagined—especially when she learns the real reason Fangli so desperately needs her help. In the end, all the lists in the world won’t be able to help Gracie keep up this elaborate ruse without losing herself...and her heart.

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