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Audible CA -- Editor's Extra -- exp 31 May @ 11:59 pm PT

FREE -- Season of Darkness (book 1) -- Maureen Jennings/ Tom Craig -- 10.2 hrs -- mystery

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The creator of the acclaimed Detective Murdoch Mysteries turns her exceptional storytelling skills to a murder mystery set in rural Shropshire, England, in the darkest days of the Second World War.

Following the disastrous retreat of the British army from Dunkirk in 1940, England is plunged into a state of fear. The threat of a German invasion is real, and many German Nationals are interned in camps across the country. One such camp is on the ancient moor land of Prees Heath, near the small town of Whitchurch in Shropshire, where Tom Tyler is the sole detective inspector.

Young women from all walks of life have joined the Land Army, to help desperate farmers keep the country fed. When one of these young women is found murdered on a desolate country road, Tyler is almost glad for the challenge; he has been fretting for some time about the dullness of policing in a rural community. In addition, a former lover has reappeared and turned his emotions upside down; his soldier son seems utterly changed by his experience at Dunkirk; and his 16-year-old daughter is unhappy. As he pursues the murderer, Tyler finds himself drawn into an uneasy alliance with one of the Prees Heath internees, a psychiatrist, who claims to be an expert on the criminal mind.

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Downpour -- Bi-Monthly Offers -- exp 16 May @ 11:59 pm PT

$4.99 -- Edgewater Road (book 1) -- Shelley Shepard Gray/ unknown -- x.x hrs -- romance

Editor's Pick

When Jennifer Smiley’s grandmother, Ginny, leaves her an old farmhouse on Edgewater Road in seemingly quiet Ross County, Ohio, Jennifer can’t pass up the opportunity for a new beginning. Almost immediately she meets a group of men who generously help her move in. When she realizes that they work for Lincoln Bennett, her next-door neighbor, she’s intrigued. Lincoln is gorgeous and has dark, lapis-blue eyes she could get lost in . . . but he doesn’t seem all that friendly. She’s torn between getting to know him and sticking with the solitude she knows so well. Maybe she could let down some of those walls she’s built around her emotions?

Lincoln Bennett likes to keep his head down and get his work done. He’s been to prison and he knows that a lot of folks don’t take kindly to a man with that kind of history. Plus, he’s busy helping other ex-cons get back on their feet. But when he meets Jennifer, he can’t help but feel an instant attraction. Will she be able to look past his unsavory history? Will she be able to accept the men he’s working so hard to help?

While Jennifer gets to know Lincoln and his friends, she also begins to unravel her grandmother’s story, putting together the pieces from scraps of memories and things she finds in her new home. She soon discovers that Ginny Smiley harbored some dark secrets on Edgewater Road—and that those secrets include both Lincoln and her own absent father. Is learning the truth worth the heartache it could bring?

As the weeks pass and she and Lincoln become closer, Jennifer learns there is a lot to uncover in Ross County—wonderful friendships, darling towns … and more than one secret that might be better left buried.

$4.99 -- How to Slay a Dragon -- Cait Stevenson/ Tavia Gilbert -- 6.2 hrs -- NF history

Staff Pick

A Fantasy Hero’s Guide to the Real Middle Ages

Grab your magical sword and take the place of your favorite fantasy character with this fun and historically accurate how-to guide to solving epic quests.

What should you ask a magic mirror? How do you outwit a genie? Where should you dig for buried treasure? Fantasy media’s favorite clichés get new life from How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero’s Guide to the Real Middle Ages, a historically accurate romp through the medieval world. Each entry presents a trope from video games, books, movies, or TV—such as saving the princess or training a wizard—as a problem for you to solve, as if you were the hero of your own fantasy quest. Through facts sourced from a rich foundation of medieval sources, you will learn how your magical problems were solved by people in the actual Middle Ages.

Divided into thematic subsections based on typical stages in a fantastical epic, and inclusive of race, gender, and continent, How to Slay a Dragon is perfect if you’re curious to learn more about the time period that inspired some of your favorite magical worlds or longing to know what it would be like to be the hero of your own mythical adventure.

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christianaudio -- Monthly Offers -- exp 31 May @ 11:59 pm ET

FREE -- The Wise Woman -- George MacDonald/ Veronica Murphy -- 5.2 hrs

This audiobook is Family Friendly! Children will love it, even as parents are edified. An excellent supplement for the Home Schooler.

A favorite author of C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald delivers another lovely tale in the story The Wise Woman. It is a story of two girls, one is a princess and the other a daughter of a shepherd; both are spoiled and self-serving. Their lives are forever changed when they encounter the Wise Woman, who undertakes to teach them virtue with an astounding balance of grace and truth. Firm and loving, the Wise Woman is everything a good parent could hope to be, and a refreshing portrayal of the Heavenly Parent of us all.

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SYNC Audio -- Weekly Offers -- FAQs -- exp 11 May @ 11:59 pm ET

NOTE: In order to participate in this program, you need to register and set up the Sora app. These books have DRM and you MUST use the Sora app on your mobile device or soraapp.com in your browser in order to download the books for free.

FREE -- The Perfect Nine -- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o/ Benjamin A Onyango -- 2.5 hrs -- poetry

The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi

Benjamin A. Onyango narrates this poetic origin story of the Gikuyu people of Kenya in a knowing tone that resonates. This mythical tale, rendered in musical verse, defies genre. Onyango inhabits Ngugi, the chronicler of the story of Gikuyu and Mumbi, who become the mothers of the 10 Gikuyu clans. This tale of adventure and creation depicts clashes with ogres and epic challenges involving physical danger and love. Onyango uses his rich bass voice to lend a realistic atmosphere to this fantastical tale, which is both contemporary and ancient.

FREE -- This Book Betrays My Brother -- KL Molope/ J Du Toit -- 6.7 hrs -- coming of age

Narrator Jacqui Du Toit’s tone changes from bright and naïve to stunned and pained as 13-year-old Naledi witnesses her brother’s crime. That event makes it clear why she feels the need to betray him years later. Du Toit’s accent reflects the novel’s South African setting. You can hear young Naledi’s coy grins as she details her sheltered family life, which includes running a general store, going to private schools, and living in the glow of the bright star that is her brother Basi. Du Toit creates vivid characters, and she deftly handles the many languages threaded throughout the story. Toxic masculinity lurks behind the coming-of-age antics, subtly revealing the many ways it damages women. A beautiful, suspenseful, and heartbreaking novel and performance.

Week 02 -- Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s chronicle of the origin story of the Gikuyu people, PERFECT NINE, comes to listeners through the cultural sensitivity of narrator Benjamin A. Onyango, a Kenyan-American actor who has appeared in a variety of films.

The Earphones Award-winning realistic novel THIS BOOK BETRAYS MY BROTHER, written by African Canadian author Kagiso Lesego Molope and performed by South African storyteller and actor Jacqui Du Toit, features vivid characters who speak a range of South African languages, all of which Du Toit handles easily.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 06 May @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PDT)

• TBA -- Who Do I Think I Am? -- Mark Steel -- NF memoir

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Daily Deals -- exp 06 May @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $3.95 -- The Paid Bridesmaid -- Sariah Wilson -- romance
  
• Audible CA ---> $4.95 -- The Wives -- Tarryn Fisher -- thriller
  
• Downpour ----> TBA

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 07 May @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

• TBA -- After the Party -- Cressida Connolly -- historical

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 07 May @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PDT)

• TBA -- A Line to Kill (book 3) -- Anthony Horowitz -- mystery

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Daily Deals -- exp 07 May @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $3.95 -- As the Wicked Watch (book 1) -- Tamron Hall -- mystery
  
• Audible CA ---> $4.95 -- I Will Teach You to Be Rich -- Ramit Sethi -- NF finances
  
• Downpour ----> TBA

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 08 May @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

• TBA -- Return to Berlin -- Ellen Feldman -- historical

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 08 May @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PDT)

• TBA -- Beautiful World, Where Are You -- Sally Rooney -- literary

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Daily Deals -- exp 08 May @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> $1.95 -- The Puzzle Solver -- Tracie White, et al -- NF biography
  
• Audible CA ---> $4.95 -- Early Cases of Hercule Poirot (series) -- Agatha Christie -- mystery
  
• Downpour ----> TBA

* The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 09 May @ 11:59 pm AEST (6:59 am PDT)

• TBA -- The Hospital -- Barbara O'Hare -- NF memoir

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Downpour -- Daily Steal - May 8

Title: The Pickwick Papers
Author: Charles Dickens [Read by Simon Prebble]
Price: $3.95 U.S.
Listen time: 30.78 hours
Link: https://www.downpour.com/the-pickwic...16925?sp=16928

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 09 May @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PDT)

• TBA -- Positivity -- Paul McKenna -- NF self-help