FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2015

[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free megathread:

Humble Audiobook Bundle Star Wars will be available for the next 2 weeks and contains readings of the tie-in novels, as well as the radio drama adaptations starring Mark Hamill himself.

Also, StoryBundle's Women in Science Fiction Bundle has a freebie mp3 song bonus for newsletter subscribers (no purchase necessary).

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

X-link to the DRM-free megathread:

Humble Audiobook Bundle Star Wars will be available for the next 2 weeks and contains readings of the tie-in novels, as well as the radio drama adaptations starring Mark Hamill himself.

Also, StoryBundle's Women in Science Fiction Bundle has a freebie mp3 song bonus for newsletter subscribers (no purchase necessary).

And here I thought I might go a whole 30 days without getting a new audiobook. I feel like the guy who has to erase the number on the "days without an accident" sign at work.

[GtrsRGr8]

I just posted two great Whispersync deals on the Non-Fiction thread, post #779. Both are fiction. One is $5.48, the other is $5.98.

Even if you are not interested in the Whispersync deals, you can go there to find out why two fiction ebooks are posted on the Non-Fiction thread. Are you even just a little bit curious?

[skinmaan]

ChristianAudio is debuting the new look to their website. If you go take a look and find something you like you can get 50% any one audiobook by using code CHRISTIANAUDIO at checkout. The offer us good through August 31 so don't wait too long.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[GtrsRGr8]

Title: Feels Like the First Time: A True Love Story.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Biography).
Author(s): Shawn Inmon.
Price: $1.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $17.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.4 stars/698 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 3.50/12 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 223/5 hours and 58 minutes.
Narrator(s): Jeff Conwell.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Romance/Fe...0989974&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Feels-Like-Fir...1J6CG0FN1ZWMB6.
Comments: Both Sides Now, the sequel to Feels Like the First Time, and a bestseller itself, is available for $3.99 (that is not a markdown price; the Whispersync deal is $1.99 more). Both Sides Now tells of the same events, but from Dawn's perspective. http://www.amazon.com/Both-Sides-Tru...NW3VW32H2G4T02.
Book Description (Amazon):
"The Wonder Years" meets "The Notebook" in this true-life coming-of-age love story.

If you remember your first love, your first date and your first kiss, then Feels Like the First Time will take you back to those moments. Shawn met Dawn when she moved in next door in 1976. Soon, they were best friends, then became each other's first loves. Shawn was outgoing but bookish, Dawn, beautiful and reserved. Their storybook romance came to an end when Dawn's parents forbid them to see each other.

They obeyed - for 27 years, until a chance meeting swept them up in a storm of emotions and memories. Can the sweet bond of first love not only survive into middle age, but flourish?

Feels Like the First Time lets you share in the magic of young love in small town America in the 1970s. No matter how much the world changes, some things – timeless music, high school dances, making out in the backseat of a Chevy Vega, and of course true love – will always remain the same.

[tubemonkey]

BBC Radio 4extra

• FREE -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Washington Irving (1.5 hrs)

Martin Jarvis reads from Irving's spooky classic.

This classic is in three parts, each one 30 minutes in length. The first two episodes are available. Episode 1 will expire in 22 days and episode 2 in 29 days. Episode 3 won't be available until 06 Sep.

[GtrsRGr8]

I just made a post on the Non-Fiction thread about a large number of Oxford University Press' A Very Short Introduction series being marked down to 99 cents each.

I also mentioned that several of the books have Whispersync deals. There are 6, if my count is correct. The ebooks that I spot-checked all had Whispersync companions for $3.99 each.

If you're interested in these, go to my post on the Non-Fiction thread.

Sorry, I can't get the links to work probably, for some reason, so I've eliminated them.

[GtrsRGr8]

Title: The History of Jazz.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Music).
Author(s): Ted Gioia.
Price: $5.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $29.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/33 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.50/16 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 452/21 hours and 59 minutes.
Narrator(s): Bob Souer.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Arts-Enter...1021056&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/History-Jazz-T...NJTHWMQ0GKJTTZ.
Comments: This is the second edition.
Book Description (Amazon):
Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present.

Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and Lester Young, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie's advocacy of modern jazz in the 1940s, Miles Davis's 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Ornette Coleman's experiments with atonality, Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, the contemporary sounds of Wynton Marsalis, and the post-modernists of the current day. Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. He also evokes the many worlds of jazz, taking the reader to the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta, the bawdy houses of New Orleans, the rent parties of Harlem, the speakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age, the after hours spots of corrupt Kansas city, the Cotton Club, the Savoy, and the other locales where the history of jazz was made. And as he traces the spread of this protean form, Gioia provides much insight into the social context in which the music was born.

[Froide]

I see this has been updated on this forum's front page:
At Christian Audio, the Free Audiobook of the Month is AHA : The God Moment That Changes Everything by pastor and best-selling author Kyle Idleman.

We've all had "aha!" moments in our lives — times when a sudden revelation surprises us with insight. We can experience this same kind of "aha!" in our spiritual lives by awakening to the reality of our true spiritual condition. We then see ourselves and our need for a Savior with renewed honesty. The result is a life-changing, destiny-altering collision - an AHA moment that leads us home to our loving Father.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Froide

I see this has been updated on this forum's front page:
At Christian Audio, the Free Audiobook of the Month is AHA : The God Moment That Changes Everything by pastor and best-selling author Kyle Idleman.

In addition to the free title, there are 5 more audiobooks by the same author at 50% off. All offers expire at the end of the month (30 Sep).

Kyle Idleman Sale -- 50% off -- exp 30 Sep

• $2.99 -- Praying for Your Prodigal
• $5.49 -- 40 Days to Lasting Change
• $6.49 -- The End of Me
• $7.49 -- Gods at War
• $7.49 -- Not a Fan

[tubemonkey]

Downpour Weekly Deals

• $1.99 -- Rental of the Week --> Night Sky -- exp 07 Sep
• $4.95 -- Deal of the Week --> Strangers on a Train -- exp 07 Sep
• $15.96 -- Editor's Pick --> Falling Glass -- exp 07 Sep
• SALE -- Weekly Deals (7 titles) -- exp 07 Sep
• SALE -- Debut Novels / Fall Movies / Quick Fiction / What's Hot

Night Sky -- S Brockmann & M Brockmann -- read by M Brockmann (12.1 hrs)

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann and her daughter Melanie have written a pulse-pounding novel of paranormal suspense set in a near future both fantastic and frightening.

Skylar Reid is shaken when Sasha, the little girl she babysits, is kidnapped. She’s scared that the weird dreams she’s been having about Sasha are real—and even more afraid that Sasha is already dead. When a mysterious girl with extreme butt-kicking abilities roars into town on a motorcycle and starts stalking Skylar, things get even weirder. Supergirl Dana tells Sky that she also has abilities, that a hormone in their blood makes them stronger, faster, smarter—a hormone that the makers of a new drug called Destiny will murder to get their hands on.

Strangers on a Train -- Patricia Highsmith -- read by Bronson Pinchot (9.7 hrs)

In Patricia Highsmith’s debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world—where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.

The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, and proved her mastery of depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.

Falling Glass -- Adrian McKinty -- read by Gerald Doyle (9.6 hrs)

Richard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest. But then, for some reason, his ex-wife Rachel doesn’t keep her side of the custody agreement and vanishes off the face of the earth with Richard’s two daughters. Richard hires Killian, a formidable ex-enforcer for the IRA, to track her down before Rachel, a recovering drug addict, harms herself or the girls. As Killian follows Rachel’s trail, he begins to see that there is a lot more to this case than first meets the eye and that a thirty-year-old secret is going to put all of them in terrible danger.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour Rentals has added more content to their catalog:

• Disney Audiobooks (20 titles)
• Marvel Audiobooks (11 titles)

The vast majority of the above titles rent for $5.95, with just a few renting for $6.95.
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[tubemonkey]

Downpour Weekly Deals -- exp 07 Sep

• $3.95 -- The Song of Roland -- translated by DDR Owen -- read by full cast (3.0 hrs)
• $4.95 -- Homage to Catalonia -- George Orwell -- read by Frederick Davidson (8.4 hrs)
• $4.95 -- Paris, Paris -- David Downie -- read by Max Winter (9.9 hrs)
• $4.99 -- The Mermaids Singing-- Val McDermid -- read by Graham Roberts (14.2 hrs)
• $5.95 -- A Baker Street Dozen -- AC Doyle -- read by J Gielgud; et all (5.3 hrs)
• $5.95 -- Winter King -- Thomas Penn -- read by Simon Vance (14.6 hrs)
• $5.99 -- A River Runs Through It -- Norman Maclean -- read by David Manis (8.0 hrs)

[tubemonkey]

BBC Radio 4extra

• FREE -- Crooked House -- Agatha Christie (2.0 hrs)

There are four episodes, each one 30 minutes in length. The first two episodes are currently available and will expire in 29 days. Episode 3 will be available 03 Sep and episode 4 on 04 Sep.

Joy Wilkinson's four-part adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel.

Ep 1 -- Returning home from WWII, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry Sophia Leonides. However, the suspicious death of her grandfather has thrown everything into confusion.

Ep 2 -- Elderly wealthy businessman Aristides Leonides has been murdered. Until the killer is caught, others are in danger, particularly young Josephine, who decides to play detective.

Ep 3 -- After the attempted murder of Josephine, Three Gables is still in a state of confusion. However, dramatic evidence is unearthed, and it seems that Brenda can no longer avoid her fate.

Ep 4 -- Another murder has struck Three Gables, which means the case against Brenda and Laurence falls apart. The killer is still at large, and Josephine is still in danger.

[abqkjh]

"Pick up any book in Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark Series for just $4.95 each, and get caught up for the next series installment, due out in December! Sale ends September 9, 2015 at 11:59 PM PT."

http://www.audible.com/mt/Kresley_Co..._rd_s=center-2

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