FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2015

[copyrite]

Sheesh I have a fear of heights and Audible keeps 'escalating' me (they can't figure out why the sale prices aren't being applied to my account but should be)... I think I'm at the third tier of support and she's opening up a support ticket that might take a couple of days to get back to me.

Just as well we ended our chat... I kept putting Whispersync titles in my cart!

*waves to the mortals below me*

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And thanks to a temporary drop of $10 in the price of the ebook (a price component of the total price for a Whispersync deal) from the digital list price.

Title: Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Travel).
Author(s): Rita Golden Gelman.
Price: $5.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $26.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.2 stars/368 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.50/21 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 322/12 hours and 42 minutes.
Narrator(s): Rita Golden Gelman.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoi...2208385&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Female-N...a+female+nomad.
Comments: The book is currently the Kindle #2 seller in the Mexico Travel subgenre (but the author travels to many more places than just Mexico).
Book Description (Amazon):
“I move throughout the world without a plan, guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.” —From the Preface

Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence. At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of connecting with people in cultures all over the world. In 1986 she sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions on the Galapagos Islands, and residing everywhere from thatched huts to regal palaces. She has observed orangutans in the rain forest of Borneo, visited trance healers and dens of black magic, and cooked with women on fires all over the world. Rita’s example encourages us all to dust off our dreams and rediscover the joy, the exuberance, and the hidden spirit that so many of us bury when we become adults.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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This has the feel of a fictional book (and author Joseph Wambaugh has written some of those) but, unfortunately it's not--the story in it is true. As a former Los Angeles Police Department detective sergeant along with being a bestselling author, there may be no one as eminently qualified to tell a story like the one in this book than Wambaugh.

Title: The Onion Field.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Murder & Mayhem).
Author(s): Joseph Wambaugh.
Price: $6.48 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $4.49 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $21.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/85 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 3.80/416 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 446/18 hours and 47 minutes.
Narrator(s): Jonathan Davis.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-...2210064&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Onion-Field-Jo...he+onion+field.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one march night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.

From the Paperback edition.

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A little bit more expensive than the Whispersync deals that I like to post. But it's still less than 1/3 of the price of the audiobook (only) at Audible.

Title: The House That Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Sports).
Author(s): Robert Weintraub.
Price: $7.98 ($3.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $23.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/36 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 3.7/3 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 409/11 hours and 40 minutes.
Narrator(s): Fred Berman.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sports/The...2390082&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/House-That-Rut...mption+of+1923.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923

Before the 27 World Series titles--before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter-the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals the New York Giants. In 1921 and 1922, they lost to the Giants when it mattered most: in October.

But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own field, the newly-built, state of the art baseball palace in the Bronx called "the Yankee Stadium." The stadium was a gamble, erected in relative outerborough obscurity, and Babe Ruth was coming off the most disappointing season of his career, a season that saw his struggles on and off the field threaten his standing as a bona fide superstar.

It only took Ruth two at-bats to signal a new era. He stepped up to the plate in the 1923 season opener and cracked a home run to deep right field, the first homer in his park, and a sign of what lay ahead. It was the initial blow in a season that saw the new stadium christened "The House That Ruth Built," signaled the triumph of the power game, and established the Yankees as New York's-and the sport's-team to beat.

From that first home run of 1923 to the storybook World Series matchup that pitted the Yankees against their nemesis from across the Harlem River-one so acrimonious that John McGraw forced his Giants to get to the Bronx in uniform rather than suit up at the Stadium-Robert Weintraub vividly illuminates the singular year that built a classic stadium, catalyzed a franchise, cemented Ruth's legend, and forever changed the sport of baseball.

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My first post in the Steampunk subgenre! This one is for teens and other young adults.

Are there even any teens or other young adults on Mobileread? Maybe some parents of some . . . .

Title: The Spiritglass Charade: A Stoker & Holmes Novel.
Genre: Fiction (YA Steampunk).
Author(s): Colleen Gleason.
Price: $4.98 ($0.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $17.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/47 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.4/65 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 362/8 hours and 58 minutes.
Narrator(s): Jane Entwhistle.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Teens/The-...2459109&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Spiritglass-Ch...6+Holmes+Novel.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood, so to speak.

After the Affair of the Clockwork Scarab, Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes are eager to help Princess Alix with a new case. Seventeen-year-old Willa Aston is obsessed with spiritual mediums, convinced she is speaking with her mother from beyond the grave. What seems like a case of spiritualist fraud quickly devolves into something far more menacing: someone is trying to make Willa appear lunatic using an innocent-looking spiritglass to control her. The list of clues piles up: an unexpected murder, a gang of pickpockets, and the return of vampires to London. But are these events connected?

As Uncle Sherlock would say, there are no coincidences. It will take all of Mina's wit and Evaline's muscle to keep London's sinister underground at bay.

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I've (unintentionally) been giving the fiction genre a short shrift lately. I'm trying to even things out.

Title: Labor Day (P.S.).
Genre: Fiction (Contemporary/Coming of Age).
Author(s): Joyce Maynard.
Price: $5.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $21.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.0 stars/1,061 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 3.9/294 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 260/6 hours and 16 minutes.
Narrator(s): Wilson Bethel.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/La...2460416&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Labor-Day-P-S-...labor+day+p.s.
Comments: #5 seller in Kindle American Contemporary Fiction.
Book Description (Amazon):
Joyce Maynard, acclaimed author of At Home in the World, is back with Labor Day. The unforgettable story of a mother and son forever changed during a long summer weekend when a mysterious man comes into their lives. Labor Day is “a sexy, page turning, poignant story” (Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World) that “affirms Maynard’s reputation as a master storyteller and shows her to be a passionate humanist with a gifted ear and heart” (People).

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Considerably less than one-fourth. And, as you know, with the Whispersync deal, you get the ebook, too, and the audiobook and ebook are sync'd together!

Title: This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (Edge Question Series).
Genre: Non-Fiction (Science & Math).
Author(s): John Brockman.
Price: $6.48 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $4.49 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $29.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.2 stars/52 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 3.8/89 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 595/16 hours and 25 minutes.
Narrator(s): David Colacci, Susan Ericksen.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Science-Te...2463098&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/This-Idea-Must...N%3DB00KPVCEIU.
Comments: The ebook/audio were published in 2015, so the information is very up-to-date.
Book Description (Amazon):
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?

Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—challenges some of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating. In :

Steven Pinker dismantles the working theory of human behavior
Richard Dawkins renounces essentialism
Sherry Turkle reevaluates our expectations of artificial intelligence
Geoffrey West challenges the concept of a “Theory of Everything”
Andrei Linde suggests that our universe and its laws may not be as unique as we think
Martin Rees explains why scientific understanding is a limitless goal
Nina Jablonski argues to rid ourselves of the concept of race
Alan Guth rethinks the origins of the universe
Hans Ulrich Obrist warns against glorifying unlimited economic growth
and much more.
Profound, engaging, thoughtful, and groundbreaking, This Idea Must Die will change your perceptions and understanding of our world today . . . and tomorrow.

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Title: Miracle at Midway.
Genre: Non-Fiction (History/Military).
Author(s): Gordon W. Prange & 2 more.
Price: $7.89 ($3.90 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $37.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.5 stars/78 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.4/73 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 512/16 hours and 20 minutes.
Narrator(s): Dennis Holland.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_...ywords&x=0&y=0.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-at-Mid...acle+at+midway.
Comments: The ebook is currently the #4 seller in Kindle naval military history.
Book Description (Amazon):
The inside story of the historic battle that turned the tide in the war for the Pacific

Six months after Pearl Harbor, the seemingly invincible Imperial Japanese Navy prepared a decisive blow against the United States. After sweeping through Asia and the South Pacific, Japan’s military targeted the tiny atoll of Midway, an ideal launching pad for the invasion of Hawaii and beyond. The United States Navy would be waiting for them. Thanks to cutting-edge code-breaking technology, tactical daring, and a huge stroke of luck, the Americans under Admiral Chester W. Nimitz dealt the Japanese navy its first major defeat of the war. Three years of hard fighting remained, but it was at Midway that the tide turned. This vivid, in-depth bestseller is the first book to tell the story of the epic battle from both the American and Japanese sides. In Miracle at Midway, Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon show how America won its first and greatest victory of the Pacific war—and how easily it could have been a defeat.

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Title: The Eternity Cure (Blood of Eden Book 2).
Genre: Fiction (YA Science Fiction/Fantasy).
Author(s): Julie Kagawa.
Price: $5.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $3.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $21.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.6 stars/357 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.5/587 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 406/14 hours and 11 minutes.
Narrator(s): Therese Plummer.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Teens/The-...2554190&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Eternity-Cure-...+eternity+cure.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
In Allison Sekemoto's world, there is one rule left: Blood calls to blood

She has done the unthinkable: died so that she might continue to live. Cast out of Eden and separated from the boy she dared to love, Allie will follow the call of blood to save her creator, Kanin, from the psychotic vampire Sarren. But when the trail leads to Allie's birthplace in New Covington, what Allie finds there will change the world forever—and possibly end human and vampire existence.

There's a new plague on the rise, a strain of the Red Lung virus that wiped out most of humanity generations ago—and this strain is deadly to humans and vampires alike. The only hope for a cure lies in the secrets Kanin carries, if Allie can get to him in time.

Allison thought that immortality was forever. But now, with eternity itself hanging in the balance, the lines between human and monster will blur even further, and Allie must face another choice she could never have imagined having to make.

[issybird]

Just a heads up, since I don't see a way to get the offer other than by targeted email:

I'm not currently an Audible member, but I have an account. I got an email today touting Audible's new Windows 10 app and offering me a free ebook to try it. "Click Here" I'm not running Windows 10 nor do I intend to, but what the heck? So I clicked and an audiobook credit was added to my account, no further stipulations about downloading the new app.

So all I can say is that if you've got an Audible account linked to an email you don't usually monitor, it might be worth checking. Or if you figured you couldn't get the book because you can't/won't download the app, there are in fact no restrictions.

[CRussel]

Hmmm. Should be interesting to see if I get one to my main email. It's actually tied to two different accounts - one via Amazon that is current and has a sub, one that used to be my Canadian Audible account, but that is now member only, no subscription. (Oh, and I am running Windows 10, so might even try the app.)

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Originally Posted by issybird

Just a heads up, since I don't see a way to get the offer other than by targeted email:

I'm not currently an Audible member, but I have an account. I got an email today touting Audible's new Windows 10 app and offering me a free ebook to try it. "Click Here" I'm not running Windows 10 nor do I intend to, but what the heck? So I clicked and an audiobook credit was added to my account, no further stipulations about downloading the new app.

So all I can say is that if you've got an Audible account linked to an email you don't usually monitor, it might be worth checking. Or if you figured you couldn't get the book because you can't/won't download the app, there are in fact no restrictions.

Thanks. If I had a credits membership I certainly would check into that.

I don't know why you don't plan on using Windows 10, but I have found it to my liking. Is it better than Windows 7? I don't know about that. But it's much, much, much easier to use than Windows 8/8.1. But it keeps the tiles thingie of Win 8/8.1 if you're into touch input. If you're running Windows 7 now, keep in mind that Microsoft quit supporting its predecessor, XP, recently and Win 7 is next in their sights. Having Win 10 will forestall the non-support situation for quite a few years. And if you have Win 7 or Win 8/8.1, Win 10 is free.

[Keslynn]

My fellow Listener Light members, I was just told that we are not eligible for the Win-Win sale. Has anyone else heard differently?

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Originally Posted by Keslynn

My fellow Listener Light members, I was just told that we are not eligible for the Win-Win sale. Has anyone else heard differently?

I was eligible just a few days ago, the last time that I looked at the offerings and added one of the audiobooks to my cart.

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Originally Posted by Keslynn

My fellow Listener Light members, I was just told that we are not eligible for the Win-Win sale. Has anyone else heard differently?

That's what I was finally told when a higher up got back to me. Bummer!