FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[badgoodDeb]

First two paragraphs sound like fun! So, ebook, "bought" (as much as "free" can be bought). I only do audiobooks on my very rare road trips, so I didn't get that. But thanks for the info about the book!

[GtrsRGr8]

I wonder if Michael Landon, Jr. is as talented as his old man. The ratings of this book are very high, anyway.

The book may be religiously inclined or, at least, contain some religious references. I recognize the name of the publisher, Bethany House, as a company that publishes primarily, if not exclusively, for Christians.

Title: The Silent Gift.
Genre: Fiction (Historical/Religious)
Author(s): Michael Landon, Jr.; Cindy Kelley.
Price: $3.98 ($0.99 ebook (marked down) + $2.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $23.95 (1 credit).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.7 stars/239 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.10/50 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 369/12 hours and 37 minutes.
Narrator(s): John McDonough.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Th...ok/B003PCKIE8/.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Gift-M.../dp/B00B853PQC.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
From the creator/director of the Love Comes Softly film series--

A story both bittersweet and heartwarming of a mother and her son...and of his unusual gift.

The decade of the 'thirties was a time of enormous uncertainty--for the world, for America, and in particular for one lonely, struggling mother and her disabled son. Their story is one of unyielding love and incredible sacrifices in the face of circumstances beyond belief.

But then The Gift appears...where has it come from, and why? How can a young boy who cannot communicate provide comfort and direction to seekers who learn of the special ability? Whatever the source, its presence brings a single shaft of light and hope to Mary and her beloved son, Jack....Will it be enough?

A novel filled with passion, with yearning...and with hope.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

First two paragraphs sound like fun! So, ebook, "bought" (as much as "free" can be bought). I only do audiobooks on my very rare road trips, so I didn't get that. But thanks for the info about the book!

Thanks. I never know what's going to be a hit and what's not, especially with fiction.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Weekly Deals -- as of 17 May

Note: these deals are subject to withdrawal without warning / last week's titles

New Titles

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[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

First two paragraphs sound like fun! So, ebook, "bought" (as much as "free" can be bought). I only do audiobooks on my very rare road trips, so I didn't get that. But thanks for the info about the book!

At 33% of the book, I find I am repeatedly guffawing and giggling. This is a fun read! I recommend it! Light weight, a little bit "girl can-do power" (she killed a guy with a stilleto shoe and now has to lay low in rural Louisiana!) and good fun. It's a hoot!

[rgeorg]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

At 33% of the book, I find I am repeatedly guffawing and giggling. This is a fun read! I recommend it! Light weight, a little bit "girl can-do power" (she killed a guy with a stilleto shoe and now has to lay low in rural Louisiana!) and good fun. It's a hoot!

Glad to hear that as I bought it also! Thanks for the original post.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 19 May @ 11:59pm ET

$4.95 -- Invention of Nature -- Andrea Wulf/ David Drummond --> 14.1 hrs/ R-4.5 --> biography

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

Whispersync: the Audible book is $4.95, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($14.99)

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. He came up with a radical vision of nature, that it was a complex and interconnected global force and did not exist for man's use alone. Ironically, his ideas have become so accepted and widespread that he has been nearly forgotten.

Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his investigation of wild environments around the world; his discoveries of similarities between climate zones on different continents; his prediction of human-induced climate change; his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation; and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how his writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt's influence on John Muir that led him to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau's Walden.

Humboldt was the most interdisciplinary of scientists and is the forgotten father of environmentalism. With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written audiobook, she makes clear the myriad, fundamental ways that Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 19 May

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Summertime Splendor -- Marion Chesney, Cynthia Bailey-Pratt, Sarah Eagle, Melinda Pryce

Whispersync: no deals at this time

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[gabby98]

DANG'it...missed weeks 1 & 2 of Sync (so many distractions)...hopefully I'll remember the rest

Thanks for reminders

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by gabby98

DANG'it...missed weeks 1 & 2 of Sync (so many distractions)...hopefully I'll remember the rest

Thanks for reminders

Sorry and YW

Thanks for reminding me to post the next round. I was posting earlier this morning and the new Sync freebies weren't live yet. Then I forgot about it.

[tubemonkey]

SYNC Weekly Deals -- Week 3 -- exp 26 May @ 7am ET

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• FREE -- 100 Sideways Miles -- Andrew Smith/ Kirby Heyborne --> 7.0 hrs/ R-4.7
• FREE -- This Boy's Life -- Tobias Wolff/ Oliver Wyman --> 10.1 hrs/ R-3.9

100 Sideways Miles

Finn Easton sees the world through miles instead of minutes. It's how he makes sense of the world, and how he tries to convince himself that he's a real boy and not just a character in his father's bestselling cult-classic book. Finn has two things going for him: his best friend, the possibly-insane-but-definitely-excellent Cade Hernandez, and Julia Bishop, the first girl he's ever loved. Then Julia moves away, and Finn is heartbroken.

Feeling restless and trapped in the book, Finn embarks on a road trip with Cade to visit their college of choice in Oklahoma. When an unexpected accident happens and the boys become unlikely heroes, they take an eye-opening detour away from everything they thought they had planned—and learn how to write their own destiny.

This Boy's Life --> US, Canada, Philippines only

First published in 1989, this memoir has become a classic in the genre. With this book, Wolff essentially launched the memoir craze that has been going strong ever since. It was made into a movie in 1993.

Fiction writer Tobias Wolff electrified critics with his scarifying 1989 memoir, which many deemed as notable for its artful structure and finely wrought prose as for the events it describes.

The story is pretty grim: Teenaged Wolff moves with his divorced mother from Florida to Utah to Washington State to escape her violent boyfriend. When she remarries, Wolff finds himself in a bitter battle of wills with his abusive stepfather, a contest in which the two prove to be more evenly matched than might have been supposed.

Deception, disguise, and illusion are the weapons the young man learns to employ as he grows up—not bad training for a writer-to-be. Somber though this tale of family strife is, it is also darkly funny and so artistically satisfying that listeners come away exhilarated.

[avantman42]

I just saw this OK Twitter:

Warm weather + @audiobooks_com = more beach trips and enjoying your fav read. Download your 1st book from for free w/ promo code: SWIMGUIDE

[avantman42]

That should be *on* Twitter. The perils of posting from a phone

[Catlady]

I'm confused about how this code would work--there doesn't seem to be a way to apply it to an existing (deactivated) account, and new users get a free trial anyway; does it give new users an extra credit?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by avantman42

That should be *on* Twitter. The perils of posting from a phone

I always use Swype on my iPad. That way if I make any typos, I can always say, "That blasted Swype!"