FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

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Audible Daily Deal -- exp 25 May @ 11:59pm ET

$2.95 -- Bruiser -- Neal Shusterman/ multiple --> 6.9 hrs/ R-4.2 --> friendship

Whispersync: the Audible book is $2.95, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($4.99)

Tennyson: Don’t get me started on the Bruiser. He was voted “Most Likely to Get the Death Penalty” by the entire school. He’s the kid no one knows, no one talks to, and everyone hears disturbing rumors about. So why is my sister, Brontë, dating him? One of these days she’s going to take in the wrong stray dog, and it’s not going to end well. Bronte My brother has no right to talk about Brewster that way — no right to threaten him. There’s a reason why Brewster can’t have friends — why he can’t care about too many people. Because when he cares about you, things start to happen. Impossible things that can’t be explained. I know, because they’re happening to me
Award-winning author Neal Shusterman has crafted a chilling and unforgettable novel about the power of unconditional friendship, the complex gear workings of a family, and the sacrifices we endure for the people we love.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 25 May

$4.99 -- The Lords of Discipline -- Pat Conroy/ Dan Miller --> 21.1 hrs/ R-4.4 --> contemporary

Whispersync: the Audible book is $3.99, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($8.54)

This powerful and breathtaking novel is the story of four cadets who have become bloodbrothers. Together they will encounter the hell of hazing and the rabid, raunchy, and dangerously secretive atmosphere of an arrogant and proud military institute. They will experience the violence. The passion. The rage. The friendship. The loyalty. The betrayal. Together, they will brace themselves for the brutal transition to manhood... and one will not survive.

With all the dramatic brilliance he brought to The Great Santini, Pat Conroy sweeps you into the turbulent world of these four friends - and draws you deep into the heart of his rebellious hero, Will McLean, an outsider forging his personal code of honor, who falls in love with a whimsical beauty... and who undergoes a transition more remarkable then he ever imagined possible.

Pat Conroy’s bestselling novel of a young cadet who must face down a racist secret society amid the social upheaval of the Vietnam War era

As Will McLean begins his studies at the Carolina Military Institute, the American South is in turmoil over desegregation. An outsider to the harsh authoritarianism of the military, Will survives the school’s notorious freshman hazing, and avoids attention from its fabled and menacing secret society, the Ten. But when he is asked to mentor the school’s first black student, Will is drawn into the intense racial politics—and the threat of violence—simmering beneath the surface.

Based on Conroy’s own military school experience and featuring his lush prose and richly drawn characters, The Lords of Discipline is a powerful story of a young man’s stand for justice and the friendship, love, and courage he finds along the way.

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- SYNC Audio -- exp 26 May @ 7am ET

• FREE -- Wk 3 -- 100 Sideways Miles --> details
• FREE -- Wk 3 -- This Boy's Life --> details --> US, Canada, Philippines

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 26 May @ 11:59pm ET

$3.95 -- Do No Harm -- Henry Marsh/ Jim Barclay --> 9.6 hrs/ R-4.5 --> memoir

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

Whispersync: the Audible book is $3.95, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($12.99)

With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft practiced by calm and detached surgeons, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 26 May

$9.99 -- Legacies -- LE Modesitt, Jr/ Kyle McCarley --> 20.8 hrs/ R-4.3 --> fantasy

Legacies --> Corean Chronicles (book 1 of 8)

Whispersync: the Audible book is $3.49, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($7.99)

Millennia ago, a magical disaster caused the fall of a great worldwide civilization, the end of a golden age. New civilizations have fought their way up from the ancient destruction and chaos, knowing little of the lost world that preceded them or the details of its fall. Corus today is a world of contending countries, of humans, but also of strange animals and supernatural creatures. It is a place of magical powers and of a few people who are talented enough to use them. Alusius, the hero of the story, is one.

[tubemonkey]

SYNC Weekly Deals -- Week 4 -- exp 02 Jun @ 7am ET

Note: further info can be found here --> SYNC 2016 | SYNC FAQs

• FREE -- Every Last Word -- Tamara Stone/ Amy Rubinate --> 8.3 hrs/ R-4.1
• FREE -- Egg and Spoon -- Gregory Maguire/ Michael Page --> 12.7 hrs/ R-4.0

Every Last Word --> US, Canada, Mexico only

Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can’t turn off.

Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn’t help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she’d be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam’s weekly visits to her psychiatrist.

Caroline introduces Sam to the Poet’s Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she begins to feel more “normal” than she ever has as part of the popular crowd...until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.

Egg and Spoon

Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. Her brothers have been conscripted into the Tsar's army and taken as servants in the house of the local wealthy landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food.

But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in St. Petersburg—a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age.

When the two girls' lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an adventure that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and—in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured—Baba Yaga, the witch of Russian folklore, in her moving house perched on chicken legs.

Master storyteller Gregory Maguire surpasses himself in this dazzling novel for listeners of all ages.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Sheesh. Tantor just e-mailed me about this book today. Oh well, let me try again:

From Penguin RH Audio, starting May 26, 24-hour free download of True Love by Jude Deveraux, through Facebook.

"True Love" is live on PRH's Facebook page. Don't forget to pick it up after you're done Syncing for the day.

[tubemonkey]

This offer from Penguin Random House Audio is now live:


FREE -- True Love -- Jude Deveraux/ Tavia Gilbert --> 14.2 hrs/ R-4.2 --> romance

True Love --> Nantucket Brides (book 1 of 3)

Jude Deveraux, the bestselling author of unforgettable romance, returns with a breathtaking first book in a fantastic new series—the Nantucket Brides trilogy. Set on the magical Massachusetts island, True Love introduces characters from a new generation of Montgomery-Taggerts, the beloved family from Deveraux’s classic novels.

Just as Alix Madsen is finishing up architectural school, Adelaide Kingsley dies and wills her, for one year, the use of a charming nineteenth-century Nantucket house. The elderly woman’s relationship to the Madsen family is a mystery to the spirited Alix—fresh from a romantic breakup—but for reasons of her own Alix accepts the quirky bequest, in part because it gives her time to plan her best friend’s storybook wedding.

But unseen forces move behind the scenes, creaking Kingsley House’s ancient floorboards. It seems that Adelaide Kingsley had a rather specific task for Alix: to solve the strange disappearance of one of the Kingsley women, Valentina, more than two hundred years ago. If that wasn’t troubling enough, Alix must deal with the arrogant (and extremely good-looking) architect Jared Montgomery, who is living in the property’s guesthouse.

Unbeknown to Alix, Jared has been charged with looking after her while she lives on the island—an easy task for him, considering the undeniable chemistry between the two. But Jared harbors secrets of his own, which, if revealed, may drive a wedge between the pair.

With a glorious Nantucket wedding on the horizon, sparks fly, and the ghosts of the past begin to reveal themselves—some of them literally. Finding their lives inextricably entwined with the turbulent fortunes of their ancestors, Alix and Jared discover that only by righting the wrongs of the past can they hope to be together.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

"True Love" is live on PRH's Facebook page. Don't forget to pick it up after you're done Syncing for the day.

We were posting at the same time

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

We were posting at the same time

Good, because I totally forgot about it, and of course I must download another book I probably won't listen to ...

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Good, because I totally forgot about it, and of course I must download another book I probably won't listen to ...

I'll second that remark. My TBL list just grew to almost 3,800 hours. Someone get me some headphones!

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

I'll second that remark. My TBL list just grew to almost 3,800 hours. Someone get me some headphones!

That's only a little over a year of 10-hour-a-day listening. No problem!

I did DL True Love, though romance is not my genre. But when my preorder of freebie The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent showed up in my Audible library the other day, I decided enough is enough--no more science fiction/fantasy/weird stuff, even if it's free.

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

"True Love" is live on PRH's Facebook page. Don't forget to pick it up after you're done Syncing for the day.

Thanks to both you and the monkey for keeping track of these short-term deals! I thought I'd missed it, but they still let me download it at 12:20AM 5/27 (ET).

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 27 May @ 11:59pm ET

$3.95 -- AlterWorld -- D Rus/ Michael Goldstrom --> 12.2 hrs/ R-4.5 --> fantasy

AlterWorld --> Play to Live (book 1 of 7)

Whispersync: the Audible book is $1.99, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($2.99)

A new pandemic - the perma effect - has taken over Earth of the near future. Whenever you play your favorite online game, beware: your mind might merge with the virtual world and dump its comatose host. Woe be to those stuck forever in Tetris! And still they're the lucky ones compared to those burning alive eternally within the scorched hulls of tank simulators. But some unfortunates - the handicapped and the terminally ill, shell-shocked army vets, wronged crime victims and other society misfits - choose to flee real life willingly, escaping to the limitless world of online sword and sorcery MMORPGs. Once a seasoned gamer and now a terminal cancer patient, Max grasps at this final chance to preserve his life and identity. So he goes for it - goes for the promise of immortality shared with a few trusty friends and the woman he loves. Together they roam the roads of AlterWorld and sample its agony and ecstasy born of absolute freedom.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 27 May

$4.95 -- Finding Ultra -- Rich Roll/ Rich Roll --> 9.8 hrs/ R-4.3 --> sports memoir

Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Whispersync: no deals at this time

An incredible but true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever

In October 2006, the night before he was to turn forty, Rich experienced a chilling glimpse of his future. Nearly fifty pounds overweight and unable to climb the stairs without stopping, he saw where his sedentary lifestyle was taking him. Most of us look the other way when granted such a moment of clarity, but not Rich. Plunging into a new way of eating that made processed foods off limits and prioritized plant nutrition and daily training, Rich morphed—in mere months—from out-of-shape midlifer to endurance machine. Ninety days into his physical overhaul, Rich left the house for a light jog and found himself running a near marathon. It was time to scale up his goals.

How many of us take up a sport at age forty and compete for the title of the world’s best within two years? Finding Ultra recounts Rich’s remarkable journey to the starting line of the elite Ultraman World Championship competition, which pits the world’s fittest humans against each other in a 320-mile ordeal of swimming, biking, and running. Following that test, Rich conquered an even greater one: the Epic5 Challenge—five Ironman-distance triathlons, each on a different Hawaiian island, all completed in less than a week.

This is more than an inside look at a series of jaw-dropping athletic feats or a practical training manual for those who would attempt a similar transformation. Yes, Rich’s account rivets and instructs, providing information that will be invaluable to anyone who wants to change their physique; but this book is most notable as a powerful testament to human resiliency, for as we learn early on, Rich’s life has posed numerous physical and social challenges, including a fierce battle with alcoholism.

Ultimately Finding Ultra is a beautifully written portrait of what willpower can accomplish. It challenges us to rethink what we’re capable of and urges us, implicitly and explicitly, to “go for it.”