FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[tubemonkey]

Here's a trio of Whispersync deals on the cheap. The Kindle ebooks are free and the Audible pairs are $1.99 each. See this post from DreamWriter for additional details.

Note: the Audible books are available at this price, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebooks

Free Kindle Best Sellers --> start the free download process here

• $1.99 -- War Brides -- Helen Bryan/ Tavia Gilbert --> 13.6 hrs/ R-4.1 --> historical
  
• $1.99 -- Follow You Home -- Mark Edwards/ James Langton --> 9.7 hrs/ R-3.9 --> suspense
  
• $1.99 -- Timebound (1/3) -- Rysa Walker/ Kate Rudd --> 12.1 hrs/ R-4.2 --> sci-fi

Spoiler:

War Brides --> Audible ($1.99) | Kindle (free)

As war moves ever closer, the sleepy English village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. The nightly German air raids become grimly mundane. Rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. And five women forge a bond of friendship that will change their lives forever in this engrossing novel of loyalty, loss, and love in the shadow of World War II.

With the hardships of war intensifying every day, the women band together to defeat formidable enemies and find remarkable strength within themselves to help one another. It is a war-forged loyalty certain to endure years and distance. When four of the women return for a celebration 50 years later, their mission is not simply to commemorate or remember. They’ve returned to confront a traitor whose actions cost countless lives — and to avenge one of their own at last.

Spoiler:

Follow You Home --> Audible ($1.99) | Kindle (free)

It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure before settling down.

After a perfect start, Daniel and Laura's travels end abruptly when they are thrown off a night train in the middle of nowhere. To find their way back to civilization, they must hike along the tracks through a forest...a haunting journey that ends in unimaginable terror.

Back in London, Daniel and Laura vow never to talk about what they saw that night. But as they try to fit back into their old lives, it becomes clear that their nightmare is just beginning...

Follow You Home is a chilling tale of secrets, lies and deadly consequences from the author of #1 bestsellers The Magpies and Because She Loves Me.

Spoiler:

Timebound --> Audible ($1.99) | Kindle (free) --> The Chronos Files (book 1/3)

2013 Winner — Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award — Grand Prize and Young Adult Fiction Winner.

When Kate Pierce-Keller’s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate’s present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence.

Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and her genetic ability to time travel makes Kate the only one who can fix the future. Risking everything, she travels back in time to the Chicago World’s Fair to try to prevent the murder and the chain of events that follows.

Changing the timeline comes with a personal cost — if Kate succeeds, the boy she loves will have no memory of her existence. And regardless of her motives, does Kate have the right to manipulate the fate of the entire world?

[badgoodDeb]

Note: the first two above are not free Kindle books. They are only free with Kindle Unlimited. There is an actual price listed, if you try to buy them. Plus, the first one has several reviews saying it is badly edited for the kindle version, though a potentially good plot.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Note: the first two above are not free Kindle books. They are only free with Kindle Unlimited. There is an actual price listed, if you try to buy them. Plus, the first one has several reviews saying it is badly edited for the kindle version, though a potentially good plot.

They are free. I was able to get them, but you need to order them from this link -- Free Kindle Best Sellers -- not from the individual book links.

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

They are free. I was able to get them, but you need to order them from this link -- Free Kindle Best Sellers -- not from the individual book links.

It redirected me to the Amazon Cloud Reader after I ordered them there. I was afraid that meant they were free only to read online. But when I checked my digital content, they do show up in my list and available for downloading.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 28 May @ 11:59pm ET

$4.95 -- Sphere -- Michael Crichton/ Scott Brick --> 13.0 hrs/ R-4.2 --> technothriller

Whispersync --> Audible ($3.49) | Kindle ($9.99)

A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action and serious chills. The gripping story of a group of American scientists sent to the ocean floor to investigate an alien ship, only to confront a terrifying discovery that defies imagination, Sphere is Crichton prime - truly masterful fiction from the ingenious mind that brought us Prey, State of Fear, and Jurassic Park.

Sphere was made into a film directed by Barry Levinson, which starred Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 28 May

$5.95 -- White Dresses -- Mary Pflum Peterson/ MP Peterson --> 9.4 hrs/ R-4.5 --> memoir

White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters

Whispersync --> Audible ($4.49) | Kindle ($9.99)

In this riveting, poignant memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them, Emmy Award-winning television producer Mary Pflum Peterson recounts a journey through loss, redemption, and her battle to rescue her mother from compulsive hoarding.

As a successful television journalist at Good Morning America, Mary Pflum is known as a polished and highly organized producer. It's a persona at odds with her tortured childhood, where she watched her emotionally vulnerable mother fill their house with teetering piles of assorted "treasures." But one thing has always united mother and daughter: their love of white dresses. From the dress worn by Mary's mother when she became a nun and married Jesus to the wedding gown she donned years later to the special nightshirts she gifted Mary after the birth of her children,to graduation dresses and christening gowns, these white dresses embodied hope and new beginnings.

After her mother's sudden death in 2010, Mary dug deep to understand the events that led to Anne's unraveling. At 21 Anne entered a convent and committed to a life of prayer and helping others. But lengthy periods of enforced fasting, isolation from her beloved students, and constant humiliation eventually drove her to flee the convent almost a decade later. Hoping to find new purpose as a wife and mother, Anne instead married an abusive, closeted gay man - their eventual divorce another sign of her failure.

Anne retreated into chaos. By the time Mary was 10, their house was cluttered with broken appliances and stacks of unopened mail. Anne promised but failed to clean up for Mary's high school graduation party, where she was being honored as her school's valedictorian, causing Anne's perfectionist daughter's fear and shame to grow in tandem with the heaps upon heaps of junk. In spite of everything, their bond endured. Through the white dresses, pivotal events in their lives were celebrated-even as Mary tried in vain to save Anne from herself.

Unflinchingly honest, insightful, and compelling, White Dresses is a beautiful, powerful story - and a reminder of the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.

[GtrsRGr8]

A couple of quick WS deals. They both meet my standards of high or better ratings, very low price compared to the audio alone at Audible, etc., etc.:

$1.99. Three Book Bundle: The Dawning of Power: Young Adult Epic Fantasy Bundle (The World of Godsland Bundle Series Book 1). http://https://www.amazon.com/Dawning-Power-Fantasy-Bundle-Godsland-ebook/dp/B001LRQKA0.

$1.99. The Way You Look Tonight (Seattle Sullivans #1) (The Sullivans Book 9). https://www.amazon.com/Look-Tonight-.../dp/B00DGVFUJG.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 29 May @ 11:59pm ET

$4.95 -- The Mare -- Mary Gaitskill/ multiple --> 14.7 hrs/ R-4.2 --> contemporary

Whispersync --> Audible ($4.95) | Kindle ($13.99)

From the author of Veronica, a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction, comes Mary Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet: the story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her.

Velveteen Vargas is an 11-year-old from Brooklyn who is granted a summer vacation in the country, courtesy of the nonprofit Fresh Air Fund. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist on the fringe of Alcoholics Anonymous; and Paul, an academic who wonders what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation. Here we see the couple's changing relationship with Velvet over the course of several years as well as Velvet's powerful encounter with the horses at the stable down the road, as Gaitskill weaves together Velvet's vital inner-city community and the privileged country world of Ginger and Paul.

The timeless story of a girl and a horse is joined with the story of people from different races and socioeconomic backgrounds trying to meet one another honestly. It is a novel that is raw, striking, and completely original.

[badgoodDeb]

Oh, "National Velvet" again, huh? Liz Taylor starred in that when she was 12.

[GtrsRGr8]

Moved to Media Deals.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 29 May

$4.99 -- Isn't It Rich? -- Sherryl Woods/ Teri Schnaubelt --> 6.3 hrs/ R-4.1 --> romance

Isn't It Rich? --> Perfect Destinies (book 1 of 4)

Whispersync --> Audible ($3.49) | Kindle ($6.99)

In this beloved novel, number one New York Times best-selling author Sherryl Woods proves once again that sometimes family does know best.

Straitlaced tycoon Richard Carlton suspects that his Aunt Destiny has more than business matters on her mind when she insists he meet klutzy PR executive Melanie Hart. Melanie might be brilliant - and beautiful - but Richard won't open his wounded heart to any woman, no matter how much she might make his pulse race.

Yet when the press mistakenly reports that they're a couple, Richard convinces Melanie to pretend that they're engaged - to bolster his reputation and to teach his matchmaking aunt a lesson, once and for all. But is this relationship just a charade, or do opposites really attract - for keeps?

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 30 May @ 11:59pm ET

$2.95 -- Rejection Proof -- Jia Jiang/ Mike Chamberlain --> 6.5 hrs/ R-4.7 --> motivational

Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection

Whispersync: no deals at this time

Rejection Proof is Jia Jiang's entertaining and inspiring account of conquering his fear of rejection, offering a completely new perspective on how to turn a no into a yes.

Jia Jiang came to the United States with the dream of being the next Bill Gates. Despite early success in the corporate world, his first attempt to pursue his entrepreneurial dream ended in rejection. Jia was crushed and spiraled into a period of deep self-doubt. But he realized that his fear of rejection was a bigger obstacle than any single rejection would ever be, and he needed to find a way to cope with being told no without letting it destroy him. Thus was born his "100 days of rejection" experiment, during which he willfully sought rejection on a daily basis - from requesting a lesson in sales from a car salesman (no) to asking a flight attendant if he could make an announcement on the loudspeaker (yes) to his famous request to get Krispy Kreme doughnuts in the shape of Olympic rings (yes, with a viral video to prove it).

Jia learned that even the most preposterous wish may be granted if you ask in the right way, and here he shares the secret of successful asking, how to pick targets, and how to tell when an initial no can be converted into something positive. But more important, he learned techniques for steeling himself against rejection and ways to develop his own confidence - a plan that can't be derailed by a single setback.

Filled with great stories and valuable insight, Rejection Proof is a fun and thoughtful examination of how to overcome fear and dare to live more boldly.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 30 May

$5.95 -- Night Sky -- Suzanne Brockmann, et al/ M Brockmann --> 12.1 hrs/ R-3.6 --> paranormal

Night Sky --> Night Sky Series (book 1 of 2)

Whispersync: Audible ($3.99) | Kindle ($8.69)

She's the ultimate weapon in fighting destiny.

NewYork Times and USA Today best-selling 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.

Dana and Milo, her dangerously hot yet oh-so-forbidden partner in crime, want Sky to join them in their mission - and to mold Sky into the ultimate weapon. She can sense there's something about her abilities they're not telling her, but the only way to save Sasha and stop other girls from being taken is to embrace the weird…and fight Destiny.

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Downpour -- exp 30 May

• $1.99 -- Rental of Week --> Mr Splitfoot --> details
• $3.95 -- Deal of Week --> Martian Chronicles --> details
• SALE -- Weekly Deals (10 titles) --> details

[GtrsRGr8]

I have just made a post on the Children's/YA thread of The Green Ember, by S.D. Smith. It is a religious fantasy. The book has super ratings--4.8 stars; the audiobook has high ratings, too--4.3 stars (http://www.audible.com/pd/Kids/The-G...ok/B00T50R42I/.

The price of the audio (alone) at Audible is $14.95. However, with the current markdown to $0.00 on the ebook, the Whispersync deal comes to only $1.99.

You can get the deal at the webpage for the book at Amazon.