FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

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Daily Deals -- exp 14 Apr

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Forensics: What Bugs, Burns... -- Val McDermid --> forensic medicine
  
• BN Nook --> $7.99 -- When Mockingbirds Sing -- Billy Coffey --> Christian contemp

* Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime

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Outstanding Whispersync deals continue to get hard to find lately. This is one of the better ones that I've seen lately, especially considering that the Audible price is $31.95.

The Sane Society. By Erich Fromm. Definitely for the more cerebral among us (which definitely leaves me out). 4.8 stars.

$5.98 WS.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BPJODJO.

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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman. Rated 4.3 stars.

Whispersync deal is only $6.48, while the Audible audio alone is $26.95.

One thing that I'd like to know is how this Yankee was the president of LSU (Louisiana State University), he ravaged the South during the Civil War serving the Union, and then Louisiana (one of the states of the Confederacy) State University welcomed him back as president, with open arms, after the War. I don't care all that much about most of Sherman's life, so I won't be buying the book or audiobook, but I would like to know the answer to that one question.

https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patrio.../dp/B00GL3PXCA.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 15 Apr

• £2.99 -- Helter Skelter -- Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry --> true crime

* Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

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Daily Deals -- exp 15 Apr

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- The Flicker Men -- Ted Kosmatka --> sci-fi
  
• BN Nook --> $5.95 -- Anne of Green Gables -- Lucy Montgomery --> classic

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Amazon Alexa -- Monthly Offer -- exp 30 Apr

• FREE -- Anne of Green Gables -- Lucy Montgomery/ Rachel McAdams --> 9.4 hrs --> classic
  
• FREE -- The Secret Garden -- Frances Burnett/ Josephine Bailey --> 8.1 hrs --> classic
  
• FREE -- Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde -- Robert Stevenson/ Scott Brick --> 3.1 hrs --> classic

Note: these titles are borrowed, you do not own them -- just ask: "Alexa, what's free from Audible?"

Update: for some reason, Amazon removed Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde from the list


Free Classics from Audible

Spoiler:

"Alexa, what's free from Audible"

In celebration of World Book Day on April 23, Audible is offering two timeless classics for free on your Echo device for the entire month of April.

Ask Alexa...

• "Read The Secret Garden"
• "Read Anne of Green Gables"

Free this month from Audible

Enjoy three free classics

"Alexa, read 'Anne of Green Gables' from Audible"

In celebration of World Book Day on April 23, Audible is offering a trio of timeless classics for free on your Echo device for the entire month of April.

Just ask Alexa...

"Read 'The Secret Garden' from Audible"
"Read 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' from Audible"

Publisher's Summaries

Spoiler:

Anne of Green Gables

With all of the pluck and charm of its eponymous young hero, Rachel McAdams (The Notebook, Spotlight, Midnight in Paris) delivers a spectacular reading of Montgomery's beloved bildungsroman. In moments both funny and bittersweet, McAdams' voice is imbued with the spark that has made Anne a much-loved symbol of individualism and cheer for over a century. In this story of "kindred spirits", McAdams' touching and heartfelt narration proves she is just that - bonded on a deep level to this shimmering classic.

When aging brother and sister Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan boy to help with chores around their farm, Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, neither is prepared for the feisty and imaginative redheaded girl who is mistakenly brought to them instead. Nor are they prepared for the way in which she will change their lives. Through a series of hilarious misadventures, Anne's uncompromising spirit makes her a striking presence in the close-knit village, bringing new friendships, first crushes, and, for her foster parents, a love and openness unimaginable before her arrival.

The Secret Garden

Audible Editor Reviews

This beautifully produced children's classic is narrated by the talented Josephine Bailey, whose voice is musical and elegant. This story of two lonely children finding happiness through their mutual delight in tending a neglected garden includes much dialogue, and Bailey transitions seamlessly from one character's voice to another. She easily distinguishes petulant Mary from fretful cousin Colin and captures the nuances of their wide-ranging, passionate emotions. Bailey's rendition of Colin's tantrum and the cousins' reconciliation is breathtaking. Her good-hearted Dicken, with his broad Yorkshire accent, and gruff Ben Weatherstaff are equally excellent. There are numerous productions of this story, but Bailey's is surely one of the best. Her sensitive narration makes every minute fly.

Publisher's Summary

When Mary Lennox's parents die from cholera in India, the spoiled orphan is transplanted to her uncle's 600-year-old gloomy and secretive estate in England. She is certain that she is destined for misery at Misselthwaite Manor. When Mary meets the old groundskeeper, he is the first to tell her what he thinks of her: "We was wove out of th' same cloth. We're neither of us good lookin' an' we're both of us as sour as we look. We've got the same nasty tempers, both of us, I'll warrant."

However, she soon discovers an arched doorway into an overgrown garden, locked shut since the death of her aunt 10 years earlier. Fate grants Mary access to the secret garden and she begins transforming it into a thing of beauty, unaware that she too is changing.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Audible Editor Reviews

Stevenson's most often dramatized and distorted novella gets its umpteenth audiobook narration from the talented Scott Brick. Although his British accent is a wee bit shaky, he doesn't disappoint. He narrates in his wonted American voice with particular attention to atmosphere and delivers his British characters with personality and a reserve that lends appropriate gravity to the tale and plays effectively against its melodrama.

Publisher's Summary

When a brute of a man tramples an innocent girl, apparently out of spite, two bystanders catch the fellow and force him to pay reparations to the girl's family. The brute's name is Edward Hyde.

A respected lawyer, Utterson, hears this story and begins to unravel the seemingly manic behavior of his best friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and his connection with Hyde. Several months earlier, Utterson had drawn up an inexplicable will for the doctor, naming Hyde as his heir in the event that he disappears. Fearing his friend has been blackmailed into this arrangement, Utterson probes deeper into both Jekyll and his unlikely protégé. He is increasingly unnerved at each new revelation.

In a forerunner of psychological dramas to come, Stevenson uses Hyde to show that we are both repulsed by and attracted to the darker side of life, particularly when we can experience it in anonymity.

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

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Update:
for some reason, Amazon removed Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde from the list
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde[/B] -- Robert Stevenson/ Scott Brick --> 3.1 hrs --> classic

Perhaps you could substitute the Bugs Bunny version instead? ha

Boy, you do some complicated formatting.

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Here's one of the FANTASTIC Whispersync deals that I've been looking and looking for.

Audible (audio alone) $21.95. Whispersync deal $2.98!

No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators. Revised and updated, for ebook and audiobook only, edition.

Large book (= long narration = great bang for the buck) of 448 pages. Very highly rated--4.5 stars (121) at Audible.

$2.98! Wow!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UA3YJE0.

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Belongs on the Cookbooks thread; to there this post has gone.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 16 Apr

• £1.99 -- God Is Disappointed in You -- Mark Russell, Shannon Wheeler --> humour

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Not as great a Whispersync deal as the last one that I posted, but it's still a great deal.

"Wild Bill" Donovan was a remarkable person. I've read some about him, especially his very significant work in World War II. However, the 448-page ebook and the audio narration of it cover a time and work about him in WWII that I don't remember hearing anything about before. I'm curious to hear (or read) about it!

Behind Japanese Lines: With the OSS in Burma. By Richard Dunlop.

Whispersync deal--$5.98.

Rated 4.4 stars at Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Japane.../dp/B00I2G6RIS.

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Daily Deals -- exp 16 Apr

• Audible ---> $2.95 -- American Philosophy -- John Kaag --> NF philosophy
  
• BN Nook --> $3.99 -- Ten Thousand Saints -- Eleanor Henderson --> contemp

* American Philosophy: A Love Story

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I don't like the author's style in presenting apologetics, but other people must like it--the ebook has a 4.5 star (33) rating at Amazon.

Unparalleled: How Christianity's Uniqueness Makes It Compelling. By Jared C. Wilson.

$5.98 Whispersync deal. But the Audible audio alone is not very expensive--$10.49.

The price of the ebook portion of the deal is supposed to stay the same until April 22, so the Whispersync deal price should be good until then.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AO3OVGQ/.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 17 Apr

• £1.99 -- Ego Is the Enemy -- Ryan Holiday --> NF self-help

* Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

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Daily Deals -- exp 17 Apr

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- Last Seen Leaving -- Caleb Roehrig --> YA mystery
  
• BN Nook --> $5.95 -- Trespassing across America -- Ken Ilgunas --> memoir

* Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland