FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 05 Dec @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PST)

• TBA -- The Year of the Flood (book 2) -- Margaret Atwood -- fantasy

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Spokenworld Audio -- exp unknown

Here's another freebie courtesy of skinmaan

FREE -- A Christmas Carol -- Charles Dickens/ Michael Fenton Stevens -- 3.2 hrs -- classics

An unabridged performance of Charles Dickens’s classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his journey from miser to philanthropist, thanks to the intervention of the ghost of his former business partner and three very different spirits.

Performed by legendary British actor MICHAEL FENTON-STEVENS, this 2013 production features music composed by Purple Planet Music (www.purple-planet.com) and is offered as a FREE download exclusively from us at Spokenworld Audio.

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Daily Deals -- exp 05 Dec @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> TBA ---- The Italian Girls -- Debbie Rix -- historical
  
• Audible CA ---> $6.25 -- Leverage in Death (book 47) -- JD Robb -- mystery
  
• Downpour ----> TBA

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 06 Dec @ 11:59 pm AEDT (4:59 am PST)

• TBA -- The Meaning of Mariah Carey -- Mariah Carey -- NF memoir

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 06 Dec @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PST)

• TBA -- How to Talk to Anyone -- Leil Lowndes -- NF self-help

* How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

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Daily Deals -- exp 06 Dec @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> TBA ---- Just Between Us -- Rebecca Drake -- suspense
  
• Audible CA ---> $6.25 -- The Making of Us -- Lisa Jewell -- literary
  
• Downpour ----> $3.95 -- The Hallowed Hunt (book 3) -- Lois McMaster Bujold -- fantasy

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 07 Dec @ 11:59 pm AEDT (4:59 am PST)

• TBA -- Hamnet -- Maggie O'Farrell -- historical

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 07 Dec @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PST)

• TBA -- Girl A -- Abigail Dean -- fiction

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Daily Deals -- exp 07 Dec @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> TBA ---- The One Hundred Years of... -- Marianne Cronin -- literary
  
• Audible CA ---> $3.75 -- Blue Ocean Strategy -- W Chan Kim, et al -- NF business
  
• Downpour ----> TBA

* The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

* Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

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Audible AU -- Daily Deal -- exp 08 Dec @ 11:59 pm AEDT (4:59 am PST)

• TBA -- The Code Breaker -- Walter Isaacson -- NF biography

* The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 08 Dec @ 11:59 pm BST (3:59 pm PST)

• TBA -- Black and British -- David Olusoga -- NF history

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Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 13 Dec @ 11:59 pm PT

$1.99 -- Five Tuesdays in Winter -- Lily King/ Mark Bramhall, et al -- 6.2 hrs -- short stories

rental only

By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers, Lily King’s first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short stories.

With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King’s books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country and established her as one of our most “brilliant” (New York Times), “wildly talented” (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time ever, King collects ten of her finest short stories—half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new—opening fresh realms of discovery for avid and new readers alike.

Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller’s unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl’s loss of innocence at the hands of her employer’s son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter’s hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King’s enduring subject of love.

Lily King’s literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters is on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career.

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Audible AU -- Editor's Extra -- exp 31 Dec @ 11:59 pm AEDT (5:59 am PDT)

FREE -- The Ruin -- Dervla McTiernan/ Aoife McMahon -- 10.4 hrs -- mystery

members only

Cormac Reilly Series (book 1)

Cormac Reilly is about to reopen the case that took him 20 years to forget.... The most addictive crime fiction debut of 2018.

"The Ruin is spectacularly good. So confident...excellently written and, at times, heartcatchingly sad." (Marian Keyes, author of The Woman Who Stole My Life)

Galway 1993: Young Garda Cormac Reilly is called to a scene he will never forget. Two silent, neglected children - 15-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack - are waiting for him at a crumbling country house. Upstairs, their mother lies dead.

Twenty years later, a body surfaces in the icy black waters of the River Corrib. At first it looks like an open-and-shut case, but then doubt is cast on the investigation's findings - and the integrity of the police. Cormac is thrown back into the cold case that has haunted him his entire career - what links the two deaths, two decades apart? As he navigates his way through police politics and the ghosts of the past, Detective Reilly uncovers shocking secrets and finds himself questioning who among his colleagues he can trust.

What really did happen in that house where he first met Maude and Jack? The Ruin draws us deep into the dark heart of Ireland and asks who will protect you when the authorities can't - or won't.

What is Editors' Extra?

Each month, you'll get a free listen that our members love, chosen by our editors, on top of your monthly credit. Once you’ve listened, visit our Facebook group, What’s The Story?, to discuss the latest Editors' Extra with other audio fans.

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Alexa US -- Monthly Offer -- exp 04 Jan @ 11:59 pm PT

FREE -- Sleeping Beauty -- Marty Ross/ full cast -- 2.5 hrs -- fantasy

streaming only -- reimagined story

Audible are delighted to present Sleeping Beauty, a unique listening experience for all the family to enjoy over the Christmas season. This exclusive new audio drama has been created in collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra and is inspired by Tchaikovsky's beloved ballet music. Marty Ross’s reimagining of the famous fairy story draws on the worlds of folktale and the Brothers Grimm, while the LSO's specially-commissioned new recording, conducted by Gavin Sutherland, weaves through the drama like a rich and majestic film score.

Lacking a legitimate heir, King Lothar (Stephen Fry) brings home a baby girl, Aurora (Phoebe Dynevor). His wife, Queen Ishbel, agrees to raise the child as her own and Princess Aurora grows up to become a beautiful, beloved and free-spirited young woman. But a shadow hangs over the kingdom. Devastated at her loss, Aurora’s mother Cara (Rochenda Sandall) takes her revenge by casting a terrible curse upon the princess and despite her sister Lila's efforts, the spell proves too powerful to break completely. Instead, when the fatal hour arrives, the whole Kingdom falls into an enchanted slumber, until Aurora's true love, Peter, a woodcutter's son (Adam Hugill), sets out on a perilous quest to rescue her.

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Daily Deals -- exp 08 Dec @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> TBA ---- Brat: An '80s Story -- Andrew McCarthy -- NF memoir
  
• Audible CA ---> TBA ---- P.S. I Still Love You (book 2) -- Jenny Han -- YA contemp
  
• Downpour ----> TBA

* P.S. I Still Love You: To All the Boys I've Loved Before