FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[skinmaan]

I just noticed that Amazon / Audible still has "The Blue Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang available for free. To get it don't forget to get the Kindle book (here) before getting the Audible edition (here). NOTE: I'm only about 75% certain on the Audible link, so I would recommend buying the Audible edition through Amazon as you're buying your Kindle book (there will be a link on the "thanks for buying" page).

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[Barbara1955]

IF you go to the EBook Make Sure you Check the Audible book Before you click to buy. Otherwise you be paying $12-13 or a Credit for the Audible

[tubemonkey]

Downpour Rental of the Week -- exp 22 Feb


$1.99 -- Extinction Horizon -- Nicholas Sansbury Smith -- read by Bronson Pinchot (9.1 hrs)

Series: The Extinction Cycle, book 1

Master Sergeant Reed Beckham has led his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, through every kind of hell imaginable and never lost a man. When a top secret Medical Corps research facility goes dark, Team Ghost is called in to face their deadliest enemy yet—a variant strain of Ebola that turns men into monsters.

After barely escaping with his life, Beckham returns to Fort Bragg in the midst of a new type of war. The virus is already spreading. As cities fall, Team Ghost is ordered to keep CDC virologist Dr. Kate Lovato alive long enough to find a cure. What she uncovers will change everything.

Total extinction is just on the horizon, but will the cure be worse than the virus?

[tubemonkey]

Downpour Deal of the Week -- exp 22 Feb


$4.95 -- The Lady's Command -- Stephanie Laurens -- read by Steve West (9.5 hrs)

Series: The Adventurers Quartet, book 1

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens presents the first book in the Adventurers Quartet, a riveting blend of Regency-era high-seas adventure.

How does marriage work? If convention is set aside and is no longer there to guide … what then?

The instant Captain Declan Frobisher lays eyes on Lady Edwina Delbraith, he knows she’s the woman he wants as his wife. The scion of a seafaring dynasty accustomed to success, he discovers that wooing Edwina is surprisingly straightforward—not least because she makes it plain that she wants him as much as he wants her.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 17 Feb @ 11:59pm ET


$3.95 -- Daemon -- Daniel Suarez -- read by Jeff Gurner (16.0 hrs)

Series: Daemon, book 1

Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can't always be said for the people who design them.

Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer - the architect behind half-a-dozen popular online games. His premature death depressed both gamers and his company's stock price. But Sobol's fans aren't the only ones to note his passing. When his obituary is posted online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events intended to unravel the fabric of our hyper-efficient, interconnected world. With Sobol's secrets buried along with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed at every turn, it's up to an unlikely alliance to decipher his intricate plans and wrest the world from the grasp of a nameless, faceless enemy - or learn to live in a society in which we are no longer in control. . . .

Computer technology expert Daniel Suarez blends haunting high-tech realism with gripping suspense in an authentic, complex thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Neal Stephenson, and William Gibson.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 18 Feb @ 11:59pm ET


$2.95 -- Undocumented -- DP Peralta -- read by DP Peralta (8.0 hrs)

Dan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than they imagined. Their visas lapsed, and Dan-el's father returned home. But Dan-el's courageous mother was determined to make a better life for her bright sons. Without papers she faced tremendous obstacles. While Dan-el was only in grade school, the family joined the ranks of the city's homeless. Dan-el, his mother, and his brother lived in a downtown shelter, where Dan-el's only refuge was the meager library. There he met Jeff, a young volunteer from a wealthy family. Jeff was immediately struck by Dan-el's passion for books and learning. With Jeff's help, Dan-el was accepted, on scholarship, to Collegiate, the oldest private school in the country. There Dan-el thrived. Throughout his youth Dan-el navigated these two worlds: the rough streets of East Harlem, where he lived with his brother and his mother and tried to make friends, and the ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school, where he could immerse himself in a world of books and where he soon rose to the top of his class. From Collegiate Dan-el went to Princeton, where he thrived and where he made the momentous decision to come out as an undocumented student in a Wall Street Journal profile a few months before he gave the salutatorian's traditional address, in Latin, at his commencement. Undocumented is a classic story of the triumph of the human spirit. It also is the perfect cri de coeur for the debate on comprehensive immigration reform.

[tubemonkey]

Reminder -- Ambling Books is shutting down on 25 Feb

You have until then to download all of your purchases. See this thread for further details.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Froide

Upcoming freebie from Penguin Random House Audio:

Free Download - Save the Date!
On February 18th starting at 12:00PM ET, for 24 hours we're giving away the free full audio download of A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens. Visit our Facebook page or our Volumes app on that day to access the download.

Here's the page dedicated to this deal:

Our February 24-Hour Free Download is here and, in honor of Charles Dickens' birthday this month, is A TALE OF TWO CITIES.

Click here to download: http://snapp.to/1Qojoxu

NOTE: Listen on your phone when you download the Volumes app. Free on the App Store℠ for iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® in the U.S. and Canada.

Offer ends Feb 19th, 2016 at 11:59 PM ET.

[tubemonkey]

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


$2.95 -- Duplicity -- NK Traver -- read by Macleod Andrews (6.8 hrs)

A computer-hacking teen. The girl who wants to save him. And a rogue mirror reflection that might be the death of them both.

In private, 17-year-old Brandon hacks bank accounts just for the thrill of it. In public, he looks like any other tattooed bad boy with a fast car and devil-may-care attitude. He should know: he's worked hard to maintain that faade. With inattentive parents who move constantly from city to city, he's learned not to get tangled up in things like friends and relationships. So he'll just keep living like a machine, all gears and wires.

[booklover6]

TM, I appreciate you posting the Audible daily deal here. Saves me from having to go to Audible and look. I just grabbed Duplicity. It's somewhat short but has good reviews.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by booklover6

TM, I appreciate you posting the Audible daily deal here. Saves me from having to go to Audible and look. I just grabbed Duplicity. It's somewhat short but has good reviews.

Audible has a mailing list that you can get on to be notified of each day's daily deal.

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Audible has a mailing list that you can get on to be notified of each day's daily deal.

I signed up for that and still never read it.

This place saves me many times over

[Catlady]

I compulsively check Audible for the daily deal every night at around 12:15 a.m. I am always optimistic that they've run out of duds and will offer a book I want.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Catlady

I compulsively check Audible for the daily deal every night at around 12:15 a.m. I am always optimistic that they've run out of duds and will offer a book I want.

Me, too. Since they've started offering daily deals, I think I've bought three (possibly just two). But I always look, just the same.

[Ukalady]

What's the "best" way to cancel a membership and still retain maximum ability to "see" and purchase from sales? I know you have to be a full member to qualify for all the sales, but what's the next best way to do it (and still not pay a monthly fee)?

Also, I have a three-month gift membership ending March 3 and have already used up my "trial" offer, too. I currently have four credits and nothing is piquing my interest at the moment to use them on. Will I "lose" those credits if I don't use them before March 3? If not, do they last forever???

You folks are all experts at Audible and I've learned much from your insight; I'll appreciate any help with these two questions.

Mahalo nui loa!