FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 31 Oct @ 11:59 PM PDT

$4.95 -- The Exorcist -- William Blatty/ WP Blatty, et al --> 12.9 hrs/ R-4.6 --> horror

The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition

Whispersync: Audible ($4.95) | Kindle ($5.49)

Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty's thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 31 Oct

$2.95 -- The Halloween Tree -- Ray Bradbury/ Bronson Pinchot --> 3.2 hrs/ R-4.0 --> sci-fi

Whispersync: no deals at this time | Audible

On a Halloween night, eight boys are led on an incredible journey into the past by the mysterious “spirit” Moundshroud. Riding a dark autumn wind from ancient Egypt to the land of the Celtic druids, from Mexico to a cathedral in Paris, they will witness the haunting beginnings of the holiday called Halloween.

Ray Bradbury’s evocative prose and imagery will send shivers of delight—and spine-chilling terror—through listeners young and old, long after the last candle has died in your jack-o’-lantern.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Channels -- Featured Free Audiobook -- Prime Members Only

Today's selection comes from the Celebrity Voices: Classic Stories channel:


FREE -- Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad/ Kenneth Branagh --> 3.9 hrs/ R-4.2 --> classics

Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh

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Prose that demands to be read aloud requires a special kind of narrator. For the Audible Signature Classics edition of Joseph Conrad’s atmospheric masterpiece, Heart of Darkness, we called upon four-time Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh.

Branagh’s performance is riveting because he reads as though he’s telling a ghost story by a campfire, capturing the story’s sense of claustrophobia, while hinting at the storyteller Marlow’s own creeping madness. Heart of Darkness follows Captain Marlow into the colonial Congo where he searches for a mysterious ivory trader, Kurtz, and discovers an evil that will haunt him forever.

With this landmark work, Conrad is credited with bringing the novel into the twentieth century; we think Branagh brings it into the twenty-first.

Audible Editor Reviews

"The horror! The horror!" In this brooding and justly celebrated novella of 1902, seaman Charles Marlow is cruising quietly down the Thames at dusk with some friends. As night begins to fall, he tells them of his harrowing journey down an African river in search of the unscrupulous and near-legendary ivory trader named Kurtz, a quest deep into inky spiritual and symbolic darkness. Acclaimed Irish actor/director Kenneth Branagh impersonates Marlow in this recording. Admirably, while fully playing the drama, he never goes overboard. He plays the tale for the great yarn that it is. But had he taken more cognizance of its trajectory and subtleties, he would have made the listening experience far richer than he has.

How do I listen to this? -- You have free streaming access to this audiobook with Audible Channels for Prime. To start listening, download the free Audible app, sign in with your Amazon account, and browse Prime Exclusive Audiobooks within the Channels tab.

Note: available for Android, iOS & Win 10 apps - Prime only - offline listening & Fire OS not allowed. There are currently 56 free audiobooks available. See this thread for further discussion.
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[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- End of Month -- exp 31 Oct

Amz Whispersync

• FREE -- Monthly Offer -- Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde --> details

Audiobooks.com

• $6.66 -- October Thriller Sale (50 titles) --> details
  
• $9.00 -- October Sale 2016 (51 titles) --> details

ChristianAudio

• FREE -- Monthly Offer -- The Poverty of Nations --> details
  
• $4.98 -- Monthly Sale (4 titles) --> details
  
• $4.99 -- Audiobooks for Mom (24 titles) --> details

Downpour

• $1.99 -- Rental Offer -- After James --> details
  
• $4.95 -- Weekly Offer -- Haunting of Hill House --> details
  
• $19.99 -- Monthly Offer -- The Residence --> details
  
• $23.96 -- Editor's Pick --> Necronomicon --> details
  
• SALE -- Weekly Deals (10 titles) --> titles change frequently
  
• SALE -- Monthly Deals (45 titles)
  
• $3.95 -- Horror Sale (100 titles) --> details

LearnOutLoud

• FREE -- Monthly Offer -- 2016 Presidential Candidates --> details

Tantor Media

• FREE -- Monthly Offer -- Best of Edgar Allan Poe --> details / details
  
• $6.99 -- Horror Downloads (119 titles) --> details

[tubemonkey]

Last Day --> exp 31 Oct 2016

FREE -- Honda Road Readers (100 titles) -- 5 free books* --> Honda/Acura Owners only

Register & Download

Download your favorite children’s audiobooks and turn car time into story time with the Honda Road Readers app, free to all Honda drivers*. Simply register your Honda VIN or gift code here.

*Audiobooks free up to 4 titles per Honda VIN per year (Nov 2015-Oct 2016).

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Am am happy to announce a new way for some of you to get some additional free audiobooks. I say some because they come free with an unusually large purchase, though some of you may have already made it. Similar to the Ford audiobook club, Honda has started the Honda Road Readers program.

This allows anyone who owns a Honda vehicle to sign up and get 5 audiobooks over the next year. They start you off with "Peter Pan" and let you pick the other 4 from a list of children's/YA titles. The service is in partnership with Downpour (Blackstone audio). If you already have an account with them you should sign up with the same e-mail/password.

I've created an account, and this seems legit. The selection of books is for younger audiences, but it is decent. The only thing I'm not sure of is whether you get the credits gradually through the year or all at once. I may try to get one later on this evening and see.

I don't think this is a limited-time offer or restricted to a certain number, but you never know. It allows you to get more freebies if you have more than one Honda (you'll need the VIN, BTW). Anyways, good hunting.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

UPDATE: I got an e-mail from CS; you get access to all 4 credits immediately.
UPDATE 2: It turns out this is also available for Acura owners. Same site/rules.

[tubemonkey]

LibriVox

Here's a bit of background on Halloween:

FREE -- The Book of Hallowe'en -- Ruth Edna Kelley/ Sibella Denton --> 2.8 hrs

This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other days in the year,—such as May Day, Midsummer, and Christmas. The context is illustrated by selections from ancient and modern poetry and prose, related to Hallowe'en ideas. (Summary by Ruth Kelley, from the Preface).

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of All Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.

It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from Celtic harvest festivals which may have pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain, and that this festival was Christianized as Halloween. Some academics, however, support the view that Halloween began independently as a solely Christian holiday.

Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories and watching horror films. In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows' Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular, although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration. Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows' Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain foods on this vigil day, including apples, potato pancakes and soul cakes.

[tubemonkey]

Halloween Offers 2016

• FREE -- Alien: Out of the Shadows --> details --> exp 02 Nov
  
• FREE -- Best of Edgar Allan Poe --> details / details
  
• FREE -- Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde --> details --> exp 31 Oct
  
• FREE -- Phantom of the Opera --> details

Prime Exclusive Offers --> Prime only | streaming only

• FREE -- Dracula --> details
  
• FREE -- Jaws --> details
  
• FREE -- Psycho --> details

Halloween Sales

• $3.95 -- Horror Sale (100 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Oct
  
• $6.66 -- October Thriller Sale (50 titles) --> details --> exp 31 Oct
  
• $6.99 -- Horror Downloads (119 titles) --> details

Public Domain

• FREE -- The War of the Worlds -- 1938 radio broadcast --> details
  
• FREE -- 12 Creepy Tales by Poe --> details
  
• FREE -- Carmilla --> details
  
• FREE -- Horror & Halloween Audiobooks (26 titles) --> YouTube
  
• FREE -- Six Creepy Stories by Poe --> details
  
• FREE -- The Book of Hallowe'en --> details
  
• FREE -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow --> details

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK Daily Deal -- exp 01 Nov @ 11:59 PM GMT

£1.99 -- Black Ops -- Stephen Leather/ Paul Thornley --> 12.8 hrs/ R-4.5 --> thriller

Black Ops --> Dan Shepherd Series (book 12 of 13)

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Spider Shepherd's MI5 controller, Charlie Button, has gone rogue, using government resources to get revenge on the men who killed her husband.

Spider is told to betray her. Worse, he's asked to cooperate with his nemesis at MI6, Jeremy Willoughby Brown, in taking Charlie down.

Meanwhile Spider's 16-year-old son is caught with drugs. But the drug police offer Spider a deal: go undercover, unmask a local dealer and his son will go free. Spider has no option but to cooperate. There's little time to debate because another high profile mission is about to engulf him.

Along with everything else, it's down to Spider to stop the assassination of a head of state on British soil.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Last Day --> exp 31 Oct 2016

FREE -- Honda Road Readers (100 titles) -- 5 free books* --> Honda/Acura Owners only

I wonder if I could find a Honda VIN year (Nov 2015-Oct 2016) for sale, and buy it in the next three hours. Or seven hours, if they go by Pacific Time.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I wonder if I could find a Honda VIN year (Nov 2015-Oct 2016) for sale, and buy it in the next three hours. Or seven hours, if they go by Pacific Time.

You could probably get one from your local junkyard, if you know the right people...

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I wonder if I could find a Honda VIN year (Nov 2015-Oct 2016) for sale, and buy it in the next three hours. Or seven hours, if they go by Pacific Time.

Originally Posted by skinmaan

You could probably get one from your local junkyard, if you know the right people...

Hopefully, they restart the freebies tomorrow.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Hopefully, they restart the freebies tomorrow.

, though I hope the selection will be better next time.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

, though I hope the selection will be better next time.

It was hard to choose, but then, these selections were designed for kids, not monkeys

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 01 Nov @ 11:59 PM PDT

$2.95 -- Bird by Bird -- Anne Lamott/ Susan Bennett --> 6.3 hrs/ R-4.5 --> self help

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Whispersync: Audible ($2.95) | Kindle ($11.99)

A New York Times best-selling author of both fiction and nonfiction, Anne Lamott was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. As much a guide to writing as an exploration of the emotional challenges of being a writer, Bird by Bird offers a candid and often humorous look at how to tackle these varied obstacles.

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Nook Daily Find -- exp 01 Nov

$2.99 -- Make 'Em Laugh -- Debbie Reynolds, et al/ Judith Ivey --> 5.9 hrs/ R-4.0 --> memoir

Make 'Em Laugh: Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends

Whispersync: Audible ($5.49) | Kindle ($9.99)

The beloved Hollywood star and New York Times bestselling author of Unsinkable continues her intimate chat with fans in this entertaining collection of anecdotes, stories, jokes, and random musings from a woman who has seen it all—and done most of it.

From her acclaimed performances to her headline-making divorce from Eddie Fisher, raising a famous daughter to hitting the road with a successful one-woman show, Debbie Reynolds has been in the spotlight for decades. She's met presidents, performed for the Queen of England, and partied with kings. A show business icon, she continues to sing and dance—and can drop more names than Andy Cohen.

In this fabulous personal tour, she recalls wonderful moments with the greats of the entertainment world—Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis, Phyllis Diller, and many, many more—sharing stories that shed new light on her life and career and the glittering world of Hollywood then and now. Debbie has plenty to tell—and in Make 'Em Laugh, she dishes it in the warm, down-to-earth voice her fans adore.

Debbie shares memories of late night pals and some of the greatest comedians of all time, stories from the big screen and small, and tales of marriage, motherhood, and children. Combining her wicked sense of humor and appealing charm, she reveals the personal side of show business and fame in funny, poignant, and delightful reminiscences. Nothing is off limits: Debbie talks about her sex life, her family drama—and even shares a few secret recipes.

As irresistible as the woman at its heart, this collection shows the consummate skill of a beloved entertainer who truly knows how to Make 'Em Laugh.