FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

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Sync Audio -- Weekly Offers -- FAQs & Help -- exp 18 May @ 7 AM ET

We come to our third week of AudiobookSYNC 2017 with two audiobooks celebrating teens who speak from the heart. Poetry and diaries both cut to the essence of what we need to say, and the voices teens can hear this week may inspire the articulation of their own feelings, thoughts, and concerns. Both of these audiobooks are short, offering good listening introductions for those new to the audio format.

FREE -- Bronx Masquerade -- Nikki Grimes/ J Almasy, et al --> 2.9 hrs --> YA poetry

US and Canada ONLY

Acclaimed poet, novelist, journalist, and educator Nikki Grimes was born and raised in New York City. Each of the 18 kids in Mr. Ward's inner city classroom has something important to say, but some don't even realize it. Then Mr. Ward begins to have "open mic" poetry slams once a month on Fridays. Young adult listeners will identify with the characters in Bronx Masquerade as they explore questions about life and self-expression. "As always, Grimes gives young people exactly what they're looking for-real characters who show them they are not alone."-School Library Journal

FREE -- Teenage Diaries -- Joe Richman, et al/ J Richman --> 2.2 hrs --> YA social

Teenage Diaries: Then and Now

They conduct interviews, keep audio journals, and record the sounds of daily life; usually collecting more than 30 hours of raw tape over the course of a year, edited into documentaries airing on NPR’s All Things Considered. Whether it’s the story of Amanda, a gay teen trying to understand her sexuality, or the story of Juan, who crossed the Rio Grande with his family illegally, these stories offer insight into the mysterious life of teenagers. Sixteen years later, five of those diarists return to chronicle their grown-up lives.

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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. By Paul Tough. Whispersync deal $5.98.

The title basically does a good job saying what the book is about. The premise of the ebook/audiobook is very intriguing. I wonder if it's true?

Very good ratings at Amazon--4.4 (835). I consider them a little weaker at GoodReads--3.91 (17,753), although they're a tougher crowd to please, generally speaking.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0070ZLZ1G

I don't mention very often (not nearly as often as I should), but you might want to check Overdrive, OneClickDigital, et al., at libraries where you have borrowing privileges, if you think you're only interested in listening to the audio once or twice in the next couple of weeks or so.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 12 May

• £2.99 -- The Origins of Totalitarianism -- Hannah Arendt --> history

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Daily Deals -- exp 12 May

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- The Secrets of Wishtide -- Kate Saunders --> detective
  
• BN Nook --> $4.99 -- Only His -- Susan Mallery --> romance

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 13 May

• £2.99 -- Hunting Hitler's Nukes -- Damien Lewis --> history

* Hunting Hitler's Nukes: The Secret Race to Stop the Nazi Bomb

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Daily Deals -- exp 13 May

• Audible ---> $3.95 -- The Ten-Cent Plague -- David Hajdu --> history
  
• BN Nook --> $3.99 -- A Certain Age -- Beatriz Williams --> romance

* The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

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Penguin Random House Free Offers --> May 2017

Note: these free offers are subject to change without notice

• FREE -- Short Stories --> details
  
• FREE -- Redeployment --> details --> expired
  
  
• TryAudiobooks (8 categories)
  
• FREE -- Pride and Prejudice --> details
  
• FREE -- A Spy Among Friends --> details
  
• FREE -- Night Sister --> details --> expired
  
• FREE -- My Father's Dragon --> details
  
• FREE -- Remote --> details
  
• FREE -- TBA
  
• FREE -- While We Were Watching Downton Abbey --> details
  
• FREE -- TBA

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Penguin Random House -- exp unknown

• FREE -- My Father's Dragon -- Ruth Gannett/ Robert Sevra --> 47 min --> kids

My Father's Dragon

In this adventure that has delighted children for years, Elmer Elevator sets out to free a baby dragon who has been captured by the animals of Wild Island.

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After reading the first couple of paragraphs, you may think that I've messed up (again) and posted this on the wrong thread, that it should have gone in the Non-Fiction Ebooks thread. But, just bear with me.

I noticed that we hadn't been getting Charles River Editors ebook freebies lately. In fact, the last ones were around April 28. I didn't think much about it, however.

However, there apparently have been some pretty big changes going at CRE. In addition to possibly curtailing their ebook freebies from now on, it appears that they have been going gangbusters producing Whispersync narrations for their ebooks!

I spot-checked the 1413 CRE titles that Amazon's "Manage Your Content" says that I own. About one third of all them have WS titles to accompany them. I could be wrong, but I don't remember any of the CRE titles that we were offered free over the years having WS narrations.

All of the WS narrations, to the ebooks which have them, are $1.99. What this means is that if you got a CRE ebook free, you will have paid a total of only $1.99 ($0 + $1.99) to make the ebook a WS deal!

Now, before you get too excited, remember that CRE ebooks tend to be very short (say 50-75 pages long). So what does that mean? It means that the narration won't be very long. You won't be getting much "bang for the buck." But, a short narration may be all that you're interested in; in that case, if you got the CRE ebook for nothing, you will have gotten the WS deal for $1.99. A steal.

I do not know of any way to sort out the CRE titles which have WS deals. You may have to just go to the product page of the ones that you are interested in, and see if it has a WS narration or not.

I've got a hunch that CRE is going to continue to create WS narrations for its ebooks.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 14 May

• £1.99 -- Station Eleven -- Emily Mandel --> literary

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Daily Deals -- exp 14 May

• Audible ---> $1.95 -- Funny in Farsi -- Firoozeh Dumas --> memoir
  
• BN Nook --> $4.99 -- Alterant -- Sherrilyn Kenyon, et al --> fantasy

* Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 15 May

• £2.99 -- The Lazarus Prophecy -- FG Cottam --> fantasy

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Penguin Random House -- exp unknown

• FREE -- My Father's Dragon -- Ruth Gannett/ Robert Sevra --> 47 min --> kids

Librivox has a permanently free copy if this goes off free. It showed $7.50 for me.

https://librivox.org/my-fathers-drag...tiles-gannett/

Greg

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Daily Deals -- exp 15 May

• Audible ---> $2.95 -- The Jekyll Revelation -- Robert Masello --> thriller
  
• BN Nook --> $3.99 -- The Toltec Art of Life and Death -- Don Ruiz, et al --> religion

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Last Day -- Downpour -- exp 15 May

• $1.99 -- A Confederacy of Dunces --> details
  
• $4.95 -- Never Let You Go --> details
  
• SALE --- Weekly Deals (10 titles) --> titles change frequently