FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 02 Jul @ 11:59 pm BST

• TBA -- The Discomfort of Evening -- Marieke Lucas Rijneveld -- fiction

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Daily Deals -- exp 02 Jul @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> TBA ---- Dark Sky (book 21) -- CJ Box -- suspense
  
• Audible CA ---> $6.25 -- Before I Met You -- Lisa Jewell -- historical
  
• Downpour ----> TBA

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A couple of business titles by Dennis Bakke are free at Libro.FM at the moment.

Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job

The Decision Maker: Unlock the Potential of Everyone in Your Organization, One Decision at a Time
Narrated by Scott Pollack

Joy at Work:

Spoiler:

Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most "fun" workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. Could such a company compete in today's bottom-line corporate world? Could it even turn a profit? Well, imagine no more.

In Joy at Work, Dennis W. Bakke tells the true story of this extraordinary company--and how, as its co-founder and longtime CEO, he challenged the business establishment with revolutionary ideas that could remake America's organizations. It is the story of AES, whose business model and operating ethos -"let's have fun"-were conceived during a 90-minute car ride from Annapolis, Maryland, to Washington, D.C. In the next two decades, it became a worldwide energy giant with 40,000 employees in 31 countries and revenues of $8.6 billion. It's a remarkable tale told by a remarkable man: Bakke, a farm boy who was shaped by his religious faith, his years at Harvard Business School, and his experience working for the Federal Energy Administration. He rejects workplace drudgery as a noxious remnant of the Industrial Revolution. He believes work should be fun, and at AES he set out to prove it could be. Bakke sought not the empty "fun" of the Friday beer blast but the joy of a workplace where every person, from custodian to CEO, has the power to use his or her God-given talents free of needless corporate bureaucracy.

In Joy at Work, Bakke tells how he helped create a company where every decision made at the top was lamented as a lost chance to delegate responsibility--and where all employees were encouraged to take the "game-winning shot," even when it wasn't a slam-dunk. Perhaps Bakke's most radical stand was his struggle to break the stranglehold of "creating shareholder value" on the corporate mind-set and replace it with more timeless values: integrity, fairness, social responsibility, and a sense of fun.

The Decision Maker:

Spoiler:

Strategy, product development, budgeting, compensation, such key decisions typically are made by company leaders. That's what bosses are for, right? But maybe the boss isn't the best person to make the call.

That's the conclusion Dennis Bakke came to, and he used it to build AES into a Fortune 200 global power company with 27,000 people in 27 countries. He used it again to create Imagine Schools, the largest non-profit charter-school network in the U.S.

As a student at Harvard Business School, Bakke made hundreds of decisions using the case-study method. He realized two things: decision-making is the best way to develop people; and that shouldn't stop at business school. So Bakke spread decision-making throughout his organizations, fully engaging people at all levels. Today, Bakke has given thousands of people the freedom and responsibility to make decisions that matter.

In The Decision Maker, a leadership fable loosely based on Bakke's experience, the New York Times bestselling author shows us how giving decisions to the people closest to the action can transform any organization.

The idea is simple.

The results are powerful.

When leaders put real control into the hands of their people, they tap incalculable potential. The Decision Maker, destined to be a business classic, holds the key to unlocking the potential of every person in your organization.

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 03 Jul @ 11:59 pm BST

• TBA -- The Skeleton in the Closet -- MC Beaton -- mystery

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Daily Deals -- exp 03 Jul @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> TBA ---- Back in the Burbs (book 1) -- Avery Flynn, et al -- fiction
  
• Audible CA ---> $6.25 -- The Sparrow (book 1) -- Mary Doria Russell -- historical
  
• Downpour ----> TBA

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Audiobooks.com -- exp 26 Jul @ 11:59 pm ET

• SALE -- Summer Sale (192 titles) -- $7 and under

Summer Sale — Shop Audiobooks Under $7!

From now until July 26, shop select audiobooks at super low prices!

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Downpour daily steal:

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote - $3.95
Read by Grover Gardner
https://www.downpour.com/the-civil-w...7cf4&sp=139890

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2 continues one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. Focusing on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume in Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War, including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign.

The word narrative is the key to this book’s extraordinary incandescence and truth: the story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved. One learns not only what was happening on all fronts but also how the author discovered it during his years of exhaustive research.

This is a must-listen for anyone interested in one of the bloodiest wars in America’s history.

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Daily Deals -- exp 04 Jul @ 11:59 pm PT

• Audible US ---> TBA ---- Igniting American Revolution (bk 1) -- Derek W Beck -- NF history
  
• Audible CA ---> $7.50 -- The Fall and Rise of China -- Great Courses -- NF history
  
• Downpour ----> see post 8662

* Igniting the American Revolution (1773-1775)

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LAST DAY -- Audible AU -- exp 05 Jul @ 11:59 pm AEST

• FREE -- The Hidden Life of Trees --> details

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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 05 Jul @ 11:59 pm BST

• TBA -- The Monster Collection -- Mary Shelley, et al -- classics

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

• Audible US ---> TBA ---- Sweet Water -- Cara Reinard -- thriller
  
• Audible CA ---> $3.75 -- The Other End of the Leash -- Patricia McConnell -- NF pet care
  
• Downpour ----> $3.99 -- Fevre Dream -- George RR Martin -- horror

* The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs

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LAST DAY -- Downpour -- exp 05 Jul @ 11:59 pm PT

• $1.99 -- Keep Moving --> details -- rental only

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Audible AU -- Editor's Extra -- exp 02 Aug @ 11:59 pm AEST

FREE -- Your Own Kind of Girl -- Clare Bowditch/ Clare Bowditch -- 11.5 hrs -- NF memoir


Award-winning singer and actress Clare Bowditch confronts her inner critic in this no-holds-barred memoir.

This is the story I promised myself, aged 21, that I would one day be brave enough - and well enough - to write.

Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her music and performing, this beloved Australian artist has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. But what of the stories she used to tell herself? That 'real life' begins only once you're thin or beautiful, that good things happen only to other people.

Your Own Kind of Girl reveals a childhood punctuated by grief, anxiety and compulsion and tells how these forces shaped Clare's life for better and for worse. This is a heartbreaking, wise and at times playful memoir. Clare's own story told raw and as it happened. A reminder that even on the darkest of nights, victory is closer than it seems.

With startling candour, Clare lays bare her truth in the hope that doing so will inspire anyone who's ever done battle with their inner critic. This is the work of a woman who has found her true power - and wants to pass it on.

Happiness, we discover, is possible only when we take charge of the stories we tell ourselves.

What is Editors' Extra? -- Members Only

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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Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 06 Jul @ 11:59 pm BST

• TBA -- The Ascent of Money -- Niall Ferguson -- NF history

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Originally Posted by skinmaan

I don't know about you but it seems the audiobook freebies have really dried up lately. Fortunately, I have some good news for you. GraphicAudio stopped their podcast (G.A.S.P) last May so I haven't gotten any audio content via podcast in a while. AudioFile Magazine has now entered the podcast realm with Audiobook Break.

The first offering is "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens. This version is from Naxos Audiobooks, narrated by Nicholas Boulton. You can get it via your favorite podcast provider (some in the link above) or directly from AudioFile's website.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

UPDATE: The last chapter of "David Copperfield" posted this week. According to the last chapter the podcast will stay up for the next 60 days and will be taken down when they start the next book (which will be "The Illiad").