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Downpour's 100-title science fiction $5.95 audiobook sale: Ian McDonald's Luna: New Moon, Molly Tanzer's Vermilion, Cory Doctorow, Jeff VanderMeer, Ray Bradbury, and more:

Posted on 2016-07-25 at 2:39 by Sam

In Downpour's 100-book $5.95 Sci-Fi sale there are dozens of highly-rated and recommended titles. Here's what most caught my eye, from a quartet of great titles from 2015, to Cory Doctorow, Jeff VanderMeer, Catherine Asaro, Walter Mosley, Jane Rogers, and Brenda Cooper, to classics from Ray Bradbury and Walter M. Miller. (If you really love classic sf there's plenty of Heinlein and Bova to peruse as well.)

Happy $5.95 deal-hunting! But don't wait too long, this sale ends July 31.

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June #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Umberto Eco, T. Kingfisher, Scott Meyer, Rysa Walker, Gwenda Bond, Steve McHugh, Dennis Lehane, Ian Fleming, and more

Posted on 2016-06-25 at 20:1 by Sam

Between this month's Summer Reading Deals in Kindle Books and 50 Kindle Book Deals for $2 Each listings there's quite a few (over 300!) Whispersync for Voice titles to check out. From comedic fantasy to YA time travel, Umberto Eco to new fiction in translation, there's something for everybody to check out:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco for $2.99+$3.99 is the legendary Eco's award-winning first novel, read by the marvelous Sean Barrett along with Nicholas Rowe and Neville Jason: "The year is 1327.

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Audible's $4.95 "Editors' Picks" sale ends today: Octavia E. Butler, Ursula K. Le guin, Cixin Liu, Lev Grossman, Patrick Rothfuss, Susanna Clarke, Junot Diaz, Justin Cronin, and more

Posted on 2016-06-13 at 14:29 by Sam

And there are a ton of science fiction and fantasy books to choose from. Here's my absolute favorite audiobooks from the sale:

• By Octavia E. Butler
• Narrated by Kim Staunton

The Dispossessed: A Novel

UNABRIDGED

• By Ursula K. Le Guin
• Narrated by Don Leslie

The Three-Body Problem

UNABRIDGED

• By Cixin Liu
• Narrated by Luke Daniels

  

The Magicians: A Novel

UNABRIDGED

• By Lev Grossman
• Narrated by Mark Bramhall

The Name of the Wind: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1

UNA

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A toxic need for closure -- James reviews The Girl on the Train

Posted on 2016-06-11 at 19:33 by Sam

The Girl on the Train By Paula Hawkins Read by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, and India Fisher [ Downpour | Audible ]

-- Review by James Alexander --

The hype surrounding The Girl on the Train, especially given the upcoming film adaptation, may want you to believe it is the next Gone Girl. It’s not. It’s nowhere near as sensational or propulsive as that. This is a drama set at a much lower key, which makes up for its melodrama by taking things in a darker, more personal direction.

Its unusually

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May #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Ink Mage, The Oddfits, Neal Pollack, Wayward Pines, Evermen, Ania Ahlborn, and more

Posted on 2016-05-31 at 1:22 by Sam

Of the about 300 titles in the Monthly Deals listings, 142 are listed as "eBooks with Audible Narration" which, I gather, is how the Kindle store has been listing what used to be called "Whispersync for Voice" titles these days. I'm going to continue calling these "Whipsersync Deals" and this month we get Clive Barker, Neal Pollack, Blake Crouch, James Maxwell, Ania Ahlborn, Susan Ee, Robert Dugoni, Stuart Neville, Michael Wallace, and tons more, and though again as last month there's not a whole lot of

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ania ahlborn, blake crouch, neal pollack, simon vance, tiffany tsao, victor gischler

April #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Christopher Moore's The Serpent of Venice and Jonathan Coe's Expo 58, Christie Golden, Wiley Cash, The Twenty-Sided Sorceress, and more

Posted on 2016-04-30 at 1:6 by Sam

There are 165 Whispersync-for-Voice-enabled titles on sale in this month's Monthly Deals in Kindle Books, but... there aren't too many that really catch my eye, and only a few really, really top shelf titles. But! Those are quite good ones indeed, so, as this is coming out riiiiiight at the end of the month (sorry folks!) take a quick look; and once I get through the monthly titles, I do have a few indie picks this month, including a countdown deal, as well as a new audiobook adaptation of Jane Eyre which

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged annie bellet, christopher moore, jonathan coe, wiley cash

March WhispersyncDeal roundup: A Head Full of Ghosts, A Dirty Job, Three, Anno Dracula, Kurt Vonnegut, Tibetan Peach Pie, Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora, and more

Posted on 2016-03-21 at 17:37 by Sam

This one's coming later in the month than I'd like, but I've been dumping my free time into Tom Clancy's The Division and listening with rapt attention to Simon Vance's narration of We, the Drowned. Of the 164 Whispersync-enabled titles in this month's Monthly Deals for $3.99 or Less listings, there's the usual crop of uninteresting (to me!) and the "not quite a deal, actually" titles. And then there are these gems, which I hope you (and your wallet) enjoy:

A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel by Paul

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Does Brandon Sanderson have superpowers or is he just chained to his laptop? James reviews Calamity (The Reckoners, Book 3)

Posted on 2016-03-14 at 18:9 by Sam

Calamity: The Reckoners, Book 3 By Brandon Sanderson Narrated by MacLeod Andrews for Audible

-- Review by James Alexander --

Does Brandon Sanderson have superpowers or is he just chained to his laptop? It feels like the Reckoners trilogy has only just begun and the conclusion is already here. And it isn’t the only thing he’s been doing right now.

The setting combines today’s familiar trends of post apocalyptic and superhero fiction into something wholly unique: a world where super powered beings dubbed

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Audible's $5.95 members-only sale: The Fifth Season, H is for Hawk, Aurora, The Grace of Kings, A Wizard of Earthsea, A God in Ruins, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and much more

Posted on 2016-03-04 at 22:10 by Sam

Audible is having a big $5.95 members-only sale with over 200 titles, across science fiction and fantasy, non-fiction, YA, classics, and more:

And 200+ titles are a lot to page through. Here's what I most recommend from the sale, but hurry! The sale ends March 6, 2016 at 11:59 PM PT (US).

The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1 by N.K. Jemisin, read by Robin Miles, and Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson, read by Ali Ahn, both for Hachette Audio -- Wait, WHAT? These are the two best fantasy and science

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Whispersync deal roundup for Thursday, March 3: Joe R. Lansdale, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Ferret Steinmetz, Annie Bellet, Charles E. Gannon, and more

Posted on 2016-03-03 at 17:11 by Sam

Another day where there's just too many deals to share them piecemeal, one Tweet at a time. Starting with the best deals from among the 10 Whispersync for Voice enabled titles from today's Kindle Daily Deals and picking up a few other titles, here we go:

Savage Season: A Hap and Leonard Novel (1) (Hap and Leonard Series) by Joe R. Lansdale for $1.99+$3.99 -- The first of Lansdale's "Hap and Leonard" series, "A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged annie bellet, charles e gannon, david drake, ferrett steinmetz, joe r lansdale, morgan rice, sherrilyn kenyon