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Earth Day classic Walden, Christian self-help, Gatsby, & the Moby Dick Big Read project. Here are the links – grab these quick! Tantor Audio offers Walden by Henry David Thoreau, narrated by Mel Foster, as both an MP3 & PDF eBook: http://www.tantor.com/BookDetail.asp?Product=0693_Walden Christian Audio’s monthly freebie is Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions [...]

FREE audiobook & eBook download of W.E.B. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folks – Tantor Audio’s well-timed give-away marks an important work especially of interest during Black History Month. You can download both the 9-hour MP3 audiobook narrated by Richard Allen and a PDF file of the eBook by visiting this link: http://www.tantor.com/BookDetail.asp?Product=0995_SoulsBlackFolk Here’s more about [...]

Tess of the d’Ubervilles,  today’s FREE audiobook & eBook download. Thomas Hardy’s classic, narrated by Booklist Voice of Choice Simon Vance, is a 15-hour feast for your eyes and ears. Grab this MP3 audio, along with the accompanying eBook in PDF format, from Tantor Audio at this link: http://www.tantor.com/BookDetail.asp?Product=0699_TessDUrbervilles. A tasty post-Valentine’s day treat!

My Brother Sam is Dead & Lincoln’s Speeches and Writings in eBook and audio. Perfect for history lovers, a Common Core combo of classics – one physical, one download. Here’s a a great offer for educators, and school / youth services librarians! Win a special combo from AudioGo: a physical CD audiobook copy of the  Newbery Honor classic [...]

Grab these audio treats ASAP, as holiday give-aways can disappear quickly! For those with an Apple product, download the free app of Audrey Penn’s The Kissing Hand, from Oceanhouse Media: In support of the 1,600 copies of “The Kissing Hand” physical book being donated to the children of Newtown by Tanglewood Press, we are offering [...]

Free audiobook downloads for the holiday season from Tantor Media & Christian Audio! Tantor has three of Charles Dickens’s much-loved Christmas novellas in a 9 hour production (plenty of time for driving over the river & through the woods on your holiday travels). The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man [...]

Dracula eBook + audio narration for FREE. Celebrate Bram Stoker’s birthday a day late with the freebie audiobook narrated by some of the biggest names in audio - Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley, Simon Prebble, James Adams – plus nine other great classic titles! Try the amazing synchronization of [...]

Classic chills: a free download of audio + ebook until Halloween. Get  Gaston Leroux’s spooky romantic thriller, narrated by Alexander Adams, as a treat from Tantor. There’s no trick to grabbing the MP3 + PDF pair – here’s the link: http://www.tantor.com/BookDetail.asp?Product=0899_PhantomOperaRevised I had to wait until a minute till midnight to post this freebie

Just finished the newest Three Pines mystery using Whispersync for Voice, Amazon’s seamless integration of text plus professional narration. Penny’s many fans include Booklist‘s Bill Ott whose glowing starred review of the book nails the strong appeal of this fantastic series. But audiobook fans are equally rabid fans of Ralph Cosham’s narration of the series – I [...]

Want to win a copy for your public library? Or would you rather download The Rainbow by D.H. Laurence? Why not both! Today’s titles offer some hot stuff for listeners. And When She Was Good is mega-award-winner Lippman’s tale of a suburban prostitute/madame/single-mom embroiled in a murder committed by her lover, narrated Linda Emond. Check out the title’s starred review [...]