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Preacher & teacher – two inspirational audios: Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail &  Educating Esme: A Teacher’s Diary.  Christian Audio is offering the free download of MLK’s classic defense of non-violence against segregation, written from the Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1966, narrated by Dion Graham. Download by April 30th! Here’s the link: http://christianaudio.com/letter-from-birmingham-jail-martin-luther-king-jr Educating [...]

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 [...]

Wow! 24 totally free downloadable audiobooks, both current YA bestsellers and classics – a gift from audio publishing partners through the Sync YA Literature promotion. Grab two freebies all summer long, and build your personal audiobook collection. School & public librarians are encouraged to promote this great way to keep tweens & teens (and adults!) [...]

FREE download of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter’s springtime classic, narrated by Pauline Brailsford and published by Weston Woods. Just click on the Audible link to grab this treat: www.audible.com/pd/?asin=B00C2BL9R8&source_code=FBIGB906LWS031513

Great anti-bullying resources: a no-cost webinar & free CD. Visit Random House/Listening Library’s “Kids and Bullying: Audiobooks for Conversation” webpage for tons of resources including a FREE CD that features Thirteen Reasons Why author Jay Asher. And sign up for the FREE April 2 webinar No Name Calling: Addressing Bullying through Books, featuring  a presentation by Emily Bazelon, author [...]

Choose Joy by Karen Warren from Christian Audio, a free download read by the author. On this sunny day where Spring is just beneath the melting snow, Joy seems a perfect pursuit! Each month, Christian Audio has a free audiobook, so you have plenty of time to grab this 5.5 hour March freebie. Just go [...]

FREE – The Unremarkable Heart by Karin Slaughter, Edgar Award nominee for Best Short Story. Download this contender for the Mystery Writers of America’s top award, from the short story collection Vengeance, edited by Lee Child. Thanks to publisher AudioGo for this great Freebie Friday offer! Here’s how to get your one-and-a-half  hour audio edition narrated by Shannon Cochran. [...]

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!

Sci-Fi, self-improvement, Jane Austen & the animal kingdom. Three downloads for fiction fans, financial planning, and those who enjoy live drama or wish to add a touch of audio to their Common Core language arts instruction – plus one off-the-wall resource, the world’s largest natural sound archive. Today’s batch of great FREE listening! The Human Division, Episode 1: [...]