Free Audiobook - Rapid French

Rapid French: Volume 1 ($14.17 Audible US), by Earworms Learning, is today's free audiobook from The Guardian and Audible UK.

Book Description
Earworms mbt© is a revolutionary accelerated learning technique that takes the hard work out of learning.

By listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions of French and English a few times, you pick up over 200 essential words and phrases that will not just be on the tip of your tongue, but will be burned deeply into your long-term memory in next to no time.

If you like music, and want to make rapid progress without any formal knowledge of language learning, earworms mbt© Rapid French is the course for you.

Volume 1 is your survival kit of essential words and phrases to get you by on your trip abroad. Volume 2 will have you talking about yourself, past, present, and future, expressing your opinions, chatting, and flirting (who knows?).

This audiobook also comes with a free booklet to accompany the course which you can download by clicking on this link. Free booklet

You will feel you are learning within minutes and might just be amazed by how easy acquiring a language can be!

To sign up for the free audiobook, click HERE. For more detailed instructions, be sure to see this previous post.

Free Book - Sheltering Hearts

Previously free in the Sony ebookstore, Sheltering Hearts ($0.99 Kindle), by Robyn Carr, is now free in the Harlequin ebookstore, in several (DRM'd) formats. This novella is also free in the B&N store and not quite free in the Kindle store (and not present at all in the B&N or Kobo stores).

Book Description
In this touching story, single mother Dory Finn has focused her life on raising her two children and the volunteer work she does with single parents. After a bad experience in the romance department, Dory is not looking for love. But her feelings begin to change when Clay Kennedy moves in next door and makes his way into both her heart and her children's hearts. Dory must overcome the past in order to learn to love again.

Originally published in the sixth annual More Than Words anthology ($9.99 Kindle):

Little by little, one person at a time, we can make our world a better place. The five dedicated women selected as this year’s recipients of Harlequin’s More Than Words award have done just that, by discovering a seed of compassion, and nurturing it to effect real change in their communities. To celebrate their accomplishments, five bestselling authors have honored the winners by writing short stories inspired by these real-life heroines.

Click HERE to get the book from B&N.
Click HERE to get the book from eHarlequin.

Free Book (nook) - Borrowed Glory

Borrowed Glory is this month's free L. Ron Hubbard book at Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
This haunting tale begins with two immortals, George and Tuffron, who make a wager over the truth or falsity of Tuffron's insistence that "human beings are stupid and willful." Their experiment leads to an old woman's return to youth and the promise of happiness—if only for forty-eight hours.

Free Audiobook - Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London ($9.58 Kindle; $13.10 Audible US), by George Orwell, is today's free audiobook from The Guardian and Audible UK.

Book Description
This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.

Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a man living in Paris in the early 1930s without a penny. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his home city, London, where the world of poverty is different in externals only.

A socialist who believed that the lower classes were the wellspring of world reform, Orwell actually went to live among them in England and on the continent. His novel draws on his experiences of this world, from the bottom of the echelon in the kitchens of posh French restaurants to the free lodging houses, tramps, and street people of London. In the tales of both cities, we learn some sobering truths about poverty and society.

To sign up for the free audiobook, click HERE. For more detailed instructions, be sure to see this previous post.

Free Audiobook - Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Really Big Adventure

Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Really Big Adventure ($13.25 Hardcover; $4.97 Audible US), by Kristina Stephenson, is today's free audiobook from The Guardian and Audible UK. In print, this is a very short 32 pages and the audio is 48 minutes, which is about right for a children's book aimed at the 4-8 year old market.

Book Description
Sing along to this story of derring-do! Once upon a time, there was a deep, dark forest, where monstrous trees groaned, terrible beasties moaned and wiggly woos waited to tickle your toes. Nobody ever went there until...Sir Charlie Stinky Socks, his good grey mare and his pet cat Envelope decide the time has come for a really big adventure. Sir Charlie packs his best sword and his sandwiches and off he goes, over the hills and far away, until he gets to the deep, dark forest. Sir Charlie doesn't flinch when he meets the beasties, or the dragon, or the wily witch, but when he comes across the princess, he realises he's met his match!

This is Sir Charlie Stinky Socks. He's bold, he's brave, he's awfully clever. He likes adventures with terrible beasties, wily witches and fire-breathing dragons. What? You do, too? Oh my!

This is a story about all these things ... so have a listen. Actor Michael Maloney reads this clip-cloppy hurrah of an adventure with a soundtrack and song and lots of fun.

To sign up for the free audiobook, click HERE. For more detailed instructions, be sure to see this previous post.