Free Audiobook and Audiobook Sales

First up, three audiobook sales are going on:

• Audible is having a 50% off sale, that they say works on 50,000+ books. If you are out of credits and want to pick something up, today might be the day.
• Tantor Audio has a Buy One, Get One Free sale, using coupon code BOGO8, which expires today.
• Audiogo, a UK company that is open to sales worldwide, is also having a sale on select titles.

Next, The Guardian (a UK newspaper) is giving away a free download of the Arthur and George ($11.99 Kindle; $28.95 Audible ), by Julian Barnes, read by Nigel Anthony.

Book Description
As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous detective while in love with a woman who is not his wife–their fates become inextricably connected.

In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes explores the grand tapestry of late-Victorian Britain to create his most intriguing and engrossing novel yet.

Get the free audiobook from The Guardian. You'll sign up, get a coupon code on the next page, then click thru to the AudioGo website to make the purchase. After you've logged in, you can enter the coupon code and click Update. Once you've confirmed that the price is showing at 0.00, go ahead and place the order (button on top of order page). You'll then see a link to your downloads and can grab individual files or one large zip file. Their site usually gets hammered, slowing download times, but if you make sure the audiobook is in your library, you can come back any time and download, if you have any problems.

Today's Deals

The Vampire Shrink ($1.99), by Lynda Hilburn, is the Kindle Deal of the Day. Originally in print by Medallion, this one is coming back in print with Sterling imprint SilverOak next spring. Sterling is owned by B&N and their ebooks are not available in other stores in the US (for example, Three Seconds by Anders Roslund, Borge Hellstrom), but this ebook is showing Quercus as the publisher (a UK publisher).

Book Description
Kismet Knight is a young psychologist with a growing clinical practice, and she’s always looking for something to give her the edge in her chosen career. When her new client turns out to be a Goth teenager who desperately wants to become a vampire, Kismet is inspired to become the vampire shrink, offering her services to people who believe they are undead. Kismet herself, as a scientist, knows it’s hokum, but she’s looking at it in a purely psychoanalytic light, already imagining the papers she’s going to write on this strange subculture.

That’s until she meets the leader of a vampire coven, a sexy, mysterious man who claims to be a powerful 800-year-old vampire, and she is pulled into a whirlwind of inexplicable events that start her questioning everything she once believed about the paranormal.

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders ($8.52 Kindle; $2.99 B&N), by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, is the Nook Daily Find.

Book Description
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Here is the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime.

Both Helter Skelter and Vincent Bugliosi's subsequent Till Death Us Do Part won Edgar Allan Poe Awards for best true-crime book of the year. Bugliosi is also the author of Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder (Norton, 1996) and other books. Curt Gentry, an Edgar winner, is the author of J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (available in Norton paperback) and Frame-Up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings.

Free Book (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - Fuse of Armageddon

Update: 11/6/11 Now also free from Sony.
Update: 10/31/11 Now free from Barnes & Noble.
Update: Also free from ChristianBook.

Fuse of Armageddon, by Sigmund Brouwer and Hank Hanegraaff, is free in the Kindle store, courtesy of Christian publisher Tyndale House.

Book Description
Nothing more could go wrong for maverick hostage negotiator Mulvaney Quinn. First stabbed in the hand during a failed terrorist burst, then arrested for a hate crime he didn't commit. Now Quinn must come face to face with his past in order to stop the worst terrorist threat of all time—a plot to bring about the ultimate religious uprising by destroying one of the most sacred relics in history.

But the Fuse of Armageddon has already been lit. With the clock ticking down toward a global catastrophe, Quinn must team up with the most unlikely ally of all—the woman who arrested him—to bring down an even more unlikely coalition of enemies. Facing an unholy trinity of a Jewish fanatic, a Muslim terrorist, and a “Christian” freedom fighter, only Quinn can stop them from achieving their goal. But will he be in time? Or is it already too late? Because when Armageddon is unleashed, the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
Get the free ebook from ChristianBook.
Get the free ebook from Sony.

Free Book (Kindle/EPUB/nook) - For Time and Eternity

Update: 11/6/11 Now also free from Sony.
Update: 10/31/11 Now free from Barnes & Noble.
Update: Also free from ChristianBook.

For Time and Eternity, the first in the Sister-Wife series by Allison Pittman, is free in the Kindle store, courtesy of Christian publisher Tyndale House.

Book Description
All Camilla Deardon knows of the Mormons camping nearby is the songs she hears floating on the breeze. Then she meets one of them—a young man named Nathan Fox. Never did she imagine he would be so handsome, so charming, especially after Mama and Papa’s warnings to stay away. Though she knows she should obey her parents, Camilla can’t refuse her heart. But even Nathan’s promises cannot prepare her for what she will face in Utah.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
Get the free ebook from ChristianBook.
Get the free ebook from Sony.

New Nook Daily Find: Parliament of Whores

I asked over in the B&N forums if today's Nook Daily Find was going to be fixed (since it isn't a deal, at all) and the only result was that I can't even find my question was in the forums (which are a pain to navigate) and they haven't updated the NDF page or the book's price. A reader commented, though, that she thought that Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government ($8.59 Kindle; $3.30 B&N), by P. J. O'Rourke, was supposed to be today's Daily Find -- there is, at least, a bargain price on it. Don't ask me, though, how she found this was "supposed" to be it, as the book I posted earlier is still featured on the B&N Nook page, the main home page (as an ad) and on the NDF official page.

Book Description
Called “an everyman’s guide to Washington” (The New York Times), P. J. O’Rourke’s savagely funny and national bestseller Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by the renowned political writer Andrew Ferguson—showing us that although the names and the players have changed, the game is still the same. Parliament of Whores is an exuberant, broken-field run through the ethical foibles, pork barrel flimflam, and bureaucratic bungling inside the Beltway that leaves no sacred cow unskewered and no politically correct sensitivities unscorched.