Free Audiobooks at Audible

The audio edition of Brandon Sanderson's novella Legion, narrated by Oliver Wyman, is free over at Audible thru the end of the year. Once you have it, you can also pick up the Kindle edition for $2.99 and use WhisperSync for Voice on the pair.

Book Description
Brandon Sanderson’s Legion is available for FREE for a limited time only.* Enjoy and share the link to this novella with a friend before time runs out.

Brandon Sanderson is one of the most significant fantasists to enter the field in a good many years. His ambitious, multi-volume epics (Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive) and his stellar continuation of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series have earned both critical acclaim and a substantial popular following. In Legion, a distinctly contemporary novella filled with suspense, humor, and an endless flow of invention, Sanderson reveals a startling new facet of his singular narrative talent, read by Audie Award-winning narrator Oliver Wyman.

Stephen Leeds, AKA 'Legion,' is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. As the story begins, Leeds and his 'aspects' are drawn into the search for the missing Balubal Razon, inventor of a camera whose astonishing properties could alter our understanding of human history and change the very structure of society. The action ranges from the familiar environs of America to the ancient, divided city of Jerusalem. Along the way, Sanderson touches on a formidable assortment of complex questions: the nature of time, the mysteries of the human mind, the potential uses of technology, and the volatile connection between politics and faith. Resonant, intelligent, and thoroughly absorbing, Legion is a provocative entertainment from a writer of great originality and seemingly limitless gifts.

Get the free audiobook from Audible.

While you are there, be sure to check out these other freebies:

• Agatha Christie: An Autobiography (performance), by Agatha Christie
• The Novels of Charles Dickens: An Introduction by David Timson to A Christmas Carol, by David Timson
• Le Show, September 30, 2012, by Harry Shearer (more episodes here)

Get 1 of 10 Top-Rated Kindle Books for $1 (KSO)

This offer is only for those with a Kindle with Special Offers (including any Kindle Touch or Kindle Keyboard that opts in to Special Offers, but not the Kindle Fire with Special Offers):

Get 1 of 10 Top-Rated Kindle Books for $1

Click on the offer, then click on the link on the offer page sign up and you'll get an email(right away) with the promotion code. This offer is good for one book and only one per account (if you have multiple KSO devices, they need to be registered to different accounts before you sign up to get the promotion code emails; every Kindle on an account gets flagged when you sign up for the special offer and they will all get the same code for that promotion from then on). Sign-up for this offer expires October 14, 2012.

The email will contain a link to the promotion page. This one works like a gift card and you need to apply the credit to your account first, before going shopping. You can shop from your Kindle or desktop, after you have applied the promotion code and can gift the book to someone else, if there isn't one you want yourself (the full price shows all the way thru, but on the invoice summary, you will see the $1 promotional price). Once you have entered the promotional code, you have until October 21, 2012 to complete your purchases.

Other than the dates (and getting a code via email, rather than a credit via AmazonLocal), this is the exact same offer that those with a Kindle Fire with Special Offers received last month.

Today's Deals

Additional formats on free books:

• The Puglian Cookbook (K/N)

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Home: A Memoir of My Early Year ($1.99), by Julie Andrews.

Book Description
Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now.

In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. Her memoir begins in 1935, when Julie was born to an aspiring vaudevillian mother and a teacher father, and takes readers to 1962, when Walt Disney himself saw her on Broadway and cast her as the world's most famous nanny.

Along the way, she weathered the London Blitz of World War II; her parents' painful divorce; her mother's turbulent second marriage to Canadian tenor Ted Andrews, and a childhood spent on radio, in music halls, and giving concert performances all over England. Julie's professional career began at the age of twelve, and in 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to participate in a Royal Command Performance before the Queen. When only eighteen, she left home for the United States to make her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend, and thus began her meteoric rise to stardom.

Home is filled with numerous anecdotes, including stories of performing in My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison on Broadway and in the West End, and in Camelot with Richard Burton on Broadway; her first marriage to famed set and costume designer Tony Walton, culminating with the birth of their daughter, Emma; and the call from Hollywood and what lay beyond.

Julie Andrews' career has flourished over seven decades. From her legendary Broadway performances, to her roles in such iconic films as The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hawaii, 10, and The Princess Diaries, to her award-winning television appearances, multiple album releases, concert tours, international humanitarian work, best-selling children's books, and championship of literacy, Julie's influence spans generations. Today, she lives with her husband of thirty-eight years, the acclaimed writer/director Blake Edwards; they have five children and seven grandchildren.

Featuring over fifty personal photos, many never before seen, this is the personal memoir Julie Andrews' audiences have been waiting for.

The Sins of the Father ($1.60 / £0.99 UK), by Allan Massie, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.79).

Book Description
A Nazi war criminal's son and a Holocaust survivor's daughter decide to get married in the pleasant, middle-class conformity of sixties Argentina. When the two families come together, Becky's blind father recognizes the voice of the former SS officer, and sets off a chain of events that to varying degrees damage everyone at that meeting. Franz has to discover the real past of his distant father, who is kidnapped by Mossad agents and taken to Israel for trial. The action shifts to that country, and then to England. Allan Massie uses this drama to explore a wealth of ideas concerning such themes as guilt, retribution, identity, power, political motivation, memory and above all, as the title implies, the effects of brutal conflicts and war crimes on the following generation. Massie does not dwell on the savagery of the crimes, but forensically analyses the scar they leave in history, suggesting that, post Holocaust, we inhabit a different moral world - a world in which we can no longer ignore the enormity of the crimes of which we are capable.

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead ($9.39 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Sara Gran, is the Nook Daily Find. This was a Kindle Deal of the Day last July.

Book Description
Claire DeWitt believes she is the world’s greatest PI, even if few agree with her. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire’s unusual practices.

Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette’s student the brilliant Constance Darling—until Darling was murdered. When a respected DA goes missing she returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why.Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is a knockout start to a bracingly original new series.

The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's 'A More Perfect Union' ($9.99 Kindle, $0.99 B&N), by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012, substantially discounted versus the Kindle edition.

Book Description
After Senator Barack Obama delivered his celebrated speech, "A More Perfect Union," on March 18, 2008, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd noted that only Barack Obama "could alchemize a nuanced 40-minute speech on race into must-see YouTube viewing for 20-year-olds." Pundits established the speech’s historical eminence with comparisons to Abraham Lincoln’s "A House Divided" and Martin Luther King Jr’s "I Have a Dream." The future president had addressed one of the biggest issues facing his campaign-and our country-with an eloquence and honesty rarely before heard on a national stage.

The Speech brings together a distinguished lineup of writers and thinkers-among them Adam Mansbach, Alice Randall, Connie Schultz, and William Julius Wilson -in a multifaceted exploration of Obama’s address. Their original essays examine every aspect of the speech-literary, political, social, and cultural-and are punctuated by Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson’s reportage on the issue of race in the now historic 2008 campaign. The Speech memorializes and gives full due to a speech that propelled Obama toward the White House, and prompted a nation to evaluate our imperfect but hopeful union.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is I Need My Monster ($1.99), by Amanda Noll and Howard McWilliam (Illustrator).

Book Description
A unique monster-under-the-bed story with the perfect balance of giggles and shivers, this picture book relies on the power of humor over fear, appeals to a child’s love for creatures both alarming and absurd, and glorifies the scope of a child’s imagination. One night, when Ethan checks under his bed for his monster, Gabe, he finds a note from him instead: "Gone fishing. Back in a week." Ethan knows that without Gabe’s familiar nightly scares he doesn't stand a chance of getting to sleep, so Ethan interviews potential substitutes to see if they've got the right equipment for the job—pointy teeth, sharp claws, and a long tail—but none of them proves scary enough for Ethan. When Gabe returns sooner than expected from his fishing trip, Ethan is thrilled. It turns out that Gabe didn't enjoy fishing because the fish scared too easily.

Grade Level: K and up

Note: This book features Kindle Text Pop-Up for reading text over vivid, full-color images when using Kindle Fire or select Kindle Reading Apps (Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad or Kindle for Android); unlike some other Text Popup books, this one won't work on any of the eInk Kindles.

Free Audiobook - How Should Christians Vote?

Christianaudio's free audiobook this month is How Should Christians Vote? ($3.93 Kindle; $4.95 Audible), by Tony Evans, narrated by Mirron Willis.

Book Description
Christians are a large and influential voting block today. But as each governmental election approaches, an increasing polarity occurs within those claiming the Christian faith. This comes as a result of party-voting rather than voting according to Biblical mandates and authority. To refocus correctly, Dr. Tony Evans goes back to the basics and teaches on how God established government as a divine institution whose tasks include promoting the well-being of those within its realm and protection from evil.

Scripture trumps all political alliances making the voting decision a critical opportunity for Christians to promote God's Word and His values through whom they elect. In the face of increasing emotions the Christians representing God's kingdom values should communicate His truths in a manner reflective of the King - in a gracious and strategic way. Dr. Evans also looks at the necessary qualities in a good candidate which include intellect, education, competency, skill and spiritual beliefs - whether certain issues are non-negotiables, and how a responsible citizen is to research a candidates' position in order to evaluate it against God's Word.

Get the free audio download from Christianaudio and scroll down the page for several discounted political or Mormon related titles.

The checkout process is very streamlined (a coupon code is no longer required), as is the download process (no longer do you have to download each part of the book separately). You can also send a gift download of the free audiobook to someone else!

After finishing your order, download a zip file with the entire audiobook: select MP3 if you want to be able to play the book on your Kindle (M4B for the iOS, iTunes or QuickTime). Unzip the contents to the \audiobooks directory on your Kindle (not \music) in order to have audiobook controls and see it on your Kindle home page.

Today's Deals

The coupon code for Fictionwise is for 60% off this weekend: 100612. Might be a good time to see if they have any magazine issues you haven't picked up.

At Kobo, use oct0525RB for 25% off selected bestsellers and for Canadians only, take 30% off Scholastic Books using Schol3005 (both exp Oct 8). 56b6c125 is a generic code for 25% off, expires Oct 11.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Hero Cat ($1.99), by Eileen Spinelli and Jo Ellen McAllister Stammen (Illustrator).

Book Description
Five tiny kittens cry for their mama, as smoke begins to fill the abandoned warehouse that has been their home. But Mother Cat has left her cozy heap of kittens to go in search of food.Determined to save her babies, Mother Cat dashes into the burning building and follows the sounds of frightened mewing. In five daring acts, she saves each kitten—a true hero cat! This story, accompanied by beautiful illustrations rendered in pastel, honors the tenth anniversary of the real story of a homeless cat who rescued her kittens from a burning building in 1996.

Grade Level: 1st and up. Double Tap to Zoom.

This book features Kindle Text Pop-Up for reading text over vivid, full-color images when using Kindle Fire or select Kindle Reading Apps (Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad or Kindle for Android); for eInk Kindles, only available for Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is 14 Novels by Sci-Fi Master Philip K. Dick for $1.99 each. Be sure to double check your library if you have had your Kindle for a while, as I found three of these in different editions in my library. Which also means, of course, that my gift card balance is going to take a beating later today, when I pick up all the missing titles.

These are all published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, so I was surprised that Total Recall wasn't on the list - it's only $1.88 today (it is a short story, but they have a $4 list price on it). His best known novel, perhaps, is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the inspiration for the movie BladeRunner; it's published by Ballantine Books and not included in the sale. You can also find a number of his short stories for free on Amazon or at Feedbooks, Manybooks.net or Gutenberg or in collections such as The Best of Philip K. Dick (Unexpurgated Edition) from Halcyon Classics (also $1.99) and The Third Science Fiction Megapack: 26 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Tales from Wildside Press (only $0.99 and 583 pages "in print").

1. A Scanner Darkly
2. The Man in the High Castle
3. Ubik
4. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
5. The Simulacra
6. Now Wait for Last Year
7. The Penultimate Truth
8. Valis
9. The Divine Invasion (Valis #2)
10. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (Valis #3)
11. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
12. Counter-Clock World
13. Eye in the Sky
14. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, edited by Jonathan Lethem and Pamela Jackson

The Voice Bible: Step Into the Story of Scripture ($7.99 Kindle, B&N), edited by The Ecclesia Bible Society, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle (when I first checked last night, it was $19.99).

Book Description
The Voice™ is a faithful dynamic equivalent translation that reads like a story with all the truth and wisdom of God's Word. Through compelling narratives, poetry, and teaching, The Voice invites readers to enter into the whole story of God with their heart, soul, and mind, enabling them to hear God speaking and to experience His presence in their lives. Through a collaboration of nearly 120 biblical scholars, pastors, writers, musicians, poets, and artists, The Voice recaptures the passion, grit, humor, and beauty that is often lost in the translation process. The result is a retelling of the story of the Bible in a form as fluid as modern literary works yet painstakingly true to the original manuscripts.

Features include:

• 2-color text
• Italicized information added to help contemporary readers understand what original readers would have known intuitively
• In-text commentary notes that include cultural, historical, theological, or devotional thoughts
• Screenplay format, ideal for public readings and group studies
• Book introductions
• Presentation page for personalization
• Reading plans for Lent, Easter, Advent, and more
• Topical Guide to the Notes
• Topical Guide to the Scripture

Part of the Signature Series line of Thomas Nelson Bibles; The Voice Bibles sold to date: More than 308,000. Thomas Nelson Bibles is giving back through the God’s Word in Action program. Donating a portion of profits to World Vision, we are helping to eradicate poverty and preventable deaths among children. Learn more and discover what you can do at www.seegodswordinaction.com.

From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 STOPs to Restoring America's Greatness ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Mike Huckabee, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
With the small but powerfully inspiring word "hope," nationally recognized leader and policy-maker Governor Mike Huckabee points out that progress for our country cannot happen with the continued bipartisan rift dividing it. He taps into the fundamental core of every American, confronting matters closest at hand with the call for a critical change in perspective and a clear plan of action that shows what we can become as a truly indivisible nation. The governor presents 12 key things we need to STOP doing in order to make America stronger, speaking out on immigration, the job market, health care, education, and taxes, and provides practical solutions that could bring our nation to higher ground.

The Reinvention of Love ($1.60 / £0.99 UK), by Helen Humphreys, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).

Book Description
When Charles Sainte-Beuve, a French journalist, met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But Charles' attraction moves on from Victor, to his wife Ad?le. Soon the two lovers are on the edge of a great scandale and a wounded Victor must exact his price for betrayal. Set during the tumultuous reign of Napoleon III, this mesmerising novel draws a rich portrait of old Paris, where duels were fought and cholera-ridden bodies float in the Seine. An atmospheric story of delicacy and emotion, The Reinvention of Love brings together the voices of two women destroyed by Victor Hugo's ferocious ambition, and the unique, acerbic and heart-breaking voice of Charles Sainte-Beuve, first Hugo's friend and then his unlikely competitor in love.