Free audiobooks

In Brazil, they call someone who is really cheap "mao de vaca" which means literally "cow's hand."  If you look at a cow's hand (also known as a hoof) you'll see that it's closed; and in English we'd call that person "tight-fisted," which is the same meaning but much less colorful.  I am "mao de vaca," and if you're like me and would like some audiobooks for free you'll want to bookmark the audiobook sync site and visit it each week starting May 7 through August 14.

You'll need the OverDrive software on your computer to download the books, but I find the phone app a little wonky so I don't use it to listen.  I just transfer the mp3 files over and listen with the music app.  It's not as convenient, but at least it works.  (Maybe they've fixed the app by now – I guess I should give it another try at some point.  Or I could just burn it to a cd if I wasn't so lazy.)  The books – two each week – are only available for ONE WEEK, so don't forget to keep checking back.  And you don't have to listen to them right away – you just have to download them the week they're available.  (I've still got books from last year I haven't gotten around to.)  Here's the listing of books that will be offered this summer:

• BEAUTIFUL CREATURES by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (Hachette Audio)
• A CORNER OF WHITE by Jaclyn Moriarty (Scholastic Audiobooks)
• COURAGE HAS NO COLOR: THE TRUE STORY OF THE TRIPLE NICKLES by Tanya Lee Stone (Brilliance Audio)
• CROWS & CARDS by Joseph Helgerson (Brilliance Audio)
• DODGER by Terry Pratchett (HarperAudio)
• ECHOES OF AN ANGEL by Aquanetta Gordon (christianaudio)
• THE EXPLORERS CLUB by Nell Benjamin (L.A. Theatre Works)
• THE LIVING by Matt de la Pena (Brilliance Audio)
• MARCH by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin Audio)
• MONSTER by Walter Dean Myers (Listening Library)
• THE RING AND THE CROWN by Melissa de la Cruz (Recorded Books, Inc.)
• ROSE UNDER FIRE by Elizabeth Wein (Bolinda Publishing)
• UNDER A WAR-TORN SKY by L.M. Elliott (Tantor Audio)
• X: A NOVEL by Ilyasah Shabazz & Kekla Magoon (Brilliance Audio)
• THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain (Mission Audio)
• ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED by Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold (Oasis Audio)
• AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS by Jules Verne (Tantor Audio)
• BUDDHA BOY by Kathe Koja (Full Cast Audio)
• DRACULA by Bram Stoker (Naxos AudioBooks)
• GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens (Naxos AudioBooks)
• HERE IN HARLEM by Walter Dean Myers (Live Oak Media)
• JOHN BALL’S IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT Adapted by Matt Pelfrey (L.A. Theatre Works)
• LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott (Listening Library)
• LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding (Listening Library)
• THE OLD BROWN SUITCASE by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz (Post Hypnotic Press)
• THE PERFECT STORM: A TRUE STORY OF MEN AGAINST THE SEA by Sebastian Junger (Recorded Books, Inc.)
• REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier (Hachette Audio)
• SEA HEARTS by Margo Lanagan (Bolinda Publishing)