Summer is on the way

I always know summer is almost here when I get a notification from Sync about their upcoming season of free YA audiobooks. So, starting this Thursday, April 25th you can starting downloading a terrific list of YA reads that you can listen to at home, in the garden, on the bus, in the car, on a plane, while exercising...well, you get the idea.

In Sync's own words: 

SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens. Returning April 25, 2019, SYNC will give away two complete audiobook downloads a week - pairs of high interest titles, based on weekly themes. Sign up for email or text alerts and be first to know when new titles are available to download at www.audiobooksync.com.

And, here's the line up: 

This is an incredible list.  The first two books have been on my To-Read-List for a while and I know I'll final get to them.

So, check out this fantastic opportunity and load up on free audiobooks. 

Happy listening, Everyone.

Sync for summertime listening

SYNC: Audiobooks for Teens returns for another summer with a fantastic line up of YA titles -- all for FREE!  

If you haven't already done so, set up an account with your email and every week you'll be notified about the release of two, theme-based pair of books that you can download for free. And keep forever. I think the selection looks amazing.  Enjoy!

Here's the line up starting this Thursday (April 27th):

Apr.27th    The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich

                 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

May 4th     Feed by M.T. Anderson

                 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

May 11th    Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

                  Teenage Diaries: Then and Now by Radio Diaries

May 18th    The Gathering: Shadow House, Book 1 by Dan Poblock

                   In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking in America by Nita

                   Belles

May 25th    Freakling by Lana Krumwiede

Go to Sync

                   Boy by Anna Ziegler

June 1st     Beast by Donna Jo Napoli

                  Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay

June 8th      Plus One by Elizabeth Fama

                    If I Run by Terri Blackstock

June 15th    The Souls of Black Folk 

                   by W.E.B. Du Bois

                   The Red Umbrella 

                   by Christina Diaz Gonzalez

June 22nd   The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner and Other 

                    Stories by Terry Pratchett

                    The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

June 29       American Night: The Ballad of Juan

                   Jose by Richard Montoya

                    My Name is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson

July 6th        Rebuttal by Jyotsna Hariharan

                    Remember to Forget by Ashley Royer

July 13th     The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker

                   Sugar by Deirdre Riordan Hall

July 20th     Gone: Gone Series, book 1 by Michael Grant

                   The One Safe Place by Tania Unsworth

Jult 27th      Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

                   Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Marriott

Aug. 3rd      In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer 

                   by Irene Gut Opdyke

                   Betweeen Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Aug. 10th    Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older

                   Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Sync up

May 15th is the start of Sync: YA literature into your earphones.

This week's pairing is the classic Time Machine by H.G. Wells with  WARP: the reluctant assassin by Eoin Colfer.  You only have a week to download these two audiobooks.

See the link at the top of the right-hand column.

SYNC offers 2 FREE audiobooks each week May 15 - Aug 20, 2014. Sign up for email or text alerts that invite you to download the new titles as they become available.

SYNC 2013 Begins May 30th!

This is a fantastic deal!  24  audio books for summer listening --free! Starting next Thursday!

From May 30th until August 21st, SYNC pairs two audio books each week, one YA and one 'classic' or non-YA title.  For example, first up is Of Poseidon by Ann Banks and Shakespeare's The Tempest. The following week is The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 1: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood paired with Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

There is a real mix in the selections and it's interesting to see what titles have been paired with each other.  There are a few titles I've not heard of but I think sound intriguing such as Enchanted by Alethea Kontis

Check here for the full schedule.