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Download codes for free audible audiobooks: Good-bye A672E92 Quintus

Audiobooks are a passion of mine. Understandable for a low-vision person where my library is usually the Carnegie Library for the Blind. Relying on audiobooks to complete my degree at UNL means I’m very picky about narrators. A positive when creating audiobooks you will love too.

Sometimes books fail to get discovered. To help, this summer I’m offering free copies on audible through download codes posted here. These are first come, first serve. If the code you try doesn’t work, try the nex...

Download codes for free audible audiobooks: Mithril and Me

Audiobooks are a passion of mine. Understandable for a low-vision person where my library is usually the Carnegie Library for the Blind. Relying on audiobooks to complete my degree at UNL means I’m very picky about narrators. A positive when creating audiobooks you will love too.

Sometimes books fail to get discovered. To help, this summer I’m offering free copies on audible through download codes posted here. These are first come, first serve. If the code you try doesn’t work, try the nex...

Study Questions from Chapter two of “Mary Queen of the Scots: Student-Teacher edition.”

Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland is one of the most famous women in European History. Remembered perhaps more for the way she died than the way she lived, she was hated by Scottish nobles profiting from the violent Scottish Reformation while beloved by the poor.

In this biography I highlight her reign, showing why the people loved her along with her private, personal losses that far too many women today find all too familiar.

Here are the study questions that follow and relate to chapt...

Defaulting add-ons. Dominos tricks customers into paying more.

In general, I like Dominos pizza. The quality is reliably good and the points system is relatively fair. Not a great value, but good enough to continue to order from them.

On 25 June 2025 I ordered a delivery from them. My standard fare: 2 medium 2 topping pizzas. 1 is pepperoni and tomato. 1 is chicken with half tomato and half mushroom. Normal everything. Sounds normal, right? Nothing out of the ordinary. 2 medium pizzas for $6.99 each offer.

Except now when you place yo...

Books and Audiobooks Available For Free on Hoopla Digital

Continuing this summer’s theme of free books and audiobooks, I thought I would share where you can find my books for free on Hoopla Digital using your library card. Most of these are audiobooks, but there are two digital books as well.

Smashwords and Draft2Digital are still merging my accounts. That means in coming months more digital books may become available at Hoopla. When that happens, I will add those titles to this post as well.

Books and Audiobooks Available on Hoopla...

Download codes for free audible audiobooks: Songs of the Beinarian court

Audiobooks are a passion of mine. Understandable for a low-vision person where my library is usually the Carnegie Library for the Blind. Relying on audiobooks to complete my degree at UNL means I’m very picky about narrators. A positive when creating audiobooks you will love too.

Sometimes books fail to get discovered. To help, this summer I’m offering free copies on audible through download codes posted here. These are first come, first serve. If the code you try doesn’t work, try the nex...

Download codes for free audible audiobooks: The Arban and the Saman

Audiobooks are a passion of mine. Understandable for a low-vision person where my library is usually the Carnegie Library for the Blind. Relying on audiobooks to complete my degree at UNL means I’m very picky about narrators. A positive when creating audiobooks you will love too.

Sometimes books fail to get discovered. To help, this summer I’m offering free copies on audible through download codes posted here. These are first come, first serve. If the code you try doesn’t work, try the nex...

Study Questions from Chapter four of “Empress Matilda of England: Student-Teacher edition.”

Empress Matilda of England is arguably my favorite biography subject. Born 7 February 1102, her grandparents included William I the Conqueror on her father’s side and Saint Margaret of Wessex on her mother’s side. Saxon, Pict, and Norman blood all made her one of the most royal of medieval nobles. Marriage to the final Salian dynasty Kaiser made her not only a German “empress” (Kaiserin), but a competent ruler.”

In this textbook edition, you are challenged to look at the wider aspects of Ma...

Study Questions from Chapter Two of “Margaret of Wessex: Student-Teacher edition.”

Margaret of Wessex was the last Saxon princess of England. Born in the Principality of Hungary as the daughter of Edward Ætheling, her status as great niece to Edward the Confessor made her a valuable tool to those ruling or wishing to rule England. Her religious views changed Alba (medieval Scotland) more than any battle or war between England and Scotland ever could.

Here are the study questions that follow and relate to chapter two of “Margaret of Wessex” entitled “Edward the Confess...

Excerpt from The Poisoned Ground: Nan-li City is Poisoned.

The Poisoned Ground (and its extended version: The Poisoned Ground and the Healer Consort) is chronologically the second book in the Peers of Beinan social science fiction series and is prequel to the main trilogy books, providing background to Ghosts of the Past in particular. In this set of scenes early in the novella, Lady Healer Cara explores a forest near the major city of Nan-li, taking water, soil, and vegetation samples along the way. Submitting her samples for detailed analysis, C...