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Simply Audiobooks’ 25 Days of Christmas is back and it’s bigger and better than ever.

What: Get a new deal every day for 25 straight days. Each deal lasts for only 24 hours.  Get free shipping, free downloads, save up to 25% off your entire purchase, and get huge savings on Twilight, Harry Potter, James Patterson, Dan Brown, and MORE.

When: Thursday, November 19th, 2009  to Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Where: Right here on your Simply Audiobooks homepage

Each deal starts at noon EST and will end at 11:59 a.m. EST the following day when the next day’s offer will be revealed.

The Catch? - We’re not telling you what is being offered when. Check back each day to see what’s going on.

See The Elf? - See a little elf peeking his head out the factory windows? Click on him to get a sneak peek of what’s coming up.

BOO! October’s Free Download of the Month is Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

At more than 110 years old, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is still considered the quintessential vampire novel.

The Count soon heads for London on an ill-fated ship from which no sailors survive. He begins to menace Harker’s fiancee and preys upon her best friend, ultimately turning her into one of his undead.

October 13th - Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide case in South L.A. and soon identifies a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad as his prime suspect. Before he can close in, he gets word that his young daughter who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing. Bosch drops everything to cross the Pacific and find his daughter. Is her disappearance connected to his case? The stakes are high and Bosch is up against the clock in a new city, where nothing is what it seems.

See all Michael Connelly audio books available for rent or download from Simply Audiobooks.

October 20 - Malcolm Gladwell, the genius behind The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, is one of the most gifted and influential journalists in America. Now, the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in this anthology, What The Dog Saw. Among the pieces: his investigation into why there are so many varieties of mustard, but only one kind of ketchup; a surprising assessment of what makes for a safer automobile; a look at how we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job; an examination of machine built to predict hit movies; a dissection of Ivy League admissions and who gets in; the saga of the quest to invent the perfect cookie; and a look at hair dye and the hidden history of postwar America.

For the millions of Malcolm Gladwell fans, this anthology is like a greatest hits compilation - a mix tape from America’s alpha mind.

October 6 - Go on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure as the Great War brews in Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan

October 27 - Get your hands on David Baldacci’s newest, True Blue

For the first time ever, Simply Audiobooks is pleased to announce 2 Free Downloads for the month of September, as a special back to school treat!

Until September 16, 2009 download the first in the captivating Voices from the Front Civil War series and learn about The Battle of Bull Run and Blockade Runners.

For the second half of September, listen to Volume 2 in the series, detailing the major events of the Civil War through the letters written by soldiers to their loved ones back home.

Martha!

The winner of our recent contest is Martha, who posted her trivia score right here on the Simply Audioblog. She wins the unabridged audiobook CD of Stephenie Meyer’s bestseller, The Host.

Martha - please contact me at janet@simplyaudiobooks.com with the subject line “I won The Host!” and we’ll sort out the shipping details. Congrats!

Missed out on this contest? Don’t worry - follow Simply Audiobooks on twitter, or become a fan on facebook to stay up to date on all the action.

And play our back to school trivia game all month, right on the Simply Audiobooks homepage.

Nicholas Sparks, bestselling author of The Notebook, and  Nights in Rodanthe, brings us The Last Song on September 8th.

Seventeen year-old Veronica “Ronnie” Miller’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from NYC to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms – first love, the love between parents and children – that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts… and heal them.

(Random fact: Miley Cyrus chose the name Ronnie for the main character.)

On September 15th, Dan Brown releases his highly anticipated follow up to Angels & Demons, and The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol. Brown’s long time editor says “nothing ever is as it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. This book’s narrative takes place in a twelve-hour period, and from the first page, Dan’s readers will feel the thrill of discovery as they follow Robert Langdon through a masterful and unexpected new landscape. The Lost Symbol is full of surprises.”

On September 28th James Patterson takes a slight detour from his usual mystery thrillers with the non-fiction thriller The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King.

Egyptologists have long presumed that the young king died of disease, or an accident. In The Murder of King Tut, James Patterson and Martin Dugard chronicle their epic quest to find out what happened to the boy-king. They comb through the evidence - X-rays, Carter’s files, forensic clues - and scavenge for overlooked data to piece together the details of his life and death. The result is a true crime tale of intrigue, betrayal, and usurpation that presents a compelling case that King Tut’s death was anything but natural.

Add these to your rental shelf today, and check out more hot upcoming titles here.

Reading Rainbow aired its final episode this past Friday, ending its 26 year run. From  all of us who grew up on the show, joining LeVar on his many adventures - thank you.

Do you remember all those books you had to read back in school? You know, books like, Romeo and Juliet, The Crucible, and To Kill A Mockingbird– the ones that inevitably pop up on high school reading lists each year. Why not test your knowledge with our Simply Audiobooks trivia game!

This isn’t your average pop quiz. We’re giving away 15 Day Free Trials of our popular 2-at-a-Time rental plans for all our participants. AND, one lucky participant will win their very own copy of The Host, by Stephanie Meyer on unabridged audio CD!

Just post your score on our Facebook wall (with a link to the quiz), in the comments section of the blog, or RT @simplyaudiobook on twitter  (with your score and a link to the quiz) we’ll randomly select a winner at the end of the day today (EST) to win.

It’s great Friday afternoon fun!

Contest open to US and Canadian residents only.

With her syndicated show on FOX now in it’s fifth season, Kathy Reichs is firmly established as a dominant talent in forensic mystery writing. Her latest novel is no exception.

The twelfth Temperance Brennan novel from Kathy Reichs, 206 Bones opens with Tempe regaining consciousness and discovering that she is in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She is bound, hands to feet. Is she buried alive? In some kind of cell? Who wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way, and why? Tempe begins slowly to reconstruct…

Seamlessly weaving between Tempe’s present-tense terror and her memory of the cases of these murdered women, Reichs conveys the incredible devastation that would occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in the lab. The chemistry between Tempe and Ryan intensifies as this complex, riveting tale unfolds.

Alex Cross is back in, Trial, the latest novel by James Patterson.

The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in his home town in Mississippi, he cannot refuse.

The details of Ben’s harrowing story–and his experiences with a remarkable man named Abraham Cross–were passed from generation to generation, until they were finally recounted to Alex Cross by his grandmother, Nana Mama. From the first time hear heard the story, Alex was unable to forget the unimaginable events Ben witnessed in Eudora and pledged to tell it to the world. Alex Cross’s Trial is unlike any story Patterson has ever told, but offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel.