English | ASIN: B09BDDCSVH | 2021 | 10 hours and 54 minutes |MP3|M4B | 299 MB
Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore's infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing decadent games of make-believe and writing down recipes filled with cream, raisins, chocolate, butter, cinnamon, ripe fruit - the unattainable ingredients of peacetime, of home, of memory. In this novelistic, immersive biography, Suzanne Evans presents a truly individual account of WWII through the eyes of Ethel - mercurial, enterprising, combative, stubborn, and wholly herself.
The Taste of Longing follows Ethel through the fall of Singapore in 1942, the years of her internment, and beyond. As a prisoner, she devours dog biscuits and book spines, befriends spiders and smugglers, and endures torture and solitary confinement. As a free woman back in Canada, she fights to build a life for herself in the midst of trauma and burgeoning mental illness. Woven with vintage recipes and transcribed tape recordings, the story of Ethel and her fantastical POW cookbook is a testament to the often-overlooked strength of women in wartime. It's a story of the unbreakable power of imagination, generosity, and pure heart.

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English | ASIN: B08PG36JW9 | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~05:31:00 | 186 MB
Mary L. Trump PhD (Author, Narrator), "The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal"
This program is read by the author.

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English | ASIN: B08V78LTY4 | 2021 | 5 hours and 30 minutes |MP3|M4B | 152 MB
In The Power of Nothing to Lose, award-winning economist William Silber explores the phenomenon in politics, war, and business, where situations with a big upside and limited downside trigger gambling behavior like with a Hail Mary. Silber describes in colorful detail how the American Revolution turned on such a gamble. The famous scene of Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas night to attack the enemy may not look like a Hail Mary, but it was. Washington said days before his risky decision, "If this fails I think the game will be pretty well up." Rosa Parks remained seated in the White section of an Alabama bus, defying local segregation laws, an act that sparked the modern civil rights movement in America. It was a life-threatening decision for her, but she said, "I was not frightened. I just made up my mind that as long as we accepted that kind of treatment it would continue, so I had nothing to lose."
The risky exploits of George Washington and Rosa Parks made the world a better place, but demagogues have inflicted great damage with Hail Marys. Toward the end of World War II, Adolph Hitler ordered a desperate counterattack, the Battle of the Bulge, to stem the Allied advance into Germany. He said, "The outcome of the battle would spell either life or death for the German nation." Hitler failed to change the war's outcome, but his desperate gamble inflicted great collateral damage, including the worst wartime atrocity on American troops in Europe. Silber shares these illuminating insights on these figures and more, from Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump, asylum seekers to terrorists and rogue traders. Collectively they illustrate that downside protection fosters risky undertakings, that it changes the world in ways we least expect.

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English | ASIN: B09C2HWFSL | 2021 | 10 hours and 16 minutes |MP3|M4B | 282 MB
The ultimate insider's account: living and working in China in a period of unprecedented economic and social upheaval. It was just after midnight when China's notorious secret police came knocking. A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China's notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith's stint as one of Australia's last foreign correspondents in China. After five days under consular protection, Smith was evacuated from a very different China to the country he first visited 25 years earlier. The late-night visit marked a new twist in Australia's 50-year diplomatic relationship with China which was now coming apart at the seams.
But it also symbolised the authoritarianism creeping into every aspect of society under President Xi Jinping over the last three years. From Xinjiang's re-education camps to the tear-gas filled streets of Hong Kong, Smith's account of Xi Jinping's China documents the country's spectacular economic rise in the years leading up to the coronavirus outbreak. Through first-person accounts of life on the ground and interviews with friends, as well as key players in Chinese society right up to the country's richest man, The Last Correspondent explores what China's rise to become the world's newest superpower means for Australia and the rest of the world.

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English | ASIN: B09BBMCVLK | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~11:12:00 | 318 MB
Lawrence J. Haas, David de Vries (Narrator), "The Kennedys in the World: How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire"
The Kennedys in the World tells a new, rich, fascinating, and consequential story about Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy. From an early age the brothers developed a deep understanding of the different peoples, cultures, and ideologies around the world; a keen appreciation for the challenges that such differences created for the United States; and a strong desire to reshape America's response to them.

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English | March 06, 2021 | ASIN: B08Y11K3VK |MP3|M4B | 3h 10m | 85.98 MB
Author: Brandon Beachum
Narrator: Brandon Beachum

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English | ASIN: B08R96PSYZ | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~07:41:00 | 218 MB
Lisa Miller, Brittany Pressley (Narrator), "The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life"
A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience - from a New York Times best-selling author and award-winning researcher.

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English | ASIN: B08KSH25TQ | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~13:11:00 | 367 MB
Thomas Erikson, David John (Narrator), "Surrounded by Bad Bosses (and Lazy Employees): How to Stop Struggling, Start Succeeding, and Deal with Idiots at Work"
Internationally best-selling author Thomas Erikson has helped changed how the world thinks about behavior using a simple four-color behavior analysis system. In Surrounded by Bad Bosses, he applies that same system to revolutionize the workplace.

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English | ASIN: B09BBL3GXM | 2021 | 4 hours and 5 minutes |MP3|M4B | 112 MB
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy. In this new edition Graham Priest expands his discussion to cover the subjects of algorithms, axioms, and proofs in mathematics.
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English | May 01, 2012 | ASIN: B007Z9686O |MP3|M4B | 7h 5m | 175 MB
Author: Ken Segall
Narrator: Ken Segall

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