English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B097CJBZGK | Duration: 9:22 h | 511 MB
Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel / Narrated by Derek Perkins
From award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy - and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all.

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English | ASIN: B09XFG3MPK | 2022 | 9 hours and 41 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 267 MB
A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity, whether in tiny wasps, lumbering elephants, or ourselves. For centuries, people have been returning to the same tired nature-versus-nurture debate, trying to determine what we learn and what we inherit. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test, biologist Marlene Zuk goes beyond the binary and instead focuses on interaction, or the way that genes and environment work together. Driving her investigation is a simple but essential question: How does behavior evolve?
Drawing from a wealth of research, including her own on insects, Zuk answers this question by turning to a wide range of animals and animal behavior. There are stories of cockatoos that dance to rock music, ants that heal their injured companions, dogs that exhibit signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and so much more. Filled with delightful anecdotes and fresh insights, Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test helps us see both other animals and ourselves more clearly, demonstrating that animal behavior can be remarkably similar to human behavior, and wonderfully complicated in its own right.

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English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B0B29L14BL | Duration: 5:49 h | 318 MB
Rafael A. Mangual / Narrated by Charles Constant
In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of "justice" through mass-decarceration and depolicing.

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English | 2017 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B075RFPW8Y | Duration: 15:08 h | 416 MB
David Foster Wallace / Narrated by David Foster Wallace, Robert Petkoff
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.

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English | ASIN: B07TCR4Z7N | 2019 | 15 hours and 48 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 862 MB
Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, and John Bell Hood, it won few major battles, and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances into the Confederate heartland as a matter of failed leadership. Here, esteemed military historian Larry J. Daniel offers a far richer interpretation. Surpassing previous work that has focused on questions of command structure and the force's fate on the fields of battle, Daniel provides the clearest view to date of the army's inner workings, from top-level command and unit cohesion to the varied experiences of common soldiers and their connections to the home front. Drawing from his mastery of the relevant sources, Daniel's book is a thought-provoking reassessment of an army's fate, with important implications for Civil War history and military history writ large.
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English | 2012 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00AU91HFI | Duration: 15:30 h | 212 MB
Anne Moody / Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was.the fear of being killed just because I was black." In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.

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English | ASIN: B0B7XZ17BR | 2022 | 7 hours and 33 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 207 MB
2021 International Book Awards Finalist, Health: Psychology & Mental Health. At age four, Diana manages her family's banking, grocery shops alone, and befriends the town drunk. Her father is too busy chasing skirts and throwing fits to notice what she does. And her mom is too mentally absent to properly parent. While Diana's narcissistic dad terrorizes and exploits her, she works harder to please him. Estill, an award-winning humor author, shares an honest and comedic look at her dysfunctional childhood. As an adult, she struggles to reclaim her power while caring for her dementia-impaired dad. In this thought-provoking tale of resilience, the author pierces the fog of emotional and sexual abuse.
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English | April 14, 2022 | ASIN: B09X7DWN1K | MP3 | M4B | 4h 51m | 265 MB
Author: John Wyndham | Narrator: Damian Lynch
Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense—it was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another person you couldn't hear. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky—the person who lived in his head.

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English | ASIN: B0B7YVBDHS | 2022 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 196 MB
The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East. Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The summit established the states of Iraq and Jordan as part of the Sherifian Solution and confirmed the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine—the future state of Israel. No other conference had such an enduring impact on the region.
C. Brad Faught demonstrates how the conference, although dominated by the British with limited local participation, was an ambitious, if ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to move the Middle East into the world of modern nationalism. Faught reveals that many officials, including T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, were driven by the determination for state building in the area to succeed. Their prejudices, combined with their abilities, would profoundly alter the Middle East for decades to come.

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English | ASIN: B08DHPSTD2 | 2020 | 3 hours and 59 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 109 MB
Protect your retirement from the next big crash with a new twist on the old investment strategy. For years advisors have recommended that investors take a "buy and hold" approach to the market. But people over 50 can't afford to rely on this strategy. Buy, Hold, and Sell! uncovers the myth of the "buy and hold" investment philosophy and explains why it's dangerously incomplete. Written by Ken Moraif, one of Barron's top 100 financial advisors in the United States three years a row as well as the man who called the 2008 market crash in November of 2007, this book outlines an alternative strategy that better serves investors who are at retirement age. Narrated in easy-to-understand language and buoyed by Ken's trademark humor, this guide shoots down the myths that keep investors in risky markets and arms listeners with the knowledge, motivation, and strategies that may help them survive - and even thrive - during the inevitable next bear market. For those looking to build a sound financial plan for the long run, this book provides expert insight and solid advice.
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