English | ASIN: B09QBKTQC2 | 2022 | 9 hours and 2 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 249 MB
Narrated through the eyes of the intimates of Suleyman the Magnificent, the sixteenth-century sultan of the Ottoman Empire, The Lion House animates with stunning immediacy the fears and stratagems of those brought into orbit around him: the Greek slave who becomes his Grand Vizier, the Venetian jewel dealer who acts as his go-between, the Russian consort who becomes his most beloved wife. Within a decade and a half, Suleyman held dominion over twenty-five million souls, from Baghdad to the walls of Vienna, and with the help of his brilliant pirate commander Barbarossa placed more Christians than ever before or since under Muslim rule. And yet the real drama takes place in close-up: in small rooms and whispered conversations, behind the curtain of power, where the sultan sleeps head to toe with his best friend and eats from wooden spoons with his baby boy. In The Lion House, Christopher de Bellaigue tells not just the story of rival superpowers in an existential duel, nor of one of the most consequential lives in human history, but of what it means to live in a time when a few men get to decide the fate of the world.

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English | July 11, 2017 | ASIN: B073FWR2CM | MP3 | M4B | 21h 23m | 484.01 MB
Author: Edward W. Robertson

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English | ASIN: B0B5FW755D | 2022 | 9 hours and 59 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 282 MB
In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life's big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with listeners, considering the questions many of us wrestle with

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English | ASIN: B0B522K31G | 2022 | 9 hours and 31 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 254 MB
The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow. In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB were both watching Karel Koecher closely—and they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. They were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA, Koecher proceeded to operate as a double agent at the height of the Cold War.

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English | March 29, 2022 | ASIN: B09VMHJSVD | MP3 | M4B | 8h 58m | 489 MB
Author: Stefani Goerlich | Narrator: Tanya Eby

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English | August 09, 2022 | ASIN: B0B835BYXT | MP3 | M4B | 6h 40m | 131.33 MB
Author: Michael Anderle

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English | ASIN: B09Q7H82NB | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ~10:59:00 | 311 MB
Bob Drury, Tom Clavin, George Newbern (Narrator), "The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII"

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English | ASIN: B0BGMM7PSB | 2022 | 10 hours and 45 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 296 MB
As a cop, Ron Previte was corrupt. As a mobster, he was brutal. And in his final role, as a confidential informant to the FBI, Previte was deadly. The Last Gangster is his story—the story of the last days of the Philadelphia Mob, and of the clash of generations that brought it down once and for all. For thirty-five years, Ron Previte roamed the underworld. A six-foot, three-hundred-pound capo in the Philadelphia-South Jersey crime family, he ran every mob scam and gambit from drug trafficking and prostitution to the extortion of millions from Atlantic City.

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English | ASIN: B09SGJ8P4Q | 2022 | 22 hours and 00 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 623 MB
By the New York Times bestselling author—the source for HBO's Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson. From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched. Video game makers turned him into an invincible character—and they were dead-on. He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat. He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports, and overtook Michael Jordan as America's most recognizable pitchman. He was on our televisions, in our magazines, plastered across billboards. He was half man, half myth.

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English | ASIN: B09XXYFH44 | 2022 | 8 hours and 29 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 218 MB
An urgently important exploration of the human stories behind Canada's evolving acceptance of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), from one of its first and most thoughtful practitioners. Dr. Jean Marmoreo spent her career keeping people alive. But when the Supreme Court of Canada gave the green light to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in 2016, she became one of a small group of doctors who chose to immediately train themselves in this new field. Over the course of a single year, Marmoreo learns about end-of-life practices in bustling Toronto hospitals, in hospices, and in the facilities of smaller communities. She found that the needed services were often minimal—or non-existent.

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