Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08TYRBWQC | 2022 | 8 hours and 21 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Shahbaz Taseer
Narrator: Adam Karim
Shahbaz Taseer's memoir of his five-year-long captivity at the hands of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. In late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Taliban-affiliated Uzbek terrorist group. Shahbaz's father, the late Pakistani governor, had recently been assassinated. His crime: speaking in support of a Christian woman who had been accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death. Though Taseer himself wasn't much interested in politics, he was somewhat of a public figure, and he represented a more tolerant, internationally connected Pakistan that the IMU despised.

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Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B46TD63D | 2022 | 23 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 1.3 GB
Author: William C. Davis
Narrator: Michael Beck
William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America not simply as a military saga (although it is that), but rather as a full portrait of a society and incipient nation. The first history of the Confederacy in decades, the culmination of a great scholar's career, Look Away! combines politics, economics, and social history to set a new standard for its subject.

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Long Live Mortal Kombat, Round 1: The Fatalities and Fandom of the Arcade Era (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP4DR9DX | 2022 | 21 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 624 MB
Author: David L. Craddock
Narrator: Andy Ingalls
To politicians and parents, Mortal Kombat was a menace to society. To gamers, it was a way of life. From dedicated hustlers who put thousands of miles on their odometers driving coast to coast to challenge the top players in arcades, to fans who devote their free time to collecting action figures, setting world records, and plumbing the depths of its lore, the Mortal Kombat franchise has topped sales charts for thirty years, and its popularity shows no signs of waning. But before Mortal Kombat offended politicians and sold over 12 million units (and counting), executives at Midway saw it as filler-a stopgap between more promising games like NBA Jam. Cocreators Ed Boon and John Tobias felt differently. But not even they could have imagined the phenomenon Mortal Kombat would become when it hit arcades in October 1992, or the controversy that would follow in its wake. Based on extensive interviews, Long Live Mortal Kombat: Round 1 chronicles the arcade era of the video game industry's most infamous fighting series, the creative and technical hurdles its team had to clear, and the personal stories of the fans whose passion has made Mortal Kombat a pillar of popular culture.

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Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPZJ1Z8K | 2022 | 10 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 298 MB
Author: Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Anzaldua)
Narrator: Angela Juarez
Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Dark represents the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Throughout, Anzaldúa weaves personal narratives into deeply engaging theoretical readings to comment on numerous contemporary issues-including the September 11 attacks, neocolonial practices in the art world, and coalitional politics. She valorizes subaltern forms and methods of knowing, being, and creating that have been marginalized by Western thought, and theorizes her writing process as a fully embodied artistic and political practice. Resituating Anzaldúa's work within Continental philosophy and new materialism, Light in the Dark takes Anzaldúan scholarship in new directions.

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Let There Be Art: The Pleasure and Purpose of Unleashing the Creativity Within You (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLTJ2HSQ | 2022 | 8 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 189 MB
Author: Rachel Marie Kang
Narrator: Rachel Marie Kang
Perhaps in no other way do we more vibrantly reflect our creator than with our creativity. Whether through music, writing, baking, painting, posting on social media, dancing, or any other form of artistic expression within our grasp, we were created to create. Yet, there are times we may be unsure about our art, times when our creating and making doesn't feel possible or purposeful or practical. Rachel Marie Kang wants you to know that your art is not peripheral to life-it is at the very heart of why you exist and what you have to offer to yourself and to the world. In Let There Be Art, she gives you permission to embrace the peace, pleasure, and purpose inherent in your art and in the process of making it. This passionate, creative, and cathartic journey invites you to create truthfully out of the broken and beautiful pieces of your life, as well as offer your heart and your art in hopes of helping a hurting world.

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Koala: A Life in Trees (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BNQV4SR5 | 2022 | 9 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Danielle Clode
Narrator: Jessica Douglas-Henry
An immersive, entertaining journey into the hidden life of the koala, revealing what life is really like up in the trees. Despite their iconic status and celebrity, koalas remain something of a mystery. Often affectionate in captivity, they seek out human assistance when in need of water or care yet can also be fierce and belligerent. They are beloved worldwide and feature in popular children's stories, but are also plagued by sexually transmitted diseases and maligned for a lack of intelligence. Their diet consists solely of leaves that are full of toxins. In some states they are threatened with extinction, while in others they are dying from overpopulation.

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Keeping the Wonder: An Educator's Guide to Magical, Engaging, and Joyful Learning (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPZZS6VP | 2022 | 6 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 189 MB
Author: Jenna Copper, Ashley Bible, Abby (Abigail) Gross, Staci Lamb
Narrator: Rebecca Stern
Embarking on your first solo road trip. Receiving a special surprise that arrives out of the blue. Finding a sudden flash of inspiration that sets you on a wondrous new path. When we think about the moments that stand out in our memory, it's clear that our minds hold onto the unusual or unexpected. By tapping into students' innate curiosity, you can design memorable, meaningful learning experiences that captivate their interest and ignite their imaginations. In this dynamic handbook, Jenna, Ashley, Abby, and Staci offer a fresh approach to learning through the lens of wonder. By providing creative ideas for switching up standard lesson plans in ways both subtle and profound, they show us how to recapture our fascination with the world by employing all of our senses, and enhance engagement and critical thinking for students and teachers alike.

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In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B094LSFDM8 | 2022 | 15 hours and 32 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 414 MB
Author: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Narrator: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life-one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us. Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the climb Silvia Vasquez-Lavado braves in her pulse-raising memoir following her journey to Mount Everest. In the Shadow of the Mountain is a remarkable story of heroism, one which awakens in all of us a lust for adventure, an appetite for risk, and faith in our own resilience.

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In the Eye of the Wild (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP3S2JB1 | 2022 | 4 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 195 MB
Author: Nastassja Martin
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin's near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martin's professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent encounter with the bear, however, brings her face-to-face with something entirely beyond her ken-the untamed, the nonhuman, the animal, the wild. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka, a person who is half human, half bear.

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Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09NP3FZ6C | 2022 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Robert Child
Narrator: Vaughn Johseph
The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their recognition. In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of courage by American soldiers during World War II, they recommended awarding the Medal of Honor to 432 recipients. Despite the fact that more than one million African Americans served, not a single Black soldier received the Medal of Honor. The omission remained on the record for more than four decades. But recent historical investigations have brought to light some of the extraordinary acts of valour performed by Black soldiers during the war. Men like Vernon Baker, who single-handedly eliminated three enemy machineguns, an observation post and a German dugout. Or Sergeant Reuben Rivers, who spearheaded his tank unit's advance against fierce German resistance for three days despite being grievously wounded. Meanwhile Lieutenant Charles Thomas led his platoon to capture a strategically vital village on the Siegfried Line in 1944 despite losing half his men and suffering a number of wounds himself.

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