When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable: How to Break the Pattern of People Pleasing and Confidently Live Your Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08QY31N6Y | 2021 | 6 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 191 MB
Author: Karen Ehman
Narrator: Karen Ehman
Are you overwhelmed by others' unrealistic expectations of you? Do you feel torn in dozens of directions as you try to make everyone around you happy? If you're ready to end the cycle of approval seeking, New York Times best-selling author and recovering people pleaser Karen Ehman is here to help! With equal parts humor and vulnerability, Karen explores why it's so easy to fall into people-pleasing behaviors and reminds us that we can't fulfill our divine purpose if we're too busy living everyone else's. She offers her timely advice for living with less overwhelm and with more peace and purpose, sharing words of wisdom that will help you, It's time to end the people-pleasing game and finally enjoy the peaceful and purposeful life that you deserve.

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We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BNKJLFMF | 2022 | 18 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 518 MB
Author: John Lewis Gaddis
Narrator: Danny Campbell
Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in American archives as well as the recently opened archives in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China, We Now Know provides a vividly written, eye-opening account of the Cold War during the years from the end of World War II to its most dangerous moment, the Cuban missile crisis. We Now Know stands as a powerful vindication of United States policy throughout the period, and as a thought-provoking reassessment of the Cold War by one of its most distinguished historians.

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Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B2KSH99H | 2022 | 9 hours and 23 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Henry Sanderson
Narrator: Rory Barnett
In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars. We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining. Sanderson journeys to meet the characters, companies, and nations scrambling for the new resources, linking remote mines in the Congo and Chile's Atacama Desert to giant Chinese battery factories, shadowy commodity traders, secretive billionaires, and a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a "greener" world.

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Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPJSCBLF | 2022 | 13 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 378 MB
Author: Serhy Yekelchyk
Narrator: David Aranovich
In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's second-largest country but still an immature state only recently independent, Ukraine has become a test case of post-communist democracy, as millions of people in other countries celebrated the protesters' eventual victory. Any attempt to understand current events in this vibrant and unsettled land, however, must begin with Ukraine's dramatic history.

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This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BBGZ3MLX | 2022 | 4 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Nick Riggle
Narrator: Nick Riggle
An acclaimed philosopher argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living. You didn't choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions-this delicate and difficult life. Yet when you consider that your existence is fleeting, an inspired sense of urgency can spring forth. In This Beauty, philosopher Nick Riggle explores the beauty of being alive by investigating the things we say to inspire ourselves and each other: seize the day, treat yourself, you only live once. Insightful and deeply humane, This Beauty offers a personal and searching inquiry into the mystery of life's beauty.

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Things I Should Have Said (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09JVFR8PL | 2022 | 5 hours and 53 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 158 MB
Author: Jamie Lynn Spears
Narrator: Jamie Lynn Spears
In this intimate memoir, actress and musician Jamie Lynn Spears opens up for the first time, telling her unfiltered story on her own terms. You've read the headlines, but you don't know Jamie Lynn Spears. The world first met Jamie Lynn as a child star, when it was her job to perform, both on set and for the press. She spent years escaping into different characters - on All That, Zoey 101, and even in the role as Britney's kid sister. But as she grew up, faced a teen pregnancy, raised her daughter on her own, pursued a career, and learned to stand on her own two feet, the real Jamie Lynn started to take center stage - a raw, blemished, and imperfect woman, standing in her own power. Despite growing up in one of America's most tabloid-famous families, Jamie Lynn has never told her story in her own words.

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The Zulus at War: The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00OGNFBN8 | 2014 | 9 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Adrian Greaves, Xolani Mkhize
Narrator: Kevin Free
By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colorful successors under whose leadership the warrior nation built a fearsome fighting reputation without equal among the native tribes of South Africa. It also examines the tactics and weapons employed during the numerous intertribal battles over this period. They then became victims of their own success in that their defeat of the Boers in 1877 and 1878 in the Sekhukhuni War prompted the well-documented British intervention.

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The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BNK4X66L | 2022 | 9 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Mark E. Stille
Narrator: Shawn Compton
Although slowly building its navy while neutral during the early years of World War II, the US was struck a serious blow when its battleships, the lynchpin of US naval doctrine, were the target of the dramatic attack at Pearl Harbor. In the Pacific Theater, the US was thereafter locked into a head to head struggle with the impressive Imperial Japanese Navy, fighting a series of major battles in the Coral Sea, at Midway, the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, and Okinawa in the struggle for supremacy over Japan. Having avoided the decisive defeat sought by the IJN, the US increased industrial production and by the end of the war, the US Navy was larger than any other in the world. Meanwhile in the west, the US Navy operated on a second front, supporting landings in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy, and in 1944 played a significant part in the D-Day landings, the largest and most complex amphibious operation of all time. Written by an acknowledged expert, this book offers a detailed look at the strategy, operations, and vessels of the US Navy in World War II.

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The Traces: An Essay (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798212242493 | 2022 | 7 hours and 25 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 198 MB
Author: Mairead Small Staid
Narrator: Carlotta Brentan
The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. Mairead Small Staid's debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Capri, The Traces draws on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson.

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The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B2KQZKP5 | 2022 | 12 hours and 2 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Jim Harrison
Narrator: Traber Burns
The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling definitive collection of Jim Harrison's essays and journalism-some never before published. New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with a poet's economy of style and trencherman's appetites and ribald humor. In The Search for the Genuine, a collection of new and previously published essays, the giant of letters muses on everything from grouse hunting and fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, including reported pieces on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open ocean, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life-and, for those attempting to cross in the ever-more-dangerous gaps, death-on the US/Mexico border. Written with Harrison's trademark humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, this chronicle of a modern bon vivant is a feast for fans who may think they know Harrison's nonfiction, from a true "American original".

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