Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0821TDGG3 | 2020 | 9 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Michael O'Leary, Warren Valdmanis
Narrator: Joe Knezevich
This provocative book takes us inside the fight to save capitalism from itself. Corporations are broken, reflecting no purpose deeper than profit. But the tools we are relying on to fix them - corporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government control - risk making our problems worse. With lively storytelling and careful analysis, O'Leary and Valdmanis cut through the tired dogma of current economic thinking to reveal a hopeful truth: If we can make our corporations accountable to a deeper purpose, we can make capitalism both prosperous and good.

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A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B25QCCRZ | 2022 | 11 hours and 27 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Joseph L Graves Jr.
Narrator: Kyle Chapple
Why understanding evolution-the most reviled branch of science-can help us all, from fighting pandemics to undoing racism. Evolutionary science has long been regarded as conservative, a tool for enforcing regressive ideas, particularly about race and gender. But in A Voice in the Wilderness, evolutionary biologist Joseph L. Graves Jr.-once styled as the "Black Darwin"-argues that his field is essential to social justice. He shows, for example, why biological races do not exist. He dismantles recent work in "human biodiversity" seeking genes to explain the achievements of different ethnic groups. He decimates homophobia, sexism, and classism as well. As a pioneering Black biologist, a leftist, and a Christian, Graves uses his personal story-his journey from a child of Jim Crow to a major researcher and leader of his peers-to rewrite his field. A Voice in the Wilderness is a powerful work of scientific anti-racism and a moving account of a trailblazing life.

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A Strange Whim of the Sea: The Wreck of the USS Macaw (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLTHDVZ8 | 2022 | 8 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Tim Loughman
Narrator: Tom Perkins
On January 16, 1944, the submarine rescue vessel USS Macaw (ASR-11) ran aground at Midway Atoll while attempting to get a towing line to the stranded submarine USS Flier (SS-250). The Flier was pulled free six days later, but another three weeks of salvage efforts failed to dislodge the Macaw. Then on February 12, the sea accomplished that task, nudging the ship into deeper water. As night fell and the ship slowly sank, the twenty-two men on board sought refuge in the pilot house. By about 0230 Sunday, that compartment having flooded almost entirely, Burton gave the order to open the portside door and make for the foremast.

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A Short History of Philosophy: From Ancient Greece to the Post-Modernist Era (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09PBBG1PG | 2021 | 5 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 164 MB
Author: Peter Gibson
Narrator: India Shaw Smith
The world's great philosophers have always wrestled with the crucial questions about human nature and the world we live in: How should we live our lives? What is knowledge? Over the centuries, philosophers have come up with an array of compelling answers to these questions. A Short History of Philosophy takes you on an entertaining and informative journey through the landscape of western philosophy from Plato to Jean-Paul Sartre. Whether discussing the origins of metaphysics, the merits of idealism, or the questions raised by existentialism, Peter Gibson brings to life the ideas of these great thinkers and carefully explains their reasoning in straightforward, easy-to-understand language.

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A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09RTP7HP8 | 2022 | 16 hours and 4 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 410 MB
Author: John le Carré (Carre), Tim Cornwell
Narrator: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving listeners access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time. The never-before-seen correspondence of John le Carré, one of the most important novelists of our generation, is collected in this beautiful volume. During his lifetime, le Carré wrote numerous letters to writers, spies, politicians, artists, actors and public figures. This collection is a treasure trove, revealing the late author's humor, generosity, and wit-a side of him many listeners have not previously seen.

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A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMJR56MM | 2022 | 4 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 128 MB
Author: Rosemary Mosco
Narrator: Janet Metzger
Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun. Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We've kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops-and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, listeners can rediscover the wonder. Equal parts field guide and quirky history, it covers behavior: Why they coo; how they flock; how they preen, kiss, and mate (monogamously); and how they raise their young (on chunky pigeon milk).

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A Message from Ukraine: Speeches, 2019-2022 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BGYMDCG9 | 2022 | 2 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 148 MB
Author: Volodymyr Zelensky
Narrator: Greg Kolpakchi
An urgent call to arms from the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courage in the face of the Russian invasion has inspired the world and turned him overnight into a global beacon of democracy. The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's story through the words of its president. It is the story of a nation valiantly defending itself from Russian aggression. And it is the story of a people leading the world in the struggle for democracy. Above all, it is a battle cry for us all to stand up and fight for liberty. If not now, when? The only book officially authorized by President Zelensky, A Message from Ukraine includes speeches he has personally selected to tell the story of the Ukrainian people.

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A Heart That Works (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B624HTY2 | 2022 | 3 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 192 MB
Author: Rob Delaney
Narrator: Rob Delaney
A visceral and deeply personal memoir by the star of the Amazon Prime series Catastrophe, about the loss of his young son. In 2016, Rob Delaney's one-year-old son, Henry, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The family had moved from Los Angeles to London with their two young boys when Rob's wife was pregnant with Henry, their third. The move was an adventure that would bind them even more tightly together as they navigated the novelty of London, the culture clashes, and the funhouse experience of Rob's fame-thanks to his role as co-creator and co-star of the hit series Catastrophe. Henry's illness was a cataclysm that changed everything about their lives.

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A Diary from Dixie (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0844NKKZJ | 2020 | 14 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 787 MB
Author: Mary Chesnut
Narrator: Casey Robertson
These are the memoirs of the wife of Confederate General James Chesnut, Jr., who was an advisor to President Jefferson Davis. It is a fascinating account of all the years of the American Civil War. It focuses on the daily lives and adversities of all who suffered through the war, from ordinary people to the Confederacy's generals and political elite. Mary Chesnut's prose has lost none of its provocative bite through the ages!

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A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09V99F6N1 | 2022 | 7 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Mary-Alice Daniel
Narrator: Liz Femi
A poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion-from Nigeria to England to America. Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family's series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures through the physical and mythical landscapes of Daniel's upbringing. Against the backdrop of a migratory adolescence, she reckons with race, religious conflict, culture clash, and a multiplicity of possible identities. Daniel lays bare the lives and legends of her parents and past generations, unearthing the tribal mythologies that shaped her kin and her own way of being in the world.

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