The Life and Death of Ella Grand Duchess of Russia: A Romanov Tragedy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BTFS7YTR | 2023 | 11 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Christopher Warwick
Narrator: Julian Elfer
Described as the 'most beautiful princess in Europe', and a woman 'capable of arousing profane passion', this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Ella was born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. At twenty, her marriage to the Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich, who became the victim of terrorist assassination, like the marriage of her younger sister Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas II, was partly responsible for the fall of the Imperial House of Romanov. In her widowhood and against great opposition, Ella established the first convent community of its kind in Moscow.

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The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present (Audiobook)
English | June 10, 2021 | ASIN: B08WJWJ3T1 | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 7m | 316 MB
Author: Ralph Hope | Narrator: B. J. Harrison
What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies?
By 1990, the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During 40 years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost 100,000 Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found themselves unemployed. This is the story of what they did next.

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The Goblin and the Woman by Hans Christian Andersen
English | MP3@192 kbps | 10 min | 14.5 MB
In every peasant dwelling, lives a goblin, a small invisible creature, who plays all kinds of tricks on the inhabitants. At least, that is what the peasants believe, but one woman, the gardener's wife, did not believe this. Yet, they really do exist, and the little goblin who lived in the gardener's house was very angry that the woman did not believe in him!

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The Future of China by Introbooks Team
English | MP3@192 kbps | 46 min | 64.3 MB
One must accept that a lot of inconsistencies about China will never sound good in terms of the Western mindset. However, China, whose Communist Party government turns 70 today, treads the path of growth, carrying occasional embarrassment of inconsistency.

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The Essential Marcus Aurelius (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B3KSRQRN | 2022 | 2 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 163 MB
Author: Jacob Needleman, John P. Piazza
Narrator: Victor Bevine
This inaugural-and all new-Tarcher Cornerstone Edition presents a stunningly relevant and reliable translation of the thoughts and aphorisms of the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, properly placing the philosopher-king's writings within the vein of the world's great religious and ethical traditions. The late antique world possessed no voice like that of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE). His private meditations on what constitutes a good life have withstood the centuries and reach us today with the same penetrating clarity and shining light as the words of Shakespeare, Emerson, or Thoreau.

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The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BTJ9KZ4B | 2023 | 17 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 494 MB
Author: Alexander J. Field
Narrator: Steve Marvel
A reminder that war is not always, or even generally, good for long-term growth. Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War, understood as a triumph of both production and productivity. Alexander Field shows that between 1941 and 1945 manufacturing productivity actually declined, depressed by changes in the output mix and resource shocks from enemy action, including curtailed access to natural rubber and, on the Eastern Seaboard, petroleum.

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The Drop of Water by Hans Christian Andersen
English | MP3@192 kbps | 03 min | 5.3 MB
An old man called Kribble-Krabble observed a drop of water in a puddle in a ditch through a magnifying glass. And it kribbled and krabbled and when things were not as he wanted, he used witchcraft and that is exactly what happened here.

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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
English | MP3@192 kbps | 53 min | 73.6 MB
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world. Slipping into nihilism with the "terrible anguish" he is determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man. It was first published in A Writer's Diary.

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The Double Date by Martin Lundqvist
English | MP3@192 kbps | 08 min | 11.7 MB
The successful lawyer Geoffrey is on a date when his friend Martin unexpectedlly arrives accompanied by an Asian Bombshell. But why is Martin at the same venue and how can his arrival destroy Geoffrey's prospect? There is only one way to find out. Listen to this story.

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The Door in the Wall by Herbert Wells
English | MP3@192 kbps | 45 min | 62.2 MB
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. "The Door in the Wall" is the strange supernatural tale of a young boy who finds a door in a wall which leads to a beautiful magical garden full of wonderful people, animals and flowers. The rest of his life is spent searching for the door and the magical world again... but the door only reveals itself again at the most inconvenient moments, when he cannot spare the time to go through it. Until one night, finally, he finds the door again and goes back through...

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