Free Download Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPN1D4S3 | 2023 | 17 hours and 13 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 474 MB
Author: Elisabeth Griffith
Narrator: Elisabeth Griffith
The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites.

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Free Download Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09XBMXGBK | 2023 | 16 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 456 MB
Author: Alexander Waugh
Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has it-and it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son. The first of the literary Waughs was Arthur, who, when he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry at Oxford in 1888, broke with the family tradition of medicine. He went on to become a distinguished publisher and an immensely influential book columnist. He fathered two sons, Alec and Evelyn, both of whom were to become novelists of note (and whom Arthur, somewhat uneasily, would himself publish); both of whom were to rebel in their own ways against his bedrock Victorianism; and one of whom, Evelyn, was to write a series of immortal novels that will be prized as long as elegance and lethal wit are admired. Evelyn begat, among seven others, Auberon Waugh, who would carry on in the family tradition of literary skill and eccentricity, becoming one of England's most incorrigibly cantankerous and provocative newspaper columnists, loved and loathed in equal measure. And Auberon begat Alexander, yet another writer in the family, to whom it has fallen to tell this extraordinary tale of four generations of scribbling male Waughs.

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Free Download Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09YBLDSPG | 2023 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Alice Robb
Narrator: Alice Robb
An incisive exploration of ballet's role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet school in the country: the School of American Ballet. Growing up, Alice Robb dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer. But by age fifteen, she had to face the reality that she would never meet the impossibly high standards of the hyper-competitive ballet world. After she quit, she tried to avoid ballet-only to realize, years later, that she was still haunted by the lessons she had absorbed in the mirror-lined studios of Lincoln Center, and that they had served her well in the wider world. The traits ballet takes to an extreme-stoicism, silence, submission-are valued in girls and women everywhere. Profound, nuanced, and passionately researched, Don't Think, Dear is Robb's excavation of her adolescent years as a dancer and an exploration of how those days informed her life for years to come.

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Free Download Dear Body: What I Lost, What I Gained, and What I Learned Along the Way (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B3R55118 | 2023 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 205 MB
Author: Brittany Williams
Narrator: Brittany Williams
The inspiring story of how one woman overcame her struggle with obesity by healing childhood trauma and confronting her innermost demons. Raised in a turbulent home, Brittany Williams learned to use food as a coping mechanism to manage her feelings at a young age. When she was 14, a family member's comment "no man will want you with a pudgy figure like that" forever changed the way she viewed her body and opened a door, new and alluring, into the world of self-loathing, self-punishment, and dieting. Told with Brittany's unflagging honesty and trademark vulnerability, Dear Body describes the tensions of growing up in a body that often felt more like a traitor than a friend. As we share in her deepest moments of joy and heartache, Brittany reveals that the path to healing requires much more than changing what you eat, and explains how she was finally able to take charge of the course of her health and her life. Filled with poignant lessons and hard-won advice, Dear Body is the story of a woman's relationship with her body, and herself. A story unique to Brittany, but familiar to all of us.

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Free Download Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWWZVBFC | 2023 | 11 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 329 MB
Author: Melvyn P. Leffler
Narrator: Christopher P. Brown
America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era. Nearly two decades after the event, it remains central to understanding current international politics and US foreign relations. In Confronting Saddam Hussein, the eminent historian of US foreign policy Melvyn P. Leffler analyzes why the US chose war and who was most responsible for the decision. Employing a unique set of personal interviews with dozens of top officials and declassified American and British documents, Leffler vividly portrays the emotions and anxieties that shaped the thinking of the president after the shocking events of 9/11. He shows how fear, hubris, and power influenced Bush's approach to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. At the core of Leffler's account is his compelling portrait of Saddam Hussein. Rather than stressing Bush's preoccupation with promoting freedom or democracy, Leffler emphasizes Hussein's brutality, opportunism, and unpredictability and illuminates how the Iraqi dictator's record of aggression and intransigence haunted the president and influenced his calculations.

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Free Download Caesar's Civil War: 49-44 BC (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BNVWM8CR | 2023 | 3 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 178 MB
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
Narrator: John Telfer
Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great were two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produced. Together they had brought vast stretches of territory under Roman dominion. In 49 BC they turned against each other and plunged Rome into civil war. In this audiobook, Adrian Goldsworthy relates the gripping story of this desperate power struggle. Drawing on original accounts of the war, he examines how legion was pitched against legion in a vicious battle for political domination of the vast Roman world. The armies were evenly matched, but in the end, Caesar's genius as a commander and his great good luck brought him victory in 45 BC. Updated and revised for the new edition, this is a detailed introduction to one of the last conflicts in the Roman Republic before the establishment of the Roman Empire.

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Free Download Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVRLHTT6 | 2023 | 9 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Scott McGaugh
Narrator: Geoff Sugiyama
The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by New York Times bestselling author Scott McGaugh. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This audiobook distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that would pull them into enemy territory by a single cable wrapped with a telephone wire. Based on their after-action reports, journals, oral histories, photos and letters home, The Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin reveals every terrifying minute of their missions. They were all volunteers, for a specialized duty that their own government projected would have a 50 percent casualty rate.

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Free Download Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B083QSJ6YL | 2020 | 9 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Narrator: Amy Landon
What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued, Blood Rites takes listeners on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of 20th-century "total war." Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place - not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experiences of predation by stronger carnivores. Brilliant in conception and rich in scope, Blood Rites is a monumental work that continues to transform our understanding of the greatest single threat to human life.

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Free Download An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWSF1762 | 2023 | 5 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Will Kinney
Narrator: Graham Rowat
In the beginning was the Big Bang: an unimaginably hot fire almost fourteen billion years ago in which the first elements were forged. The physical theory of the hot nascent universe-the Big Bang-was one of the most consequential developments in twentieth-century science. And yet it leaves many questions unanswered: Why is the universe so big? Why is it so old? What is the origin of structure in the cosmos? In An Infinity of Worlds, physicist Will Kinney explains a more recent theory that may hold the answers to these questions and even explain the ultimate origins of the universe: c, before the primordial fire of the Big Bang.

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Free Download 12 Bytes: How We Got Here, Where We Might Go Next (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B099P2LGHR | 2021 | 8 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 528 MB
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Narrator: Jeanette Winterson
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times best-selling author Jeanette Winterson. In 12 Bytes, the New York Times best-selling author Jeanette Winterson draws on her years of thinking and reading about artificial intelligence in all its bewildering manifestations. In her brilliant, laser focused, uniquely pointed, and witty style of storytelling, Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, the politics of race and gender, and computer science, to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now.

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