Free Download The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV86CGNB | 2023 | 9 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Alexander Nemerov
Narrator: Clarke Peters
Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, featuring both real and invented characters, the book follows painters, poets, enslaved people, farmers, and artisans living and working in a world still made largely of wood. Some of the historical characters-such as Thomas Cole, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Kemble, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nat Turner-are well-known, while others are not. But all are creators of private and grand designs.

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Free Download The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author/Narrator)
2023 | English | ASIN: B0BSLPH79M | M4B & MP3@63 kbps | 29 hrs 11 mins | 888 to 897 MB | UBR | Retail
A 2023 highlight for: BBC News, Sunday Times Culture, Financial Times, New European, Guardian, New Statesman, The Times, The Week, Waterstones, Blackwell's
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts.
In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new: exploring, for instance, the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; tracing how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; scrutinising how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; and seeing how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. Understanding how past shifts in natural patterns have shaped history, and how our own species has shaped terrestrial, marine and atmospheric conditions is not just important but essential at a time of growing awareness of the severity of the climate crisis.

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Free Download The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09YJ1NS8F | 2023 | 8 hours and 1 minute | MP3@64 kbps | 221 MB
Author: John Lisle
Narrator: Pete Cross
John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch-The Dirty Tricks Department-and its role in World War II. In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington, D.C. When he arrived, he was led to a barren room where he waited to meet the man who had summoned him. After a disconcerting amount of time, William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the head of the OSS, walked in the door. "You know your Sherlock Holmes, of course," Donovan said as an introduction. "Professor Moriarty is the man I want for my staff...I think you're it."

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Free Download The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BM532TP9 | 2023 | 6 hours and 50 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 187 MB
Author: Dan Egan
Narrator: Jason Culp
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty-and now great peril-all over the world. Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it's also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has sustained life for billions of people. In this major work of explanatory science and environmental journalism, Pulitzer Prize finalist Dan Egan investigates the past, present, and future of what has been called "the oil of our time." The story of phosphorus spans the globe and vast tracts of human history. First discovered in a seventeenth-century alchemy lab in Hamburg, it soon became a highly sought-after resource.

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Free Download The Curator (Audiobook)
English | March 07, 2023 | ASIN: B0B4X9LTZH | M4B@64 kbps | 14h 19m | 397 MB
Author: Owen King | Narrator: Marin Ireland
Named a MOST ANTICIPATED Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of 2023 by Polygon, Tor, and Men's Health!
From New York Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine.

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Free Download The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B69DJM1Q | 2023 | 10 hours and 41 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Ian Buruma
Narrator: Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma's spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures-a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler's masseur-who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule, or true heroes, or something in between. On the face of it, the three characters in this book seem to have little in common-aside from the fact that each committed wartime acts that led some to see them as national heroes, and others as villains. All three were mythmakers, larger-than-life storytellers, for whom the truth was beside the point. Felix Kersten was a plump Finnish pleasure-seeker who became Heinrich Himmler's indispensable personal masseur-Himmler calling him his "magic Buddha." Kersten presented himself after the war as a resistance hero who convinced Himmler to save countless people from mass murder. Kawashima Yoshiko, a gender-fluid Manchu princess, spied for the Japanese secret police in China, and was mythologized by the Japanese as a heroic combination of Mata Hari and Joan of Arc.

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Free Download The Big Score: The Billion-Dollar Story of Silicon Valley (Audiobook)
English | July 29, 2021 | ASIN: B09BDL543N | M4B@125 kbps | 20h 8m | 1.07 GB
Author: Michael S. Malone
Narrator: Kevin Stillwell
The only contemporary history of the birth of Silicon Valley - from the reporter who had a ringside seat to it all

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Free Download The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BB3F8T9F | 2023 | 8 hours and 55 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 245 MB
Author: Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington
Narrator: Amy Finegan
A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry-and what to do about it. There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability, and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown.

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Free Download The Betrayal Bind: How to Heal When the Person You Love the Most Has Hurt You the Worst (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVXCF81H | 2023 | 10 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Michelle Mays
Narrator: Sarah Welborn
What happens when your partner, your primary person, in an instant, becomes a source of danger and pain? The Betrayal Bind introduces new language, concepts, and imagery to explore the crucial relational dilemma that betrayed partners face when their significant other is unsafe to connect to, yet connection is the key to healing. Discovering a partner's sexual betrayal spins your world out of control. In a split second, your sense of safety is shattered, your trust is gone, and everything you thought you could count on is in question. Betrayed partners, whether dealing with an isolated infidelity or a pattern of sexual compulsivity, need immediate support to navigate the new terrain of their relationship. They need a clear articulation of betrayal trauma, a thorough education about their normal attachment-based reactions, and a proven path to healing. By focusing on how a partner's attachment system functions in the wake of sexual betrayal, The Betrayal Bind offers a new, game-changing exploration into an age-old problem and connects the dots from research to the lived experience of betrayed partners.

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Free Download The 100 Biggest Mistakes That Poker Players Make (Audiobook)
English | August 22, 2022 | ASIN: B0BBHCY38M | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 38m | 691 MB
Author and Narrator: Alexander Fitzgerald
Poker players make mistakes. All the time. And the mistakes they make are predictable and exploitable. The problem is, most people don't know what these mistakes are!
No longer. In this book, the highly experienced professional player and leading poker coach, Alexander "Assassinato" Fitzgerald identifies and analyzes the 100 biggest mistakes that poker players make.

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