Free Download Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BHXKPHXF | 2023 | 6 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Steve Turner, Adem Tepedelen
Narrator: Steve Turner, Lloyd Floyd
A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene-from backyard skateboard ramps and underground hardcore clubs to worldwide phenomenon-as told by one of its founding fathers and lead guitarist of legendary alternative rock band, Mudhoney. In the late '80s and early '90s, Steve Turner and his friends-Seattle skate punks, hardcore kids, and assorted misfits-started forming bands in each other's basements and accidentally created a unique sound that spread far beyond their once-sleepy city. Mud Ride offers an inside look at the tight-knit grunge scene, the musical influences and experiments that shaped the grunge sound, and the story of Turner's bands, Green River and Mudhoney, which went from underground flophouse shows to selling out stadiums with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Including stories about the key moments, musicians, and albums from grunge's beginnings to its come-down from the highs of global success and stardom, this is the first account of the musical phenomenon that took over the world from someone who was there for it all.

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Free Download Midway Submerged: American and Japanese Submarine Operations at the Battle of Midway, May-June 1942 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5NT45C4 | 2023 | 3 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Mark W. Allen
Narrator: Stephen Bowlby
Most books gloss over submarines at Midway and, if they are mentioned at all, conclude they failed miserably and had little impact on the outcome of the battle. It is undeniable that carrier aviation and intelligence saved the day, but the role of the submarine was an important one in defense of an anticipated amphibious assault. Midway Submerged is a comprehensive examination of a little-known aspect of this pivotal naval battle, explaining how Nimitz used his submarines at Midway and the Japanese misused theirs based on a flawed tactical plan.

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Free Download London's Lost Department Stores: A Vanished World of Dazzle and Dreams (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781959162186 | 2023 | 5 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Tessa Boase
Narrator: Tessa Boase
Best-selling social historian Tessa Boase takes us behind the scenes of London's lost department stores, bringing back to life a vanished era of confidence and style. Today's consumer has little idea of the sheer dazzle of these 'Halls of Temptation' during the golden age of shopping - of their sheer theatrical spectacle, the overwhelming assault on the senses, the astonishing architectural élan. From the fabulous Art Deco of Derry & Toms, to the Moderne lines of Simpsons Piccadilly, department stores led the way in fashion and design. As new social hubs for the independent Victorian woman, they engineered social progress. They became legendary for their publicity stunts, their Christmas shop windows, their exotic pet departments, their furs: as places where you could buy anything. Full of immersive period detail and vivid human anecdote, London's Lost Department Stores unpacks the secret stories behind fifty once-great stores.

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Free Download Lessons from an American Stoic: How Emerson Can Change Your Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B8PXP5NS | 2023 | 7 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 212 MB
Author: Mark Matousek
Narrator: Stephen Graybill
A lifelong Emerson lover, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson's twelve essential teachings hold the answer to living an authentic and fulfilling life, one that is in harmony with our souls. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a spiritual revolutionary whose profound vision of human potential came to define the American character. Known as America's original Stoic, he offered a radical message of optimism, authenticity, and self-realization that is more necessary today than ever. In this timely, remarkable book, noted memoirist and teacher Mark Matousek reveals the depths of Emerson's extraordinary wisdom, demonstrating how his timeless philosophy can help us navigate the challenges of contemporary life. Using personal stories, psychological research, and life lessons from Emerson and his contemporaries-including Thoreau and Whitman-he offers practical lessons in the art of living.

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Free Download Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5S6S56Q | 2023 | 9 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Greg Marshall
Narrator: Greg Marshall
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets-as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy. Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries, pondering why he's crushing on half of the Utah Jazz. Add to this home video footage a mom clacking away at her newspaper column between chemos, a dad with ALS, and a cast of foulmouthed siblings.

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Free Download Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ5ZGH9Q | 2023 | 3 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 203 MB
Author: Helen Ellis
Narrator: Helen Ellis
New York Times bestselling author Helen Ellis paints a portrait of true romance for our times in these surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays about love, marriage, and her last first kiss. Welcome to the Coral Lounge, a room in Helen Ellis's New York City apartment painted such an exuberant shade that a Peeping Tom left a sticky note asking for the color. It is in the Coral Lounge where all the parties happen: A game called "What's in the box?" makes its uproarious debut, the Puzzle Posse pounces on a 500-piece jigsaw of a beheaded priest, and guests don blindfolds for a raucous bridal shower. When the pandemic shuts down the city, the Coral Lounge becomes a place of refuge, where Helen and her husband binge-watch Joan Collins's Dynasty, dote on two spoiled cats, and where Helen discovers that even twenty years into marriage, her husband still makes her heart pitter patter.

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Free Download Joy Hunter: Messy Faceplants, Radical Love, and the Journey That Changed Everything (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ4GRNRN | 2023 | 7 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Alexis Jones
Narrator: Alexis Jones
A timely, colorful, and cinematic memoir chronicling one woman's journey to rediscover her own power, resilience, and happiness. I took a bone-deep breath as we drove away from my state, my city, my street, and my house, escaping my life and leaving behind all my broken parts. With a successful speaking career putting her on the road 250 days a year, a slew of prestigious awards for her activism, the hugely successful book I Am That Girl, and a happy marriage, Alexis Jones was living a seemingly charmed life. But the principles of self-care, setting boundaries, and eschewing perfectionism that she espoused in her talks didn't seem to translate into her own life; she still never seemed to feel "enough" inside. Then, in a matter of months, things started to fall apart on the outside, too: She discovered that the man she'd always called dad was not her biological father, she had a devastating miscarriage, and the pandemic sidelined her travel schedule-and paycheck.

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Free Download "If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania": The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg-Volume 1: June 3-21, 1863 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5S5G8H7 | 2023 | 15 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 442 MB
Author: Scott L. Mingus Sr., Eric J. Wittenberg
Narrator: Paul Heitsch
Gen. Robert E. Lee began moving part of his Army of Northern Virginia from the Old Dominion toward Pennsylvania on June 3, 1863. Lee believed his army needed to win a major victory on Northern soil if the South was to have a chance at winning the war. Transferring the fighting out of war-torn Virginia would allow the state time to heal while he supplied his army from untapped farms and stores in Maryland and the Keystone State. Lee had also convinced Pres. Jefferson Davis that his offensive would interfere with the Union effort to take Vicksburg in Mississippi. The bold movement would trigger extensive cavalry fighting and a major battle at Winchester before culminating in the bloody three-day battle at Gettysburg.

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Free Download I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C2JCZX96 | 2023 | 12 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 356 MB
Author: Andrew Boyd
Narrator: Chris Bates
An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers. With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom. He searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers-from activist Tim DeChristopher to collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht, grassroots strategist adrienne maree brown, eco-philosopher Joana Macy, and Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer-asking them: "Is it really the end of the world? And if so, now what?" With gallows humor and a broken heart, Boyd steers listeners through their climate angst as he walks his own. Boyd's journey takes him from storm-battered coastlines to pipeline blockades and "hopelessness workshops." Along the way, he maps out our existential options and tackles some familiar dilemmas.

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Free Download How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ1B13J5 | 2023 | 5 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Cody Cassidy
Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
History is the most dangerous place on earth. From dinosaurs the size of locomotives to meteors big enough to sterilize the planet, from famines to pandemics, from tornadoes to the Chicxulub asteroid, the odds of human survival are slim but not zero-at least, not if you know where to go and what to do. In each chapter of How to Survive History, Cody Cassidy explores how to survive one of history's greatest threats: getting eaten by dinosaurs, being destroyed by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, succumbing to the lava flows of Pompeii, being devoured by the Donner Party, drowning during the sinking of the Titanic, falling prey to the Black Death, and more. Using hindsight and modern science to estimate everything from how fast you'd need to run to outpace a T. rex to the advantages of different body types in surviving the Donner Party tragedy, Cassidy gives you a detailed battle plan for survival, helping you learn about the era at the same time. History may be the most dangerous place on earth, but that doesn't mean you can't visit. You can, and you should. And with a copy of How to Survive History in your back pocket, you just might make it out alive.

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