Free Download The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BW1NTGHB | 2023 | 11 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 331 MB
Author: Robert P. Jones
Narrator: Holter Graham
Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy helps chart a new course toward a genuinely pluralistic democracy. Beginning with contemporary efforts to reckon with the legacy of white supremacy in America, Jones returns to the fateful year when a little-known church doctrine emerged that shaped the way five centuries of European Christians would understand the "discovered" world and the people who populated it. Along the way, he shows us the connections between Emmett Till and the Spanish conquistador Hernando De Soto in the Mississippi Delta, between the lynching of three Black circus workers in Duluth and the mass execution of thirty-eight Dakota men in Mankato, and between the murder of 300 African Americans during the burning of Black Wall Street in Tulsa and the Trail of Tears.

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Free Download The Guy Under the Sheets: The Unauthorized Autobiography (Audiobook)
English | October 11, 2012 | ASIN: B009OXQRZ6 | MP3@64 kbps | 6h 22m | 165.51 MB
Author: Chris Elliott
Narrator: Chris Elliott
Because no one will write an unauthorized biography about Emmy-winning actor and comedian Chris Elliott, he has done it himself. Listener, you're hereby warned that much of this book will be disturbing. The Guy Under the Sheets is a behind-the-scenes memoir so personal, so provocative, that Elliott nearly sued himself to halt publication: The most shocking revelation, corroborated by numerous unnamed sources, is that Elliott is not the absurdist comedian that Rolling Stone once called "a genius". In fact, he's a slightly dim-witted no-talent from a celebrity family who managed to convince a whole generation of disillusioned youth that he was funny.

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Free Download The Greatest: MY Story by Muhammad Ali & Richard Durham
May 25, 2016 | English | ASIN: B01G49M4E0 | 16 hrs 16 mins | M4B & MP3@63 kbps
489 to 495 MB | Unabridged | Retail
In his own words, the heavyweight champion of the world pulls no punches as he chronicles the battles he faced in and out of the ring in this fascinating memoir edited by Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison.
Growing up in the South, surrounded by racial bigotry and discrimination, Ali fought not just for a living, but also for respect and rewards far more precious than money or glory. He was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the BBC. Ali redefined what it meant to be an athlete by giving hope to millions around the world and inspiring us all to fight for what is important to us.

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Free Download The Great Revolutions of Modern History [TTC Audio]
English | March 26, 2021 | ASIN: B08ZDVD519 | M4B@96 kbps | 12h 33m | 524 MB
Lecturer: Lynne Ann Hartnett
The great revolutions of the past 300 years have profoundly shaped the social, cultural, political, and military landscape of the 21st century. These epic changes tore down established orders and built new ones in their place. What drives individuals and groups to embrace revolution? At what point does a society decide to revolt? Is there such a thing as a peaceful revolution? Why have some revolutions failed while others changed the world?

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Free Download The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGMKX7P9 | 2023 | 17 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 494 MB
Author: Christian Wolmar
Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line-the first American railroad-in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. E

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Free Download The Great Post Office Scandal: The Story of the Fight to Expose a Multimillion Pound IT Disaster Which Put Innocent People in Jail (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09WVS3YSM | 2022 | 18 hours and 24 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 512 MB
Author: Nick Wallis
Narrator: Nick Wallis
On April 23, 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former Sub-Postmasters and ruled their prosecutions were an affront to the public conscience. For some, it was the end of a 20-year battle for justice-and tragically, three of them did not live long enough to see their reputations restored. It is a scandal that has been described as one of the most widespread and significant miscarriages of justice in UK legal history. The 39 were just a few of the 736 people who, between 2000 and 2013, had been prosecuted by the Post Office for theft, false accounting, and fraud.

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Free Download The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: The Afghans Who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3MQHPGY | 2023 | 9 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 656 MB
Author: Larisa Brown
Narrator: Olivia Dowd
The powerful true story of the Afghans left behind as the Taliban conquered the country. The 20-year war fought by the US and its allies in Afghanistan is the longest war of the 21st century. It brought opportunity and tragedy for those who were forced to live through it. The abrupt withdrawal of British and American troops in 2021, in what may come to be regarded as one of the worst foreign policy failures of the past hundred years, precipitated the swift recapture of the country by the Taliban. With the withdrawal came upheaval and torment for Afghans who had loyally served alongside NATO forces and were left to fend for themselves at the gates of Kabul airport. This is the story of one such family. The Gardener of Lashkar Gah follows the extraordinary journey of Shaista Gul, a kind man who built a beautiful garden inside a British military base in Helmand Province that became famous as a calm oasis for soldiers with troubled minds.

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Free Download The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRYJSV6 | 2023 | 13 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 394 MB
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Narrator: Jonathan Sleep
Evolutionary theory in the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers and snails that change from male to female and sometimes back again, and the extinction from baseball of the .400 hitter.

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Free Download The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHGHKXNS | 2023 | 15 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 448 MB
Author: Robin Waterfield
Narrator: Adrian Hobart
Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus's enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic, by thinkers who often seem to be mystics or shamans as much as philosophers or scientists in the modern mold. And out of the Sophists' reflections on human beings and their place in the world arose and interest in language, and in political, moral, and social philosophy. This volume contains a translation of all the most important fragments of the Presocratics and Sophists, and of the most informative testimonia from ancient sources, supplemented by lucid commentary.

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Free Download The Final Storm by Jeff Shaara, Paul Michael, Random House Audio
English | 2011 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00516Y5TU | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 20 h 26 m | 562 Mb
The Final Storm opens a new front in Jeff Shaara's gripping chronicle of World War II as soldiers, sailors, and marines sacrifice all for one final push toward decisive victory in the fierce maelstrom of the Pacific theater.
As the war in Europe winds down in the wake of the Normandy invasion, the United States has turned its vast military resources toward an all-out effort against the Japanese. In the spring of 1945, Japan's empire has been pressed slowly back toward its home islands, and the Americans mount a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan itself-the heavily fortified island of Okinawa. The three-month battle will feature some of the most vicious combat of the entire war, as American troops confront an enemy that would rather be slaughtered than experience the shame of surrender. With a narrative dexterity befitting his status as a master storyteller, Shaara relates the story of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, a young marine whose brother Jesse has already earned his share of glory as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne in Europe; Admiral Chester Nimitz, who must unite rival army and marine commanders into a cooperative effort; General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., the American ground commander trying to live up to the legacy of his father, who led Confederate troops during the Civil War; and General Mitsura Ushijima, the Japanese general in charge of defending the island, who understands what Tokyo will not believe: that his own fight to the death will only delay the inevitable-as the Americans continue their advance toward the home islands and ultimate victory.

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