Free Download The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories That Inform, Influence, and Inspire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZT6Q9JS | 2023 | 7 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Karen Eber
Narrator: Karen Eber
Learn how to take any story and make it perfect-from storytelling expert Karen Eber, whose popular TED Talk on the subject continues to be a source of inspiration for millions. What makes a story perfect? How do you tell the perfect story for any occasion? We live in a story world. Stories are a memorable and engaging way to differentiate yourself, build connection and trust, create new thinking, bring meaning to data, and even influence decision-making. But how do you turn a good story into a great story that informs, influences, and inspires? In The Perfect Story, Karen Eber-leadership consultant, professional keynote storyteller, and TED speaker-shares the science of storytelling to teach you. Without relying on complicated models or one-size-fits-all prescriptions, this book makes storytelling accessible with practical and impactful steps for anyone to tell the perfect story for any occasion.

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Free Download The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BCCG8NWN | 2023 | 14 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 405 MB
Author: Sam Wasson
Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon
The New York Times bestselling author returns with the definitive account of Academy Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent American filmmaking, if not the entire world, through his production company American Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great American dreamers, and his most magnificent dream is American Zoetrope, the production company he founded in San Francisco years before his gargantuan success, when he was only thirty. Through Zoetrope's experimental, communal utopia, Coppola attempted to reimagine the entire pursuit of moviemaking. Now, more than fifty years later, despite myriad setbacks, the visionary filmmaker's dream persists, most notably in the production of his decades in the making film and the culmination of his utopian ideals, Megalopolis.

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Free Download The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest Who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi's Money (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHT59CF6 | 2023 | 10 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Jennifer O'Leary
Narrator: Jennifer O'Leary
Today, Tipperary-born priest Patrick Ryan cuts a modest but strong figure, to the layperson. A man of God who has been entrusted with the confessions of hundreds of earnest parishioners. But in fact his story is dark, dramatic, and pivotal to Irish history, on both sides of the border. In The Padre, award-winning investigative journalist Jennifer O'Leary exposes the paramilitary exploits of notorious former Catholic priest and active IRA supporter Patrick Ryan-exposing details which have, outside of his very guarded circles, been unknown until now. Drawing on highly sensitive information, divulged by Ryan during exclusive secret meetings with the author, The Padre lifts the lid on the true extent of the priest's involvement with the IRA: from being the link between the organisation and the Gaddafi regime, to Ryan's connection to the failed assassination attempt on Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The Padre tells the truly remarkably story of this man of the cloth, and his lifelong struggle with what he, in his heart, believes to be right and wrong.

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Free Download The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKWJ6RMN | 2023 | 20 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 587 MB
Author: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Narrator: Kathleen Li
In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, pitted the tsar's empire against Britain in Central Asia. The other, saw Russia, China, and Japan vying for domination of the Korean Peninsula. In this eye-opening account, Sheila Miyoshi Jager argues that the contest over Korea, driven both by Korean domestic disputes and by great-power rivalry, set the course for the future of East Asia and the larger global order. When Russia's eastward expansion brought it to the Korean border, an impoverished but strategically located nation was wrested from centuries of isolation.

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Free Download The Old Gays Guide to the Good Life: Lessons Learned About Love and Death, Sex and Sin, and Saving the Best for Last (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWK9V3VW | 2023 | 9 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 280 MB
Author: Mick Peterson, Bill Lyons, Robert Reeves, Jessay Martin
Narrator: Mick Peterson, Bill Lyons, Robert Reeves, Jessay Martin
From America's most beloved foursome-the TikTok sensation @theoldgays-a book of unexpected aspirational advice and inspirational stories drawn from their decades of living, from pre-Stonewall to the rise of the LGBTQ+ movement to gay marriage and beyond. Ranging in age from 67 to 80, Mick, Jessay, Robert, and Bill are the real-life Golden Girls of the social media era, a quartet of old gays whose hard-won confidence and awesome authenticity have taken the culture by storm. They are America's beloved Queens-and more importantly, they are survivors whose lives have been transformed by sweeping cultural change. In this fabulously fun and entertaining book, they share their stories-humorous, heartbreaking, shocking, and profound tales which only older gay men can tell. It was their generation that was devastated by AIDS, a health crisis that deprived us of so many brilliant, creative lives, including many of their friends.

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Free Download The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BT6SGG5X | 2023 | 9 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Jami Nakamura Lin
Narrator: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Are these the only two stories? The one, where you defeat your monster, and the other, where you succumb to it? Jami Nakamura Lin spent much of her life feeling monstrous for reasons outside of her control. As a young woman with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, much of her adolescence was marked by periods of extreme rage and an array of psychiatric treatments, and her relationships suffered as a result, especially as her father's cancer grasped hold of their family. As she grew older and learned to better manage her episodes, Lin became frustrated with the familiar pattern she found in mental illness and grief narratives, and their focus on recovery. She sought comfort in the stories she'd loved as a child-tales of ghostly creatures known to terrify in the night.

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Free Download The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKY4M444 | 2023 | 11 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Lama Rod Owens
Narrator: Rod Owens
A Buddhist Lama and intersectional thought leader shares a guide for those who would dream a more just, ethical world into being. Saints, spiritual warriors, bodhisattvas, tzaddik-no matter how they are named in a given tradition, they all share a profound wish to free others from suffering. Saints are not unattainable beings of stained glass or carved stone. "Saints are ordinary and human, doing things any person can learn to do," teaches Lama Rod Owens. "Our era calls for saints who are from this time and place, who speak the language of this moment, and who integrate both social and spiritual liberation. I believe we all can and must become New Saints." With The New Saints, Lama Rod shares a guidebook for becoming an effective agent of justice, peace, and change.

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Free Download The New Rules of Menopause: A Mayo Clinic Guide to Perimenopause and Beyond (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CK2R1ZQG | 2023 | 13 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Stephanie Faubion
Narrator: Janina Edwards
Hot flashes, sleep problems, weight gain, perimenopause, menopause-none of this was covered in Sex Ed! In fact, it's often not even covered in the doctor's office. This book steps in to fill that gaping hole as the definitive guide to the menopause transition, the midlife hormonal shift that sets off a cascade of physical and mental changes in women. Dr. Stephanie Faubion brings her expertise on current treatments and research together with an honest, real-world approach to help people understand how the rules of their bodies are changing-and what they can do about it.

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Free Download The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know®, 2nd Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP2QSBN7 | 2023 | 7 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 354 MB
Author: James L. Gelvin
Narrator: Kent Klineman
In the second edition of The New Middle East, renowned scholar James L. Gelvin explains how in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, the American invasion of Iraq, and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11, a new Middle East has emerged. Syria, Libya, and Yemen have become "crisis states," where warlords vie against governments and each other. The economies of Iran, Turkey, and Lebanon, weakened by corruption, sanctions, and neoliberal economic policies, have imploded. Some states have doubled-down on repression, while others intervene in the internal affairs of their neighbors with impunity.

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Free Download The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXK3D3YT | 2023 | 22 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 645 MB
Author: Daniel Schulman
Narrator: Jonathan Davis
The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants-with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman-who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance (and so much more), from the New York Times best-selling author. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama. Not far behind were Solomon Loeb and Marcus Goldman, among the "Forty-Eighters" fleeing a Germany that had relegated Jews to an underclass. These industrious immigrants would soon go from peddling trinkets and buying up shopkeepers' IOUs to forming what would become some of the largest investment banks in the world-Goldman Sachs, Kuhn Loeb, Lehman Brothers, J. & W. Seligman & Co.

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