Free Download The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWH6NW8M | 2023 | 12 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 352 MB
Author: Lisa M. Hamilton
Narrator: Lisa M. Hamilton
The Hungry Season is "a deeply reported story of aspiration and desperation" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review): a nonfiction drama that "reads like the best of fiction" (Mark Arax), tracing one woman's journey from the mist-covered mountains of Laos to the sunbaked flatlands of Fresno, California as she struggles to overcome the wounds inflicted by war and family alike​. As combat rages across the highlands of Vietnam and Laos, a child is born. Ia Moua enters the world at the bottom of the social order, both because she is part of the Hmong minority and because she is a daughter, not a son. When, at thirteen, she is promised in marriage to a man three times her age, it appears that Ia's future has been decided for her. But after brutal communist rule upends her life, this intrepid girl resolves to chart her own defiant path.

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Free Download The Holistic You: Integrating Your Family, Finances, Faith, Friendships, and Fitness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CK9TTKDQ | 2023 | 9 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Susan Lapin
Narrator: Barry Abrams
Family. Faith. Finance. Friendship. Fitness. Learn to balance and integrate these five critical areas of life. In The Holistic You: Integrating Your Family, Finances, Faith, Friendships, and Fitness, sought-after speaker and writer Rabbi Daniel Lapin delivers an inspiring and insightful discussion of how to bring joy and confidence to all of life's many challenges. Rabbi Lapin introduces you to his unique 5F system, weaving together family, faith, finance, friendship, and fitness. He demonstrates how to organize your life so that you're not neglecting one area to achieve success and connection in another.

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Free Download The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08RSL869R | 2023 | 5 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Keegan-Michael Key, Elle Key
Narrator: Keegan-Michael Key, Elle Key
From the beginning of time, there have been many monumental questions that have perplexed the human race such as: Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? And... Who's on first? In The History of Sketch Comedy, Emmy and Peabody-winning actor, writer and producer Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele, The Prom, Jingle Jangle) embarks listeners on an epic, insightful and utterly entertaining voyage through the annals of sketch comedy. Key takes us from the early flatulence jokes of Ancient Greece and the acting troupes of Europe in the 1500s, to the rise of The Second City in Chicago and his own comedy origins on the ball fields near Detroit's 8 Mile. Equal parts masterclass, personal odyssey and virtuoso performance; Key's The History of Sketch Comedy dissects the landmark characters, concepts and performers that pushed the boundaries and forged new ground in the comedy pantheon, and along the way reveals his own experiences of discovering and being influenced by them. Over the course of ten half-hour chapters, one of the most beloved voices of our time treats listeners to a private, millennia-spanning interpretation of sketch comedy history, from its humble past to its immodest present.

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Free Download The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CM4NJGXX | 2023 | 9 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: John Wigger
Narrator: T. Ryder Smith
He pulled off what some deem the crime of the century: skyjacking a commercial jetliner, collecting a ransom of $200,000, parachuting off the aft stairs of the Boeing 727 into the night, and simply disappearing. Since November 1971, "D. B. Cooper"-no one knows his real name or identity-has become a figure of enduring fascination and obsession. The FBI pursued him for over forty years, before closing the case and leaving it unsolved. Unsolved, perhaps, but much admired. D. B. Cooper's exploit over the skies of the American Northwest has inspired books, films, and endless speculation. What's less known is that it inspired imitators. None were more daring than the hijacker of American Flight 119. After commandeering the flight from St. Louis with a machine gun and collecting $502,500 in ransom, he parachuted out over Indiana. Unlike Cooper, he was tracked down.

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Free Download The Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFVZ6ZRP | 2023 | 8 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 229 MB
Author: Steve Kaplan
Narrator: Steve Kaplan, Sean Pratt
While other books give you tips on how to "write funny," this book offers a paradigm shift in understanding the mechanics and art of comedy and the proven, practical tools that help writers translate that understanding into successful commercial scripts. The Hidden Tools of Comedy unlocks the unique secrets and techniques of writing comedy. Kaplan deconstructs sequences in popular films and TV that work and don't work and explains what tools were used (or should have been used).

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Free Download The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNK2TCV | 2023 | 6 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 375 MB
Author: Sarah Brown
Narrator: Helen Keeley
Descended from shy, solitary North African wild cats, domestic cats set up homes with devoted owners all over the world by learning how to talk to us. This book translates-in case you missed anything. A renowned cat behavior scientist of over thirty years, Dr. Sarah Brown has been at the forefront of research in the field, discovering how cats use tail signals to interact with each other and their owners. Now, she reveals the previously unexplored secrets of cat communication in a book that is both scientifically grounded and utterly delightful. Each chapter dives into a different form of communication, including vocalizations, tail signals, scents, rubbing, and ear movements.

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Free Download The Hidden History of the Boston Tea Party (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPR2B2X4 | 2023 | 2 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Adam Jortner, The Great Courses
Narrator: Adam Jortner
The history of the Boston Tea Party is a hidden one. Why? Since it was a clandestine operation, all sorts of rumors and legends grew up around the event-many collected decades after the American Revolution had ended. At its core, however, the night of December 16, 1773, when colonials dumped tea from British ships into Boston Harbor, was more than a fight over tea and taxes. It was a struggle over the very nature of democracy and self-governance. Where does legal authority actually come from? Who gets to decide which laws are valid? What role does nonviolent (or violent) protest play in bringing about change? For that matter, how does one even throw a 400-pound chest of tea overboard?

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Free Download The Hard Road Will Take You Home (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781004088379 | 2023 | 12 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Anthony 'Staz' Stazicker
Narrator: Anthony Stazicker, Jason Fox, Steve Clark, Ollie Ollerton, Sam Sheriff, Dylan Hartley, Gary Bamford, Mark Omrod, Chris Billam-Smith, Alan Barratt, Aldo Kane, Scott Britton, Nims Purja
This audiobook contains exclusive bonus interviews with Staz and Special Forces TV stars Jason Fox, Ollie Ollerton, Dylan Hartley and many more. Anthony 'Staz' Stazicker served an impressive 13 years of distinguished and decorated military service, ten within the Special Forces, before founding the multi-million pound technical clothing company ThruDark. Throughout his career in the Special Forces-featuring gunfights, door-kicking operations, and against-the-odds escapes-he learned hard lessons that would later provide crucial intelligence equally applicable to business, innovation and enterprise. The Hard Road Will Take You Home provides a mission plan that distils the processes and tactics Staz gathered throughout his career and translates them into tools that can be used in any number of settings, and by individuals with a wide range of experience and backgrounds. It instils the psychological cues required to bring next level success to any mission. And it lays bare the levels of discipline required to maintain that next level success. Introducing four concepts that make up the life of an elite operator-battle prep; techniques, tactics and procedures; teamwork and the lessons we should all consider when learning how to innovate, persevere and succeed-this audiobook comes stacked with insight, easily applicable techniques and psychological processes gathered from Staz's time serving with the most resilient fighting force in the world. As a creative resource, it's a weapon.

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Free Download The Gunner and the Grunt: Two Boston Boys in Vietnam With the First Calvary Division Airmobile (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJSDY29 | 2023 | 6 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 359 MB
Author: Michael L. Kelly, Peter Burbank
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
The Gunner and the Grunt is written in the voices of two soldiers who fought in the same battles as members of the same recon unit but from different angles. Michael Kelley, the "Gunner," was flying in an armed helicopter above the jungle providing suppressive fire support, while Peter Burbank, the "Grunt," was down in the jungle on foot patrol involved in fire fights with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army troops. The book follows these two Boston boys from army training through deployment to the war zone and the shock of first combat missions, to helicopter air assault "Search and Destroy" operations from the Cambodian border to the sands of the South China Sea.

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Free Download The Growth Paradox: Rethinking Control, Accountability, and Change to Move Your Business to the Next Level (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CM4F31JN | 2023 | 8 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 227 MB
Author: Jacky Fischer
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
Award-winning CEO Jacky Fischer presents her signature management method to help small businesses scale by avoiding the most common and destructive pitfalls. Letting go to help your business grow is the apparent contradiction central to The Growth Paradox-and embracing it will lead to more profits, less stress, and happier employees. If you as a leader hold on too tightly-to your people, to everyday decision-making, to the past, and more-you will cut off vital oxygen necessary for growth. The solution: stop being a control freak and instead empower your employees, get out of your own way, and establish a clear vision for the future. Embrace the growth paradox to get unstuck and grow your company to the next level. By leaning into some key, counterintuitive business ideas, you'll make space for changes that will lead to nonlinear growth.

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