Free Download The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCSVQ1V8 | 2023 | 6 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 354 MB
Author: Rachel Feder
Narrator: Deanna Anthony
What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying. Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy Myth is a book for anyone who loves thinking deeply about literature and culture-whether they love Jane Austen or not. You already know Mr. Darcy-at least you think you do! The brooding, rude, standoffish romantic hero of Pride and Prejudice, Darcy initially insults and ignores the witty heroine but eventually succumbs to her charms. It's a classic enemies-to-lovers Description and one that has profoundly influenced our cultural ideas about courtship. But what if this classic isn't just a grand romance but a horror novel about how scary love and marriage can be for women? In The Darcy Myth, literature scholar Rachel Feder unpacks Austen's Gothic influences and how they have led us to a romantic ideal that is halfway to being a monster story. Why is our culture so obsessed with cruel, indifferent romantic heroes, and sometimes heroines? How much of that is Darcy's fault? And, now that we know, what do we do about it?

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Free Download The Culture of Knighthood in Medieval Romance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP9TVRYL | 2023 | 2 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@256 kbps | 256 MB
Author: Larissa (Kat) Tracy, The Great Courses
Narrator: Larissa Tracy
See the word knight and you'll likely think of gallant men facing off on the field of battle, or rescuing fair maidens from danger, or jousting at tournaments. Since the early 19th century, poets, authors, painters, and playwrights have cultivated such images of medieval knighthood-images that continue to capture our imagination to this day. But just how true to medieval history are these images? What do they tell us about how life was lived in the Middle Ages? What does our obsession with them tell us about who we are today?

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Free Download The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNYHT9S | 2023 | 9 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Rebecca Clarren
Narrator: Rebecca Clarren
An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major Description points of her tenacious immigrant family's origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, ultimately settling on a 160-acre homestead in South Dakota. Over the next few decades, despite tough years on a merciless prairie and multiple setbacks, the Sinykins became an American immigrant success story. What none of Clarren's ancestors ever mentioned was that their land, the foundation for much of their wealth, had been cruelly taken from the Lakota by the United States government.

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Free Download The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food-Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXZ4FHX7 | 2023 | 5 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Narrator: Mark Kurlansky
From the New York Times-bestselling author, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the world's most beloved culinary staples-featuring recipes from around the world. As Julia Child once said, "It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions." Historically, she's been right-and not just in the kitchen. Flourishing in just about every climate and culture around the world, onions have provided the essential basis not only for sautés, stews, and sauces, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Now they're Kurlansky's most flavorful infatuation yet as he sets out to explore how and why the crop reigns from Italy to India and everywhere in between.

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Free Download The Convoy: HG-76: Taking the Fight to Hitler's U-boats (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5F351MG | 2023 | 10 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 559 MB
Author: Angus Konstam
Narrator: Philip Pope
The Convoy represents a fresh approach to the story of the Battle of the Atlantic. It is also the first to deal with the more spectacular story of HG-76, a major turning point in the naval war. HG-76 sailed from Gibraltar to Britain in December 1941 and was specially targeted by the Germans. A wolfpack of U-boats was sent against it, and the Luftwaffe was heavily committed too in a rare example of German inter-service cooperation. German intelligence agents in Gibraltar and Spain also knew every detail of HG-76 before it had even sailed, seemingly stacking the odds in favour of the Kriegsmarine. Despite this the convoy fought its way through. Improved radar and sonar gave the convoy's escorts a slight edge over their opponents, while the escort group was led by Commander Walker, an anti-submarine expert who had developed new, aggressive U-boat hunting tactics.

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Free Download The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7HJT247 | 2023 | 5 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 329 MB
Author: Stuart Stevens
Narrator: Jeff Bottoms
A former chief Republican strategist and bestselling author offers an ominous warning that the G.O.P. is dragging our country towards autocracy, and if we don't wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024 may well be our last free and fair election. Today's Republican party is not a "normal" political party in the American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading as a political party. As Stuart Stevens argues in The Conspiracy to End America, if we look away from that truth, we greatly increase the likelihood that the America we love will slip away, never to return.

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Free Download The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCF71G84 | 2023 | 7 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 223 MB
Author: Margaret Renkl
Narrator: Margaret Renkl
From New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Margaret Renkl comes a "howling love letter to the world" (Ann Patchett): a luminous book tracing the passing of seasons, personal and natural. In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a devotional of sorts: fifty-two essays that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons-from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year-what develops is a portrait of joy and grief. Joy at the ongoing pleasures of the natural world: "Until the very last cricket falls silent, the beauty-besotted will always find a reason to love the world."

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Free Download The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B096G91TTJ | 2023 | 10 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Simon Singh
Narrator: Patty Nieman
Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logistical breakthrough that made internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy. Throughout the text are clear technical and mathematical explanations and portraits of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world's most difficult codes. Accessible, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this book will forever alter your view of history and what drives it. It will also make you wonder how private that email you just sent really is.

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Free Download The Children of Athena: Greek Writers and Thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC-AD 400 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLMKB4BY | 2023 | 12 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 358 MB
Author: Charles Freeman
Narrator: Mark Elstob
A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions of Greek cultural life would continue to flourish during the centuries of Roman rule that followed, in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, doctors, scientists, geographers, travellers and theologians. Charles Freeman's accounts of such luminaries as the physician Galen, the geographer Ptolemy and the philosopher Descriptioninus are interwoven with contextual 'interludes' that showcase a sequence of unjustly neglected and richly influential lives. Like the author's The Awakening, The Children of Athena is a cultural history on an epic scale: the story of a rich and vibrant tradition of Greek intellectual inquiry across a period of more than five hundred years, from the second century BC to the start of the fifth century AD.

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Free Download The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All-but There Is a Solution (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C31DRZ53 | 2023 | 7 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
Narrator: Rikki Schlott, Kirby Heyborne
A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-needed antidote from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind. Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects. From the team that brought you the bestselling Coddling of the American Mind comes hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works, along with hundreds of new examples showing the left and the right both working to silence their enemies. The Canceling of the American Mind will change how you view cancel culture.

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