Free Download Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWKDB68R | 2023 | 10 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Donald Bogle
Narrator: Donald Bogle
From Donald Bogle, the award-winning author and leading authority on Black cinema history, this is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive and lavish biography of Hollywood's first African American movie goddess. Lena Horne's life and career are truly remarkable in American film history. She was the first Black performer to become a true star-to receive the kind of glamour treatment at the fabled MGM that the studio had previously given to the likes of Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, and Ava Gardner. At the same time, Horne dealt with endless indignities, not the least of which was the fact that her roles in films was often as a musical performer, which allowed her numbers to be easily stripped out of films without affecting the narrative when played to audiences that would find her presence undesirable.​ At long last, Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed gives the star her due. Through a highly informed and insightful narrative based on interviews, press accounts, studio archives, and decades of research, the book sheds new light on the star's compelling life and complicated career: her activism; her accomplishments and heady triumphs in movies, television, and nightclubs as she broke down long-standing barriers for Black individuals-especially Black women-and her solemn, sometimes bitter disappointments, both professional and personal, this is the ultimate book on the icon.

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Free Download Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKWP1T2Q | 2023 | 9 hours and 22 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Charles Busch
Narrator: Charles Busch
The Tony Award-nominated writer and the long-running hit Off-Broadway play Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, and a Sundance Festival award winner Charles Busch has created a unique place in the entertainment world as a playwright, LGBT icon, drag actor, director, and cabaret performer, with his extraordinary gift for both connecting with and channeling the leading ladies of show business. Charles writes how ever since his mother's death when he was seven, he has sought out surrogate mothers in his life.

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Free Download Lead Through Anything: Harness Purpose, Vitality, and Agility to Thrive in the Face of Unrelenting Change (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJPWJLP | 2023 | 5 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 299 MB
Author: Dustin Seale, Ed Manfre
Narrator: Alex Mortensen
In today's world of near-constant disruption, every leader faces a slew of conflicting demands involving employees of different generations, cultures, and age groups; one of history's tightest labor markets; and never-ending geopolitical, climate, financial, and health challenges. Lead Through Anything provides simple, tested, and actionable strategies to help you continually level-up your impact as an individual, manager, and leader. It walks you through the process of developing a leadership mentality that balances three key elements to achieve sustainable success: Purpose: Create and share a vision that motivates collective achievements and aspirations. Vitality: Generate a high level of connection and trust within your teams and organization. Agility: Inspire and empower yourself and others to continuously learn and improve. Lead Through Anything focuses on a variety of skills, such as aligning people and energy to a common cause, building effective teams and helping them work together more selflessly, establishing positive confidence more often in oneself and others, increasing engagement and retaining top talent, and shaping a positive, impact-driven organizational culture.

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Free Download Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGNK8VK | 2023 | 13 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Laurah Norton
Narrator: Laurah Norton
Take a fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the identity of an unknown woman by exploring the rapidly evolving techniques being used to break the most notorious cold cases. Fans of true crime shows like CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order know that when it comes to "getting the bad guy" behind bars, your best chance of success boils down to the strength of your evidence-and the forensic science used to obtain it. Beyond the silver screen, forensic science has been used for decades to help solve even the most tough-to-crack cases.

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Free Download Kombucha Curious: How a Drink Transformed My Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKRWVRTT | 2023 | 2 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 154 MB
Author: Duff McDonald
Narrator: Duff McDonald
It originated in Asia, moved to Europe, and is now consumed worldwide - a slightly-fermented tea that is purported to cure everything from indigestion to cancer. We're talking about kombucha, which has exploded in popularity in the last quarter century. While the exact health benefits of kombucha remain unproven, it's quite certain that the effervescent elixir provides its worldwide fans with a spiritual lift unlike any other drink. Journalist and author Duff McDonald takes us inside the biological, physiological, and spiritual benefits of this beloved beverage, one of a remarkable category of liquids known as "living drinks."

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Free Download Killing the Image: A Champion's Journey of Faith, Fighting, and Forgiveness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B5YKKY2K | 2023 | 6 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Andre Ward, Nick Chiles
Narrator: Andre Ward
In this inspiring memoir, undefeated five-time world champion boxer Andre Ward-aka "Son of God"-shares the gripping narrative of his unforgettable career, his rock-solid faith, and why boxing was never the biggest fight of his life. Andre Ward was the undefeated light heavyweight boxing champion of the world when he walked away from the ring and did not look back. Now that he has taken off his gloves for the final time, the Olympic gold medalist is ready to share the heartbreaking and uplifting stories of his formative years and unprecedented boxing career. Rich with colorful characters, fascinating detail, and biblical truths, this is the story of a man known for his integrity outside the ring, his warrior's instinct inside it, and his unrelenting bond with the God who called him to the greatest victory of all.

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Free Download Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGPQQR1 | 2023 | 15 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 448 MB
Author: Peter Sarris
Narrator: Mark Elstob
A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian. Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over nearly four decades of remarkable change, in an era of geopolitical threats, climate change, and plague. From the eastern Roman-or Byzantine-capital of Constantinople, Justinian's armies reconquered lost territory in Africa, Italy, and Spain. But these military exploits, historian Peter Sarris shows, were just one part of a larger program of imperial renewal. From his dramatic overhaul of Roman law, to his lavish building projects, to his fierce persecution of dissenters from Orthodox Christianity, Justinian's vigorous statecraft-and his energetic efforts at self-glorification-not only set the course of Byzantium but also laid the foundations for the world of the Middle Ages. Even as Justinian sought to recapture Rome's past greatness, he paved the way for what would follow.

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Free Download Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHFVXFKL | 2023 | 31 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 904 MB
Author: Gary J. Bass
Narrator: Simon Vance
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan's leaders as war criminals-the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg. In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow victors, the question of justice seemed clear: Japan's militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; shocking atrocities against civilians in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere; and rampant abuses of prisoners of war in notorious incidents such as the Bataan death march. For the Allied powers, the trial was an opportunity to render judgment on their vanquished foes, but also to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of aggressive war, building a more peaceful world under international law and American hegemony. For the Japanese leaders on trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was victors' justice.

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Free Download Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYB5RQHL | 2023 | 7 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 391 MB
Author: Johnny Cash, Mark Stielper, John Carter Cash
Narrator: John Carter Cash, Joshua Kane
The life of the Man in Black revealed by his lyrics, authorized by the Cash estate. Johnny Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time, having composed more than six hundred songs and sold more than ninety million records. He received twenty-nine gold, platinum, and multiplatinum awards for his recordings and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This is the first time Cash's fifty years of songwriting have been collected anywhere; this book includes the lyrics to 125 songs and the stories behind them.

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Free Download Jack Ruby: The Many Face's of Oswald's Assassin (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLYTT6TK | 2023 | 9 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Danny Fingeroth
Narrator: Danny Fingeroth
Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby-and how did he come to be in that spot on that day? As we approach the sixtieth anniversaries of the murders of Kennedy and Oswald, Jack Ruby's motives are as maddeningly ambiguous today as they were the day that he pulled the trigger. The fascinating yet frustrating thing about Ruby is that there is evidence to paint him as at least two different people. Much of his life story points to him as bumbling, vain, violent, and neurotic-a product of the grinding poverty of Chicago's Jewish ghetto, a man barely able to make a living or sustain a relationship with anyone besides his dogs.

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