Free Download Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXFQ8FTF | 2023 | 16 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 486 MB
Author: H. W. Brands
Narrator: Robert Fass
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be.

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Free Download Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4VSDWQ2 | 2023 | 9 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Narrator: Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Learn how to reboot your metabolism, build strength, and extend your life with this accessible new guidebook that demonstrates the importance of muscle for health and longevity from the founder of the Institute for Muscle-Centric Medicine. After years of watching patients cycle through her practice, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon noticed a pattern. While her patients struggled with a wide range of conditions, they all suffered from the same core problem: they had too little muscle rather than too much fat. When we think about muscle, we tend to think about strength or aesthetics, but in reality, muscle accounts for so much more than that.

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Free Download For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL2MDGN7 | 2023 | 9 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Rebecca Roache
Narrator: Polly Lee
Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? In this lively and amusing exploration of the various puzzles that surround swearing, philosopher Rebecca Roache argues that what makes swearing offensive is not really the words at all: the offensiveness lies in what we don't say. The unspoken-and usually unconscious-inferences that speakers and listeners make about each other are key to explaining swearwords' capacity to shock. Swearing is unique among etiquette breaches in that it is designed to convey disrespect-swearing packs more of a punch than failing to say "please." Roache helps listeners understand how swearing works, celebrating its power as a communicative tool and source of humor while also taking a close and serious look at specific words-those directed at women and women's bodies, for example-that function in particular, complex ways. She also examines the often-hypocritical ways swearing can be punished or censored. Finally, Roache helps listeners appreciate that swearing isn't always bad. When it's not used offensively, it can foster social intimacy, can help people withstand pain, and might even help us curb our violent impulses.

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Free Download Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKWHKP56 | 2023 | 5 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 279 MB
Author: Peter K. Andersson
Narrator: Mike Cooper
In some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another figure-a gaunt and morose-looking man with a shaved head. This is William or "Will" Somer, the king's fool, a celebrated wit who reportedly could raise Henry's spirits and spent many hours with him. Was Somer an "artificial fool," a cunning comic who could speak freely in front of the king, or a "natural fool," someone with intellectual disabilities, like many other members of the profession? Fool is the first biography of Somer-and perhaps the first of a Renaissance fool. After his death, Somer disappeared, and historians struggled to separate myth from reality.

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Free Download Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP6DR8QP | 2023 | 7 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 398 MB
Author: John Keahey
Narrator: Tom Perkins
In 66 BC, young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia. He borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient highway. It was a way to curry favor from Roman citizens in villages along the route, built from Rome to Brindisi between 312-191 BC. After achieving greatness in Rome and the far reaches of Gaul, he led armies along this road to battle enemies in Roman civil wars. And then, across the Adriatic Sea, he joined Via Appia's sister road, the Via Egnatia that began in today's Albania. Other armies followed these two roads that eventually connected Rome to Byzantium, today's Istanbul.

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Free Download Flora!: A Woman in a Man's World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNQCX218 | 2023 | 14 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 410 MB
Author: Flora MacDonald, Geoffrey Stevens
Narrator: Sarah Orenstein
Flora Isabel MacDonald-politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women-was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time. Flora! describes her amazing journey from her childhood and her time at secretarial school in Cape Breton, through her years in backroom Progressive Conservative politics, to elected office and her appointment as Canada's first female minister of foreign affairs. Finally, she details her exceptional humanitarian work in India and in war-torn Africa and Afghanistan.

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Free Download First-Year Teaching for Dummies, 2nd Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7DCSHS | 2023 | 13 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Carol Flaherty, Flirtisha Harris, W. Michael Kelley
Narrator: Allyson Johnson
Make your first year of teaching one to remember. Becoming a new teacher is one of the most fun, exciting, and challenging experiences you'll encounter in your life. Who wouldn't want a little help getting ready before sitting down behind the teacher's desk for the first time? That's where First-Year Teaching For Dummies comes in. You'll find easy-to-follow strategies and techniques to help you navigate the politics of education in your community, develop fun and fulfilling relationships with your students, and refine your own instructional style. It's almost time for you to take charge of your first classroom and you're raring to go. So, grab a copy of First-Year Teaching For Dummies to find the last-minute tips and common-sense guidance you need to help make your first school year a rewarding one!

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Free Download First Eat with Nakkiah Lui: An Audible Original (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5XMR8YP | 2023 | 4 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Nakkiah Lui, Nicola Harvey
Narrator: Nakkiah Lui, Miranda Tapsell
"I love food" Nakkiah Lui says, and in the next breath whispers "so give us back our land". In First Eat, a confrontational, raw and highly personal exploration of food politics, power and body sovereignty, Nakkiah Lui asks how our meals would look different if First Nations people owned the land from which the food came. First Eat is about more than just food, it's an aural feast for a rich future.

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Free Download Finding Your Calm: Twelve Methods to Release Anxiety, Relieve Stress & Restore Peace (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLVS35HP | 2023 | 7 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 210 MB
Author: Angela A. Wix
Narrator: Christina Delaine
Twelve of Llewellyn's top authors have collaborated to introduce you to a dozen new age relaxation techniques that can positively impact all areas of your life. Pulling from both scientific and spiritual methods, these expert authors introduce you to guided meditations, visualizations, and other simple practices so you can achieve a state of calm, collected bliss. Through fun, conversational essays, this book explores a wide range of topics, including the power of chakras, bedtime rituals, listening to your body, and autonomous sensory meridian responses (ASMR). You will learn about aromatherapy from Gail Bussi, the vagus nerve from Cyndi Dale, mindfulness from Melanie Klein, and more. Whether your need is for yourself, a corporate retreat, or a therapy group, Finding Your Calm helps you tune into your innate intuition and find the right modality for any moment.

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Free Download Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRT4QP3 | 2023 | 6 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Holly Marie, Cindy Lambert, David Lambert
Narrator: Stephanie Richardson
Holly Marie was forty-two years old the day she found out she was missing. At ten months old, Holly Marie was brought to the door of a church by three barefoot women in white robes and head coverings. Adopted by the pastor and raised in a loving Christian home, Holly nevertheless struggled with the ache of not knowing what had happened to her biological parents. She still felt their absence even as she married and started a family of her own. When two detectives showed up at the restaurant where she worked and informed her that she had a large family in Florida who had been searching for her for over 40 years, Holly's past became the reality of her present, and she began the sometimes painful journey of discovering the truth about her origins: Her parents had been brutally murdered, their case still unsolved.

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