Free Download A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C2DGS978 | 2023 | 14 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 420 MB
Author: Mary Haverstick
Narrator: Mary Haverstick
The true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime-a biopic of aviation pioneer Jerrie Cobb, the key figure in a group of extraordinary women who in 1960 passed the same tests as the legendary male astronauts of the Mercury 7 but never went to space. Just as casting was set to begin, Haverstick received a mysterious warning from a government agent; soon she began to suspect that there was more to Jerrie's story than what met the eye.

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Free Download A Walker in the City (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7H125M | 2023 | 5 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Alfred Kazin
Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen
A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues-but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small, familiar neighborhoods for something new. With vivid imagery and sensual detail-the smell of half-sour pickles, the dry rattle of newspapers, the women in their shapeless flowered housedresses-Alfred Kazin recounts his boyhood walks through this working-class community, and his eventual foray across the river to "the city," the mysterious, compelling Manhattan, where treasures like the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum beckoned. Eventually, he would travel even farther, building a life around books and language and literature and exploring all that the world had to offer.

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Free Download A Visitor's Guide to Georgian England (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL7P6QL3 | 2023 | 6 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 361 MB
Author: Monica Hall
Narrator: Anne Flosnik
The author has done an outstanding job of making the colorful Georgian world come alive in all its contradictory, bawdy, and utterly fascinating glory. Could you successfully be a Georgian? Find yourself immersed in the pivotal world of Georgian England, exciting times to live in. Everything was booming-the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the nascent Empire-in an era inhabited by Mary Shelley, the Romantic poets, and their contemporaries. Find everything you need to know in order to survive as a time traveler from today, undetected among the ordinary people: how to dress, behave yourself in public, earn a living, and find somewhere to live. Just as importantly, you will be given advice on how to stay on the right side of the law, and how to avoid getting seriously ill. Monica Hall creatively evokes this bygone era, filling this book with all aspects of daily life within the period, calling upon diaries, illustrations, letters, poetry, prose, eighteenth century laws, and archives. This detailed account intimately explores the ever-changing lives of those who lived through Britain's imperial prowess, the birth of modern capitalism, and the upheaval of the industrial revolution, major political reform, and class division.

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Free Download A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CH1F2DM9, B0CKKN6TPC | 2023 | 16 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 439 MB
Author: Hilary Mantel
Narrator: Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson-Hunte, Ben Miles, Bill Hamilton, Jane Wymark, Lydia Leonard, Nicholas Pearson, Sarah Waters
In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. "Ink is a generative fluid," she explains. "If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all." A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Her subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed, and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels-revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is her legendary essay "Royal Bodies," on our endless fascination with the current royal family. From her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own luminous words, through "messages from people I used to be." Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential listening from one of our greatest writers.

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Free Download A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGMHW6J2 | 2023 | 17 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 469 MB
Author: Nelson Lichtenstein, Judith Stein
Narrator: Tom Campbell
When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US economy, touching everything from health care to trade to labor relations. Yet by the time he left office, the nation's economic and social policies had instead lurched dramatically rightward, exacerbating the inequalities so troubling in our own time. Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein show how the administration's progressive reformers were stymied by a new world of global capitalism that heightened Wall Street influence, undermined domestic manufacturing, and eviscerated the labor movement.

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Free Download A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMVQSQ8D | 2023 | 10 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 574 MB
Author: Steve Kozak
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is a peerlessly cringeworthy pop-culture artifact. George Lucas, who completely disowned the production, reportedly has said, "If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it." Just how on earth did this thing ever see the light of day? To answer that question, as Steven Kozak shows in this fascinating and often hilarious inside look into the making of the Special, you have to understand the cultural moment in which it appeared-a long, long time ago when cheesy variety shows were a staple of network television and Star Wars was not yet the billion-dollar multimedia behemoth that it is today.

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Free Download A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home: Housekeeping Hacks You Can't Live Without (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBCWBPMJ | 2023 | 6 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 368 MB
Author: Melissa Dilkes Pateras, Carla Sosenko
Narrator: Melissa Dilkes Pateras
Everything you need to know about laundry, cleaning, and basic home repairs-from the TikTok star who made bluing a thing, showed you how to fold a fitted sheet, and taught you to properly use your (caulk) gun. Melissa Dilkes Pateras is the most competent housekeeper, DIY-project master, and home repair genius that you've ever fantasized about becoming. When she followed her kids on to TikTok, she discovered a community hungry for her approachable, tongue-in-cheek advice on everything from balls-dryer balls, that is-to why color-coded closets are a spiritual experience. She doesn't expect you to know what you were never taught, and she doesn't care about transforming your home into a minimal, beige Instagram post; she simply wants to help make your life easier. Whether you're terrified of your laundry pile or have an inner handyperson who's been longing for their moment, A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home is a joyful all-purpose guide to organizing, cleaning, laundry, repairs, and beyond. As Melissa says, "Your home shouldn't be your adversary."

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Free Download A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWQ7R384 | 2023 | 9 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Paul Caruana Galizia
Narrator: Paul Caruana Galizia
A journalist's spellbinding account of the shocking murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reverberated far beyond their tiny homeland. An archipelago off the southern coast of Italy, Malta is a picturesque gem eroded by a climate of corruption, polarization, inequality, and a virtual absence of civic spirit. In this unpromising soil, a fearless journalist took root. Daphne Caruana Galizia fashioned herself into the country's lonely voice of conscience, her muckraking and editorializing sending shock waves that threatened to topple those in power and made her at once the island's best-known figure and its most reviled. In 2017, a campaign of intimidation against her culminated in a car bombing that took her life. Daphne was also the devoted and inspiring mother to three sons, who with their father have carried on the quest for justice and transparency after her death. Spellbindingly narrated by the youngest of them, the award-winning journalist Paul Caruana Galizia, A Death in Malta is at once a study in heroism and the powerful story of a family's crusade for accountability in a society built on lies, with reverberations far beyond their homeland.

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Free Download A Curious Mind (Expanded Edition): The Secret to a Bigger Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZWR6B9F | 2023 | 10 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman
Narrator: Norbert Leo Butz, Steven Weber, Brian Grazer
In this specially combined edition with a new foreword, Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed author Charles Fishman blend their insights from bestselling books A Curious Mind and Face to Face to transform the art of connecting with and through curiosity. In A Curious Mind, deemed "a captivation account of how the simple act of asking questions can change your life" by Malcolm Gladwell, Grazer offers a brilliant peek into the "curiosity conversations" that inspired him to create some of the world's most iconic movies and television shows.

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Free Download A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXFM29DW | 2023 | 11 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 328 MB
Author: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
Narrator: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith, Brittany Pressley
From the bestselling authors, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement. Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away-no climate change, no war, no Twitter-beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of research, they aren't so sure it's a good idea. Space technologies and space business are progressing fast, but we lack the knowledge needed to have space kids, build space farms, and create space nations in a way that doesn't spark conflict back home. In a world hurtling toward human expansion into space.

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