Free Download The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune
Author: Conor O'Clery | Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt
Oct 1, 2013 | English | ASIN: B00FDVSQSE | 15 hrs 59 mins | M4B & MP3 @63 kbps
481 to 485 MB | Unabridged | Retail
Born during the Depression in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Feeney had made a fortune as co-founder of Duty-Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. How he did it is one of the great untold retail stories of modern times.

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Free Download The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappe, Paul Boehmer, Tantor Audio
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07S1Y773T | Format: Opus / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 11 hours and 17 minutes | 149 Mb
From the author of the best-selling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine left off.
Published on the 15th anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts. Using recently declassified archival material, Pappe analyses the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians-and the decision-making process itself - that laid the foundation of the occupation. From a survey of the legal and bureaucratic infrastructures that were put in place to control the population of over one million Palestinians, to the security mechanisms that vigorously enforced that control, Pappe paints a picture of what is to all intents and purposes the world's largest "open prison".
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Free Download The Bible with and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (Audiobook)
English | October 27, 2020 | ASIN: B0862GWS35 | M4B@128 kbps | 14h 32m | 811 MB
Author: Amy-Jill Levine, Marc Zvi Brettler | Narrator: Marni Penning
The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament show how and why Jews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts-including passages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms-differently. Exploring and explaining these diverse perspectives, they reveal more clearly Scripture's beauty and power.
Esteemed Bible scholars and teachers Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler take readers on a guided tour of the most popular Hebrew Bible passages quoted in the New Testament to show what the texts meant in their original contexts and then how Jews and Christians, over time, understood those same texts. Passages include the creation of the world, the role of Adam and Eve, the Suffering Servant of Isiah, the book of Jonah, and Psalm 22, whose words, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me," Jesus quotes as he dies on the cross.

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Free Download The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy (Audiobook)
English | September 27, 2022 | ASIN: B0BFYX62M5 | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 29m | 463 MB
Author: J. Russell Hawkins | Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
Why did southern white evangelical Christians resist the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s? Simply put, they believed the Bible told them so. These white Christians entered the battle certain that God was on their side. Ultimately, the civil rights movement triumphed in the 1960s and fundamentally transformed American society. But this victory did little to change southern white evangelicals' theological commitment to segregation. Rather than abandoning their segregationist theology, white evangelicals turned their focus on institutions they still controlled and fought on.
Focusing on the case of South Carolina, The Bible Told Them So shows how, despite suffering defeat in the public sphere, white evangelicals continued to battle for their own institutions, preaching and practicing a segregationist Christianity they continued to believe reflected God's will. Increasingly caught in the tension between their sincere belief that God desired segregation and their reluctance to give voice to such ideas for fear of being perceived as bigoted or intolerant, by the late 1960s southern white evangelicals embraced the rhetoric of colorblindness and protection of the family as measures to maintain both segregation and respectable social standing. This strategy set southern white evangelicals on an alternative path for race relations in the decades ahead.

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Free Download The Best American Short Stories 2023 (Audiobook)
English | October 17, 2023 | ASIN: B0BT3ZC622 | M4B@64 kbps | 14h 59m | 423 MB
Editor: Min Jin Lee | Narrators: Laura Copland, Jeena Yi, Pascale Armand, Korey Jackson, Will Tulin, Katharine Chin, Mirai, Micky Shiloah, Nikki Massoud, Dylan Moore, Thabang Makhubelak, Elyse Dinh, Johnny Rey Diaz, Em Grosland, Elena Rey
A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.

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Free Download The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War (Audiobook)
English | August 31, 2021 | ASIN: B09BZYHHT7 | M4B@64 kbps | 21h 32m | 566 MB
Author: Peter Englund | Narrator: David Stifel
An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of 20 men and women from around the globe - a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like.
In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of 20 individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund's collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling". Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these 20 particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the war, but whose voices have remained unheard.

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Free Download The Beautiful and the Wild (Audiobook)
English | November 07, 2023 | ASIN: B0BXFLV89P | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 35m | 219 MB
Author: Peggy Townsend | Narrator: Karissa Vacker
The dangers of Alaska aren't limited to storms, starvation, and grizzly bears. Sometimes the most dangerous thing is the person you love.
It's summer in Alaska and the light surrounding the shipping-container-turned-storage shed where Liv Russo is being held prisoner is fuzzy and gray. Around her is thick forest and jagged mountains. In front of her, across a clearing, is a low-slung cabin with a single window that spills a wash of yellow light onto bare ground. Illuminated in that light is the father of her child, a man she once loved. A man who is now her jailor. Liv vows to do anything to escape.

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Free Download Captivating History, Jason Saffir (Narrator), "The Barbary Wars: A Captivating Guide to the First Overseas Wars Conducted by the United States"
English | ISBN: 9798868722127 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~03:17:00 | 97 MB
Discover the captivating history of the first American wars in Africa!
In this book, you'll learn about the Barbary Wars of 1801 to 1805 and 1815, the first American wars outside of North America. The enemies were the Muslim Barbary pirates of the North African coast.

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Free Download The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker (Audiobook)
English | September 21, 2023 | ASIN: B0CJFM3Y1X | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 23m | 209 MB
Author and Narrator: Mark Beaver
On a June night in 1983, twenty-three-year-old Karla Faye Tucker and her boyfriend, fueled by a sinister cocktail of illicit drugs, broke into a Houston apartment. "We were very wired," Tucker later testified, "and we was looking for something to do." Though they later claimed they entered the premises with no murderous intent, they ended up slaughtering two people-one a sworn enemy, the other an utter stranger. The weapon: a pickax they found in the apartment.
Fourteen years later, in early 1998, Tucker was facing lethal injection. But after her religious conversion in prison, Texas would be executing a different woman than the one who'd committed the murders. Her change was so dramatic that the most powerful and influential voices in American televangelism-Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell among them-were urging viewers to contact Texas's governor, George W. Bush, and plead for clemency. One follower was author Mark Beaver's father, a devout Southern Baptist deacon who asked Beaver to put his fledgling literary ambitions to work by composing a letter on his behalf to Governor Bush.

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Free Download The Art of Social Excellence: How to Make Your Personal and Business Relationships Thrive by Henrik Fexeus, Pat Grimes, Dreamscape Media, LLC
English | 2020 | ISBN: B08JB6BWB1 | 8 hours and 26 minutes / Format: M4B / Bitrate: 48 Kbps | 176 Mb
Research has increasingly shown that nonverbal communication prowess is absolutely essential in seemingly unrelated areas of our lives (investment decisions, salary levels, etc.). However, as our society becomes more modernized and we incorporate new forms of technology into our daily interactions, we are becoming less and less capable of understanding one another as well as we should be.
In The Art of Social Excellence, Henrik Fexeus combines his own expert knowledge as a mentalist with psychology studies to create a complete guide to social interaction. He covers it all: from overcoming your conversational fears in a large group of people to excelling in the workplace and winning an argument with your partner.
He breaks down various rhetorical strategies in detail and provides helpful steps and checklists for checking progress during a social encounter. Anyone who has ever felt awkward or misunderstood in social situations will benefit from listening to this book and, with proper implementation of Fexeus's principles, can achieve superior social skills.

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