Free Download Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President by Harold Holzer, Mark Bramhall, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2011 | ISBN: B004ZBR99U | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 43m | 319 Mb
Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address-an extraordinary appeal by the Western politician to the Eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln's suitability for the presidency and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition to slavery to Republican progressives.
Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the times-an era of racism, politicized journalism, and public oratory as entertainment-and shows how the candidate framed the speech as an opportunity to continue his famous "debates" with his archrival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, on the question of slavery.
Holzer describes the enormous risk Lincoln took by appearing in New York, where he exposed himself to the country's most critical audience and took on Republican Senator William Henry Seward of New York, the front-runner, in his own backyard. Then he recounts a brilliant and innovative public-relations campaign, as Lincoln took the speech "on the road" in his successful quest for the presidency.

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Free Download Sharon B. Heaton, Kymberli Colbourne (Narrator), "Lift Off: 12 Things to Know Before Selling Your Business"
English | ISBN: 9798887502342 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~04:48:00 | 125 MB
You may have contemplated selling your business for some time. Perhaps someone recently approached you with an offer, catching you off guard. You don't know whether it's a fair price or how to proceed.
No matter where you are in the process, Lift Off! What You Need to Know to Sell Your Business will guide you through preparing your company for sale and navigating the M&A journey. It explains in simple terms what you need to do.

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Free Download Life with Picasso (Audiobook)
English | January 21, 2020 | ASIN: B083MYQ6MK | M4B@64 kbps | 15h 2m | 773 MB
Authors: Francoise Gilot, Carlton Lake | Narrator: Mary Sarah
Françoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists.
Françoise Gilot was in her early 20s when she met the 61-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do, upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of 10 years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso's two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso's muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become.

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Free Download Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond (Audiobook)
English | January 26, 2021 | ASIN: B08TLR5J8R | M4B@128 kbps | 13h 27m | 736 MB
Author: Sandra B. Tooze | Narrator: Rosemary Benson
A dazzling, epic biography of Levon Helm - the beloved, legendary drummer and singer of The Band.
He sang the anthems of a generation: "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", and "Life Is a Carnival", Levon Helm's story - told here through sweeping research and interviews with close friends and fellow musicians - is the rollicking story of American popular music itself.

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Free Download Let's Talk About Hard Things by Anna Sale
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08N37ZNBS | 8 hours and 3 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 219 Mb
From the host of the popular WNYC podcast Death, Sex, & Money, Let's Talk About Hard Things is "like a good conversation with a friend" (The New Yorker) where "no topic is off-limits when it comes to creating meaningful connection" (Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone).
Anna Sale wants you to have that conversation. You know the one. The one that you've been avoiding or putting off, maybe for years. The one that you've thought "they'll never understand" or "do I really want to bring that up?" or "it's not going to go well, so why even try?"
Sale is the founder and host of WNYC's popular, award-winning podcast Death, Sex, & Money or as the New York Times dubbed her "a therapist at happy hour." She and her guests have direct and thought-provoking conversations, discussing topics that most of us are too squeamish, polite, or nervous to bring up. But Sale argues that we all experience these hard things, and by not talking to one another, we cut ourselves off, leading us to feel isolated and disconnected from people who can help us most.

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Free Download Let the Dead Bury the Dead: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | October 17, 2023 | ASIN: B0BVS5WX33 | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 11m | 341 MB
Author: Allison Epstein | Narrator: Katia Kapustin
An urgent, immersive alternate history set in an imperial Russia on the brink of disaster, following a surprising cast of characters seeking a better future as Saint Petersburg struggles in the wake of Napoleon's failed invasion.
Saint Petersburg, 1812. Russian forces have defeated Napoleon at great cost, and the tsar's empire is once again at peace. Sasha, a captain in the imperial army, returns home to Grand Duke Felix, the disgraced second son of the tsar and his irrepressibly charming lover, but their reunion is quickly interrupted by the arrival of Sofia, a mysteriously persuasive figure whose disruptive presence Sasha suspects to be something more than human. Felix, insisting that Sasha's old-fashioned superstitions are misplaced, takes Sofia into his confidence-a connection that quickly becomes both personal and political. On her incendiary advice, Felix confronts his father about the brutal conditions of the common people in the aftermath of the war, to disastrous results, separating him from Sasha and setting him on a collision course with a vocal group of dissidents: the Koalitsiya.

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Free Download Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media, from The Resilience Project by Hugh van Cuylenburg, Penguin Random House Australia Audio
English | 2021 | ISBN: B09C6KJHPD | 4 hours and 53 minutes / Format: M4B | 266 Mb
If ever there was a time for us to be resilient, it was when a deadly virus engulfed the planet. As death rates soared and crippling lockdowns kicked in, the Resilience Project founder Hugh Van Cuylenburg was one of the people Australia turned to in order to find out how to cope. Under pressure to deliver good news in a historic crisis, it didn't take long for the Melbourne-based educator to realise he wasn't coping.
Like millions of people around the world, Hugh was forced to reassess life during the 2020-21 pandemic as COVID undermined our sense of safety, strangled our personal connections and saw levels of happiness plunge. After taking the time to address his own problems, Hugh recognised he was being hamstrung by the same powerful issues that undermine the lives of many: our feelings of shame, our quest for perfection and the toxicity of social media.
In this follow-up to the best-selling The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness Through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness, Hugh combines powerful insight with research and his own disarming and candid storytelling to show how it is possible to let go of the things that are stopping us from feeling connected, safe and happy.

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Free Download Leonardo da Vinci (Audiobook)
English | October 17, 2017 | ASIN: B071S8BNDP | M4B@64 kbps | 17h 1m | 475 MB
Author: Walter Isaacson | Narrator: Alfred Molina
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life" (The New Yorker).
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson "deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo" (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy.

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Free Download Learning Spanish I and II - Bill Worden, The Great Courses by Bill Worden, The Great Courses
English | 2015 | ASIN: 1629972312 | Format: MP3 / 43 hours and 40 minutes + PDF (True) | 2.06 Gb
Length: 30 + 30 episodes of approximately 45 mins each
Learning Spanish I: How to Understand and Speak a New Language teaches you the essentials of Spanish, empowering you to converse with Spanish speakers and to embark on the extraordinary journey of discovery that a new language brings.
Learning Spanish II: How to Understand and Speak a New Language takes you across an important and exciting threshold-from the beginning stages of communicating in Spanish to a more advanced level of speaking and understanding the language.

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Free Download Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business by Peter Lynch
English | 2006 | ISBN: B000GY747M | Format: M4A / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 1 hour and 38 minutes | 90 Mb
Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, have only the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works. The reason, say Lynch and Rothchild, is that the basics of investing aren't taught in school. At a time when individuals have to make important decisions about saving for college and 401(k) retirement funds, this failure to provide a basic education in investing can have tragic consequences.
For those who know what to look for, investment opportunities are everywhere. The average high school student is familiar with Nike, Reebok, McDonald's, the Gap, and the Body Shop. Nearly every teenager in America drinks Coke or Pepsi, but only a very few own shares in either company or even understand how to buy them. Every student studies American history, but few realize that our country was settled by European colonists financed by public companies in England and Holland, and the basic principles behind public companies haven't changed in more than 300 years.
In Learn to Earn, Lynch and Rothchild explain in a style accessible to anyone how to read a stock table in the daily newspaper, how to understand a company's annual report, and why everyone should pay attention to the stock market. They explain not only how to invest, but also how to think like an investor.

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