Free Download Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSZ775TG | 2024 | 3 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Amy Jeffs
Narrator: Lucy Paterson
Journey into the wilderness of northwestern Europe between the sixth and tenth centuries, an oft forgotten time in a mystical and magical place where the terror of the wilderness was surpassed only by its potential for salvation. This unique audiobook features 7 original songs-musical illustrations composed and performed by the author and her collaborators. In Wild, Amy Jeffs journeys-on foot and through medieval texts-from landscapes of desolation to hope, offering the listener an insight into a world at once distant and profoundly close to home. The seven chapters, entitled Earth, Ocean, Forest, Beast, Fen, Catastrophe, Paradise, open with fiction and close with reflection. They blend reflections of travels through fen, forest and cave, with retelling of medieval texts that offer rich depictions of the natural world. From the Old English elegies to the englynion and immrama of the Celtic world-stories that largely represent figures whose voices are not generally heard in the corpus of medieval literature: women, outcasts, animals.

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Free Download Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHK2D5QW | 2024 | 8 hours and 54 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 245 MB
Author: Shannon Reed
Narrator: Paige McKinney
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist. We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the power to keep us safe, to challenge us, and perhaps most importantly, to make us more fully human. Shannon Reed, a longtime teacher, lifelong reader, and New Yorker contributor, gets it. With one simple goal in mind, she makes the case that we should read for pleasure above all else. In this whip-smart, laugh-out-loud-funny collection, Reed shares surprising stories from her life as a reader and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students. From the varied novels she cherishes (Gone Girl, Their Eyes Were Watching God) to the ones she didn't (Tess of the d'Urbervilles), Reed takes us on a rollicking tour through the comforting world of literature, celebrating the books we love, the readers who love them, and the ways in which literature can transform us for the better.

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Free Download White Supremacy Is All Around: Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFC3WDBH | 2024 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 245 MB
Author: Dr. Akilah Cadet
Narrator: Dr. Akilah Cadet
Founder and CEO of consulting firm Change Cadet Dr. Akilah Cadet shares a powerful, incisive look at where we are in the fight to dismantle white supremacy-and what we urgently need to do next​. This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me to be valued, seen, heard and perhaps some advice on how to navigate life amongst white supremacy. This book is also for white people who have been "doing the work" since the murder of George Floyd to read my story and be able to clearly see systemic oppression, racism, and ableism. There are books sharing the historical context of white supremacy, providing tips on how to be an ally or anti-racist, and firsthand experiences from Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) which are important. I push the conversation that leads to real change through my story. This book is for the Black woman who is looking to been seen and soft in shared lived experience. It is for the white person who is immersing themselves in the community they want to advocate for. It is for anyone who understands that learning and unlearning is lifelong.

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Free Download What Would Reagan Do?: Life Lessons from the Last Great President (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHHCXQVP | 2024 | 8 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Chris Christie, Ellis Henican
Narrator: Danny Campbell
With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America's last great president? A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie takes a fresh look at President Ronald Reagan's character-driven political instincts and deeply impactful relationships across party lines-finding plenty of compelling insights for our current national dysfunction. In each chapter, Christie spells out a lesson from a different point in Reagan's journey, then ties all those lessons to the national challenges of today. When Reagan turned from Hollywood to politics, America was at another breaking point. The economy was battered. Trust in government was at an all-time low.

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Free Download Voices of the Pacific, Expanded Edition: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B093MRZC2J | 2021 | 13 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Adam Makos, Marcus Brotherton
Narrator: Mike Chamberlain, Michael Crouch, Kimberly Farr
From the best-selling author comes an unflinching firsthand chronicle of the heroic US Marines who fought on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and in other pivotal battles during the Pacific War, a classic book now expanded with new stories from the flyboys overhead and the home front at war. Following 15 Marines from Pearl Harbor, through their battles with the Japanese, to their return home after V-J Day, Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton have compiled an oral history of the Pacific War in the words of the men who fought on the front lines. With vivid, unforgettable detail, these Marines reveal harrowing accounts of combat with an implacable enemy, the camaraderie they found, the friends they lost, and the aftermath of the war's impact on their lives. With unprecedented access to the veterans and unpublished memoirs, Voices of the Pacific presents true stories of heroism as told by such World War II veterans as Sid Phillips, R.V. Burgin, and Chuck Tatum - whose exploits were featured in the classic HBO miniseries The Pacific -and their Marine buddies from the legendary 1st Marine Division.

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Free Download Devon Price PhD (Author, Narrator), "Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power"
English | ASIN: B0C6YL86G6 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:28:00 | 269 MB
Learn to identify-and combat-Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that comes from living in a society that blames individuals for systemic problems, with this invaluable resource from the social psychologist and author of Unmasking Autism.
Systemic Shame is the socially engineered self-loathing that says we are solely to blame for our circumstances. It tells us that poverty is remedied by hard-working people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, that marginalized people are personally responsible for solving the problem of their own oppression, and that massive global crises like climate change can be solved with individual action. Feeling overwhelmed? That's your problem, too. The more we try and ultimately fail to live up to impossible societal standards of moral goodness, the more shame we feel-and the more we retreat into isolation and despair.

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Free Download Type 2 Turnaround: From Diagnosis to Dynamic Living (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781456645045 | 2024 | 4 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 224 MB
Author: William Frye SR.
Narrator: James Wilson
"Type 2 Turnaround: From Diagnosis to Dynamic Living" is a compassionate guide for those diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, turning the challenge into an empowering journey. From understanding the condition to taking charge of your health, this book provides practical advice on nutrition, exercise, medication, and holistic diabetes care. With easy-to-follow chapters, including diabetes-friendly recipes and a resource directory, embark on a transformative path to a reinvigorated life. Say goodbye to fear and embrace a dynamic, empowered approach to living with Type 2 diabetes.

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Free Download Brittany Gowan (Author, Narrator), "Turn to the Sun: Your Guide to Release Stress and Cultivate Better Health Through Nature"
English | ASIN: B0CB1STK5C | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:06:00 | 117 MB
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Turn to the Sun guides you down a nourishing path of uplifting affirmations and soul-refreshing meditations that helps you heal in the company of nature. Approach your days with less anxiety, renewed vigor, and a deeper sense of well-being as you become grounded and soak up nature's restorative qualities.
Whether you live in an urban jungle, on a suburban cul-de-sac, or at the edge of a national forest, you might find yourself more connected to technology than to nature. In the midst of the pings and rings of a device-dependent life, is getting close to nature even possible-or worth it?

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Free Download The Women: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4QD5VPB | 2024 | 14 hours and 57 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 821 MB
Author: Kristin Hannah
Narrator: Kristin Hannah, Julia Whelan
From the celebrated author comes Kristin Hannah's The Women-at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war.

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Free Download The Well-Grounded Python Developer
Author: Doug Farrell
Narrator: n/a
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781617297441 | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 8h 14m | 711 MB
The Well-Grounded Python Developer builds on Python skills you've learned in isolation and shows you how to unify them into a meaningful whole. It helps you understand the dizzying array of libraries and teaches important concepts, like modular construction, APIs, and the design of a basic web server. As you work through this practical guide, you'll discover how all the bits of Python link up as you build and modify a typical web server application-the kind of web app that's in high demand by modern businesses.

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