Free Download The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3NKM77X | 2024 | 10 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Susan Lieu
Narrator: Susan Lieu
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan's mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting up two successful nail salons and orchestrating every success-until Susan was eleven. That year, her mother died from a botched tummy tuck. After the funeral, no one was ever allowed to talk about her or what had happened.

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Free Download The Lost Properties of Love (Audiobook)
English | 07 February 2019 | ASIN: B07JND7SSS | MP3@64 kbps | 6h 30m | 168.46 MB
Author: Sophie Ratcliffe
Narrator: Amy Shindler

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Free Download The Lost Pianos of Siberia: In Search of Russia's Remarkable Survivors (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B082FP6JNX | 2020 | 9 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 498 MB
Author: Sophy Roberts
Narrator: Catherine Bailey
Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos - grand instruments created during the boom years of the 19th century and humble, Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos travelled into this snow-bound wilderness in the first place is testament to noble acts of fortitude by governors, adventurers and exiles. That stately instruments might still exist in such a hostile landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a miracle. But this is Siberia, where people can endure the worst of the world - and where music reveals a deep humanity in the last place on earth you would expect to find it.

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Free Download The Loss Prescription: A Practical Roadmap to Grief Recovery (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPYM6VP9 | 2024 | 7 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell
Narrator: Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell
Nobody gets through life free from the pain of loss. However, we aren't very good at processing what grief does to us. If left unchecked, it can seriously damage our mental health. In this book, chartered psychologist and trauma counsellor Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell offers a roadmap for grief recovery. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, stories from her own patients, and a series of practical tools and exercises, this book will help you work through your loss so you can embrace life with hope again. This is an expert source of support for anyone seeking light in the dark after loss.

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Free Download The Little Book of Robo Investing: How to Make Money While You Sleep (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CX9GLRSQ | 2024 | 6 hours and 14 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 172 MB
Author: Qian Liu, Elizabeth MacBride
Narrator: Rebecca Lam
In The Little Book of Robo Investing, a pair of long-time investors and founding team members at the award-winning online investment platform Wealthfront deliver a fun, invaluable, and simple roadmap to making your money make money. You'll learn how to start investing with the easy, automated, and low-cost strategies that robo investment advisors have made super accessible to everyday people. You don't need a ton of detailed knowledge about the financial and investment sectors to make impressive returns. The authors walk you through how to use techniques like automation, diversification and indexing to manage your risk and keep things absurdly simple.

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Free Download The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN3QVM46 | 2024 | 5 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Sasha Issenberg
Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins
How can political campaigns fight back against disinformation? A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called "Moneyball for politics," journalist Sasha Issenberg returns to the cutting edge of political innovation to reveal how campaigns are navigating the era's most pressing challenge: how to win in a world awash in lies. The Lie Detectives is a lively and deep secret history of Democratic politics in the Trump years. Our main character, Jiore Craig, is a young but battle-hardened veteran of the misinformation wars, and she leads a memorable cast including LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, whose emergence as one of the American left's biggest donors has forced his adviser Dmitri Mehlhorn into the role of moral compass for a movement still wrestling with whether it should counter fake news by producing its own, and David Goldstein and Jehmu Greene, who are confronting "the Big Lie," in the vernacular of online conspiracy theories, with gifs, memes, and ugly graphics of their own. The Lie Detectives presents a vivid snapshot of a political class trying to come to terms with an exploding social media landscape and using every weapon in its arsenal to counter the biggest threat it has ever faced to its way of doing business and winning power.

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Free Download The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CTNR4RCT | 2024 | 29 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 828 MB
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien
Narrator: Samuel West, Mike Grady, Chris Smith
The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of the languages and history of Middle-earth as recorded in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, was one of the most prolific letter-writers of this century. Over the years he wrote a mass of letters - to his ✅Publishers, to members of his family, to friends, and to 'fans' of his books - which often reveal the inner workings of his mind, and which record the history of composition of his works and his reaction to subsequent events. A selection from Tolkien's correspondence, collected and edited by Tolkien's official biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, and assisted by Christopher Tolkien, was published in 1981.

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Free Download The Italians before Italy: Conflict and Competition in the Mediterranean [TTC Audio]
English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTO3YI4 | M4B@96 kbps | 12h 8m | 510 MB
Lecturer: Kenneth R. Bartlett
Take a riveting tour of the Italian peninsula, from the glittering canals of Venice to the lavish papal apartments and ancient ruins of Rome.
In these 24 lectures, Professor Bartlett traces the development of the Italian city-states of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, showing how the modern nation of Italy was forged out of the rivalries, allegiances, and traditions of a vibrant and diverse people.

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Free Download Louis K. Gump, Eric Burgher (Narrator), "The Inside Innovator: A Practical Guide to Intrapreneurship"
English | ISBN: 9781639080960, 1639080961 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:07:00 | 168 MB
Are you a changemaker who wants to achieve, grow, and build more within your organization?
If you're like many people, when you think of innovation, you think of entrepreneurs.
And gifted entrepreneurs have written countless books for go-getters starting their own businesses. But what if you're a visionary who wants to innovate effectively within the framework of your larger organization? Far too often, you've been left to reinvent the wheel, over and over again.

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Free Download The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World (Audiobook) (US Edition)
English | March 01, 2022 | ASIN: B09PZHX9GV | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 9m | 229 MB
Author: Oliver Milman | Narrator: Liam Gerrard
From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. Three out of every four of our planet's known animal species are insects. In The Insect Crisis, Oliver Milman dives into the torrent of recent evidence that suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its remarkable 400-million-year history. What is causing the collapse of the insect world? And what can be done to stem the loss of the miniature empires that hold aloft life as we know it?
Milman explores this hidden emergency, arguing that its consequences could even rival climate change. He joins the scientists tracking the decline of insect populations across the globe, including the mountains of Mexico that host an epic, yet dwindling, migration of monarch butterflies; the verdant countryside of England that has been emptied of insect life; the gargantuan fields of US agriculture that have proved a killing ground for bees; and an offbeat experiment in Denmark that shows there aren't that many bugs splattering into your car windshield these days. These losses not only further tear at the tapestry of life on our degraded planet; they imperil everything we hold dear, from the food on our supermarket shelves to the medicines in our cabinets to the riot of nature that thrills and enlivens us.

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