Free Download Ours: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | February 20, 2024 | ASIN: B0C6YJLHZ1 | M4B@128 kbps | 22h 48m | 1.24 GB
Author: Phillip B. Williams | Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
From a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedom
In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours.

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Free Download Geoffrey Levin, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978"
English | ASIN: B0CVNNGTD3 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:23:00 | 294 MB
A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Isreal focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights
American Jews began debating Palestinian rights issues even before Israel's founding in 1948. Geoffrey Levin recovers the voices of American Jews who, in the early decades of Israel's existence, called for an honest reckoning with the moral and political plight of Palestinian Sephardic roots, a former Yiddish journalist, anti-Zionist Reform rabbis, and young left-wing Zionist activists, felt drawn to support Palestinian rights by their understanding of Jewish history, identity, and ethics. They sometimes worked with mainstream American Jewish leaders who feared that ignoring Palestinian rights could foster antisemitism, leading them to press Israeli officials for reform. But Israeli diplomats viewed any American Jewish interest in Palestinian affairs with deep suspicion, provoking a series of quiet confrontations that ultimately kept Palestinian rights off the American Jewish agenda up to the present era.
In reconstructing this hidden history, Levin lays the groundwork for more forthright debates over Palestinian rights issues, American Jewish identity, and the U.S.-Israel relationship more broadly.

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Free Download John Dinges, Gary Tiedemann (Narrator), "Our Man in Panama: The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega"
English | ASIN: B0CX2Z8M3W | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~14:08:00s | 388 MB
A "carefully researched" account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriega-and America's role in both (The Washington Post).
Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

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Free Download Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CD2PZKY5 | 2024 | 8 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Gregor Craigie
Narrator: Gregor Craigie
An urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadians find ourselves facing, by Balsillie Prize finalist and CBC Radio host Gregor Craigie, A Crumbling Foundation offers real-life solutions from around the world and hope for new housing innovation in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles. Canada is experiencing a housing shortage. Although house prices in major Canadian cities appear to have topped out in early 2023, new housing isn't coming onto the market quickly enough. Rising interest rates have only tightened the pressure on buyers, and renters, too, as rising mortgage rates cost landlords more, which are passed along to tenants in rent increases. Even with the recent federal budget commitment to bring more housing online by 2030, there will still be a shortfall of 3.5 million homes by 2030. Gregor Craigie is a CBC journalist in Victoria, one of the highest-priced housing markets in the country. On his daily radio show On the Island he's been talking for over 15 years to local experts and to those across the country about housing.

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Free Download Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRSVH5BL | 2024 | 6 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 367 MB
Author: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey
Narrator: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey, Jonathan Beville
The internet as we know it is broken. Here's how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet-before it's too late. It was once a utopian dream. But today's internet, despite its conveniences and connectivity, is the primary cause of a pervasive unease that has taken hold in the U.S. and other democratic societies. It's why youth suicide rates are rising, why politics has become toxic, and why our most important institutions are faltering. Information is the lifeblood of any society, and our current system for distributing it is corrupted at its heart. Everything comes down to our ability to communicate openly and trustfully with each other. But, thanks to the dominant digital platforms and the ways they distort human behavior, we have lost that ability-while, at the same time, we've been robbed of the data that is rightfully ours.

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Free Download Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B082MPTH49 | 2020 | 11 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Max Hastings
Narrator: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
The RAF had identified the Ruhr dams as strategic objectives as far back as 1938; in those five years Wing Commander Guy Gibson formed and trained the 617 Squadron. Hastings observes that while the dropping of Wallis's mines provided the dramatic climax, only two of the eight aircraft lost came down over the dams - the rest were shot down on the flight to, or back from, the mission. And while the 617 Squadron's valor is indisputable, the ultimate industrial damage caused by the dam raid was actually rather modest. In 1943, these brave men caught the imagination of the world and uplifted the weary spirits of the British people. Their achievement unnerved the Nazi high command, and caused them to expend large resources on dam defenses - making the mission a success. An example of Churchill's "military theatre" at its best, what 617 Squadron did was an extraordinary and heroic achievement, and a triumph of British ingenuity and technology - a story to be told for generations to come.

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Free Download One Way Back: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHWMK193 | 2024 | 8 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 256 MB
Author: Christine Blasey Ford
Narrator: Christine Blasey Ford
The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation. On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described an alleged sexual assault by the Supreme Court nominee that took place at a high school party in the 1980s. Her words and courage on that day provided some of the most credible and unforgettable testimony our country has ever witnessed. In One Way Back, Ford recounts the months she spent trying to get information into the right hands without exposing herself and her family to dangerous backlash.

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Free Download On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years: An Investigation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVPB2Q38 | 2024 | 13 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Elaine Dewar
Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
When the first TV newscast described a SARS-like flu affecting a distant Chinese metropolis, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar started asking questions: Was SARS-CoV-2 something that came from nature, as leading scientists insisted, or did it come from a lab, and what role might controversial experiments have played in its development? Why was Wuhan the pandemic's ground zero-and why, on the other side of the Atlantic, had two researchers been marched out of a lab in Winnipeg by the RCMP? Why were governments so slow to respond to the emerging pandemic, and why, now, is the government of China refusing to cooperate with the World Health Organization?

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Free Download On Locations: Lessons Learned from My Life On Set with The Sopranos and in the Film Industry (Audiobook)
English | February 13, 2024 | ASIN: B0CTJ6PT6P | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 20m | 180 MB
Author: Mark Kamine | Narrator: Michael Butler Murray
This must-listen account of starting at the lowest rung on the production ladder among enormously famous and outrageously demanding people will be devoured for its insights, gossip, humor, and storytelling. Married and with a child, the author takes unpaid gigs to get a foot in the door and eventually ends up working on all seasons of The Sopranos, often named the best TV show ever.
The show's setting and its creator's insistence on accuracy placed the native New Jersey author in the right place at the right time to become part of television history.

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Free Download On Borrowed Time: North America's Next Big Quake (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNTZ5G8S | 2024 | 7 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Gregor Craigie
Narrator: Gregor Craigie
The Big One and what we can do to get ready for it. Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a zone that can produce the world's biggest earthquakes and tsunamis. In the eastern part of the continent, small cities and large, from Ottawa to Montréal to New York City, sit in active earthquake zones. In fact, more than 100-million North Americans live in active seismic zones, many of whom do not realize the risk to their community. For more than a decade, Gregor Craigie interviewed scientists, engineers, and emergency planners about earthquakes, disaster response, and resilience. He has also collected vivid first-hand accounts from people who have survived deadly earthquakes. His fascinating and deeply researched book dives headfirst into explaining the science behind The Big One-and asks what we can do now to prepare ourselves for events geologists say aren't a matter of if, but when.

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