Free Download John James Audubon: The Making of an American (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BF46S53V | 2024 | 21 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 612 MB
Author: Richard Rhodes
Narrator: Grover Gardner
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes comes the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world. Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret, speaking no English but already drawing and observing birds. We see him falling in love, marrying the wellborn English girl next door, crossing the Appalachians to frontier Kentucky to start a new life, fashioning himself into an American just as his adopted country was finding its identity. Here is Audubon exploring the wilderness of birds-pelicans wading the shallows of interior rivers, songbirds flocking, passenger pigeons darkening the skies-and teaching himself to revivify them in glorious life-size images. Now he finds his calling: to take his hundreds of watercolor drawings to England to be engraved in a great multivolume work called The Birds of America. Within weeks of his arrival there in 1826, he achieves remarkable celebrity as "the American Woodsman."

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Free Download James: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | March 19, 2024 | ASIN: B0CBCYFW9S | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 49m | 426 MB
Author: Percival Everett | Narrator: Dominic Hoffman
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the basis for Cord Jefferson's critically acclaimed film American Fiction
"If you liked Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver, read James, by Percival Everett"-The Washington Post

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Free Download It's Hard for Me to Live with Me: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL1CYNB9 | 2024 | 6 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 345 MB
Author: Rex Chapman, Seth Davis
Narrator: Rex Chapman
A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media influencer about his recovery from addiction. He is considered by many the greatest basketball player ever produced by the hoops-crazy state of Kentucky. In two years at the University of Kentucky, he scored over 1,000 points, led the Wildcats to a Sweet Sixteen appearance and was nicknamed "King Rex." The first player ever drafted by the Charlotte Hornets, he spent twelve seasons in the NBA, dazzling in dunk contests and sinking one of the most memorable buzzer-beaters in league history. But by the end of his career, Rex Chapman was harboring a destructive secret. Years before America's opioid crisis would become national news, Chapman developed a dependency on Vicodin and Oxycontin, ultimately ingesting fifty painkillers a day. In addition, he developed a severe gambling addiction, once nearly losing $400,000 at a Las Vegas blackjack table.

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Free Download It Starts Today: Mindset, Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep and Balance to transform your life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNF62PHJ | 2024 | 4 hours and 26 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 121 MB
Author: Jono Castano
Narrator: Rob Harding
Personal trainer to the stars Jono Castano's celebrity clients range from Rebel Wilson and Sir Richard Branson to sportspeople such as superstar cricketer Michael Clarke. The motivator for thousands of powerful fitness transformations, he was also the in house trainer at Men's Health Magazine and is Founder of Acero Gym. In It Starts Today, Jono draws upon his own powerful experiences as a non English-speaking new migrant, professional sportsman and celebrity trainer to cut through the noise and share the key skills which will help make your own fitness transformation both sensible and sustainable. Detailing the five key pillars to great health and his own success-Mindset, Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep and Balance-It Starts Today provides evidence based advice and achievable plans to help motivate you for change and overhaul your life, both inside and out. Sharing personal stories of his clients' incredible transformations with his trademark affability, his recollections of youth and reinventing himself after his dream of becoming a professional soccer player ended, his numerous tips and tricks for achieving the success we are all seeking in life will be invaluable for your own transformation.

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Free Download Is Everyone Happier than Me?: An Honest Guide to the Questions That Keep You Up at Night (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB1XV2FB | 2024 | 4 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Sarah Bragg
Narrator: Sarah Bragg
The point where you feel like your life is unraveling can actually be a place of unimaginable growth-an awakening-if you're willing to ask yourself a few simple questions. In an age where everyone else's successes are flaunted in front of you on social media, it can be a struggle to feel true happiness and contentment exactly where you are. Throw in difficult circumstances-loss, heartbreak, change, midlife-and it's easy to understand why you feel lonely, lost, unsure of yourself, stuck, and, if you're honest with yourself, flat-out unhappy. Is Everyone Happier Than Me? provides practical and relatable answers to the questions you've probably already been asking about your life, and poses a few more, to help you figure out what's standing in the way of your happiness, peace, and connection. It's time to let go of the ideal of a perfect life and allow yourself to be a work in progress. And there's no better time to find happiness than right here in the middle.

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Free Download Kevin Ervin Kelley (Author, Narrator), "Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together"
English | ASIN: B0CWPPZW17 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:39:00 | 211 MB
Do we still need physical places like grocery stores, restaurants, and office buildings? Or will the "Replacement Economy" led by the tech titans and retail giants wipe out these venues in their rapid ascent to unicorn status?
What about museums, universities, and performing arts venues? Considering the power of technology today, can't we replace these relics with faster, cheaper, and more efficient online tools, apps, and AI?
Through engaging storytelling, human behavior insights, and proven design techniques, Kevin Kelley-an attention architect and cofounder of Shook Kelley, a strategic design firm that pioneered the field of "convening"-unfolds why physical places are essential to civil society, business, and community.

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Free Download Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle That Changed History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B01MDRFHSW | 2016 | 12 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 356 MB
Author: Richard Snow
Narrator: Grover Gardner
From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow comes the thrilling story of the naval battle that changed the Civil War and the future of all sea power. No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, built an iron fort containing 10 heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named the Merrimack. The North got word of the project when it was already well along, and, in desperation, commissioned an eccentric inventor named John Ericsson to build the Monitor, an entirely revolutionary iron warship - at the time, the single most complicated machine ever made. Abraham Lincoln himself was closely involved with the ship's design. Rushed through to completion in just 100 days, it mounted only two guns, but they were housed in a shot-proof revolving turret.

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Free Download In the Courts of Three Popes: An American Lawyer and Diplomat in the Last Absolute Monarchy of the West (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YMX8NM | 2024 | 6 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 345 MB
Author: Mary Ann Glendon
Narrator: Julie-Ann Elliott
A rare firsthand account of the three popes who worked to modernize the Catholic Church-and to evangelize the modern world-from a renowned international lawyer, Harvard law professor, and former ambassador to the Vatican. For twenty centuries, the Catholic Church has radically shaped world history-and survived it. In the decades following the Second Vatican Council, three popes have carried forward this legacy, striving to lead the Church and its governing body-the last absolute monarchy of the West-into the modern world. With In the Courts of Three Popes, accomplished diplomat, international lawyer, and Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon gives listeners a rare inside look at the papacies of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis.

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Free Download Jonna Mendez, Barbara Benjamin-Creel (Narrator), "In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked"
English | ASIN: B0CBN9Q2WJ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:41:00 | 239 MB
The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War
Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife" performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their apartment. Yet Mendez had a talent for espionage, too, and she soon took on bigger and more significant roles at the Agency. She parlayed her interest in photography into an operational role overseas, an unlikely area for a woman in the CIA. Often underestimated, occasionally undermined, she lived under cover and served tours of duty all over the globe, rising first to become an international spy and ultimately to Chief of Disguise at CIA's Office of Technical Service.
In True Face recounts not only the drama of Mendez's high-stakes work-how this savvy operator parlayed her "everywoman" appeal into incredible subterfuge-but also the grit and good fortune it took for her to navigate a misogynistic world. This is the story of an incredible spy career and what it took to achieve it.

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Free Download Imagine Freedom: Transforming Pain into Political and Spiritual Power (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7D8GZBJ | 2024 | 9 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Rahiel Tesfamariam
Narrator: Rahiel Tesfamariam
A social activist, journalist, public theologian, and international speaker who has become a powerful and brilliant voice of her generation offers a bold path to liberation and healing for people of African descent struggling in the shadows of the American Dream. The United States is at a critical juncture in its history. Not since the 1960s has the nation been so racially divided. White supremacy remains America's Achilles' heel-a moral failure that haunts us and holds us back from being the great nation we profess. For centuries, people of African descent have endured unimaginable hatred and discrimination which has manifested in pain and trauma passed from generation to generation.

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