Free Download Mary Oliver, Kimberly Farr (Narrator), "A Poetry Handbook"
English | ASIN: B0CRWDY8L1 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~03:33:00 | 98 MB
"Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."-Los Angeles Times
From the beloved, legendary poet, the ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.
With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet. She walks listeners through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense, drawing on poems by Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. This handbook is an invaluable glimpse into Oliver's prolific mind-a must-have for all poetry-lovers.

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Free Download A People's History of the United States (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0030MR076 | 2009 | 34 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 979 MB
Author: Howard Zinn
Narrator: Jeff Zinn
For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of - and in the words of - America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles - the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality - were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus' arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history.

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Free Download A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CX2939T7 | 2024 | 4 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 271 MB
Author: Frank L. Holt
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
As the world recently commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, our fascination with the pharaoh begs for a balanced view. Most recovered mummies have not escaped the modern trafficking in ancient bodies and body parts. The story of Ankh-Hap, a Ptolemaic-era mummy seized in the nineteenth century from the infamous mummy-pits of Egypt, provides a salutary example of what most mummies have endured. Frank Holt makes use of a robust combination of scientific tools and archival research to tell the story of Ankh-Hap's life, death, and his mummified remains, which ended up in the back of an American college classroom.

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Free Download A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas, Updated 2024 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW1ZRSWS | 2024 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Warren Berger
Narrator: Dale Nichols
To get the best answer-in business, in life-you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science. It may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy-and then abandon as we grow older. Critical to learning, innovation, success, even to happiness-yet often discouraged in our schools and workplaces-it can unlock new business opportunities and reinvent industries, spark creative insights at many levels, and provide a transformative new outlook on life. It is the ability to question-and to do so deeply, imaginatively, and "beautifully."

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Free Download A History of Women in 101 Objects (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCZ31D48 | 2024 | 13 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 380 MB
Author: Annabelle Hirsch
Narrator: Annabelle Hirsch, Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, Anita Rani, Jackie Kay, Len Pennie, Shirley Manson, Rebecca Solnit, Sandi Toksvig, Marina Hyde, Naomi Shimada
Discover the hidden history of women-and the world-through this visual exploration of intimate objects and the surprising, sometimes shocking stories behind them. This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, manifold, and too often overlooked histories of women. With engaging prose and compelling stories, Annabelle Hirsch's book contains a curated and diverse compendium of women and their things, uncovering the thoughts and feelings at the heart of women's daily lives. The result is an intimate and stirring alternative history of humans in the world.

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Free Download A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJDQ9N3 | 2024 | 7 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 399 MB
Author: Margaret Wappler
Narrator: Margaret Wappler, Jennifer Jill Araya, George Newbern
An artful and contemplative tribute to the late actor famed for his role as Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210. Best known for playing loner rebel Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills 90210, Luke Perry was fifty-two years old when he died of a stroke in 2019. There have been other deaths of 90's stars, but this one hit different. Gen X was reminded of their own inescapable mortality, and robbed of an exciting career resurgence for one of their most cherished icons-with recent roles in the hit series Riverdale and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time In Hollywood bringing him renewed attention and acclaim. Only upon his death, as stories poured out online about his authenticity and kindness, did it become clear how little was known about the exceedingly humble actor and how deeply he impacted popular culture.

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Free Download A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among Mountains (Audiobook)
English | October 10, 2023 | ASIN: B0CJW9ZPJN | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 38m | 424 MB
Author: Graham Zimmerman | Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
"A Fine Line is more than just a recounting of remarkable expeditions, summit views, and thin air. It's a story of resilience, loss, and the quest for a balanced and meaningful life in the unforgiving realm of high-risk mountain sports. -Men's Journal
Honestly portrays the highs and lows of a life dedicated to the outdoorsShares the author's development as an outspoken conservation advocateStory is rooted in the peaks of the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Pakistan

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Free Download A Father's Story (Audiobook)
English | August 11, 2022 | ASIN: B0B9CF52W3 | M4B@128 kbps | 5h 41m | 311 MB
Author: Lionel Dahmer | Narrator: Scott R. Pollak
Raising a serial killer
Father's search for answers

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Free Download Will Bowen (Author, Narrator), Tanya Eby (Narrator), Christopher Grove (Narrator), Rene Ruiz (Narrator), Cindy Kay (Narrator), Paul Heitsch (Narrator), Gina Daniels (Narrator), Amelia Murphy (Narrator), "A Complaint Free World: Stop Complaining, Start Living, Revised and Updated"
English | ASIN: B0CB9BVJ9D | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:15:00 | 209 MB
Now revised and updated for our modern world, the "complaint free" philosophy teaches you how to stop complaining, become more positive, and live the life you've always dreamed about.
It all started more than fifteen years ago with a simple purple bracelet.
Will Bowen passed out bracelets and offered people a challenge: If you catch yourself complaining, take the bracelet off and move it to the other wrist, thereby making yourself aware of just how often you complain. The end goal was to go twenty-one consecutive days without complaining. A Complaint Free World develops this idea further, offering practical advice and simple principles to transform your life for the better.

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Free Download A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (Audiobook)
English | August 14, 2012 | ASIN: B008XGAC4W | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 20m | 317 MB
Author: Luigi Zingales | Narrator: Jonathan Davis
Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment - paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism - on a country's economy. This experience profoundly shaped his professional interests, and in 1988 he arrived in the United States, armed with a political passion and the belief that economists should not merely interpret the world, but should change it for the better.
In A Capitalism for the People, Zingales makes a forceful, philosophical, and at times personal argument that the roots of American capitalism are dying, and that the result is a drift toward the more corrupt systems found throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world. American capitalism, according to Zingales, grew in a unique incubator that provided it with a distinct flavor of competitiveness, a meritocratic nature that fostered trust in markets and a faith in mobility. Lately, however, that trust has been eroded by a betrayal of our pro-business elites, whose lobbying has come to dictate the market rather than be subject to it, and this betrayal has taken place with the complicity of our intellectual class.

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