Free Download Earl Swift, Mark Deakins (Narrator), "Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery"
English | ASIN: B0CB7619FF | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:22:00 | 340 MB
"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20th century-and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America's collective memory."-Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new work of narrative nonfiction telling the forgotten story of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921-a crime which exposed for the nation the existence of the "peonage system," a form of legal enslavement established after the Civil War across the American South.
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another, nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them, a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their deaths. In fact, as America was shocked to learn, the dead were among thousands of Black men enslaved throughout the South, in conditions nearly as dire as those before the Civil War.

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Free Download Headstrap: Legends and Lore from the Climbing Sherpas of Darjeeling (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY6FDSGY | 2024 | 11 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Nandini Purandare, Deepa Balsavar
Narrator: Jeed Saddy
This captivating chronicle delves into the untold story of a tribe of people who have played a significant role in mountain exploration and climbing in the Himalayas. Situated in northern India, Darjeeling was developed as a colonial retreat by the British in the early 1830s and soon became famous for its tea gardens, attracting locals from around the region, Nepal, and Tibet in search of work. When Darjeeling became the jumping-off point for early Himalayan expeditions, workers from the Sherpa and Bhutia communities soon established themselves as the preferred high-altitude porters, bringing fame, entwined with tales of valor, courage, and sacrifice, to the city. These are some of their stories. Over the course of a decade, authors Nandini Purandare and Deepa Balsavar conducted a series of interviews with Sherpas from Darjeeling, as well as their family members, descendants, friends, and contemporary climbers. Headstrap weaves a vivid tapestry of this particular Sherpa community, giving them the recognition in mountaineering literature that they deserve.

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Free Download Harlan Ellison's Watching: Essays and Criticism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQZ51Y1F | 2024 | 20 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 596 MB
Author: Harlan Ellison
Narrator: Luis Moreno
An enjoyable, irascible collection" of smart and sometimes-scathing film criticism from a famously candid author (Library Journal). Everyone's a critic, especially in the digital age-but no one takes on the movies like multiple award-winning author Harlan Ellison. Renowned both for fiction (A Boy and His Dog) and pop-culture commentary (The Glass Teat), Ellison offers in this collection twenty-five years' worth of essays and film criticism. It's pure, raw, unapologetic opinion. Star Wars? "Luke Skywalker is a nerd and Darth Vader sucks runny eggs." Big Trouble in Little China? "A cheerfully blathering live-action cartoon that will give you release from the real pressures of your basically dreary lives." Despite working within the industry himself, Ellison never learned how to lie. So punches go unpulled, the impersonal becomes personal, and sometimes even the critics get critiqued, as he shares his views on Pauline Kael or Siskel and Ebert. Ultimately, it's a wild journey through the cinematic landscape, touching on everything from Fellini to the Friday the 13th franchise.

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Free Download HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVNMQ2YV | 2024 | 4 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Amy Gallo
Narrator: Liisa Ivary
While some of us enjoy a lively debate with colleagues and others prefer to suppress our feelings over disagreements, we all struggle with conflict at work. Every day we navigate an office full of competing interests, clashing personalities, limited time and resources, and fragile egos. Sure, we share the same overarching goals as our colleagues, but we don't always agree on how to achieve them. We work differently. We rub each other the wrong way. We jockey for position. How can you deal with conflict at work in a way that is both professional and productive-where it improves both your work and your relationships?

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Free Download H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWLVSPKK | 2024 | 1 hour and 27 minutes | M4B@320 kbps | 201 MB
Author: Elizabeth Kolbert
Narrator: Elizabeth Kolbert, Eunice Wong
In twenty-six essays-one for each letter of the alphabet-the Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes us on a haunting journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future. In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the landscape of climate change-from "A," for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world's first climate model in 1894, to "Z," for the Colorado River Basin, ground zero for climate change in the United States. Along the way she looks at Greta Thunburg's "blah blah blah" speech ("B"), learns to fly an all-electric plane ("E"), experiments with the effects of extreme temperatures on the human body ("T"), and struggles with the deep uncertainty of the future of climate change ("U"). Adapted from essays originally published in The New Yorker, H Is for Hope is simultaneously inspiring, alarming, and darkly humorous-a unique examination of our changing world.

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Free Download Gut Health Explained [TTC Audio]
English | March 29, 2024 | ASIN: B0CZ9VKZZ3 | M4B@64 kbps | 4h 28m | 129 MB
Lecturer: Gabrielle Fundaro
Humans have coevolved with this gut microbiota for such a long time that the microbiome interacts with every system in your body. It produces useful compounds that nourish intestinal cells, support metabolic health, protect against certain types of cancer, influence brain activity, and support the immune system. Each of us has a microbiome composition as unique as our fingerprints.
In the 12 fascinating lectures of Gut Health Explained, Dr. Gabrielle Fundaro shares the latest scientific knowledge about the trillions of organisms that live in your gut. In this course, you'll learn how to navigate the evolving landscape of gut microbiome science while gaining a deep understanding of the intricate interplay between you and your microbiome.

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Free Download Julie Rains (Author, Narrator), "Growing Wealth: Essential Money Lessons from My Garden to Yours"
English | ASIN: B0CY2XTY82 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:54:00 | 162 MB
One seed, when nurtured, can grow and multiply to yield a garden that feeds a family for a lifetime. One penny, when saved and invested, can grow wealth that allows a family to live comfortably. It takes time, patience, and knowledge to grow a garden. It also takes time, patience, and knowledge to achieve financial well-being.
In her personal finance memoir, Growing Wealth, Julie Rains proposes three essentials for achieving financial freedom, just as she learned there are three essentials for growing a garden. She guides listeners through those key essentials by sharing her initial failures and eventual successes in gardening and money management, using creatively crafted metaphors to engage her audience.
She takes her listeners on a journey, bridging the gap between a scrawny bank account to a healthy brokerage account, all while revealing how to transform a patch of dirt into a batch of homegrown tomatoes. Overcoming her weaknesses in hands-on skills and drawing on her strengths in dealing with money matters, Rains shows how she learned to garden. While tending her garden and harvesting produce, she unearths truths about growing wealth.

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Free Download Grokking Algorithms, Second Edition
Author: Aditya Bhargava
Narrator: n/a
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9781633438538 | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 4h 27m | 401 MB
A friendly, fully-illustrated introduction to the most important computer programming algorithms.

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Free Download Great Leaders: Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Napoleon Bonaparte (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B07Z6RJFM7 | 2019 | 10 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Simon Johnson
Narrator: Kevin Theis
Discover the lives of history's greatest leaders. From statesmen to generals and presidents to PMs, this detailed book explores the lives and legacies of five of the world's most famous and influential men. With a comprehensive account of their lives, achievements, philosophies and more. History is filled with remarkable figures who have shaped the course of entire nations. From military masterminds to world leaders, this biography delves into the lives of these five extraordinary men and the achievements and legacies they leave behind. Great Leaders is a must-listen for anyone interested in politics, history, war, or leadership principles.

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Free Download Great Expectations (Audiobook)
English | February 22, 2024 | ASIN: B0CSGFG9WF | M4B@125 kbps | 22h 2m | 1.17 GB
Author: Charles Dickens
Narrator: Stephen Fry
The inimitable Stephen Fry reads this definitive edition of Dickens' most beloved novel, Great Expectations.

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