Free Download Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW73RGB2 | 2024 | 12 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Dylan C. Penningroth
Narrator: Terrence Kidd
The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police often closed their eyes, if they didn't join in. For Black people, law was a hostile, fearsome power to be avoided whenever possible. Then, starting in the 1940s, a few brave lawyers ventured south, bent on changing the law. Soon, ordinary African Americans, awakened by Supreme Court victories and galvanized by racial justice activists, launched the civil rights movement. In Before the Movement, Dylan C. Penningroth brilliantly revises the conventional story.

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Free Download Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small Town America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLHHK5MK | 2024 | 9 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Jonathan Vigliotti
Narrator: Jonathan Vigliotti
In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, a character-driven and shocking up-close look at the way climate change is affecting America, right now, and a call to action to protect the people and places we stand to lose if nothing is done to preserve our planet. Discussion of the climate crisis has always suffered from a problem of abstraction. Data points and warnings of an overheated future struggle to break through the noise of everyday life. Deniers often portray climate solutions as inconvenient, expensive, and unnecessary. And many politicians, cloistered by status and focused always on their next election, do not yet see climate as a winning issue in the short run, so they don't take any action at all. But climate change, and its devastating consequences, has kept apace whether we want to pay attention or not.

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Free Download Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY6BY8JQ | 2024 | 5 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 244 MB
Author: Greg Sarris
Narrator: Lyle Blaker
A gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland. For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris-whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdrich and Stephen Graham Jones-presents a book about his own life. In Becoming Story he asks: What does it mean to be truly connected to the place you call home-to walk where innumerable generations of your ancestors have walked? And what does it mean when you dedicate your life to making that connection even deeper? Moving between his childhood and the present day, Sarris creates a kaleidoscopic narrative about the forces that shaped his early years and his eventual work as a tribal leader. He considers the deep past, historical traumas, and possible futures of his homeland. His acclaimed storytelling skills are in top form here, and he charts his journey in prose that is humorous, searching, and profound. Described as "jewel-like" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Becoming Story is also a gently powerful guide in the art of belonging to the place where you live.

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Free Download Ryan A Bush (Author, Narrator), "Become Who You Are: A New Theory of Self-Esteem, Human Greatness, and the Opposite of Depression"
English | ASIN: B0CY6Q9ZL1 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:59:00 | 165 MB
After spending over a decade researching the psychology and philosophy of well-being, and even writing his first book on the topic, it took a struggle with his own mental health for Ryan A Bush to integrate the data he had studied to form a groundbreaking new psychological theory. Become Who You Are argues that the peak form of human happiness is determined, not by pleasure or pain, loss or gain, but by the admirability we observe in our own behaviors.
"From post-traumatic growth to postpartum depression, the many counterintuitive stories of happiness actually all tell the same tale. Our overall well-being does not correspond to the surface-level events to which we tend to attribute it. But it corresponds perfectly to something else-something going on beneath the surface of our external outcomes."
This philosophy-infused self-development guide takes listeners on a kaleidoscopic journey through Stoic philosophy and neuropsychology-Nietzschean virtue ethics and evolutionary psychology-spiritual wisdom and psychotherapy. It offers a moving account of Ryan's own descent into depression, his climb back to flourishing, and the ambitious new framework this journey led him to that we can use to decode and direct our lives.

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Free Download Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBCT635L | 2024 | 9 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Rebecca Quin
Narrator: Rebecca Quin
This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin-a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch-delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame. By age seven, Rebecca Quin, now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, was already defying what the world expected of her. Raised in Dublin, Ireland in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca constantly invented new ways to make her mother worry-roughhousing with the neighborhood kids, hosting secret parties while her parents were away, enrolling in a warehouse wrestling school, nearly breaking her neck and almost kneecapping a WWE star before her own wrestling career even began-and she was always in search of a thrilling escape from the ordinary.

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Free Download Balcony over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir: Israel, Palestine and Beyond (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQZ2PJ3Z | 2024 | 12 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 359 MB
Author: John Lyons
Narrator: Peter Houghton
An intimate account of the Israel-Palestine conflict and beyond, from one of Australia's most experienced foreign correspondents. Now updated with a foreword by Stan Grant and a new author's note. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons takes listeners on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. In this updated edition, Lyons draws from his years living in Jerusalem to give context to the devastating war between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and gives listeners a behind-the-scenes look at the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Having reported on the Middle East for three decades.

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Free Download Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You (Audiobook)
English | February 23, 2021 | ASIN: B08V5M1LNH | M4B@64 kbps | 5h 59m | 176 MB
Authors: Suneel Gupta, Carlye Adler | Narrators: Suneel Gupta, Carlye Adler, Landon Woodson, Natalie Naudus
A groundbreaking book that boldly claims the key to success in business is not talent, connections, or ideas, but the ability to persuade people to take a chance on potential.
No one ever makes it alone. But how come some people can get investors to believe in their ideas while others - sometimes with even better ideas - fall flat? What is it about certain people that make us want to take a bet on them? What is it that makes them backable? As it turns out, it's not what you think. Backability is not driven by having the best experience, the finest pedigree, or the most innovative ideas. In fact, many highly successful people are backed long before they are qualified. We tend to view these people as lucky. But the decision to back them is neither an accident nor a mistake and rarely the result of good luck.

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Free Download Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music (Audiobook)
English | June 22, 2021 | ASIN: B096498W7Y | M4B@48 kbps | 12h 46m | 273 MB
Authors: Tim Smolko, Joanna Smolko | Narrator: Tanya Eby
What is the soundtrack for a nuclear arms race?
During the Cold War, over 500 songs were written about nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, civil defense, bomb shelters, uranium mining, the space race, espionage, the Berlin Wall, and glasnost. This music uncovers aspects of the world-changing events that documentaries and history books cannot. In Atomic Tunes, Tim and Joanna Smolko explore everything from the serious to the comical, the morbid to the crude, showing the widespread concern among musicians who were trying to cope with the effect of communism on American society and the consequences of a potential nuclear conflict of global proportions.

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Free Download As a Man Thinketh and The Science of Getting Rich (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B081NS1BX1 | 2019 | 3 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 248 MB
Author: James Allen, Wallace Wattles
Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
Discover two of the most influential self-help books of the 20th century. Inside this two-in-one bundle, you'll discover two classic books which have stood the test of time. Both of these books had a huge impact at their time of publication and continue to resonate with the hearts of millions this very day. With profound advice designed to change the way we look at the world, this bundle contains: As a Man Thinketh - a practical, comprehensive, and insightful book which shows us how we can take charge and live more fulfilling and enlightened lives. It has been described as "a book that will help you to help yourself". The Science of Getting Rich - a powerful guide for wealth attraction which teaches us how to overcome our mental barriers and live more prosperous lives. A balance of actionable advice and artful writing, it's easy to see why these books swept the world and achieved such critical acclaim. Now you can uncover their lessons and begin your journey to a better, more fulfilling life!

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Free Download Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY6RB5NC | 2024 | 11 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Michael Engelhard
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
A lyrical memoir that interweaves wilderness, homeland, cultural connections, historical figures, humor, and gritty experiences across northern Alaska. From the award-winning author comes an intimate exploration of Alaska's northernmost mountain range with observations on Indigenous cultures, conservation, and intense cross-country travel, all shaped by respect for the land. Follow author Michael Engelhard through tussock-studded tundra for a remarkable tale of bear encounters and white-knuckled river moments, as well as poetic reflections on a vast, untamed landscape.

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