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![]() Free Download Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0CLS65T6N | 2024 | 5 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 320 MB Author: Sophie Elmhirst Narrator: Florence Howard What begins as an eccentric English love story turns into one of the most dramatic adventures ever recorded... Maurice and Maralyn couldn't be more different. He is as cautious and awkward as she is charismatic and forceful. It seems an unlikely romance, but it works. Bored of 1970s suburban life, Maralyn has an idea: sell the house, build a boat, leave England - and its oil crisis, industrial strikes and inflation - forever. It is hard work, turning dreams into reality, but finally they set sail for New Zealand. Then, halfway there, their beloved boat is struck by a whale. It sinks within an hour, and the pair are cast adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. On their tiny raft, over the course of days, then months, their love is put to the test. When Maurice begins to withdraw into himself, it falls upon Maralyn to keep them both alive. Their pet turtle helps, as does devising menus for fantasy dinners and dreaming of their next voyage. Filled with danger, spirit and tenderness, this is a book about human connection and the human condition; about how we survive - not just at sea, but in life. ![]() Free Download Mal Goes to War (Audiobook) English | April 09, 2024 | ASIN: B0C3PCFDQ6 | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 2m | 294 MB Author: Edward Ashton | Narrators: John Pirhalla, Katharine Chin The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. 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Drawing from her own interviews and a wealth of material from the Memorial University Folklore and Language Archive, Barbara Rieti explores the range and depth of Newfoundland witch tradition, looking at why certain people acquired reputations as witches, and why others considered themselves bewitched. ![]() Free Download Magnificent Minds: The New Whole-Child Approach to Autism (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0CDN53NFF | 2024 | 8 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB Author: Suzanne Goh Narrator: Suzanne Goh An essential primer based on a renowned new model of care that is comprehensive and research based, while honoring the uniqueness of every child. An estimated one in thirty-six children in the United States is diagnosed with autism. New research has shed light on the many factors that determine a child's trajectory-but many parents are still navigating this complex terrain without a road map. 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However, the mountains were occupied by Native American groups who had no desire to make way for white settlers. The treaty had created a vast frontier for the fledgling nation, and any American settlers pushing west along it were bound to encounter hostile natives. For the most part, the conflicts that followed consisted mostly of the Native Americans suffering defeat in the face of a better-equipped adversary, interspersed with binding treaties, which, on the side of the federal government, proved not very binding at all. Occasionally, however, there arose a Native American leader of such ability that such defeats were temporarily reversed, and Little Turtle, the war chief of the Miami tribe, was one such man. Under his leadership, a confederation of Miami and other tribes inflicted the worst defeat ever suffered by an American army in the newly independent nation. 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