Free Download Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2LYCK3N | 2024 | 12 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 350 MB
Author: Elizabeth Campbell
Narrator: Holly Adams
Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories. Well-publicized restitution cases, such as that of Gustav Klimt's luminous painting featured in the film Woman in Gold, illustrate the legacy of Nazi looting in the art world today. But what happened to looted art that was never returned to its rightful owners? In France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, postwar governments appropriated the most coveted unclaimed works for display in various public buildings.

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Free Download Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY7FG4WQ | 2024 | 13 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 749 MB
Author: Michael Korda
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in Michael Korda's epic Muse of Fire. With Muse of Fire, Michael Korda, the bestselling author, takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and the halcyon days before violence engulfed his generation-destroying the self-contented world of Edwardian England-and ends with the tragic death of Wilfred Owen, killed only days before the armistice brought an end to a war that took over 25,000,000 lives. In a sweeping narrative that echoes The Guns of August, Korda recounts these four years of a civilization destroying itself and portrays the lives and anguished deaths of the young men who unforgettably illuminated it. As the success of Pat Barker's Regeneration, the remake of All Quiet on the Western Front, and the images of brutal trench warfare in today's Ukraine demonstrate, contemporary interest in "the war to end war" remains high.

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Free Download Murder at Lordship: Inside the Hunt for a Detective's Killer (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1Z47SBT | 2024 | 9 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Pat Marry, Robin Schiller
Narrator: Dan Murphy
Pat Marry, former colleague of Adrian Donohoe and the detective inspector in charge of the investigation, and journalist Robin Schiller take us inside the notorious case, describing the gardai's unprecedented collaboration with the FBI, the NYPD and Homeland Security which finally brought Brady to justice, following the lengthiest police inquiry and murder trial in the history of the Irish state. Filled with details not previously known to the public, Murder at Lordship is the definitive account of one of the most shocking crimes of this century.

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Free Download Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B9QQJW8Y | 2024 | 6 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Nellie Bowles
Narrator: Nellie Bowles
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds-and how she almost did, too. As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends-until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was "on the wrong side of history," Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger-and funnier-than she expected.

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Free Download Money for Millennials: Manage and Build Your Financial Security (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXFCSJNX | 2024 | 9 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 285 MB
Author: Sarah Young Fisher, Susan Shelly McGovern
Narrator: Barbara Barnes
The all-inclusive guide to managing your money in your 20s and 30s! Money for Millennials provides you with the basic tools you need to manage your life and plan for your future financially. You will learn to manage every aspect of your personal finances, as well as strengthen your financial plan to yield better returns on your investments. In this guide, you get: The basics of personal finance: creating and following a budget, learning to maintain a robust savings, and building an emergency fund. A more relevant look at online banking and best account options available. Honesty about credit cards, how to use them, and how to pay off debt judiciously. Innovative plans for paying off student loan debt and understanding your options if you choose to further your education. Advice on making big purchases such as homes and transportation. Tips on making the right choices when unemployed or underemployed or lack employer-sponsored healthcare options. A thorough explanation of how to make the most of retirement plans: 401(k) plans, individual retirement accounts (IRAs), etc.

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Free Download Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People - and the Fight to Resist It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY7GVX8H | 2024 | 11 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 618 MB
Author: Ari Berman
Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of a massive demographic and political shift. Ari Berman charts these efforts with sweeping historical research and incisive on-the-ground reporting, chronicling how a wide range of antidemocratic tactics interact with profound structural inequalities in institutions like the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court to threaten the survival of representative government in America. Some counter-majoritarian measures were built into the Constitution, which was designed in part to benefit a small propertied upper class, but they have metastasized to a degree that the Founding Fathers could never have anticipated, undermining the very notion of "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Chilling and revelatory, Minority Rule exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch today-while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts.

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Free Download Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRVHY2K | 2024 | 9 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: James R. Doty
Narrator: James R. Doty
A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing your dreams. For decades the practice of manifestation has been widely dismissed as self-involved, materialistic pseudoscience. But as neuroscientist and recognized compassion leader Dr. James Doty reveals, manifestation introduces us to different possibilities, and it lays the groundwork for a kinder, better world. Doty grounds us in the practices that change our brain structures: attention, meditation, visualization, and compassion. This mind magic allows us to move through the world in ways that help us see clearly-reclaiming our agency, realizing our dreams, and reaching out to help others along the path. Where previous works about manifestation have focused narrowly on outward success and individual benefit, Mind Magic delivers an openhearted call to make manifestation part of a deeper contribution to healing the problems we face today.

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Free Download Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ2HWFG9 | 2024 | 10 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 576 MB
Author: Ian Mortimer
Narrator: Ian Mortimer
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author. We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward, and unchanging time characterized by violence, ignorance, and superstition. By contrast, we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world. We couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating book, people's horizons-their knowledge, experience, and understanding of the world-expanded dramatically. Life was utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare. Medieval Horizons provides the perfect primer to the era as a whole. It outlines the enormous cultural changes that took place-from literacy to living standards, inequality, and even the developing sense of self-thereby correcting misconceptions and presenting the period as a revolutionary age of fundamental importance in the development of the Western world.

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Free Download Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWVTYNVW | 2024 | 8 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Dr. Jennifer Grenz
Narrator: Dr. Jennifer Grenz
This beautiful book can completely change how we approach science, using both Indigenous and Western perspectives, and how we can work collaboratively to help foster balance in nature. A farm kid at heart, and a Nlaka'pamux woman of mixed ancestry, Dr. Jennifer Grenz always felt a deep connection to the land. Which is why, after nearly two decades of working as a restoration ecologist in the Pacific Northwest, she became frustrated that she and her colleagues weren't making the meaningful change needed for plant, animal and human communities to adapt to a warming climate. She began to question the central conceit of restoration ecology: that somehow, we must return the natural world to an untouched, pristine state, placing humans in a godlike role-a notion at odds with Indigenous histories of purposeful, reciprocal interaction with the environment.

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Free Download Mean Boys: A Personal History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ152R5V | 2024 | 7 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Geoffrey Mak
Narrator: Geoffrey Mak
A ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed present. You know them when you see them: mean boys take up space, wielding cruelty to claim their place in the pecking order. Some mean boys make art or music or fashion; others make memes. Mean boys stomp the runways in Milan and Paris; mean boys marched at Charlottesville. And in the eyes of critic and style expert Geoffrey Mak, mean boys are the emblem of our society: an era ravenous for novelty, always thirsting for the next edgy thing, even at our peril. In this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption.

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