Free Download Let's Talk About Aging Parents: A Real-Life Guide to Solving Problems with 27 Essential Conversations (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1H4YHQF | 2024 | 8 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Laura Tamblyn Watts
Narrator: Erin deWard
Should my mom move into a retirement home? Does my dad have dementia? And how on earth can I get my stepmom to give up her car keys? Worries like these can plague people with older relatives. Author Laura Tamblyn Watts understands: Her own parents are in their eighties, and she's spent her career informing others about aging people's needs. Tamblyn Watts outfits listeners with twenty-seven prompts and roadmaps for informed, honest conversations with their aging parent-or family members, health care providers, and other professionals. She covers questions like: Does my parent need help around the house? What kind of medical issues should we look out for? Do I really need to help my parent if they're toxic? How can my family share the caregiving load? How to have the discussion is just as important as what needs to be discussed, so each chapter has tips for navigating complicated emotions and reaching an agreement when everyone has different ideas. Listeners will get informed, have a productive conversation, and make a plan-then focus on making the most of their time with their aging relative.

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Free Download Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVBMJH2T | 2024 | 11 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 339 MB
Author: Patrick Grant
Narrator: Patrick Grant
We used to care a lot about our clothes. We didn't have many but those we had were important to us. We'd cherish them, repair them and pass them on. And making them provided fulfilling work for millions of skilled people locally. Today the average person has nearly five times as many clothes as they did just 50 years ago. Last year, 100 billion garments were produced worldwide, most made from oil, 30% of which were not even sold, and the equivalent of one bin lorry full of clothing is dumped in landfill or burned every single second. Our wardrobes are full to bursting with clothes we never wear so why do we keep buying more?

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Free Download Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSGW5NL9 | 2024 | 7 hours and 59 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Eric Jay Dolin
Narrator: L.J. Ganser
In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin-"one of today's finest writers about ships and the sea" (American Heritage)-tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland archipelago during the War of 1812. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard, abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and a half.

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Free Download John Greenway, Andy Blacknell, Andy Coombe, Elliot Fitzpatrick (Narrator), "Lead: 50 Models for Success in Work and Life"
English | ASIN: B0CYCMZF8G | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:05:00 | 113 MB
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Free Download Mary Beard, Jennifer M. Dixon (Narrator), "Laughter in Ancient Rome: on Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up"
English | ASIN: B0D1ZJ8HXR | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:08:00 | 306 MB
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear-a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena?
Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing-from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book-Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves. From ancient "monkey business" to the role of a chuckle in a culture of tyranny, she explores Roman humor from the hilarious, to the momentous, to the surprising. But she also reflects on even bigger historical questions. What kind of history of laughter can we possibly tell? Can we ever really "get" the Romans' jokes?

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Free Download Late Bloomer: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | Datum: April 16, 2024 | ASIN: B0C3PHC8R4 | MP3@128 kbps | 9h 32m | 498.18 MB
Author: Mazey Eddings
Narrator: Ellie Gossage
A sexy, sapphic, opposites-attract romance with Mazey Eddings' signature sparkling voice!

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Free Download Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D26WDZC9 | 2024 | 11 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Timothy Venning
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
For a medieval English king, delegation was a necessary evil; and nowhere more necessary-nor more potentially disastrous-than on the Anglo-Welsh borders. The Marcher lords first empowered by William I were relied upon by subsequent Norman and Plantagenet kings to protect the dangerous frontiers of the realm. In Wales, as in Ireland, the smaller size and military weakness of divided neighbouring states encouraged conquest, with the seized lands enhancing the power of the aggressive English lords. They were granted ever greater authority by the monarch, to the point where they believed they ruled like kings. They intermarried, schemed for extra lands and snatched power in a complex and often violent political process.

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Free Download Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFBVFGPX | 2024 | 8 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 479 MB
Author: Elizabeth Neumann
Narrator: Erin Bennett
A former counterterrorism official explores how modern evangelicalism and right-wing conservatism intermingled to form the combustible ideology that resulted in the January 6 attacks on the Capitol-and which threatens to destroy the American Church from within. How did a Church that purports to follow the teachings of Jesus-the Prince of Peace-become a breeding ground for violent extremism? When Elizabeth Neumann began her anti-terrorism career as part of President George W. Bush's Homeland Security Counsel in the wake of the September 11 attacks, she expected to spend her life protecting her country from the threat of global terrorism. But as her career evolved, she began to perceive that the greatest threat to American security came not from religious fundamentalists in Afghanistan or Iraq but from white nationalists and radicalized religious fundamentalists within the very institution that was closest to her heart-the American evangelical church. And she began to sound the alarm, raising her concerns to anyone in government who would listen, including testifying before Congress in February of 2020. At that time, Neumann warned that anti-Semitic and white supremacist terrorism was a transnational threat that was building to the doorstep of another major attack. Shortly after her testimony, she resigned from her role as Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention in protest of what she believed was then-President Trump's failure of leadership and his stoking of the hatred, anger, and division from which she had dedicated her life to protecting her country.

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Free Download K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHZ7HM7H | 2024 | 9 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Grace Jung
Narrator: Grace Jung
From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has emerged onto the global pop culture scene as compelling television-but what exactly makes these shows so irresistibly bingeable? And what can we learn about our societies and ourselves from watching them? From stand-up comedian and media studies PhD Grace Jung comes a rollicking deep dive into the cultural significance of Korean television. K-Drama School analyzes everything from common tropes like amnesia and slapping to conspicuous product placements of Subway sandwiches and coffee; to representations of disability, race and gender; to what Korea's war-torn history says about South Korea's media output and the stories being told on screen. With chapters organized by "lessons," each one inquiring into a different theme of Korean television, K-Drama School offers a groundbreaking exploration into this singular form of entertainment, from an author who writes with humor and heart about shows that spur tears and laughter, keeping us glued to the TV while making fans of us all.

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Free Download Just the Good Stuff: No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKM3MVGC | 2024 | 5 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Jim VandeHei
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
A deeply personal, authentic, and clear-eyed guide to navigating today's complex world and building a meaningful, successful career and life-no matter where you start out-from the bestselling author and cofounder of Axios and Politico. Jim VandeHei's high school guidance counselor laid it out clearly: VandeHei wasn't cut out for college. In 1990, you could find him proving the counselor's case emphatically, preferring beer to books and delivering pizzas to mapping out career plans. He attended a two-year school before smuggling himself into the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where after a year he had racked up a 1.4 GPA and was on the verge of getting the boot. Everything changed when he discovered his passions: politics and journalism. VandeHei went on to cover the presidency and cofound two of the biggest modern news outlets, Politico and Axios, the media companies that upended and revolutionized journalism.

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