Free Download Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares [Audible Original]
English | June 06, 2024 | ASIN: B0D42DVXP4 | M4B@128 kbps | 1h 21m | 74.3 MB
Author and Narrator: Laura Benanti
As a precocious kid who took Broadway by storm at the age of 18, Laura Benanti spent her formative years playing grown-ups onstage, but it took her a while to figure out how to be one in real life.
With her razor-sharp wit and unapologetic candor, Benanti shares her hard-won insights on topics like marriage, motherhood, perimenopause, female friendship, and making peace with the younger versions of ourselves. Whether you're a mom juggling a million responsibilities, or just anyone trying to navigate the complexities of becoming a person that you're proud of-prepare to laugh until you cry as Benanti skewers the societal expectations and double standards that so often leave us feeling like "nobody cares".

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Free Download Latitude: How You Can Make a Live Apart Together Relationship Work (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D79L9K26 | 2024 | 5 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 287 MB
Author: Vicki Larson
Narrator: Amy McFadden
A little distance goes a long way in this ultimate guide to living apart together relationships. Is the secret to stronger long-term relationships spending a healthy amount of time together and apart? Live apart together relationships have increasingly been making headlines in recent years, not only in the United States, but internationally. While it's hard to get a handle on just how many couples live apart from their romantic partners, it's estimated that ten percent of adults around the globe are in LATs. More people are interested in knowing not just why, but how? Fret not!

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Free Download Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative (Audiobook)
English | June 04, 2024 | ASIN: B0D4ML2J37 | M4B@128 kbps | 18h 27m | 1 GB
Author and Narrator: Glenn Loury
A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief.
Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he's often radically opposed to the political mainstream, and delights in upending what's expected of a Black public figure. But more so than the arguments themselves-on affirmative action, institutional racism, Trumpism-his public life has been characterized by fearlessness and a willingness to recalibrate strongly held and forcefully argued beliefs.

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Free Download Lapvona: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | June 21, 2022 | ASIN: B09JB2LDRG | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 43m | 475 MB
Author and Narrator: Ottessa Moshfegh
In a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the community's faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet
Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek's few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some people, Ina's ability to receive transmissions of sacred knowledge from the natural world is a godsend. For others, Ina's home in the woods is a godless place.

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Free Download Kokoro: Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived (Audiobook)
English | October 01, 2024 | ASIN: B0D49XM2FR | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 2m | 335 MB
Author and Narrator: Beth Kempton
This book invites you to cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world, inspired by ancient and contemporary Japanese wisdom.
Drawing on a thousand years of Japanese literature, culture, and philosophical ideas to explore the true nature of time and what it means to be human, Kokoro-which mysteriously translates as "heart-mind"-is a meditation on living well.

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Free Download Know What You're For: A Growth Strategy for Work, an Even Better Strategy for Life (Audiobook)
English | October 01, 2019 | ASIN: B07PXKRH3F | M4B@128 kbps | 5h 45m | 325 MB
Author and Narrator: Jeff Henderson
Your organization - business, church, or nonprofit - will experience unprecedented growth when you close the gap between these two game-changing questions: What are we known for? What do we want to be known for?
In Know What You're For, entrepreneur and thought leader Jeff Henderson makes it clear that if we want to change the world with our products or our mission, then we must shift the focus of our messaging and marketing. Rather than self-promoting, we must transform our organizations to be people-centric. This sounds like a no-brainer, but looking closer, shows just how little this is true and how impactful the change would be if it were. Whether you're a business leader, a change advocate, or a movement maker, Know What You're For will help you - and your organization - thrive.

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Free Download Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms (Audiobook)
English | August 23, 2022 | ASIN: B0B8TCQG8Z | M4B@128 kbps | 21h 26m | 1.12 GB
Author: Charles Hudson | Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
Between 1539 and 1542, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led a small army on an expedition of almost four thousand miles across Southeastern America. De Soto's path had been one of history's most intriguing mysteries until the publication of Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun. Using a new route reconstruction, anthropologist Charles Hudson maps the story of the de Soto expedition, tying the route to a number of specific archaeological sites.
De Soto's journey cut a bloody and indelible swath across both the landscape and native cultures in a quest for gold and glory. The desperate Spanish army followed the sunset from Florida to Texas before abandoning its mission. De Soto's one triumph was that he was the first European to explore the vast region that would be the American South. But in 1542, he died a broken man on the banks of the Mississippi River.

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Free Download Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus, Stephen Hoye, Tantor Audio
English | May 29, 2008 | ISBN: B001AJ19MI | 6 hours and 33 minutes | M4B 32 Kbps | 88 Mb
Are we "noble in reason"? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but a "kluge", a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind - think duct tape, not supercomputer - that sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature.
Taking us on a tour of the fundamental areas of human experience - memory, belief, decision making, language, and happiness - Marcus reveals the myriad ways our minds fall short. He examines why people often vote against their own interests, why money can't buy happiness, why leaders often stick to bad decisions, and why a sentence like "people people left left" ties us into knots even though it's only four words long.
He also offers surprisingly effective ways to outwit our inner kluge - for example, always consider alternative explanations, make contingency plans, and beware the vivid, personal anecdote. Throughaout, he shows how only evolution - haphazard and undirected - could have produced the minds we humans have, while making a brilliant case for the power and usefulness of imperfection.

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Free Download Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food (Audiobook)
English | December 04, 2018 | ASIN: B07KW9STYB | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 15m | 172 MB
Author: Ann Hood | Narrator: Nina Alvamar
In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls. From her Italian-American childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother's tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother's special-occasion Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Later, the kitchen became the heart of Hood's own home. She cooked pork roast to warm her first apartment, used two cups of dried basil for her first attempt at making pesto, taught her children how to make their favorite potatoes, found hope in her daughter's omelet after a divorce, and fell in love again - with both her husband and his foolproof chicken stock.
With her signature humor and tenderness, Hood details all these recipes and more in Kitchen Yarns, along with tales of loss and starting from scratch, family love, and feasts with friends, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home.

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Free Download Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey Through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKKR9JTG | 2024 | 11 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 319 MB
Author: Esmé Louise James
Narrator: Esmé Louise James
A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories, from the historian and storyteller behind Kinky History, @esme.louisee on TikTok. Contrary to popular belief, our predecessors had all sorts of obscene hobbies long before Christian Greyhit the scene. In this enlightening romp, learn about the first instances of homosexuality on record from the ancient world and the diverse history of nonbinary gender; encounter a thousand years' worth of hilarious and horrifying contraceptive methods; consider the positive and negative effects of the widespread availability of pornography in the digital age-and how our relationship to it changed during the pandemic; take a sneaky riffle through centuries of bedside drawers; and discover the dirty little secrets of luminaries such as Julius Caesar, James Joyce, Albert Einstein, and Virginia Woolf. Esmé Louise James also identifies the key tipping points that directly inform current beliefs around sex to place the past in conversation with the present. By educating ourselves about the weird, wonderful, and varied spectrum of human sexuality and experience, we can normalize and destigmatize sex, write people of marginalized sexual identities back into the pages of history, and build toward a more liberated future.

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