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Free Download Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3FH25CX | 2024 | 9 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Richard Brookhiser
Narrator: Rick Adamson
The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment. John Trumbull (1756-1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand-he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was jailed as a spy. He made it his mission to record the war, giving visual form to what most citizens of the new United States thought: that they had brought into the world a great and unprecedented political experiment. His purpose, he wrote, was "to preserve and diffuse the memory of the noblest series of actions which have ever presented themselves in the history of man." Although Trumbull's contemporaries viewed him as a painter, Trumbull thought of himself as a historian. Richard Brookhiser tells Trumbull's story of acclaim and recognition, a story complicated by provincialism, war, a messy personal life, and, ultimately, changing fashion. He shows how the artist's fifty-year project embodied the meaning of American exceptionalism and played a key role in defining the values of the new country. Trumbull depicted the story of self-rule in the modern world-a story as important and as contested today as it was 250 years ago.

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Free Download Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFYNS3V3 | 2024 | 6 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Charlamagne Tha God
Narrator: Charlamagne Tha God, Elliot Connie, Landon Woodson
From Charlamagne Tha God, multi-hyphenate mogul, host of the morning radio phenomenon The Breakfast Club, and founder and CEO of iHeartRadio's Black Effect Podcast Network, a rundown on how small talk from small minds have taken over our world, and the BIG conversations needed to climb our way back. For fourteen years, Charlamagne Tha God has been cohost of iHeartRadio'snationally syndicated morning radio show The Breakfast Club and has proven his power as a culture mover and thought leader, by being his completely authentic self on-air, from his famous "You ain't black" moment with President Biden, to heartfelt chats with cultural icons like Sean "Jay-Z" Carter and Judy Blume, to viral classics with Kamala Harris and Soulja Boy, his incredible reach and impact on the pulse of America continues to grow.

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Free Download From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Audiobook)
English | February 07, 2017 | ASIN: B01N25FKSU | M4B@64 kbps | 15h 44m | 428 MB
Author: Daniel C. Dennett | Narrator: Tom Perkins
What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture.
Part philosophical whodunit, part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes that have sustained Dennett's legendary career at the forefront of philosophical thought. In his inimitable style - laced with wit and arresting thought experiments - Dennett shows how culture enables reflection by installing a bounty of thinking tools, or memes, in our brains. Language, itself composed of memes, turbocharged this interplay. The result, a mind that can comprehend the questions it poses, emerges from a process of cultural evolution.

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Free Download Fire Exit: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | June 04, 2024 | ASIN: B0CQPL2P5Y | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 35m | 158 MB
Author: Morgan Talty | Narrator: Darrell Dennis
Does she remember this day? Does she remember it at all? Does she know this history-this story-her body holds secret from her?
From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. On the far bank, he caught brief moments of Roger and Mary raising their only child, Elizabeth from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there's always been something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from this family and the rest of the tribal community. It's the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter, a secret Charles is no longer willing to keep.

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Free Download Finding Fortunato: How a Peruvian Adventure Inspired the Sweet Success of a Family Chocolate Business (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2F7RLKG | 2024 | 6 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 378 MB
Author: Adam Pearson
Narrator: Adam Pearson
Embark on an up-close and personal journey into the northern Peruvian jungle as last-chance entrepreneurs accidentally stumble upon a variety of cacao thought to be extinct, in this chocolate-rich business adventure memoir. Take a front row seat to a family of entrepreneurs searching relentlessly for a sustainable competitive advantage in the wake of many failed attempts at starting a family business. When they inadvertently discover the legendary Nacional white cacao bean in a remote canyon of the Peruvian jungle, the USDA calls it "an unprecedented discovery." The cacao is so rare that even acclaimed author and travel host Anthony Bourdain and chef Eric Ripert trek to this particular jungle to film a segment for Bourdain's "Parts Unknown."

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Free Download Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men from Becoming Fully Alive (Audiobook)
English | May 21, 2024 | ASIN: B0CB1SSP4S | M4B@128 kbps | 4h 50m | 270 MB
Authors and Narrators: Jefferson Bethke, Jon Tyson
Discover the satisfaction of becoming the man God created you to be. In a world that's grown increasingly confused about-and hostile toward-the very notion of masculinity, authors Jefferson Bethke and Jon Tyson send a powerful call to men everywhere: it's time to step into the light of Jesus' vision for you as a man.
There's a shadow that's settled over the hearts of men today. Masculinity is in crisis. Critiques about the dangers of toxic masculinity and the abuses of patriarchal systems have grown louder than ever. The very notions of masculinity and manhood are under attack. In response to cultural shifts, some have doubled down on old stereotypes in ways that just add to the conflict and confusion.

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Free Download Fifty-Two Stories: 1883-1898 (Audiobook)
English | April 14, 2020 | ASIN: B086N3G9J2 | M4B@128 kbps | 20h 13m | 1.1 GB
Author: Anton Chekhov | Narrator: Jim Frangione | Translators: Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time
Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories. These stories, which span the complete arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there is no one single type of "Chekhov story." They are populated by a remarkable range of characters who come from all parts of Russia and all walks of life, including landowners, peasants, soldiers, farmers, teachers, students, hunters, shepherds, mistresses, wives, and children. Taken together, they demonstrate how Chekhov democratized the form.

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Free Download Female Masculinity (Audiobook)
English | September 28, 2022 | ASIN: B0BG91S46G | M4B@128 kbps | 13h 56m | 807 MB
Author: Jack Halberstam | Narrator: Lea DeLaria
In this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two centuries. Demonstrating how female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from 19th-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag-king performances.
Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. He rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity; considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities; and explores issues of transsexuality among "transgender dykes"-lesbians who pass as men-and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of "lesbian" a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators.

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Free Download Farts Aren't Invisible: Mind-Blowing Facts from Science, History, Sport and the Universe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D42D7YGV | 2024 | 4 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Mick O'Hare
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
A mind-bending, brain-expanding cornucopia of facts for curious minds from the bestselling author. Own the room with this hilarious collection of fact-tastic myth-busters and jaw-dropping trivia exploring science, history, sport and lesser-known facts from across the universe. Did you know that the Moon has a Bishop? That ostriches DON'T bury their heads in the sand? And that powdered rice was used as cement in the Great Wall of China? What do souls weigh? What can't 60% of the human population smell? And what on earth is rhinotillexomania? And the big one . . . are farts actually invisible? The answers to these questions are all here. Challenge your brain, turn your world upside down and relish the irresistible mix of wit and wisdom. It's also a perfect gift for the brainiac in your life.

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