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Free Download Always a Sibling: The Forgotten Mourner's Guide to Grief (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKNMBMQV | 2024 | 8 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Annie Sklaver Orenstein
Narrator: Annie Sklaver Orenstein
A practical, compassionate guide to sibling loss, with research, stories, and strategies for "forgotten mourners" as they move through the stages of grief towards finding meaning.​ After her brother was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, Annie Sklaver Orenstein was heartbroken and unmoored. Standing in the grief section of her local bookstore, she searched for guides on how to work through her grief as a mourning sibling-and found nothing. More than 4 million American adults each year will lose a sibling, yet there isn't a modern resource guide available that speaks directly to this type of grief that at times can be overshadowed by grieving parents and spouses and made even more difficult by the complexities of sibling dynamics.

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Free Download All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ4ZR9SW | 2024 | 10 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Becca Rothfeld
Narrator: Ruth Crawford
A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as decluttering, mindfulness, David Cronenberg, sadomasochism, and women who wait. All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca Rothfeld's plea for derangement: imbalance, obsession, gluttony, and ravishment in all domains of life, from literature to romance. In a healthy culture, Rothfeld argues, economic security allows for wild aesthetic experimentation and excess, yet in our contemporary world, we've got it flipped. The gap between rich and poor yawns hideously wide, while we compensate with misguided attempts to effect equality in love and art, where it does not belong.

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Free Download All Fours: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | May 14, 2024 | ASIN: B0CGMLN241 | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 13m | 233 MB
Author and Narrator: Miranda July
The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life
"A frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect....the bravery of All Fours is nothing short of riveting."-Vogue

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Free Download Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space (Audiobook)
English | April 07, 2020 | ASIN: B08563TCFW | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 20m | 307 MB
Author and Narrator: Kevin Peter Hand
Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system
Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may actually lie farther away. Beneath the frozen crusts of several of the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn lurk vast oceans that may have been in existence for as long as Earth, and together may contain more than 50 times its total volume of liquid water. Could there be organisms living in their depths? Alien Oceans reveals the science behind the thrilling quest to find out.

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Free Download Ageless Aging: A Woman's Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan
English | ASIN: B0CTS7VZZD | 2024 | 11 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Maddy Dychtwald, Kate Hanley
Narrator: Rebecca Stern
We are in the midst of a longevity revolution. And that's particularly true for women: Women can expect to live five years longer than men. A 50-year-old woman can expect to live another 35 years, on average. Women comprise 80% of centenarians, now the fastest growing segment of the world's population. But despite these incredible statistics showing how women are living longer, women are not living well. Women typically spend the last 14 years of their lives in a cascade of poor health. And while current research suggests that some 70 to 90% of your health and longevity is under your control, rather than at the mercy of the genes you were born with, the reality is that most women are not taking advantage of the measures that could lead to a longer and better life.

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Free Download Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D388Q7TY | 2024 | 5 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 313 MB
Author: Noé Álvarez
Narrator: Asa Siegel
Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument. Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure: That he had abandoned his family, and had possibly done something awful that put a curse on his descendants. About his grandfather, young Noe was sure of only one thing: That he had played the accordion. Now an adult, reckoning with the legacy of silence surrounding his family's migration from Mexico, Álvarez resolves both to take up the instrument and to journey into Mexico to discover the grandfather he never knew. Álvarez travels across the US with his accordion, meeting makers and players in cities that range from San Antonio to Boston. He uncovers the story of an instrument that's been central to classic American genres, but also played a critical role in indigenous Mexican history. Like the accordion itself, Álvarez feels trapped between his roots in Mexico and the US. As he tries to make sense of his place in the world-as a father, a son, a musician-he gets closer to uncovering the mystery of his origins.

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Free Download A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLG32LS1 | 2024 | 14 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 414 MB
Author: Kevin Fedarko
Narrator: Kevin Fedarko
From the bestselling author, a rollicking and poignant account of the epic misadventure of two friends, zero preparation, and one dream: a 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America's most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth. A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of becoming a guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his best friend, the National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision as bold as it was harebrained. Together, they would embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon, a journey that, McBride promised, would be "a walk in the park." Against his better judgment, Fedarko agreed to the scheme, unaware that the small cluster of experts who had completed the crossing billed it as "the toughest hike in the world." The ensuing ordeal, which lasted more than a year, revealed a place that was deeper, richer, and far more complex than anything the two men had imagined-and came within a hair's breadth of killing them both.

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Free Download A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays
English | ASIN: B0BWPCK87K | 2024 | 7 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Pedro Lemebel, Gwendolyn Harper, Idra Novey
Narrator: Fred Sanders, Vico Ortiz, Idra Novey, Gwendolyn Harper
A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated "melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds" (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now available in English for the first time. "I speak from my difference," wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist living through Chile's AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In brilliantly innovative essays-known as crónicas-that combine memoir, reportage, fiction, history, and poetry, he brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities, the poor, and the powerless.

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Free Download A History of Some of London's Most Famous Landmarks (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798882331107 | 2024 | 6 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 381 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Victoria Woodson
It almost goes without saying that Westminster Abbey is one of the foremost sites in Europe when it comes to being steeped in history. Dating back to the reign of William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest, Westminster Abbey has traditionally been the site of royal coronations, royal weddings, and royal burials, and anyone who enters can instantly feel that they are walking in the footsteps of some of the most influential figures in history, from Henry III to Queen Elizabeth I. It's impossible to fully appreciate the Tower of London without understanding its context. Like all fortresses, it was built to control and protect its surroundings, and the history of the Tower is bound up in the mutual histories of London and the Monarchy. The unfolding saga of war, imprisonment, glory, and treason in England can all be told through the lens of the Tower, and the lives that intersected with it.

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Free Download A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth's Court (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNJ9CCFV | 2024 | 8 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Thomas Lockley
Narrator: Gary Furlong
An incredible sea story that turns the Age of Exploration on its head, following the first Japanese man to set foot on North America and England. On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men-led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher-traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen Elizabeth I. Christopher's epic sea voyage had spanned from Japan, via the Philippines, New Spain (Mexico), Java and Southern Africa. On the way, he had already become the first recorded Japanese person in North America. Now Christopher was the first ever Japanese visitor to England, and no other would leave such a legacy for centuries to come. The story of Christopher is almost utterly forgotten and has never been fully told before. A Gentleman from Japan is a fast-paced, historical narrative of adventure, cross-cultural endeavor, intellectual exchange, perseverance, espionage and conflict in the Age of Exploration.

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