Audio Books

Free Download Enemies at the Gate: The City Walls of Ancient Rome (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1ZG5FSZ | 2024 | 16 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 482 MB
Author: Patricia Southern
Narrator: Rupert Bush
The legend of the foundation of Rome by Romulus in 753BC accords very well with the earliest defensive walls on the Palatine Hill, made of clay and timber and showing evidence of animal sacrifices. To trace the continual efforts to fortify Rome is to trace the rise and fall of the Roman Empire - through the taking of the city by the Gauls in 390/387, the wars with the Italian states, the threat of Hannibal, the establishment of the Republic, attacks by the northern tribes and eventual division and collapse. By the 6th century AD, General Belisarius was desperately shoring up the walls with marble slabs from altars and gravestones.

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Free Download Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZYK5D2F | 2024 | 12 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 721 MB
Author: Alice Albinia
Narrator: Alice Albinia
The Indus rises in Tibet to flow west across India before turning south through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. For millennia, it has been worshipped as a god. For centuries, it has been a route of imperial conquest. Following the mighty river upstream, this highly acclaimed, award-winning travelogue takes the listener on a voyage through 2000 miles of spectacular landscapes and fiercely contested territory, and back through 5000 years of rich and eventful history.

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Free Download Drive: Scraping by in Uber's America, One Ride at a Time (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFYSM1YH | 2024 | 4 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Jonathan Rigsby
Narrator: Ryan Self
One father, three years, and thousands of rides. Poverty, By America meets Maid in this dad's darkly humorous yet humanizing story of working long hours and late nights behind the wheel as a rideshare driver. Jonathan Rigsby spends his days as a crime intelligence analyst and his nights as an Uber driver. Reeling from his divorce and struggling to pay rent while caring for his autistic son, Rigsby became a rideshare driver, joining the millions of people with a side hustle just to make ends meet.

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Free Download Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, 2024 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYVDXC5W | 2024 | 15 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 438 MB
Author: Paul Hawken
Narrator: Aven Shore
The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world. In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here-some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air.

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Free Download Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLQ4LBZ8 | 2024 | 9 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 290 MB
Author: Serj Tankian
Narrator: Serj Tankian
An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian. Serj Tankian will be the first to admit that his band, System Of A Down, was "unlikely a chart-topper as had ever existed in modern music history: a band of Armenian-Americans playing a practically unclassifiable clash of wildly aggressive metal riffs, unconventional tempo-twisting rhythms, and Armenian folk melodies, with me alternately growling, screaming, and crooning lyrics that could pivot from avant-garde silliness to raging socio-political rants in the space of a single line."

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Free Download Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSGN7KBX | 2024 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 401 MB
Author: Tommy Tomlinson
Narrator: Jonathan Davis
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Tommy Tomlinson comes an inside account of the Westminster Dog Show that follows one dog on his quest to become a champion-and explores the bond between dogs and their people. Tommy Tomlinson was watching a dog show on television a few years ago when he had a sudden thought: Are those dogs happy? How about pet dogs-are they happy? Those questions sparked a quest to venture inside the dog-show world, in search of a deeper understanding of the relationship between dogs and humans that has endured for thousands of years. Dogland shares his surprising, entertaining, and moving adventures. Engaging, charming, and insightful, Dogland is an irresistibly appealing listen that invites us on a rollicking backstage tour through the rituals, tricks, and wonders of the dog-show world-and reveals what matters most for the happiness of dogs and dog lovers everywhere.

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Free Download Do It Anyway: Don't Give Up Before It Gets Good (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGS17NV7 | 2024 | 4 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Sarah Jakes Roberts
Narrator: Tasha Cobbs Leonard
In this inspiring guide to the power of faithful resilience, Tasha Cobbs Leonard-Grammy Award winner and Billboard's Gospel Artist of the Decade-shares the secret that helps her persevere: When saying yes to God doesn't make sense, do it anyway. Pastor, entrepreneur, and gospel music icon Tasha Cobbs Leonard tells of journeying through moments of unforeseen challenges while holding to an unshakable God and discovering that our greatest breakthroughs come when we make the courageous choice to show up and do hard things anyway.

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Free Download Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7Y79BFL | 2024 | 5 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Jessica J. Lee
Narrator: Jessica J. Lee
The prize-winning and bestselling author turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future. A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? The themes in these fourteen essays become invigorating and intimate in Lee's hands, centering on the lives of plants like seaweed, tangelos, and soy, and their entanglement with our human worlds. Lee explores the rich backstory of cherry trees in Berlin; a tea plant that grows in the Himalayan foothills just southwest of China; the world of algae and wakame, and the journeys they've made to reach us. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being "out of place"-weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Lee looks at these plant species in their own context, even when we find them outside of it. Dispersals draws a gorgeous, sprawling map of the diaspora of flora. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.

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Free Download Disciplined Entrepreneurship Expanded & Updated: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2LXWWD2 | 2024 | 13 hours and 15 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Bill Aulet
Narrator: Al Kessel
Disciplined Entrepreneurship Expanded & Updated starts by combining the timeless and insightful principles of Disciplined Entrepreneurship with the practical tools found in the Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook into a single, comprehensive package. The book also has been updated with recent developments in the field and examples as well as a robust new library of additional resources. Author, entrepreneur, professor, and managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Bill Aulet, systematically walks listeners through exactly how to create a successful startup.

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Free Download Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YNCDDL | 2024 | 11 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 619 MB
Author: Alice Wong
Narrator: full cast
What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. Explorations of caregiving, community, access, and friendship offer us alternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with others-a vital reimagining in an era when forced physical distance is at times a necessary norm. But don't worry: there's still sex to consider-and the numerous ways sexual liberation intersects with disability justice. Plunge inside and you'll also find disabled sexual discovery, disabled love stories, and disabled joy. These twenty-five stunning original pieces-plus other modern classics on the subject, all carefully curated by acclaimed activist Alice Wong-include essays, poetry, drama, and erotica: a full spectrum of the dreams, fantasies, and deeply personal realities of a wide range of beautiful bodies and minds. Disability Intimacy will free your thinking, invigorate your spirit, and delight your desires.

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