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Free Download Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of Macabre (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BG3L9X22 | 2022 | 9 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: David J. Skal, Elias Savada
Narrator: David J. Skal
One of the most original and unsettling filmmakers of all time-the creator of the horror classics Dracula and Freaks, among others-Tod Browning is also one of the most enigmatic directors who ever worked in Hollywood. A complicated, troubled, and fiercely private man, he confounded would-be biographers hoping to penetrate his secret, obsessive world-both during his lifetime and afterward. Now, film historians David J. Skal and Elias Savada, using newly discovered family documents and revealing published interviews with friends and colleagues, join forces for the first full-length biography of the man who earned a reputation as "the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema."

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Free Download Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKFNSCNX | 2023 | 6 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 346 MB
Author: Krista K. Thomason
Narrator: Coleen Marlo
We tend to think about bad feelings-feelings like anger, envy, spite, and contempt-as the weeds in life's garden. You may not be able to get rid of them completely, but you're supposed to battle them as best you can. The best garden is one with no weeds. The best life is one with no bad feelings. But this isn't quite right, according to philosopher Krista K. Thomason. Bad feelings are the worms, not the weeds. They're just below the surface, and we like to pretend they aren't there, but they serve an important purpose. Thomason draws on insights from the history of philosophy to show what we've gotten wrong about bad feelings and to show listeners how we can live better with them.

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Free Download Damn This War!: Between the Blitz and the Desert, a Story of War-Crossed Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNS815LH | 2023 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Julie Hankey
Narrator: Julie Hankey
The love story of Zippa and Tony is nothing without the context of the Second World War. The war introduced them-they met as blackout wardens in London. It gave them darkened streets to wander in, hand in hand, then, by sending Tony away to officer training camps, it sharpened their hunger for each other, casting a glow over his comings and goings. It turned them into schemers and wanglers against fate and army regulations. It pressed them into marriage, and when the war decided to deploy him to North Africa, it whispered the urgent question of a baby. To which Tony, thinking of the war, replied maybe not; and Zippa, thinking of the war, said yes. In spite of themselves, the war experience was changing them both, and yet both were hanging on, looking back, suspended in memory and time, and living from letter to letter. Decades later, their daughter Julie discovered their letters, and piecing them together began to create a portrait of her parents and their relationship that was completely unfamiliar to her. Vivid, honest and completely absorbing, Damn This War! is a true insight into a wartime love story.

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Free Download Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN87ZJH1 | 2023 | 9 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 281 MB
Author: Whitney Barlow Robles
Narrator: Daniela Acitelli
Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they raised thwarted human efforts to master nature during the so-called Enlightenment-a historical moment when rigid classification pervaded the study of natural history, people traded in people, and imperial avarice wrapped its tentacles around the globe. Whitney Barlow Robles makes animals the unruly protagonists of eighteenth-century science through journeys to four spaces and ecological zones: the ocean, the underground, the curiosity cabinet, and the field.

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Free Download Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLWC9DH5 | 2023 | 10 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 287 MB
Author: Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems-the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other. Investigating what happens in a curious brain, they offer an accessible account of the network neuroscience of curiosity. The book performs the very curiosity that it describes, inviting listeners to participate-to be curious with the book and not simply about it.

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Free Download Curepedia: An A-Z of The Cure (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C82P9Q99 | 2023 | 33 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 967 MB
Author: Simon Price
Narrator: Simon Price, Ffion Aynsley, Nathaniel Priestley, Reanne Farley
A complete and truly unique biography of Robert Smith and company, The Cure, chronicling their 40+ year history with hundreds of entries in A to Z fashion. Definitive and deeply researched, Curepedia will surprise and inform fans everywhere as they await The Cure's highly anticipated next album release. The Cure remain, 40 plus years into their career, one of the biggest rock bands in the world. With 12 studio albums, tours that pack stadiums all over the world-including their recent sold out series across North America in Spring/Summer 2023-they were the first alternative band to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 2019 by Trent Reznor. Their influence is heard in bands as wide ranging as Twilight Sad to Interpol to My Chemical Romance.

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Free Download Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena, 2023 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5YSTPXY | 2023 | 5 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Philomena Cunk
Narrator: Philomena Cunk
From the creator and star of the "deeply funny, unexpectedly informative" (The Daily Beast) Netflix mockumentary Cunk on Earth, a helpful guide covering every single topic in the known universe, from Adam and Eve to Top Gun. Once in a blue moon, a book comes along that changes the world. The Origin of Species. War and Peace. 1984. And now, Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena, by Philomena Cunk. Philomena Cunk is one of the greatest thinkers of the 21st century, and in Cunk on Everything she turns her attention to our biggest issue: why are there so many books? Wouldn't it be better if there was just one? This is that book-an encyclopedia of all human knowledge, delving into not only life's greatest mysteries but our most important political figures and cultural touchstones. Listen to it, and you'll never have to explore another book again.

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Free Download Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZWJ8LZL | 2023 | 9 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Nadya Williams
Narrator: Marni Penning
In the middle of the third century CE, one North African bishop wrote a treatise for the women of his church, exhorting them to resist such culturally normalized yet immodest behaviors in their cosmopolitan Roman city as mixed public bathing in the nude, and wearing excessive amounts of jewelry and makeup. The treatise appears even more striking, once we realize that the scandalous virgins to whom it was addressed were single women who had dedicated their virginity to Christ. Stories like this one challenge the general assumption among Christians today that the earliest Christians were zealous converts who were much more counterculturally devoted to their faith than typical church-goers today.

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Free Download Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B003AOVPLG | 2010 | 9 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 269 MB
Author: Brian Fagan
Narrator: James Langton
Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infancy, facing enormous environmental challenges - including a rival species of humans, the Neanderthals. For ten millennia, Cro-Magnons lived side by side with Neanderthals, an encounter that Fagan fills with drama. Using their superior intellects and tools, these ingenious problem solvers survived harsh conditions that eventually extinguished their Neanderthal cousins. Cro-Magnon captures the indomitable adaptability that has made Homo sapiens an unmatched success as a species. Living on a frozen continent with only the most basic tools, Ice Age humans survived and thrived.

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Free Download Cricket for Dummies, 3rd Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMZ387S3 | 2023 | 14 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Julian Knight, Tom Dunmore
Narrator: Lee Beddow
Curious about the game of cricket? Start here! Cricket For Dummies, Third Edition will help you understand the basics of cricket, the internationally popular sport that has leagues around the globe. With this guide, you can enjoy watching matches, and even set up a casual game with friends. The book includes clear explanations of the rules, step-by-step guides to strategy and tactics, and info on all the most popular tournaments around the globe. Learn about the cricket greats of today and yesterday, plus get updates on the latest developments, including Major League Cricket and the Cricket World Cup. This new edition of Cricket For Dummies is a fascinating and thorough introduction to the sport, in the classic, easy-to-understand Dummies style.

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