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Free Download Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Audiobook)
English | October 13, 2020 | ASIN: B08KSL95QF | MP3@64 kbps | 8h 43m | 222.29 MB
Author: Jonathan C. Slaght
Narrator: Jonathan C. Slaght
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's fish owl in the forbidding reaches of Eastern Russia.

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Free Download Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWQ7LZMN | 2023 | 6 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Coco Krumme
Narrator: Coco Krumme
How optimization took over the world and the urgent case for a new approach. Optimization is the driving principle of our modern world. We now can manufacture, transport, and organize things more cheaply and faster than ever. Optimized models underlie everything from airline schedules to dating site matches. We strive for efficiency in our daily lives, obsessed with productivity and optimal performance. How did a mathematical concept take on such outsize cultural shape? And what is lost when efficiency is gained?

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Free Download Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: N/A | 2023 | 11 hours and 52 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 654 MB
Author: Peter Taylor
Narrator: Peter Taylor
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, MI5's top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland. April 1998: the Good Friday Agreement is signed, ending decades of violence and bloodshed in Northern Ireland. The process of getting the IRA to end its so-called 'armed struggle' was always the prerequisite of the search for peace. It was Operation Chiffon that finally helped make it possible. Operation Chiffon takes us inside the top-secret intelligence operation whose roots go back to the bloodiest years of the conflict in the early 1970s, involving officers from MI6 and, later in the 1990s, MI5.

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Free Download On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7WJS5CN | 2023 | 5 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Ben Hutchinson
Narrator: Richard Burnip
How do we live successfully? How do we live fully? Identifying the meaning of life and where we are heading preoccupies all of us at some stage or another. Who better to help us articulate this sense of direction than the most articulate people among us? Writers and thinkers, Ben Hutchinson suggests in this sparkling new book, help us reflect on purpose. Interweaving his own (mis-)adventures with those of major authors such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and R.M. Rilke, Hutchinson proposes ten ways in which reading and writing encourage us to ask difficult questions, project our minds into the past and future, and see ourselves and others differently. Engaging and aphoristic, this book is for anyone who finds themselves wondering how to live more mindfully, more forcefully - more fully.

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Free Download On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care (Audiobook)
English | August 02, 2022 | ASIN: B09NF1DX48 | MP3@64 kbps | 4h 25m | 112.93 MB
Author: Victor Ray
Narrator: James Fouhey
What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States.

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Free Download Omega Farm: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BY3Q2ZXC | 2023 | 7 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Martha McPhee
Narrator: Tracy Thorne
A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist-a candid, riveting account of her complicated bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's been neglected of late. As Martha works to manage her mother's care and the sprawling, ramshackle property-a broken septic system, invasive bamboo, dying ash trees-she is pulled back into her childhood, almost against her will.

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Free Download Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZTBKK78 | 2023 | 9 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Zeke Faux
Narrator: Dan Bittner
The "endlessly entertaining" (Matt Levine) and "ludicrously compelling" (Evan Osnos) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars. In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knew how it worked-but why bother with the particulars when everyone was making a fortune from Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, or some other bizarrely named "digital asset"? As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke Faux had a nagging question: Was it all just a confidence game of epic proportions? What started as curiosity-with a dash of FOMO-would morph into a two-year, globe-spanning quest to understand the wizards behind the world's new financial machinery. Faux's investigation would lead him to a schlubby, frizzy-haired twenty-nine-year-old named Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF for short) and a host of other crypto scammers, utopians, and overnight billionaires.

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Free Download Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXTQ64TD | 2023 | 6 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Pidgeon Pagonis
Narrator: Pidgeon Pagonis
From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, lies, family secrets, and the healing power of truth. Pidgeon Pagonis always felt like their life was a constant attempt to fit in with other girls-a feeling that was only exacerbated when puberty failed to hit. They never understood why...until they uncovered the secret that had haunted their childhood. Bouncing between their Chicago home and the city's children's hospital, Pidgeon weathered a series of traumatic surgeries, fabrications, and misdirections.

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Free Download No Time to Panic: How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BR8KML3F | 2023 | 7 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Matt Gutman
Narrator: Matt Gutman
By ABC News's chief national correspondent, an unflinching look at panic attacks by a reporter whose career was nearly derailed by them, offering listeners a guide to making a truce with their warring minds. Matt Gutman can tell you the precise moment when his life was upended. Reporting live on a huge story in January 2020, he found himself in the throes of an on-air panic attack-and not for the first time. The truth is that Gutman had been enduring panic attacks in secret for twenty years: soul-bruising episodes that left his vision constricted, his body damp, his nerves shot. Despite the challenges, he had carved out a formidable career, reporting from war zones and natural disasters before millions of viewers on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and 20/20. His nerves typically "punched through" to TV audiences, making his appearances kinetic and often unforgettable. But his January 2020 broadcast was unusual for all the wrong reasons.

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Free Download No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of a League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGSNFZH | 2023 | 10 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Erin Carlson
Narrator: Mia Hutchinson Shaw
The inside story of how A League of Their Own-one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time-developed from an unheralded piece of American history into a perennial cinematic favorite. Featuring exclusive interviews and behind the scenes memories from the original cast and creators. No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one‑of‑a‑kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagine themselves playing professional ball (and doing it better than the boys).

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