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Free Download A Woman in the Polar Night (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DC7S7RVQ | 2024 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 392 MB
Author: Christiane Ritter
Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher
This rediscovered classic memoir tells the incredible tale of a woman defying society's expectations to find freedom and peace in the adventure of a lifetime. In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to "read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content," but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive. At first, Christiane is horrified by the freezing cold, the bleak landscape the lack of equipment and supplies . . . But as time passes, after encounters with bears and seals, long treks over the ice and months on end of perpetual night, she finds herself falling in love with the Arctic's harsh, otherworldly beauty, gaining a great sense of inner peace and a new appreciation for the sanctity of life.

Free Download A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPT9YMF4 | 2024 | 16 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 466 MB
Author: Camille Peri
Narrator: Jeanette Illidge
The extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift. He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silver miner's wife, with children, when they met. Who could have predicted that Fanny Van de Grift and Robert Louis Stevenson would go on to create one of history's great literary marriages? From their first encounter in France in 1876, Fanny and Louis's partnership transcended societal expectations to become a literary union that was progressive, eccentric, and tempestuous, but always animated by a profound mutual respect.

Free Download A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLYNB9GY | 2024 | 10 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Tia Levings
Narrator: Tia Levings
"Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me." Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principles-a series of secret, special rules to obey. Being a godly and submissive wife in Christian Patriarchy included strict discipline, isolation, and an alternative lifestyle that appeared wholesome to outsiders. Women were to be silent, "keepers of the home." Tia knew that to their neighbors her family was strange, but she also couldn't risk exposing their secret lifestyle to police, doctors, teachers, or anyone outside of their church.

Free Download A Walk Through Ancient Rome: A Tour of the Historical Sites That Shaped the City (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D7NV8KDV | 2024 | 6 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 382 MB
Author: Philip Matyszak
Narrator: Jonathan Johns
In this expert guide to the ancient city, Dr Philip Matyszak takes us on a tour of ancient Rome's most fascinating and important sites and locations, revealing the secrets of the beating heart of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. Rome itself was never grander or more magnificent than just before it fell, so be transported back in time to the Empire's twilight years at the end of the fourth century ad, with almost a thousand years of Roman history to explore. Each chapter focuses on one of Rome's districts, with maps throughout and explanations of how the same routes would look today. Put yourself in the sandals of a Roman pedestrian and take a walk along the Via Appia, through the Capuan Gate and past all the wonders inside the walls of ancient Rome, from tombs and temples to sewers and shrines, the grand gardens and the humble street markets, from Nero's Golden House to the slums where Julius Caesar grew up. Walk alongside the ghosts of Trajan, Nero, and Cicero; stand where they stood and see what they saw.

Free Download Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Adam Verner (Narrator), "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House"
English | ASIN: B0D7NPF8WW | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~44:00:00 | 1.18 GB
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: "Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best."-Time
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency-from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy's tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger combines intimate knowledge as one of President Kennedy's inner circle with sweeping research and historic context to provide a look at one of the most legendary presidential administrations in American history.
From JFK's battle with Nixon during the 1960 election, to the seemingly charmed inaugural days, to international conflict and domestic unrest, Schlesinger takes a close and fond, but unsparing, look at Kennedy's tenure in the White House, covering well-known successes, like his involvement in the Civil Rights movement; infamous humiliations, like the Bay of Pigs; and often overlooked struggles, like the Skybolt missile mix-up, alike.

Free Download A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don't Tell (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ8TPJH1 | 2024 | 8 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Joy Neumeyer
Narrator: Joy Neumeyer
In this timely memoir, a journalist examines intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to believe. In this poignant self-investigation, historian and journalist Joy Neumeyer explores how violence against women is portrayed, perceived, and adjudicated today. Interweaving the harrowing account of the abuse she experienced as a graduate student at Berkeley with those of others who faced violence on campus and beyond, Neumeyer offers a startling look at how the hotly-debated Title IX system has altered university politics and culture, and uncovers the willful misremembrance that enables misconduct on scales large and small. Deeply researched, daringly inquisitive, and resonant for our times, A Survivor's Education reveals the entanglement of storytelling, abuse, and power-and how we can balance narrative and evidence in our attempts to determine what "really" happened.

Free Download A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Audiobook)
2021 | M4B@125 kbps | 10h 0m | 545.46 MB
Author: Laura Dodsworth
Narrator: Laura Dodsworth

Free Download Eric Foner, Paul Heitsch (Narrator), "A Short History of Reconstruction, Updated Edition"
English | ASIN: B0CZPJ4QHX | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:32:00 | 345 MB
Newly Updated
From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review),
a newly updated abridged edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.

Free Download A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKLQLG8T | 2024 | 10 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: Steve Hoffman
Narrator: Steve Hoffman
In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong. Steve Hoffman is a perfectly comfortable middle-aged Minnesotan man who has always been desperately, pretentiously in love with France, more specifically with the idea of France. To follow that love, he and his family move, nearly at random, to the small, rural, scratchy-hot village of Autignac in the south of the country, and he immediately thinks he's made a terrible mistake.

Free Download A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6WKLRNR | 2024 | 15 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 448 MB
Author: Francis D. Cogliano
Narrator: Paul Boehmer
Martha Washington's worst memory was the death of her husband. Her second worst was Thomas Jefferson's awkward visit to pay his respects. Indeed, by the time George Washington died in 1799, the two founders were estranged. But that estrangement has obscured the fact that for most of their thirty-year acquaintance they enjoyed a productive relationship. Precisely because they shared so much, their disagreements have something important to teach us. Whereas Washington believed in the rule of traditional elites like the Virginia gentry, Jefferson preferred what we would call a meritocratic approach, by which elites would be elected on the basis of education and skills.