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Free Download The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1YNV856 | 2024 | 17 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 506 MB
Author: Kevin Fedarko
Narrator: Kevin Fedarko
From one of Outside magazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983. In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the length of the Colorado River confronted a team of engineers at the Glen Canyon Dam with an unprecedented emergency that may have resulted in the most catastrophic dam failure in history. In the midst of this crisis, the decision to launch a small wooden dory named "The Emerald Mile" at the head of the Grand Canyon, just fifteen miles downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam, seemed not just odd, but downright suicidal. The Emerald Mile, at one time slated to be destroyed, was rescued and brought back to life by Kenton Grua, the man at the oars, who intended to use this flood as a kind of hydraulic sling-shot. The goal was to nail the all-time record for the fastest boat ever propelled-by oar, by motor, or by the grace of God himself-down the entire length of the Colorado River from Lee's Ferry to Lake Mead. Did he survive? Just barely. Now, this remarkable, epic feat unfolds here, in The Emerald Mile.

Free Download The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ2TYS59 | 2024 | 11 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 319 MB
Author: Sara B. Franklin
Narrator: Eunice Wong
Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century-including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath-finally gets her due in this intimate biography. When twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones began working as a secretary at Doubleday's Paris office in 1949, she spent most of her time wading through manuscripts in the slush pile and passing on projects-until one day, a book caught her eye. She read it in one sitting, then begged her boss to consider publishing it. A year later, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl became a bestseller. It was the start of a culture-defining career in publishing. During her more than fifty years as an editor at Knopf, Jones nurtured the careers of literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, and helped launched new genres and trends in literature.

Free Download The Eclogues and Georgics (Audiobook)
English | June 22, 2023 | ASIN: B0C5F7RGZ7 | M4B@128 kbps | 4h 35m | 255 MB
Author: Virgil | Narrators: Andrew Wincott, Jamie Parker, Paul Panting, Roger May
Though it is for the sparkling epic, Aeneid, that the Roman poet Virgil is best known, it was these two poems, The Eclogues and Georgics, which first established his reputation. Cast in the tradition of pastoral poetry, The Eclogues were written between 41 BCE and 37 BCE when Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, to give him his full name) was in his thirties.
The Eclogues (the word means 'Selections' in Greek) contain 10 poems, a combination of dialogues and monologues. They drew on the 'bucolic' (rural) style of the ancient Greek poet Theocritus (c 300BCE-c 260 BCE), but Virgil weaves many references to contemporary Roman events. Though The Eclogues have perhaps existed in the shadow of Georgics, they have been highly regarded and studied by academics and poets down the centuries. They are presented here in the 20th century translation by the British poet R. C. Trevelyan, and read in multi-voice format as they were originally written, with clearly delineated characters bringing the content to life with verve and temperament.

Free Download The Devil's Grip (Audiobook)
English | April 02, 2024 | ASIN: B0CY6MYWVB | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 7m | 200 MB
Author: Lina Wolff | Narrator: Daniela Acitelli | Translator: Saskia Vogel
Wickedly dark with a mystical edge, this story of an Italian love affair gone bad captures the irresistible pull of toxic relationships-from the acclaimed author of Carnality.
A woman arrives in Florence, overwhelmed by the strange, warm city so different from her home. Amidst the Renaissance architecture and amorous couples, she finds an unexpected love of her own. With his dark, ugly looks, people might stop and stare, wondering what someone like her was doing with someone like him. But he's the Mickey to her Minnie, and she can fix him-they can fix each other. She feels bound to him, body and soul.

Free Download The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World-and What We Can Do (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN3RXBY9 | 2024 | 10 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Steven Brill
Narrator: Dan Woren
How did we become a world where facts-shared truths-have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts? Best-selling journalist Steven Brill documents the forces and people, from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue to Moscow to Washington, that have created and exploited this world of chaos and division-and offers practical solutions for what we can do about it. As the cofounder of NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation, Steven Brill has observed the rise of fake news from a front-row seat. In The Death of Truth, with startling, often terrifying clarity, he explains how we got here-and how we can get back to a world where truth matters.

Free Download The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJCQH8W6 | 2024 | 7 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 406 MB
Author: Karen Yin
Narrator: Michelle H. Lee
An adaptable guide for anyone who wants to communicate with compassion in a rapidly changing environment. Most of us want to choose inclusive, respectful, and empowering language when communicating with or about others. But language-and how we use it-continually evolves, along with cultural norms. When contradictory opinions muddle our purpose, how do we align our word choices with our beliefs? Who has the final say when people disagree? And why is it so hard to let go of certain words? Afraid of getting something wrong or offending, we too often treat words as right or wrong, regardless of context and nuance. Thankfully, in The Conscious Style Guide, award-winning editor Karen Yin provides a road map for writing and speaking with sensitivity and awareness-no matter how the world around us progresses. With practical advice and hundreds of relatable examples, The Conscious Style Guide invites us to weigh contradictions, examine the pitfalls of binary thinking, and explore truly effective communication-in all aspects of our lives.

Free Download The Cemetery of Untold Stories (Audiobook)
English | April 02, 2024 | ASIN: B0CMYWCZFG | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 56m | 250 MB
Author: Julia Alvarez | Narrator: Alma Cuervo
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself that will be an instant classic.
Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small Description of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories-literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her.

Free Download The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality, and Our Search for Meaning (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJWN3679 | 2024 | 15 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 452 MB
Author: Elias Dakwar
Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
A profound, humane, and revolutionary new framework for understanding and addressing addiction. Addiction has been called a moral failing, a social problem, a spiritual crisis, a behavioral disorder, and a brain disease. It has also been called a class issue, a supply problem, a problem of learning, a memory disorder, and a result of trauma. And some propose that addiction is neither a disease nor a problem, but a transgressive expression of freedom, a maligned sub-culture, a therapeutic relationship. Even the term 'addiction' is open to question. There are few human phenomena so elusive and intractable; after decades of neuroscientific research, we aren't much closer to understanding addiction, nor to addressing it effectively. This profusion of interpretations, meanings, and models reflects a hidden truth about addiction: that it is profusely generative of meaning itself. In this bold reimagining, pioneering psychiatrist Elias Dakwar examines addiction as a sustained creative act-and specifically as a process of personal world-building, complete with its own rituals, systems of value, modes of suffering, and sources of support.

Free Download The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush
English | ASIN: B0CTR6485J | 2024 | 2 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Jon Meacham
Narrator: Jon Meacham
Lavishly illustrated, The Call to Serve is an intimate, illuminating portrait of the forty-first president, a man who was so much more than just his politics. In words and images-many found in a lifetime of scrapbooks kept by Barbara Pierce Bush-Jon Meacham brings George H. W. Bush vividly to life. From the values of integrity, empathy, and grace that Bush learned in childhood to his leadership at the highest levels in tumultuous times, the forty-first president embodied an ideal of service that warrants attention in our own divided time. Bush pursued a life of service to America through his heroic combat experience in the Pacific during World War II, his political rise in Texas, his serving as U.S. ambassador to the UN, his time as envoy to China and as director of the CIA, his tenure as Ronald Reagan's vice president, and his election as the forty-first president of the United States.