Audio Books

English | ISBN: 9780008498559 | 2021 | 15 hours and 8 minutes |MP3|M4B | 416 MB
A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited. Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. Written at the height of the war, the novel was, he admitted, of no 'immediate propaganda value'. Instead, it was the story of a household, a family and a journey of religious faith - an elegy for a vanishing world and a testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. The Lygons of Madresfield were every bit as glamorous, eccentric and compelling as their counterparts, the Marchmains, in Brideshead Revisited.
William Lygon, Earl Beauchamp, was a warm-hearted, generous and unconventional father whose seven children adored him. When he was forced to flee the country by his scheming brother-in-law, his traumatised children stood firmly by him, defying not only the mores of the day, but also their deeply religious mother. In this engrossing biography, best-selling author Paula Byrne takes an innovative approach to her subject, setting out to capture Waugh through the friendships and loves that mattered most to him. She uncovers a man who, far from the snobbish misanthropist of popular caricature, was as loving and complex as the family that inspired him. This brilliantly original biography unlocks for the first time the extent to which Waugh's great novel encoded and transformed his own experiences. In so doing, it illuminates the loves and obsessions that shaped his life, and brings us inevitably to a secret that dared not speak its name.

English | 2019 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B07PGCYZF4 | Duration: 3:54 h | 107 MB
Phyllis Chesler / Narrated by Lisa Flanagan
Letters to a Young Feminist is a visionary message from a leading feminist to the next generation of feminists, both women and men. Phyllis Chesler discusses basic aspects of feminism, explains feminism's relevance in a world that has taken it for granted and derided it and helps the next generation reclaim feminism for itself. Chesler examines sisterhood, sex, families, motherhood, work, feminist heroism and the economics of power, providing guidance to the generation to come.

English | 2020 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B084Q6Y2LT | Duration: 10:30 h | 572 MB
Roger Scruton / Narrated by Toby Longworth
Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general listener, renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern philosophy. Always engaging, the author takes us on a fascinating tour of the subject, from founding father Descartes to the most important and famous philosopher of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein. He identifies all the principal figures as well as outlines of the main intellectual preoccupations that have informed Western philosophy.

English | 2020 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B08KSH2NDM | Duration: 6:15 h | 170 MB
Rachel Stevens / Narrated by Samantha Knight
Want to burn fat quickly without spending hours at the gym? Keep listening to find out how.

English | 2013 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B00DEM1NSE | Duration: 17:45 h | 814 MB
Ian Mortimer / Narrated by Mike Grady
Organized as a travel guide for the time-hopping tourist, The Time-Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England is an entertaining popular history with a twist. Historian Ian Mortimer reveals in delightful (and occasionally disturbing) detail how the streets and homes of 16th century looked, sounded, and smelled for both peasants and for royals; what people wore and ate; how they were punished for crimes and treated for diseases; and the complex and contradictory Elizabethan attitudes toward violence, class, sex, and religion. Mortimer also indulges readers in the lives of literary luminaries such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Sir Walter Raleigh.

English | 2020 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B082BDBJ2M | Duration: 9:09 h | 503 MB
Julian Barnes / Narrated by Saul Reichlin
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending - a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi.

English | March 17, 2016 | ASIN: B01BNSVXV2 |MP3|M4B | 14h 27m | 794 MB
Author: Jane Austen
Narrator: David Tennant, Benedict Cumberbatch, Julie McKenzie

English | 2018 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B07GFPV7H1 | Duration: 15:51 h | 432 MB
Francis Fukuyama / Narrated by L. J. Ganser
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.

English | July 10, 2020 | ASIN: B08B7CPTF3 |MP3|M4B | 5h 56m | 163 MB
Author: Jim Holden
Narrator: Pete Larkin

English | 2007 |MP3|M4B | ISBN: 1597771678 | Duration: 2:48 h | 153 MB
Paul Reps / Narrated by Peter Coyote
What is Zen? Paul Reps presents four works that rank high in the Zen Canon. 101 Zen Stories recounts actual experiences with Zen spanning five centuries. The Gateless Gate is a 13th-century collection of mind problems used in the practice of Zen. 10 Bulls is a 12th-century commentary on the stages of awareness leading to enlightenment. And Centering is a 4,000-year-old teaching from India that could very well have been the source of Zen. 2 cassettes.