Audio Books

Brian Nelson, Derek Perkins (Narrator), "Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction"
English | ASIN: B08RJWBDZL | 2021 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:11:00 | 119 MB
Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as "naturalism" and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late 19th century in ways that scandalized bourgeois society. Zola opened the novel up to a new realm of subjects, including the realities of working-class life, class relations, and questions of gender and sexuality, and his writing embodied a new freedom of expression, with his bold, outspoken voice often inviting controversy.
In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Brian Nelson examines Zola's major themes and narrative art. He illuminates the social and political contexts of Zola's work and provides readings of five individual novels (The Belly of Paris, L'Assommoir, The Ladies' Paradise, Germinal, and Earth). Zola's naturalist theories, which attempted to align literature with science, helped to generate the stereotypical notion that his fiction was somehow nonfictional. Nelson, however, reveals how the most distinctive elements of Zola's writing go far beyond his theoretical naturalism, giving his novels their unique force. Throughout, he sets Zola's work in context, considering his relations with contemporary painters, his role in the Dreyfus Affair, and his eventual murder.

«Yellow Iris» by Agatha Christie
English | MP3@192 kbps | 33 min | 45.6 MB
An alarming telephone call, in which the phrases "it's life and death" and "the table with the yellow irises" are whispered, causes Hercule Poirot to rush to the luxuriant restaurant Jardin des Cygnes, desperate to stop an impending murder and find the person behind the voice on the phone. After bumping into an old acquaintance, he is invited to join a dinner party in full swing. But, just as the dancing and champagne are overflowing, a morbid announcement is made and the lights go out. By the time the lights come back on, everything has changed....

Caitlin O'Connell, Suehyla El-Attar (Narrator), "Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us About Connection, Community, and Ourselves"
English | ASIN: B08L6V84N1 | 2021 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:31:00 | 196 MB
Wild Rituals explores how embracing the rituals of the animal kingdom can make us more connected to ourselves, nature, and others.
Behavioral ecologist and world-renowned elephant scientist Caitlin O'Connell dives into the rituals of elephants, apes, zebras, rhinos, lions, whales, flamingos, and many more.

«Wife for Hire» by Janet Evanovich
English | MP3@192 kbps | 5h 14m | 431.5 MB
Hank Mallone knows he's in trouble when Maggie Toone agrees to pretend to be his wife in order to improve his rogue's reputation. Will his harebrained scheme to get a bank loan for his business backfire once Maggie arrives in his small Vermont town and lets the gossips take a look?
Maggie never expected her employer to be drop-dead handsome, but she's too intrigued by his offer to say no . . . and too eager to escape a life that made her feel trapped. The deal is strictly business, both agree, until Hank turns out to be every fantasy she ever had.

Gabriel Byrne (Author, Narrator), "Walking with Ghosts: A Memoir"
English | ASIN: B08NTW1BND | 2021 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:57:00 | 197 MB
When award-winning actor, producer, and international icon Gabriel Byrne was a young boy, his grandmother brought him to the cinema for the first time. There, Byrne fell in love with the transporting power of the big screen. Growing up in 1950s and 60s Dublin within a family of eight, Byrne's formative childhood years were both carefree and challenging, spent between home, the church, school, and the streets of his ever-changing city where he observed that some of the greatest actors and entertainers could be found in the lives of those around him.
In captivating, funny, and sensual prose that brings to life the myriad voices of his youth, Byrne recounts his first formative 12 years - morning routines with his father, a barrel-maker at the Guinness factory; his debut role in a nativity play; his relationship with his dynamic mother; and his years at a seminary where he studied to be a priest. Interspersed throughout this engrossing childhood story we see Byrne's ascent to global stardom, from his days acting in amateur drama groups in London, to his first big role opposite Richard Burton, his arrival at the Cannes stage for his breakout hit movie, The Usual Suspects, to the HBO show In Treatment for which he won a Golden Globe.

«Up Island» by Anne Rivers Siddons
English | MP3@192 kbps | 6h 04m | 501.2 MB
"A wonderful story. . . .Siddons has returned to what she does best: gives us a book full of laughter and adventure that has enough soul to leave us with something to think about after we finish reading." -Detroit News/Free Press
From childhood, Molly Bell Redwine was taught by her charismatic, domineering mother that "family is everything." But no one warned Molly that family can change unexpectedly. In rapid succession, her husband of more than twenty years abandons her for a younger woman, her mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters to the four winds. Molly is set adrift in a heartbeat.

Unstoppable: A 90-Day Plan to Biohack Your Mind and Body for Success, 2nd Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08SCS5T9T | 2021 | 10 hours and 23 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Ben Angel
Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Three Wise Men: A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B088MJSNNS | 2021 | 9 hours and 10 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Beau Wise, Tom Sileo
Narrator: Beau Wise, Brian Troxell

«The Soulmate Secret» by Arielle Ford
English | MP3@192 kbps | 4h 47m | 394.3 MB
Arielle Ford, the woman who helped launch the careers of Deepak Chopra, Neale Donald Walsch, and Jack Canfield, shows readers how to take control of their romantic destiny in The Soulmate Secret. In this white magic counterpart to Neil Strauss's Rules of the Game, Ford teaches you to use the laws of attraction to deliver your soulmate to your doorstep! It's is a step-by-step guide to finding your own happily ever after.

The Rugged Entrepreneur: What Every Disruptive Leader Should Know (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08RK3XH8V | 2021 | 7 hours and 55 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 217 MB
Author: Carlton Scott Andrew
Narrator: Carlton Scott Andrew