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Free Download Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle That Changed History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B01MDRFHSW | 2016 | 12 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 356 MB
Author: Richard Snow
Narrator: Grover Gardner
From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow comes the thrilling story of the naval battle that changed the Civil War and the future of all sea power. No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, built an iron fort containing 10 heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named the Merrimack. The North got word of the project when it was already well along, and, in desperation, commissioned an eccentric inventor named John Ericsson to build the Monitor, an entirely revolutionary iron warship - at the time, the single most complicated machine ever made. Abraham Lincoln himself was closely involved with the ship's design. Rushed through to completion in just 100 days, it mounted only two guns, but they were housed in a shot-proof revolving turret.

Free Download In the Courts of Three Popes: An American Lawyer and Diplomat in the Last Absolute Monarchy of the West (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YMX8NM | 2024 | 6 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 345 MB
Author: Mary Ann Glendon
Narrator: Julie-Ann Elliott
A rare firsthand account of the three popes who worked to modernize the Catholic Church-and to evangelize the modern world-from a renowned international lawyer, Harvard law professor, and former ambassador to the Vatican. For twenty centuries, the Catholic Church has radically shaped world history-and survived it. In the decades following the Second Vatican Council, three popes have carried forward this legacy, striving to lead the Church and its governing body-the last absolute monarchy of the West-into the modern world. With In the Courts of Three Popes, accomplished diplomat, international lawyer, and Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon gives listeners a rare inside look at the papacies of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis.

Free Download Jonna Mendez, Barbara Benjamin-Creel (Narrator), "In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked"
English | ASIN: B0CBN9Q2WJ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:41:00 | 239 MB
The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War
Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife" performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their apartment. Yet Mendez had a talent for espionage, too, and she soon took on bigger and more significant roles at the Agency. She parlayed her interest in photography into an operational role overseas, an unlikely area for a woman in the CIA. Often underestimated, occasionally undermined, she lived under cover and served tours of duty all over the globe, rising first to become an international spy and ultimately to Chief of Disguise at CIA's Office of Technical Service.
In True Face recounts not only the drama of Mendez's high-stakes work-how this savvy operator parlayed her "everywoman" appeal into incredible subterfuge-but also the grit and good fortune it took for her to navigate a misogynistic world. This is the story of an incredible spy career and what it took to achieve it.

Free Download Imagine Freedom: Transforming Pain into Political and Spiritual Power (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7D8GZBJ | 2024 | 9 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Rahiel Tesfamariam
Narrator: Rahiel Tesfamariam
A social activist, journalist, public theologian, and international speaker who has become a powerful and brilliant voice of her generation offers a bold path to liberation and healing for people of African descent struggling in the shadows of the American Dream. The United States is at a critical juncture in its history. Not since the 1960s has the nation been so racially divided. White supremacy remains America's Achilles' heel-a moral failure that haunts us and holds us back from being the great nation we profess. For centuries, people of African descent have endured unimaginable hatred and discrimination which has manifested in pain and trauma passed from generation to generation.

Free Download If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB9B3T8D | 2024 | 9 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Geraldine DeRuiter
Narrator: Geraldine DeRuiter
From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism. When celebrity chef Mario Batali sent out an apology letter for the sexual harassment allegations made against him, he had the gall to include a recipe-for cinnamon rolls, of all things. Geraldine DeRuiter decided to make the recipe, and she happened to make food journalism history along with it. Her subsequent essay, with its scathing commentary about the pervasiveness of misogyny in the food world, would be read millions of times, lauded by industry luminaries from Martha Stewart to New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells, and would land DeRuiter in the middle of a media firestorm. She found herself on the receiving end of dozens of threats when all she wanted to do was make something to eat (and, okay fine, maybe take down the patriarchy).

Free Download Icons of Rock: In Their Own Words (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW3QDJL3 | 2024 | 12 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 352 MB
Author: Jenny Boyd
Narrator: Jenny Boyd
A glimpse into the creative power of music. Ever since the Beatles' British Invasion, numerous rock bands and singers have created albums that still have many fans' love and devotion today. Was it raw talent, or was there something below the surface that transformed these dreamers into Hollywood legends? Icons of Rock invites music lovers to discover the truth behind their favorite artists and how they created the best songs of all time. Investigating the psychology and chemistry behind artistic inspiration, you will find how much an unconscious influence can change not only one person's life, but the entire world. Rock legends share their inspirational tips for music success.

Free Download Ice Cold Leader: Leading from the Inside Out
Author: Errol Doebler
Narrator: Errol Doebler
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0CX68GTKY | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 7h 14m | 472 MB
Thrive under any circumstances with insights from an elite combat veteran

Free Download I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXV2VV3P | 2024 | 5 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 281 MB
Author: Clare Mackintosh
Narrator: Clare Mackintosh
"Grief has run through my life like thread through fabric; at times gossamer-thin and barely there, other times weaving thick, clumsy darns across the rips. In my grief I am a mother, a child, a sister, a wife, a woman, a friend. I am also a writer." When Clare Mackintosh lost her five-week-old son, she soon discovered there are no neat, labeled stages of grief like so many books insist. The shape of each loss is different; when a parent, relative, or friend passes, we grieve the person in all their beauty, their humanity, their imperfections.

Free Download I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BBS5TLHS | 2024 | 5 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 328 MB
Author: Michael Arceneaux
Narrator: Michael Arceneaux
New York Times bestselling author Michael Arceneaux returns with a hilarious collection of essays about making your voice heard in an increasingly noisy and chaotic world. In this collection, Arceneaux takes stock of how far he has traveled-and how much ground he still has to cover in this patriarchal, heteronormative society. He explores the opportunities afforded to Black creatives but also the doors that remain shut or ever-so-slightly ajar; the confounding challenges of dating in a time when social media has made everything both more accessible and more unreliable; and the allure of returning home while still pushing yourself to seek opportunity elsewhere. I Finally Bought Some Jordans is both a corrective to, and a balm for, these troubling times, revealing a sharply funny and keen-eyed storyteller working at the height of his craft.

Free Download I Didn't Sign Up for This: A Couples Therapist Shares Real-Life Stories of Breaking Patterns and Finding Joy in Relationships . . . Including Her Own (Audiobook)
English | October 03, 2023 | ASIN: B0CCSWGMZQ | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 1m | 492 MB
Author and Narrator: Dr. Tracy Dalgleish
What happens when your relationship no longer feels like the one you said "yes" to?
Couples therapist Dr. Tracy Dalgleish has spent the last seventeen years dedicated to helping hundreds of couples in distress find hope and healing, sometimes by staying together and other times not. Breakdowns in communication, lack of intimacy, infidelity, overbearing in-laws and exes (to name a few)―she's seen it all.