Audio Books

Free Download Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPZJR1ZD | 2024 | 5 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 314 MB
Author: David Kessler
Narrator: David Kessler
David Kessler, one of the most renowned experts on death and grief, takes on three uniquely shared experiences that challenge our ability to explain and fully understand the mystery of our final days. The first is visions. As the dying lose sight of this world, some people appear to be looking into the world to come. The second shared experience is getting ready for a trip. These trips may seem to us to be all about leaving, but for the dying, they may be about arriving. Finally, the third phenomenon is crowded rooms. The dying often talk about seeing a room full of people, as they constantly repeat the word crowded. In truth, we never die alone. Just as loving hands greeted us when we were born, so too will loving arms embrace us when we die. In the tapestry of life and death, we may begin to see connections to the past that we missed in life. While death may look like a loss to the living, the last hours of a dying person may be filled not with emptiness, but rather with fullness. In this fascinating book, David brings us stunning stories from the bedsides of the dying that will educate, enlighten, and comfort us all.

Free Download The Winner's Mindset: The Ultimate Guide to Changing Your Mindset and Achieving Success Every Time from a World Class Cricketer (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQYZCLW4 | 2024 | 5 hours and 17 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 146 MB
Author: Shane Watson
Narrator: Shane Watson
What separates Winners from everyone else? In The Winner's Mindset, Watson shares the secrets that helped him tap into his skillset at will. Using his own in-game experiences, scientific methodology and an easy-to-understand mental skills framework, he makes you performance ready for every situation, eliminating stress and anxiety. Whether you're a cricketer or simply seeking success in life, you'll learn universal techniques that apply to any performance arena.

Free Download Stress Resets: How to Soothe Your Body and Mind in Minutes (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFC281GT | 2024 | 6 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 336 MB
Author: Jennifer L. Taitz
Narrator: Jennifer L. Taitz
A clinical psychologist gives us 75 quick, scientifically proven techniques and exercises to manage stress and build resilience. Here's a promise that could not be more timely or needed: You can dial down your stress in just a few minutes, with no ponderous meditations, medications, or martinis required. Written by Dr. Jennifer L. Taitz, a clinical psychologist who specializes in teaching mindfulness-based behavioral skills to manage intense emotions and situations, Stress Resetsprovides 75 scientifically proven ways to improve how you respond to stress, both in the moment and the long run. There are accessible yet powerful exercises like dipping your face in ice water to quiet your body and mind; adopting a half smile to change your mood from the outside in; singing your irrational negative thoughts to reduce their believability; building a hope kit so you can remind yourself of what's possible in tough moments; and making a pie chart of your life to gain perspective. By incorporating these into your days, you can stop the cycle of obsessing, panicking, and avoiding and instead effectively approach what matters to you most. You'll also find stress buffers designed to build your resilience so you can navigate whatever comes your way. Through personal anecdotes, expert interviews, cutting-edge studies, and practical tips, you'll learn how to manage your emotions instead of the other way around. Stress Resets will not only change how you view your stress but also give you the hope and confidence you need to reset and ultimately change how you feel.

Free Download Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSM6FQTG | 2024 | 9 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Rachel Morgan
Narrator: Rachel Perry
American archaeology was forever scarred by an 1893 business proposition between cowboy-turned-excavator Richard Wetherill and socialites-turned-antiquarians Fred and Talbot Hyde. Wetherill had stumbled upon Mesa Verde's spectacular cliff dwellings and started selling artifacts, but with the Hydes' money behind him, well-there's no telling what they might discover. Thus begins the Hyde Exploring Expedition, a nine-year venture into Utah's Grand Gulch and New Mexico's Chaco Canyon that-coupled with other, less-restrained looters-so devastates Indigenous cultural sites across the American Southwest that Congress passes first-of-their-kind regulations to stop the carnage.

Free Download Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCW78S8D | 2024 | 8 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 241 MB
Author: Mark Daley
Narrator: Mark Daley
A heartrending and unforgettable memoir of an unlikely journey to parenthood through America's broken foster care system. What does it take to keep a child safe? As a long-time strategist and activist fighting for better outcomes for foster children, Mark Daley thought he had the answer. But when Ethan and Logan, an adorable infant and a precocious toddler, entered into their lives, Mark and his husband Jason quickly realized they were not remotely prepared for the uncertainty and complication of foster parenting. Every day seven hundred children enter the foster care system in the United States, and thousands more live on the brink.

Free Download Robert's Rules of Order Fast Track: The Brief and Easy Guide to Parliamentary Procedure for the Modern Meeting (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQZ44GVL | 2024 | 5 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Jim Slaughter
Narrator: Greg Lockett
Must-Have Advice on Running Effective and Organized Meetings. Easy, accessible, and to the point. Robert's Rules of Order gives you everything you need to know to conduct shorter, fairer, and more orderly meetings. In this new and improved update, you'll find: The fundamentals of parliamentary procedure, with tips on knowing which rules to use for your meetings. Simple suggestions for making, seconding, and debating motions. A primer on voting, from knowing when it's required, to breaking ties, to handling absentee and proxy votes. Straightforward strategies for setting and sticking to an agenda and efficiently recording your meeting's minutes. Tips for handling disruptive members and tyrannical chairs. All-new guidance on conducting the modern virtual meeting.

Free Download Jamie L. Carson, Joel Sievert, Ryan D. Williamson, Patrick Lawlor (Narrator), "Nationalized Politics: Evaluating Electoral Politics Across Time"
English | ASIN: B0CT6B5HZR | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~06:12:00 | 181 MB
In the United States, politics has become increasingly nationalized in recent years as voter decision-making is now driven by partisan or national political forces rather than the attributes of individual candidates. Indeed, voters now seem more concerned with which of the two national parties will be in power across all levels of government as opposed to which candidate will represent them individually.
Nationalized Politics asks and answers the question, "how has nationalization influenced elections across different political eras?" Jamie L. Carson, Joel Sievert, and Ryan D. Williamson look at historical variation in nationalization through an analysis of congressional elections from 1840 to 2020. By examining roughly 180 years of elections, the authors leverage considerable differences in electoral competition, electoral rules, nationalization, polarization, and partisan advantage via the incumbency advantage. Moreover, Carson, Sievert, and Williamson employ a unique survey design to capture citizen attitudes toward the nationalization of politics to further consider the question of how nationalization is currently shaping politics. Providing a comprehensive history of US congressional elections, Nationalized Politics illustrates the roots of the current electoral landscape in the US.

Free Download If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781496849205 | 2023 | 11 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl
Narrator: Louis White
Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the crumbling corridors of abandoned buildings. They have set forth in search of a profound paranormal experience and may seem to achieve just that. They are part of the growing cultural phenomenon called legend tripping. In If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America, author Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl guides listeners through an exploration of legend tripping, drawing on years of scholarship, documentary accounts, and his own extensive fieldwork. Poring over old reports and legends, sleeping in haunted inns, and trekking through wilderness full of cannibal mutants and strange beasts, Debies-Carl provides an in-depth analysis of this practice that has long fascinated scholars yet remains a mystery to many observers.

Free Download Adam Spivey (Author, Narrator), "How to Train Your Dog: Transform Your Dog's Behavior and Strengthen Your Bond Forever - A Dog Training Book"
English | ASIN: B0CKZJSBV6 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~04:08:00 | 120 MB
Everything you need to know to tackle your dog's behavioral issues and understand how your dog thinks, from the trainer behind social media sensation Southend Dog Training
Do you wish you could get your dog to behave better? Southend Dog Training founder Adam Spivey can help. In this indispensable book, he helps you build a better connection with your dog at any age and solve any behavioral issues with simple, proven training techniques. He won't just tell you what to do to get your dog to listen to your commands; he will also help you to understand how your dog thinks and why they might be struggling with certain things.
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Free Download HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5GD8BR6 | 2024 | 5 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Ayesha Rascoe
Narrator: Ayesha Rascoe, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Brandon Gilpin, Nichole Perkins, April Ryan, Karen Chilton, Adam Lazarre-White
In this joyous collection of essays about historically Black colleges and universities, alumni both famous and up-and-coming write testimonials about the schools and experiences that shaped their lives and made them who they are today. Edited by the host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, Ayesha Rascoe-with a distinguished and diverse set of contributors including Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, and Branford Marsalis, HBCU Made illuminates and celebrates the experience of going to a historically Black college or university. This book is for proud alumni, their loved ones, current students, and anyone considering an HBCU. The first book featuring famous alumni sharing personal accounts of the Black college experience, HBCU Made offers a series of warm, moving, and candid personal essays about the schools that nurtured and educated them.