Audio Books

Free Download Billy Wellman, Jay Herbert (Narrator), "The Black Death: An Enthralling Overview of a Major Event in the Middle Ages"
English | ISBN: 9798868791918 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~03:14:00 | 99 MB
Boils, religion, and quarantines: Living with the Black Death in the Middle Ages
The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, was the worst pandemic in history. The Black Death was almost always fatal, and it took hundreds of years for populations to bounce back. It claimed millions of lives and set the stage for pandemic responses that are still in use today.
This audiobook offers a compelling and comprehensive examination of this period and talks about what we've learned from such a horrific disease. Explore interesting facts about this period, and uncover some of the most common misconceptions about one of the most devastating periods in history.

Free Download Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773-1776 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP9Z1LQV | 2023 | 14 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 399 MB
Author: James R. Fichter
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
In Tea James Fichter reveals that despite the so-called Boston Tea Party in 1773, two other large shipments of tea from the East India Company survived and were ultimately drunk in North America. The survival of these shipments shaped the politics of the years ahead and hint at the enduring potency of consumerism in revolutionary politics. Tea protests were widespread in 1774, but, Fichter argues, so were tea advertisements and tea sales. Such protests were noisy and sometimes misleading performances, not clear signs that tea consumption was unpopular. Revolutionaries vilified tea in their propaganda and prohibited the importation and consumption of tea and British goods.

Free Download Skin in the Game: Everything You Need Is Already Inside You (Audiobook)
English | October 26, 2021 | ASIN: B0912RJ164 | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 51m | 243 MB
Author and Narrator: Jane Wurwand
Uncover the unique qualities within you that will lead you to find your true purpose, a meaningful career, and show you how to live your biggest life.
I know I have a bigger purpose, but how can I find it?

Free Download David Haslam (Author, Narrator), "Side Effects: How Our Healthcare Lost Its Way - And How We Fix It"
English | ASIN: B0C62LYLC4 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~08:50:00 | 259 MB
A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick
With a single drug in the UK currently costing £340,000 per patient per year, or a gene therapy in the USA being costed at $1.2million, who should get such treatments, and how can we begin to afford them? Should we all be entitled to timely mental health therapy? How should we care for our old?
As we grapple with the world's worst pandemic for a century, our minds are on our health more than ever. But what should we rightfully expect of doctors? In this original and thought-provoking book, Sir David Haslam explores what good healthcare should achieve and asks how we pay for it. Informed by patient stories and data from across the world-from US big pharma to Britain's NHS-this is an urgent and often moving examination of our most important asset: our health.

Free Download Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Audiobook)
English | September 19, 2023 | ASIN: B0BWSN5SJT | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 23m | 379 MB
Editors: Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. | Narrators: Erin Tripp, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Joelle Peters, Kaniehtiio Horn, Lisa Cromarty, Maika Harper, Shane Ghostkeeper, Sheldon Elter, Tara Sky
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?"
Featuring stories by:

Free Download Nazi Germany's Conquest of Western Europe: The Negotiations and Campaigns that Let Hitler Conquer the Continent Before and During World War II (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868794575 | 2023 | 3 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Bill Caufield
Europe's attempts to appease Hitler, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. Italy was on the march as well, invading Albania in April of 1939. The straw that broke the camel's back, however, was Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1 of that year. Two days later, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany, and World War II had begun in earnest. Of course, as most people now know, the invasion of Poland was merely the preface to the Nazi blitzkrieg of most of Western Europe, which would include Denmark, Belgium, and France by the summer of 1940. The resistance put up by these countries is often portrayed as weak, and the narrative is that the British stood alone in 1940 against the Nazi onslaught, defending the British Isles during the Battle of Britain and preventing a potential German invasion.

Free Download Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Developments (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPR9XG34 | 2023 | 5 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 278 MB
Author: W. H. Matthews
Narrator: Matthew Schmitz
Mazes and Labyrinths is a look into the origin and mystery of mazes. From ancient stone carvings, Minoan palaces to today's hedge-maze, Matthews chronicles the history of the maze. With devoted scholarship to "the lure of the labyrinth," W. H. Matthews has composed an exhaustive history of mazes and labyrinths from antiquity to the present. Important examples include the Great Labyrinth of Egypt with its 3,000 rooms, the labyrinth of Daedalus, the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire hedge mazes, and the Stone Labyrinths of Finland.

Free Download Managing Your Anxiety: HBR Emotional Intelligence Series
Author: Harvard Business Review
Narrator: Steve Marvel, Teri Schnaubelt
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0CQZ73J91 | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 1h 26m | 94 MB
Work is stressful: We race to meet deadlines. We extend ourselves to return favors for colleagues. We set ambitious goals for ourselves and our teams. We measure ourselves against metrics, our competitors, and sometimes, our colleagues. Some of us even go beyond tangible metrics to internalize stress and fear of missing the mark-ruminating over presentations that didn't go according to plan, imagining worst-case scenarios, or standing frozen, paralyzed by perfectionism. But hypervigilance, worry, and catastrophizing don't have to hold you back at work. When channeled thoughtfully, anxiety can motivate us to be more resourceful, productive, and creative. It can break down barriers and create new bonds with our colleagues.

Free Download Love Language: A memoir of family, music and pasta by Linda Marigliano (Author/Narrator)
June 01, 2023 | English | ASIN: B0C6N1CN6Z | 6 hrs 9 mins | M4B & MP3 @126 kbps
336 to 339 MB | Unabridged | Retail
Linda Marigliano has built a career out of performing for other people. In her day-job as an on-air presenter or in her family home, she contorted herself into 'the cool girl' or 'the good girl', and struggled to ever truly switch off.
As she repeatedly over-committed and sought approval in all its guises, she started to ask herself: Why am I like this? Combing through her complex relationship with her mother, the sense of duty within her extended Italian and Chinese-Malaysian families, and the twisting turns of both her career path and her love life, she noticed a pattern emerging.

Free Download Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZZNWRG2 | 2023 | 8 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 465 MB
Author: Niamh Garvey
Narrator: Lara Hutchinson
Take charge of your needs including sensory self-care and emotional regulation for a calmer and happier life. It is a myth that autistic children grow into 'less autistic' adults. In fact, many autistic adults feel more overwhelmed as they age as the stresses of social demands such as relationships, parenting, or the work environment increase. Niamh Garvey offers tips and tricks designed to reduce sensory and emotional stress and look after your autistic self. From understanding what's happening when the stress response kicks in to using the 'detective habit' to spot your individual strengths and triggers. What's more, every element of this book can be personalised to you. Featuring strategies including 'quick calm plans' for managing triggers and lived-experience advice on understanding emotional regulation, coping with sensory overload and how to look after your senses during intimacy, this guide is here to ensure that you don't just survive adulthood, you thrive in it.