Category: Audio Books

Free Download The Emotionally Abusive Relationship (2nd Edition): How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKWHJSWB | 2023 | 10 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Beverly Engel
Narrator: Tanya Eby
In the second edition of The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing, internationally recognized therapist Beverly Engel walks listeners through a proven program designed to help then get to the core of their unhealthy behavior patterns. This book was written specifically for two types of couples-those who mutually abuse each other and those with abusive partners who are willing to honestly look at themselves to and make the necessary changes to stop abusing. Engel focuses on both the abused person and the abuser, offering non-judgmental advice to both groups. She offers effective strategies, techniques, and information to end abusive behaviors. The Emotionally Abusive Relationship is essential for those involved in unhealthy relationships or who have loved ones trapped in an emotionally abusive situation.

Free Download The Edge of Reality: Two Scientists Evaluate What We Know of the UFO Phenomenon, 2023 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CK9H1ZSJ | 2023 | 11 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 336 MB
Author: J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
From the outset, Hynek and Vallee make their position clear: UFOs represent an unknown but real phenomenon. The far-reaching implications take us to the edge of what we consider the known and real in our physical environment. Perhaps UFOs signal the existence of a domain of nature as yet totally unexplored. These two eminent scientists studied the UFO phenomenon for decades and collaborated on this landmark report. The authors sample UFO reports, including those allegedly involving humanoids, and describe the patterns that have been perceived in the behavior of the phenomenon.

Free Download The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C1TF6686 | 2023 | 11 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: David Herszenhorn
Narrator: David de Vries
A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin’s nemesis Alexey Navalny-lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war crusader. THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable rival-so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny’s name. There’s an old saying that Russia without corruption isn’t Russia. Alexey Navalny refuses to accept this proposition. His stubborn insistence that Russians can defy the stereotype and create an entirely different country made him such a threat to Putin that the Kremlin wanted him exiled-or dead-and now seems intent on keeping him locked in a prison colony for decades.

Free Download The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BHJDT53N | 2023 | 7 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 391 MB
Author: Andrew Friedman
Narrator: Michael Lomonaco
Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces listeners to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish, creating an entertaining, vivid snapshot of the contemporary restaurant community, modern farming industry, and food-supply chain. On a typical evening, in a contemporary American restaurant, a table orders their dinner from a server. It’s an exchange that happens dozens, or hundreds, of times a night-the core transaction that keeps the place churning. In this book, acclaimed chef writer Andrew Friedman slows down time to focus on a single dish at Chicago’s Wherewithall restaurant, following its production and provenances via real-time kitchen and in-the-field reportage, from the moment the order is placed to when the finished dish is delivered to the table.

Free Download The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVRZLG2J | 2023 | 11 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Sarah Ogilvie
Narrator: Sarah Ogilvie, Joan Walker
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind’s greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway, a female anti-slavery activist in Philadelphia . . . and thousands of others. Of deep transgenerational and broad appeal, a thrilling literary detective story that, for the first time, unravels the mystery of the endlessly fascinating contributors the world over who, for over seventy years, helped to codify the way we read and write and speak. It was the greatest crowdsourcing endeavor in human history, the Wikipedia of its time. The Dictionary People is a celebration of words, language, and people, whose eccentricities and obsessions, triumphs, and failures enriched the English language.

Free Download The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCSVQ1V8 | 2023 | 6 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 354 MB
Author: Rachel Feder
Narrator: Deanna Anthony
What if we’ve been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying. Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy Myth is a book for anyone who loves thinking deeply about literature and culture-whether they love Jane Austen or not. You already know Mr. Darcy-at least you think you do! The brooding, rude, standoffish romantic hero of Pride and Prejudice, Darcy initially insults and ignores the witty heroine but eventually succumbs to her charms. It’s a classic enemies-to-lovers Description and one that has profoundly influenced our cultural ideas about courtship. But what if this classic isn’t just a grand romance but a horror novel about how scary love and marriage can be for women? In The Darcy Myth, literature scholar Rachel Feder unpacks Austen’s Gothic influences and how they have led us to a romantic ideal that is halfway to being a monster story. Why is our culture so obsessed with cruel, indifferent romantic heroes, and sometimes heroines? How much of that is Darcy’s fault? And, now that we know, what do we do about it?

Free Download The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCSVQ1V8 | 2023 | 6 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 354 MB
Author: Rachel Feder
Narrator: Deanna Anthony
What if we’ve been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying. Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy Myth is a book for anyone who loves thinking deeply about literature and culture-whether they love Jane Austen or not. You already know Mr. Darcy-at least you think you do! The brooding, rude, standoffish romantic hero of Pride and Prejudice, Darcy initially insults and ignores the witty heroine but eventually succumbs to her charms. It’s a classic enemies-to-lovers Description and one that has profoundly influenced our cultural ideas about courtship. But what if this classic isn’t just a grand romance but a horror novel about how scary love and marriage can be for women? In The Darcy Myth, literature scholar Rachel Feder unpacks Austen’s Gothic influences and how they have led us to a romantic ideal that is halfway to being a monster story. Why is our culture so obsessed with cruel, indifferent romantic heroes, and sometimes heroines? How much of that is Darcy’s fault? And, now that we know, what do we do about it?

Free Download The Culture of Knighthood in Medieval Romance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP9TVRYL | 2023 | 2 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@256 kbps | 256 MB
Author: Larissa (Kat) Tracy, The Great Courses
Narrator: Larissa Tracy
See the word knight and you’ll likely think of gallant men facing off on the field of battle, or rescuing fair maidens from danger, or jousting at tournaments. Since the early 19th century, poets, authors, painters, and playwrights have cultivated such images of medieval knighthood-images that continue to capture our imagination to this day. But just how true to medieval history are these images? What do they tell us about how life was lived in the Middle Ages? What does our obsession with them tell us about who we are today?

Free Download The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNYHT9S | 2023 | 9 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Rebecca Clarren
Narrator: Rebecca Clarren
An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors’ land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major Description points of her tenacious immigrant family’s origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, ultimately settling on a 160-acre homestead in South Dakota. Over the next few decades, despite tough years on a merciless prairie and multiple setbacks, the Sinykins became an American immigrant success story. What none of Clarren’s ancestors ever mentioned was that their land, the foundation for much of their wealth, had been cruelly taken from the Lakota by the United States government.

Free Download The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food-Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXZ4FHX7 | 2023 | 5 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Narrator: Mark Kurlansky
From the New York Times-bestselling author, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the world’s most beloved culinary staples-featuring recipes from around the world. As Julia Child once said, "It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions." Historically, she’s been right-and not just in the kitchen. Flourishing in just about every climate and culture around the world, onions have provided the essential basis not only for sautés, stews, and sauces, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Now they’re Kurlansky’s most flavorful infatuation yet as he sets out to explore how and why the crop reigns from Italy to India and everywhere in between.