While You Were Out An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BHFD78ZR | 2023 | 11 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Meg Kissinger
Narrator: Meg Kissinger

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on the shores of Lake Michigan, barreling down the ski slopes, or navigating the trials of their Catholic school, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard. But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding-a heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives.

Victorious in Defeat The Life and Times of Chiang Kai–shek, China, 1887–1975 [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0C9W38NRR | 2023 | 25 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 732 MB
Author: Alexander V. Pantsov
Narrator: Rick Adamson

An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures. Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people.

Time's Echo The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BP632492 | 2023 | 11 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 323 MB
Author: Jeremy Eichler
Narrator: Jeremy Eichler, Sherrill Milnes

A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past. In 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal "Ode to Joy," he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the European Enlightenment for a new era of peace and freedom, a time when millions would be embraced as equals. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony then gave wing to Schiller's words, but barely a century later these same words were claimed by Nazi propagandists and twisted by a barbarism so complete that it ruptured, as one philosopher put it, "the deep layer of solidarity among all who wear a human face." When it comes to how societies remember these increasingly distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of history books, archives, documentaries, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, the award-winning critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler makes a passionate and revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past.

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons The History of the Human Brain as Revealed
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MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 12:37 h | 2014 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00KLHY8DM | English | 349 Mb
The author of the best seller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange-but-true stories.
Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: Wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents - and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' personalities. Parents suddenly couldn't recognize their own children. Pillars of the community became pathological liars. Some people couldn't speak but could still sing.

The Secret to Health Masterclass [Audiobook]
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English | August 11, 2020 | ASIN: B08DQCLT6G | MP3@128 kbps | 2h 37m | 144.82 MB
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Narrator: Rhonda Byrne

Apply the knowledge of The Secret to your health and wellbeing with this guide to attracting the best health of your life from best-selling author Rhonda Byrne.

The Sandman Act III [Audiobook]
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English | September 28, 2022 | ASIN: B0BFJXZTWQ | M4B@125 kbps | 11h 32m | 628.64 MB
Author: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
Narrator: Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, K.J. Apa, Kat Dennings, Shruti Haasan, David Harewood, Regé-Jean Page, Kristen Schaal, Wil Wheaton

The groundbreaking audio production of what Los Angeles Times Magazine called "the greatest epic in the history of comic books" continues. Leading perhaps the best cast ever assembled in audio, James McAvoy returns to voice Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, in The Sandman: Act III, the third installment of the New York Times best-selling audio saga. Award-winning audio trailblazer Dirk Maggs adapts the blockbuster DC graphic novel series written by Neil Gaiman (Good Omens) into another fully immersive listening experience, presented for the first time in breathtaking 3D audio.

The Reagan Revolution A Very Short Introduction
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English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B096WCNYW7 | 5 hours and 5 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 139 Mb
"They called it the Reagan revolution," Ronald Reagan noted in his farewell address. "Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense."
Nearly two decades after that 1989 speech, debate continues to rage over just how revolutionary those Reagan years were. The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction identifies and tackles some of the controversies and historical mysteries that continue to swirl around Reagan and his legacy, while providing an illuminating look at some of the era's defining personalities, ideas, and accomplishments.

The Perennials The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BVKWFRN7 | 2023 | 8 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Mauro F. Guillén
Narrator: Leon Nixon

In today's world, the acceleration of megatrends-increasing longevity and the explosion of technology among many others-are transforming life as we now know it. In The Perennials, bestselling author Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation. Guillén argues that outmoded terms like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z have long been used to pigeonhole us into rigid categories and life stages, artificially preventing people from reaching their full potential.

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The Last Lifeboat
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English | 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BJ18TQYX | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 10:27 h | 291 Mb
A Most Anticipated Book by Real Simple ∙ SheReads∙ BookBub ∙ and more!
Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters,in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor.

The Internet Con How to Seize the Means of Computation [Audiobook]
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English | ISBN: 9798368955148 | 2023 | 6 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Cory Doctorow
Narrator: Cory Doctorow

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls. The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extaction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the audiences and customers we rely on. The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it's a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships. We can - we must - dismantle the tech platforms. In The Internet Con, Cory Doctorow explains how to seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission. Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.