Category: Audio Books

Free Download No Shelter but the Stars by Virginia Black, Trei Taylor, Tantor Audio
English | July 30, 2024 | ISBN: B0D96QVQWV | 10 hours and 43 minutes | M4B 128 Kbps | 595 Mb
Virginia Black’s No Shelter But the Stars is the space opera you’ve been waiting for-packed with warring worlds, romantic adventure, and larger-than-life characters.
Kyran Loyal is the last heir to the lost throne of a forgotten planet, the figurehead of a nomadic people fleeing the galactic tyranny of a brutal regime. Davia Sifane is the unrecognized daughter of an imperial despot. When happenstance pits them against each other in battle, neither expects the outcome: they are the only two people to survive. Marooned on a barren moon, their only hope of survival is to rely on each other, but what they learn will either kill them or change the galaxy forever.
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Free Download No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB9DCKDB | 2024 | 21 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 614 MB
Author: Chris Heath
Narrator: Vas Eli
This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust. No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian forest of Ponar after the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe in 1941. Anxious to hide the incriminating evidence of the murders, the S.S. later in the war enslaved a group of Jews to exhume every one of the bodies and incinerate them all in a months-long labor-an episode whose specifics are staggering and disturbing, even within the context of the Holocaust. From within that dire circumstance emerges the improbable escape made by some of the men, who dug a tunnel with bare hands and spoons while they were trapped and guarded day and night-an act not just of bravery and desperation but of awesome imagination. Based on first-person accounts of the escapees and on each scrap of evidence that has been documented, repressed, or amplified since, this book resurrects their lives, while also providing a complex, urgent analysis of why their story has rarely been told, and never accurately. Heath explores the cultural use and misuse of Holocaust testimony and the need for us to face it-and all uncomfortable historical truths-with honesty and accuracy.

Free Download No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D7N2L4LL | 2024 | 17 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 489 MB
Author: Jacqueline Jones
Narrator: Leon Nixon
Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation’s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, the city was far from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small-a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Before, during, and after the Civil War, white abolitionists and Republicans refused to secure equal employment opportunities for Black Bostonians, condemning most of them to poverty. Still, Jones finds, some Black entrepreneurs ingeniously created their own jobs and forged their own career paths. Highlighting the everyday struggles of ordinary Black workers, this book shows how injustice in the workplace prevented Boston-and the United States-from securing true equality for all.

Free Download No Haven: The Connecticut Mob and the Rise of America’s Model City (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DDM9RGX6 | 2024 | 7 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Paul Bleakley
Narrator: Joe Barrett
With Boston to the north and New York City to the south, Connecticut’s history of organized crime is often overlooked. This is the untold story of New Haven’s illegal past. One of America’s most historic and enduring cities, New Haven has wrangled with a perpetual identity struggle, torn between worlds that occasionally converged in chaos and violence. In the 1930s, Connecticut became a region where Mafia families like the Genoveses, Gambinos, Colombos, and Patriarcas shared turf-working together with enough profits to go around or descending into open war to rival that experienced in any major city. Central to this conflict were three men who were, at different times, cautious allies or sworn nemeses. Representing the Genoveses, Midge Renault reigned supreme thanks to his reputation for wanton violence. Meanwhile, Colombo capo Ralph "Whitey" Tropiano maintained a lower profile, which belied his reputation as a vicious killer. But it was his lieutenant, Billy "The Wild Guy" Grasso, who ultimately rose to the top after joining the New England Patriarca Family, enjoying a short rule that ended with a murder Description that left him on the wrong end of a bullet.

Free Download No Excuses: How You Can Turn Any Workplace into a Great One by Jennifer Robin, Michael Burchell, Linda Sherbert
English | July 27, 2020 | ISBN: B08DF4Z57M | 6 hours and 41 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 551 Mb
The business leader’s guide to creating a great workplace from the Great Place to Work Institute
In this follow-up guide to The Great Workplace, experts from Great Place to Work Institute, Inc. reveal the most common excuses managers use for why they can’t create a great workplace. Authors Jennifer Robin and Michael Burchell poke holes in every single excuse. Whether the reasons involve the organization’s leadership, employees, environment, or any other factor, the authors explain that if managers lead people properly, they can create a great workplace. The authors explore how managers can interrupt their own negative thought patterns and instead create lasting change, and they describe how great workplaces have surmounted very real difficulties with aplomb.
Includes case studies, stories, tips, and tools for managers who want to transform their organizations

Free Download "No Equal Justice": The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett Jr. (Audiobook)
English | February 27, 2024 | ASIN: B0CT3WF13M, B0CT3Y8FW6 | M4B@128 kbps | 14h 12m | 789 MB
Authors: Edward Littlejohn, Peter J. Hammer | Narrator: Beresford Bennett
"There is no equal justice for Black people today; there never has been. To our everlasting shame, the quality of justice in America has always been and is now directly related to the color of one’s skin as well as to the size of one’s pocketbook." This quote comes from George W. Crockett Jr.’s essay, "A Black Judge Speaks" (Judicature, 1970). The stories of Black lawyers and judges are rarely told. By sharing Crockett’s life of principled courage, "No Equal Justice" breaks this silence.
The book begins by tracing the Crockett family history from slavery to George’s admission into the University of Michigan Law School. He became one of the most senior Black lawyers in President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal administration. Later, he played a central role fighting discrimination in the United Auto Workers union. In 1949, he became the only Black lawyer, in a team of five attorneys, defending the constitutional rights of the leaders of the U.S. Communist Party in United States v. Dennis, the longest and most dramatic political trial in American history. At the close of the case, Crockett and his defense colleagues were summarily sentenced to prison for zealously representing their clients. He headed the National Lawyers Guild office in Jackson, Mississippi, during 1964’s Freedom Summer. In 1966, he was elected to Detroit’s Recorder’s Court-the court hearing all criminal cases in the city. For the first time, Detroit had a courtroom where Black litigants knew they would be treated fairly. In 1969, the New Bethel Church Incident was Crockett’s most famous case. He held court proceeding in the police station itself, freeing members of a Black nationalist group who had been illegally arrested. In 1980, he was elected to the United States Congress where he spent a decade fighting President Reagan’s agenda, as well as working to end Apartheid in South Africa and championing the cause to free Nelson Mandela.

Free Download Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office: Eight Strategies for Winning in Business Without Being a Jerk by Russ C. Edelman, Patrick Lawlor, Charles C. Manz
English | April 22, 2009 | ISBN: B0027EG4M0 | 8 hours | MP3 128 Kbps | 440 Mb
Many people suffer from Nice Guy Syndrome–they’re held back from higher levels of success by being too selfless at work. It’s a tricky problem, because if you start to think that being nice is bad, it’s easy to overcompensate with selfishness, intimidation, and intense aggression. The founders of Nice Guy Strategies teach that nice is not about being weak or soft – that you can hang on to your morals, compassion, and sincerity and still get ahead. Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office shares insights and stories from both ordinary nice guys and celebrity executives.

Free Download Yuval Noah Harari, Vidish Athavale (Narrator), "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI"
English | ASIN: B0CT3Y5LL9 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~17:28:00 | 480 MB
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI-a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?

Free Download Never Go with Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Avoid Terrible Advice, Cognitive Biases, and Poor Decisions) (Audiobook)
English | November 01, 2019 | ASIN: B07YZT1PST | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 57m | 420 MB
Author: Gleb Tsipursky PhD | Narrator: Kevin T. Collins
Avoid terrible advice, cognitive biases, and poor decisions.
Want to avoid business disasters, whether minor mishaps, such as excessive team conflict, or major calamities like those that threaten bankruptcy or doom a promising career? Fortunately, behavioral economics studies show that such disasters stem from poor decisions due to our faulty mental patterns – what scholars call "cognitive biases" – and are preventable.

Free Download Music of Exile: The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DCCN4MVY | 2024 | 14 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 406 MB
Author: Michael Haas
Narrator: James Cameron Stewart
What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience? In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler’s Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although some of their works were celebrated, these composers had lost their familiar cultures and were forced to navigate xenophobia as well as entirely different creative terrain. Others, far less fortunate, were in a kind of internal exile-composing under a ruthless dictatorship or in concentration camps and ghettos. Michael Haas sensitively records the experiences of this musical diaspora. Torn between cultures and traditions, these composers produced music that synthesized old and new worlds, some becoming core portions of today’s repertoire, some relegated to the desk drawer. Encompassing the musicians interned as enemy aliens in the United Kingdom, the brilliant Hollywood compositions of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and the Brecht-inspired theater music of Kurt Weill, Haas shows how these musicians shaped the twentieth-century soundscape-and offers a moving record of the incalculable effects of war on culture.