Category: Audio Books

Lucky Loser How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success [Audiobook]


Free Download Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW3RJL6Q | 2024 | 17 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 514 MB
Author: Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig
Narrator: Gabra Zackman

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth, revealing how one of the country’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White House. Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life "has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me." Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever.

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Lovely One A Memoir [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CTNMFW57 | 2024 | 18 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 536 MB
Author: Ketanji Brown Jackson
Narrator: Ketanji Brown Jackson

In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji BrownJackson invites listeners into her life and world, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation. Named "Ketanji Onyika," meaning "Lovely One," based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth. She describes her resolve as a young girl to honor this legacy and realize her dreams: from hearing stories of her grandparents and parents breaking barriers in the segregated South, to honing her voice in high school as an oratory champion and student body president, to graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, where she performed in musical theater and improv and participated in pivotal student organizations. Here, Justice Jackson pulls back the curtain, marrying the public record of her life with what is less known. She reveals what it takes to advance in the legal profession when most people in power don’t look like you, and to reconcile a demanding career with the joys and sacrifices of marriage and motherhood. Through trials and triumphs, Justice Jackson’s journey will resonate with dreamers everywhere, especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and refuse to be turned aside. This moving, openhearted tale will spread hope for a more just world, for generations to come.

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Love and Other Conspiracies [Audiobook]


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English | August 20, 2024 | ASIN: B0CPTDWY8B | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 18m | 261 MB
Author: Mallory Marlowe | Narrator: Alex Finke
The hardest thing for a paranormal conspiracy theorist and a web series producer to believe in is finding love in this swoony debut romantic comedy.
Hallie Barrett’s life has imploded after she’s dumped by her hotshot ex, who also happens to be her coworker and the star of the online series she was producing. Without a new show to present for the company competition, she’ll be out of a job. But inspiration can come from the strangest places . . . like the most handsome guy she’s ever seen passionately discussing Bigfoot on a late-night docuseries.

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Lost to Eternity Star Trek The Original Series


Free Download Lost to Eternity: Star Trek: The Original Series by Greg Cox, Robert Petkoff, Simon & Schuster Audio
English | July 23, 2024 | ISBN: B0CLHHMRF8 | 15 hours and 2 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 450 Mb
A thrilling new Star Trek "movie era" novel from New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox!
Three Eras. Three Mysteries. One Ancient Enemy?
2024: Almost forty years ago, marine biologist Gillian Taylor stormed away from her dream job at Sausalito’s Cetacean Institute-and was never seen or heard from again. Now, a new true crime podcast has reopened that cold case, but investigator Melinda Silver has no idea that her search for the truth about Gillian’s disappearance will ultimately stretch across time and space-and attract the attention of a ruthless obsessive with his own secret agenda.

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Lords of the Sea The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy [Audiobook]


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English | June 05, 2009 | ASIN: B002C8FE9U | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 9m | 358 MB
Author: John R. Hale | Narrator: David Drummond
The navy created by the people of Athens in ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national navies to come.
The Athenian navy built a civilization, empowered the world’s first democracy, and led a band of ordinary citizens on a voyage of discovery that altered the course of history. Its defeat of the Persian fleet at Salamis in 480 B.C.E. launched the Athenian Golden Age and preserved Greek freedom and culture for centuries.

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Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic [Audiobook]

Free Download Ilan Pappe, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic"
English | ASIN: B0DDYWR3K2 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~21:48:00 | 597 MB
Revealed: How pro-Israel lobbying groups influence the Middle East policies of Britain, the US, and others
In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen?

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Living Like You Mean It Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want


Free Download Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want by Ronald J. Frederick, Brian Holden, Tantor Audio
English | June 11, 2019 | ISBN: B07SJ9G6FN | 6 hours and 35 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 362 Mb
In Living Like You Mean It, author Ronald J. Frederick does a brilliant job of describing why people are so afraid of their emotions and how this fear creates a variety of problems in their lives. While the problems are different, the underlying issue is often the same. At the core of their distress is what Dr. Frederick refers to as feelings phobia. Whether it’s the experience of love, joy, anger, sadness, or surprise, our inborn ability to be a fully feeling person has been hijacked by fear – and it’s fear that’s keeping us from a better life.
The book will help listeners take an honest look at themselves and recognize whether and how they are afraid of their feelings. It then moves on to explore the origins of fear of feeling and introduces a four-part program for overcoming the fear: (1) become aware of and learn to recognize feelings – anger, sadness, joy, love, fear, guilt/shame, surprise, disgust, (2) master techniques for taming the fear, (3) let the feeling work its way all the way through to its resolution, and (4) open up and put those feelings into words and communicate them confidently. With wisdom, humor, and compassion, the book uses stories and examples to help listeners see that overcoming feelings phobia is the key to a better life and more fulfilling relationships.
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Little Bets How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries


Free Download Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims, John Allen Nelson, Tantor Audio
English | August 08, 2011 | ISBN: B005GBVH5K | 5 hours and 2 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 277 Mb
What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, the story developers at Pixar films, and the Army Chief of Strategic Plans all have in common? Best-selling author Peter Sims found that all of them have achieved breakthrough results by methodically taking small, experimental steps in order to discover and develop new ideas.
Rather than believing they have to start with a big idea or plan a whole project out in advance, trying to foresee the final outcome, they make a series of little bets about what might be a good direction, learning from lots of little failures and from small but highly significant wins that allow them to happen upon unexpected avenues and arrive at extraordinary outcomes.
Based on deep and extensive research, including more than 200 interviews with leading innovators, Sims discovered that productive, creative thinkers and doers–from Ludwig van Beethoven to Thomas Edison and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos–practice a key set of simple but ingenious experimental methods, such as failing quickly to learn fast, tapping into the genius of play, and engaging in highly immersed observation, that free their minds, opening them up to making unexpected connections and perceiving invaluable insights. These methods also unshackle them from the constraints of overly analytical thinking and linear problem solving that our education places so much emphasis on, as well as from the fear of failure, all of which thwart so many of us in trying to be more innovative.

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Limits to Growth The 30-Year Update [Audiobook]

Free Download Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows, Tia Rider (Narrator), "Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update"
English | ASIN: B0DCGS7W2N | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:50:00 | 298 MB
In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global ‘overshoot,’ or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update.
Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into early signs of wear on the planet. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with an updated scenario and a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet.

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