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Free Download Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South (Audiobook)
English | September 27, 2022 | ASIN: B0BF7FM7V2 | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 50m | 386 MB
Author: Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd | Narrator: Elisabeth Ashby
Southern Beauty explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues to enjoy currency well into the twenty-first. Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd examines how the continuation of certain gender rituals in the American South has served to perpetuate racism, sexism, and classism.
In a trio of popular gender rituals-sorority rush, beauty pageants, and the Confederate Pageant of the Natchez (Mississippi) Pilgrimage-young white southern women have readily ditched contemporary modes of dress and comportment for performances of purity, gentility, and deference. Clearly, the ability to "do" white southern womanhood, convincingly and on cue, has remained a valued performance.

Free Download Sorry for Your Loss [Audible Original]
English | September 21, 2023 | ASIN: B0CGKCRB14 | M4B@128 kbps | 1h 23m | 76.2 MB
Author and Narrator: Michael Cruz Kayne
On the 10th anniversary of a profound loss, comedian Michael Cruz Kayne felt compelled to describe his feelings of grief in 140 characters or less. Much to his surprise, more than 200,000 people responded in solidarity from all corners of the globe.
Overwhelmed by the response, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer and host of A Good Cry created Sorry for Your Loss, a sidesplitting, heartrending look at life-and death. This powerfully personal production, recorded live from the Minetta Lane Theatre, cuts through the platitudes, directly reaching out to anyone who has ever experienced loss-or will. So…everyone.

Free Download Sonic Warrior: My Life as a Rock N Roll Reprobate: Tales of Sex, Drugs, and Vomiting at Inopportune Moments (Audiobook)
English | April 14, 2020 | ASIN: B084KJ5X5H | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 1m | 388 MB
Author and Narrator: Lou Brutus
Sonic Warrior is a collection of insane-but-true stories from the career of rock radio legend Lou Brutus. Each chapter is a separate tale that careens around his 40-plus years of covering concerts, interviewing music’s biggest stars, and influencing generations of radio listeners. Starting with the first show he attended and continuing to the present day, stops along the way include Live Aid in Philadelphia, the Arctic, Live Earth in London, and the New Jersey Turnpike.
Whether having his life energy drained through the palm of his hand by Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, watching cocaine get snorted off a stripper’s ass in Pantera’s dressing room, or drooling in his own lap after smoking some kind of mutant mind warp demon weed with Snoop Dogg, Brutus gives a hilariously unvarnished look at the realities of the music industry from his fly-on-the-wall, "I’m just the guy here to interview the band" vantage point. The book also features a foreword by his friend Corey Taylor, Grammy Award-winning singer for Slipknot and Stone Sour.

Free Download Nathan Ward, J. Rodney Turner (Narrator), "Son of the Old West: The Odyssey of Charlie Siringo: Cowboy, Detective, Writer of the Wild Frontier"
English | ASIN: B0CQ3W9K3B | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~09:24:00 | 270 MB
Born in Matagorda, Texas, in 1855, Charlie Siringo went on his first cattle drive at age twelve and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. As the dangerous, lucrative "beeves" business boomed, Siringo drove longhorn steers north to the burgeoning Midwest Plains states’ cattle and railroad towns, crossing paths with such legendary figures as Billy the Kid and Bat Masterson. In his early thirties he joined the Pinkerton Detective Agency’s Denver office, using a variety of aliases to investigate violent labor disputes and infiltrate outlaw gangs.
Siringo’s landmark 1885 autobiography, A Texas Cowboy, helped make the lowly cowboy a heroic symbol of the American West. His later memoir, A Cowboy Detective, influenced early hard-boiled crime novelists for whom the detective story was really the cowboy story in an urban setting. Sadly sued into debt by the Pinkertons, who were determined to prevent their sources and methods from being revealed, Siringo eventually sold his beloved New Mexico ranch and moved to Los Angeles, where he advised Hollywood filmmakers, and especially actor William S. Hart, on their early 1920s Westerns.

Free Download Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life (Audiobook)
English | July 19, 2022 | ASIN: B0B3NFZQFS | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 25m | 637 MB
Author and Narrator: Don Bluth
Don Bluth never felt like a Donald. So people have always called him Don. A matinee of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs awakened something within him. Despite growing up in rural Texas and Utah, he practiced and worked hard to become a Hollywood animator. And after working alongside his idol Walt Disney, and on films including Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, Winne the Pooh, The Rescuers, and Pete’s Dragon, he realized that the company had changed into something he didn’t necessarily believe in. So he made the industry-shocking decision to start his own animation studio.
It was from that studio-Don’s studio-that came such award-winning, generation-defining films as The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Anastasia, and the video game Dragon’s Lair.

Free Download Solutions Architect’s Handbook: Kick-Start Your Solutions Architect Career by Learning Architecture Design Principles and Strategies, 2nd Edition (Audiobook)
English | November 10, 2022 | ASIN: B0BLZRKDLP | M4B@128 kbps | 17h 48m | 1.01 GB
Authors: Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav | Narrator: Mark Armstrong
Becoming a solutions architect requires a hands-on approach, and this edition of the Solutions Architect’s Handbook brings exactly that. This audiobook will teach you how to create robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant solutions and next-generation architecture designs in a cloud environment. It will also help you build effective product strategies for your business and implement them from start to finish.
This new edition features additional chapters on disruptive technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), quantum computing, data engineering, and machine learning. It also includes updated discussions on cloud-native architecture, blockchain data storage, and mainframe modernization with public cloud.

Free Download Software Development Pearls: Lessons from Fifty Years of Software Experience (Audiobook)
English | January 31, 2022 | ASIN: B09RGN89CW | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 49m | 596 MB
Author: Karl Wiegers | Narrator: Amy Gordon
Experience is a powerful teacher, but it’s also slow and painful.
You can’t afford to make every mistake yourself! Software Development Pearls helps you improve faster and bypass much of the pain by learning from others who have already climbed the learning curve. Drawing on 25-plus years of helping software teams succeed, Karl Wiegers has crystallized 60 concise, practical lessons for all your projects, regardless of your role, industry, technology, or methodology.

Free Download Steven Zaloga, Paul Brion (Narrator), "Smashing Hitler’s Panzers: The Defeat of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge"
English | ASIN: B07JMFGSSY | 2018 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:21:00 | 266 MB
In his riveting new book, Steven Zaloga describes how American foot soldiers faced down Hitler’s elite armored spearhead – the Hitler Youth Panzer Division – in the snowy Ardennes forest during one of World War II’s biggest battles, the Battle of the Bulge.
The Hitler Youth division was assigned the mission of the Führer’s Ardennes offensive: Capture the main highway to the primary objective, Antwerp, whose seizure Hitler believed would end the war. Had the Germans taken the Belgian port, it would have cut off the Americans from the British and perhaps led to a second, more devastating Dunkirk. In Zaloga’s careful reconstruction, a succession of American infantry units – the 99th Division, the 2nd Division, and the 1st Division (the famous Big Red One) – fought a series of battles that denied Hitler the best roads to Antwerp and doomed his offensive. American G.I.s – some of them seeing combat for the very first time – had stymied Hitler’s panzers and grand plans.

Free Download Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau, Rodney Louis Tompkins, Upfront Books
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09RTQWF88 | 15 hours and 27 minutes / Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps | 228 Mb
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past 25 years, and how he would write it differently today.
Using a variety of first and secondhand sources – some objective, some personal, all riveting – Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity. He presents the narratives of the slaves themselves, as well as missionary reports, travel accounts, folklore, Black autobiographies, and the journals of White observers to describe the day-to-day religious life in the slave communities. Slave Religion is a must-listen for anyone wanting a full picture of this "invisible institution".

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Free Download Gregory D. Smithers, Terrence Kidd (Narrator), "Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History"
English | ASIN: B0CN7JP76C | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~08:00:00 | 226 MB
For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit.
In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger context of America’s history of racial and gender discrimination, Smithers sheds much-needed light on African American collective memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color.