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Free Download Stolen Family: Captive in Saudi Arabia (Audiobook)
English | September 10, 2024 | ASIN: B0DFQJ7QDR | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 9m | 176 MB
Author: Johanne Durocher | Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
Johanne Durocher fights to free her daughter and four grandchildren from a nightmarish life of abuse and poverty in Saudi Arabia.
In 2001, Nathalie Morin was just seventeen when she met Saeed, a Saudi man who claimed to be studying in Montreal. She fell in love with him, but soon after she gave birth to their son, Saeed was deported back to his country of origin. Struggling as a single mother and wanting Samir to know his father, Nathalie travelled to Saudi Arabia to reunite her family, confident that she would be able to return to Canada whenever she wanted. But a trap was closing around her ― her partner turned out to be authoritarian and violent, the abuse continuing until their last child was born.

Free Download Jere Van Dyk, "Captive: my time as a prisoner of the Taliban"
English | 2010 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 080508827X, 0312573421 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
An American reporter’s chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man’s-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan

Free Download The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality, and Our Search for Meaning (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJWN3679 | 2024 | 15 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 452 MB
Author: Elias Dakwar
Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
A profound, humane, and revolutionary new framework for understanding and addressing addiction. Addiction has been called a moral failing, a social problem, a spiritual crisis, a behavioral disorder, and a brain disease. It has also been called a class issue, a supply problem, a problem of learning, a memory disorder, and a result of trauma. And some propose that addiction is neither a disease nor a problem, but a transgressive expression of freedom, a maligned sub-culture, a therapeutic relationship. Even the term ‘addiction’ is open to question. There are few human phenomena so elusive and intractable; after decades of neuroscientific research, we aren’t much closer to understanding addiction, nor to addressing it effectively. This profusion of interpretations, meanings, and models reflects a hidden truth about addiction: that it is profusely generative of meaning itself. In this bold reimagining, pioneering psychiatrist Elias Dakwar examines addiction as a sustained creative act-and specifically as a process of personal world-building, complete with its own rituals, systems of value, modes of suffering, and sources of support.

Free Download Sally in Three Worlds : An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young
by Virginia Kerns
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1647690110 | 380 Pages | True PDF | 3.61 MB

Free Download Mary Jo Ignoffo, "Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune"
English | 2010 | pages: 332 | ISBN: 0826222706 | EPUB | 4,6 mb
Captive of the Labyrinth is reissued here to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of rifle heiress Sarah L. Winchester in 1922. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Winchester purchased a simple farmhouse in San José, California. She built additions to the house and continued construction for the next twenty years. When neighbors and the local press could not imagine her motivations, they invented fanciful ones of their own. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San José house was done to thwart death and appease the spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle.

Free Download James L. Haley, "Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii"
English | 2015 | pages: 464 | ISBN: 1250070392, 0312600658 | EPUB | 1,4 mb
The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its ancient gods, sexual libertinism and rites of human sacrifice, and the rigid values of the Calvinists. While Hawaii’s royal rulers adopted Christianity, they also fought to preserve their ancient ways. But the success of the ruthless American sugar barons sealed their fate and in 1893, the American Marines overthrew Lili’uokalani, the last queen of Hawaii.