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Free Download The Devil Raises His Own by Scott Phillips, L.J. Ganser, Recorded Books
English | August 06, 2024 | ISBN: B0D6SK7Y62 | 9 hours and 22 minutes | PDF | 268 Mb
Los Angeles, 1916: Photographer Bill Ogden has opened a portrait studio in the seedy noir world of early Hollywood, where he is joined by his granddaughter, Flavia-a woman in need of a fresh start after bludgeoning her drunken, abusive husband to death in Wichita. Though his business is mainly legit, Bill finds himself brushing up against the "blue movie" porn industry growing in the shadows of the motion picture mainstream.
When a series of grisly murders take place across the city, Bill and his capable granddaughter are pulled into events as tricky and tangled as anything this side of The Big Sleep. We meet dreamers, opportunists, washed-up former stars and starry-eyed newcomers, a cast of unforgettable characters living on the margins looking to make a quick buck, launch a career, or just keep their family together.
The Devil Raises His Own is at once a stripped-down noir thriller and a panoramic look at Los Angeles at the beginning of motion pictures-a Boogie Nights set in the era of D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin from one of the best crime novelists working today.

Free Download Max Boot, Graham Winton (Narrator), "Reagan: His Life and Legend"
English | ASIN: B0D6TPH1XX | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~32:07:00 | 882 MB
In this "monumental and impressive" biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president’s aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot provides "the best biography of Ronald Reagan to date" (Robert Mann).
The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, smalltown Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger.

Free Download Napoleon Bonaparte Compilation of his maxims, opinions and famous phrases, thematically arranged by Jorge Luis Bastons
English | June 17, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0C8GF9JHC | 131 pages | EPUB | 0.21 Mb
If these days, more than 250 years after his birth and 200 years after his death, we are still talking about Napoleon Bonaparte, it is because he has undoubtedly made such a noise that his life and work have transcended History. That is why he is the personage whose biography is the most written in the world, after Jesus Christ.

Free Download The Real Paul Morphy: His Life and Chess Games
by Charles Hertan
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9083378810 | 806 Pages | PDF(conv) | 22.5 MB

Free Download The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America by Miranda Devine
English | September 24th, 2024 | ISBN: 0063374811 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 2.00 MB
The New York Post columnist, Fox News contributor, and national bestselling author of Laptop from Hell returns with the explosive, definitive account of the Biden family scandals.

Free Download Alberto Lazaro, "The Road from George Orwell: His Achievement and Legacy"
English | 2001 | pages: 251 | ISBN: 3906766799, 0820453374 | PDF | 1,1 mb
Fifty years after his death, George Orwell is generally recognised as a leading exponent of twentieth-century English prose and one of the most influential satiric writers whose work has continually raised all kinds of political controversies. This volume assembles twelve papers delivered at the VIII Jornadas de Literatura Inglesa at the University of Alcalá in May 2000. The conference set out to re-examine Orwell’s work and thought in the light of contemporary theoretical concerns, as well as to discuss the mark he has left in British literature in the second half of the twentieth century, particularly on political satire and the development of dystopian fiction. A first group of essays provides new insights and fresh ways of viewing familiar issues such as Orwell’s controversial political thought, the representation of race and gender in his early fiction, the narrative strategies of his documentary prose and the impact of Spanish censorship on his writing, particularly on Homage to Catalonia. Other essays explore the legacy of Orwell’s dystopian fiction in later novelists such as Zoë Fairbairns, Alasdair Gray, Robert Harris, Julian Barnes and Ben Elton, as well as issues of history and language that are raised in Orwell’s writings and dominate twentieth-century fiction.

Free Download Barrie Martyn, "Nicolas Medtner: His Life and Music"
English | 2016 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 0859679594, 1138248959 | EPUB | 10,4 mb
Nicholas Medtner (1880-1951) has always been a neglected figure in the history of Russian music, and yet his friend Rachmaninoff considered him the greatest of contemporary composers. He wrote three fine piano concertos, more than one hundred solo piano compositions, including a cycle of fourteen sonatas fully worthy to be set alongside those of Scriabin and Prokofiev, and many beautiful songs. He was also a great pianist. Leaving Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, Medtner lived for a time in Germany and France before finally settling in London, where he passed the final sixteen years of his life. The present work is the first to tell the full story of his eventful life and to consider in turn each of his compositions. The author has drawn on Medtner’s own correspondence and writings and collected the reminiscences of those who knew him personally to build a comprehensive picture of a great, if still largely unrecognised, musician.

Free Download Tucker S. Ferda, "Jesus and His Promised Second Coming: Jewish Eschatology and Christian Origins"
English | ISBN: 080287990X | 2024 | 564 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In this pioneering study of Scripture and reception history, Tucker S. Ferda shows that the hope for Jesus’s second coming originated in his own message about the coming of the kingdom after a time of distress.

Free Download Foucault: His Thought, His Character by Paul Veyne, translated by Janet Lloyd
English | September 7, 2010 | ISBN: 0745646417, 0745646425 | True EPUB | pages | 0.2 MB
Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. Two timeless thinkers who have long walked and fought together. In this short book Paul Veyne offers a fresh portrait of his friend and relaunches the debate about his ideas and legacy. ‘Foucault is not who you think he is’, writes Veyne; he stood neither on the left nor on the right and was frequently disowned by both. He was not so much a structuralist as a sceptic, an empiricist disciple of Montaigne, who never ceased in his work to reflect on ‘truth games’, on singular, constructed truths that belonged to their own time.

Free Download Charles Warren Stoddard, "For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told "
English | ISBN: 1512823872 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB | 506 KB
Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) was, during his life, an acclaimed and prolific writer in multiple genres: poetry, travel sketches, personal memoir, and conversion narrative. His most popular works were dispatches primarily from the South Sea Islands but also extended into Palestine, Egypt, and what would become known as Hawai’i, most of which were published in the San Francisco Chronicle and then collected into books.