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Free Download The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJCRZ91F | 2024 | 13 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 386 MB
Author: Andy McCullough
Narrator: LJ Ganser
The definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, examining the genesis of his brilliance, his epic quest to win the World Series, and his singular place within the evolving baseball landscape-based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw and more than 200 others.​ More than any baseball player of his generation, Clayton Kershaw has embodied the burden of athletic greatness, the prizes and perils that await those who strive for it all. He is a three-time Cy Young award winner, the first pitcher to win National League MVP since Bob Gibson, and a surefire, first-ballot Hall of Famer. Many of his peers consider him the greatest pitcher to ever climb atop a big-league mound. In an age when baseball became more impersonal, a sport altered by adherence to algorithms and actuarial tables, Kershaw personified the game’s lingering humanity, with his joy and suffering on display each October as he chased a championship. He pitched through pain, placing his future at risk on the game’s grandest stages. He endeared himself to teammates and foes alike with his refusal to make excuses, with his willingness to shoulder the blame when he failed.

Free Download The Last Secret Agent (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D239NWC6 | 2024 | 7 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Pippa Latour Doyle, Jude Dobson
Narrator: Jilly Bond
The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations Executive, Pippa was lauded for her fluency with languages and her coding ability-both attributes she put to remarkable use as she posed as a teenage soap seller, often selling soap to the German soldiers, and sending back information via code to the UK.

Free Download The Last House Guest (Audiobook)
English | Datum: June 18, 2019 | ASIN: B07L3BDB3H | M4B@125 kbps | 10h 01m | 489.52 MB
Author: Megan Miranda
Narrator: Rebekkah Ross
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and New York Times best seller

Free Download Philip Freeman, Jonathan Johns (Narrator), "Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor (Ancient Lives)"
English | ASIN: B0D1LQLB5B | 2024 | M4B@128 kbps | ~04:11:00 | 232 MB
"When we think of ancient Rome, it’s impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most notable exports-but what if it hadn’t been? This is the question provoked by classicist Philip Freeman in Julian, an appealing new entry in Yale’s Ancient Lives series, which tells the story of the old faith’s last imperial torchbearer."-Anna Heyward, New York Times Book Review
Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that time he turned the world upside down. Although a nephew of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome, Julian fought to return Rome to the old gods who had led his ancestors to build their vast empire.
As emperor, Julian set about reforming the administration, conquering new territories, and reviving ancient religions. He was scorned in his time for repudiating Christianity and demonized as an apostate for willfully rejecting Christ. Through the centuries, Julian has been viewed by many as a tragic figure who sought to save Rome from its enemies and the corrupting influence of Christianity. Christian writers and historians have seen Julian much differently: as a traitor to God and violent oppressor of Christians. Had Julian not been killed by a random Persian spear, he might well have changed all of history.

Free Download Mike Cawthorne, "Wilderness Dreams: The Call of Scotland’s Last Wild Places"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1903238900 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 6.1 mb
This book has been a long time in the writing. While Mike Cawthorne’s life over the last two decades has been mostly involved in climbing and journalism, he has managed to stow away a large memory bank of experiences of his times spent deep within the wilderness areas of Scotland. These 8 extended essays begin with a canoe trip down the River Dee in 2002 ("Tale of Two Rivers") and his epic round of the Munros in the company of his friend Dave Hughes in 1986 ("Paupers and Kings"). "Terra Ingognita" deals with the Monadliath mountains, ‘one of the last places left on these crowded islands where you can experience genuine solitude’. "Crofting on the Edge" deals with people Mike has encountered who have chosen to live in the most remote and inaccessible areas of Scotland as does "The Hermit’s Story", which describes the life that James McRory-Smith chose to lead in Strathailleach, a shepherd’s cottage near Cape Wrath. "A Last Wild Place" describes the ruination of many of these wilderness areas and the efforts made by large energy companies to exploit these special places. ‘…only wilderness if you can be killed and eaten’ is a quote by American writer Edward Abbey referring to grizzly bears stalking humans in the Rockies. Mike recalls this in "Dying for Trees" as he spends a day on Creag Meagaidh with a deer-stalking party where a minor bio-diversity miracle has taken place by carefully controlling deer numbers to allow the spread of broadleaf woodland. "Scotland’s Alaska" is the final essay on Sutherland’s flow country…’the best and worst of wild Britain.’

Free Download We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century by Ronald Gruner
English | January 11, 2022 | ISBN: 1737823128, 1737823101 | EPUB | 650 pages | 58.7 MB
Rather than a traditional presidential history, We The Presidents focuses on a century of presidencies from Warren G. Harding to Donald J. Trump and how their presidencies have shaped today’s America, and the world.

Free Download Andrew Salmon, "To the Last Round: The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951"
English | 2010 | pages: 382 | ISBN: 1845135334 | EPUB | 2,5 mb
"Salmon’s vivid use of recollections and dramatic quotes brings alive an unjustly forgotten conflict." ?Time Out

Free Download The traveller in the evening : the last works of William Blake By Blake, William; Blake, William; Blake, William; Paley, Morton D
2003 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 0199255628 | PDF | 15 MB
This is a study of Blake’s poetry, art, and thought during the last years of his life, from 1818 to 1827. Morton Paley considers some of Blake’s major accomplishments, including Blake’s wood engravings for Thornton’s Virgil, the separate plate known as The Laocoon, 101 illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy, and the great series of Illustrations to the Book of Job. Paley shows us a Blake who has flowered during his late years; a Blake who is free of any "systems," including his own

Free Download The Last Secret Agent: The untold story of my life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines by Pippa Latour-Doyle, Pippa Latour, Jude Dobson
English | April 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 199100656X | 288 pages | True EPUB | 3.83 MB
The remarkable, untold story of Pippa Latour, who parachuted into occupied France in 1944 as an undercover agent.

Free Download The Last Phi Hunter by Salinee Goldenberg
English | 9 April 2024 | ISBN: 191599814X | True EPUB | 384 pages | 3.9 MB
Ambitious Phi Hunter and perpetual lone wolf, Ex, finds his road to glory interrupted when a heavily pregnant runaway enlists his help to escape through the ghost-infested forest…