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Free Download Robert H. Webb, "Requiem for the Santa Cruz: An Environmental History of an Arizona River"
English | ISBN: 0816530726 | 2014 | 296 pages | PDF | 21 MB
In prehistoric times, the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona saw many ebbs, flows, and floods. It flowed on the surface, meandered across the floodplain, and occasionally carved deep channels or arroyos into valley fill. Groundwater was never far from the surface, in places outcropping to feed marshlands or ciénegas. In these wet places, arroyos would heal quickly as the river channel revegetated, the thriving vegetation trapped sediment, and the channel refilled. As readers of Requiem for the Santa Cruz learn, these aridland geomorphic processes also took place in the valley as Tucson grew from mud-walled village to modern metropolis, with one exception: historical water development and channel changes proceeded hand in glove, each taking turns reacting to the other, eventually lowering the water table and killing a unique habitat that can no longer recover or be restored.

Free Download Requiem pour Ongola en Camfranglais: Une Poetique Camerounaise (French Edition) by Peter Wuteh Vakunta
French | February 2, 2015 | ISBN: 9956792314 | 70 pages | PDF | 1.57 Mb
"Using linguistic stylings as subversive as the messages nestled between the lines, Vakunta’s Requiem for Ongola in Camfranglais: Cameroonian poetics presents a scathing critique of the corruption of democracy into "democraziness" running rampant in the "Sick Man of Africa". Written in Camfranglais, this is resistance poetry at its best: ‘tokking’ through the mouth of the voiceless", the author pulls no punches in condemning the country’s roi fainéant, the perverted acceptance of feymania, the reduction of the national Constitution into toilet paper, and the general climate of impunity that has created an atmosphere of frustration and hopelessness. Calling upon the redeeming power of the Word – "Speak truth!" – these verses deftly navigate through the multilingual lexicon of a new, African hybrid language, providing an insider’s account of the real stakes at hand in Ongola, the Ewondo word for Yaoundé."

Free Download 8Dio Requiem Professional NKS KONTAKT | 13.1 GB
From the grandest ensemble to a single intimate voice: it’s all covered in this expansive vocal collection. Requiem Professional combines a full cathedral choir with five expressive solo singers, recorded in one of San Francisco’s most famous cathedrals. Innovative sampling techniques give maximum control and expression, while a trove of effects – including whispers, shouts, and demonic chants – offer endless inspiration.

Free Download When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ2ZG8WK | 2024 | 5 hours and 43 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 157 MB
Author: Howard Blum
Narrator: Zac Aleman
The definitive inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose groundbreaking coverage of the story was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Timed for a trial that will capture national attention, When the Night Comes Falling examines the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students. Having covered this case from its start, Edgar award winning investigative reporter Howard Blum takes listeners behind the scenes of the police manhunt that eventually led to suspected killer, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, and uncovered larger, lurid questions within this unthinkable tragedy. Reminiscent of the panoramic portraiture of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, When the Night Comes Falling offers a suspenseful, richly detailed narrative that will have listeners transfixed.

Free Download Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires By Justin C. Vovk
2012 | 640 Pages | ISBN: 1475917481 | EPUB | 4 MB
Augusta Victoria, Mary, Alexandra, and Zita were four women who were born to rule. In Imperial Requiem, Justin C. Vovk narrates the epic story of four women who were married to the reigning monarchs of Europe’s last empires during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a diverse array of primary and secondary sources, letters, diary entries, and interviews with descendants, Vovk provides an in-depth look into the lives of four extraordinary women who stayed faithfully at their husbands’ sides throughout the cataclysm of the First World War and the tumultuous years that followed. At the centers of these four great monarchies were Augusta Victoria, Germany’s revered empress whose unwavering commitment to her bombastic husband made her a national icon; Mary, whose Cinderella story and immense personal strength made her the soul of the British monarchy through some of its greatest crises; Alexandra, the ill-fated tsarina who helped topple the Russian monarchy through her ineffective rule; and Zita, the resolute empress of Austria whose story of loss and exile captivated the world’s attention for seven decades. Imperial Requiem shares the fascinating story of four princesses who married for love, graced imperial thrones, and watched as their beloved worlds were torn apart by war, revolution, heartache, and loss.

Free Download Glenn W. LaFantasie, "Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates"
English | 2006 | pages: 465 | ISBN: 0195174585, 0195331311 | PDF | 5,0 mb
William C. Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburg’s Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to turn the Union’s flank and win the battle-and perhaps the war. Now, Glenn W. LaFantasie-bestselling author of Twilight at Little Round Top-has written a gripping biography of Oates, a narrative that reads like a novel and that reveals, for the first time, the compelling and sometimes astonishing dimensions of this remarkable individual.

Free Download Schattenfroh: Ein Requiem von Michael Lentz
Deutsch | 29. August 2018 | ISBN: 3100439384 | True EPUB | 1008 Seiten | 6.3 MB
Was bedeutet der Tod des Vaters für das Leben? Wer war dieser Vater? Wer bin ich? Der Sohn sitzt in einer Zelle und schreibt um sein Leben. Sein Leben, das ist der Roman Schattenfroh. Nichts kann ihn retten, auch das eigene Erzählen nicht. Und doch muss genau davon erzählt werden: dass der Vater tot, das Ich unrettbar und die Heilsgeschichte eine gewaltige Lüge ist.

Free Download Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Rj Young
English | November 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1640095020 | 248 pages | PDF | 3.49 Mb
Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Awards

Free Download The Last Supper Club: A Waiter’s Requiem by Matthew Batt
English | October 25th, 2023 | ISBN: 151791485X | 274 pages | True PDF | 1.59 MB
A witty and humble tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tables

Free Download Requiem for a Female Serial Killer by Phyllis Chesler
Nov 19, 2020 | English | ASIN: B08NWFP33F | 8 hrs 29 mins | M4B & MP3@63 kbps
255 to 258 MB | Unabridged | Retail
The issues raised by this high-profile criminal case remain unresolved to this day. Women, even prostitutes, have the right to self-defense in theory, but, in practice, the story is more complicated. This book will challenge everything you ever thought about prostitutes, serial killers, and justice in America.
Aileen Wuornos is a damaged soul, a genuine American outlaw, a symbol of women’s rage, a symbol of what can happen to severely abused children, and of how our justice system fails women. Chesler’s involvement with a serial killer has haunted her ever since. She speaks in Aileen Wuornos’ voice, as well as in her own, and delivers an incisive, original, and dramatic portrait of a cognitively impaired, traumatized, and alcoholic woman, who had endured so much pain in her short life. When she’d had enough, the results were deadly.
This is a poignant, sometimes humorous, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes tale. Wuornos’ story is handled with great sensitivity, but also with realistic detachment by Chesler, as she probes the telling moment. Was Wuornos suffering from post-traumatic stress after a life lived on a "killing field"? Was she also "born evil"? So many prostitutes have been tortured and murdered by serial killers. How did Wuornos, once prey, become a predator?