The Shadow of Death: The Hunt for the Connecticut River Valley Killer (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BM56KZ2N | 2022 | 15 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 452 MB
Author: Philip E. Ginsburg
Narrator: Stephen Bowlby
In the mid-1980s, someone stabbed six women to death in the Connecticut River Valley on the border between New Hampshire and Vermont. The murderer remains at large and the total number of his victims is unknown. In this brilliant work of true crime reportage, New York Times-bestselling author Philip E. Ginsburg provides fascinating insights into the groundbreaking forensic methods used to track the killer and paints indelible portraits of the lives he cut so tragically short.

The Self-Talk Workout: Six Science-Backed Strategies to Dissolve Self-Criticism and Transform the Voice in Your Head (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B46L47ZZ | 2022 | 7 hours and 13 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 192 MB
Author: Rachel Goldsmith Turow
Narrator: Suzie Althens
Self-talk matters, but what methods of building healthy self-talk actually work? This how-to guide shares evidence-based techniques to go from being your own worst critic to your own best friend. Perhaps you want to be nicer to yourself but don't really know how to get there. Or maybe you're someone who assumes self-criticism is a permanent part of your personality. Rest assured you're not alone. Millions of people struggle with the toll that excessive self-criticism takes on their minds, energy levels, jobs, and relationships. And problems with self-talk vary dramatically from one person to the next: they can appear as mild but persistent inner criticism, full-blown self-loathing, or the pain of internalized oppression or abuse. After over twenty years of working with individuals, groups, and classes on self-criticism and related challenges, psychologist and mindfulness teacher Dr. Rachel Goldsmith Turow offers the "self-talk workout"-six doable exercises that can help you replace self-criticism with self-kindness and self-encouragement.

The Secret History of Christmas (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJVW1C2L | 2022 | 3 hours and 3 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 169 MB
Author: Bill Bryson
Narrator: Bill Bryson
A cornucopia of Christmas delights from the bestselling author. Christmas is the single biggest annual event on the planet, a time for merry-making, over-indulgence, peace, goodwill, and the occasional family row. It's as comfortable and familiar as a pair of old shoes and yet still glittery and exciting. But what do you really know about it? It's stuffed full of traditions and rituals that most of us have been observing all our lives without having the slightest idea of where they come from. Why is it called Boxing Day, for example? Why do we sing about Good King Wenceslas - who wasn't a king and possibly not even good? What's the story behind Christmas crackers? Who would have guessed that one of our most popular Christmas carols began as a kind of semi-pornographic Welsh folksong? And how did St Nicholas, a bishop from the dawn of Christianity, turn into the plump and jolly figure of Santa Claus with a flying sleigh and a home at the North Pole? Christmas, and how it got that way, is full of surprises. Join Bill Bryson to reach into this Christmas stocking and pull them out - along with the inevitable tangerine.

The Science of Diet & Exercise (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B082WM61YR | 2020 | 2 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 143 MB
Author: Scientific American
Narrator: Suzie Althens
The Science of Diet & Exercise examines traditional weight loss advice and finds it wanting. Data shows that the kinds of foods you eat are as important as how much you eat, and studies of physically active hunter-gatherers illustrate that energy expenditure (caloric burn) stays virtually constant, regardless of activity. The nine articles in this collection present the most recent research examining the details of the metabolic process and testing new approaches, some of which can be applied to how we think about diet and exercise today.

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJRGGH4Y | 2022 | 10 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: John M. Allegro
Narrator: Martyn Swain
Where did God come from? What do the bible stories really tell us? Who or what was Jesus Christ? This audiobook challenges everything we think we know about the nature of religion. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross sets out John Allegro's quest through a family tree of languages to find the truth about where Christianity came from.

The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN6YNDQC | 2022 | 13 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 386 MB
Author: Timothy Snyder
Narrator: Rich Miller
From the bestselling author, a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and examines Poland's recent successful negotiations with its newly independent Eastern neighbors, as it has channeled national interest toward peace.

The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP32F6CX | 2022 | 6 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 184 MB
Author: Michael J. Kruger
Narrator: Brian P. Craig
Did the New Testament canon arise naturally from within the early Christian faith? Were the books written as Scripture, or did they become Scripture? Why did early Christians have a canon at all? These are the types of questions that led Michael J. Kruger to pick apart modern scholarship's dominant view that the New Testament is a late creation of the church imposed on books originally written for another purpose. Calling into question this commonly held "extrinsic" view, Kruger tackles the five most prevalent objections to the classic understanding of a collection of authoritative scriptures. Kruger addresses foundational and paradigmatic assumptions of the extrinsic model as he provides powerful rebuttals and further support for the classic, "intrinsic" view. Unlike many books written on the emergence of the New Testament canon that ask "when?" or "how?" Kruger focuses this work on the "why?"-exposing weaknesses in the five major tenets of the extrinsic model as he goes. While The Question of Canon scrutinizes today's popular scholastic view, it also offers an alternative concept to lay a better empirical foundation for biblical canon studies.

The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN4S7TDQ | 2022 | 12 hours and 17 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Donald Cohen, Allen Mikaelian
Narrator: Brian P. Craig
As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods that must be kept out of the market. When private interests take over, they strip public goods of their power to lift people up, creating instead a tool to diminish democracy, further inequality, and separate us from each other. The Privatization of Everything, by the founder of In the Public Interest, chronicles the efforts to turn our public goods into private profit centers. Ever since Ronald Reagan labeled government a dangerous threat, privatization has touched every aspect of our lives. The Privatization of Everything connects the dots across a broad spectrum of issues and raises larger questions about who controls the public things we all rely on, exposing the hidden crisis of privatization that has been slowly unfolding over the last fifty years and giving us a road map for taking our country back.

The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BKB29PSG | 2022 | 17 hours and 27 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 479 MB
Author: Nicholas Dawidoff
Narrator: Diontae Black
A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native Nicholas Dawidoff returned home and spent eight years reporting the deeper story of this injustice, and what it reveals about the enduring legacies of social and economic disparity.

The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B61S8V6J | 2022 | 8 hours and 11 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Paul R. Gregory
Narrator: Traber Burns
The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple's arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK's assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in our country's history. Merely two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, television cameras captured police escorting a suspect into Dallas police headquarters. Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma, watching the coverage in the student center, Paul Gregory scanned the figure in dark trousers and a white, V-neck tee shirt and saw the bruised and battered face of Lee Harvey Oswald. Shocked, Gregory said, "I know that man." In fact, he knew Oswald and his wife Marina better than almost anyone in America. After sixty years, Paul Gregory finally tells everything he knows about the Oswalds and how he watched the soul of a killer take shape. As a scholar and skilled researcher, Gregory debunks the vast array of assassination conspiracy theories by demonstrating that Lee Harvey Oswald did it and did it alone-that the Oswald he once called a friend had the motive, the intelligence, and the means to commit one of the most shocking crimes in American history.