Category: Audiobooks

A Wartime Summer by Rosie Meddon (The Sisters’ War, Book 1)
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 252.8 MB
Overview: Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz, May must find a job if she’s to put a roof over her head and help support her two younger sisters.

Taking a job as housekeeper to farmer George, May soon ends up getting stuck into more than just cleaning and cooking.

The Ministry of Agriculture will close Fair Maids Farm if it doesn’t meet their produce targets, but George refuses to heed their warnings. With only two reluctant Land Girls to help, May receives unexpected guidance from Dan, a neighbouring farmer, whose kindness gets tongues wagging in the village.

But secrets and sabotage lie ahead – can May hold her own in a world she’s unfamiliar with and turn the fortunes of the farm around?
Genre: Audiobooks > Fiction

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Reconstructed: A Survivor’s Memoir by Atta Ahmad
Requirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 31.88 MB
Overview: Have you ever seen your life flash before your eyes? Follow one man’s journey of positivity and resilience as he reconstructs his life after a near-fatal accident!

Atta Ahmad was determined to make his dreams come true. So unwavering, in fact, that he was willing to forgo sleep just to reach his goals.

Eventually, it caught up to him on September 5, 2015. That fateful day, an exhilarating road trip from Boston to Michigan turned into a fight for his life when his exhaustion drove him to fall asleep at the wheel.

It all happened in an instant.

One minute, he was blasting music with the windows down, while drinking water and enjoying snacks. The next, he was flying through his truck’s windshield and catapulted into a ditch.

A promising and ambitious young man was reduced to a mangled, bloody heap of flesh and bone on the ground. Any other person would have given up and let go. But not Ahmad.

Ahmad is a survivor and Reconstructed: A Survivor’s Memoir is his story of determination, grit, and triumph…despite the odds stacked against him.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction

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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss
Requirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 435.1 MB
Overview: Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan. He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution became celebrated across fascist Europe. His enduring masterpiece, Ali and Nino – a story of love across ethnic and religious boundaries, published on the eve of the Holocaust – is still in print today.But Lev’s life grew wilder than his wildest stories. He married an international heiress who had no idea of his true identity – until she divorced him in a tabloid scandal. His closest friend in New York, George Sylvester Viereck – also a friend of both Freud’s and Einstein’s – was arrested as the leading Nazi agent in the United States. Lev was invited to be Mussolini’s official biographer – until the Fascists discovered his true identity. Under house arrest in the Amalfi cliff town of Positano, Lev wrote his last book – discovered in a half a dozen notebooks never before read by anyone – helped by a mysterious half-German salon hostess, an Algerian weapons smuggler, and the poet Ezra Pound.Tom Reiss spent five years tracking down secret police records, love letters, diaries, and the deathbed notebooks. Beginning with a yearlong investigation for The New Yorker, he pursued Lev’s story across 10 countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal, and sometimes as heartbreaking, as his subject’s life. Reiss’ quest for the truth buffets him from one weird character to the next: from the last heir of the Ottoman throne to a rock opera-composing baroness in an Austrian castle to an aging starlet in a Hollywood bungalow full of cats and turtles.As he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum’s deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds – of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists – that have also been forgotten. The result is a thoroughly unexpected depiction of the 20th century – of the origins of our ideas about race and religious self-definition, and of the roots of modern fanaticism and terrorism. Written with grace and infused with wonder, The Orientalist is an astonishing book.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction

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Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 451.8 MB
Overview: The Falklands War was one of the strangest in British history – 28,000 men sent to fight for a tiny relic of empire 8,000 miles from home.

At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity, but the British victory confirmed the quality of British arms and boosted the political fortunes of the Conservative government. But it left a chequered aftermath; it was of no wider significance for British interests and taught no lessons. It has since been overshadowed by the two Gulf Wars, however, its political ramifications cannot be overestimated. Max Hastings’ and Simon Jenkins’ account of the conflict is a modern classic of war reportage and the definitive book on the war. Republished as part of the Pan Military Classics series, The Battle for the Falklands is a vivid chronicle of a call to arms and a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in the history of our times. Max Hastings, author of over 20 books, has been editor of the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard. He has won many awards for his journalism, particularly his work in the south Atlantic in 1982.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction

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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 273.9 MB
Overview: Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that has attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary. Presented in four sections – Reading, Being, Seeing, and Feeling – Changing My Mind invites listeners to witness the world from Zadie Smith’s unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays written over the past decade-some published here for the first time-on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Barack Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction

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