Unwind and Relax With the Magic of Free Audiobook

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 246088

Title: Balloons Can Be Murder

Author: Connie Shelton

Narrator: Rebecca Cook

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:22:02

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-12

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Three days before the start of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, balloon pilot Rachael Fairfield walks into the offices of RJP Investigations. She received a threatening note, which she believes came from her father, a convicted felon whom she sent to prison 15 years earlier. To complicate matters, her brother has initiated a huge publicity campaign for the world altitude record Rachael plans to attempt on the final Sunday of the fiesta. It seems simple enough. Charlie and her brother Ron will locate William Fairfield and keep him away from Rachael for the duration of the fiesta. But as they follow leads on William Fairfield, the threats escalate, and Ron and Charlie start to wonder whether he\\'s really the stalker. Amid the color and beauty of the world\\'s largest ballooning event, Charlie also finds herself at odds with her husband and reassessing her life\\'s priorities. Only when she nearly loses her own life do the answers begin to fall into place.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 124426

Title: Trial of Henry Kissinger

Author: Christopher Hitchens

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-12

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

'If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame.'

Forget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim Jong-il, or Gaddafi: America need look no further than its own lauded leaders for a war criminal whose offenses rival those of the most heinous dictators in recent history-Henry Kissinger.

Employing evidence based on firsthand testimony, unpublished documents, and new information uncovered by the Freedom of Information Act, and using only what would hold up in international courts of law, The Trial of Henry Kissinger outlines atrocities authorized by the former secretary of state in Indochina, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus, East Timor, and in the plight of the Iraqi Kurds, 'including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture.'

With the precision and tenacity of a prosecutor, Hitchens offers an unrepentant portrait of a felonious diplomat who 'maintained that laws were like cobwebs,' and implores governments around the world, including our own, to bring him swiftly to justice.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 124429

Title: No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton

Author: Christopher Hitchens

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-12

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

'Just as the necessary qualification for a good liar is a good memory, so the essential equipment of a would-be lie detector is a good timeline, and a decent archive.'

In No One Left to Lie To, a New York Times bestseller, Christopher Hitchens casts an unflinching eye on the Clinton political machine and offers a searing indictment of a president who sought to hold power at any cost.

With blistering wit and meticulous documentation, Hitchens masterfully deconstructs Clinton's abject propensity for pandering to the Left while delivering to the Right, and he argues that the president's personal transgressions were ultimately inseparable from his political corruption.

Hitchens questions the president's refusals to deny accusations of rape by reputable women and lambasts, among numerous impostures, his insistence on playing the race card, the shortsightedness of his welfare bill, his ludicrous war on drugs, and his abandonment of homosexuals in the form of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Opportunistic statecraft, crony capitalism, 'divide and rule' identity politics, and populist manipulations-these are perhaps Clinton's greatest and most enduring legacies.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 624172

Title: Rise of Silas Lapham

Author: William Dean Howells

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:02:31

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Howells’ best-known work and a subtle classic of its time, The Rise of Silas Lapham is an elegant tale of Boston society and manners.

After garnering a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston in order to improve his social position. The consequences of this endeavor are both humorous and tragic as the greedy Silas brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy.

The novel focuses on important themes in the American literary tradition—the efficacy of self-help and determination, the ambiguous benefits of social and economic progress, and the continual contradiction between urban and pastoral values—and provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 124421

Title: Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back

Author: Josh Hamilton

Narrator: Ethan Sawyer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-12

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Baseball

Summary:

In this intimate memoir, former Major League Baseball player Josh Hamilton reflects on his battle with addiction and the impact it had on his career—and the spiritual journey that helped him heal.

Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character " superstars. But in 2001, working his way from the minors to the majors, all of the plans for Josh went off the rails in a moment of weakness. What followed was a 4-year nightmare of drugs and alcohol, estrangement from friends and family, and his eventual suspension from baseball.

BEYOND BELIEF details the events that led up to the derailment. Josh explains how a young man destined for fame and wealth could allow his life to be taken over by drugs and alcohol. But it is also the memoir of a spiritual journey that breaks through pain and heartbreak and leads to the spectacular rebirth of his major-league career.

Josh Hamilton makes no excuses and places no blame on anyone other than himself. He takes responsibility for his poor decisions and believes his story can help millions who battle the same demons. "I have been given a platform to tell my story" he says. "I pray every night I am a good messenger."

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 198352

Title: Bad Dog: A Love Story

Author: Martin Kihn

Narrator: David Drummond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-12

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Meet Hola. She’s a nightmare, but it’s not her fault if she tackles strangers and chews on furniture, or if she runs after buses and fried chicken containers and drug dealers. No one ever told her not to. Worse yet, she scares her family. Hola may be the most beautiful Bernese mountain dog in the world, but she’s never been trained-at least, not by anyone who knew what he was doing.  Hola’s supposed master, Marty, is a high-functioning alcoholic. A TV writer turned management consultant, Marty’s in debt and out of shape; he’s about to lose his job, and one day he emerges from a haze of peach-flavored vodka to find he’s on the verge of losing his wife, Gloria, too, if he can’t get his life-and his dog-under control.   Desperately trying to save his marriage, Marty throws himself headlong into the world of competitive dog training. Unfortunately, he knows even less than Hola, the only dog ever to be expelled from her puppy preschool twice. Somehow, together, they need to get through the American Kennel Club’s rigorous Canine Good Citizen test. Of course, Hola first needs to learn how to sit. It won’t be easy. It certainly won’t be pretty. But maybe, just maybe, there will be cheesecake.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 376158

Title: Mixed Blood: A Cape Town Thriller

Author: Roger Smith

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:06:22

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-12

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Reluctant bank robber Jack Burn is on the run after a heist in the United States that left three million dollars missing and one cop dead. Hiding out in Cape Town, South Africa, he is desperate to build a new life for his pregnant wife and young son. But on a tranquil evening in their new suburban neighborhood, they are the victims of a random gangland break-in. Benny Mongrel, an ex-con night watchman, knows who went into Burn’s house, and what the American did to them. Burn’s actions soon trap them both in a cat-and-mouse game with Rudi “Gatsby” Barnard, a corrupt Afrikaner cop. Once Gatsby smells those missing American millions, the men are drawn into a web of murder and vengeance that builds to an unforgettable conclusion.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 198816

Title: Song of Names

Author: Norman Lebrecht

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-12

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Martin Simmond’s father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are closer than brothers. But on the day he is to make his official debut, Dovidl disappears. Only 40 years later does Martin get his first clue about what happened to him.In this ravishing novel of music and suspense, Norman Lebrecht unravels the strands of love, envy and exploitation that knot geniuses to their admirers. In doing so he also evokes the fragile bubble of Jewish life in prewar London; the fearful carnival of the Blitz, and the gray new world that emerged from its ashes. Bristling with ideas, lambent with feeling, The Song of Names is a masterful work of the imagination.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 124658

Title: If I'm Dead: A Rachel Knight Story

Author: Marcia Clark

Narrator: January LaVoy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:31:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-12

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Legal Thriller

Summary:

It started with a haunting image: a Ford Explorer, iridescent in the moonlight and alone on a desolate stretch of beach. Its owner, Melissa Gibbons, has gone missing. Her husband says she flew the coop. But Los Angeles Deputy DA Rachel Knight is convinced otherwise: Melissa Gibbons has been murdered.

So begins the confounding case that Rachel must present before a disbelieving jury. A dissatisfied heiress and her philandering husband -- what really happened? The husband has a fiendishly convincing case that Melissa faked her own death and fled. But with the support of her trusty sidekick, Detective Bailey Keller, Rachel pieces together a much more sinister truth.

In this short, standalone Rachel Knight thriller, readers follow our savvy and riotously entertaining heroine through the surprising world of LA crime.

Contact: [email protected]

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free

ID: 125097

Title: Admission

Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz

Narrator: Colleen Werthmann

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-12

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Contemporary Women

Summary:

From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known (adapted as The Undoing on HBO), comes a page-turner about a college admissions officer with a secret—now a major motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.

For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic life. Her reluctance to confront the truth is suddenly overwhelmed by the resurfacing of a life-altering decision, and Portia is faced with an extraordinary test. Just as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding their academic admission, so too must Portia decide whether to make her own ultimate admission.

Admission is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the complex college admissions process and an emotional examination of what happens when the secrets of the past shake a woman's life to its core.

Contact: [email protected]