Unwind and Relax With the Magic of Free Audiobook

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

ID: 96589

Title: Consider Phlebas

Author: Iain M. Banks

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-11

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination.

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.

Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.

Contact: [email protected]

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

ID: 96631

Title: No Time Left

Author: David Baldacci

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-11

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Action & Adventure

Summary:

An original short story by New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.

Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Becker takes a mysterious job, he has no idea that it will force him to delve deeply into his own past. Undeterred by obstacles he is determined to complete his assignment. But he may realize too late that his success will permanently alter his future.

Contact: [email protected]

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

ID: 198529

Title: Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us

Author: Flora Lichtman, Joe Palca

Narrator: Flora Lichtman, Joe Palca

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:11:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-11

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:

It happens everywhere: offices, schools, even your own backyard. And, seemingly, anything can trigger it: cell phones, sirens, bad music, constant distractions, your boss, or even your spouse. We all know certain things get under our skin. Can science explain why? NPR's Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman take you on a scientific quest through psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and other disciplines to uncover the truth about being annoyed. Annoying:Gives fascinating, surprising explanations for why people react the way they do to everything from chili peppers to fingernails on a blackboardExplains why irrational behavior (like tearing your hair out in traffic) is connected to worthwhile behavior (like staying on task)Includes tips for identifying your own irritating habits!With fascinating insights and fun explanations, Annoying is anything but.

Contact: [email protected]

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

ID: 198538

Title: Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-Boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic

Author: Ed Offley

Narrator: James Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:21:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-11

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: History, Military

Summary:

The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor, but rather in the period from 1942 to 1943, in the frigid North Atlantic and American coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Nearly seven decades after the event, the Battle of the Atlantic still stands as the longest-running and most lethal clash of arms in naval history. During the entire duration of the conflict, more than 30,264 Allied merchant seamen and hundreds of navy personnel lost their lives.The strategic stakes in the Battle of the Atlantic were immense. If the Axis won, Great Britain could have been starved into submission, the Allies would have been unable to marshal their forces to liberate the Continent, and the Germans likely would have at least engineered a stalemate with the Soviets on the Eastern Front that would have allowed the Nazi regime to remain in power. In Turning the Tide, military reporter and author Ed Offley tells the story of how, during a twelve-week period during the spring of 1943, a handful of battle-hardened British, Canadian and American sailors turned the tide in the Atlantic. Using extensive documents from archives in Germany, Great Britain and the United States, and interviews with key survivors on both sides, Offley puts the reader into the heart of the battle-from the navigation bridges of British and American escort warships, to the main decks and engine rooms of Allied merchant ships in convoy, to the claustrophobic control rooms and wave-swept bridges of the U-boats stalking their prey. He also portrays the vicious bureaucratic struggles that raged behind closed doors at the headquarters of both the Allied and German military services, and the above-Top Secret Allied intelligence campaign to crack the German Naval Enigma codes. A thrilling tale of the decisive naval battle of World War II, Turning the Tide is also a harrowing story of how the Allies nearly lost-and ultimately regained-victory in both the Atlantic and in Europe itself.

Contact: [email protected]

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

ID: 198530

Title: Reading My Father: A Memoir

Author: Alexandra Styron

Narrator: Alexandra Styron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:29:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-11

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary

Summary:

Alexandra Styron’s parents-the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose-were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. From Styron’s youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written with humor, compassion, and grace.

Contact: [email protected]

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

ID: 198577

Title: Pig Comes to Dinner

Author: Joseph Caldwell

Narrator: Chris Patton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:33:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-11

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

Enjoy a second helping from the obstreperous creature that romped so riotously through The Pig Did It with this sequel The Pig Came to Dinner. All of the charming characters of the previous story are also present again: Kitty McCloud and her new husband/former blood enemy Kieran Sweeney have bought an ancient Irish castle with the profits from Kitty's popular revisions of classic novels like Jane Eyre. Kitty's American cousin, Aaron McCloud, has arrived to visit with his new wife, the former swineherd Lolly McKeever. With them is a troublesome and unwelcome pig, a wedding gift they are redelivering to Kitty and Kieran. But over the resulting lighthearted discord hangs a weightier problem: Kitty's new home is inhabited by a pair of ghosts from out of the castle's troubled past. How this haunting couple is dealt with serves only to embellish the allure and humor of Mr. Caldwell's uniquely theatrical storytelling.

Contact: [email protected]

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

ID: 198578

Title: Pig Did It

Author: Joseph Caldwell

Narrator: Chris Patton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:29:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-11

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

A pig escapes from its pen and roots up the garden of Kitty McCloud, a bestselling novelist who corrects the classics. What the obstreperous little pig unearths is evidence of a possible transgression that the novel's three Irish characters-the plagiarizing Kitty, her blood-feud rival Kieran, and a sexy swineherd named Lolly-are convinced the other has probably benefited from.How this hilarious mystery is resolved inspires both comic eloquence and a theatrically colorful canvas depicting the brooding Irish land and seascape.

Contact: [email protected]

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

ID: 198576

Title: Pig Goes to Hog Heaven

Author: Joseph Caldwell

Narrator: Chris Patton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-11

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

Kitty, Kieran, Lolly, and Aaron-the main characters of the previous two Pig Trilogy novels-would be expected to be living happily ever after at this point. But nothing is settled or as expected in Caldwell's new tragicomedy (of the kind that only the Irish can compose): Disappeared characters rematerialize, romances that seemed dead burst back to ardent life, and even Taddy and Brid, Castle Kissane's comely spirits, resolve themselves into much-longed-for conclusions.And the pig who started it all by rooting up the bones of the past and tipping many lives topsy turvey eventually goes wee wee wee all the way to a very unexpected home.

Contact: [email protected]

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

ID: 241821

Title: Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now

Author: Deborah Frieze, Margaret Wheatley

Narrator: Deborah Frieze

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-11

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

This is an era of increasingly complex problems, fewer and fewer resources to address them, and failing solutions. Is it possible to find viable solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities, and nations? This inspiring book takes readers on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have 'walked out' of limiting beliefs and assumptions and 'walked on' to create healthy and resilient communities. These Walk Outs who Walk On use their ingenuity and caring to figure out how to work with what they have to create what they need.

In India, we meet people from Shikshantar, a community that is rejecting the modern culture of money, with its emphasis on self-interest and scarcity, in favor of a gift culture based on generosity and reciprocity. In Zimbabwe, we discover the capacity people have to adapt and invent new ways of surviving and thriving in the face of total systems collapse.

Wheatley and Frieze immerse us in these communities that are accomplishing extraordinary things by relying on everyone to be an entrepreneur, a leader, an artist. From Mexico to Greece, from Columbus, Ohio to Johannesburg, South Africa, we discover that every community has within itself the ingenuity, intelligence, and inventiveness to solve the seemingly insolvable. 'It's almost like we discovered a gift inside ourselves,' one Brazilian said, 'something that was already there.

Contact: [email protected]

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

ID: 234129

Title: Salary Tutor: Learn the Salary Negotiation Secrets No One Ever Taught You

Author: Jim Hopkinson

Narrator: Jim Hopkinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:09:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-11

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Career Development, Negotiation & Communication, Health & Wellness

Summary:

In this easy-to-follow, 10-step program, marketing expert Jim Hopkinson will help you get the the raise you deserve.

Using this book, you will be able to confidently and effectively negotiate your salary. With helpful tips and questions throughout, this book gives readers the tools to conquer "the evil HR lady."

While other books or websites might list a few standard bullet points on the subject from an expert in the HR field, Jim takes a "novel approach," weaving interesting stories, case studies, graphs, humor, and personal experience to make the topic come alive. The book also educates the reader on:

 

- Discovering the two simple - but vital - questions you need to answer for success

- Harnessing your social media network to gather valuable information

- Mastering successful FBI negotiation techniques to your advantage

- Creating a one-of-a-kind document to secure the highest salary range

- Using Jim's "Right back at Ya" Method to regain control of an interview

Contact: [email protected]