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Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 331859Title: Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience GrayAuthor: Adam FedermanNarrator: Naomi FrederickFormat: UnabridgedLength: 13:44:09Language: EnglishRelease date: 09-21-17Publisher: Chelsea Green PublishingGenres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Arts & Entertainment, GeneralSummary:For more than thirty years, Patience Gray-author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed-lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbors in this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself and her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a steady stream of international visitors to her door. This simple and isolated life she chose for herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to the other great food writers of her time: M. F. K. Fisher, Elizabeth David, and Julia Child.So it is not surprising that when Gray died in 2005, the BBC described her as an almost forgotten culinary star. Yet her influence, particularly among chefs and other food writers, has had a lasting and profound effect on the way we view and celebrate good food and regional cuisines. Gray's prescience was unrivaled: She wrote about what today we would call the Slow Food movement-from foraging to eating locally-long before it became part of the cultural mainstream. Imagine if Michael Pollan or Barbara Kingsolver had spent several decades living among Italian, Greek, and Catalan peasants, recording their recipes and the significance of food and food gathering to their way of life.In Fasting and Feasting, biographer Adam Federman tells the remarkable-and until now untold-life story of Patience Gray: from her privileged and intellectual upbringing in England, to her trials as a single mother during World War II, to her career working as a designer, editor, translator, and author, and describing her travels and culinary adventures in later years. A fascinating and spirited woman, Patience Gray was very much a part of her times but very clearly ahead of them.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 344213Title: Night CreepersAuthor: Linda StanekNarrator: Donna GermanFormat: UnabridgedLength: 00:01:08Language: EnglishRelease date: 09-10-17Publisher: Arbordale PublishingGenres: Kids, Animals & NatureSummary:What creeps while you sleep? Short, lyrical text makes this a perfect naptime or bedtime story. Young readers are introduced to nocturnal animals and their behaviors. Older readers learn more about each animal through paired-reading sidebar information.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 333341Title: Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common GoodAuthor: Chuck CollinsNarrator: Chuck CollinsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 09:03:30Language: EnglishRelease date: 03-13-17Publisher: Chelsea Green PublishingGenres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Public Policy, Business DevelopmentSummary:As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor-all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further from the poor and working class. On the other side, those who find it increasingly difficult to keep up or get ahead lash out-waging a rhetorical war against the rich and letting anger and resentment, however justifiable, keep us from seeing new potential solutions.But can we suspend both class wars long enough to consider a new way forward? Is it really good for anyone that most of society's wealth is pooling at the very top of the wealth ladder? Does anyone, including the one percent, really want to live in a society plagued by economic apartheid?It is time to think differently, says longtime inequality expert and activist Chuck Collins. Born into the one percent, Collins gave away his inheritance at 26 and spent the next three decades mobilizing against inequality. He uses his perspective from both sides of the divide to deliver a new narrative.Collins calls for a ceasefire and invites the wealthy to come back home, investing themselves and their wealth in struggling communities. And he asks the non-wealthy to build alliances with the one percent and others at the top of the wealth ladder.Stories told along the way explore the roots of advantage, show how taxpayers subsidize the wealthy, and reveal how charity, used incorrectly, can actually reinforce extreme inequality. Readers meet pioneers who are crossing the divide to work together in new ways, including residents in the author's own Boston-area neighborhood who have launched some of the most interesting community transition efforts in the nation.In the end, Collins's national and local solutions not only challenge inequality but also respond to climate change and offer an unexpected, fresh take on one of our most intransigent problems.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 280182Title: Start Right Where You Are: How Little Changes Can Make a Big Difference for Overwhelmed Procrastinators, Frustrated Overachievers, and Recovering PerfectionistsAuthor: Sam BennettNarrator: Sam BennettFormat: UnabridgedLength: 06:02:01Language: EnglishRelease date: 11-22-16Publisher: New World LibraryGenres: Self Development, Health & WellnessSummary:A straight-talking comic shares the easy-to-do-right-now steps that led her from dreaming to doing.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 266485Title: ImprudenceAuthor: Gail CarrigerNarrator: Moira QuirkFormat: UnabridgedLength: 12:00:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 07-19-16Publisher: Hachette Book Group USAGenres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical, Contemporary FantasySummary:From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Prudence.Rue and the crew of the Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and something is wrong with the local werewolf pack. To top it all off, Rue's best friend Primrose keeps getting engaged to the most unacceptable military types.Rue has family problems as well. Her vampire father is angry, her werewolf father is crazy, and her obstreperous mother is both. Worst of all, Rue's beginning to suspect what they really are. . . is frightened.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 278644Title: Seven Cups of Consciousness: Change Your Life by Connecting to the Higher RealmsAuthor: Aleya DaoNarrator: Aleya DaoFormat: UnabridgedLength: 06:17:39Language: EnglishRelease date: 03-25-16Publisher: New World LibraryGenres: Self Development, Health & WellnessSummary:If, as is often said, we are spiritual beings having a human experience, how can we enhance our access to the spiritual dimensions that affect our human comings and goings every day? With simple, practical methods, Aleya Dao puts a range of spiritual tools within everyone's daily reach.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 278634Title: Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a DayAuthor: Sam BennettNarrator: Sam BennettFormat: UnabridgedLength: 06:21:39Language: EnglishRelease date: 02-13-16Publisher: New World LibraryGenres: Self Development, Health & WellnessSummary:Get It Done helps artists to get a handle on their own particular even peculiar creative process and figure out how to channel their energies in positive, creative and even income-generating ways.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 247430Title: Drinking in America: Our Secret HistoryAuthor: Susan CheeverNarrator: Barbara Benjamin CreelFormat: UnabridgedLength: 07:00:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 10-13-15Publisher: Hachette Book Group USAGenres: History, WorldSummary:In Drinking in America, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how alcohol has shaped American events and the American character from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.Seen through the lens of alcoholism, American history takes on a vibrancy and a tragedy missing from many earlier accounts. From the drunkenness of the Pilgrims to Prohibition hijinks, drinking has always been a cherished American custom: a way to celebrate and a way to grieve and a way to take the edge off. At many pivotal points in our history-the illegal Mayflower landing at Cape Cod, the enslavement of African Americans, the McCarthy witch hunts, and the Kennedy assassination, to name only a few-alcohol has acted as a catalyst.Some nations drink more than we do, some drink less, but no other nation has been the drunkest in the world as America was in the 1830s only to outlaw drinking entirely a hundred years later. Both a lively history and an unflinching cultural investigation, Drinking in America unveils the volatile ambivalence within one nation's tumultuous affair with alcohol.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 234428Title: Villa America: A NovelAuthor: Liza KlaussmannNarrator: Jennifer WoodwardFormat: UnabridgedLength: 14:00:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 08-04-15Publisher: Hachette Book Group USAGenres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Family LifeSummary:A dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night.When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together-one that they couldn't find within the confines of society life in New York City. They packed up their children and moved to the South of France, where they immediately fell in with a group of expats, including Hemingway, Picasso, and Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.On the coast of Antibes they built Villa America, a fragrant paradise where they invented summer on the Riviera for a group of bohemian artists and writers who became deeply entwined in each other's affairs. There, in their oasis by the sea, the Murphys regaled their guests and their children with flamboyant beach parties, fiery debates over the newest ideas, and dinners beneath the stars.It was, for a while, a charmed life, but these were people who kept secrets, and who beneath the sparkling veneer were heartbreakingly human. When a tragic accident brings Owen, a young American aviator who fought in the Great War, to the south of France, he finds himself drawn into this flamboyant circle, and the Murphys find their world irrevocably, unexpectedly transformed.A handsome, private man, Owen intrigues and unsettles the Murphys, testing the strength of their union and encouraging a hidden side of Gerald to emerge. Suddenly a life in which everything has been considered and exquisitely planned becomes volatile, its safeties breached, the stakes incalculably high. Nothing will remain as it once was. Liza Klaussman expertly evokes the 1920s cultural scene of the so-called 'Lost Generation.' Ravishing and affecting, and written with infinite tenderness, Villa America is at once the poignant story of a marriage and of a golden age that could not last.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 233836Title: President's ShadowAuthor: Brad MeltzerNarrator: Scott BrickFormat: UnabridgedLength: 12:00:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 06-16-15Publisher: Hachette Book Group USAGenres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseSummary:A severed arm, found buried in the White House Rose Garden.A lethal message with terrible consequences for the Presidency.And a hidden secret in one family's past that will have repercussions for the entire nation.Following The Inner Circle and The Fifth Assassin, #1 bestselling author Brad Meltzer returns with . . .The President's ShadowThere are stories no one knows. Hidden stories. I find those stories for a living.To most, it looks like Beecher White has an ordinary job. A young staffer with the National Archives in Washington, D.C., he's responsible for safekeeping the government's most important documents . . . and, sometimes, its most closely held secrets.But there are a powerful few who know his other role. Beecher is a member of the Culper Ring, a 200-year-old secret society founded by George Washington and charged with protecting the Presidency. Now the current occupant of the White House needs the Culper Ring's help. The alarming discovery of the buried arm has the President's team in a rightful panic. Who buried the arm? How did they get past White House security? And most important: What's the message hidden in the arm's closed fist? Indeed, the puzzle inside has a clear intended recipient, and it isn't the President. It's Beecher, himself.Beecher's investigation will take him back to one of our country's greatest secrets and point him toward the long, carefully hidden truth about the most shocking history of all: family history.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com