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Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: BRAVE Author: Rose McGowan Narrator: Rose McGowan Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-18 Publisher: Harper Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities Summary: "My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same." (Rose McGowan) A revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - a voice for generations Rose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another, more visible cult: Hollywood. In a strange world where she was continually on display, stardom soon became a personal nightmare of constant exposure and sexualization. Rose escaped into the world of her mind, something she had done as a child, and into high-profile relationships. Every detail of her personal life became public, and the realities of an inherently sexist industry emerged with every script, role, public appearance, and magazine cover. The Hollywood machine packaged her as a sexualized bombshell, hijacking her image and identity and marketing them for profit. Hollywood expected Rose to be silent and cooperative and to stay the path. Instead, she rebelled and asserted her true identity and voice. She reemerged unscripted, courageous, victorious, angry, smart, fierce, unapologetic, controversial, and real as f--k. BRAVE is her raw, honest, and poignant memoir/manifesto - a no-holds-barred, pull-no-punches account of the rise of a millennial icon, fearless activist, and unstoppable force for change who is determined to expose the truth about the entertainment industry, dismantle the concept of fame, shine a light on a multibillion-dollar business built on systemic misogyny, and empower people everywhere to wake up and be BRAVE. Includes two original songs by Rose McGowan. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Jackie, Janet & Lee Author: J. Randy Taraborrelli Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-18 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities Summary: A dazzling audiobook biography of three of the most glamorous women of the 20th century: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis; her mother, Janet Lee Auchincloss; and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill. "Do you know what the secret to happily ever after is?" Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters, Jackie and Lee, during their tea time. "Money and Power," she would say. It was a lesson neither would ever forget. They followed in their mother's footsteps after her marriages to the philandering socialite "Black Jack" Bouvier and the fabulously rich Standard Oil heir Hugh D. Auchincloss. Jacqueline Bouvier would marry John F. Kennedy Jr., and the story of their marriage is legendary, as is the story of her second marriage to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Less well known is the story of her love affair with a world-renowned architect and a British peer. Her sister, Lee, had liaisons with both of Jackie's husbands in addition to her own three marriages - to an illegitimate royal, a Polish prince, and a Hollywood director. If the Bouvier women personified beauty, style, and fashion, it was their lust for money and status that drove them to seek out powerful men, no matter what the cost to themselves or to those they stepped on in their ruthless climb to the top. Based on hundreds of new interviews with friends and family of the Bouviers, among them their own half brother, as well as letters and journals, J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an extraordinary psychological portrait of two famous sisters and their ferociously ambitious mother. Jackie, Janet & Lee will drop listeners directly into the gilded, tangled web of secrets surrounding one of the most recognizable families in American history. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Pure Land Author: Annette McGivney Narrator: Christine Marshall Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-18 Publisher: Audible Studios Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: Pure Land is the story of the most brutal murder in the history of the Grand Canyon and how McGivney's quest to investigate the victim's life and death wound up guiding the author through her own life-threatening crisis. On this journey stretching from the southern tip of Japan to the bottom of Grand Canyon, and into the ugliest aspects of human behavior, Pure Land offers proof of the healing power of nature and of the resiliency of the human spirit. Tomomi Hanamure, a Japanese citizen who loved exploring the rugged wilderness of the American West, was killed on her birthday, May 8, 2006. She was stabbed 29 times as she hiked to Havasu Falls on the Havasupai Indian reservation at the bottom of Grand Canyon. Her killer was an 18-year old Havasupai youth named Randy Redtail Wescogame, who had a history of robbing tourists and was addicted to meth. It was the most brutal murder ever recorded in Grand Canyon's history. Annette McGivney covered the tragedy for Backpacker magazine where she is Southwest Editor and she wrote an award-winning article that received more reader mail than any story in the last decade. While the assignment ended when the article was published, McGivney could not let go of the story. As a woman who also enjoys wilderness hiking, McGivney felt a bond with Hanamure and embarked on a years-long pursuit to learn more about her. McGivney traveled to Japan and across the American West following the trail Hanamure left in her journals. Yet, McGivney also had a connection to Wescogame, Hanamure's killer, and her reporting unexpectedly triggered long-buried memories about violent abuse McGivney experienced as a child. Pure Land is a story of this inner and outer journey, how two women in search of their true nature found transcendence in the West's most spectacular landscapes. It is also a tale of how child abuse leads to violence and destroys lives. And it is, ultimately, a story of healing. While chronicling Hanamure's life landed McGivney in the crime scene of her own childhood, it was her connection to Hanamure - a woman she did not know until after Hanamure died - that helped McGivney find a way out of her own horror. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Brave Author: Rose McGowan Narrator: Rose McGowan Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-18 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: A revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - a voice for generations. Rose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another more visible cult: Hollywood. In a strange world where she was continually on display, stardom soon became a personal nightmare of constant exposure and sexualisation. Rose escaped into the world of her mind, something she had done as a child, and into high-profile relationships. Every detail of her personal life became public, and the realities of an inherently sexist industry emerged with every script, role, public appearance, and magazine cover. The Hollywood machine packaged her as a sexualized bombshell, hijacking her image and identity and marketing them for profit. Hollywood expected Rose to be silent and cooperative and to stay the path. Instead, she rebelled and asserted her true identity and voice. She reemerged unscripted, courageous, victorious, angry, smart, fierce, unapologetic, controversial, and real as f*ck. Brave is her raw, honest, and poignant memoir/manifesto - a no-holds-barred, pull-no-punches account of the rise of a millennial icon, fearless activist, and unstoppable force for change who is determined to expose the truth about the entertainment industry, dismantle the concept of fame, shine a light on a multibillion-dollar business built on systemic misogyny, and empower people everywhere to wake up and be Brave. Includes two original songs by Rose McGowan. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Maybe Esther Author: Katja Petrowskaja Narrator: Emma Gregory Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-18 Publisher: Harper Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving literary debut that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman's family across 20th-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents. Her idea blossomed into this striking and highly original work of narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning within the stories of her ancestors. In a series of short meditations, Petrowskaja delves into family legends, introducing a remarkable cast of characters: Judas Stern, her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomatic attaché in 1932 and was sentenced to death; her grandfather Semyon, who went underground with a new name during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, forever splitting their branch of the family from the rest; her grandmother Rosa, who ran an orphanage in the Urals for deaf-mute Jewish children; her Ukrainian grandfather Vasily, who disappeared during World War II and reappeared without explanation 41 years later - and settled back into the family as if he'd never been gone; and her great-grandmother, whose name may have been Esther, who alone remained in Kiev and was killed by the Nazis. How do you talk about what you can't know? How do you bring the past to life? To answer these complex questions, Petrowskaja visits the scenes of these events, reflecting on a fragmented and traumatized century and bringing to light family figures who threaten to drift into obscurity. A true search for the past reminiscent of Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost, and Michael Chabon's Moonglow, Maybe Esther is a poignant, haunting investigation of the effects of history on one family. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Rebel Author: Nick Nolte Narrator: Christian Baskous, Nick Nolte Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 01-23-18 Publisher: Harper Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities Summary: The legendary icon tells his story - a tale of art, passion, commitment, and addiction, as intense and hypnotic as the man himself. In a career spanning five decades, Nick Nolte has endured the rites of Hollywood celebrity. Rising from obscurity to leading roles and Oscar nominations, he has been both celebrated and vilified in the media; survived marriages, divorces, and a string of romances; was named the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine; and suffered public humiliation over his drug and alcohol issues, including a drug-fueled trip down a "long road of nothingness" that ended in arrest. Despite these ups and downs, Nolte has remained true to the craft he loves, portraying a diverse range of characters with his trademark physicality and indelible gravelly voice. Already 35 when his performance in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man launched him to stardom, Nolte never learned to play by Hollywood's rules. A rebel who defies expectations, an obsessive method actor who will go to extremes for a role (he lived among the homeless to prepare for Down and Out in Beverly Hills), Nolte is motivated more by edgier, more personal projects than by box office success. Today he is clean yet still driven, juggling a number of upcoming works and raising his young daughter. A man who refuses to hide his mistakes, Nolte now delivers his most revealing performance yet. His revealing memoir offers a candid, unvarnished close-up look at the man, the career, the loves, and the life. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Gambler Author: William C. Rempel Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins Language: English Release date: 01-23-18 Publisher: Harper Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Business Leaders Summary: The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian - the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of the leading financiers in American business. Kerkorian combined the courage of a World War II pilot, the fortitude of a scrappy boxer, the cunning of an inscrutable poker player, and an unmatched genius for making deals. He never put his name on a building, but when he died, he owned almost every major hotel and casino in Las Vegas. He envisioned and fostered a new industry - the leisure business. Three times he built the biggest resort hotel in the world. Three times he bought and sold the fabled MGM Studios, forever changing the way Hollywood does business. His early life began as far as possible from a place on the Forbes List of Billionaires when he and his Armenian immigrant family lost their farm to foreclosure. He was four. They arrived in Los Angeles penniless and moved often, staying one step ahead of more evictions. Young Kirk learned English on the streets of LA, made pennies hawking newspapers, and dropped out after eighth grade. How he went on to become one of the richest and most generous men in America - his net worth as much as $20 billion - is a story largely unknown to the world. That's because what Kerkorian valued most was his privacy. His very private life turned to tabloid fodder late in life when a former professional tennis player falsely claimed that the 85-year-old billionaire fathered her child. In this engrossing biography, investigative reporter William C. Rempel digs deep into Kerkorian's long-guarded history to introduce a man of contradictions - a poorly educated genius for deal-making, an extraordinarily shy man who made the boldest of business ventures, a careful and calculating investor who was willing to bet everything on a single roll of the dice. Unlike others of his status and importance, Kerkorian made few public appearances and strenuously avoided personal publicity. His friends and associates, however, were some of the biggest names in business, entertainment, and sports - among them Howard Hughes, Ted Turner, Steve Wynn, Michael Milken, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, Mike Tyson, and Andre Agassi. When he died in 2015, two years shy of the century mark, Kerkorian had outlived many of his closest friends and associates. Now, Rempel meticulously pieces together revealing fragments of Kerkorian's life, collected from diverse sources - war records, business archives, court documents, news clippings, and the recollections and recorded memories of longtime pals and relatives. In The Gambler, Rempel illuminates this unknown, self-made man and his inspiring legacy as never before. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Título: Niccolò Paganini Autor: Online Studio Productions Narrador: uncredited Formato: Unabridged Duración: 35 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 01-22-18 Editor: Online Studio Productions Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Resumen: Franz Schubert, al escucharlo en un concierto, exclamó: "He oído cantar a un ángel". Rossini lo reverenciaba. Liszt igualmente quedó fascinado al escucharlo. Berlioz lo consideró "único en su especie y fue descrito por un dramaturgo vienés como el "Dios del violín". Pese a todo lo anterior, Niccolò Paganini no fue solamente el ídolo de Europa sino que se convirtió en un mito viviente en su época. En torno a él se alimentó una leyenda negra que alcanzó ribetes fantásticos, diciéndose por ejemplo que había estado en prisión durante largos años por asesinato o sindicándosele un maligno pacto con el diablo. Verdaderamente, gente supersticiosa ha existido y existe en todas las épocas, pero virtuosos y genios de la música como él son casos virtualmente excepcionales. A la par de su fama creció también su éxito económico, llegando a poseer una de las mayores fortunas entre los artistas del siglo XIX. Más aún, fue idolatrado no sólo por el público de toda Europa, sino que contaba entre sus devotos admiradores a genios de la talla de Liszt, Rossini, Schumann y Berlioz, entre otros. Paganini fue el más grande y extraordinario violinista de todos los tiempos. De la misma forma que la historia de la música cuenta con auténticos genios como Beethoven, Mozart o Bach, también posee a los grandes intérpretes, a los virtuosos del instrumento. En Paganini encontramos la máxima expresión del violín, el mejor ejecutante - además de innovador compositor - de ese instrumento único y sentimental. Please note: This item is in Spanish. Contacto: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Charming Baker-Guerilla Art Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Bob Barton Format: Unabridged Length: 9 mins Language: English Release date: 01-22-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: Charming Baker is a phenomenon. Right now, a much bigger phenomenon in the British art scene than the much touted, but now rather tired and fading YBAs. The YBAs, after suitably Bohemian, in-your-face beginnings, are now the official face of British art. You will find most of them (though not quite all) represented in the closing galleries of the new hang at Tate Britain, which aims to tell the complete story of British art, from the Tudors until now. Search as you may, you wont find even one of Charming Bakers works in the display. There are no examples recorded on Tates notoriously tangled and difficult-to-use website. The gallery owns lots of works by Hirst and Emin. More than a few by Sarah Lucas. Twenty-four paintings by Gary Hume, who is currently the subject of a much-hyped retrospective that runs at Tate Britain until September 1. But no example by Charming Baker. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Título: LOU ANDREA SALOMÉ: La musa de Nietzche, Rilke y Freud (Miradas sobre el psicoanálisis) Autor: Lázaro Droznes Narrador: Linda Fitak Formato: Unabridged Duración: 1 hr and 5 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 01-22-18 Editor: UNITEXTO LLC Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Resumen: Lou Andres Salomé es una mujer que siempre ha intrigado por su capacidad de inspiración sobre 3 grandes hombres: Nietzche, Rilke y Freud. Lou fue amante de Rilke, amiga íntima de Nietzche y alumna y confidente de Freud. Una mujer supermusa que inspiró a estos hombres, relativamente desconocidos en el momento de la relación.Esta ficción dramática presenta las relaciones de esta extraordinaria mujer con estos 3 extraordinarios hombres para poder reflexionar sobre la naturaleza de la mujer y los mecanismos que utiliza, muchas veces sin querer o sin darse cuenta, para inspirar a los hombres con los que entra en contacto. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish. Contacto: info@hotaudiobook.com

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Título: William S. Paley Autor: Online Studio Productions Narrador: uncredited Formato: Unabridged Duración: 25 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 01-22-18 Editor: Online Studio Productions Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Business Leaders Resumen: Fue un verdadero pionero de la radiodifusión y un gran líder que marcó toda una época. Proporcionó el liderazgo suficiente para convertir una compañía de radio insignificante y al borde de la quiebra en una organización exitosa. Cuando se hizo cargo de esta compañía, William S. Paley tenía 27 años y le bastaron sólo 10 años para convertir CBS en la empresa dominante en la industria de la radio, haciéndose legendario como empresario de radiodifusión. Su sentido de la visión y su inmensa capacidad para los negocios hizo que CBS se posicionara en el mercado como una compañía importante, y eventualmente, en una fuerza dominante, superando incluso a otro titán de la radio y la televisión estadounidenses, la eterna cadena rival NBC. Por otro lado, Paley fue un hombre con varios intereses y dejó su impronta en otros campos importantes del saber humano. Paley, con su excepcional estilo de liderazgo creó una nueva visión organizacional y se convirtió en un referente imprescindible no sólo para los empresarios de telecomunicaciones, sino para administradores y líderes en todos los campos de las ciencias sociales. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish. Contacto: info@hotaudiobook.com

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Título: Howard Schultz Autor: Online Studio Productions Narrador: uncredited Formato: Unabridged Duración: 29 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 01-22-18 Editor: Online Studio Productions Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Business Leaders Resumen: Las grandes corporaciones y las empresas transnacionales han configurado durante los últimos años el rostro más patente del actual proceso de globalización. Las franquicias y las cadenas se encuentran a lo largo y ancho del planeta, ya sea en el mundo industrializado y rico, así como en los países en vías de desarrollo. Si queremos hablar de globalización, tenemos que hablar no sólo de McDonald's, sino de cadenas mundiales como Starbucks. Y cuando nos referimos a esta famosa cadena transnacional de preparación de café, no podemos pasar por alto a Howard Schultz, su visionario fundador. De modestos orígenes, llegó un momento en su vida en que este comunicador y hombre de ventas vio la oportunidad de implantar en Norteamérica una vieja idea suya de un negocio al paso de cafés preparados a la usanza europea. Ello, dentro de un exclusivo ambiente diseñado hasta el más mínimo detalle pensando en el solaz del cliente, "un tercer lugar" al cual acudir tras la agitada vida en el hogar y la oficina.Gracias a estas revolucionarias ideas hechas realidad, Schultz es uno de los empresarios y líderes más exitosos de los últimos tiempos, y su corporación se ha vuelto emblemática de los tiempos actuales. Starbucks, McDonald's y otras transnacionales definen justamente a nuestra época. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish. Contacto: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Turn Your Pain into Art Author: Ariel Bloomer Narrator: Ariel Bloomer Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Happy Hurts Publishing Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: In this hilarious, candid, and warm debut, Icon for Hire vocalist Ariel Bloomer bares her soul and shares her struggles, coupling accessible autobiography with practical advice and inspiration for navigating the messiest parts of life. From growing up a passionate but troubled spiritual seeker to chasing her rock 'n' roll dreams, Bloomer's journey illustrates the importance of cultivating self-love and the transformational nature of creativity, and how to access the artist inside all of us. Turning one's pain into art is an intense but rewarding endeavor, and is one we can all benefit from if we're brave enough to say yes to the challenge. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Appendix N Author: Jeffro Johnson Narrator: Brandon Porter Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Castalia House Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: Appendix N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons is a detailed and comprehensive investigation of the various works of science fiction and fantasy that game designer Gary Gygax declared to be the primary influences on his seminal role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. It is a deep intellectual dive into the literature of SF/F's past that will fascinate any serious role-playing gamer or fan of classic science fiction and fantasy. Author Jeffro Johnson, an expert role-playing gamer, accomplished dungeon master, and three-time Hugo Award finalist, critically reviews all 43 works and authors listed by Gygax in the famous appendix. In doing so, he draws a series of intelligent conclusions about the literary gap between past and present that is surprisingly relevant to current events, not only in the fantastic world of role-playing, but the real world in which the players live. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Holbein in England Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Joe Van Riper Format: Unabridged Length: 8 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: It is a paradox of a sort that the only fully authentic Holbein painting of King Henry VIII of England should now reside in Madrid, in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. It left Britain as late as 1933, sold by Earl Spencer, grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales. Holbein is, after all, the author of what is perhaps the most iconic and formidable of all British royal images. Fittingly, the Thyssen-Bornemizsa portrait adorned the cover of the catalogue that accompanied the "Holbein in England" exhibition at Tate Britain in London. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Muesli Bar Author: Aniket Tapre Narrator: Dalan Decker Format: Unabridged Length: 56 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Author's Republic Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Business Leaders Summary: Steering clear of advice column "should"s and preachy "everyone must"s, The Muesli Bar is an engaging piece of writing, fit for overwhelmed minds of young entrepreneurs. It is a peek into the life of businessman, a quick look at the authors personal experiences, and a long hard look at perspectives and attitudes that chase happiness and fulfillment instead of the illusion of success. The Muesli Bar is a monologue one read short of turning into a dialogue with enthusiastic beginners, and forever fervent creators. Infused with humor both dry and brittle, the book is an energy bar consisting of encouraging analogies, hard facts, and the bitter truth wrapped in a good laugh. It walks the reader through the first milestones of business while snacking on food for thought. It is an honest conversation rooted in the authors philosophy: "This is my way. Take a look; it might help you find your own!" Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: DeMarcus Cousins: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Top Centers Author: Clayton Geoffreys Narrator: Joe Wosik Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Calvintir Books, LLC Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities Summary: Learn the incredible story of the New Orleans Pelicans star center, DeMarcus Cousins! In DeMarcus Cousins: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Top Centers, you'll hear about the inspirational story of basketball's star, DeMarcus Cousins. Since entering the league as the fifth overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft, DeMarcus Cousins has made quite the name for himself as a premier big man. After spending nearly seven years as the face of the Sacramento Kings franchise, DeMarcus was given a fresh start mid-way through the 2016-2017 season as he was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans to play alongside fellow star, Anthony Davis. There is still much basketball to be played out in DeMarcus' career. It will be exciting to continue to watch DeMarcus mature over time with Davis. If you're interested in learning the incredible story of how DeMarcus became the player he is today, get a copy of this audiobook today. Here is a preview of what is inside this audiobook: Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Microsoft Brilliance Author: Ivan Fernandez Narrator: Kent Bates Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Mode On Publishing Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Business Leaders Summary: Ever wanted to know more about the computer genius who revolutionized technology? Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft and has become a household name. He is also a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and well-known author. Bill Gates is one of the defining icons that showed people what hard work and dedication really looked like. And for that, he is now worth over $82 billion (updated 2018). Bill Gates and his business partners revolutionized the way we use personalized computers and software. It was only a matter of time that since the 1980s when Bill Gates set out to see a computer on every desk across the entire world. His innovative skills allowed him to expand and upgrade the computer systems we all use today. He truly is a person of great influential power over the last century. How exactly did he become one of the richest men in the world? With a deeper insight into Bill Gates life, The Microsoft Brilliance tells the story of a genius billionaire, with chapters on: To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. (Bill Gates) Listen to The Microsoft Brilliance today and explore the journey of an extreme innovator. Explore the journey Bill Gates embarked on today. P. S. Who you learn from and who you look up to usually influence who you become. Who do you want to become? Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Art, Criticism and Display: Projects at the Gallery London 1973-78 Author: N. P. James Narrator: Brian Rollins Format: Unabridged Length: 52 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: In September 1972, three graduates rented two floors above a cash and carry warehouse at 65A Lisson Street, West London. After a couple of months, one emptied his studio, the first floor front room, and opened the space for exhibitions. There followed a spate of invented artists which made humorous comments on the high-flown conceptual arena. In 1974, the gallery strengthened its identity with the Gallery London Displays, a series developed with sculptor Vaughan Grylls. The non-artist works featured documentary material with a concise graphic presentation. This led to projects with artists John Latham, Rita Donagh, Gerald Newman, and others. During its five years operation, the gallery forged an independent history with a remarkable flow of art and events. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Sink like a Stone Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Original Recording Length: 1 hr and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 01-18-18 Publisher: Icon Audio Arts Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: From Giuliano's best-selling British book for Richard Branson's Virgin, to blockbuster cult film Stoned, to this riveting audio bio - the murder of rolling stones founder Brian Jones is now finally solved! This masterful trilogy caused Scotland Yard to reopen the case after over 30 years. With all-new evidence and the murderous mastermind named - a name you have yet to hear! Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Brave New World Author: Guillem Balague Narrator: Piers Hampton Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins Language: English Release date: 01-18-18 Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities Summary: The exclusive behind-the-scenes story of the Mauricio Pochettino revolution at Spurs, told in his own words. Since joining the club in 2014, Mauricio Pochettino has transformed Tottenham from underachievers into genuine title contenders. In the process, he has marked himself out as one of the best young managers in the world, more than holding his own against the Premier League's established heavyweights. He has done so by promoting an attacking, pressing style of football and by nurturing homegrown talent, fully endearing himself to the Spurs' faithful along the way. Guillem Balagué was granted unprecedented access to Pochettino and his backroom staff for the duration of the 2016-17 season, and he has therefore been able to draw on extensive interview material with Pochettino, his family, his closest assistants, players such as Dele Alli and Harry Kane and even a very rare conversation with Daniel Levy to tell the manager's story in his own words. From Pochettino's early years as a player and coach to his transformation of Tottenham into one of the best teams in England, this audiobook uniquely reveals the inner workings of the man and of his footballing philosophy. It also lays bare what it takes to run a modern-day football team competing at the highest level over the course of a single campaign. The result is the most comprehensive and compelling portrait of a manager and of a club in the Premier League era. Read by Piers Hampton. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Halfway There with Delacroix Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Tim Carper Format: Unabridged Length: 11 mins Language: English Release date: 01-17-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: The new exhibition at the National Gallery in London is entitled "Delacroix - And the Rise of Modern Art". In other words, Delacroix, one of the most important artists of the first half of the 19th century, is presented as being important, not so much for what he actually did as an individual creator, but because he in so many ways foreshadowed the kind of art that was made immediately after his demise - in particular by artists linked to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and even Fauvism. Only about a third of the pictures included are actually by the artist who gives the exhibition its title. This is a trend that is making itself increasingly apparent in major exhibitions devoted to great names in art history. Sometimes, the results are forgivable. London will very soon be treated to a show devoted to Giorgione and his influence. Everyone knows that there are only a handful of paintings that are securely attributed to the 16th century Venetian master, and that, of these, fewer still are likely to be lent. It will be interesting to see one or two of this rare handful, and to consider the influence of Giorgiones magically ambiguous creative personality on his contemporaries and immediate successors. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Byzantium Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Bob Barton Format: Unabridged Length: 6 mins Language: English Release date: 01-17-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: Byzantine art has a slightly odd reputation. It is regarded, on the one hand, as something remote, hieratic, and difficult. On the other hand, the word Byzantium has a very romantic ring - it lives in our minds as the name of a citadel of civilization, a place that preserved for posterity both intellectual and material treasures that would otherwise have vanished forever. The remarkable exhibition now at the Royal Academy in London touches on both of these aspects. It is extremely rich in objects made from precious materials, such as gold or ivory, and it is equally rich in things that are usually inaccessible to all but the most intrepid and persistent travelers. As the catalog introduction points out, Byzantine art responded to the ebb and flow of often-conflicting historical forces. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Brian Jones: The Lost Stone Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Original Recording Length: 1 hr and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 01-17-18 Publisher: Icon Audio Arts Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: From Giuliano's best-selling British book for Richard Branson's Virgin, to blockbuster cult film Stoned, to this riveting audio bio - the murder of Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones is now finally solved! With all-new evidence and the murderous mastermind named - a name you have yet to hear! Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Ted Hughes: A Modern Wordsworth? A Modern Byron? Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Tim Carper Format: Unabridged Length: 17 mins Language: English Release date: 01-16-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: Of all the British poets of my generation, Ted Hughes, now nearly 20 years dead, left behind him both the grandest and most sulfurous reputation. The controversies he aroused rumble on, and the hurts, in certain quarters, are still keenly felt. The gestation of Bate's book, chronicled here, gives ample proof of this. The author began it with the full sanction of Hughes widow, Carol, on the understanding that it was to be a "literary life". Halfway through its composition, cooperation was withdrawn - hence the subtitle, "The Unauthorised Life". This has restricted Bate's freedom to quote from Hughes' writings as much as he might have liked, but has in other respects (as he points out) left him more fully at liberty to say what he wants to say about a life story that was in any terms pretty dramatic. Any life story that comprises not just two but actually three suicides (Hughes' son, Nicholas, killed himself in 2009, just over 10 years after his father's death), plus a murder - one can't describe the death of Hughes' little daughter, Shura, gassed by her suicidal mother, the poet's mistress, Assia Wevill, as anything else - does wrap a cloak of darkness about itself. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth Author: Andrew Carnegie Narrator: John Lescault Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs Language: English Release date: 01-16-18 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Business Leaders Summary: His good friend Mark Twain dubbed him "St. Andrew." British Prime Minister William Gladstone called him an "example" for the wealthy. Such terms seldom apply to multimillionaires. But Andrew Carnegie was no run-of-the-mill steel magnate. At age 13 and full of dreams, he sailed from his native Dunfermline, Scotland, to America. The story of his success begins with a $1.20-a-week job at a bobbin factory. By the end of his life, he had amassed an unprecedented fortune - and given away more than 90 percent of it for the good of mankind. Here, in one volume, are two impressive works by Andrew Carnegie himself: his autobiography and The Gospel of Wealth, a groundbreaking manifesto on the duty of the wealthy to give back to society all of their fortunes. And he practiced what he preached, erecting 1,600 libraries across the country, founding Carnegie Mellon University, building Carnegie Hall, and performing countless other acts of philanthropy because, as Carnegie wrote, "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced." Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Coming Ashore Author: Catherine Gildiner Narrator: Nathalie Toriel Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 01-16-18 Publisher: ECW Press Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: Written with the same spirit and wit as the best-selling Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls, Coming Ashore is the third and final volume of Catherine Gildiner's memoir series. Picking up her story in the late '60s at age 21, Cathy whisks through seven years and three countries. Whether reciting verse in the classrooms of the University of Oxford, arranging a date with Jimi Hendrix, teaching inner-city kids literature, rooming with a major drug dealer, falling in love, or working in a psychiatric hospital, Cathy determinedly blazes her own trail through all the passion and uncertainty that comes with the cusp of adulthood. Coming Ashore transports readers to a fascinating era populated by lively characters, but most memorable of all is the singular Cathy McClure. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: A Stagnant Art World Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Jack Wynters Format: Unabridged Length: 17 mins Language: English Release date: 01-15-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: This may seem a funny moment to proclaim that nothing much is happening in art - certainly not in contemporary art. In many ways, the art world has never seemed more vibrant and active, and this activity is increasingly focused on what is defined as contemporary. There hasnt, in fact, been a moment like this in the relatively recent history of art since the mid-19th century. What was the situation then? The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars were safely over. These had witnessed a great break up of historic art collections, prominent among them that of the Dukes of Orléans, cadet members of the French royal house. The great shakedown was almost over. There was a new generation of collectors, many of them British, far from aristocratic in origin, and enriched by the booming Industrial Revolution. They were proud of their own success and had great faith in their own time, as superior to the epochs that had preceded it. If one looks at the years of political and economic chaos between 1789 and 1815, as the fortunes of war swayed back and forth, this is not surprising. Many of them lacked the rigorous classical education that had formed most of the great collectors of the past. What appealed to them was art made in the here and now, by their own contemporaries. Anything else seemed too remote to be really interesting - though, paradoxically, they had no objection to historical subjects seen through the eyes of their own time. Hence the huge success of a number of now half-forgotten Victorian artists. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Art in Putinland Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Don Wang Format: Unabridged Length: 9 mins Language: English Release date: 01-15-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: Maybe its time for attention to turn back to the Russians. In the 1980s, as some of us still remember, so-called perestroika art was pretty big in the West, with enthusiasm from leading Western curators and critics, and some support from the big international auction rooms. In fact, the pattern was pretty much the same as what happened with contemporary Chinese art just a little later on. The fact is, however, that Chinese art has continued to hold its place in the Western market, and the leading names now make reliably high prices in major contemporary auctions, no matter where the sale takes place. This has not been the case with the Russian equivalent. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Hockney at the Royal Academy Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Tim Carper Format: Unabridged Length: 7 mins Language: English Release date: 01-15-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: British, even more than most countries, like to have a "boss" artist - an artistic figure who is indubitably the head of the profession. In the old days, this need was easily accommodated within the establishment structures of the time. The big boss could be Sir Joshua Reynolds, knighted by the monarch of the day, or Lord Leighton, given a peerage. Both of these were also presidents of the Royal Academy. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Small Histories: Studies of Western Art Author: Nicholas James Narrator: Dana Brewer Harris Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins Language: English Release date: 01-15-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: Presents a collection of essays by Nicholas James on classic and contemporary art: "The Trinity" by Masaccio at Santa Maria Novella, Florence; Vermeer's "The Maid" and "Woman Weighing Pearls"; Cezanne and Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon portraits, and reviews of over 70 exhibitions in public and private galleries held between 1993 and 2010. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Before Damien Hirst: There Was Salvador Dali Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Jack Wynters Format: Unabridged Length: 11 mins Language: English Release date: 01-15-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: When I visited the huge Damien Hirst exhibition staged by the Gagosian Gallery in New York in 1996, one of the most striking pieces was a large glass tank full of live fish. Dumped among the fish were an obstetrical couch, in a rather decayed condition, and various obstetrical implements. For some time after I had seen the show, this image tugged at my mind. It reminded me of something - but of what? Finally, memory dragged up the reference I needed: Hirst's piece was a direct descendant of Salvador Dali's installation, "Rainy Taxi", shown at the International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris in 1938. "Rainy Taxi" was a broken down old car, in which Dali placed two mannequins. One was the driver, who had the head of a fish. In the back seat there was a blonde woman in an evening dress, seated among lettuces and endives, under a pipe system that supplied a constant fine spray of water. Thriving among the vegetables were two hundred live snails. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Everything I Know About Love Author: Dolly Alderton Narrator: Dolly Alderton Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins Language: English Release date: 01-15-18 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: Available exclusively in audio for two weeks. Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Everything I Know About Love, written and read by Dolly Alderton. A spot-on, wildly funny and sometimes heartbreaking book about growing up, growing older and navigating all kinds of love along the way. When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown-up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod Stewart-themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding that that your mates are always there at the end of every messy night out. It's an audiobook about bad dates, good friends and - above all else - recognising that you and you alone are enough. Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humour, Dolly Alderton's powerful debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age - while making you laugh until you fall over. Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its grubby, hopeful uncertainty. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Summary: Leonardo da Vinci Author: Readtrepreneur Publishing Narrator: Eddie Leonard Jr. Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 01-12-18 Publisher: Readtrepreneur Publishing Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: Disclaimer: This is not the original book. This summary is wholly written and published by readtrepreneur.com. It is not affiliated with the original author in any way. Best-selling author Walter Isaacson captures the story behind the science and art of one of historys most intriguing personalities, Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci invites you to enter the mind of the worlds most creative genius. Discover what drove the work of a man who was centuries ahead of his time and who is considered to be the greatest painter and inventor of all time. His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than a century later by Bacon and Galileo. (Walter Isaacson) The author of the best sellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin returns with a captivating biography of Leonardo da Vinci, who is considered to be one of the most diversely talented individuals to have ever lived. As Walter Isaacson describes it, Leonardos genius was of the type we can understand and take lessons from. It was based on skills we can aspire to improve in ourselves. Discover which skills helped Leonardo da Vinci achieve greatness and maybe you will be able to achieve greater things yourself. P.S. Leonardo da Vinci will help you understand one of the greatest minds mankind has ever seen. Disclaimer once again: This book is meant for a great companionship of the original book or to simply get the gist of the original book. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: John Constable Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Tim Carper Format: Unabridged Length: 8 mins Language: English Release date: 01-11-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: The new exhibition at Tate Britain celebrates one of the best loved of all British artists, the landscape painter, John Constable. In his own lifetime, Constable was constantly struggling to catch up with his great rival, J. M. W. Turner, whose astonishing fluency he could never match. Turner has maintained his fame, but, among the British at least, Constable is now more intimately loved. People talk of the "Constable country" in Suffolk that he made his own artistically, and the images he created appear on calendars, kitchen towels, and place mats. You dont have to be an intellectual to love Constables work - in fact, it is probably better if you arent. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Sea Takes No Prisoners Author: Peter Clutterbuck Narrator: Malk Williams Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 01-11-18 Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities Summary: Beginning in the 1960s, this audiobook tells of the real-life adventures of the author as a boy. Encouraged by his parents to become more independent, Peter decided to see how far he could get in his family's small open dinghy, Calypso. Calypso was a wayfarer, a small and very popular class of open dinghy - a boat designed for pottering around coastlines. But along with the occasional brave crewmate, Peter managed to sail her across the Channel, through the Bay of Biscay, down the French canals and into the Mediterranean, then up into the North Sea and the Baltic to Oslo, living aboard for three months at a time. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Leonardo da Vinci: A Life From Beginning to End Author: Hourly History Narrator: Nate Sjol Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 01-10-18 Publisher: Hourly History Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: Creativity is in our bones. It is found in our very DNA, something not known to Leonardo da Vinci or anyone else who lived in his day and time. All he did was to uncover the hidden genius which lay within himself, and he used that inner genius to the very best of his abilities. Leonardo da Vinci is best known for some of the world's most masterful paintings, but he was so much more than merely another artist with paints and brushes. Born to a peasant woman in 1452, Leonardo would go on to astound the world he lived in with his artistry and his inventions. Inside you will hear about.... In this audiobook, discover for yourself the brilliance of da Vinci. Uncover some of his best works of art, including the Mona Lisa, and see why he kept so many notebooks and observations about everything under the sun. See where his far-reaching talents led him, and how you can be more like Leonardo da Vinci than you ever thought possible. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Down Under Author: Trevor Conomy Narrator: John Derum Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 01-10-18 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: This is the biography not of a person but of one of the most loved and controversial songs in the history of Australian music. Originally released as a B-side in 1980, 'Down Under' made Men at Work the biggest band on the planet. The song became an alternative Australian anthem and its video (recorded on the sand dunes of Cronulla) became an image of Australia recognised the world over. Even when Men at Work suddenly disappeared, 'Down Under' remained in the national psyche. Nearly three decades later, Spicks and Specks innocently revealed a link between the song and the tune of the old Kookaburra nursery rhyme, and the American owners of the lullaby decided to sue for plagiarism. After the legal battle raged, the flautist forever linked with that unforgettable and contentious flute riff, Greg Ham, died due to ill health caused by stress and anxiety brought on by the court case. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Nolan Cash, Bowling Green Author: Andrew Brel Narrator: Andrew Brel Format: Unabridged Length: 58 mins Language: English Release date: 01-10-18 Publisher: Andrew Brel Publishing Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: Nolan Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas, on October 8, 1939, seven years after his cousin, Johnny. The bi-racial product of a rape by a black man of a 16-year-old Christian girl in America's conservative Bible Belt, he experienced extreme prejudice growing up during the racially divided '50s. His opportunity for country music stardom beckoned when he witnessed an event that inspired him to write the song that would change his life - the church massacre at Bowling Green. What happened next might have come straight from the pages of a Hollywood political thriller. Nolan was charged with treason and hidden in the prison system with a new identity, his secret about that event in Bowling Green buried with him. Only the 50-year disclosure on official secrets - CIA documents recently released - enabled the facts to finally emerge. Here, then, is the story of Nolan Cash, collateral damage in America's struggle to move away from racist division. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: High Voltage Author: Jeff Apter Narrator: John Derum Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 01-10-18 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: The first biography to focus exclusively on Angus Young - from his remarkable rise from working-class Glasgow and Sydney to the biggest stages in the world. Angus Young, the cofounder and the last remaining original member of AC/DC, has for more than 40 years been the face, the sound and sometimes the exposed backside of the trailblazing rock band. In his trademark schoolboy outfit, guitar in hand, Angus has given his signature sound to songs such as 'A Long Way to the Top', 'Highway to Hell' and 'Back in Black', helping AC/DC become the biggest rock band on the planet. High Voltage is the first biography to focus exclusively on Angus. It tells of his remarkable rise from working-class Glasgow and Sydney to the biggest stages in the world. The youngest of eight kids, Angus always seemed destined for a life in music, and it was his passion and determination that saw AC/DC become hard rock's greatest act. Over the years Angus has endured the devastating death of iconic vocalist Bon Scott, the forced retirement of his brother-in-arms, Malcolm Young, and more recently the loss from the band of singer Brian Johnson and drummer Phil Rudd. Yet somehow the little guitar maestro has kept AC/DC not just on the rails but at the top of the rock pile. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Down Under Author: Trevor Conomy Narrator: John Derum Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 01-10-18 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: This is the biography not of a person but of one of the most loved and controversial songs in the history of Australian music. Originally released as a B-side in 1980, 'Down Under' made Men at Work the biggest band on the planet. The song became an alternative Australian anthem, and its video (recorded on the sand dunes of Cronulla) became an image of Australia recognised the world over. Even when Men at Work suddenly disappeared, 'Down Under' remained in the national psyche. Nearly three decades later, Spicks and Specks innocently revealed a link between the song and the tune of the old Kookaburra nursery rhyme, and the American owners of the lullaby decided to sue for plagiarism. After the legal battle raged, the flautist forever linked with that unforgettable and contentious flute riff, Greg Ham, died due to ill health caused by stress and anxiety brought on by the court case. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Ginny and Me Author: Christine Walters Narrator: Jacquelyn Foster Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 01-10-18 Publisher: Christine Walters Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Summary: Abuse is damaging. It comes from cycles of abusive behaviors learned and repeated through generations. Because of shame and embarrassment, many people do not speak about the cruelty they endured. In my case, most of the abuse I suffered resulted from my mother's mental illness. For my entire life, people told me to excuse my mom's abuse because she was mentally ill. However, mental illness does not give anyone the right to abuse you (in particular, your child). Ginny had childhood paranoid schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder. She lived in the Buffalo State Hospital through her adolescent years. When released from the hospital, she had me. She was 26, and my dad was 30 years older. My mother was white, and my father was black. As a child, I struggled with my mixed heritage. My mom would tell me that white people did not like me because I was black. Even from a religious standpoint, I was raised as a Catholic and Baptist. On Sundays, my mom and I attended mass without my father and Baptist service with him. I always felt like I had to choose. Was I black? Was I white? Was I Catholic? Was I Baptist? My mom told me that her side of the family disliked my dad because he was black and my dad's side of the family disliked my mom because she was white. Here I was stuck in the middle. I share my life story with the world through God's glory. My story is about how faith enabled me to overcome extraordinary struggles, pain, and loss. Faith, hope, and forgiving the unforgivable through prayer and trusting in God are the keys to healing. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Figurative Painting: Confronting the Crisis Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Joe Van Riper Format: Unabridged Length: 22 mins Language: English Release date: 01-09-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: This exhibition, based on a single, very personal and - dare one say it? - extremely distinguished private collection, tackles a large subject within a relatively small compass. It aims to examine a now universally recognized crisis, which is what is happening to painting as an art form. Quite a large number of critics and curators have, in recent years, proclaimed that painting is dead: that attention must now be paid to other kinds of art - to video, to installations, to art works that are purely conceptual, to the ready-mades that only become art when they are placed in a particular context, in a museum, for example, or a Kunsthalle. Indeed, so much intellectual capital has now been invested in theories of this kind that it has sometimes been difficult for supporters of painting to get a hearing. When they do get a chance to speak, it is often evident that they are confused. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: North of Normal Author: Cea Sunrise Person Narrator: Cea Sunrise Person Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 01-09-18 Publisher: HarperAudio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities Summary: Sex, drugs, and...bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person's compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness - a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival. In the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea's family left a comfortable existence in California to live off the land in the Canadian wilderness. But unlike most commune dwellers of the time, the Persons weren't trying to build a new society - they wanted to escape civilization altogether. Led by Cea's grandfather Dick, they lived a pot-smoking, free-loving, clothing-optional life under a canvas tipi without running water, electricity, or heat for the bitter winters. Living out her grandparents' dream with her teenage mother Michelle, young Cea knew little of the world beyond her forest. She spent her summers playing nude in the meadow and her winters snowshoeing behind the grandfather she idolized. Despite fierce storms, food shortages, and the occasional drug-and-sex-infused party for visitors, it seemed to be a mostly happy existence. For Michelle, however, now long separated from Cea's father, there was one crucial element missing: a man. When Cea was five, Michelle took her on the road with a new boyfriend. As the trio set upon a series of ill-fated adventures, Cea began to question both her highly unusual world and the hedonistic woman at the centre of it - questions that eventually evolved into an all-consuming search for a more normal life. Finally, in her early teens, Cea realized she would have to make a choice as drastic as the one her grandparents once had in order to save herself. While a successful international modeling career offered her a way out of the wilderness, Cea discovered that this new world was in its own way daunting and full of challenges. North of Normal is Cea's funny, shocking, heartbreaking, and triumphant tale of self-discovery and acceptance, adversity, and strength that will leave no listener unmoved. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: What It Is to Curate Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Joe Van Riper Format: Unabridged Length: 23 mins Language: English Release date: 01-09-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: Anyone who Googles the phrase curatorial theory will immediately come upon quite a long list of suggested websites. Sometimes it is a little difficult to be sure if the texts offered are intended to be taken entirely seriously. What about this, for example? "The answer to the question 'what is curating?' was already there but not as a question we pose ourselves in the arrogance of our disciplinary address. Its formulation would be otherwise: no answer but rather response to a call. The call to which it responds has already been placed to curating." However, if I hack my way through this dense thicket of language, I find myself in agreement with what it seems to be trying to say, which is that curating an exhibition - or for that matter, a website - is not an end in itself. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Collecting Contemporary Art Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Jack Wynters Format: Unabridged Length: 11 mins Language: English Release date: 01-09-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: A good art collection is always much more than the sum of its parts. This applies with especial force to collections of contemporary work. A collection of this kind, whether the collector intends it to be so or not, is always a portrait - a reflection in the mirror of a particular epoch, and, willy-nilly, a self-portrait of the person who takes the trouble to bring it together. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Gauguin at Tate Modern Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Joe Van Riper Format: Unabridged Length: 8 mins Language: English Release date: 01-09-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: The new Gauguin exhibition at Tate Modern in certainly the art event of the year in London. Its a blockbuster exhibition of a kind that, thanks to the continuing worldwide financial crisis, may soon become extinct. It is also an exhibition that raises important questions about how we currently see and think about art. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Yayoi Kusama Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Tim Carper Format: Unabridged Length: 9 mins Language: English Release date: 01-09-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: Yayoi Kusama is now one of Japans best-known contemporary artists. She was the recipient of her countrys Praemium Imperiale for painting in 2006 - the most prestigious award Japan can offer to any painter, native or foreign. Her rise to fame has been unconventional, even by the standards of the art world of the 21st century, where eccentricities of all kinds pass without question. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Kidnapped Author: Charles Fox Narrator: Michael Kramer Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins Language: English Release date: 01-09-18 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities Summary: Previously published as Uncommon Youth, Charles Fox's Kidnapped examines the glamorous life, gilded family, and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973. J. Paul ("Little Paul") Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the wrong people and practically abandoned by his famous family, Getty was a child of his international jet-set era, moving from Marrakesh to Rome, nightclubs to well-appointed drug dens. His high-profile kidnapping defined the decade - and was permanently memorable for the ear that was mailed to his mother as evidence of the kidnappers' intentions. Kidnapped is richly reported and includes many interviews with Getty himself, conducted from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, that raise new angles about the case. How much did Getty acquiesce to the kidnappers? Why wouldn't his rich-as-Croesus grandfather pay the ransom, which began at the equivalent of $550,000 in lire and bulged to 3.6 million as the months dragged on? Charles Fox began following and researching this story in the days shortly after Getty's disappearance. This fascinating audiobook captures the voices of models and maids, mistresses and mothers, carabinieri and club owners, drug dealers and drivers, alongside the Getty family members themselves to paint an evocative portrait of an era and one of its most misunderstood participants. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Artist and the Artwork Author: Edward Lucie-Smith Narrator: Tim Carper Format: Unabridged Length: 13 mins Language: English Release date: 01-09-18 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts Summary: Works of art have often been endowed by their audience with talismanic force. Their impact exceeds the visual impression they make. This seems natural enough when we consider the fact that the most ambitious works of art produced by ancient civilizations were religious. To those who originally encountered them, they seemed to speak directly from the gods. Their makers were very seldom recorded, though the names of those who ordered them to be made - pharaohs, emperors and kings - quite frequently survive. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com