Yesterday - 211 | Today +169Frank McCourt - Tis (Audiobook) → E-BooksFrank McCourt - Tis Audiobook | English | mp3 32kbps | 14hrs ish | 197MB 'Tis begins where Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of his miserable childhood in Ireland and finally his re-immigration to America, left off. ('Tis is also the last word in the earlier book!) The book begins as McCourt lands in Albany, New York, and quickly makes his way to New York City. McCourt, friendless and clueless about American customs, struggles to integrate himself into American blue-collar society. He is then drafted into the US Army, sent to Europe, and rises to the rank of corporal. On his stay in Germany, he has confrontations with many people who try to show Frank how to get a Russian refugee girl to have sexual intercourse with him by giving her coffee or cigarettes. He visits his mother on leave from the army as compensation for his exceptional service as a type writer and goes back home to Ireland to see his family. He then decides to return to the US again. Upon returning to the United States, he attends New York University despite never having graduated high school. He falls in love with and eventually marries a middle-class American-born Yankee he meets at college. After graduating from NYU, he teaches English and Social Studies at McKee Vocational and Technical High School. There, he is forced to deal with apathetic, indifferent students. Eventually, he moves on to teaching at the prestigious Stuyvesant High School. At Stuyvesant, he revises his teaching style and stops heavily relying on books and other teaching resources, developing his own teaching style and becoming an effective teacher. 'Tis examines Frank's relationship to his family and his wife during this time (all his siblings and his mother move to America over the course of the book). Eventually, Frank's relationship with his wife turns south, and they stay together as long as they do only because of their daughter, Margaret Ann (named after Frank’s sister who died in infancy, and his grandmother, which is described in Angela's Ashes). Nonetheless, Frank finally leaves them, an action he compares to that of his father leaving his family. Frank's mother, Angela McCourt, is in increasingly bad health due to emphysema and dies in New York around the same time as Frank's father, Malachy McCourt Sr., dies in Ireland. Frank goes to Ireland to bury his father and scatter his mother's ashes. The book ends after Frank and his brothers scatter Angela's ashes over the graves of her family.  0 Comments | Read More... »
Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes (Audiobook) → E-BooksFrank McCourt - Angela's Ashes Audiobook | English | mp3 32kbps | 15hrs ish | 208MB "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father Malachy, rar[/url]ely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Perhaps it is a story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing shoes repaired with tires, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner, and searching the pubs for his father, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors -- yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. Imbued with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion -- and movingly read in his own voice -- Angela's Ashes is a glorious audiobook that bears all the marks of a classic. 0 Comments | Read More... »
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today 06:00 | Posted by NFO Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obamas Plan to Renew Americas Promise → E-Books Throughout this audiobook you will find bold and specific ideas about how to fix our ailing economy and strengthen the middle class, make health care affordable for all, achieve energy Independence, and keep America safe in a dangerous world. Change We Can Believe In asks you not just to believe in Barack Obama’s ability to bring change to Washington, it asks you to believe in yours. 8 Comments | Read More... »
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Audiobook) → E-Books Description: This inspirational fable by Brazilian author and translator Coelho has been a runaway bestseller throughout Latin America. The charming tale of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the world, is compelling in its own right, but gains resonance through the many lessons Santiago learns during his adventures. He journeys from Spain to Morocco in search of worldly success, and eventually to Egypt, where a fateful encounter with an alchemist brings him at last to self-understanding and spiritual enlightenment. The story has the comic charm, dramatic tension and psychological intensity of a fairy tale, but it's full of specific wisdom as well, about becoming self-empowered, overcoming depression, and believing in dreams. The cumulative effect is like hearing a wonderful bedtime story from an inspirational psychiatrist. 3 Comments | Read More... »
Robert Kiyosaki - Who Took / Stole My Money (AudioBook) → E-Books Robert Kiyosaki - Who Took / Stole My Money (AudioBook) | 165MB | RS With job security at an all time low, it's never been more important to take control of your financial life. 3 Comments | Read More... »
One Minute Millionare - The Enlightened Way → E-Books One Minute Millionare - The Enlightened Way | 210MB | RS This mega-selling twosome (Hansen's name is on every book in the Chicken Soup series and Allen wrote the bestselling real estate guide No Money Down) offers a long-winded pep talk on how just about anybody can make big money. According to the authors, "At this very instant you are standing in the middle of millions. 2 Comments | Read More... »
Linus Torvalds and David Diamond - Just for Fun → E-Books Linus Torvalds and David Diamond - Just for Fun | 150MB | RS "I was a nerd. Geek. From fairly early on. I didn't duct-tape my glasses together, but I might as well have, because I had all the other traits. Good at math, good at physics, and with no social graces whatsoever. And this was before being a nerd was considered to be a good thing." -- Linus Torvalds 3 Comments | Read More... »
Neuro-Programmer 2 Pro (August 2008) → E-Books Neuro-Programmer 2 Pro (August 2008) | 43MB | RS The Neuro-Programmer 2 (NP2) is an innovative software application for the PC, built to help you stimulate your brain and achieve lasting personal change. NP2 combines brainwave entrainment, hypnosis, visualization and other psychological techniques to help you transform your mind and enhance your mental abilities. 19 Comments | Read More... »
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