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Her First Time

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Series Audiobook 1 - Her First Time
Unabridged

1 hour 48 min

What happens the first time a couple crosses a line they once swore they never would?Nine intimate hotwife stories exploring first times, boundaries, and the moment everything changes.This collection explores that moment — the hesitation, the temptation, the decision that can't be undone — through nine intimate hotwife stories focused on first experiences and the emotional fallout that follows ... Read more

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What happens the first time a couple crosses a line they once swore they never would?Nine intimate hotwife stories exploring first times, boundaries, and the moment everything changes.This collection explores that moment — the hesitation, the temptation, the decision that can't be undone — through nine intimate hotwife stories focused on first experiences and the emotional fallout that follows
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Her First Time

by Alex Lee ...

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Series Audiobook 2 - Her First Time
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What happens when the fantasy becomes real?Her First Time: Volume 2 continues exploring the emotional and erotic intensity of crossing the line between curiosity and experience.Across nine hotwife stories, couples find fantasy blurring unexpectedly into lived experience.Some stories are told as intimate confessions — private, vulnerable and emotionally charged. Others unfold directly in the heat ... Read more

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What happens when the fantasy becomes real?Her First Time: Volume 2 continues exploring the emotional and erotic intensity of crossing the line between curiosity and experience.Across nine hotwife stories, couples find fantasy blurring unexpectedly into lived experience.Some stories are told as intimate confessions — private, vulnerable and emotionally charged. Others unfold directly in the heat
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Freedom National

The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

by James Oakes ...

**Winner of the Lincoln Prize"Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books**Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It ... Read more

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**Winner of the Lincoln Prize"Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books**Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It
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The Radical and the Republican

Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

by James Oakes ...

"A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker“My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America ... Read more

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"A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker“My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America
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The Crooked Path to Abolition

Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

by James Oakes ...

**Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeAn award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.**The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a ... Read more

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**Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeAn award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.**The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a
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A Visit From Young Gloom (Unabridged)

by Ring Lardner ...

Narrated by Rose Janousek, James Oakes, Autumn Merrill ...

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19 min

In the quaint town of Chastleton, a peculiar visitor arrives, casting a shadow over the lives of its unsuspecting residents. Young Gloom, a mischievous and enigmatic figure, brings with him a whirlwind of chaos and misfortune. As he weaves his way through the town, leaving a trail of broken hearts and shattered dreams in his wake, the people of Chastleton are forced to confront their own ... Read more

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In the quaint town of Chastleton, a peculiar visitor arrives, casting a shadow over the lives of its unsuspecting residents. Young Gloom, a mischievous and enigmatic figure, brings with him a whirlwind of chaos and misfortune. As he weaves his way through the town, leaving a trail of broken hearts and shattered dreams in his wake, the people of Chastleton are forced to confront their own
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The Ruling Race

by James Oakes ...

This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they ... Read more

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This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they
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What I Am Living For

Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton

by Robert Ellsberg, Daniel P. Horan, Kaya Oakes, Rev. James Martin S.J. ...

"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for."—Thomas MertonSome of today's most popular spiritual writers—including Rev. James Martin, S.J.; Bishop Robert Barron; Robert Ellsberg; Rev. Daniel P. Horan; and Kaya ... Read more

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"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for."—Thomas MertonSome of today's most popular spiritual writers—including Rev. James Martin, S.J.; Bishop Robert Barron; Robert Ellsberg; Rev. Daniel P. Horan; and Kaya
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Beyond Freedom

Disrupting the History of Emancipation

by Eric Foner, Justin Behrend, Greg Downs, Carole Emberton, Thavolia Glymph, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, James Oakes0, Susan Eva O'Donovan1, Hannah Rosen2, Brenda Stevenson3, Richard S. Newman4 ...

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This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to ... Read more

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This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to
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Species Tree Inference

A Guide to Methods and Applications

by Paul D. Blischak, Jeremy M. Brown, Zhen Cao, Alison Cloutier, Kerry Cobb, Alexandria A. DiGiacomo, Deren A. R. Eaton, Scott V. Edwards, Kyle A. Gallivan, Daniel J. Gates, Phil Grayson, Xinhao Liu, Patrick F. McKenzie, Siavash Mirarab, Erin Molloy, Genevieve G. Mount, Luay Nakhleh, Jamie R. Oaks, Huw A. Ogilvie, James B. Pease, Diana Pilson, Timothy B. Sackton, Stacey D. Smith, Claudia Solís-Lemus, David L. Swofford, Coleen E. Thompson, Emiko M. Waight, Joseph F. Walker, Tandy Warnow, Ellen I. Weinheimer, James C. Wilgenbusch, Andrea D. Wolfe, Zhi Yan, Stephen Smith ...

An up-to-date reference book on phylogenetic methods and applications for evolutionary biologistsThe increasingly widespread availability of genomic data is transforming how biologists estimate evolutionary relationships among organisms and broadening the range of questions that researchers can test in a phylogenetic framework. Species Tree Inference brings together many of today’s leading ... Read more

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An up-to-date reference book on phylogenetic methods and applications for evolutionary biologistsThe increasingly widespread availability of genomic data is transforming how biologists estimate evolutionary relationships among organisms and broadening the range of questions that researchers can test in a phylogenetic framework. Species Tree Inference brings together many of today’s leading
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Things That Should Be Simple (But Aren't)

Why organisations become complex — and how to fix them

by Ross McConnell ...

Narrated by Digital Voice James Oak E ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Human OS
Unabridged

2 hours 58 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Why do organisations become so complicated?Processes that once worked begin to break down. Decisions take longer than they should. Systems that were designed to create clarity end up adding friction instead.Over time, complexity stops feeling like a problem to solve — and starts to feel like the way things are.But it doesn’t happen by accident.This ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Why do organisations become so complicated?Processes that once worked begin to break down. Decisions take longer than they should. Systems that were designed to create clarity end up adding friction instead.Over time, complexity stops feeling like a problem to solve — and starts to feel like the way things are.But it doesn’t happen by accident.This
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¡Vamos a comer con abuela! / Let’s Eat with Grandma

by Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo Hilderbrand ...

Illustrated by Iesha Wright ...

A los niños les encantará esta divertida historia sobre una familia que cena junta y una abuela a la que le gusta preparar la cena para su familia. Disfrutarán escuchando esta adorable historia que presenta efectos de sonido y voces profesionales para ayudar a los niños a desarrollar vocabulario y mejorar sus habilidades auditivas. La historia se presenta primero en español y luego en inglés, lo ... Read more

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A los niños les encantará esta divertida historia sobre una familia que cena junta y una abuela a la que le gusta preparar la cena para su familia. Disfrutarán escuchando esta adorable historia que presenta efectos de sonido y voces profesionales para ayudar a los niños a desarrollar vocabulario y mejorar sus habilidades auditivas. La historia se presenta primero en español y luego en inglés, lo
... Read more