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Episode 6: Jim buys Angie a mink coat, Paul does not approve. Linda did not appreciate pretty ladies working around Paul. Jim warns Angie not to criticize Paul and Linda. The ladies sleep rough on the floorboards. Jim McCartney’s health declines. Jealousy in the McCartney clan. Leaving Rembrandt for a much smaller bungalow. Jim’s last days. Cynthia Lennon pays her respects. Paul, Linda and the kids say goodbye. Paul hugs Angie and tells her, “you’ll never want for anything.”

When the Beatles travelled to Rishikesh India in 1968 to study meditation with the Maharishi they took with them the good graces of the youth of the world, who too were anxious to explore the inner depths of their emerging consciousness. In this exclusive audio biography, the giggly guru’s benevolent, transcendent teachings are examined with rare, exclusive contributions from the master, the Beatles, and friends.

Episode 3: How Russia regards the ladies relationship with Paul. Ruth’s impressions of the press. Touring Russia. Pop diva Ruth has her own billboard in Russia. Ruth in space! Bathing in snow in the arctic circle. Beatle Paul is arrested for farming pot in Scotland. Jim goes mad. Macca advocates the legalization of weed in the Times. Dealing with their relationship with Paul. McCartney’s Swedish drug bust. On the death of George’s mum Louise. The McCartneys are moral cowards. Ruth rides horses with Heather McCartney.

December 3, 1972 - The ladies collide professionally with Gary Glitter. The brief emergence of Ruth McCartney and talent! A reprehensible villain enters their lives. Managing Garry Glitter. Prince Charles and Paul McCartney. The explosive end of the ladies relationship with Beatle Paul.

Although an icon for the ages, little is known about the actual, intimate, secret life of Mahatma Gandhi. Although his great work and philosophy remain largely intact, the man behind the legend has been all but obscured by time. Here, for the first time, is Gandhi in his own words. A spirited retrospective of the remarkable man who single-handedly ejected the British Empire from Mother India.

Angela McCartney was born in Liverpool, as you might expect, in November of 1929. She married her first husband in 1956 and her daughter, Ruth, was born in 1960. Angie was widowed in 1962 after her husband was in a tragic car accident. Two years later, she became acquainted with a lonely widower by the name of Jim McCartney.

For the first time ever, we can now go deep inside the mind of the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. In this never-before-heard collection of ultra-rare interviews and a press conference with Oswald, we gain great insight into the mysterious life and time of one of history's most misunderstood and iconic characters.

Episode 2: Ruth and Angie on Twiggy and Apple Records director Ron Kass. The advent of Mary Hopkin. Sleeping with Rod Stewart. Secrets of Paul’s bedroom at his dad’s home in Liverpool. Mike McCartney’s famous overnight guests. Dusty Springfield and Madeline Bell implode 1967. Macca seldom drank. The phycology of the McCartney Clan. Paul’s songwriting habits. Secrets of She’s Leaving Home, Hey Jude, Norwegian Wood, Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds, When I’m 64.

While the elders and adults struggled to keep secrets in the midst of stolen shoes, stolen dreams, and misbehavior, the four-year-old professor desperately held onto his desire for the future and urgency to be an adult. The older the professor got the stronger his vision became and it wasn't long before hidden secrets were exposed. Although the names have been changed the people are real and the story is true right down to the little professor's vision of Esta.

The book begins in 1521 at the great turning point in the life of St Ignatius, when he was wounded at the battle of Pamplona. It then covers the next 17 years up to the arrival of Ignatius and his early companions in Rome. Those were the years of pilgrimage, travel and searching, and of preparation for the establishment of the great religious order he would found.

Welcome to Zero to Hero: A Chinese Guy's Entrepreneur Journey audiobook. In this audiobook I talk about how growing up poor, every word, every signal, every sound that I received from the environment, my parents, and my friends, conditioned me to be poor. Later on through the journey, you will learn how I broke through everything - by failing, losing, through struggle, and social discrimination - finally getting to live the life that I dreamed of as an entrepreneur.

This is my true story of what happened when I was living in a seaside town in England. He was a rich, powerful, businessman who always got what he wanted, and unfortunately what he wanted was me. I was physically and mentally abused for nearly nine years. The fear and the trauma of the beatings was so intense I still have flashbacks all these years later.

This story tells of my pioneer colonist forebears and their arrival and settlement in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1838 after many difficult months at sea. They landed only a year after the proclamation of the city of Adelaide. At this time houses were made from reeds from the banks of Adelaide's Torrens River, the port of Adelaide was surrounded by swamp with the area referred to in those early days as "Mudholia" or "Dustholia".

I have survived a plane which caught on fire over the Tasman, have lived with a tribe in pre-Indenpendence Papua New Guinea. I have hugged a three-toed sloth in Colombia and worked for an antiquated group of newspapers in London where I covered murder trials, magistrates courts, and cinema and theatre reviews. I have been stuck in mud in Tayrona National Park in Colombia, accompanied by shrieking monkeys, a mirthful friend and guide.

Risk and Return is the story of one man’s return to Africa - a journey that begins with a search for self-fulfillment, which then evolves into an entrepreneurial adventure filled with tribulations, triumphs, and many life lessons that will keep listeners engaged from start to finish. In a casual conversational voice, the author, Yomi Jemibewon, gives an honest, often hilarious and sometimes sobering account of what it feels like to chase a dream under highly uncertain circumstances.

Autism is often misunderstood by mainstream society. Colin takes us on a journey through the key moments in his life with undiagnosed Autism. The added struggles with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculus are all part of who he is. There are sad times, funny times, times when he felt disdain for himself, but an underlying drive to carve out a life of normality is always there. A graduate of Edinburgh University shows to people that those on the spectrum are not daft or simpletons, only that they process information differently.

This audiobook narrates Sahir Ludhianvis life and accomplishments. Examples from his famous bollywood films songs and literary poetry. Commentary on his life style and struggles. Once you have listened to this audiobook, you will have pretty good idea about Sahir Ludhianvi.

For Clarence, a two-year-old Minnesota boy, the terrible twos were terrible. His mother was killed in an auto accident, boiling water scalded his arm, and a rooster nearly pecked out one of his eyes. Things weren’t much better at six. Tumbling into a stream, a broken bottle pierced his elbow and doctors contemplated amputating the arm. At eight, his luck changed.

Abraham Lincoln called "Billy" Herndon, “My man always above all other men on the globe". They were business partners for 16 years. After Lincoln's assassination Herndon did interviews with Lincoln's family and friends for this biography. Co-author Jesse Weik also conducted many original interviews. The result - although not without flaws - has been recognized as one of the most important biographies of the Great Emancipator ever published.

Traveling With Dogs: From the USA to the UK is the first in a series by Elizabeth Acker about her journeys with her beloved dogs.