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The Devil Never Sleeps
By: Juliette Kayyem
Narrated by: Juliette Kayyem
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management.
The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why... Read more
The Worth of Water
By: Gary White & Matt Damon
Narrated by: Gary White & Matt Damon
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From the founders of nonprofits Water.org & WaterEquity Gary White and Matt Damon, the incredible true story of two unlikely allies on a mission to end the global water crisis for good
On any given morning, you might wake up and shower with water, make your coffee with water, flush your toilet with water—and think nothing of it.
But around... Read more
The Emergency
By: Thomas Fisher
Narrated by: Thomas Fisher
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind
“Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are,... Read more
Take Up Space
By: The Editors of New York Magazine
Narrated by: Marisa Blake & Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning biography of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the bestselling tradition of Notorious RBG and Pelosi that explores her explosive rise and impact on the future of American culture and politics.
The candidate was young—twenty-eight years old, a child of Puerto Rico, the Bronx, and Yorktown Heights. She was working as a waitress... Read more
Don't Forget Us Here
By: Mansoor Adayfi
Narrated by: Roxanna Hope Radja & Mansoor Adayfi
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo.At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then... Read more
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When the Stars Begin to Fall
By: Theodore R. Johnson
Narrated by: Theodore R. Johnson
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A bold, thought-provoking pathway to the national solidarity that could, finally, address the ills of racism in America
“Racism is an existential threat to America,” Theodore R. Johnson declares at the start of his profound and exhilarating book. It is a refutation of the American Promise enshrined in our Constitution that all men and women are... Read more
Above the Rim
By: Jen Bryant
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor was one of basketball’s all-time-greatest players—an innovative athlete, team player, and quiet force for change. One of the first professional African-American players, he inspired others on and off the court. But when traveling for away games, many hotels and restaurants turned Elgin away because he was black. One... Read more
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Shaking the Gates of Hell
By: John Archibald
Narrated by: Cameron Scoggins
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
On growing up in the American South of the 1960s—an all-American white boy—son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The Birmingham News.
"My dad was a Methodist preacher and his... Read more
Long Time Coming
By: Michael Eric Dyson
Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
"As a narrator, the reverence and tenderness Dyson communicates in his letters--addressed to victims of racist violence Elijah McClain, Emmett Till, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Hadiya Pendleton, Sandra Bland, and the Rev. Clementa Pinckney--invoke the experience of listening in on a holy epistle. Don't miss this." -- AudioFile Magazine
This... Read more
Stakes Is High
By: Mychal Denzel Smith
Narrated by: Mychal Denzel Smith
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future.
The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs about our American identity: our exceptionalism, the inevitable rightness of our... Read more
Mill Town
By: Kerri Arsenault
Narrated by: Kerri Arsenault
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it's changed, and why it matters...Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the right amount of sincerity." -- AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill... Read more
She Proclaims
By: Jennifer Palmieri
Narrated by: Jennifer Palmieri
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Take action and shatter the glass ceiling with this empowering and optimistic feminist guide from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Dear Madam President.
In an era marked by a frustrating sense of stagnation for women, Jennifer Palmieri has found a way to move beyond the bounds of
patriarchy. Building on the lessons shared in Dear Madam... Read more
The Lincoln Conspiracy
By: Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
"Everyone knows that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, but how many know that there was a previous, unsuccessful attempt on his life? Let narrator Scott Brick tell you all about it...Brick can make a nursery rhyme sound exciting, and he's on fire in this audiobook." -- AudioFile Magazine
The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which... Read more
The House of Kennedy
By: James Patterson
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Now with an all-new bonus chapter—in the bestselling The House of Kennedy, “James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style” (People).
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks... Read more
Tightrope
By: Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl W...
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.
With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us... Read more
Life Undercover
By: Amaryllis Fox
Narrated by: Amaryllis Fox
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love." —The New York Times
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while... Read more
Erosion
By: Terry Tempest Williams
Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist
In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of... Read more
Eyes to the Wind
By: Ady Barkan
Narrated by: Bradley Whitford
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In this “gripping story of resistance and the triumph of human will” (Senator Elizabeth Warren), activist and subject of the documentary Not Going Quietly Ady Barkan explores his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him a profound new understanding of his commitment to social justice for all.
Ady Barkan loved taking afternoon runs on the... Read more
D-Day Girls
By: Sarah Rose
Narrated by: Sarah Rose
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain’s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II
“Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)—and all of it true.”—Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White... Read more
Across That Bridge
By: John Lewis
Narrated by: Keith David
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
From celebrated Congressman John Lewis comes an eyewitness account of history from a key member of the Civil Rights Movement and confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.
In turbulent times Americans look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. As we confront a startling rise in racism and hate speech and remain a... Read more
Sissy
By: Jacob Tobia
Narrated by: Jacob Tobia
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds." --The New York Times Book Review
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d)... Read more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
By: Sohaila Abdulali
Narrated by: Sohaila Abdulali
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
After surviving gang-rape at seventeen in Mumbai, Sohaila Abdulali was indignant about the deafening silence that followed and wrote a fiery piece about the perception of rape—and rape victims—for a women's magazine. Thirty years later, with no notice, her article reappeared and went viral in the wake of the 2012 fatal gang-rape in New Delhi,... Read more
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Heirs of the Founders
By: H. W. Brands
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy
In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a... Read more
Witness
By: Ariel Burger
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protégé and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher.The world remembers Elie Wiesel—Nobel laureate, activist,... Read more
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