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The Forgotten Girls
By: Monica Potts
Narrated by: Monica Potts
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?
āThe Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir; itās the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in the most rugged, ultra-religious, and left-behind places in America.āāBeth... Read more
The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
Narrated by: Frank Bruni
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left.
The twists and turns of American politics are unpredictable, but the tone is a troubling given. Itās one of grievance. More... Read more
The Sum of Us
By: Heather McGhee
Narrated by: Heather McGhee
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ā¢ One of todayās most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyoneānot just for people of color.
WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD ā¢ ONE... Read more
Democracy Awakening
By: Heather Cox Richardson
Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our eraās most important and insightful historians.
āMagisterial.ā āTheĀ Washington Post
āAnĀ excellent primer for anyone who needs the important facts of the last 150... Read more
Ghosted
By: Nancy French
Narrated by: Nancy French
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--from the foothills of Appalachia all the way to the White House.New York TimesĀ bestselling ghostwriter Nancy French is coming out of the shadows to tell her own incredible story.Nancy's family hails from the foothills of the... Read more
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The Power Broker: Volume 2 of 3
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 23 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERĀ ā¢ A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one manās incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York.Ā One of the Modern Libraryās hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.
Robert Caro's... Read more
A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
Length: 34 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER""A wonderful, splendid bookāa book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future."" āHoward FastHistorian Howard ZinnāsĀ A Peopleās History of the United StatesĀ chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing... Read more
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Reading the Constitution
By: Stephen Breyer
Narrated by: Stephen Breyer
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Courtās supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.
āYou will not read a more important legal work this election year.ā āBob Woodward, Washington Post... Read more
Emergent Strategy
By: adrienne maree brown
Narrated by: adrienne maree brown
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us... Read more
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Prequel
By: Rachel Maddow
Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERĀ ā¢ Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.
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āA ripping readāwell rendered, fast-paced and delivered with the same... Read more
Just Mercy
By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1Ā NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLER ā¢Ā NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX ā¢Ā A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justiceāfrom one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
ā[Bryan Stevensonās] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more
The White Bonus
By: Tracie McMillan
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
This unflinching book from award-winning investigative reporter Tracie McMillan examines what white privilege deliversāin dollars and centsānot only to white people of wealth but also to white people from the poor to the middle class.
McMillan begins with her own downwardly mobile middle-class family and takes us through a personal history... Read more
Minority Rule
By: Ari Berman
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white... Read more
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How to Do Nothing
By: Jenny Odell
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attentionāand our personal informationāthat redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is... Read more
A Country of Ghosts
By: Margaret Killjoy
Narrated by: Bea Flowers
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, heās embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass,... Read more
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Presidents of War
By: Michael Beschloss
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 26 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLER ā¢Ā From a preeminent presidential historian comes a āsuperb and importantā (The New York Times Book Review) saga of Americaās wartime chief executives
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āFascinating and heartbreaking . . . timely . . . Beschlossās broad scope lets you draw important crosscutting lessons about presidential leadership.āāBill Gates
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Widely... Read more
Chasing Hillary
By: Amy Chozick
Narrated by: Amy Chozick
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
For nearly a decade, Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clintonās pursuit of the presidency. Chozickās front-row seat, initially at the Wall Street Journal covering Mrs. Clintonās imploding 2008 campaign, and then at the New York Times where she was assigned āThe Hillary Beatā, set off a years-long journey in which the formative years of her... Read more
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Walk Ride Paddle
By: Thomas Nelson
Narrated by: Tim Kaine
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.A compelling account of one manās journey across hundreds of miles of Virginia wilderness and a moving testament to the optimistic spirit of America, Walk Ride Paddle provides an unseen glimpse into a life outside. In 2019, Tim KaineāVirginia senator and former Democratic vice presidential candidateācommemorated both his... Read more
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Let This Radicalize You
By: Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the... Read more
Black AF History
By: Michael Harriot
Narrated by: Michael Harriot
Length: 15 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.Americaās backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on... Read more
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The Deficit Myth
By: Stephanie Kelton
Narrated by: Stephanie Kelton
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory -- the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades -- delivers a radically different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society.
Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory... Read more
Secondhand
By: Adam Minter
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably across the countryāor even halfway across the worldāto people and places eager to reuse what you donāt want. In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail... Read more
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Be a Revolution
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Timesābestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide forĀ how to talk about important... Read more
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The Only Plane in the Sky
By: Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: A Full 45-Person Cast
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AUDIE AWARD WINNER!
2020 MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE AUDIE AWARD WINNER!
Audio bonus! The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States Presidential addresses, In-Flight Communications, and Air Traffic Control.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
āThis... Read more