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Winners Take All
By: Anand Giridharadas
Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate todayās news.
Former New York Times columnist... Read more
The Spy and the Traitor
By: Ben Macintyre
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War.
āThe best true spy story I have ever read.āāJOHN LE CARRĆ
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist ā¢ Shortlisted for the Bailie... Read more
Extreme Ownership
By: Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Narrated by: Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"These guys are intense. And they bring that same fire to their narration in the audiobook. Listen to these insanely competent SEAL officers tell you exactly how to make a team successful through their firsthand experiences in business and combat." - The Hustle
An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership audiobook that took... Read more
We Do This āTil We Free Us
By: Mariame Kaba
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you... Read more
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Consumed
By: Aja Barber
Narrated by: Aja Barber
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A call to action for consumers everywhere,Ā ConsumedĀ asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system.Ā
We live in a world of stuff. We dispose of most of it in as little as six months after we receive it. The byproducts of our quest to consume are... Read more
The End of Race Politics
By: Coleman Hughes
Narrated by: Coleman Hughes
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called āanti-racistā movement is driving usāironicallyātoward a new kind of racism.
As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic... Read more
How Big Things Get Done
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
āWhy do big projects go wrong so often, and are there any lessons you can use when renovating your kitchen? Bent Flyvbjerg is the āmegaprojectā expert and Dan Gardner brings the storytelling skills to How Big Things Get Done, with examples ranging from a Jimi Hendrix studio to the Sydney Opera House.āāFinancial Times (Best Books of 2023 So... Read more
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Pathogenesis
By: Jonathan Kennedy
Narrated by: Jonathan Kennedy
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ A āgrippingā (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in historyāfrom the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalismāhave been shaped not by humans but by germs
āSuperbly written . . . Kennedy seamlessly weaves together scientific and historical research, and his confident authorial voice is sure... Read more
Weapons of Math Destruction
By: Cathy O'Neil
Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLERĀ ā¢Ā A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models thatĀ threaten to rip apart our social fabricāwith a new afterword
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āA manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.āāFinancial Times
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST ā¢Ā NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYĀ The... 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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Destiny of the Republic
By: Candice Millard
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months... Read more
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears.
Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated... Read more
The Power Broker: Volume 3 of 3
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 20 hours 41 minutes
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
What's Our Problem?
By: Tim Urban
Narrated by: Tim Urban
Length: 13 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the worldās most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articles about everything from AI to colonizing Mars to... Read more
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The Purpose of Power
By: Alicia Garza
Narrated by: Alicia Garza
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challengesĀ ofĀ our time, from oneĀ ofĀ theĀ countryās leading organizers and a co-creatorĀ ofĀ Black Lives Matter
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āExcellent and provocative . . . a gateway [to] urgent debates.āāKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Time ā¢ Marie Claire ā¢... Read more
Benjamin Franklin
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
Length: 24 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative... Read more
Vulture Capitalism
By: Grace Blakeley
Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the 2024 Womenās Prize for Nonfiction
A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for March 2024
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the... Read more
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
By: Saidiya Hartman
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday... Read more
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
By: Bill Gates
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton & Bill Gates
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--andĀ accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.
Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics,... Read more
The Demon of Unrest
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Will Patton & Erik Larson
Length: 17 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil Warāa simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Menās Health,... Read more
Attack from Within
By: Barbara McQuade
Narrated by: Barbara McQuade
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
MSNBC's legal expert breaks down the ways disinformation has become a tool to drive voters to extremes, disempower our legal structures, and consolidate power in the hands of the few.
American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformationāthe deliberate spreading of lies disguised as... Read more
Of Boys and Men
By: Richard V. Reeves
Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A positive vision for masculinity in a postfeminist worldBoys and men are struggling. Profound economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom, the workplace, and in the family. While the lives of women have changed, the lives of many men have remained the same or even worsened. Our attitudes, our... Read more
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The Shock Doctrine - Abridged
By: Naomi Klein
Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq
In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she... 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