Extremism
By: J.M. Berger
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition—a logical starting point in a search for understanding—tells us only that extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme." In this volume in the MIT Press... Read more
View audiobookEra of Ignition
By: Amber Tamblyn
Narrated by: Amber Tamblyn, Airea D. Matthews & Meredith Tal...
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A passionate and deeply personal exploration of feminism during divisive times from one of the founders of Time’s Up: actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn.
“A work of personal upheaval and political reckoning.”—Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad
Amber Tamblyn has emerged as an outspoken advocate for... Read more
Dear America: Young Readers' Edition
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In this young readers’ adaptation of his adult memoir Dear America, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas tells his story, in light of the 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States.
Jose Antonio Vargas was only twelve years old when he was brought to the United States from the... Read more
Spies of No Country
By: Matti Friedman
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff—but it's all true.
The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, conceived during World War... Read more
The Case for Trump
By: Victor Davis Hanson
Narrated by: David Lertham
Length: 17 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In this newly revised edition of The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a quarter-billion-dollar war chest, and a hostile media and Washington... Read more
View audiobookThe Women’s Suffrage Movement
By: Sally Roesch Wagner
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the 2020 centennial of women's right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria Steinem
Comprised of historical texts spanning two centuries, The Women's Suffrage Movement is a comprehensive and singular volume that covers... Read more
An American Summer
By: Alex Kotlowitz
Narrated by: Alex Kotlowitz
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNER
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.
The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What... Read more
Dark Agenda
By: David Horowitz
Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author David Horwitz exposes not only the progressive war against Christianity but also a war against America and its founding principles—which are Christian in their origin. Dark Agenda is about an embattled religion, but, most of all, it is about our imperiled nation. Tackling a broad range of issues from prayer in... Read more
View audiobookThe End of the Myth
By: Greg Grandin
Narrated by: Eric Pollins
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
*WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION*
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall.
Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing... Read more
Madame Fourcade's Secret War
By: Lynne Olson
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 16 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island
“Brava to Lynne Olson for a biography that should challenge any outdated assumptions about who deserves to... Read more
Radical Transformational Leadership
By: Monica Sharma
Narrated by: Robert Sherwood
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Monica Sharma describes how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values such as dignity, compassion, fairness, and courage. Drawing on more than twenty years of work for the United Nations and elsewhere, she presents a radical new approach to transformational leadership, one that creates... Read more
View audiobookReal Queer America
By: Samantha Allen
Narrated by: Samantha Allen
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's... Read more
This Chair Rocks
By: Ashton Applewhite
Narrated by: Ashton Applewhite
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
“Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.”
—Anne Lamott, New York Times... Read more
Food Routes
By: Robyn S. Metcalfe
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In Food Routes, Robyn Metcalfe explores an often-overlooked aspect of the global food system: how food moves from producer to consumer. She finds that the food supply chain is adapting to our increasingly complex demands for both personalization and convenience—but, she says, it won't be an easy ride.
Networked, digital tools will improve the... Read more
History of Big Recessions
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Tracy Tupman
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A recession is a decline in economic activity for a period of at least half a year. The world has seen several recessions of varying degrees. Every part of the human inhabitable world has experienced a recession at a point of history. Compared to the underdeveloped and developing countries, the developed nations usually fall into definitive... Read more
View audiobookPrisoners of Politics
By: Rachel Elise Barkow
Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The United States has the world’s highest rate of incarceration, a form of punishment that ruins lives and makes a return to prison more likely. As awful as that truth is for individuals and their families, its social consequences?recycling offenders through an overwhelmed criminal-justice system, ever-mounting costs, unequal treatment before... Read more
View audiobookBloomberg QuickTake: Climate Change
By: Bloomberg News
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall, Lesa Lockford & Pete Cross
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
This volume of Bloomberg QuickTake focuses on the rapid upheaval in our daily lives as a result of Climate Change. With sections on Finance & Capital Markets, Trade, Global Governance, Urbanization, Inclusion, and Technology, these short synopses of current events allow listeners to delve into hard-to-explain topics with ease. Read more
View audiobookWhy Nations and Economies Can Fail
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Tracy Tupman
Length: 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The world is currently in a relatively peaceful state with billions of people living under a comfortable roof and feels warm enough during winter nights. Many do not suffer, but it is very possible for all these things to be flipped over in a matter of days. The economy and ‘peaceful’ nations that we see today are not forever. Take Greek, for... Read more
View audiobookJuntos hicimos historia
By: Tatiana Clouthier
Narrated by: Tatiana Clouthier & Rocío Velázquez
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Un libro que consigna, en primera persona, lo que Tatiana Clouthier vio, vivió y creó en la campaña presidencial 2018 de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. No me canso de agradecer a la vida el haberme puesto ante este reto histórico: ser una más para cambiar a México por la vía pacífica y democrática. En este texto comparto cómo viví estos cerca de... Read more
View audiobookStand Out of Our Light
By: James Williams
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Former Google advertising executive, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce... Read more
View audiobookBoss Tweed: The Life and Legacy of the Notorious Politician Who Ran Tammany Hall in New York City
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Scott Clem
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.” – Boss Tweed“It's hard not to admire the skill behind Tweed's system ... The Tweed ring at its height was an engineering marvel, strong and solid, strategically deployed to control key power points: the courts, the legislature, the treasury and the ballot box. Its... Read more
View audiobookWitchcraft Activism
By: David Salisbury
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A hands-on guide from an experienced activist with tips on everything from joining activist groups to conjuring spells for self-protection.
There is a movement on the rise, one that brings the worlds of social justice and political activism together with the practice of witchcraft. Activists wish to add magical methods to their arsenal, while... Read more
My Dear Boy
By: Joanie Holzer Schirm
Narrated by: Kate Mulligan & Traber Burns
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
After the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm’s parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together by rusted paperclips and stamped with censor marks, sent from Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, China, and South and North America, along with journals, vintage film, taped interviews, and photographs. In working through these various materials... Read more
View audiobookWar Flower
By: Brooke King
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Brooke King has been asked over and over what it’s like to be a woman in combat, but she knows her answer is not what the public wants to hear. The answers people seek lie in the graphic details of war—the sex, death, violence, and reality of it all as she experienced it. In her riveting memoir War Flower, King breaks her silence and reveals the... Read more
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