The Cuckoo's Egg
By: Cliff Stoll
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic... Read more
View audiobookThe Teachers
By: Alexandra Robbins
Narrated by: Alexandra Robbins
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
***A National Bestseller***
A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what’s really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins.
Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always... Read more
After the Ivory Tower Falls
By: Will Bunch
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American lifeWinner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award | Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | ""This book is simply terrific."" —Heather Cox Richardson | ""Ambitious and... Read more
View audiobookHealing Resistance
By: Kazu Haga
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anybody engaged in social progress and shifting society will find this mindful approach to nonviolent action indispensable.
Nonviolence was once considered the highest form of activism and radical change. And yet its basic truth, its restorative power, has been... Read more
The Trauma of Caste
By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Narrated by: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.
“Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the world’s oldest, longest-running dominator... Read more
The Biggest Prison on Earth
By: Ilan Pappe
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine left off.
Publishing on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a... Read more
The Grift
By: Clay Cane
Narrated by: Clay Cane
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
GRIFTER [grif-ter] noun
1. a con or scam artist, a hustler or a sell-out
After the Civil War, the pillars of Black Republicanism were a balanced critique of both political parties, civil rights for all Americans, reinventing an economy based on exploitation, and, most importantly, building thriving Black communities. How did Black Republicanism... Read more
UFO
By: Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 18 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded.” —The Wall Street Journal
From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history) comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government’s decades-long... Read more
Systems Thinking For Social Change
By: David Peter Stroh
Narrated by: Tia Rider
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end... Read more
View audiobookRise and Kill First
By: Ronen Bergman
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 25 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first definitive history of Israel’s targeted killing programs, which have shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the larger world—from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter.”
“An exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject . . . full of... Read more
The Wake Up
By: Michelle MiJung Kim
Narrated by: Michelle MiJung Kim
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This informative guide helps allies who want to go beyond rigid Diversity and Inclusion best practices, with real tools to go from good intentions to making meaningful change in any situation or venue.
As we become more aware of various social injustices in the world, many of us want to be part of the movement toward positive change. But... Read more
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
By: Edmund Morris
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 26 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt ... Read more
Losing Our Religion
By: Russell Moore
Narrated by: Russell Moore
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repentance and renewal in American evangelicalism
American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian... Read more
Young and Restless
By: Mattie Kahn
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
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A "heartening inspiration"(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls
Nine... Read more
Homelessness is a Housing Problem
By: Clayton Page Aldern & Gregg Colburn
Narrated by: Adam Verner
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area.... Read more
View audiobookTheodore Rex
By: Edmund Morris
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 25 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension.”—San Francisco Chronicle
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • “[Theodore Rex] is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of... Read more
The Conspiracy to End America
By: Stuart Stevens
Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to understand the stakes.” –Nicole Wallace
A former chief Republican strategist and bestselling author of It Was All a Lie offers an ominous warning that the G.O.P. is dragging our country towards autocracy, and if we don’t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024 may well be... Read more
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
By: Fareed Zakaria
Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come?
Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and bestselling author Fareed Zakaria helps listeners to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the... Read more
Amity and Prosperity
By: Eliza Griswold
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
*Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction*
Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a... Read more
Say More
By: Jen Psaki
Narrated by: Jen Psaki
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she’s learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation.
Not many White House Press Secretaries capture the nation’s interest the way Jen Psaki did. Refreshingly... Read more
Half-Earth Socialism
By: Drew Pendergrass & Troy Vettese
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A plan to save the earth and bring the good life to allIn this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a radical plan to address climate disaster and guarantee the good life for all. Consumption in the global North can’t continue unabated, and we must give... Read more
View audiobookJews Don’t Count
By: David Baddiel
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
North American Edition of the UK Bestseller How identity politics failed one particular identity. ‘a must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do.’ SARAH SILVERMAN ‘a masterpiece.’STEPHEN FRY Jews Don’t Count is a book for... Read more
View audiobookToo Much and Never Enough
By: Mary L. Trump
Narrated by: Mary L. Trump
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social... Read more
View audiobookWe Don't Know Ourselves
By: Fintan O'Toole
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
Length: 22 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society—perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history.
Born to a working-class family in the... Read more