Administrations of Lunacy
By: Mab Segrest
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, ninety percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a... Read more
View audiobookWe Want to Do More Than Survive
By: Bettina L. Love
Narrated by: Misty Monroe
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award
Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.
Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love... Read more
What an Owl Knows
By: Jennifer Ackerman
Narrated by: Jennifer Ackerman
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant New York Times bestseller!
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly
From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination
With their forward gaze and quiet flight, owls... Read more
Attached
By: Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
"A groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be in a relationship."
--John Gray, PhD., bestselling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
We already rely on science to tell us what to eat, when to exercise, and how long to sleep. Why not use science to help us improve our relationships? In this revolutionary book, psychiatrist... Read more
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
By: Marie Kondo
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?
Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate... Read more
No One Cares About Crazy People
By: Ron Powers
Narrated by: Ron Powers
Length: 14 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.
From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the... Read more
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
By: Brianna Wiest
Narrated by: Abby Craden
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see... Read more
View audiobookThe Maximum Security Book Club
By: Mikita Brottman
Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind... Read more
View audiobookThe Body
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
"Glorious. . .You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." —The Washington Post
Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a... Read more
The Man Who Caught the Storm
By: Brantley Hargrove
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post).
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last... Read more
Mind Magic
By: James R. Doty, MD
Narrated by: James R. Doty, MD
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing your dreams
For decades the practice of manifestation has been widely dismissed as self-involved, materialistic pseudoscience. But as neuroscientist and recognized compassion leader Dr. James Doty reveals, manifestation introduces us to different... Read more
Dirty Laundry
By: Richard Pink & Roxanne Emery
Narrated by: Richard Pink & Roxanne Emery
Length: 4 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
An empowering and witty guide to banishing shame and living your fullest life with ADHD—plus tips for loved ones on helping them navigate this world, too—from viral duo ADHD_Love.
What if you stopped feeling ashamed of constantly being late or of getting so hyperfocused on a task that you drop everything else you had to do? How can you as a... Read more
American Apartheid
By: Nancy A. Denton & Douglas S. Massey
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today through an interlocking set of individual actions, institutional practices, and... Read more
View audiobookThe Emperor of All Maladies
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer... Read more
View audiobookThe Intersectional Environmentalist
By: Leah Thomas
Narrated by: Leah Thomas, Hayden Bishop & Erin Walker
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change. The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental... Read more
View audiobookThe Unsettling of America
By: Wendell Berry
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. Init, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takesfarming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from... Read more
View audiobookBy the Time You Read This
By: Cheslie Kryst & April Simpkins
Narrated by: April Simpkins & Emana Rachelle
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter’s life.The text read, “By the time you get this …” This is the story of Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA, in her own... Read more
View audiobookThis Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The instant New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of the Year
“Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways.” —New York Times Book Review
From #1 New York Times bestselling author... Read more
Inflamed
By: Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
Narrated by: Raj Patel & Rupa Marya
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the authors.
Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world.
The Covid... Read more
Beaverland
By: Leila Philip
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how... Read more
View audiobookThe Source
By: Tara Swart
Narrated by: Tara Swart
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
For the first time, a Neuroscientist and Senior Lecturer at MIT reveals the surprising science that supports The Law of Attraction as an effective tool for self-discovery and offers a guide to discovering your authentic self to access your best life now.Self-help books like The Secret show us that if we can tap into “The Law of Attraction,” we... Read more
View audiobookThe World-Ending Fire
By: Wendell Berry
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities.The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the... Read more
View audiobookOur Moon
By: Rebecca Boyle
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to our history, and awesome in the original sense of the word.”—Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of An Immense World
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Many of us know that... Read more
Anxiously Attached
By: Jessica Baum, LMHC
Narrated by: Jessica Baum, LMHC
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A road map for building strong and secure relationships for those who struggle with anxiety in their romantic connections.
An estimated 47 million Americans identify as having an anxious attachment style, which can make being in relationships turbulent and emotionally taxing for them. According to groundbreaking research in the field of... Read more