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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.

“Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about... Read more

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The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Serviceberry
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Serviceberry

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.

As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests... Read more

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The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

The Anthropocene Reviewed

By: John Green

Narrated by: John Green

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking

The instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down, is...
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Caste (Oprah's Book Club) by Isabel Wilkerson
Caste (Oprah's Book Club)
Isabel Wilkerson
Caste (Oprah's Book Club) by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Isabel Wilkerson

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the... Read more

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How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface.

“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The... Read more

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All About Love by bell hooks
All About Love
bell hooks
All About Love by bell hooks

All About Love

By: bell hooks

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' ""Love Song to the Nation"" trilogy.  All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring,... Read more

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Wordslut by Amanda Montell
Wordslut
Amanda Montell
Wordslut by Amanda Montell

Wordslut

By: Amanda Montell

Narrated by: Amanda Montell

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“As funny as it is informative, this book will have you laughing out loud while you contemplate the revolutionary power of words.”Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met CassidyA brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us.The word bitch conjures many images for... Read more

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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Alice Wong
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

By: Alice Wong

Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina & Alice Wong

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of... Read more

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Christmas and Other Horrors by Ellen Datlow
Christmas and Other Horrors
Ellen Datlow
Christmas and Other Horrors by Ellen Datlow

Christmas and Other Horrors

By: Ellen Datlow

Narrated by: Carrie Coello & Andrew J. Andersen

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Hugo Award–winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horror anthology of original short stories exploring the endless terrors of winter solstice traditions across the globe, featuring chillers by Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, and many more.



The winter solstice is celebrated as a time of... Read more

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Cultish by Amanda Montell
Cultish
Amanda Montell
Cultish by Amanda Montell

Cultish

By: Amanda Montell

Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers“At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that you don't realize you're in one till it's too... Read more

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Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Doppelganger
Naomi Klein
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Doppelganger

By: Naomi Klein

Narrated by: Naomi Klein

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"An elegant hybrid of memoir and social science that traces the motif of the double throughout history, literature and Klein's personal life."—The New York Times

“If ever a book was necessary, it’s this one.” —Bill McKibben

“Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer... Read more

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How To Tell When We Will Die by Johanna Hedva
How To Tell When We Will Die
Johanna Hedva
How To Tell When We Will Die by Johanna Hedva

How To Tell When We Will Die

By: Johanna Hedva

Narrated by: Johanna Hedva

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.   In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to... Read more

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Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Revenge of the Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Revenge of the Tipping Point

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A lot has changed in 25 years. A quarter-century after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light — this time in an immersive audio format that transports you, the listener, directly inside of each riveting... Read more

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Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell
Vanishing Treasures
Katherine Rundell
Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell

Vanishing Treasures

By: Katherine Rundell

Narrated by: Lenny Henry & Katherine Rundell

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book from Boston Globe, Parade, & Literary Hub • From the award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural world

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and... Read more

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Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a... Read more

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Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
Rest Is Resistance
Tricia Hersey
Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey

Rest Is Resistance

By: Tricia Hersey

Narrated by: Tricia Hersey

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy by connecting to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to elevate rest as a form of resistance and a divine human right.

What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too... Read more

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The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell
The Age of Magical Overthinking
Amanda Montell
The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell

The Age of Magical Overthinking

By: Amanda Montell

Narrated by: Amanda Montell

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of 2024

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.

Utilizing the linguistic... Read more

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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow
The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber & David Wengrow
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow

The Dawn of Everything

By: David Graeber & David Wengrow

Narrated by: Mark Williams

Length: 24 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today." - The New York Times

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social...
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The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns

By: Isabel Wilkerson

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 22 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE... Read more

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
Tim Alberta
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

By: Tim Alberta

Narrated by: Tim Alberta

Length: 18 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times BestsellerOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearAn Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year""Brave and absorbing."" -- New York Times“Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in vivid hues.” -- Washington Post“An astonishingly... Read more

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White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
White Fragility
Dr. Robin DiAngelo
White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo

White Fragility

By: Dr. Robin DiAngelo

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white... Read more

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT

Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal... Read more

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

By: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Narrated by: Jason Reynolds

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America


This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.

The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... Read more

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Burnout by Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Burnout
Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Burnout by Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA

Burnout

By: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA

Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead

“A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves, Burnout is essential reading [and] . . . excels in its intersectionality.”—Bustle
 
This... Read more

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