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A Brief History of Vice
By: Robert Evans
Narrated by: Tristan Morris
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun—or more intoxicating.
Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern... Read more
Better Living Through Birding
By: Christian Cooper
Narrated by: Christian Cooper
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.
"Wondrous . . . captivating.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World
Christian Cooper is a self-described... Read more
Noopiming
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of... Read more
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
By: James H. Cone
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. Read more
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By: Jane Sherron de Hart
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 24 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The first full life—private, public, legal, philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the justice, her husband, her children, her... Read more
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Permission to Come Home
By: Jenny Wang
Narrated by: Jenny Wang
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
Strengthen your sense of well-being and embrace empowering new approaches with this invaluable investigation into mental health in the Asian American community.
Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American... Read more
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
By: Mona Eltahawy
Narrated by: Mona Eltahawy
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid.
Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach to teaching women and girls to harness their... Read more
Bullshit Jobs
By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences.
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this... Read more
Dirty Work
By: Eyal Press
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who... Read more
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Why We Die
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
Narrated by: John Moraitis
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
""Utterly fascinating."" —Bill Bryson""An incredible journey."" —Siddhartha MukherjeeA groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki RamakrishnanThe knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. One of the most difficult moments of... Read more
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Fibershed
By: Rebecca Burgess
Narrated by: Tia Rider
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear--by a leader in the movement for local textile economies There is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land, air, water, labor, and human health. Even those who value access to safe, local, nutritious food have largely overlooked the production of fiber,... Read more
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Nonviolent Communication
By: Emy Rice
Narrated by: David Martin
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
What is Nonviolent Communication? Nonviolent Communication is the integration of 4 things: - Consciousness: a set of concepts that support living a life of empathy, collaboration, credibility, and gutsLanguage: comprehending how words contribute to connection or rangeCommunication: understanding how to request for what we want, how to hear... Read more
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Material Girls
By: Kathleen Stock
Narrated by: Kathleen Stock
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard
'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday Times
Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an... Read more
The Lost Flock
By: Jane Cooper
Narrated by: Jane Cooper
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The Lost Flock is the story of the remarkable and rare little horned sheep, known as Orkney Boreray, and the wool-obsessed woman who moved to one of Scotland’s wildest islands to save them. It was Jane Cooper’s passion for knitting that led her to discover the world of rare-breed sheep and their wool. Through this, Jane uncovered the ‘Orkney... Read more
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Empireland
By: Sathnam Sanghera
Narrated by: Homer Todiwala & Marlon James
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colonial past. Empireland boldly and lucidly makes the case that in order to understand America, we must first understand British... Read more
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Fair Play
By: Eve Rodsky
Narrated by: Eve Rodsky
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."--Reese Witherspoon
Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way...
It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent... Read more
The Precipice
By: Toby Ord
Narrated by: Toby Ord
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the world’s leading moral voices, this urgent and eye-opening book makes the case thatprotecting humanity’s future is the central challenge of our time.If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years—enough time toend disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways... Read more
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Play
By: Stuart Brown, MD & Christopher Vaughan
Narrated by: Michael Hinton
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happiness and intelligence throughout our lives.
We've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By... Read more
Afropessimism
By: Frank Wilderson, III
Narrated by: Frank Wilderson, III
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Combining trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of Blackness.Why does race seem to color almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery?in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms?continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black... Read more
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Eight Bears
By: Gloria Dickie
Narrated by: Cassidy Brown
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A global exploration of the eight remaining species of bears—and the dangers they face.
Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the modern toy shop. But as humans and bears come into ever-closer contact, our relationship nears a tipping... Read more
Rethinking Sex
By: Christine Emba
Narrated by: Christine Emba
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Part searing examination, part call to arms—a bold case against modern sexual ethics, from young Washington Post columnist Christine Emba.
For years now, modern-day sexual ethics has held that “anything goes” when it comes to sex—as long as everyone says yes, and does so enthusiastically. So why, even when consent has been ascertained, are so... Read more
Work
By: James Suzman
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
"This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman
Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth... Read more
All Over But the Shoutin' - Abridged
By: Rick Bragg
Narrated by: Rick Bragg
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a... Read more
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The Enchanted Life
By: Sharon Blackie
Narrated by: Fiona Reid
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Taking as her starting point the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales, and folk culture, Dr. Sharon Blackie offers a set of practical and grounded tools for enchanting our lives and the places we live, so leading to a greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the world. Enchantment. By Dr. Blackie’s definition, a... Read more
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