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By: Paulina Porizkova

Narrated by: Paulina Porizkova & Maria Shriver

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“A book about a rare life, profound love, profound grief, anxiety, self-assurance, empowerment, aging, loss, and joy. It is nuanced, complex, insightful, helpful, and constantly surprising.” —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of These Precious Days

Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective,... 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

What's Your Zip Code Story?

By: CJ Gross

Narrated by: Brandon Colbert

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Shedding light on class division, this audiobook offers solutions to class bias in the workplace by analyzing real experiences, social norms, education, wealth, and more.The renewed focus on class, race, and equality in the workplace and beyond is making an indelible mark on society. This clarion call for change is sweeping inequality from every... Read more

The Future Is Analog

By: David Sax

Narrated by: David Sax

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved author of The Revenge of Analog lays out a case for a human future--not the false technological utopia we've been living.

For years, consumers have been promised a simple, carefree digital future. We could live, work, learn, and play from the comforts of our homes, and have whatever we desire brought to our door with the flick of a... Read more

The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader - Abridged

By: Alison Halsall & Jonathan Warren

Narrated by: Tina Woods

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, William S. Armour, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Tesla Cariani, Matthew Cheney, Hillary Chute, Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban, Ramzi Fawaz, Margaret Galvan, Justin Hall, Alison Halsall, Lara Hedberg, Susanne Hochreiter, Sheena C. Howard, Rebecca Hutton, remus jackson, Keiko Miyajima, Chinmay Murali, Marina... Read more

Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers - Abridged

By: Emma Christopher Lirette

Narrated by: Linda Rigamer Lirette

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In recent years, shrimpers on the Louisiana coast have faced a historically dire shrimp season, with the price of shrimp barely high enough to justify trawling. Yet, many of them wouldn't consider leaving shrimping behind, despite having transferrable skills that could land them jobs in the oil and gas industry. Since 2001, shrimpers have faced... Read more

Die große Daniel Schreiber Box - Allein + Zuhause (ungekürzt)

By: Daniel Schreiber

Narrated by: Daniel Schreiber

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Allein" Zu keiner Zeit haben so viele Menschen allein gelebt, und nie war elementarer zu spüren, wie brutal das selbstbestimmte Leben in Einsamkeit umschlagen kann. Aber kann man überhaupt glücklich sein allein? Und warum wird in einer Gesellschaft von Individualisten das Alleinleben als schambehaftetes Scheitern wahrgenommen? Im Rückgriff auf... Read more

La humanización de un mono

By: Heike Behrend

Narrated by: Claudia Berdeja

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Mona, bufona, bruja, espía, mal espíritu o caníbal. Estos fueron algunos nombres que la población local utilizó para referirse a Heike Behrend durante sus investigaciones de campo en África Oriental. Con el tiempo, comprendió el significado de estos calificativos: eran formas que tenían los pueblos estudiados para referirse a lo extraño, a lo... Read more

Trust Kids!

By: carla bergman

Narrated by: Zach Bergman

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Trust Kids! weaves together essays, interviews, poems, and artwork from scholars, activists, and artists about our relationships with children in all areas of our lives.The contributors of Trust Kids! write from different backgrounds, genders, ages, and sexualities and combine past lineages with more recent child-rearing ideas to offer a fresh,... Read more

101 Reasons Why I'm Pissed

By: Pissy McMadd

Narrated by: Pissy McMadd

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Take a Humor Break from Political Correctness, Social Issues, Bad Habits, Anger Management, and Conspiracy Theories. A Crazy Unrehearsed and Hilarious 90+ Minute Discussion with Pissy McMadd and Her Friends! Read more

(In)visibles

By: Bárbara Anderson

Narrated by: Bárbara Anderson, Bern Hoffman & Liliana Barba

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Libro ganador de los premios Latino Book Awards 2023 con medalla de plata en las categorías "Mejor libro inspirador de no ficción" y "Mejor sitio web para promocionar el libro", y mención honorífica en "Mejor uso de fotos en el libro". Si en México más del 16% de la población, cerca de 21 millones o 1 de cada 6 mexicanos cuentan con algún tipo de... Read more

An Original Audiobook Adaptation of Nourishment

By: Fred Provenza

Narrated by: Fred Provenza

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"In Nourishment a wise observer of the land and the animals becomes transformed to learn the meaning of life."—Temple Grandin

**Reflections on feeding body and spirit in a world of change, adapted from the book Nourishment, read by author Fred Provenza**

Animal scientists have long considered domestic livestock to be too dumb to know how to... Read more

Ganz Unten - Mit einer Dokumentation der Folgen (ungekürzt)

By: Günter Wallraff

Narrated by: Ozan Ünal, Katharina Ceylan-Buckup & Anke Engelke

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Standardwerk des Investigativ-Journalismus ist erstmals vollständig als Hörbuch erhältlich: Mit einer deutschsprachigen Auflage von über fünf Millionen Exemplaren und Übersetzungen in fast 40 Ländern ist "Ganz unten" einer der sensationellsten Bucherfolge des Landes und entwickelte eine durchschlagende politische Wirkung. Die Erfahrungen,... Read more

El ABC del género

By: Mariana Gabarrot

Narrated by: Yunnuen Hidalgo

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Cuáles son las diferencias entre sexo y género? ¿Son biológicas o culturales? ¿Qué queremos decir cuando hablamos de feminismo? ¿Existe el patriarcado? ¿Cómo detectamos el machismo? ¿Por qué tanto debate sobre el lenguaje incluyente? ¿Qué significan y para que utilizamos las siglas lgbtttiq+? ¿Qué es el acoso y la violencia de género? ¿Cómo... Read more

Efekt niszczący

By: Anna Mierzyńska

Narrated by: Bartosz Głogowski

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Jak działa rosyjska propaganda i „soft war” towarzysząca napaści na Ukrainę? Jak stworzyć teorię spiskową i zmienić w zaraźliwy wirus? Jak za pomocą dezinformacji szczuć społeczeństwo przeciwko osobom LGBT? Audiobook Anny Mierzyńskiej daje narzędzia, by przeciwstawić się niszczącemu efektowi dezinformacji. To precyzyjna, wciągająca i poruszająca... Read more

Sacred Gender

By: Ariana Serpentine

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Create a spiritual connection to your gender and incorporate it into your personal practice. While exploring gender from a sacred perspective, Ariana Serpentine introduces you to trans and nonbinary figures from Pagan pantheons as well as spirits and deities that can help you achieve self-actualization.



With suggestions for making devotion more... Read more

Two Old Broads

By: Dr. M. E. Hecht & Whoopi Goldberg

Narrated by: Devon O'Day & Jackie Schlicher

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by renowned surgeon and expert on the art of aging, Dr. M.E. Hecht, with her friend Whoopi Goldberg lending her unique point of view, Two Old Broads is laugh out loud funny and?tells it like it is for all of us who left middle age in the dust and want to be present, positive, and as extraordinary as ever in our golden years.Whoopi joins... Read more

Home Bound

By: Vanessa A. Bee

Narrated by: Vanessa A. Bee & Sean Crisden

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this memoir of identity and discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define "home" and "belonging"—from her birth in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to her adoption, to experiencing housing insecurity in Europe and her eventual immigration to the US. After her parents' divorce, Vanessa traveled with her mother to Lyon and later to London, eventually... Read more

Letters to My Weird Sisters

By: Joanne Limburg

Narrated by: Jennifer Smith

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An autistic feminist author looks at women's history, in search of her 'weird sisters.'



It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it.



An autism... Read more

The Man the Most Attractive : Wonderful Stories of Krishna - Part 2

By: Dr. King & Swami Satyapriya

Narrated by: Dr. King

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of wonderful stories of Krishna from the 5000-year-old Indian scripture namely the Bhagavata. The word Krishna literally means someone who attracts. He is believed to be the incarnation of God on earth.In this part of the book, author discusses following episodesEpisode 1. Krishna – A darling of cowherd girlsEpisode 2. Was... Read more

Keeping Family Secrets

By: Margaret K. Nelson

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

All families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change with time. Nowadays a lesbian partnership, a "bastard" son, or a criminal grandfather might be of little or no consequence but could have unraveled a family at an earlier moment in history. Margaret K. Nelson is interested in how families keep secrets from each other and from... Read more

Ride or Die

By: Shanita Hubbard

Narrated by: Tovah Ott

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Cultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine in this important book, which dissects how hip hop has sidelined Black women's identity and emotional well-being.
  Do you have a “ride or die chick” in your life? A “ride or die chick” is a Black woman who holds down her family and community. She’s that friend or family member that you can... Read more

The Other Side of Prospect

By: Nicholas Dawidoff

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native Nicholas Dawidoff returned home and spent eight years reporting the deeper story of this injustice, and... Read more

My Soul Look Back in Wonder

By: Geneva Napoleon Smitherman

Narrated by: Carmen Jewel Jones

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka "Dr. G," the pioneering linguist often referred to as the "Queen of Black Language." In a series of narrative essays, Dr. G writes eloquently and powerfully about the role of language in social transformation and the academic, intellectual, linguistic, and societal debates that shaped her... Read more