Cover-Ups & Secrets
By: Nick Redfern
Narrated by: Ellis Evans
Length: 17 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
More and more people are beginning to realize that we are being manipulated and lied to. We are denied access to secrets that shouldn’t be secrets. Our politicians obfuscate, deny, and outright lie. No one knows whom to trust. The nightly news is being replaced by carefully orchestrated propaganda. Our iPhones are monitored as are our laptops... Read more
View audiobookThe Measure of Madness
By: Cheryl Paradis
Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
At the heart of countless crimes lie the mysteries of the human mind. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Cheryl Paradis draws back the curtain on the fascinating world of forensic psychology, and revisits the most notorious and puzzling cases she has handled in her multifaceted career.
Her riveting, sometimes shocking stories reveal the crucial and... Read more
Queer Intentions
By: Amelia Abraham
Narrated by: Amelia Abraham
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020
‘Eloquent, empathetic and passionate, this book will not just resonate with a new generation of queer people, but with all those who seek to be their allies. A brilliant book.’ Owen Jones
Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But... Read more
La tropa
By: Daniela Rea & Pablo Ferri
Narrated by: Rubén Hernández
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Desde que el Ejército asumió el papel de la policía, una persona muere cada día a manos de militares en México. ¿Qué hay detrás de esas muertes? En estas páginas se encuentran respuestas que revelan un rostro terrible, fracturado, sangriento y al mismo tiempo conmovedor. Un soldado mata y una parte del Estado se rompe. Algo que no debería... Read more
View audiobookThe Prison Teacher
By: Mim Skinner
Narrated by: Mim Skinner
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Darkly funny, heartbreakingly poignant and stark in its revelations about the UK's attitude towards people on the fringes of society and women in general, JAILBIRDS is this year's book you need to read.
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"Did you know . . .
. . . that 48 per cent of the women in prison have committed an offence in order to support the drug use of someone else?
.... Read more
Conformity
By: Cass R. Sunstein
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
We live in an era of tribalism, polarization, and intense social division—separating people along lines of religion, political conviction, race, ethnicity, and sometimes gender. How did this happen? In Conformity, Cass R. Sunstein argues that the key to making sense of living in this fractured world lies in understanding the idea of... Read more
View audiobookAmerica at Night
By: Larry J. Kolb
Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A former CIA spy and author of Overworld recounts the stories of master criminals Robert Sensi and Richard Hirschfeld, describing their ties to the Republican Party and al-Qaeda, their numerous multi-million-dollar investment scams, and the partnership by which they smuggled billionaire Russian mafiosos into the United States. Read more
View audiobookAn Invisible Thread
By: Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy that began with one small gesture of kindness, this is a “ray of hope for a better future, as well as an assurance that... Read more
View audiobookThe New Negro
By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 45 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar and... Read more
View audiobookDiversity Beyond Lip Service
By: La'Wana Harris
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
"La'Wana Harris has opened this coach's eyes to the power of coaching practices to create new paths for diversity and inclusion work—whether or not you are formally trained as a coach. Please read this book and help create workplaces with honest engagement and access for all."
—Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers 50 #1 Executive Coach and two-time #1... Read more
Because of Sex
By: Gillian Thomas
Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate "because of sex." But that simple phrase didn't mean much until ordinary women began using the law to get justice on the job—and some took... Read more
View audiobookLa guerra más larga de la Historia
By: Lola Venegas, Isabel M. Reverte & Margó Venegas
Narrated by: Rosa Quintana
Length: 13 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
4.000 años de violencia contra las mujeres. La violencia contra la mujer, la intromisión violenta del Estado y de los hombres para controlar el cuerpo de las mujeres, está documentada desde hace casi 4000 años. Este audiolibro, entre el reportaje periodístico y el ensayo divulgativo, habla de crímenes de honor, de abortos clandestinos, de... Read more
View audiobookSvartsjukans förbannelse
By: Diverse
Narrated by: Monica Einarson
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
De två ungdomarna, Sinni och Junnu, gick i skolan tillsammans. De blev kära i varandra och flyttade så småningom ihop. Deras första år tillsammans gick bra -- de fick till och med ett barn tillsammans. Men sedan började Junnu visa up en svartsjuk sida som snabbt eskalerade till våldhandlingar mot Sinni. Deras relation tog slut men Junnu... Read more
View audiobookInstant Communication Skills
By: The INSTANT-Series
Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
How to Improve Communications Skills Instantly!
Are you having trouble being heard or problem being misunderstood?
Nowadays, it's more mandatory than ever to have good communication skill!
Do you find it hard to talk to people, or when you do, you don't know exactly what to say and can't get the words out, not speaking very well, causing you... Read more
Food
By: Fabio Parasecoli
Narrated by: Levi Squier
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped from Chile, and the coffee in our coffee maker grown in Nicaragua, roasted in Germany, and distributed in Canada? Whether we... Read more
View audiobookMarriageology
By: Belinda Luscombe
Narrated by: Belinda Luscombe
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A smart and concise guide to staying together that draws on scientific findings, expert advice, and years in the marital trenches to explain why marriage is better for your health, your finances, your kids, and your happiness
Like you, probably, Belinda Luscombe would rather have had her eyes put out than read a book about marriage; they all... Read more
The Infinite Desire for Growth
By: Daniel Cohen
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The Infinite Desire for Growth spotlights the obsession with wanting more, and the global tensions that have arisen as a result. Amid finite resources, increasing populations, environmental degradation, and political unrest, the quest for new social and individual goals has never been so critical.
Leading economist Daniel Cohen provides a... Read more
Gay New York
By: George Chauncey
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 18 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents,... Read more
Superior
By: Angela Saini
Narrated by: Hannah Melbourn
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
2019 Best-Of Lists: 10 Best Science Books of the Year (Smithsonian Magazine) · Best Science Books of the Year (NPR's Science Friday) · Best Science and Technology Books from 2019” (Library Journal)
An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences.
Superior tells the disturbing story of the... Read more
The Book of Pride
By: Mason Funk
Narrated by: Mason Funk, Robin Miles, Eileen Stevens, Kevin ...
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, often without the support of family or... Read more
View audiobookAfter Life
By: Alice Marie Johnson
Narrated by: Machelle Williams
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Foreword by Kim Kardashian WestThe true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking was commuted by President Donald Trump thanks to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West—an inspiring memoir of faith, hope, mercy, and gratitude.How do you hold on to hope after more than twenty years of imprisonment? For Alice Marie... Read more
View audiobookWomen & Power
By: Mary Beard
Narrated by: Mary Beard
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller
One of the Guardian's "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" — "A modern feminist classic."
From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power.
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly... Read more
The Unforgiven
By: Edith Brady-Lunny & Steve Vogel
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
It's a case reminiscent of the explosive story of Susan Smith, convicted in the drownings of her two young sons in South Carolina. But in The Unforgiven, three young children are in the back seat of a car driven by Amanda Hamm's boyfriend as it slips into an Illinois lake. Amanda and her boyfriend survive. Her three children do not.
The... Read more
The Queen
By: Josh Levin
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a "wild, only-in-America story" of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author).
On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony... Read more