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Last Boat Out of Shanghai
By: Helen Zia
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 17 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution.
Shanghai has historically been China's jewel, its richest, most modern, and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class... Read more
Hitler’s Death
By: Luke Daly-Groves
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In Hitler's Death, author and expert Luke Daly-Groves rigorously looks at the question: Did Hitler shoot himself in the Führerbunker or did he slip past the Soviets and escape to South America? Countless documentaries, newspaper articles, and internet pages written by conspiracy theorists have led the ongoing debate surrounding Hitler's last... Read more
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America Before
By: Graham Hancock
Narrated by: Graham Hancock
Length: 17 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From the host of Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse
This program is read by the author.
Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA... Read more
Hacking Darwin
By: Jamie Metzl
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives—sex, war, love, and death.
At the dawn of the genetics revolution, our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. But as... Read more
Cruising Utopia
By: José Esteban Muñoz
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.
Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz... Read more
We Speak for Ourselves
By: D. Watkins
Narrated by: D. Watkins
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening, the pages of We Speak for Ourselves “are abundant with wisdom and wit;... Read more
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The Moment of Lift
By: Melinda Gates
Narrated by: Melinda Gates
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
**One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019**
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Now with a new afterword!
How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings—and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most... Read more
The Wind Is My Mother
By: Bear Heart
Narrated by: Larry Winters
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world. Read more
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Chasing Cosby
By: Nicole Weisensee Egan
Narrated by: Nicole Weisensee Egan
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive account of Bill Cosby's transition from revered father figure to convicted criminal, told by a veteran crime reporter and former senior writer for People magazine
Bill Cosby's decades-long career as a sweater-wearing, wholesome TV dad came to a swift and stunning end on April 26, 2018, when he was convicted of drugging and... Read more
The Power of Sports
By: Michael Serazio
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
In an increasingly secular, fragmented, and distracted culture, nothing brings Americans together quite like sports. On Sundays in September, more families worship at the altar of the NFL than at any church. This appeal, which cuts across all demographic and ideological lines, makes sports perhaps the last unifying mass ritual of our era, with... Read more
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HUNGER
By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Sabrina Gander
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Sie schreibt die Geschichte ihres Hungers. Sie schreibt die Geschichte ihres Körpers. Es ist keine Geschichte des Triumphs. Es ist die eines Lebens, das in zwei Hälften geteilt ist. Es gibt das Vorher und das Nachher. Bevor sie zunahm und danach. Bevor sie vergewaltigt wurde und danach. Roxane Gay, eine der brillantesten, klügsten und... Read more
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Sexual Politics
By: Kate Millett
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 21 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors?D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet?and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy,... Read more
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Giving Done Right
By: Phil Buchanan
Narrated by: Mark Feuerstein
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A practical guide to philanthropy at all levels of giving that seeks to educate and inspire
A majority of American households give to charity in some form or another--from local donations to food banks, religious organizations, or schools, to contributions to prevent disease or protect basic freedoms. Whether you're in a position to give $1 or... Read more
Falter
By: Bill McKibben
Narrated by: Bill McKibben & Oliver Wyman
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Oliver Wyman's] skillful, nuanced performance is enough to keep listeners from tossing their earbuds aside in despair...This isn't easy listening, but it's essential for anyone concerned about humanity's future." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes a foreword read by the author.
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest... Read more
Republic of Lies
By: Anna Merlan
Narrated by: Anna Merlan & Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
"This well-produced audiobook is also well researched, and well intentioned." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.
American... Read more
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez
By: Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Narrated by: Aaron Bobrow-Strain & Frankie Corzo
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
**One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019**
This program includes a chapter read by the author.
What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system?
When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother... Read more
Cities
By: Monica L. Smith
Narrated by: Monica L. Smith
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
"A revelation of the drive and creative flux of the metropolis over time."--Nature
"This is a must-read book for any city dweller with a voracious appetite for understanding the wonders of cities and why we're so attracted to them."--Zahi Hawass, author of Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt
A sweeping history of cities through the millennia--from... Read more
The Human Swarm
By: Mark W. Moffett
Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length: 15 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species
If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles--or Borneo--with very little fear.... Read more
A Lot of People Are Saying
By: Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead
Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton reveals how the new conspiracists are undermining democracy—and explains what can be done about it
Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government... Read more
Best. Movie. Year. Ever.
By: Brian Raftery
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999—“a terrifically fun snapshot of American film culture on the brink of the Millennium….An absolute must for any movie-lover or pop-culture nut” (Gillian Flynn).
In 1999, Hollywood as we know it exploded: Fight Club. The Matrix. Office Space.... Read more
White
By: Bret Easton Ellis
Narrated by: Bret Easton Ellis
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Own it, snowflakes: you've lost everything you claim to hold dear.
White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates his... Read more
The Second Mountain
By: David Brooks
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.
“Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.”—The Washington Post
Every so often, you meet... Read more
Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody
By: James H. Cone
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
James H. Cone is widely recognized as the founder of Black Liberation Theology—a synthesis of the Gospel message embodied by Martin Luther King, Jr., and the spirit of Black pride embodied by Malcolm X. Prompted by the Detroit riots and the death of King, Cone, a young theology professor, was impelled to write his first book, Black Theology and... Read more
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Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education
By: Nathan D. Grawe
Narrated by: BJ Harrison
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Higher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest. As a result, the Northeast and Midwest—traditional higher education strongholds—expect to lose five percent of their college-aged populations between now and the... Read more
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