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Descent to Mars
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
Gates of the Arctic
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
Gender Trouble
By: Judith Butler
Narrated by: Emily Beresford
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.
Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, "essential" notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category "woman" and continues in this vein... Read more
Fred Beckey Is Still On the Loose
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
White like Her
By: Gail Lukasik
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century... Read more
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The Future
By: Nick Montfort
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge series, Nick Montfort argues that the future is something to be made, not predicted. Montfort offers what he considers essential knowledge about the future, as seen in the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers (mainly in Western culture) who developed and described the core... Read more
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Can't Nothing Bring Me Down
By: Ida Keeling
Narrated by: Lisa Renee' Pitts
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
It's never too late to do the impossible. Meet Ida Keeling, a 104-year-old mother, activist, and world record-holding runner. Her fierce independence and deep faith carried her through the Depression and the civil rights movement--but her greatest trials were yet to come.Miss Ida, as she is known in her community in the Bronx, grew up as a child... Read more
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Death and Anger on Everest
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
After the Fall
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
The Abundance of Less
By: Andy Couturier
Narrated by: Adam Riley
Length: 14 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspiring stories of 10 people who left urban Japan to live ‘the simple life’ in the rural mountains—for anyone interested in sustainable living, Japanese counterculture, and Eastern spirituality
“Subversive in the best possible way.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author
The Abundance of Less captures the texture of sustainable... Read more
Regretting Motherhood
By: Orna Donath
Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A provocative and deeply important study of women’s lives, women’s choices—and an ‘unspoken taboo’—that questions the societal pressures forcing women into motherhood
Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be... Read more
Superfans
By: George Dohrmann
Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America’s most obsessive sports fans.
There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what distinguishes an ordinary, everyday enthusiast from... Read more
Making Sense of the Alt-Right
By: George Hawley
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
During the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political lexicon: the "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech-savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online,... Read more
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Workin' Our Way Home
By: Ron Hall
Narrated by: Barry Scott & Daniel Butler
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me! After Miss Debbie's death in 2000, her husband, Ron formed an even stronger bond with Denver, a homeless ex-con. Ron's touching memoir chronicles how their shared devotion to Debbie led them to work toward fulfilling her vision: to ease the pain associated with poverty, homelessness, and... Read more
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Backwards and in Heels
By: Alicia Malone
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”—Ann RichardsWomen have been instrumental in the success of American cinema since its very beginning. One of the first people to ever pick up a motion picture camera was a woman, as was the first screenwriter to win two Academy Awards,... Read more
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Fair Shot
By: Chris Hughes
Narrated by: Chris Hughes
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In this fascinating audiobook, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues that the best way to fight income inequality is with a radically simple idea: a guaranteed income for working people, paid for by the one percent.
The first half of Chris Hughes’s life played like a movie reel right out of the “American Dream.” He grew up in a small town in... Read more
The Food Explorer
By: Daniel Stone
Narrated by: Daniel Stone
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a turn-of-the-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes—and thousands more—to the American plate.
“Fascinating.”—The New York Times Book Review • “Fast-paced adventure writing.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Richly descriptive.”—Kirkus •... Read more
Everything You Love Will Burn
By: Vegas Tenold
Narrated by: Vegas Tenold
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political power
Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. At the... Read more
Fair Play
By: James M. Olson
Narrated by: Joel Richards
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and... Read more
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Whitewash
By: Carey Gillam
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
It's the herbicide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it's in the air we breathe, our water, our soil, and even found increasingly in our own bodies. Known as Monsanto's Roundup by consumers, and as glyphosate by scientists, the world's most popular weed killer is used everywhere from backyard gardens to golf courses to millions of... Read more
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Inside Studio 54
By: Mark Fleischman
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up hundred-dollar bills. In the early eighties, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most... Read more
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The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination
By: Lamar Waldron
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 16 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
November 22, 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the tragedy that has haunted America ever since. For the first time, this concise and compelling book pierces the veil of secrecy to fully document the small, tightly-held conspiracy that killed President John F. Kennedy. It explains why he was murdered, and how it was done in a way that forced... Read more
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The Great Stain
By: Noel Rae
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 24 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Comprising personal accounts from an intensely consequential chapter in human history, the transatlantic slave trade, The Great Stain takes listeners from the depths of suffering to the heights of human dignity.There have been numerous books about the why, when, and where of slavery in America, but there is a dearth of material exposing what... Read more
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Close Encounters with Humankind
By: Sang-Hee Lee
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
What can fossilized teeth tell us about our ancient life expectancy? What can big data on fossils reveal about farming's problematic role in human evolution? How can simple geometric comparisons of skull and pelvic fossils suggest an origin to our social nature?
In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some... Read more