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The Death Gap
By: David A. Ansell
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans.
David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of... Read more
The Scarlett Letters
By: Jenny Nordbak
Narrated by: Jenny Nordbak
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Jenny Nordbak takes us to a place that few have seen, but millions have fantasized about, revealing how she transformed herself from a USC grad lacking in confidence into an elite professional dominatrix who finds her own voice, power and compassion for others.
On an unorthodox quest to understand her hidden fantasies, Jenny led a double life for... Read more
The Death of Expertise
By: Tom Nichols
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows... Read more
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They Thought They Were Free
By: Milton Mayer
Narrated by: Michael Page
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933–45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the... Read more
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Grocery
By: Michael Ruhlman
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America’s relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it—the grocery store.
In a culture obsessed with food—how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us—there are often more questions than answers.... Read more
Death Need Not Be Fatal
By: Malachy McCourt & Brian McDonald
Narrated by: Malachy McCourt
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Before he runs out of time, Irish bon vivant Malachy McCourt shares his views on death - sometimes hilarious and often poignant - and on what will or won't happen after his last breath is drawn.
During the course of his life, Malachy McCourt practically invented the single's bar; was a pioneer in talk radio, a soap opera star, a best-selling... Read more
Chuck Klosterman Presents Chuck Klosterman X
By: Chuck Klosterman
Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times–bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman presents a unique Audio Companion for Chuck Klosterman X, in which he contextualizes and reads from the collection of his best articles and essays, providing both a fascinating tour of the past decade and an ideal introduction to the mind of one of the sharpest and most... Read more
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Firehouse
By: David Halberstam
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"In the firehouse the men not only live and eat with each other, they play sports together, go off to drink together, help repair one another's houses and, most importantly, share terrifying risks; their loyalties to each other must, by the demands of the dangers they face, be instinctive and absolute." So writes David Halberstam, one of... Read more
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Solacers
By: Arion Golmakani
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Solacers tells the touching story of a boy's search for family life and safety following the divorce of his parents in Iran during the 1960s. The first child of a heartless father and a discarded mother is left to fend for himself on the streets of Mashhad, seeking food and shelter wherever he can. His lonely early years are an unbelievable tale... Read more
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The Mother of All Questions
By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.
In her characteristic style, Solnit mixes... Read more
Facing Violence
By: Rory Miller
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Rory Miller's Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected includes seven elements that must be addressed to bring self-defense training to something approaching complete. These elements are: legal and ethical implications, violence dynamics, avoidance, counter-ambush, breaking the freeze, the fight itself, and the aftermath. Training that... Read more
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The Potlikker Papers
By: John T. Edge
Narrated by: John T. Edge
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A people's history of Southern food that reveals how the region came to be at the forefront of American culinary culture and how issues of race have shaped Southern cuisine over the last six decades
THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tells the story of food and politics in the South over the last half century. Beginning with the pivotal role of cooks in the... Read more
Punished
By: Victor M. Rios
Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California, in the 1980s and 90s. A former gang member and juvenile delinquent, Rios managed to escape the bleak outcome of many of his friends and earned a PhD at Berkeley and returned to his hometown to study how inner-city young Latino and African American boys develop their sense of self in the... 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
Myth of Equality
By: Ken Wytsma
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Is privilege real or imagined? It's clear that issues of race and equality have come to the forefront in our nation's consciousness. Every week yet another incident involving racial tension splashes across headlines and dominates our news feeds. But it's not easy to unpack the origins of these tensions, and perhaps we wonder whether any of these... Read more
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I Hear My People Singing
By: Kathryn Watterson
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and internationally renowned Ivy League towns—Princeton, New Jersey. The vivid first-person accounts of more than fifty black residents detail aspects of African American life throughout the twentieth century. Their stories... Read more
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
By: Jason Stearns
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 15 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention.
In this deeply reported book, Jason K. Stearns vividly tells... Read more
Marijuana : Cannabis Classics from the 30's & 40's
By: Classics Reborn Audio Publishing
Narrated by: Nina Salzar & Others
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover cannabis classics from the 30s and 40s. Read more
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At Mama's Knee
By: April Ryan
Narrated by: Mia Ellis
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In her first book, The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan examined race in America through her experience as a White House reporter. In this book, she shifts the conversation from the White House to every home in America. At Mama's Knee looks at race and race relations through the lessons that mothers transmit to their... Read more
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He Calls Me By Lightning
By: S. Jonathan Bass
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair—nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original... Read more
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Nobody
By: Marc Lamont Hill
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the United States following the death of Michael Brown revealed something far deeper than a passionate display of age-old racial frustrations; they unveiled a public chasm that has been growing for years, as America has consistently and intentionally denied significant segments of its population access... Read more
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Rebel Mother
By: Peter Andreas
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. She took her youngest son, Peter, with her... Read more
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The Broken Ladder
By: Keith Payne
Narrated by: James Foster
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequalityToday’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. In The Broken Ladder psychologist Keith Payne examines how... Read more
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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell
By: W. Kamau Bell
Narrated by: W. Kamau Bell
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve read about him in the New York Times, which called him “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.” Or maybe from The New Yorker, fawning over his brand of humor writing: "Bell’s gimmick is intersectional... Read more
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