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Radical Hope
By: Carolina De Robertis
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo & Kaleo Griffith
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Radical Hope is a collection of letters—to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged—written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage... Read more
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Late Victorian Holocausts
By: Mike Davis
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Examining a series of El Niño–induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts... Read more
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This Vast Southern Empire
By: Matthew Karp
Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
For proslavery leaders like John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis, the nineteenth-century world was torn between two hostile forces: a rising movement against bondage, and an Atlantic plantation system that was larger and more productive than ever before. In this great struggle, southern statesmen saw the United States as slavery's most powerful... Read more
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Born to Walk
By: Dan Rubinstein
Narrated by: Braden Wright
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The humble act of putting one foot in front of the other transcends age, geography, culture, and class, and is one of the most economical and environmentally responsible modes of transit. Yet with our modern fixation on speed, this healthy pedestrian activity has been largely left behind.At a personal and professional crossroads, writer, editor,... Read more
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The Man Who Designed the Future
By: B. Alexandra Szerlip
Narrated by: B. Alexandra Szerlip
Length: 16 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes. A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to Manhattan’s most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama, the prescient 1939 exhibit that envisioned how... Read more
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Ma Speaks Up
By: Marianne Leone
Narrated by: Marianne Leone
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed actress and author of Jesse: A Mother’s Story tells the "entertaining and moving" story of her outspoken, frequently outrageous Italian immigrant mother (Tom Perrotta)
Marianne Leone’s Ma is in many senses a larger-than-life character, one who might be capable, even from the afterlife, of shattering expectations. Born on a farm in... Read more
Muck City
By: Bryan Mealer
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high school football is the only escape, a haunted quarterback, a returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible odds.
The loamy black “muck” that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Sugar and provided much of the nation's vegetables, often on the backs of roving,... Read more
A Path Out of Poverty
By: Paul Farmer
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
Lilla Watson, Aboriginal activist and artist
World-renowned physician and public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer has long been devoted to caring and advocating for the world's... Read more
Sometimes Amazing Things Happen
By: Elizabeth Ford
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn’t until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling—to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City’s jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital... Read more
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Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation
By: Adam Roberts
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Who can foretell India's future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions. When Adam Roberts visited him in 2012, Joshi's parrot declared that India was destined to become the most powerful nation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The parrot also foretold that India would... Read more
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Women's Anatomy of Arousal
By: Sheri Winston
Narrated by: Sheri Winston
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Women have a largely unknown network of structures responsible for arousal and orgasm that their owners and even most medical professionals don't know about. We're not just talking about Ye Olde G-Spot here. Women have an entire erectile network that, if properly stimulated, can elevate their erotic experience from "Oh!" to "Oh! Oh! Oh!"
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Make Someone Happy
By: Elizabeth Berg
Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a collection of Elizabeth Berg's most-loved Facebook posts. She was asked by many to put these short essays into book form, to create, as one reader said, something to "take to the beach, or bed, or on an airplane." Elizabeth and her friend, the book's designer Phyllis Florin, happily complied, and they hope that their offering will be... Read more
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Beauty Sick
By: Renee Engeln
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein, and Sheryl Sandberg.Today’s young women face a... Read more
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No Name in the Street
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin’s fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works.In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders of Martin... Read more
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All Day
By: Liza Jessie Peterson
Narrated by: Liza Jessie Peterson
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing.
Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, ALL DAY recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high... Read more
Upside
By: Kenneth W. Gronbach
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Demographics not only define who we are, where we live, and how our numbers change. For those who can read beyond the raw figures, they open up hidden business opportunities that lie ahead.What will happen when retiring Boomers free up jobs? How will Generation Y alter supermarkets? Which states will have the most dynamic workforces? Will... Read more
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Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production
By: Nicolette Hahn Niman
Narrated by: Nicolette Hahn Niman
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
For decades it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one.
But is the matter really so clear cut? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef.
The public has long been led to believe that livestock,... Read more
How to Be Married
By: Jo Piazza
Narrated by: Jo Piazza
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it.
At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world... Read more
Janesville
By: Amy Goldstein
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best Book of 2017 * A Business Insider Best Book of... Read more
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Manufacturing Consent
By: Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups... Read more
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From Cradle to Stage
By: Virginia Grohl
Narrated by: Virginia Grohl
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Written by Virginia Grohl, the mother of Dave Grohl—former Nirvana drummer and current frontman for the Foo Fighters—From Cradle to Stage shares stories and exclusive photos featuring mothers of rock icons, the icons themselves, and their Behind the Music-style relationships
While the Grohl family had always been musical-the family sang together... Read more
War Without Mercy
By: John W. Dower
Narrated by: Tim Campbell
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book . . .... Read more
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Post Grad
By: Caroline Kitchener
Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
An honest and deeply reported account of five women and the opportunities and frustrations they face in the year following their graduation from an elite university.
Recent Princeton graduate Caroline Kitchener weaves together her experiences from her first year after college with that of four of her peers in order to delve more deeply into what... Read more
Madness Rules the Hour
By: Paul Starobin
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From Lincoln's election to secession from the Union, this compelling history explains how South Carolina was swept into a cultural crisis at the heart of the Civil War.
"The tea has been thrown overboard -- the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." -- Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860
In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the... Read more