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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
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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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
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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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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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
Human Targets
By: Victor M. Rios
Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target—flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course... Read more
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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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Defeating ISIS
By: Malcolm Nance
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 14 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
ISIS—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat to global security since al-Qaeda. In Defeating ISIS, internationally renowned intelligence veteran, author, and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance gives an insider’s view to explain the origins of this occult group, its... Read more
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The Givers
By: David Callahan
Narrated by: Ryan Gesell
Length: 13 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad.
While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David... Read more
It's Up to the Women
By: Eleanor Roosevelt
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In this timeless account from Eleanor Roosevelt, the former First Lady shares her advice for hardworking women as they make their mark on an ever-changing America.
"Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column.... Read more
A $500 House in Detroit
By: Drew Philp
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class... 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
Viewing Human History as a Spiritual Epic
By: Robert Atkinson, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert Atkinson offers a deeply thoughtful view of conscious evolution drawn from the continuous wisdom of the world’s religions. He inspires hope as he traces love’s unifying power throughout history, and encourages us not to be distracted by seeming setbacks. This big picture view of human progress points to peaceful unity as our ultimate... Read more
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Eyewitness: 1950-1999
By: Joanna Bourke
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 23 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Eyewitness accounts from the BBC Archive are at the heart of this unique history of the latter half of the 20th Century, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith.
The events of 1950-1999 are described by the people who saw them happen, from the Festival of Britain in 1951 through to dawn of a new millennium at the end of 1999.
Inbetween are the eras of the... Read more
Svenska svindlare och fuskare
By: Fredrik Kullberg
Narrated by: Christoffer Rigeblad
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Ta del av historierna och personerna bakom några av de största rubrikerna i media och skandalerna som orsakat dem. Här presenteras 87 fallstudier av svenska svindlare från 1600-talet och fram till idag, som till exempel den charmiga stjärnkirurgen på Karolinska Institutet, blodgruppsdieten eller myten om seriemördaren Thomas Quick."Otroligt... Read more
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Unwanted Advances
By: Laura Kipnis
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn’t empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality.Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender... Read more
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Behaving Badly
By: Eden Collinsworth
Narrated by: Joy Nash
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age.
To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business,... Read more
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
By: Joan Morgan
Narrated by: Joy Bryant & Bahni Turpin
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Joan Morgan offers a provocative and powerful look into the life of the modern black woman: a complex world in which feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men, where women who treasure their independence frequently prefer men who pick up the tab, where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black... Read more
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The Mediterranean Love Plan
By: Stephen Arterburn & Misty Arterburn
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The Mediterranean Love Plan unveils the “7 Secrets of Passion” from some of the most romantic countries in the world: Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Israel. Most couples marry in a flurry of passion, but soon find themselves wondering “How do we keep love interesting, fun and romantic? How do we keep the spark growing for decades?”Steve and... Read more
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The Sex Effect
By: Ross Benes
Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A gripping exploration of the relationship between sex and our society, with a foreword by bestselling author A. J. Jacobs
Why do political leaders become entangled in so many sex scandals? How did the U.S. military inadvertently help make San Francisco a mecca of gay culture? And what was the original purpose of vibrators? Find out the answers... Read more