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The Body Language of Dating by Tonya Reiman
The Body Language of Dating
Tonya Reiman
The Body Language of Dating by Tonya Reiman

The Body Language of Dating

By: Tonya Reiman

Narrated by: Tonya Reiman

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Nationally renowned body language expert Tonya Reiman turns her attention to romance—explaining how to read the signals of your date, your mate, or that cutie across the bar—and never get rejected again!
Attraction : It’s biological. It’s physical. It’s chemical. It’s mental. But it doesn’t end there. It’s also: Detectable. Manageable.... Read more

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Going Solo by Eric Klinenberg
Going Solo
Eric Klinenberg
Going Solo by Eric Klinenberg

Going Solo

By: Eric Klinenberg

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the baby boom—the sharp increase in the number of people who live alone—that offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal changeRenowned sociologist and author Eric Klinenberg explores the dramatic rise of solo living and examines the seismic impact it’s... Read more

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How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston
How to Be Black
Baratunde Thurston
How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston

How to Be Black

By: Baratunde Thurston

Narrated by: Baratunde Thurston

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston shares his 30-plus years of expertise in being black, with helpful essays like “How to Be the Black Friend,” “How to Speak for All Black People,” “How To Celebrate Black History Month,” and more, in this satirical guide to race issues—written for black people and those who love them. Audacious, cunning, and... Read more

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In Our Prime by Patricia Cohen
In Our Prime
Patricia Cohen
In Our Prime by Patricia Cohen

In Our Prime

By: Patricia Cohen

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas
comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the
concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle-aged make up
the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet
the history of middle age has remained largely untold. This important
and... Read more

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Population Tide in the Philippines by PBS NewsHour
Population Tide in the Philippines
PBS NewsHour
Population Tide in the Philippines by PBS NewsHour

Population Tide in the Philippines

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

While Philippine leaders debate, poor fishing families embrace birth control to ease pressure on over-fished reefs. Part of a new project called Food for 9 Billion that looks at the challenges of feeding the world in a time of social and environmental change, Sam Eaton of Homelands Productions reports. Read more

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La domination masculine by Pierre Bourdieu
La domination masculine
Pierre Bourdieu
La domination masculine by Pierre Bourdieu

La domination masculine

By: Pierre Bourdieu

Narrated by: Pierre Tissot

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

La domination masculine est tellement ancrée dans nos inconscients que nous ne l'apercevons plus, tellement accordée à nos attentes que nous avons du mal à la remettre en question. La découverte des permanences oblige à renverser la manière habituelle de poser le problème : quels sont les mécanismes et les institutions qui accomplissent le... Read more

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Silver Like Dust by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Silver Like Dust
Kimi Cunningham Grant
Silver Like Dust by Kimi Cunningham Grant

Silver Like Dust

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The poignant story of a Japanese American woman's journey through one of the most shameful chapters in American history.Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to her husband tell the same story for the hundredth time, Kimi Grant's grandmother, Obaachan, was a missing link to Kimi's Japanese heritage,... Read more

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Greedy Bastards by Dylan Ratigan
Greedy Bastards
Dylan Ratigan
Greedy Bastards by Dylan Ratigan

Greedy Bastards

By: Dylan Ratigan

Narrated by: Dylan Ratigan

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

DYLAN RATIGAN’S mission is to uncover never-before-seen solutions to the most pressing issues of our time: government corruption, corporate communism, an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a broken educational system. In this groundbreaking book, Ratigan makes a case that America has the opportunity to prosper,... Read more

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Fraternity by Diane Brady
Fraternity
Diane Brady
Fraternity by Diane Brady

Fraternity

By: Diane Brady

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
San Francisco Chronicle • The Plain Dealer

The inspiring true story of a group of young men whose lives were changed by a visionary mentor

 
On April 4, 1968, the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., shocked the nation. Later that month, the Reverend John Brooks, a professor of theology at the College of the... Read more

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Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
Poor Economics
Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo

Poor Economics

By: Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo

Narrated by: Brian Holsopple

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst.
 
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in... Read more

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Lesebuch der Sozialen Demokratie, Band 5: Integration, Zuwanderung und Soziale Demokratie by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Lesebuch der Sozialen Demokratie, Band 5: Integration, Zuwanderung und Soziale Demokratie
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Lesebuch der Sozialen Demokratie, Band 5: Integration, Zuwanderung und Soziale Demokratie by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Lesebuch der Sozialen Demokratie, Band 5: Integration, Zuwanderung und Soziale Demokratie

By: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Lesebücher der Sozialen Demokratie bieten die Möglichkeit, sich den Themenfeldern selbständig anzunähern. Sie sind klar in der Sprache, fundiert in der Analyse und bieten Zugänge aus Theorie und Praxis. In knapper und verständlicher Form finden Sie hier eine solide Einführung zu den großen Linien und Kontroversen der einzelnen Seminarthemen.... Read more

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Why Are Fewer Americans Getting Married? by PBS NewsHour
Why Are Fewer Americans Getting Married?
PBS NewsHour
Why Are Fewer Americans Getting Married? by PBS NewsHour

Why Are Fewer Americans Getting Married?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Fewer Americans are tying the knot nowadays, according to a new Pew Research report that showed 51 percent of the adult population is married, compared to 1960 when 72 percent of the country was. Ray Suarez discusses the changing demographics of marriage in the United States with Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State College. Read more

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A Safeway in Arizona by Tom Zoellner
A Safeway in Arizona
Tom Zoellner
A Safeway in Arizona by Tom Zoellner

A Safeway in Arizona

By: Tom Zoellner

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootingsOn January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet and greet held by US representative Gabrielle Giffords. The incident left six people dead and thirteen injured, including Giffords, whom he shot in the head.Award-winning... Read more

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Jacqueline Kennedy by author
Jacqueline Kennedy
author
Jacqueline Kennedy by author

Jacqueline Kennedy

By: author

Narrated by: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Jacqueline Kennedy, ...

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, with this expansive illustrated book which includes interviews, recordings and other exclusive materials.

To mark John F. Kennedy's centennial, celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the United States.

In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded... Read more

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The Magic Room by Jeffrey Zaslow
The Magic Room
Jeffrey Zaslow
The Magic Room by Jeffrey Zaslow

The Magic Room

By: Jeffrey Zaslow

Narrated by: Sandra Burr & Jeffrey Zaslow

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Thousands of women have stepped inside Becker’s Bridal in Fowler, Michigan, to try on their dream dresses in the Magic Room, a special space with soft lighting, a circular pedestal, and mirrors that carry a bride’s reflections into infinity. The women bring with them their most precious expectations about romance, love, fidelity, permanence, and... Read more

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Beautiful by Katie Piper
Beautiful
Katie Piper
Beautiful by Katie Piper

Beautiful

By: Katie Piper

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered ... then I realised it was me.'

When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model.

But then she met Daniel Lynch on Facebook and her world quickly turned into a nightmare ...

After being... Read more

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Making Sen$e: Rich Shopper by PBS NewsHour
Making Sen$e: Rich Shopper
PBS NewsHour
Making Sen$e: Rich Shopper by PBS NewsHour

Making Sen$e: Rich Shopper

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

As part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, business and economics correspondent Paul Solman explores how retailers are faring in an economy that's increasingly divided between the haves and the have-nots. Read more

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MWF Seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche
MWF Seeking BFF
Rachel Bertsche
MWF Seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche

MWF Seeking BFF

By: Rachel Bertsche

Narrated by: Annie Wood

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she’s thrilled to finally share a zip code, let alone an apartment, with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, Bertsche realizes that her new life is missing one thing: friends. Sure, she has plenty of BFFs—in New York and San Francisco and Boston and Washington, D.C. Still, in her adopted... Read more

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Fables de la Fontaine en Argot by Jean De la Fontaine
Fables de la Fontaine en Argot
Jean De la Fontaine
Fables de la Fontaine en Argot by Jean De la Fontaine

Fables de la Fontaine en Argot

By: Jean De la Fontaine

Narrated by: Gérard Gervais

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

« Tous les vieux schnocks de l’Académie devaient encore être endormis… » -Pierre Perret « Langue de la misère », comme le disait Victor Hugo, langue des marginaux et des « mal vus » depuis le XIIIe siècle, l’argot a pour premier objectif d’exclure tout non-initié de la conversation. Ce langage détourné, multiforme, désinhibé, mutant, a pourtant ... Read more

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Gossip by Joseph Epstein
Gossip
Joseph Epstein
Gossip by Joseph Epstein

Gossip

By: Joseph Epstein

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in
modern life—envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship—the keen observer
and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip. No trivial matter,
despite its reputation, gossip, he argues, is an eternal and necessary
human enterprise. Proving that he himself is a master of the art,
Epstein... Read more

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

By: James Weldon Johnson

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man takes place in post Reconstruction era America and follows the story of a young biracial male. Johnson poses a complex dilemma: because the “Ex-Colored Man,” which is the only name by which the protagonist is referred, represents what, at the time was, a social contradiction of race... Read more

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Harlem Is Nowhere by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Harlem Is Nowhere
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Harlem Is Nowhere by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Harlem Is Nowhere

By: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award recipient Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem's history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who shared a common hope that Harlem would become the ground from which... Read more

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The Spirit Level by Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson
The Spirit Level
Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson
The Spirit Level by Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson

The Spirit Level

By: Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor
have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level,
based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One
common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree
of equality among their members. Further, more unequal... Read more

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The Prisoner's Wife by Asha Bandele
The Prisoner's Wife
Asha Bandele
The Prisoner's Wife by Asha Bandele

The Prisoner's Wife

By: Asha Bandele

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In her senior year of college, asha bandele and a group of other writers went to a prison to read their works for a Black History Month program. There, she met Rashid, a man who was serving 20 to life for murder, a man who spoke softly and wisely, a man who would become asha's soul mate. This is her account of a relationship that has thrived... Read more

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