Social Science audiobooks

The Women of NOW

By: Katherine Turk

Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of NOW—its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission—told through the work of three members.

In the summer of 1966, crammed into a DC hotel suite and passing paper cups of liquor, twenty-eight women hatched a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the... Read more

Be Better Than Your BS

By: Risha Grant

Narrated by: Risha Grant

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

DEI consultant and corporate speaker, Risha Grant, shares her practice of learning how to welcome and embrace people's full humanity, without BS, full stop. What's BS? It's bullshit for sure, but more specifically it's the powerful and often invisible belief systems we've been steeped in since birth-the judgment and bias we carry with us that... Read more

No Meat Required

By: Alicia Kennedy

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

No Meat Required is a bestselling culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the subcultures and politics that have defined alternative food—Diet for a Small Planet for a new generation

The vegan diet used to be associated only with eccentric hippies and tofu-loving activists who shop at co-ops and... Read more

Bones of Belonging

By: Annahid Dashtgard

Narrated by: Samara Naeymi

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exceptional book, inclusion leader Annahid Dashtgard shares her experiences looking for and teaching about belonging in our divided world. Through moving and deft interlocking stories, Dashtgard examines what it means to belong—to a country, in a marriage, and in our skin—and the price we pay when that belonging is absent. Read more

How Trust Works

By: Dr. Peter H. Kim, PhD

Narrated by: Keong Sim

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"In this age of diminishing trust in public figures, this audiobook offers highly useful guidance about how to trust and withhold trust more thoughtfully." - AudioFile

From the world's leading expert on trust repair, a guide to understanding the most essential foundation of our relationships and communities.

When our trust is broken, and when... Read more

The Great White Bard

By: Farah Karim-Cooper

Narrated by: Farah Karim-Cooper & Adjoa Andoh

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly

As we witness monuments of white Western history fall, many are asking how is Shakespeare still relevant?

Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has dedicated her career to the Bard, which is why she wants to take the playwright down from his... Read more

American Idolatry

By: Andrew L. Whitehead

Narrated by: Andrew L. Whitehead

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.



Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey and reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of... Read more

The Place We Make

By: Sarah L. Sanderson

Narrated by: Sarah L. Sanderson & Chanté Griffin

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A thoughtful investigation into the incredible true story of a Black man convicted and exiled under the Oregon Exclusion Law in 1851—and a contemporary White woman wrestling with racism and faith after learning she’s a descendant of two men who assisted in the exile.

“A beautiful rendering of an ugly history. A worthy read.”—Chanté Griffin,... Read more

In jeder Träne spiegelt sich die Sonne

By: Ferraldi

Narrated by: Ferraldi

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Gebäudesprengung, die das Leben aller Beteiligten verändert. Als der schwerverletzte Stephan unter den Trümmern eines Einkaufscenters gefunden wird, ist schnell klar, dass er hier sein Leben lassen sollte. Seine seltene Blutgruppe ABO und die erschreckenden Verletzungen, die auf einen langen Leidensweg hindeuten, stellen die Ärzte vor große... Read more

The Feeling of Forgetting

By: John Corrigan

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.

A provocative examination of how religious practices of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism.
 
The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing violence toward people of color today. In The Feeling of... Read more

Grim Reaper

By: KIV Books

Narrated by: Tom Chandler

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“There are two certain things in this life; taxes and death.” - Benjamin Franklin
While this may sound like any other famous quote, it is very true and practical. However, as certain as taxes may be, we will not focus on that in this book. Instead, we'll explore this dark and distasteful topic that everyone prefers to avoid: Death represented as... Read more

Grandeur et dénuement

By: France Hurtubise

Narrated by: France Hurtubise

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

À la fois tissé d’indignation et d’espoir, ce témoignage poignant livré en temps réel est celui d’une communicatrice projetée au cœur de conflits qui s’interroge sur les défis de l’information. L’autrice nous transporte avec elle dans les camps de réfugiés du génocide rwandais, au cœur de Sarajevo en guerre, sur des scènes de dévastations auprès... Read more

Je band met Nederland - Verhuisd uit Duitsland (Lutz Müller-Kirsch)

By: Peter de Ruiter

Narrated by: Peter de Ruiter

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Voor liefhebbers van 'Ik vertrek', 'Erica op reis' en de programma's van Floortje Dessing.Wat valt op, als je als buitenlander naar Nederland verhuist? Nederland presenteert zich graag als gastvrij en tolerant land, maar hoe wordt daar daar door nieuwkomers over gedacht? Dit is hun verhaal.In deze reeks vertellen Nederlanders en... Read more

The Cajuns and Creoles: The History and Legacy of the Unique Ethnic Groups in the American South and Caribbean

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep within the bayous and swamps of Louisiana resides a population descended from an exodus. These people, called Cajuns or Acadians, were expelled from their homelands. Persecuted and homeless, they traveled hundreds of miles south in search of a new home and ultimately settled in the Pelican State, where they made new lives for themselves... Read more

The Bleeding Tree

By: Hollie Starling

Narrated by: Adele Marie

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

It was the last of the ebbing days, the brink of the new season. It was the murky hours, the clove between sunset and sunrise. It was a tall tree with deep roots and it had been bleeding for a long while.

As summer falls into autumn, Hollie Starling is hit by the heart-stopping news that her father has died by suicide.... Read more

It Gave Me You

By: Emily Gould

Narrated by: Jennifer George

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Falling in love usually happens when you least expect it. But love isn't the only thing that happens without warning."

Lexi saw him for the first time in the fourth-floor pediatric cancer clinic. He was tall, handsome, and had a full head of dark hair-nothing like the little kids she was used to meeting during her routine hospital visits. No,... Read more

The Most Influential Mesoamerican Gods: The History and Legacy of Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Tlaloc

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Hare

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Gilgamesh, Hercules, Aeneas, and Lancelot are instantly recognized as mythological heroes in the West, evoking visions of Persian monsters, ghastly labors, and the founding and glorification of cities, but the names of Mesoamerican gods remain as mysterious as their spelling. Even those who have come across their names when learning about the... Read more

The Women I Think About at Night

By: Mia Kankimäki

Narrated by: Lisa Negron

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women's studies, and travelogue" (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history.



What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia... Read more

Cave of Bones

By: Lee Berger & John Hawks

Narrated by: Lee Berger

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. The lead researcher on the site, still Berger... Read more

Ever Wonder Why?

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch medicine," Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his... Read more

The Unconquered

By: Scott Wallace

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. In this gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, author Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon's uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest's secrets while moving ever closer to a... Read more

Spirit Talker

By: Shawn Leonard

Narrated by: Shawn Leonard

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this teaching memoir, Shawn Leonard shares his personal story of developing his abilities as a spirit talker, revealing incredible stories from his childhood to the present. Along the way, he shares experiences he has had with elders from his aboriginal tribe, the Mi'kmaq, and his journey learning more about his heritage. Shawn incorporates... Read more

Ancient Egyptian Conspiracy Theories: The History of the Most Popular Conspiracy Theories about Egypt in Antiquity

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Michelle Humphries

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Given how far back the Egyptian civilization goes, it’s no surprise that Egypt is still full of mystery, and the unknown continues to generate conspiracy theories that attempt to fill in the gaps. For example, generations have viewed Egypt’s pyramids and the Great Sphinx as symbols of a lost past, which in turn leads to Egypt’s portrayal as a... Read more

The Injustice of Place

By: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer & Timothy J. N...

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. “This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted) Three of the nation’s top scholars ­– known for tackling... Read more