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On the Line

A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union

By: Daisy Pitkin
Narrated by: Daisy Pitkin
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

“Riveting and intimate. It is hard to imagine a more humanizing portrait of the American labor movement. A remarkable debut.” 
—Francisco Cantú, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Becomes a River 

On the Line takes readers inside a bold five-year campaign to bring a union to the dangerous industrial laundry factories of Phoenix,... Read more

They Came for the Schools

One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh
Narrated by: Mike Hixenbaugh
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award–winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Southlake... Read more

Democracy Awakening

Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson
Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

A New York Times Bestseller

A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.

“Magisterial.” –The Washington Post

“An excellent primer for anyone who needs the... Read more

The Heat Will Kill You First

Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents a "masterful, bracing" (David Wallace-Wells) examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offering a vital new perspective on where we are headed, how we can prepare, and what is at stake if we fail to act.​  “When heat comes, it’s... Read more

Everyone But Myself

A Memoir

By: Julie Chavez
Narrated by: Julie Chavez
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

A USA TODAY BestsellerA Washington Post Noteworthy BookA Mom’s Choice Awards Winner
Funny, honest, and inspiring for readers feeling overwhelmed by life, Everyone But Myself is like a best friend’s story of how she returned to solid ground while embracing chaos along the way.
For Julie, an elementary school librarian and mother of two boys, there... Read more

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

By: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

“I was blown away by this book. I listened to the audio and Jason Reynold's narration is engaging, funny, and moving all rolled into one. I found myself interested in history in ways I have not been in the past. As white women I found myself grieving for the crimes my race has committed. For hatred that continued to take root and spread. Yet I... Read more

Social Justice Parenting

How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World

By: Traci Baxley
Narrated by: Traci Baxley
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

An empowering, timely guide to raising anti-racist, compassionate, and socially conscious children, from a diversity and inclusion educator with more than thirty years of experience.As a global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher—in more ways than one. Not only did they... Read more

Fight like a Mother

How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World

By: Shannon Watts
Narrated by: Shannon Watts
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news broke of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. In one moment, she went from outraged to engaged and decided to do something about it. What started as a simple Facebook group to connect with other frustrated parents grew into Moms Demand Action, a national movement with... Read more

A Mind Spread out on the Ground

By: Alicia Elliott
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as ""a mind spread out on the ground."" In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal... Read more

Emotional Labor

The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power

By: Rose Hackman
Narrated by: Rose Hackman
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

This program is read by the author.

For readers of Fair Play by Eve Rodsky and Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski comes a scathing, deeply-researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day.

We’re tired.

A stranger insists you “smile more,” even as you navigate a high-stress environment or grating commute. A... Read more

The Three Mothers

How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

By: Anna Malaika Tubbs
Narrated by: Anna Malaika Tubbs
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

This program is read by the author.

Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them.

In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates... Read more

River Sing Me Home: A GMA Book Club Pick

By: Eleanor Shearer
Narrated by: Debra Michaels & Eleanor Shearer
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

“River Sing Me Home tells the gripping story of a freed slave in Barbados in the 19th Century, who is determined to find her surviving children, each of them sold to other owners and plantations. Following her on her journey through the Caribbean, the book digs into the disparate, and mostly sad, options for black people of the time. Although... Read more

Hood Feminism

Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot

By: Mikki Kendall
Narrated by: Mikki Kendall
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

“Hood Feminism touches on many subjects that mainstream feminists may not think of as feminist issues. Issues like food and housing insecurity, parenting, and disability rights, among others. Mikki Kendall calls out mainstream feminism as existing only for the advancement of white women, to the detriment of women of color. Some of my biggest... Read more