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Loud and Clear - Abridged
By: Anna Quindlen
Narrated by: Anna Quindlen
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book.
“A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public events as it is a reflection on being a woman and on... Read more
Creativity as a Path to Enlightenment
By: Nina Wise
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Nina Wise is a dancer, a singer, and a performer of improvisational theater. She's also a spiritual seeker and teacher with an eclectic practice that embraces both Buddhism and her Jewish heritage. She sees absolutely no difference between her creative arts and her spirituality - in fact, they are one and the same. Read more
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The Essential Questions
By: Christopher Phillips
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In 2001, Phillips released the book Socrates' Café and started a movement that shares its title, spawning gatherings where, like the sages of old, modern-day thinkers - citizens like you and me - gather in dialogue to make sense of the choices we make as individuals and as a society. Now, he shares the insights he's gleaned from participating in... Read more
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Activists for Freedom, Equity and Justice
By: Medea Benjamin & Kevin Danaher
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
As Medea Benjamin says, "Patriotism is holding your nation to the highest standards possible. But we also have to evolve as human beings to a global consciousness." When we see the world from the point of view of these two visions, our own evolution becomes more attainable. Read more
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Brothers in Arms
By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anthony Walton
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
“More than a combat story . . . it’s also the story of how black soldiers had to fight (literally and figuratively) for the right to fight the Germans.”—USA Today
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first... Read more
The Wisdom of Crowds
By: James Surowiecki
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear... Read more
The Death of Right and Wrong
By: Tammy Bruce
Narrated by: Tammy Bruce
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behavior by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know how to wield the race card, if you feel promiscuous gay men should be empowered to spread AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, don’t read this book.
But if you’ve always... Read more
Are You There Alone? - Abridged
By: Suzanne O'Malley
Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Suzanne O'Malley takes a close look at the Andrea Yates murder trial and discovers medical misjudgment, professional negligence, misapplied law, and a revelation that led to the overturning of Yates's conviction.
It took a jury less than four hours to find Houston housewife Andrea Yates guilty of the drowning deaths of three of her five... Read more
Victory Over Violence
By: Eve Ensler
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A casual conversation about menopause ultimately led to a grassroots movement that raised awareness about violence against women in the form of a play, The Vagina Monologues. Here Ensler discusses how violence against women affects everyone and why patriarchy actually oppresses men as well as women, and much more. Read more
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Circles, Conversation and Community
By: Vicki Robin, Juanita Brown, Ph.D. & Leif Utne
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
These three guests believe that if Americans, both progressive and conservative, take time to speak freely and truly listen to one another we’ll find that our views have much more in common than we realize. At a time when our democracy seems threatened, these wisdom leaders inspire us to join together to move beyond the middle ground and find a... Read more
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America's Women - Abridged
By: Gail Collins
Narrated by: Jane Alexander
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-centuryIn this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over... Read more
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Of Whales and Belly Flowers, Rebirth and Hope
By: Robin Kobaly & Doug Thompson
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Masculine and feminine, earth and sea, forest and desert, nature and nurture…the balance of life shows up beautifully and metaphorically in the relationship and the work of Robin Kobaly and Doug Thompson. She is one of the nation's foremost experts on native desert plants; he is a leader in experiential research with marine mammals. Read more
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Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes - Abridged
By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease
Narrated by: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—both at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very real—and often very funny—differences between the sexes.
Why... Read more
Loud and Clear
By: Anna Quindlen
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book.
“A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public events as it is a reflection on being a woman and on... Read more
Idyll Banter - Abridged
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Chris Bohjalian
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house.... Read more
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The Progress Paradox - Abridged
By: Gregg Easterbrook
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous generations. Why this is so and what we should do about it... Read more
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Maiden, Mother, Matriarch and Crone: Birthing the Circlesof Our Lives
By: Elizabeth Davis
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Midwife, mother, teacher and visionary, Elizabeth Davis brings new insights to the experience of everywoman as she describes the phases and cycles through which all women pass. At the same time she recognizes the challenges and ambivalence often encountered in moving through each passage. Read more
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An Imperfect God - Abridged
By: Henry Wiencek
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery
When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this groundbreaking work, Henry Wiencek explores the founding... Read more
The Roots of Violence
By: Susan Griffin
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In this dialogue, Susan Griffin explores the relationship between what happens in our intimate lives and the violence we express individually and as a nation. She explains, "The idea that we have to get somebody with a lot of muscles to take care of us happens when our core relationship to our own feelings has been erased." Read more
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Preachers of Hate - Abridged
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Narrated by: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The “new” anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically and the West in general. It targets our values, our lifestyle, and our freedoms. It is the single most important issue we face when trying to make... Read more
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Cultural Nonviolence
By: Satish Kumar
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In the spirit of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Jesus, Satish Kumar brings a gentle wisdom to the difficult questions that must be answered if we are to end the pattern of destruction that threatens our world today. His simple, yet comprehensive perspective addresses the violence that is pervasive in human society and, amazingly, offers... Read more
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Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes
By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease
Narrated by: Lee Adams & Stephen Hoye
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—both at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very real—and often very funny—differences between the sexes.
Why... Read more
There Must Be a Pony In Here Somewhere - Abridged
By: Kara Swisher & Lisa Dickey
Narrated by: Kara Swisher
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In her acclaimed AOL.COM, Kara Swisher chronicled the unlikely ascent of a group of underdog entrepreneurs and their influence on American net culture. This book picks up where the previous one left off, investigating AOL's merger with Time Warner and its aftermath. Journalists Swisher and Dickey have an ear for the comic and an appreciation... Read more
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
By: Sarah Vowell
Narrated by: Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert, Pau...
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of... Read more