The Radium Girls
By: Kate Moore
Narrated by: Angela Brazil
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorousāthe girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls.
As the... Read more
We Keep the Dead Close
By: Becky Cooper
Narrated by: Becky Cooper
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A Recommended Book from: New York Times * Publisher's Weekly * Kirkus * BookRiot * Booklist * Boston Globe * Goodreads * Town & Country * Refinery29 * CrimeReads * Glamour
Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing" (Patrick Radden Keefe) true crime narrative of an... Read more
The Mushroom at the End of the World
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the worldāand a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions,... Read more
View audiobookStill Life with Bones
By: Alexa Hagerty
Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Book Review Editorsā Choice ā¢ An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victimsā families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice.
āAbsorbing . . . multifaceted and... Read more
NonViolent Communication
By: Jeremy Huttenberg
Narrated by: Lucas Modrall
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
If you have perceived theĀ importance of the way we relate to each otherĀ and you want toĀ help yourself to grow-up in these aspects, thenĀ Non-Violent Communication could be for you.In the idea ofĀ avoiding conflict, creatingĀ solid relationshipsĀ that allow achieving a better connection with people, youĀ MUST Learn Non-Violent Communication (NVC):Ā a... Read more
View audiobookBriefly Perfectly Human
By: Alua Arthur
Narrated by: Alua Arthur
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from Americaās most visible death doula.""A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world.... There is no one I'd... Read more
View audiobookM Archive
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Narrated by: Angel Pean
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archiveāthe second book in a planned experimental triptychāis a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and... Read more
View audiobookAccordion Eulogies
By: NoĆ© Ćlvarez
Narrated by: Asa Siegel
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, NoĆ© Ćlvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure: That he had abandoned his... Read more
Stormās Edge
By: Peter Marshall
Narrated by: Kenny Blyth
Length: 22 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de forceā SPECTATOR From Peter Marshall, winner of the... Read more
View audiobookDo Nothing
By: Celeste Headlee
Narrated by: Celeste Headlee
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
āA welcome antidote to our toxic hustle culture of burnout.āāArianna Huffington
āThis book is so important and could truly save lives.āāElizabeth Gilbert
āA clarion call to work smarter [and] accomplish more by doing less.āāAdam Grant
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We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable?
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Despite our constant search for new ways... Read more
Facing the Mountain
By: Daniel James Brown
Narrated by: Louis Ozawa
Length: 17 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021
Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyĀ
Winner of the Christopher AwardĀ
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āMasterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroismā¦ Propulsive and gripping, in part because... Read more
Disability Intimacy
By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.
What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating... Read more
The Rediscovery of America
By: Ned Blackhawk
Narrated by: Jason Grasl
Length: 17 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American... Read more
View audiobookYou're Not Listening
By: Kate Murphy
Narrated by: Kate Murphy
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrating her own work, Murphy is certainly worthy of the listener's attention. She offers a sincere, passionate voice that is capable of delivering some hard truths about the current state of things while also showing the way toward a truly connected society." ā AudioFile Magazine
**This program is read by the author**
When was the last time you... Read more
Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
Narrated by: Hua Hsu
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ā¢ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ AĀ gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, byĀ the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu
āThis book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come.ā āRachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling... Read more
Trick Mirror
By: Jia Tolentino
Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ āFromĀ The New YorkerāsĀ beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.āāEsquire
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Book Club Pick forĀ NowĀ ReadĀ This, fromĀ PBSĀ NewsHourĀ andĀ The New York TimesĀ ā¢Ā āA whip-smart, challenging book.āāZadie Smith ā¢ āJia... Read more
Four Hundred Souls
By: Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
Narrated by: Various
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A chorus of extraordinary voices comesĀ together to tell one of historyās great epics:Ā theĀ four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the presentāedited by Ibram X. Kendi, author ofĀ How to Be an Antiracist,Ā and Keisha N. Blain, author ofĀ Set the World on Fire.
The story begins in 1619āa year before the Mayflowerāwhen the White Lion... Read more
The Once and Future Sex
By: Eleanor Janega
Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior.
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about... Read more
Before We Were Trans
By: Dr. Kit Heyam
Narrated by: Dr. Kit Heyam
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
AāÆgroundbreakingāÆglobal history of gender nonconformityāÆĀ
Todayās narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans peopleās lives. Ā
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Before We Were TransāÆilluminates... Read more
Saving Time
By: Jenny Odell
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ āThe visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ātime is money.ā . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.āāEsquire
āOne of the most important books Iāve read in my life.āāEd Yong, author of An Immense World
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harperās Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago... Read more
Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics*
In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoirāwinner... Read more
Take Back Your Brain
By: Kara Loewentheil
Narrated by: Kara Loewentheil
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A manual for every woman who wants to stop endless negative self-talk, create unshakable confidence, and jump-start a life of joy and power. It all begins with your thoughts.
I never look good in tight skirts. I canāt ask for a raise or my boss will think Iām greedy. Iām getting too old to find a partner. Iām a bad mom. Iām always behind. Iāll... Read more
Fearing the Black Body
By: Sabrina Strings
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years
There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than... Read more
Fresh Banana Leaves
By: Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology
An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors.
Despite the... Read more