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The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in... Read more
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist
By: Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 14 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and... Read more
Administrations of Lunacy
By: Mab Segrest
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, ninety percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a... Read more
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Just Mercy
By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more
American Cartel
By: Scott Higham & Sari Horwitz
Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created and fueled the opioid crisis—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters who first uncovered the dimensions of the deluge of pain pills that ravaged the country and the complicity of a near-omnipotent drug cartel.
AMERICAN CARTEL is an... Read more
Incognito
By: David Eagleman
Narrated by: David Eagleman
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you... Read more
Truth and Repair
By: Judith Lewis Herman
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, a powerful manifesto for reimagining justice, based on the testimony of trauma survivors
The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of... Read more
Forensics
By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Sarah Barron
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Val McDermid is one of the finest crime writers we have, whose novels have captivated millions of listeners worldwide with their riveting narratives of characters who solve complex crimes and confront unimaginable evil. In the course of researching her bestselling novels, McDermid has become familiar with ever branch of forensics, and now she... Read more
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Picking Cotton
By: Ronald Cotton, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino & Erin...
Narrated by: Richard Allen & Karen White
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken—but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed... Read more
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Free Speech
By: Nadine Strossen
Narrated by: Nadine Strossen
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This concise but comprehensive book lays out specific answers to myriad topical questions about free speech law, and also general explanations of how and why the law distinguishes between protected and punishable speech.
The book focuses on modern First Amendment law, explaining the historic factors that propelled its evolution in a more... Read more
The Shooter at Midnight
By: Sean Patrick Cooper
Narrated by: Sean Patrick Cooper
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The harrowing true story of a cold-blooded murder and the campaign to bring justice to a suffering Midwestern town
On a November night in 1990, Cathy Robertson is murdered in her home outside Chillicothe, Missouri. After law enforcement conduct a haphazard investigation, the sheriff’s office puts the case in the hands of a Kansas City private eye... Read more
Lean Startup
By: Eric Ries
Narrated by: Peter Wolter
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Der Weg zum eigenen Unternehmen ist nie ohne Risiko. Und bis die Firma sich auf dem Markt etabliert hat, dauert es. Wer doch scheitert, verliert in der Regel viel Geld. Genau hier setzt das Konzept von Eric Ries an. Lean Startup heißt seine Methode. Sie ist schnell, ressourcenfreundlich und radikal erfolgsorientiert. Anhand von durchgespielten... Read more
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Dopesick
By: Beth Macy
Narrated by: Beth Macy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A Hulu limited series inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy.
Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" (New York Times) -- from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the... Read more
Ghettoside
By: Jill Leovy
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE• A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE... Read more
The Other Dr. Gilmer
By: Benjamin Gilmer
Narrated by: Benjamin Gilmer
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “mesmerizing” (The New York Times Book Review) true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal—an expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time
“A remarkable medical detective story–cum–memoir,... Read more
Deep Delta Justice
By: Matthew Van Meter
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for 2021 Audie Award in History/Biography
The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou
2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist
The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).
In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary... Read more
The Black and the Blue
By: Matthew Horace & Ron Harris
Narrated by: Matthew Horace
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet it was not until seven years into his... Read more
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The Final Diagnosis
By: Cynric Temple-Camp
Narrated by: John Voce
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The 'if' of death is certain. The 'when' is unknown. It is the 'why' that really gets people's interest ...
From a rare and deadly amniotic avalanche to a victim of roasted peanuts ... The bestselling author of The Cause of Death and The Quick and the Dead returns with more stranger-than-fiction stories of death, disease and murder - as well as... Read more
The Originalism Trap
By: Madiba K. Dennie
Narrated by: Madiba K. Dennie
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it
“The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for... Read more
Fear and the First Amendment
By: Kevin A. Johnson & Craig R. Smith
Narrated by: David Marantz
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In Fear and the First Amendment, Kevin A. Johnson and Craig R. Smith offer an examination of the ways fear figures in First Amendment questions ruled on by the Supreme Court. Johnson and Smith focus on the rulings from the Roberts Court. Each chapter in this book analyzes one or more First Amendment cases and a variety of related fears that... Read more
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Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle Against Thalidomide
By: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration became one of the most celebrated women in America when she prevented a deadly sedative from entering the U.S. market. A Canadian-born pharmacologist and physician, Kelsey saved countless Americans from the devastating side effects of thalidomide, routinely... Read more
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The AI Mirror
By: Shannon Vallor
Narrated by: Kim Niemi
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
For many, technology offers hope for the future—that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome—not by us, but by our machines. Yet rather... Read more
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Erik und der Mut-Tiger
By: Laura Finzi
Narrated by: Laurin Schütz
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Erik traut sich manchmal nicht. Dabei würde er doch so gerne mal auf dem Spielplatz die große Rutsche runterrutschen oder im Freibad ins tiefe Wasser springen. Wie die großen Kinder! Aber sein Bauch kribbelt vor Angst. Doch eines Tages trifft Erik den Mut-Tiger, der ihm zeigt, wie er mutiger werden kann. Und bald schon kann Erik endlich all... Read more
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Who Owns This Sentence?
By: David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu
Narrated by: David Bellos
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon... Read more
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