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The Witches Are Coming
By: Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.
This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice,... Read more
A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
Length: 34 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER""A wonderful, splendid bookāa book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future."" āHoward FastHistorian Howard ZinnāsĀ A Peopleās History of the United StatesĀ chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing... Read more
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Consumed
By: Aja Barber
Narrated by: Aja Barber
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A call to action for consumers everywhere,Ā ConsumedĀ asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system.Ā
We live in a world of stuff. We dispose of most of it in as little as six months after we receive it. The byproducts of our quest to consume are... Read more
The Persuaders
By: Anand Giridharadas
Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracyāfrom disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and moreāby the best-selling author of Winners Take All and... Read more
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Chaos
By: Tom O'Neill
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months... Read more
How We Show Up
By: Mia Birdsong
Narrated by: Mia Birdsong
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection
After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes. They have family, friends, and colleagues, yet they still feel like they're... Read more
Emergent Strategy
By: adrienne maree brown
Narrated by: adrienne maree brown
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us... Read more
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
By: David Treuer
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 17 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named a best book of 2019 byĀ The New York Times,Ā TIME,Ā The Washington Post,Ā NPR,Ā Hudson Booksellers,Ā The New York Public Library,Ā The Dallas Morning News,Ā andĀ Library Journal.
"Chapter after chapter, it's like one... Read more
The Power Broker: Volume 3 of 3
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 20 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERĀ ā¢ A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one manās incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York.Ā One of the Modern Libraryās hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.
Robert Caro's... Read more
Missing from the Village
By: Justin Ling
Narrated by: Justin Ling
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community.
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Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards
In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay... Read more
We Do This āTil We Free Us
By: Mariame Kaba
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you... Read more
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Democracy Awakening
By: Heather Cox Richardson
Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
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 eraās most important and insightful historians.
āMagisterial.ā āTheĀ Washington Post
āAnĀ excellent primer for anyone who needs the important facts of the last 150... Read more
Technofeudalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In a revelatory and path breaking work, the #1 international bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world.
āThe Thucydides of our time.āĀ āJeffrey Sachs
Big tech has replaced capitalism's twin pillarsāmarkets and profitāwith its platforms and rents. With every click and scroll, we labor like serfs... Read more
Just Mercy
By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1Ā NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLER ā¢Ā NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX ā¢Ā A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justiceāfrom one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
ā[Bryan Stevensonās] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more
Evicted
By: Matthew Desmond
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLER ā¢ WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ā¢ NAMED ONE OF TIMEāSĀ TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ā¢ One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic āhas set a new standard for reporting on povertyā (Barbara Ehrenreich,Ā The New York Times Book Review).
InĀ Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur āGeniusā... Read more
White Rural Rage
By: Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ A searing portrait and damning takedown of Americaās proudest citizensāwho are also the least likely to defend its core principles
āThis is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump.āāDavid Corn, New York Times bestselling author of American... Read more
Debt - Updated and Expanded
By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition : David Graeberās āfresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timelyā (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years,... Read more
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Everyday Utopia
By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A āfascinatingā (The Wall Street Journal), āspirited and inspiringā (Jacobin) tour through the ages in search of the thinkers and communities that have dared to reimagine how we might better live our daily lives.
In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagorasāa man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than... Read more
The Klansman's Son
By: R. Derek Black
Narrated by: R. Derek Black
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the former heir apparent to White nationalism, an astonishing memoir of a childhood built on fear, and of breaking from a community of hateDerek Black was raised to take over the White nationalist movement in the United States. Derekās father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internetās... Read more
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)āthe one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, āSamuel Adams was the man.ā With high-minded ideals and... Read more
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Weapons of Math Destruction
By: Cathy O'Neil
Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLERĀ ā¢Ā A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models thatĀ threaten to rip apart our social fabricāwith a new afterword
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āA manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.āāFinancial Times
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST ā¢Ā NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYĀ The... Read more
Black Marxism
By: Cedric J. Robinson
Narrated by: David Sadzin
Length: 20 hours
Abridged: No
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and... Read more
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the U.S. settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history.
Roxanne... Read more
In This Economy?
By: Kyla Scanlon
Narrated by: Kyla Scanlon & Morgan Housel
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
āFew people can communicate how the economy actually works better than Kyla Scanlon.āāMorgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money
An illustrated guide to the mad math and terrible terminology of economics, from one of the internetās favorite financial educators
Is our national debt really a threat? What is a āmildā recession, exactly? If... Read more