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Reading the Constitution
By: Stephen Breyer
Narrated by: Stephen Breyer
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.
“You will not read a more important legal work this election year.” —Bob Woodward, Washington Post... Read more
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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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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Lady Justice
By: Dahlia Lithwick
Narrated by: Dahlia Lithwick
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest
An instant New York Times Bestseller!
“Stirring . . . Lithwick’s approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring.” —New York Times Book Review
“In Dahlia Lithwick’s urgent, engaging Lady Justice, Dobbs serves as a devastating bookend to a story... Read more
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
A History of America in Ten Strikes
By: Erik Loomis
Narrated by: Brian Troxell
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018Named one of the “5 Books About Famous Strikes That Demonstrated the Historical Importance of Civil Disobedience” by Bustle“Loomis refuses to romanticize this period or the labor movement it produced. . . . What Loomis’s book perhaps does best is remind us that the promise of the labor movement, despite its many... Read more
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Nine Black Robes
By: Joan Biskupic
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Editor's Choice"Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history of... Read more
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The Riders Come Out at Night
By: Ali Winston & Darwin BondGraham
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 19 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Polk Award–winning investigative duo comes “a meticulously researched and enraging account” (Shane Bauer, New York Times bestselling author) of the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, and the more than two-decades-long saga of attempted reforms and explosive scandals.
No municipality has been under... Read more
The Journalist and the Murderer
By: Janet Malcolm
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Janet Malcolm delves into the psychopathology of journalism using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example: the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision. Examining the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and subject,... Read more
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Decarcerating Disability
By: Liat Ben-Moshe
Narrated by: Margaret Strom
Length: 15 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of... Read more
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Redeeming Justice
By: Jarrett Adams
Narrated by: Jarrett Adams
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“A moving and beautifully crafted memoir.”—SCOTT TUROW
“A daring act of justified defiance.”—SHAKA SENGHOR
“Nothing less than heroic.”—JOHN GRISHAM
He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now a pioneering lawyer, he recalls the journey that led to his exoneration—and inspired him to devote his... Read more
The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and his Wife
By: Rebecca Hazel
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Teacher and former rugby league player Chris Dawson appeared to have it all - a loving family and a beautiful home in Sydney's Northern Beaches. But in the summer of 1982 his wife Lynette disappeared and not long afterwards Dawson married a much younger woman a former student.
Less than a decade later this young woman escaped the marriage and... Read more
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 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
Free Speech
By: Nadine Strossen
Narrated by: Nadine Strossen
Length: TBA
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
Who Owns This Sentence?
By: David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu
Narrated by: David Bellos
Length: TBA
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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Justicia
By: Michael J. Sandel
Narrated by: Alejandro Vargas-Lugo
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Un viaje fascinante y entretenido a través de los conceptos que subyacen en las controversias políticas y morales de la actualidad. PREMIO PRINCESA DE ASTURIAS DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES 2018 En Justicia, el prestigioso autor y profesor Michael Sandel examina el papel de la justicia en nuestras vidas y en la sociedad, y explica cómo la filosofía... Read more
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Seen Yet Unseen
By: Bärí A. Williams
Narrated by: Bärí A. Williams
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Part memoir, part searing revelation, Seen Yet Unseen takes readers behind the scenes of some of the world’s biggest tech companies and exposes the way their exclusion of and, at times, hostility toward Black women have lasting impacts on the technology we use every day.Over the years the products of big tech companies and Silicon Valley have... Read more
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Default
By: Gregory Makoff
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection from their creditors. When a country defaults on its debt, the international financial system is ill equipped to manage the crisis. Decisions by key individuals determine the fate of an entire national economy. A prime example is... Read more
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The Court v. The Voters
By: Joshua A. Douglas
Narrated by: Chris Baetens
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
An urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions—and the next looming case
In The Court v. The Voters, law professor Joshua Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights—some surprising and unknown, some familiar—to... Read more