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Streetfight
By: Janette Sadik-Khan & Seth Solomonow
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
As New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world's greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers. Her approach was dramatic and effective: Simply painting a part of the street to make it into a plaza or bus lane not... Read more
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Dirty Work
By: Eyal Press
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who... Read more
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Desert Queen
By: Janet Wallach
Narrated by: Jean Gilpin
Length: 20 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, she not only produced several enormously popular books... Read more
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Foolproof
By: Sander van der Linden
Narrated by: Sander van der Linden
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From fake news to conspiracy theories, from inflammatory memes to misleading headlines, misinformation has swiftly become the defining problem of our era. The crisis threatens the integrity of our democracies, our ability to cultivate trusting relationships, even our physical and psychological well-being—yet most attempts to combat it have... Read more
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A People's Guide to Capitalism
By: Hadas Thier
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%.
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the... Read more
All the Shah's Men
By: Stephen Kinzer
Narrated by: Michael Prichard & Jonathan Yen
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry.
In a cloak-and-dagger story of spies, saboteurs, and secret agents, Kinzer reveals the involvement of Eisenhower, Churchill, Kermit Roosevelt, and the CIA in... Read more
The Girls Who Fought Crime
By: Maj. Gen. Mari K. Eder
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Margot Lee Shetterley and Liza Mundy comes an inspiring feminist tale of a woman who dedicated her entire life to the New York Police Department, upending the patriarchy and the status quo for women working in public service.
Mary "Mae" Foley was a force to be reckoned with. On one hip she held her makeup compact, on the other, her... Read more
Burn the Page
By: Danica Roem
Narrated by: Danica Roem
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspirational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem, the nation's first openly trans person elected to US state legislature
Danica Roem made national headlines when--as a transgender former frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer--she unseated Virginia's most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob Marshall as state delegate.... Read more
A World of Three Zeros
By: Muhammad Yunus
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet
Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social... Read more
From Beirut to Jerusalem
By: Thomas L. Friedman
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 25 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The program features a new introduction written and read by the author.
"If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." —Seymour M. Hersh
One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world.... Read more
Spam Nation
By: Brian Krebs
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
There is a Threat Lurking Online with the Power to Destroy Your Finances, Steal Your Personal Data, and Endanger Your Life.In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank accounts. Tracing the... Read more
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Young Stalin
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narrated by: James Adams
Length: 16 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Young Stalin tells the story of an exceptional, charismatic, darkly turbulent young man born into obscurity, fancying himself a poet and a priest, and finally embracing revolutionary idealism as his Messianic mission in life. Equal parts scholar and terrorist, a mastermind of bank robberies, extortion, piracy, and murder, he was so impressive in... Read more
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The Moment
By: Bakari Sellers
Narrated by: Bakari Sellers
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landscape and policies that are impacting Black families and communities and offers solutions for a better tomorrow. In late May in 2020, while discussing the murder of George Floyd on CNN, Bakari Sellers spoke from the heart sharing devastating insight... Read more
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The Privatization of Everything
By: Donald Cohen & Allen Mikaelian
Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods that must be kept out of the market. When private interests take over, they strip public goods of their power to lift people up, creating instead a tool to diminish democracy, further inequality, and separate us from each other.
The Privatization of Everything, by the... Read more
Agent Zigzag
By: Ben Macintyre
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began.
In 1941, after... Read more
Presidents of War
By: Michael Beschloss
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 26 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “superb and important” (The New York Times Book Review) saga of America’s wartime chief executives
“Fascinating and heartbreaking . . . timely . . . Beschloss’s broad scope lets you draw important crosscutting lessons about presidential leadership.”—Bill Gates
Widely... Read more
Shopping All the Way to the Woods
By: Rachel S. Gross
Narrated by: Melissa Redmond
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shopping
No escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by... Read more
The Shortest History of Italy
By: Ross King
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A concise, star-studded retelling of Italy's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence—from a foremost author of historic Italy.
The calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It's hard to imagine a world without... Read more
Means and Ends
By: Zoe Baker
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice.
Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. Zoe Baker clearly and accessibly explains the ideas that historical anarchists developed in order to change the world. This includes their... Read more
When We Walk By
By: Kevin F. Adler & Donald W. Burnes
Narrated by: Kevin F. Adler
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
How to end homelessness in America: a must-read guide to understanding housing instability, supporting our unhoused neighbors, and reclaiming our humanity.
A deeply humanizing analysis that will change the way you think about poverty and homelessness—for the socially engaged reader of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste and Matthew Desmond's Evicted.
Think... Read more
The Way to the Spring
By: Ben Ehrenreich
Narrated by: Ben Ehrenreich
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Way to the Spring is a riveting and powerful work . . . . Readers near and far who seek greater understanding of how Palestinians live—and the violence they endure—are well served by Ehrenreich’s book.” —Haaretz
“Ehrenreich's haunting, poignant and memorable stories add up to a weighty contribution to the Palestinian side of the scales of... Read more
Justice on the Brink
By: Linda Greenhouse
Narrated by: Beth Hicks
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The gripping story of the Supreme Court’s transformation from a measured institution of law and justice into a highly politicized body dominated by a right-wing supermajority, told through the dramatic lens of its most transformative year, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning law columnist for The New York Times—with a new preface by the author
“A... Read more
Nomadland
By: Jessica Bruder
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of... Read more
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
By: Julian Rubinstein
Narrated by: Hachette Assorted Authors
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took... Read more