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Chip War
By: Chris Miller
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Barack Obamaâs Favorite Books of 2023
The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the worldâs most critical resourcesâmicrochip technologyâwith the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is âpulse quickeningâŚa nonfiction thrillerâ (The New York... Read more
Slow Down
By: Kohei Saito
Narrated by: Troy Glasgow & Kohei Saito
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs, and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning? In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and... Read more
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Let the Record Show
By: Sarah Schulman
Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman Williams & Sarah Schulman
Length: 27 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
One of O, the Oprah Magazine's 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one of Vogue's 9 LGBTQ+ Books We're Looking Forward to This Spring, one of and Cosmopolitan's LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021, one of The Observer's Spring Books You Don't Want... Read more
In Defense of Looting
By: Vicky Osterweil
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.
Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even self-identified radicals distance themselves from looters, fearing that violent... Read more
A City on Mars
By: Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Weinersmith
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Wei...
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
* THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Scientific Americanâs #1 Book for 2023
* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice *Â A Times Best Science and Environment Book of 2023 *
âHelpfully pulls back the curtain on some of the lesser-discussed challenges to humanityâs off-Earth pursuits . . . Any reader enthusiastic about space settlement will... Read more
The Wives
By: Simone Gorrindo
Narrated by: Simone Gorrindo
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
â[Simone] Gorrindoâs prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir.â âThe New York Times Book Review
âA hopeful, unifying memoir.â âPeople
âA haunting, beautifully written celebration of found sisterhood.â âPublishers Weekly (starred review)
âA fearless, engaging, and important... Read more
Electrify
By: Saul Griffith
Narrated by: David Marantz
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In Electrify, Saul Griffith lays out a detailed blueprintâoptimistic but feasibleâfor fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith's plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our... Read more
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The End of the World is Just the Beginning
By: Peter Zeihan
Narrated by: Peter Zeihan
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in... Read more
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Filterworld
By: Kyle Chayka
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK â˘Â From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.
"[Filterworld] is about how algorithms changed cultureâŚ[Chayka asks] what is taste? What is a sense of aesthetics? And what... Read more
The Storm Before the Storm
By: Mike Duncan
Narrated by: Mike Duncan
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in... Read more
Culture Warlords
By: Talia Lavin
Narrated by: Talia Lavin
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
One reporter takes an immersive dive into white supremacy's explosive online presence, exploring the undercurrents of propaganda, racism, misogyny, and history that led us to where we are now. Talia Lavin is every skinhead's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, smart, and profoundly antiracist, with the investigative... Read more
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Code Girls
By: Liza Mundy
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post).
Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more ... Read more
Fighting For YES! (Audio Descriptive)
By: Maryann Cocca-Leffler & Judith Heumann
Narrated by: Ali Stroker & Judith Heumann
Length: 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From a very young age, Judy Heumann heard the word NO. When she wanted to attend public school, the principal said NO. When she wanted her teaching license, the New York Board of Education said NO. Judy and people with disabilities everywhere were tired of hearing âNO.â In the 1970s, an important disability rights law, Section 504 of The... Read more
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The Utopia of Rules
By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence?
To... Read more
Unbound
By: Tarana Burke
Narrated by: Tarana Burke
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"Tarana Burke, I just finished Unbound. Searing. Powerful. Needed!! Thank you." âOprah
âSometimes a single story can change the world. Unbound is one of those stories. Taranaâs words are a testimony to liberation and love.â âBrenĂŠ Brown
One of BookPage's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2021
This program is read by the author.
From the founder and activist... Read more
Sissy
By: Jacob Tobia
Narrated by: Jacob Tobia
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds." --The New York Times Book Review
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d)... Read more
Minority Rule
By: Ari Berman
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white... Read more
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The Deficit Myth
By: Stephanie Kelton
Narrated by: Stephanie Kelton
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory -- the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades -- delivers a radically different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society.
Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory... Read more
The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)
By: Masha Gessen
Narrated by: Masha Gessen
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDSÂ
WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARDÂ Â
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE,... Read more
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
By: Aaron Bastani
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A different kind of politics for a new kind of societyâbeyond work, scarcity, and capitalism
In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury, and happinessâfor everyone. Technological advance... Read more
Wandering in Strange Lands
By: Morgan Jerkins
Narrated by: Morgan Jerkins
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Buzzfeed's 24 New Books We Couldnât Put DownâOne of the smartest young writers of her generation.ââBook RiotFrom the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoingâa writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as âa force to be reckoned withââcomes this powerful story of her journey to understand her... Read more
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From the Corner of the Oval
By: Beck Dorey-Stein
Narrated by: Beck Dorey-Stein
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â˘Â What if you lived out the drama of your twenties on Air Force One?
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â[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.ââThe New York Times
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RECOMMENDED READING theSkimm ⢠Today ⢠Entertainment Weekly ⢠Refinery29 ⢠Bustle ⢠PopSugar ⢠Vanity Fair â˘Â The New York Times Editorsâ Choice... Read more
Sipping Dom PĂŠrignon Through a Straw
By: Eddie Ndopu
Narrated by: Eddie Ndopu
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful
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Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldnât live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving pop... Read more
Homegrown
By: Jeffrey Toobin
Narrated by: Jeffrey Toobin
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrectionâfrom acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.
Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement.
Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets: killing 168 people... Read more
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