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Blues People
By: LeRoi Jones
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
“The path the slave took to ‘citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen’s music—through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel, development, jazz…[If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this... Read more
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The Witch
By: Ronald Hutton
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 16 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe’s history.The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces... Read more
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The Ice Bucket Challenge
By: Casey Sherman & Dave Wedge
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
While everyone knows of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the viral craze that swept the nation in summer 2014, too few know the truly inspirational story behind it.Pete Frates was a man at war with his own body, a man whose love for others was unshakable. He was a man who refused to fight alone and, in so doing, mobilized a global army to combat one of... Read more
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Gilded Suffragists
By: Johanna Neuman
Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names—Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney, and the like—carried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance of their costume balls and the... Read more
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Jumping at Shadows
By: Sasha Abramsky
Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived to be so threatening that he shoots her dead? Why do we fear infrequent acts of terrorism more far more common acts of violence? Why does a disease like Ebola, which killed only a handful of Americans, provoke panic,... Read more
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns
By: Dar Williams
Narrated by: Dar Williams
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes.
Dubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters," Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small towns. She has played their venues, composed in their coffee shops, and... Read more
The Most Important Year
By: Suzanne Bouffard
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
An eye-opening look inside pre-K in America and what it will take to give all children the best start in school possible.
At the heart of this groundbreaking book are two urgent questions: What do our young children need in the earliest years of school, and how do we ensure that they all get it? Cutting-edge research has proven that early... Read more
The Fearless Benjamin Lay
By: Marcus Rediker
Narrated by: Cornell Womack
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved... Read more
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Fantasyland
By: Kurt Andersen
Narrated by: Kurt Andersen
Length: 19 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell
How did we get here?
In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that... Read more
In wake of Harvey, Houston's undocumented community faces uncertainty
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
For Houston's undocumented immigrant community, some 600,000 people, Hurricane Harvey has turned anxiety about immigration raids and deportations into a visceral fear to seek shelter. In addition, many who have been impacted by the storm are unable to qualify for government disaster relief. P.J. Tobia reports on how undocumented families are... Read more
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The Last Christians
By: Andreas Knapp
Narrated by: Brett A. Barry
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A Westerner’s travels among the persecuted and displaced Christian remnant in Iraq and Syria teach him much about faith under fire.
Gold Medal Winner, 2018 IPPY Book of the Year Award
Silver Medal Winner, 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award
Finalist, 2018 ECPA Christian Book Award
Inside Syria and Iraq, and even along the refugee trail, they’re a religious... Read more
Petites et grandes fables de Sfios
By: Michel Piquemal
Narrated by: Michel Piquemal
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Né de l’imagination de Michel Piquemal, voici Sophios : un vieux philosophe hors du temps, qui invente avec humour des fables pour ses jeunes élèves. Imprégnées de cultures diverses, ces histoires inédites nous questionnent sur le sens qu’ont aujourd’hui les notions de liberté, de respect des lois, d”amitié, de vengeance, de destinée... Raconté... Read more
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Glorious Greeks
By: P. S. Quick
Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
Length: 52 minutes
Abridged: No
This audio-book describes what life was like for the ancient Greeks, with an in-depth account of all aspects of the people of the time and how they lived their daily lives. Narrator Jason Zenobia takes us through plenty of amazing facts about the Greek Gods, the Olympics, the Trojan War and much more! This fascinating audio-book is an excellent... Read more
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Why Gender Matters
By: Leonard Sax
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A revised and updated edition (with more than 70% new material) of the classic book about innate differences between boys and girls and how best to parent and teach girls and boys successfully, with new chapters on sexual orientation and on transgender and intersex kids.Back in 2005, the first edition of Why Gender Matters broke ground in... Read more
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Moral Combat
By: Christopher J. Ferguson, PhD & Patrick M. Marke...
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The media and politicians have been sounding the alarm for years, and with every fresh tragedy involving a young perpetrator comes another flurry of articles about the dangers of violent media. The problem is this: Their fear isn't supported by the evidence. In fact, unlike the video game–trained murder machines depicted in the press, school... Read more
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I Wish My Teacher Knew
By: Kyle Schwartz
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill-in-the-blank in this sentence: "I wish my teacher knew _____." The results astounded her.
Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking—all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique... Read more
Living a Feminist Life
By: Sara Ahmed
Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
Length: 14 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work.
Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often... Read more
Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
By: Bernie Sanders
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, Independent congressman, presidential candidate and activist Bernie Sanders continues his fight against the imbalances in the nation’s status quo, and shows you how to make a difference to effect the changes America—and the world—need to create a better tomorrow.
Throughout the Presidential... Read more
Wisdom Keeper
By: Ilarion Merculieff
Narrated by: Darren Roebuck
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Ilarion Merculieff weaves the remarkable strands of his life and culture into a fascinating account that begins with his traditional Unangan (Aleut) upbringing on a remote island in the Bering Sea, through his immersion in both the Russian Orthodox Church and his tribe’s holistic spiritual beliefs. He recounts his developing consciousness and... Read more
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A People’s History of the World
By: Chris Harman
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
Length: 29 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to... Read more
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Remarkable Romans
By: P. S. Quick
Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
This audio-book describes what life was like for the ancient Romans, with an in-depth account of all aspects of the people of the time and how they lived their daily lives. Narrator Jason Zenobia takes us through plenty of amazing facts about the army, inventions, religion, people's everyday lives and much more. This fascinating audio-book is... Read more
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How Forests Think
By: Eduardo Kohn
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, Kohn draws on his rich... Read more
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Girls to the Front
By: Sara Marcus
Narrated by: Julie McKay
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of the Riot Grrrl movement: the radical feminist punk uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s, altering America's gender landscape—and soundscape—forever. Author Sara Marcus, a cultural historian and critic who's written for Rolling Stone, the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times,... Read more
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iGen
By: Jean M. Twenge
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation.
With generational divides wider... Read more