Violated
By: Paula Lavigne & Mark Schlabach
Narrated by: Therese Plummer
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Written by ESPN investigative reporters Violated narrates the sexual abuse by members of Baylor's football team and the university's attempt to silence the victims. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to RAINN to help fight sexual abuse.
Throughout its history, Baylor University has presented itself as something special: As the world's... Read more
Ghost of the Innocent Man
By: Benjamin Rachlin
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.
During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of... Read more
Good Booty
By: Ann Powers
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 13 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became... Read more
View audiobookAugmented
By: Brett King, Andy Lark, Alex Lightman & JP Ranga...
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250-year-long cycle of disruption that has continuously changed the way we live, the way we work, and the way we interact. The coming Augmented Age, however, promises a level of disruption, behavioral shifts, and changes that are unparalleled. While consumers today are camping outside of an... Read more
View audiobookThe Psychology Of Sexual Expression
By: Grace Ennis
Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
How have you chosen to express yourself sexually? Do you understand who you are as a sexual being? What does sex mean to you? If these are questions you have been asking yourself, you have stopped off at the right place because in this book you will find all the answers you are looking for.
We are living in a generation where sex is watched,... Read more
Parcourir l'histoire vol.8
By: Anne-Marie Deraspe
Narrated by: Michel Keable
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
La plage est une invention moderne et le bain de mer a longtemps été considéré comme une activité immorale, pratiquée par les gens sans manières. Au Moyen Âge, des savants attribuaient le découpage irrégulier des grèves à la punition du déluge. Il faut dire que la mer était le lieu de tous les dangers: elle avait transporté les envahisseurs... Read more
View audiobookMon Dieu… Pourquoi ? - Abridged
By: Abbé Pierre
Narrated by: Gérard Gervais
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Sur le ton de la confidence, avec une totale liberté d’esprit, l’abbé Pierre livre ici, comme il ne l’avait jamais fait auparavant, ses interrogations, ses convictions, et ses indignations sur la foi chrétienne et sur le sens de la vie humaine. Péché originel, Jésus et Marie-Madeleine, célibat et chasteté des prêtres, fanatisme religieux,... Read more
View audiobookThe Devil Finds Work
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics.Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America’s self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s... Read more
View audiobookLocked In
By: John F. Pfaff
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country. Having spent fifteen years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted... Read more
View audiobookBones
By: Joe Tone
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border—and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy
José and Miguel Treviño were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different paths that would end at the same violent crossroads—with considerable help... Read more
South of Forgiveness
By: Thordis Elva & Tom Stranger
Narrated by: Tom Bromhead & Tavia Gilbert
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly seven thousand miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just sixteen. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing... Read more
View audiobookThe Unredeemed Captive
By: John Demos
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavored to “civilize” a “savage” native populace.There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John... Read more
View audiobookThe Vice Capades
By: Mark Stein
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
From the illegality of bowling in colonial America to violent video games and synthetic drugs, Vice Capades by bestselling author Mark Stein examines the nation's relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This comprehensive, yet humorous, history reveals that our views of vice are not merely formed by... Read more
View audiobookRocket Girl
By: George D. Morgan
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket that could fly him to the moon. In Ray, North Dakota, a young farm girl named Mary Sherman was attending high school. In an age when girls rarely dreamed of a career in science, Mary wanted to be a chemist. A decade later the dreams of these two... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Quake
By: Henry Fountain
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega—and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.
At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964,... Read more
The Chick and the Dead
By: Carla Valentine
Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Carla Valentine works with the dead. After studying forensics, she assisted pathologists with post-mortems for years before becoming the curator of the world's most famous pathology museum. When it comes to death, she truly is an expert, and in this book she shares that expertise.
Using the most common post-mortem process as the backbone of the... Read more
Life in Code
By: Ellen Ullman
Narrated by: Ellen Ullman
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the Machine
The last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers,... Read more
101 Amazing Statistics
By: Jack Goldstein
Narrated by: John Harnish
Length: 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Did you know that you’re almost two thousand times more likely to die from an asteroid hitting the earth than you are from a terrorist attack?
Would you be shocked to learn that almost half of pilots surveyed admitted to falling asleep during a flight?
Do you think world population growth is increasing or declining?
And does a regular social... Read more
Mon royaume est silence
By: Marie Landon
Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
L'auteur, atteint d'une surdité dès l'âge de six ans, décide après ses études de travailler comme éducatrice auprès des enfants sourds. Ce témoignage brise le silence imposé par la surdité et réveille les mots pour leur rendre la parole. Read more
View audiobookSapiens. De animales a dioses (Latino)
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga
Length: 17 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
El libro de no ficción del año. Bestseller internacional con más de diez millones de ejemplares vendidos. Número 1 en la lista de The New York Times. Recomendado por Barack Obama, Bill Gates y Mark Zuckerberg. Escucha ahora su versión audiolibro. De la manode uno de los historiadores más interesantes de la actualidad, he aquí la fascinante... Read more
View audiobookThe Wrong Way to Save Your Life
By: Megan Stielstra
Narrated by: Megan Stielstra & Meredith Mitchell
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Stielstra is a masterful essayist.” —Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and HungerFrom an important new writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both... Read more
View audiobookThe Condemnation of Blackness
By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society.
Following the 1890 census—the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery—crime statistics, new... Read more
Invisible No More
By: Andrea J. Ritchie
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
“A passionate, incisive critique of the many ways in which women and girls of color are systematically erased or marginalized in discussions of police violence.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police... Read more
Dying
By: Cory Taylor
Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable: she now weighs less than her neighbor's retriever. As her body weakens, she describes the experience—the vulnerability and strength, the courage and humility, the anger and acceptance—of knowing she will soon die.
Written in the space... Read more