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Sex and the Constitution
By: Geoffrey R. Stone
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 20 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Renowned constitutional scholar Geoffrey R. Stone traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have attempted to legislate sexual behavior from the ancient world to America's earliest days to today’s fractious political climate. Stone crafts a remarkable, even thrilling narrative in which he shows how agitators, moralists, legislators, and... Read more
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A Colony in a Nation
By: Chris Hayes
Narrated by: Chris Hayes
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.
America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure—wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation—reveals that racial inequality has barely... Read more
Black Lies Matter
By: Taleeb Starkes
Narrated by: Taleeb Starkes
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In Chicago a.k.a "Chiraq," the first ten days of 2016 yielded 120 people shot. Baltimore's 2015 ended as its bloodiest and deadliest year—on a per-capita basis. In 2014, Detroit's police chief called upon law-abiding citizens to take arms against its burgeoning, violent, criminal subculture.
Unfortunately, these cities aren't anomalies. Year... Read more
To Sleep with the Angels
By: David Cowan & John Kuenster
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago almost fifty years ago was an extraordinary moment of grief. One of the deadliest fires in American history, it took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels School, left many families physically and psychologically... Read more
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Free Women, Free Men
By: Camille Paglia
Narrated by: Camille Paglia
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From the fiery intellectual provocateur— and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality—a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men.
Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of... Read more
Cafe Neandertal
By: Beebe Bahrami
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe's most concentrated regions for Neandertal and early modern human occupations, writer Beebe Bahrami follows and participates in the work of archaeologists who are doing some of the most comprehensive and global work to date on the research, exploration, and recovery of our... Read more
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The Rules Do Not Apply
By: Ariel Levy
Narrated by: Ariel Levy
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This Year’s Must-Read Memoir” (W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and love
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Vogue• Time• Esquire• Entertainment Weekly• The Guardian• Harper’s Bazaar• Library Journal• NPR
All her life, Ariel Levy was told that she was too... Read more
Born Both
By: Hida Viloria
Narrated by: Hida Viloria
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the world's foremost intersex activists, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of gender identity, self-acceptance, and love.
My name is Hida Viloria. I was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that my body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, there were many times when I felt... Read more
Deadliest Enemy
By: Mark Olshaker & Michael T. Osterholm
Narrated by: Jamie Renell
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone) stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics -- featuring a new preface on COVID-19.
Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period... Read more
Gender Medicine
By: Marek Glezerman, MD
Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed crucial physiological differences to improve the chances for human survival. These differences have become culturally obsolete with the overturning of traditional gender roles. But they are nevertheless very real, and they go well beyond the obvious sexual and reproductive variances: men... Read more
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Born on Third Base
By: Chuck Collins
Narrated by: Chuck Collins
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor—all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further... Read more
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How To Get Over A Breakup For Women
By: HowExpert
Narrated by: Krystle L. Minkoff
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
If you have just undergone a break up, then get this "How to Get Over a Breakup For Women" step-by-step guide.It is written by a person who has also gone through the break up and lose loved ones.In this step-by-step guide, you will discover how to overcome and endure the pain cause by the break up.- How to reflect and accept difficult... Read more
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Was alles in einem Menschen sein kann - Begegnungen mit einem Mörder (ungekürzt)
By: Steffen Schroeder
Narrated by: Steffen Schroeder
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
2013 stehen sich Steffen Schroeder und Micha im Gefängnis Berlin-Tegel zum ersten Mal gegenüber. Ein Gespräch über ihre schwierige Jugend bringt sie einander näher, bei allen Unterschieden: Schroeder wurde Schauspieler, Micha rutschte ins rechte Milieu ab, brachte einen Menschen um. Es beginnt eine besondere Beziehung: Schroeder, bekannt als... Read more
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Rules for Revolutionaries
By: Becky Bond & Zack Exley
Narrated by: Tia Rider
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the “rules” that govern campaign strategy. It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign: A... Read more
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Attack of the 50 Ft. Women
By: Catherine Mayer
Narrated by: Tanya Moodie
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
‘Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children’ Sunday Express Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality. ... Read more
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Inferno
By: Steven Hatch
Narrated by: Steven Hatch
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A first-hand account of the Ebola epidemic by an American doctor who has been featured on the front page of the New York Times.Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and... Read more
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Welcome Homeless
By: Alan Graham
Narrated by: Maurice England
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Homeless.No other word better describes our modern-day suffering. It reveals one of our deepest and most painful conditions—not having a sense of belonging. However, Alan Graham, founder of Mobile Loaves & Fishes and Community First! Village, is improving the quality of life for a large quantity of people through sharing his personal story... Read more
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Imagining A Sustainable and Regenerative Society
By: Daniel Pinchbeck
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Change is going to come no matter what, so it behooves us to engage our imagination toward the kind of future we want. We need to go deep into what truly makes us happy. Pinchbeck is advocating nothing less than the need to embrace our responsibility for understanding what’s happening and play an active part in caring for the world. Even though... Read more
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Harvest of Empire
By: Juan Gonzalez
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries—from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture—from food to entertainment to... Read more
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Weaponized Lies
By: Daniel J. Levitin
Narrated by: Dan Piraro
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Previously Published as A Field Guide to Lies
We’re surrounded by fringe theories, fake news, and pseudo-facts. These lies are getting repeated. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions and get the American mind back on track. Here are the fundamental lessons in critical thinking... Read more
Irresistible
By: Adam Alter
Narrated by: Adam Alter
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“Irresistible is a fascinating and much needed exploration of one of the most troubling phenomena of modern times.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times bestsellers David and Goliath and Outliers
“One of the most mesmerizing and important books I’ve read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are... Read more
Slavery’s Capitalism
By: Sven Beckert & Seth Rockman
Narrated by: William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, Pa...
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world’s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery’s Capitalism argues for slavery’s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades... Read more
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Wish Lanterns
By: Alec Ash
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Their experiences and aspirations were formed in a radically... Read more
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We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere
By: Gillian Anderson & Jennifer Nadel
Narrated by: Gillian Anderson & Jennifer Nadel
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Urgent and provocative, We: A Manifesto for Women Everwhere is “part self-help, part social theory, centered in the idea that instead of having it ‘all,’ women can live happier, better lives by becoming more free” (Glamour), from longtime friends Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel.
We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is an uplifting, timely,... Read more