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Horse Girls
By: Halimah Marcus
Narrated by: Amanda Dolan, Jolene Kim, Almarie Guerra, Dahli...
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
“A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse country—these essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love's complexity.” —Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for GirlsA compelling and provocative essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term “horse girl,” broadening it for... Read more
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On War
By: Carl von Clausewitz
Narrated by: David Timson & Lucy Scott
Length: 31 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
‘War is a mere continuation of policy by other means.’ A classic work of military strategy, On War sets forth the theories and tactics of Carl von Clausewitz, a distinguished Prussian general who was notable for his roles in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The book covers a broad range of topics, including weapons, terrain, troops... Read more
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My Bondage and My Freedom
By: Frederick Douglass
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
Length: 14 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Activist and abolitionist Frederick Douglass is one of the most famous anti-slavery writers in American history. Following 20 years of enslavement in Maryland, Douglass made a daring bid for freedom in 1838, travelling north via the ‘underground railroad’ before arriving in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he would settle. It was not long... Read more
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
By: J.B. MacKinnon
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping.
We can’t stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma. The economy says we must always consume more: even the... Read more
Start Here, Start Now - Abridged
By: Liz Kleinrock
Narrated by: Liz Kleinrock
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Most educators want to cultivate an antibias and antiracist classroom and school community, but they often struggle with where and how to get started. Liz helps us set ourselves up for success and prepare for the mistakes we’ll make along the way.
Each chapter in Start Here, Start Now addresses many of the questions and challenges educators have... Read more
American Hemp
By: Jen Hobbs
Narrated by: Pete Cross & Melanie Carey
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
December of 2018 marked a largely unprecedented victory for cannabis. The 2018 Farm Bill passed, and, with it, hemp became legal. What the federal government listed for decades as a schedule 1 narcotic was finally classified as an agricultural crop, giving great promise to the rise of a new American hemp industry. Filled with catchall research,... Read more
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Make Your Own Sunshine
By: Janice Dean
Narrated by: Janice Dean
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
These are the kinds of stories we need right now.While the news is filled with villains and villainy, we do see a few famous heroes now and again. But what about the everyday heroes? The people going out of their way bring a little love into someone else's life? They deserve a time in the spotlight to inspire us all.Life can be tough—but it... Read more
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The Devil You Know
By: Charles M. Blow
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Editor’s Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year?The Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black PowerFrom journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action, "a must-read in the effort to dismantle deep-seated... Read more
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The Dream Palace of the Arabs
By: Fouad Ajami
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving... Read more
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Desert Notebooks
By: Ben Ehrenreich
Narrated by: David Bendena
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? National Magazine Award... Read more
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The Archipelago of Hope
By: Gleb Raygorodetsky
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
One cannot turn on the news today without a report on an extreme-weather event or the latest update on Antarctica. But while our politicians argue, the truth is that climate change is already here. Nobody knows this better than Indigenous peoples who, having developed an intimate relationship with ecosystems over generations, have observed these... Read more
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Fear Itself
By: Ann Gordon, Joseph O. Baker, Christopher D. Bad...
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear. While fear is typically discussed in emotional or poetic terms—as the opposite of courage or an obstacle to be overcome—it nevertheless has very real consequences in everyday life. Persistent fear negatively... Read more
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The Woman Who Saved the Children
By: Clare Mulley
Narrated by: Joely Richardson & Clare Mulley
Length: 13 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an unconventional biography of an unconventional woman. Eglantyne Jebb moved from drawing rooms to war zones, often defying expectation and at times breaking the law. Although not fond of individual children, she founded Save the Children and originated the revolutionary concept of children’s human rights. Clare Mulley brings to life the... Read more
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Brooklyn
By: Thomas J. Campanella
Narrated by: William Hope
Length: 22 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by William Hope provides an unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today
America's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades—celebrated and scorned as one of the... Read more
Hidden Figures
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the... Read more
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Leading Ladies - Abridged
By: Kay Bailey Hutchison
Narrated by: Kay Bailey Hutchison
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In a series of skillfully drawn biographical portraits, United States Senator and bestselling author Kay Bailey Hutchison examines the lives of sixty-three pioneers in military service, journalism, public health, social reform, science, and politics—all American women. Mixing historical portraits with modern success stories, Senator Hutchison... Read more
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