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    Becoming

    The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

    by Michelle Obama ...
    Narrated by Michelle Obama ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 3 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word AlbumWinner of the 2020 Audie Award for Autobiography/MemoirAn intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwideTHE NO. 1 BESTSELLERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARTHE SUNDAY TIMES, MEMOIR OF THE YEAR</stro... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Going Infinite

    The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

    by Michael Lewis ...
    Narrated by Michael Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 56 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars," he finally said-though he added that he had use for "infinity dollars"...'**Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't just rich. Before he turned thirty he'd become the world's youngest billionaire, making a record ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

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    Apocalypse Never

    Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

    by Michael Shellenberger ...
    Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 18 min

    Now a National Bestseller!Climate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem.Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD

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    What Happened

    by Hillary Rodham Clinton ...
    Narrated by Hillary Rodham Clinton ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 35 min

    “An engaging, beautifully synthesized page-turner” (Slate). The #1 New York Times bestseller and Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most personal memoir yet, about the 2016 presidential election.In this “candid and blackly funny” (The New York Times) memoir, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

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    Care Work

    Dreaming Disability Justice

    by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ...
    Narrated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    A Promised Land

    by Barack Obama ...
    Narrated by Barack Obama ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 10 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES AND AUDIBLE BESTSELLERA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD

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    Homo Deus

    A Brief History of Tomorrow

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 54 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Sapiens showed us where we came from. In uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life.It asks the fundamental ques... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

    The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

    by Bill Gates ...
    Narrated by Bill Gates, Wil Wheaton ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 11 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    The Room Where It Happened

    A White House Memoir

    by John Bolton ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 52 min

    JOHN BOLTON READS THE EPILOGUE!As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves.The result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the President, ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

    by Kati Marton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    ‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the PeopleAn intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world.Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness

    by Michelle Alexander ...
    Narrated by Karen Chilton ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 14 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander, read by Karen Chilton.Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Small Is Beautiful

    A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

    by E F Schumacher ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of Small is Beautiful by E F Schumacher.How does our economic system impact the way we live? Does it really affect what we truly care about?Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening study of our economic system and its purpose, challenging the current state of excessive consumption in our society. Offering a crucial message for the ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Politics On the Edge

    The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics

    by Rory Stewart ...
    Narrated by Rory Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 20 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022's breakout hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament**Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    I'll Take Your Questions Now

    What I Saw at the Trump White House

    by Stephanie Grisham ...
    Narrated by Stephanie Grisham ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yetStephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump’s communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Tyranny of Merit

    What's Become of the Common Good?

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    Narrated by Michael J. Sandel ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest, with the triumph of Brexit ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Landslide

    The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

    by Michael Wolff ...
    Narrated by Michael Wolff, Holter Graham ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    Includes an introduction read by Michael Wolff, as well as archival recordings of speeches made by Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Donald Trump.'We won. Won in a landslide. This was a landslide.'President Donald J. Trump, 6 January 2021Politics has given us some shocking and confounding moments but none have come close to the careening final days of Donald Trump's presidency: the surreal stage ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Life Will Be the Death of Me

    . . . and you too!

    by Chelsea Handler ...
    Narrated by Chelsea Handler ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 25 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This will be one of your favorite books of all time. Through her intensely vulnerable, honest, and hilarious reflections, Chelsea shows us more than just her insides. She shows us ourselves.”—Amy SchumerDon’t miss Chelsea Handler’s new Netflix stand-up special, Revolution, now streaming!In the wake of President Donald Trump’s election, feeling that her country—her ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    How to Have Impossible Conversations

    A Very Practical Guide

    by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay ...
    Narrated by Peter Boghossian ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    From politics and religion to workplace negotiations, ace the high-stakes conversations in your life with this indispensable guide from a persuasion expert.In our current political climate, it seems impossible to have a reasonable conversation with anyone who has a different opinion. Whether you're online, in a classroom, an office, a town hall—or just hoping to get through a family dinner with a ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

    37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays

    by Bandy X. Lee, Robert Jay Lifton, Gail Sheehy, William J. Doherty, Noam Chomsky, Judith Lewis Herman M.D., Philip Zimbardo Ph.D., Rosemary Sword, Craig Malkin Ph.D.0, Tony Schwartz1, Lance Dodes M.D.2, John D. Gartner Ph.D.3, Michael J. Tansey Ph.D.4, David M. Reiss M.D.6, James A. Herb M.A., Esq.7, Leonard L. Glass M.D., M.P.H.8, Henry J. Friedman M.D.0, James Gilligan M.D.1, Diane Jhueck L.M.H.C., D.M.H.P.2, Howard H. Covitz Ph.D., A.B.P.P.3, Betty P. Teng M.F.A., L.M.S.W.4, Jennifer Contarino Panning Psy.D.6, Harper West M.A., L.L.P.8, Luba Kessler M.D.9, Steve Wruble M.D.1, Thomas Singer M.D.3, Elizabeth Mika M.A., L.C.P.C.5, Edwin B. Fisher Ph.D.6, Nanette Gartrell M.D.7, Dee Mosbacher M.D., Ph.D.9, Stephen Soldz4 ...
    Narrated by Bandy X. Lee, Rosemary Sword, Michael J. Tansey Ph.D.5, Leonard L. Glass M.D., M.P.H.9, Betty P. Teng M.F.A., L.M.S.W.5, Jennifer Contarino Panning Psy.D.7, Luba Kessler M.D.0, Steve Wruble M.D.2, Thomas Singer M.D.4, Nanette Gartrell M.D.8, P. J. Ochlan0, Alex Hyde-White1, Hillary Huber2, William Dufris3, Stephen Soldz5, James R. Merikangas6, Kevin Washington7, Lise van Susteren8, Prudence Gourguechon9, Richard Painter0, Rosa Maria Bramble1 ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 26 min

    As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the audiobook up to date—because this is still not normal.Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him?That ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    There Is Nothing For You Here

    Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

    by Fiona Hill ...
    Narrated by Fiona Hill ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 35 min

    "This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up.”—Timothy Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of On TyrannyINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia—and ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Unbelievable

    My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

    by Katy Tur ...
    Narrated by Katy Tur ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCalled "Disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice" by Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent Katy Tur reported on—and took flak from—the most captivating and volatile presidential candidate in American history. Tur lived out of a suitcase for a year and a half, following Trump around the country, powered by packets of peanut butter and kept clean with dry shampoo. She ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Ultra-Processed People

    Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?

    by Chris van Tulleken ...
    Narrated by Chris van Tulleken, Dr Xand van Tulleken ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 35 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.This audiobook contains exclusive bonus content between Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken, where they deep-dive into what you've just listened to at the end of each part.**An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.It's not you, it's the food.We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Notes on Resistance

    by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian ...
    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    Noam Chomsky dissects the multiple crises facing humankind and the planet and provides a road map for resistance.In this completely original set of interviews between the legendary duo of Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, the two confront topics such as the pandemic, the wealth gap made worse because of the pandemic, climate destruction, the increasing power of the corporate owned media, ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Unsettled

    What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters

    by Steven E. Koonin ...
    Narrated by Jay Aaseng ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 14 min

    "Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts.""Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent.""Climate change will be an economic disaster."You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading.When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voic... ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD