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A Good Country
My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America
2022
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A leading advocate for social justice excavates the history of forced migration in the twelve American towns she’s called home, revealing how White supremacy has fundamentally shaped the nation.“At a time when many would rather ban or bury the truth, Ali-Khan bravely faces it in this bracing and necessary book.”—Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Homeland ElegiesSofia Ali-Khan’s parents emigrated from Pakistan to America...
A Good Country
My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America
- Narrated by
- Kelsey Jaffer
Unabridged
16 hours 5 min
2022
EN
A leading advocate for social justice excavates the history of forced migration in the twelve American towns she’s called home, revealing how White supremacy has fundamentally shaped the nation.“At a time when many would rather ban or bury the truth, Ali-Khan bravely faces it in this bracing and necessary book.”—Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Homeland ElegiesSofia Ali-Khan’s parents emigrated from Pakistan to America...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
- Narrated by
- Simon Winchester
Abridged
7 hours 32 min
2005
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The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force.In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, ...
Quitting: A Life Strategy
The Myth of Perseverance—and How the New Science of Giving Up Can Set You Free
- Narrated by
- Hillary Huber
Unabridged
7 hours 10 min
2023
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“Compelling,” (Cal Newport) “Liberating,” (Amy Dickinson) and “as entertaining as it is important” (Steven Levitt) — How to Do Nothing meets Think Again in this lively and inspiring exploration of how quitting is, counterintuitively, the key to success."If you’re thinking about quitting a job or leaving a marriage, don’t—at least not until you have read Quitting: A Life Strategy. It’s a thoughtful book that challenges con...
Don't Call Me Princess
Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life
- Narrated by
- Peggy Orenstein
Unabridged
10 hours 8 min
2018
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The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays—funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.”Named one of the “40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 years” by Columbia Journalism Review, ...
The Conspiracy to End America
Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
- Narrated by
- Jeff Bottoms
Unabridged
5 hours 53 min
2023
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Lincoln Project adviser and bestselling author of It Was All a Lie, Stuart Stevens offers an ominous warning that the GOP is dragging our country toward autocracy—and if we don’t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024 may well have been our last free and fair election.Today’s Republican party is not a “normal” political party in the American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading as a political party. As Stuart Stevens argues in
Dear Dolly
Collected Wisdom
- Narrated by
- Dolly Alderton
Unabridged
4 hours 48 min
2023
EN
From the author of Everything I Know About Love and longtime Sunday Times Style columnist comes advice and answers to your questions about dating, love, sex, family, friendship and more.“One of the foremost ‘it’ writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly.”—Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women“Nora Ephron for the millennial generation.”—Elizab...
Bogie & Bacall
The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair
- Narrated by
- Todd McLaren
Unabridged
27 hours 34 min
2023
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From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story—the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart—capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before.InBogie & Bacall, William Mann offers a deep and comprehensive look at Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and the unlikely love they shared. Mann details their early years—Bogart’s effete upbringing in New Y...
The Cruelty Is the Point
Why Trump's America Endures
2021
EN
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic, these searing essays make a powerful case that “real hope lies not in a sunny nostalgia for American greatness but in seeing this history plain—in all of its brutality, unadorned by euphemism” (The New York Times).NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “No writer better demonstrates how American dreams are so often sabotaged by American history...
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Stolen Focus
Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
2022
EN
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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back.“The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again“Read this book to save your mind.”—Susan Cain, author of Quiet**WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT ...
How the Word Is Passed
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
2021
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This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central...
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
2020
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A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family historyIn 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending ...











