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Kochland
The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
2019
EN
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES, NPR, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL * FINALIST FOR THE FINACIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR**“Superb…Among the best books ever written about an American corporation.” —Bryan Burrough, The New York Times Boo...
The Meat Racket
The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
2014
EN
An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry—a shocking, in-depth report every American should read.How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate? Journalist Christopher Leonard spent more than a decade covering the country’s biggest meat companies, including four years as the national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. Now he delivers the first comprehensive look inside the industrial meat system, exposing how a ...
The Lords of Easy Money
How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
2022
EN
**The Wall Street Journal Best Book of the YearNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country’s economic stability at risk.**If you asked most people what forces led to to...
2026
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What if feelings had weight?Eden is a bright and creative child who loves drawing colorful rainbows, laughing with friends, and playing games at school. Life feels light and joyful-until one week, when everything begins to change.A small comment here. A laugh there. A missing pencil box.At first, it doesn't seem like much.But to Eden, it feels like something heavier is building.She begins to imagine tiny pebbles appearing in her backpack-each one rep...
The Lords of Easy Money
How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
- Narrated by
- Jacques Roy
Unabridged
10 hours 19 min
2022
EN
**The Wall Street Journal Best Book of the YearNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country’s economic stability at risk.**If you asked most people what forces led to to...
Kochland
The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
- Narrated by
- Jacques Roy
Unabridged
23 hours 15 min
2019
EN
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES, NPR, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL * FINALIST FOR THE FINACIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR**“Superb…Among the best books ever written about an American corporation.” —Bryan Burrough, The New York Times Boo...
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The Millionaire Master Plan
Your Personalized Path to Financial Success
- Narrated by
- Ben Giroux
Unabridged
7 hours 53 min
2014
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From an entrepreneur and investor, an inspiring, easy-to-follow guide to pinpointing, understanding, and improving your financial standing.Expert Roger James Hamilton has designed nine steps in an accessible color-coded manner that ranges from red (barely living paycheck-to-paycheck) all the way to ultra-violet (where generating income is simply no longer a worry).First, you’ll take a quick test to determine where you are on the financial spectrum, and then...
American Grammar
Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation
- Narrated by
- Bill Andrew Quinn
Unabridged
15 hours 37 min
2025
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A new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equalizer” to not only be a lie, but also a myth that reproduces past harms.Education is the epicenter of every community in the United States. Indeed, few institutions are as pivotal in shaping our lives and values than public schools. Yet the nature of schooling has become...
American Grammar
Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation
2025
EN
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAAH STONE BOOK AWARDA new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equalizer” to not only be a lie, but also a myth that reproduces past harms.Education is the epicenter of every community in the United States. Indeed, few institutions are as pivotal in shaping our lives and ...
Murder the Truth
Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful
- Narrated by
- Michael David Axtell
Unabridged
10 hours 43 min
2025
EN
New York Times Bestseller""Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and violence. Now, as master investigative journalist David Enrich reveals, those tactics have arrived in America.” — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of StrongmenDavid Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the...
The Last Honest Man
The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
- Narrated by
- Kevin Stillwell
Unabridged
15 hours 5 min
2023
EN
**In this instant New York Times bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government.“Gripping ... spectacular piece of reporting.” —Ken Burns**For decades now, America’s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.
The Triumph of Injustice
How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
- Narrated by
- Steve Menasche
Unabridged
7 hours 39 min
2019
EN
America's runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system.Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who revolutionized the study of inequality. Eschewing anecdotes and case studies, Emmanuel...











