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How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi

Narrated by Ibram X. Kendi

Unabridged

10 hours 43 min
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book R... ... Read more
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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
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White Fragility

Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

by Robin DiAngelo

Narrated by Amy Landon

Unabridged

6 hours 21 min
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a ... Read more
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The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition

by Michelle Alexander

Narrated by Karen Chilton

Unabridged

16 hours 57 min
Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexanders The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image ... Read more
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A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

Narrated by Matt Damon

Abridged

8 hours 46 min
For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's ... Read more
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Apocalypse Never

Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger

Narrated by Stephen Graybill

Unabridged

12 hours 18 min
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 nuclear plants operating, ... Read more
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The Color of Law

by Richard Rothstein

Narrated by Adam Grupper

Unabridged

8 hours 40 min
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly ... Read more
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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 • The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler’s year of self-discovery—featuring a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and departed), friends, assistants, and a lot of ediblesA SKIMM READS PICK • “This will be one of your favorite books of all time.”—Amy ... Read more
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The Second Sex

by Simone De Beauvoir

Narrated by Ellen Archer and 1 more

Unabridged

39 hours 9 min
UNABRIDGED AND AVAILABLE ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIMESimone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. This unabridged edition of the text reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation, and is now available on audio for the very ... Read more
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The Power of Ritual

Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices

by Casper ter Kuile

Narrated by Casper ter Kuile

Unabridged

5 hours 55 min
Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose**—a message we need more than ever for our spiritual and emotional well ... Read more
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Profiles in Corruption

Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite

by Peter Schweizer

Narrated by Charles Constant

Unabridged

7 hours 23 min
Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: when a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact.For over a decade, the work of five-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe.Clinton Cash revealed the Clintons’ international money flow, exposed global corruption, and sparked an FBI investigation. Secret ... Read more
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Hillbilly Elegy

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J. D. Vance

Narrated by J. D. Vance

Unabridged

6 hours 49 min
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working classHillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly ... Read more
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Under the Banner of Heaven

A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

Narrated by Scott Brick

Unabridged

12 hours 32 min
This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and ... Read more
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In Defense of Open Society

by George Soros

Unabridged

5 hours 42 min
An impassioned defense of open society, academic and media freedom, and human rights.George Soros -- universally known for his philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success--has been under sustained attack from the far right, nationalists, and anti-Semites in the United States and around the world because of his commitment to open society and liberal democracy.In this brilliant and ... Read more
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The Plot to Betray America

How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It

by Malcolm Nance

Narrated by Oliver Wyman

Unabridged

13 hours 27 min
***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***AN EXPLOSIVE , REVELATORY ASSESSMENT OF THE GREATEST BETRAYAL IN AMERICAN HISTORYWilliam Barr · Paul Manafort · Michael Cohen · Steve Bannon · Rudy Giuliani · Mitch McConnell · Roger Stone · George Papadopoulos · Jeff Sessions · And More!When former FBI Director Robert Mueller III was assigned to the Special Counsel investigat... ... Read more
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The Divide

American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

by Matt Taibbi

Narrated by Ray Porter

Unabridged

14 hours 1 min
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis**Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles.Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. The ... Read more
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The Sacred Sword (Ben Hope, Book 7)

by Scott Mariani

Narrated by Jack Hawkins
series Ben Hope #7
Unabridged

10 hours 39 min
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermott AN ANCIENT SWORD. A LONG BURIED SECRET.ONE MAN WILL UNCOVER THE MYSTERY. It’s Christmas, and on a trip back to the UK to try to sort out his stormy personal life, ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope runs into two old friends. Simeon and Michaela were once his ... Read more
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The Accidental Superpower

The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder

by Mr. Peter Zeihan

Narrated by Mr. Peter Zeihan

Unabridged

12 hours 19 min
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, The Accidental Superpower will be a much discussed, contrarian, and eye-opening assessment of American power.Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires were abolished and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the U.S. Navy. With ... Read more
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Nobody

Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

by Marc Lamont Hill

Narrated by Kevin Kenerly

Unabridged

6 hours 4 min
Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the United States following the death of Michael Brown revealed something far deeper than a passionate display of age-old racial frustrations; they unveiled a public chasm that has been growing for years, as America has consistently and intentionally denied significant segments of its population access to full freedom and prosperity.In Nobody, scholar and ... Read more
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Quit Like a Woman

The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

by Holly Whitaker

Narrated by Holly Whitaker

Unabridged

10 hours 8 min
USA TODAY BESTSELLER • The founder of a female-focused recovery program offers a radical new path to sobriety.“You don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life.”—Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30 co-founder and CEOWe live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at baby showers and work events, brunch and book club, graduations and funerals. Yet no ... Read more
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A Spy Among Friends

Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

by Ben Macintyre and 1 more

Narrated by John Lee

Unabridged

11 hours
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War's most infamous spy, from the master espionage writer and author of The Spy and the Traitor.Who was Kim Philby? Those closest to him—like his fellow MI6 officer and best friend since childhood, Nicholas Elliot, and the CIA’s head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton—knew him as a loyal confidant and an unshakeable ... Read more
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Warmth of Other Suns, The

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson

Narrated by Robin Miles

Unabridged

22 hours 41 min
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson interviewed more ... Read more
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So You Want to Talk about Race

by Ijeoma Oluo

Narrated by Bahni Turpin

Unabridged

7 hours 42 min
A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today’s racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk about Race, editor-at-large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege ... Read more
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The Righteous Mind

Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

Narrated by Jonathan Haidt

Unabridged

11 hours 1 min
Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition-the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all ... Read more
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