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    Becoming

    The intimate, inspiring and award-winning memoir from the bestselling author and former First Lady

    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

    R312,34

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    A Promised Land

    The powerful political memoir from the former US President

    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

    R557,74

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    Moral Ambition

    Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures

    by Rutger Bregman ...
    Narrated by Rutger Bregman, Boris Hiestand ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 55 min

    Bloomsbury presents Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman, read by Boris Hiestand and Rutger Bregman.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE SUMMER 2025__________'A fierce and brilliant call to arms for anyone who has been wondering whether there's more to life. (There is.) Bregman wants to change you, and he just might succeed. This is a wonderfully dangerous book' TIM HARFORD'The rare ... ... Read more

    R356,96

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    Revenge of the Tipping Point

    Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering

    by Malcolm Gladwell ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 25 min

    A lot has changed in 25 years. A quarter-century after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light - this time in an immersive audio format that transports you, the listener, directly inside of each riveting story.Why is Miami... Miami? What does the ... Read more

    R764,31

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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 • “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

    R382,25

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    The Entrepreneurial State

    Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

    by Mariana Mazzucato ...
    Narrated by Amy Finegan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato, read by Amy Finegan.According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if all this was wrong? What if, from Silicon Valley to medical breakthroughs, the public sector has been the boldest and most ... Read more

    R223,10

  • Audiobook

    Losing Eden

    Why Our Minds Need the Wild

    by Lucy Jones ...
    Narrated by Lucy Jones ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 57 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARToday many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest ... Read more

    R290,03

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    Broken Heartlands

    A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

    by Sebastian Payne ...
    Narrated by Sebastian Payne ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    Broken Heartlands is an essential and compelling political road-trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour’s red wall, by Sebastian Payne – an award-winning journalist and Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times.The Times Political Book of the YearA Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail and FT B**ook of the Year****'**Immensely<... ... Read more

    R289,80

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    Citizenship

    Notes on an American Myth

    by Daisy Hernández ...
    Narrated by Daisy Hernández ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non ... Read more

    R420,48

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    What Now

    On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future

    by Tareq Baconi ...
    Narrated by Tareq Baconi ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    A stunning, soul-stirring, philosophical, and political treatise on what liberation for Palestine and our world will look like in the twenty-first century.'At once searing, loving and rousing, this is an acrobatic feat of political leadership from a generational talent'Naomi KleinPalestine is a litmus test - the repercussions of which will go beyond the Middle East, extending outward across the ... Read more

    R611,41

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    The Lie of the Land

    A Game Plan for Ireland in the Climate Crisis

    by John Gibbons ...
    Narrated by John Gibbons ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Ireland has tended to think of itself as a ‘Goldilocks’ country: not too hot, not too cold, and well positioned to ride out the climate emergency. But this is a fantasy: the effects of climate change in Ireland will be profound, and at the moment we’re not doing nearly enough about it. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Ireland has the wherewithal to dramatically ... Read more

    R312,34

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    Overheated

    How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back

    by Kate Aronoff ...
    Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 15 min

    This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of global warming head-on.It has become impossible to deny that the planet is warming, and that governments must act. But a new denialism is taking root in the halls of power, shaped by decades of neoliberal ... Read more

    R686,99

  • Audiobook

    On Fascism

    12 Lessons from American History

    by Matthew C. MacWilliams ...
    Narrated by Kevin Stillwell ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 18 min

    An expert on American authoritarianism offers a searing rebuke of the exceptional narrative that dominates our understanding of US history. In 12 lessons, Matthew C. MacWilliams' On Fascism exposes the divisive rhetoric, strongman tactics, violent othering, and authoritarian attitudes that course through American history and compete with our egalitarian, democratic aspirations. Trumpism isn’t new, ... Read more

    R343,84

  • Audiobook

    The New Dark Ages

    The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society

    by James Marriott ...
    Narrated by James Marriott ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 23 min

    Reading built the modern world. It helped create democracy, science and reason.Now, books are dying, and people everywhere are losing the ability to read deeply or think rationally.The golden chain of knowledge linking reader to reader through history is breaking.The screen has replaced the page. Our free time has been colonised by addictive, infantilising slop. A culture of distraction is ... Read more

    R312,34

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    The New Climate War

    The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

    by Michael E. Mann ...
    Narrated by Tim Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 48 min

    Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year awardA renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we've been told can slow climate change. But the ... Read more

    R492,99

  • Audiobook

    Accessory to War

    The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

    by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang ...
    Narrated by Courtney B. Vance ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 38 min

    **New York Times BestsellerAn exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.**In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics ... Read more

    R525,60

  • Audiobook

    Held in contempt

    What's wrong with the House of Commons?

    by Hannah White ...
    Narrated by Hannah White ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 50 min

    Parliament, and the House of Commons in particular, is increasingly held in contempt by the British public. From attending parties during the Covid-19 lockdown to taking payment for lobbying, MPs undermine their credibility by acting as if the rules they set for others should not apply to them. Still far from representative of the country they govern from the ancient and crumbling Palace of ... Read more

    R588,48 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Plot to Destroy Democracy

    How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West

    by Malcolm Nance ...
    Narrated by Peter Ganim ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 36 min

    A provocative, comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Putin and Russia's master plan to destroy democracy in the age of Donald Trump.In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For the first time, The Plot to Destroy Democracy reveals the dramatic story of how blackmail, espionage, ... Read more

    R492,99

  • Audiobook

    Hide Your Children

    Exposing Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids

    by Liz Wheeler ...
    Narrated by Stephanie Richardson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    Having conquered all the major institutions of our culture, the left is closing in on its final frontier—your children. In this new book, Liz Wheeler exposes where the forces of wokeness are at work and explains how parents can fight back for a change. Everything is on the line. Despite the occasional victory, conservatives are on the defensive on every front of the culture wars, especially ... Read more

    R477,62

  • Audiobook

    Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying

    A Handbook for the Trump Era and Beyond

    by Roddey Reid ...
    Narrated by Jack Nolan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 22 min

    Bullying and intimidation are not accidental features of contemporary American life; they have become deliberate tools of power that increasingly define our politics. In Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying, Roddey Reid examines how intimidation and bullying have been normalized across public life-from schools, workplaces, and new media ecosystems to electoral politics and civic ... Read more

    R266,62 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    An Inconvenient Apocalypse

    Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity

    by Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen ...
    Narrated by Graham Rowat ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 10 min

    For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse—yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant truths about the root causes of our impending disaster. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen argue that we must reconsider the origins of the consumption crisis and the challenges we face in creating a survivable ... Read more

    R382,06

  • Audiobook

    Zwischen Hybris & Angst: Die Krise des modernen Ich Band I

    Die individuellen Faktoren

    by Hermann Selchow ...
    Narrated by Digitale Stimme Gustav G ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 51 min

    Dieses Hörbuch wird von einer digitalen Stimme vorgelesen.Zwischen Hybris & Angst: Die Krise des modernen IchEin aufrüttelndes Sachbuch über den Verlust unserer Werte in einer zerrissenen WeltWarum scheint unsere Gesellschaft trotz Fortschritt, Freiheit und Wohlstand orientierungsloser denn je? In „Zwischen Hybris & Angst: Die Krise des modernen Ich“ wird schonungslos offengelegt, wie das moderne ... Read more

    R133,60 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Die amerikanische Krankheit

    Vier Lektionen der Freiheit aus einem US-Hospital

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Narrated by Peter Bieringer ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 36 min

    "Es war schon viel zu leicht, in diesem Land zu sterben, bevor das Coronavirus in die Vereinigten Staaten gelangte. Unser stümperhafter Umgang mit der Pandemie ist das jüngste Symptom unserer Krankheit, einer Politik, die Schmerz und Tod statt Sicherheit und Gesundheit bringt, Profit für einige wenige statt Wohlstand für viele." Vom Autor des Nr. 1-Bestsellers "Über Tyrannei" kommt eine ... Read more

    R253,00

  • Audiobook

    Extinción

    La supervivencia de la humanidad en juego. / ¿Qué estás haciendo para evitar el

    by Flavia Brofffoni ...
    Narrated by Mariana de Iraola ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 7 min

    La información sobre la crisis ecológica y climática está al alcance de todos y en boca de nadie. Extinción nos revela toda la información que no sale en los medios hegemónicos de comunicación, y pone en evidencia la crisis planetaria en que nos encontramos.Este es un libro urgente para entender qué hay detrás de esta crisis. Desde las estrategias políticas, el agronegocio y los modelos educativos ... Read more

    R190,93