Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Robin Nagle
• Narrated By Mary Kane
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America’s largest city generates garbage in torrents - 11,000 tons a day on average. But New Yorkers don’t give it much attention. They leave their trash on the curb or drop it in a litter basket, and promptly forget about it. And why not? On a schedule so regular you could almost set your watch by it, someone always comes to take it away.

But who, exactly, is that someone? And why is he - or she - so unknown?

Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Jacob Tomsky
• Narrated By Jacob Tomsky
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Jacob Tomsky has worked in hotels for more than a decade, doing everything from valet parking to manning the front desk. He's checked you in, checked you out, separated your white panties from the white bed sheets, parked your car, tasted your room service, cleaned your toilet, denied you a late check out, given you a wake-up call, eaten M&Ms out of your mini-bar, laughed at your jokes, and taken your money. And in Heads in Beds, he pulls back the curtain on the hospitality business.

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Florence Williams
• Narrated By Kate Reading
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In this informative and highly entertaining account, intrepid science reporter Florence Williams sets out to uncover the latest scientific findings from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine. Her investigation follows the life cycle of the breast from puberty to pregnancy to menopause, taking her from a plastic surgeon's office, where she learns about the importance of cup size in Texas, to the laboratory, where she discovers the presence of environmental toxins in her own breast milk.

L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 59 mins)
• By John Buntin
• Narrated By Kirby Heyborne
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Midcentury Los Angeles: A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America", a land of sunshine and orange groves, Midwestern values, and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men - one L.A.'s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief - each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.

Assholes: A Theory

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Aaron James
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people for whom there is no better name. Try as we might to avoid them, assholes are found everywhere - at work, at home, on the road, and in the public sphere. Encountering one causes great difficulty and personal strain, especially because we often cannot understand why exactly someone should be acting like that.