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    • Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
    • By: Jessica Pryce
    • Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families....

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    • The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
    • By: Mary Otto
    • Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....

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    • Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party
    • By: Dinesh D'Souza
    • Narrated by: Dinesh D'Souza
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,595 ratings
    • Death of a Nation's bracing alternative vision of American history explains the Democratic Party's dark past and exposes the hidden truth that racism comes not from Trump or the conservative right but rather from Democrats and progressives on the left....

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    • A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
    • By: Martin A. Lee
    • Narrated by: Nick Podehl
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 491 ratings
    • Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased....

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    • The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
    • By: Mike Lew
    • Narrated by: Brian P. Craig, Mike Lew
    • Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma....

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    • Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
    • By: Louise Aronson
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....

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    • The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
    • By: Bhaskar Sunkara
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 462 ratings
    • From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today....

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    • The Definitive Edition
    • By: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government....

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    • By: Jonathan Peterson
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Social Security for Dummies is the one guide you need to navigate the often-complex world of Social Security retirement benefits. This updated edition offers clear guidance on when to claim benefits....

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    • New Tools to End Hunger
    • By: Katie S. Martin
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed....

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    • Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences
    • By: M. Watkins, H. Shulman
    • Narrated by: Claire Simon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Understanding that the psychological well-being of individuals is inextricably linked to the health of their communities, environments, and cultures, the authors propose a radical interdisciplinary reorientation of psychology....

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    • Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 789 ratings
    • What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's best seller Tears We Cannot Stop....

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    • Children in America's Schools
    • By: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrated by: Mark Winston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio....

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    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....

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    • A New Paradigm for Wellness
    • By: Steve DeAngelo, Willie L. Brown - foreword
    • Narrated by: Andy Barnett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • An authoritative, persuasive, and riveting call for the legalization and responsible use of medical marijuana, The Cannabis Manifesto is a book whose time has come....

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    • Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
    • By: Kathryn Paige Harden
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....

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    • Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
    • By: Richard Hanania
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Richard Hanania has emerged as one of the most talked-about writers in the nation, and in this book, he puts forward a stunning new theory about the culture war that could turn our debates upside down....

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    • Your Town is Your Canvas. Learn How to Make Your Mark
    • By: Spud Marshall
    • Narrated by: Spud Marshall
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Whether you dream of launching a community innovation center, want to enhance your town with colorful murals, or are simply looking to strengthen relationships with your neighbors, Designing Creative Communities is the guide for you....

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    • Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
    • By: Alissa Quart
    • Narrated by: Beth Hicks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled....

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