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  • Poverty, by America Audiobook By Matthew Desmond cover art

    • Poverty, by America

    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 678 ratings

    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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  • The Lost Boy Audiobook By David Pelzer cover art

    • The Lost Boy

    • By: David Pelzer
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,043 ratings
    • On the verge of adolescence, Dave is rescued from his terrifyingly abusive, alcoholic mother and made a permanent ward of the court....

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  • Of Boys and Men Audiobook By Richard V. Reeves cover art

    • Of Boys and Men

    • Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
    • By: Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 772 ratings

    • The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood....

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  • The Sum of Us Audiobook By Heather McGhee cover art

    • The Sum of Us

    • What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
    • By: Heather McGhee
    • Narrated by: Heather McGhee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,674 ratings

    • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color....

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  • Maid Audiobook By Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword cover art

    • Maid

    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • By: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,664 ratings

    • At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

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  • Inflamed Audiobook By Rupa Marya, Raj Patel cover art

    • Inflamed

    • Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
    • By: Rupa Marya, Raj Patel
    • Narrated by: Raj Patel, Rupa Marya
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings

    • Raj Patel, the New York Times best-selling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices....

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  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts Audiobook By Gabor Maté MD cover art

    • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

    • Close Encounters with Addiction
    • By: Gabor Maté MD
    • Narrated by: Daniel Maté
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,314 ratings

    • In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours....

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  • Battle for the American Mind Audiobook By Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin cover art

    • Battle for the American Mind

    • Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
    • By: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,007 ratings

    • Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom....

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  • Understanding Power Audiobook By Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel - editor, Peter R. Mitchell - editor cover art

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  • Letter to a Christian Nation Audiobook By Sam Harris cover art

    • Letter to a Christian Nation

    • By: Sam Harris
    • Narrated by: Jordan Bridges
    • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,535 ratings
    • Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....

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  • My Life in Full Audiobook By Indra Nooyi cover art

    • My Life in Full

    • Work, Family, and Our Future
    • By: Indra Nooyi
    • Narrated by: Indra Nooyi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,158 ratings

    • For a dozen years as one of the world’s most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. My Life in Full offers a firsthand view of Nooyi’s legendary career and the sacrifices it so often demanded....

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  • No Visible Bruises Audiobook By Rachel Louise Snyder cover art

    • No Visible Bruises

    • What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
    • By: Rachel Louise Snyder
    • Narrated by: Rachel Louise Snyder
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 878 ratings

    • An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors....

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  • The Least of Us Audiobook By Sam Quinones cover art

    • The Least of Us

    • By: Sam Quinones
    • Narrated by: Tom Jordan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 524 ratings

    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair....

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  • Evicted Audiobook By Matthew Desmond cover art

    • Evicted

    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,922 ratings

    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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  • Chasing the Scream Audiobook By Johann Hari cover art

    • Chasing the Scream

    • By: Johann Hari
    • Narrated by: Johann Hari
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong....

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  • Dying of Whiteness Audiobook By Jonathan M. Metzl cover art

    • Dying of Whiteness

    • How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
    • By: Jonathan M. Metzl
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,231 ratings

    • A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences - even for the white voters they promise to help....

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  • Why We Did It Audiobook By Tim Miller cover art

    • Why We Did It

    • A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
    • By: Tim Miller
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,615 ratings

    • As one of the strategists behind the famous 2012 RNC “autopsy,” Miller conducts his own forensic study on the pungent carcass of the party he used to love, cutting into all the hubris, ambition, idiocy, desperation, and self-deception for everyone to see....

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  • An American Sickness Audiobook By Elisabeth Rosenthal cover art

    • An American Sickness

    • How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
    • By: Elisabeth Rosenthal
    • Narrated by: Nancy Linari
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 984 ratings
    • Award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American health-care system....

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  • Tell Your Children Audiobook By Alex Berenson cover art

    • Tell Your Children

    • The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
    • By: Alex Berenson
    • Narrated by: Alex Berenson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 533 ratings

    • An eye-opening report from an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug - facts the media has ignored as the US rushes to legalize cannabis....

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  • Facing Reality Audiobook By Charles Murray cover art

    • Facing Reality

    • Two Truths About Race in America
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Robert Rivington
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 425 ratings

    • The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy....

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