Bestsellers
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Loud
- Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
- By: Drew Afualo
- Narrated by: Drew Afualo
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Podcast star Drew Afualo shares an empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book—part manual, part manifesto, and part memoir.
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Eye opening, funny , and sad look into the life of women/fems and what they go through on a daily basis
- By casey bolding on 08-15-24
By: Drew Afualo
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Sage Warrior
- Wake to Oneness, Practice Pleasure, Choose Courage, Become Victory
- By: Valarie Kaur
- Narrated by: Valarie Kaur, Harjit "Dolly" Kaur Brar
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Profound inner wisdom for courageous action—from the author of See No Stranger and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, a "prophetic voice of our generation" (America Ferrera).
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Healing
- By Jessica Zu on 09-20-24
By: Valarie Kaur
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Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- By: Bryan Stevenson
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system....
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Made me question justice, peers and myself.
- By Kristy VL on 04-17-15
By: Bryan Stevenson
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Surrender
- 40 Songs, One Story
- By: Bono
- Narrated by: Bono
- Length: 20 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped him....
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Fantastic!
- By Josh on 11-04-22
By: Bono
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The Immortal Irishman
- The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man....
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Yes, but....
- By Dale and Carol on 04-01-16
By: Timothy Egan
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Permanent Record
- By: Edward Snowden
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down....
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Great (if incomplete) account
- By Ryan L on 09-22-19
By: Edward Snowden
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Loud
- Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
- By: Drew Afualo
- Narrated by: Drew Afualo
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Podcast star Drew Afualo shares an empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book—part manual, part manifesto, and part memoir.
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Eye opening, funny , and sad look into the life of women/fems and what they go through on a daily basis
- By casey bolding on 08-15-24
By: Drew Afualo
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Sage Warrior
- Wake to Oneness, Practice Pleasure, Choose Courage, Become Victory
- By: Valarie Kaur
- Narrated by: Valarie Kaur, Harjit "Dolly" Kaur Brar
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Profound inner wisdom for courageous action—from the author of See No Stranger and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, a "prophetic voice of our generation" (America Ferrera).
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Healing
- By Jessica Zu on 09-20-24
By: Valarie Kaur
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Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- By: Bryan Stevenson
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system....
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Made me question justice, peers and myself.
- By Kristy VL on 04-17-15
By: Bryan Stevenson
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Surrender
- 40 Songs, One Story
- By: Bono
- Narrated by: Bono
- Length: 20 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped him....
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Fantastic!
- By Josh on 11-04-22
By: Bono
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The Immortal Irishman
- The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man....
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Yes, but....
- By Dale and Carol on 04-01-16
By: Timothy Egan
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Permanent Record
- By: Edward Snowden
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down....
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Great (if incomplete) account
- By Ryan L on 09-22-19
By: Edward Snowden
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time....
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Surprisingly honest autobiography.
- By History on 11-17-11
By: Nelson Mandela
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The Movement
- How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
- By: Clara Bingham
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Janina Edwards, Gibson Frazier, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Former Newsweek reporter and author of the “powerful and moving” (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution provides a comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes.
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Just a collection of quotes..
- By Kitk on 09-13-24
By: Clara Bingham
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Medgar and Myrlie
- Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
- By: Joy-Ann Reid
- Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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By MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America's struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers's extraordinary activism after her husband's assassination in the driveway of their Mississippi home.
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A must read!
- By Kenny Cook on 02-11-24
By: Joy-Ann Reid
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That Librarian
- The Fight Against Book Banning in America
- By: Amanda Jones
- Narrated by: Amanda Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Mapping the book banning crisis occurring all across the nation, That Librarian draws the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion, calling book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of our readers.
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Joinging and Fight, too
- By Amygdala on 09-15-24
By: Amanda Jones
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King: A Life
- By: Jonathan Eig
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.
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My Time
- By Susan on 06-18-23
By: Jonathan Eig
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Saving Five
- A Memoir of Hope
- By: Amanda Nguyen
- Narrated by: Sura Sui
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A brave and imaginative memoir by the Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amanda Nguyen, detailing her healing journey and groundbreaking activism in the aftermath of her rape at Harvard.
By: Amanda Nguyen
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American Like Me
- By: America Ferrera
- Narrated by: America Ferrera, Bambadjan Bamba, Joy Cho, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures....
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Not all chapters were narrated by the corresponding author
- By Katy F. on 03-09-19
By: America Ferrera
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We Will Be Jaguars
- A Memoir of My People
- By: Mitch Anderson, Nemonte Nenquimo
- Narrated by: Christine Anne-Roche
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist, We Will Be Jaguars is an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest and protect her people.
By: Mitch Anderson, and others
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Angela Davis
- An Autobiography
- By: Angela Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Davis
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison-abolitionist movements for more than 50 years....
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Good story of an interesting person
- By Antuane Brown on 03-17-22
By: Angela Davis
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See No Stranger
- A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
- By: Valarie Kaur
- Narrated by: Valarie Kaur
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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See No Stranger helps us imagine new ways of being with each other - and with ourselves - so that together we can begin to build the world we want to see....
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A beautiful memoir and powerful compass
- By Eric Parrie on 06-16-20
By: Valarie Kaur
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Life Will Be the Death of Me
- ...And You Too!
- By: Chelsea Handler
- Narrated by: Chelsea Handler
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In the wake of President Donald Trump’s election, feeling that her country—her life—has become unrecognizable, Chelsea Handler has an awakening. Fed up with the privileged bubble she’s lived in, she decides it’s time to make some changes....
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Raw Chelsea Hander
- By LSnid on 04-14-19
By: Chelsea Handler
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Rising out of Hatred
- The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
- By: Eli Saslow
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Eli Saslow
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard....
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Great book. Very relatable as a former racist southerner.
- By Derrick Murphy on 12-23-18
By: Eli Saslow
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Night Flyer
- Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
- By: Tiya Miles, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From the National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand....
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academic tripe
- By Amazon Customer on 07-27-24
By: Tiya Miles, and others
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John Lewis
- A Life
- By: David Greenberg
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” John Lewis draws on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.
By: David Greenberg
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Man Enough
- Undefining My Masculinity
- By: Justin Baldoni
- Narrated by: Justin Baldoni
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our time. In this engaging and provocative new book, beloved actor, director, and social activist Justin Baldoni reflects on his own struggles with masculinity....
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No Matter your Gender this is a MUST!
- By Shelli Spotts on 05-14-21
By: Justin Baldoni
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Finding Freedom
- Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
- By: Carolyn Durand, Omid Scobie
- Narrated by: Omid Scobie
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The first, epic and true story of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s life together, finally revealing why they chose to pursue a more independent path and the reasons behind their unprecedented decision to step away from their royal lives, from two top royal reporters....
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Take it with a grain of salt
- By My Fake Name on 08-12-20
By: Carolyn Durand, and others
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Birding to Change the World
- A Memoir
- By: Trish O'Kane
- Narrated by: Cheryl Smith
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment....
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Not just for bird lovers but for everyone
- By Cathy on 05-28-24
By: Trish O'Kane
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Mommie Dearest: 40th Anniversary Edition
- By: Christina Crawford
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The 40th anniversary edition of the “shocking” number one New York Times best seller with an exclusive new introduction by the author (Los Angeles Times)....
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Wonderful book!
- By charlie tuna III on 01-31-20
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Blue Rage, Black Redemption
- A Memoir
- By: Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley - foreword, Barbara Becnel - epilogue
- Narrated by: Ferlon Webster
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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When his Los Angeles neighborhood was threatened by gangbangers, Stanley Tookie Williams and a friend formed the Crips, but what began as protection became worse than the original gangs....
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Nicely Written
- By Amazon Customer on 02-07-24
By: Stanley Tookie Williams, and others
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Escape from Camp 14
- One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
- By: Blaine Harden
- Narrated by: Blaine Harden
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Escape from Camp 14 is the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived....
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Powerful
- By Rachel Green on 06-26-24
By: Blaine Harden
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Parkland
- Birth of a Movement
- By: Dave Cullen
- Narrated by: Dave Cullen, Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland comes an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders - inspiring millions to join their grassroots #neveragain movement....
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Political Take on Mass Shootings is Spot on
- By Jeeves on 02-26-19
By: Dave Cullen
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A House in the Sky
- A Memoir
- By: Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett
- Narrated by: Amanda Lindhout
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In August 2008, Amanda Lindhout traveled to Mogadishu, Somalia - "the most dangerous place on Earth." On her fourth day in the country, she and her photojournalist companion were abducted....
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Drawing Strength from an Empty Well
- By Mel on 09-12-13
By: Amanda Lindhout, and others
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Thrown Away Child
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Sarah Moule
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Thrown Away Child is a memoir covering Louise Allen’s abusive childhood in a foster home, how she survived - using her love of art as a sanctuary - and how she hopes to right old wrongs now by fostering children herself and campaigning for the improvement of foster care services....
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Wow!
- By Stacy on 06-09-22
By: Louise Allen
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Corrections in Ink
- A Memoir
- By: Keri Blakinger
- Narrated by: Keri Blakinger
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In this electric and unforgettable memoir, Keri Blakinger shares her journey from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom—and tells how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced.
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Brutal honesty, great listen
- By Enzo G. on 06-12-22
By: Keri Blakinger
New releases
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Sage Warrior
- Wake to Oneness, Practice Pleasure, Choose Courage, Become Victory
- By: Valarie Kaur
- Narrated by: Valarie Kaur, Harjit "Dolly" Kaur Brar
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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How do we find the wisdom to envision a new world and the courage to fight for it? How do we survive seemingly apocalyptic times? In a world on fire, how do we find love and joy? We are not the first to ask these questions—in fact, seeking answers to them forged one of the world's great wisdom traditions. In a time riven by caste, conquest, and cruelty, Sikhs blazed the path of the sage warrior.
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Healing
- By Jessica Zu on 09-20-24
By: Valarie Kaur
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We Will Be Jaguars
- A Memoir of My People
- By: Mitch Anderson, Nemonte Nenquimo
- Narrated by: Christine Anne-Roche
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. She played barefoot in the forest until she was a teenager and left to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city. But after Nemonte’s ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture, she listened. Nemonte returned to the forest and traditional ways of life and became one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism.
By: Mitch Anderson, and others
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That Librarian
- The Fight Against Book Banning in America
- By: Amanda Jones
- Narrated by: Amanda Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person’s sense of self. So in 2022, when she heard of a local public hearing that would discuss “book content,” she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups. She spoke out that night at the meeting. Days later, she woke up to a nightmare that still persists.
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Joinging and Fight, too
- By Amygdala on 09-15-24
By: Amanda Jones
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Ali
- A Life
- By: Jonathan Eig
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. He went on to become a heavyweight boxer with a dazzling mix of power and speed, a warrior for racial pride, a comedian, a preacher, a poet, a draft resister, an actor, and a lover. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. Jonathan Eig sheds important new light on Ali’s politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition through unprecedented access to all the key people in Ali’s life.
By: Jonathan Eig
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Mayor of the Tenderloin
- Del Seymour's Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco
- By: Alison Owings
- Narrated by: Kevin Jasper
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco’s Tenderloin to reveal a harrowing and life-affirming account of Del Seymour—whose addiction led him into eighteen years of homelessness, pimping, and drug dealing. Once sober, he started Tenderloin Walking Tours and later Code Tenderloin, the remarkable organization teaching homeless, recovering addicts, sex workers, dealers, ex-felons, and other marginalized people how to get and keep a job.
By: Alison Owings
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Persia, Politics & Prison
- A Life in Three Parts
- By: Hassan Nemazee
- Narrated by: Hassan Nemazee
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Hassan Nemazee was born in 1950 in Washington D.C. He attended Harvard College, graduating with honors in 1972. He moved to Iran, forging joint ventures with many prestigious American and British companies. In 1978, during the Islamist Revolution, he was forced to leave the country. The new regime confiscated the Nemazee family’s assets, homes, businesses, and charities. Returning to the United States, he rebuilt his life. His new businesses flourished, and he welcomed three children.
By: Hassan Nemazee
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Sage Warrior
- Wake to Oneness, Practice Pleasure, Choose Courage, Become Victory
- By: Valarie Kaur
- Narrated by: Valarie Kaur, Harjit "Dolly" Kaur Brar
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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How do we find the wisdom to envision a new world and the courage to fight for it? How do we survive seemingly apocalyptic times? In a world on fire, how do we find love and joy? We are not the first to ask these questions—in fact, seeking answers to them forged one of the world's great wisdom traditions. In a time riven by caste, conquest, and cruelty, Sikhs blazed the path of the sage warrior.
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Healing
- By Jessica Zu on 09-20-24
By: Valarie Kaur
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We Will Be Jaguars
- A Memoir of My People
- By: Mitch Anderson, Nemonte Nenquimo
- Narrated by: Christine Anne-Roche
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. She played barefoot in the forest until she was a teenager and left to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city. But after Nemonte’s ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture, she listened. Nemonte returned to the forest and traditional ways of life and became one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism.
By: Mitch Anderson, and others
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That Librarian
- The Fight Against Book Banning in America
- By: Amanda Jones
- Narrated by: Amanda Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person’s sense of self. So in 2022, when she heard of a local public hearing that would discuss “book content,” she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups. She spoke out that night at the meeting. Days later, she woke up to a nightmare that still persists.
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Joinging and Fight, too
- By Amygdala on 09-15-24
By: Amanda Jones
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Ali
- A Life
- By: Jonathan Eig
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a sign painter and a housekeeper. He went on to become a heavyweight boxer with a dazzling mix of power and speed, a warrior for racial pride, a comedian, a preacher, a poet, a draft resister, an actor, and a lover. Millions hated him when he changed his religion, changed his name, and refused to fight in the Vietnam War. Jonathan Eig sheds important new light on Ali’s politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition through unprecedented access to all the key people in Ali’s life.
By: Jonathan Eig
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Mayor of the Tenderloin
- Del Seymour's Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco
- By: Alison Owings
- Narrated by: Kevin Jasper
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco’s Tenderloin to reveal a harrowing and life-affirming account of Del Seymour—whose addiction led him into eighteen years of homelessness, pimping, and drug dealing. Once sober, he started Tenderloin Walking Tours and later Code Tenderloin, the remarkable organization teaching homeless, recovering addicts, sex workers, dealers, ex-felons, and other marginalized people how to get and keep a job.
By: Alison Owings
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Persia, Politics & Prison
- A Life in Three Parts
- By: Hassan Nemazee
- Narrated by: Hassan Nemazee
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Hassan Nemazee was born in 1950 in Washington D.C. He attended Harvard College, graduating with honors in 1972. He moved to Iran, forging joint ventures with many prestigious American and British companies. In 1978, during the Islamist Revolution, he was forced to leave the country. The new regime confiscated the Nemazee family’s assets, homes, businesses, and charities. Returning to the United States, he rebuilt his life. His new businesses flourished, and he welcomed three children.
By: Hassan Nemazee
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Stolen Family
- Captive in Saudi Arabia
- By: Johanne Durocher, J. C. Sutcliffe - translator
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalie's abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal.
By: Johanne Durocher, and others
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I Am Maroon
- The True Story of an American Political Prisoner
- By: Russell Shoatz, Kanya D'Almeida - contributor
- Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell, Kanya D'Almeida - introduction
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a soldier in the most militant units of the Black Liberation Army. Shoatz was convicted to life in prison following a coordinated attack on a park police station that left one guard dead.The prison walls, however, could not deter Shoatz’s battle for personal and collective freedom. He escaped state prisons twice, making him a living legend, and endowed him with the moniker “Maroon,” once used to honor runaway slaves from plantations.
By: Russell Shoatz, and others
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Six Women in a Cell
- A Story of Sisterhood and Survival After Police Assault
- By: Diana Tokaji
- Narrated by: Laura Rose Civilikas
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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1 Night. 6 Women. 1 Jail cell. In this lyrical masterpiece by 2020 Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes award- winner Diana Tokaji, we hear the intimate stories of strangers, locked together for one long night. Meet: Baby, Alexa, Richmond, The Social Worker, Mudd - a teen, a divorcee, a sex worker, a social worker, a pregnant mom - and our grey-haired narrator who was just assaulted by the police.
By: Diana Tokaji
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The Journey
- A Memoir
- By: John Dearman
- Narrated by: Arthur Dent
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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John Dearman recalls his unlikely and lucky journey from poverty in segregated and hostile central Texas to law school in Michigan and a prestigious judgeship in San Francisco. With unassuming prose and humility, the author gives not just his own experience, but the context of the time through his knowledge of the law.
By: John Dearman
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Community Capital
- Race, Equity, and the Credit Union Movement
- By: Clifford N. Rosenthal, Michael R. McCray
- Narrated by: Daniel Cherry
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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No margin--no mission! What does it take to bring financial justice to communities of color? Cliff Rosenthal, shaped by the movements of the 1960s, fought for decades against government indifference and systemic bias finally seeing change come after the death of George Floyd. Michael McCray, a renowned whistle-blower, led an unprecedented court challenge to the unjust federal termination of his fraternity's Kappa Alpha Psi Federal Credit Union.
By: Clifford N. Rosenthal, and others
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Interrup-tions
- Disrupting the Silence
- By: Odell Cooper
- Narrated by: Rev. Michelle Turner
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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"Interruptions" is a true story that details Rev. O's journey after her son, Jonathan, was murdered in a case of mistaken identity, becoming another victim of gun violence. This "interruption" in Rev. O's life ignited a domino effect of PTSD, depression, and grief, compounded by subsequent loss of employment, detachment from relationships, addiction, and suicidal ideation
By: Odell Cooper