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Bestsellers
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How to Know a Person
- The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
- By: David Brooks
- Narrated by: David Brooks
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.”....
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A book he was ready to write
- By Adam Shields on 11-17-23
By: David Brooks
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Between Two Kingdoms
- A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
- By: Suleika Jaouad
- Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to reentry into “normal” life....
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This was painful.
- By Meredith Nutrition on 07-31-22
By: Suleika Jaouad
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Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him....
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Perseverance
- By Joan on 04-19-24
By: Salman Rushdie
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Mastery
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
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The eagerly anticipated new book from the author of the best-selling The 48 Laws of Power....
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Focus on passion=Less stress and more success
- By Mark on 05-04-15
By: Robert Greene
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the number-one New York Times best seller Outliers, reinvents the audiobook in this immersive production of Talking to Strangers, a powerful examination of our interactions with people....
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Enjoyable listen with some facts incorrect
- By Jim on 09-11-19
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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The Age of Grievance
- By: Frank Bruni
- Narrated by: Frank Bruni
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The twists and turns of American politics are unpredictable, but the tone is a troubling given. It’s one of grievance. More and more Americans are convinced that they’re losing because somebody else is winning....
By: Frank Bruni
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How to Know a Person
- The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
- By: David Brooks
- Narrated by: David Brooks
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.”....
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A book he was ready to write
- By Adam Shields on 11-17-23
By: David Brooks
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Between Two Kingdoms
- A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
- By: Suleika Jaouad
- Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to reentry into “normal” life....
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This was painful.
- By Meredith Nutrition on 07-31-22
By: Suleika Jaouad
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Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him....
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Perseverance
- By Joan on 04-19-24
By: Salman Rushdie
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Mastery
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The eagerly anticipated new book from the author of the best-selling The 48 Laws of Power....
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Focus on passion=Less stress and more success
- By Mark on 05-04-15
By: Robert Greene
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the number-one New York Times best seller Outliers, reinvents the audiobook in this immersive production of Talking to Strangers, a powerful examination of our interactions with people....
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Enjoyable listen with some facts incorrect
- By Jim on 09-11-19
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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The Age of Grievance
- By: Frank Bruni
- Narrated by: Frank Bruni
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The twists and turns of American politics are unpredictable, but the tone is a troubling given. It’s one of grievance. More and more Americans are convinced that they’re losing because somebody else is winning....
By: Frank Bruni
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Caste (Oprah's Book Club)
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions....
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Brilliant, articulate, highly listenable.
- By GM on 08-05-20
By: Isabel Wilkerson
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- By: Michael Harriot
- Narrated by: Michael Harriot
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot comes a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans....
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LOVE It!
- By KMB on 09-29-23
By: Michael Harriot
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....
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A Rich Read!
- By D on 09-18-03
By: Erik Larson
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This Naked Mind
- Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness, and Change Your Life
- By: Annie Grace
- Narrated by: Annie Grace
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Annie Grace presents the psychological and neurological components of alcohol use based on the latest science and reveals the cultural, social, and industry factors that support alcohol dependence....
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Not as Described
- By Sean on 07-01-18
By: Annie Grace
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The Other Significant Others
- Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
- By: Rhaina Cohen
- Narrated by: Rhaina Cohen
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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NPR's Rhaina Cohen invites us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as a life partner—these are friends who are home co-owners, co-parents or each other’s caregivers....
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Best book I’ve read in a while, and I will definitely recommend it!
- By Destiny DiMattei on 02-24-24
By: Rhaina Cohen
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Briefly Perfectly Human
- Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
- By: Alua Arthur
- Narrated by: Alua Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life....
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Not So Much About Death
- By Peter H Adams on 04-28-24
By: Alua Arthur
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
- By: Joseph Campbell
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, John Lee, Susan Denaker
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions....
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Meaningful and thought-provoking
- By Learner on 02-09-16
By: Joseph Campbell
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
- American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
- By: Tim Alberta
- Narrated by: Tim Alberta
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
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Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today.
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Looked forward to this a long time and wasn’t disappointed!
- By Josh Hulbert on 12-08-23
By: Tim Alberta
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Polysecure
- Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
- By: Jessica Fern
- Narrated by: Jessica Fern, Eve Rickert, Nora Samaran
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how emotional experiences can influence our relationships....
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Insanely boring, poor audio quality & narration
- By shwiftyone on 03-29-21
By: Jessica Fern
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The End of Race Politics
- Arguments for a Colorblind America
- By: Coleman Hughes
- Narrated by: Coleman Hughes
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called ‘anti-racist’ movement is driving us—ironically—toward a new kind of racism....
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His best work
- By Arlan on 02-09-24
By: Coleman Hughes
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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 9 mins
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Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York....
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AMAZING read
- By jeff on 09-15-11
By: Robert A. Caro
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Poverty, by America
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- By Alonzo Nightjar on 03-27-23
By: Matthew Desmond
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Fair Play
- A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) (Reese's Book Club)
- By: Eve Rodsky
- Narrated by: Eve Rodsky
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Fair Play is a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up chores and responsibilities....
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For Coupled People
- By Brandy Patrick on 10-02-19
By: Eve Rodsky
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Eight Dates
- Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- By: John Gottman PhD, Julie Schwartz Gottman PhD, Doug Abrams, and others
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin, Julie McKay
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort - and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner....
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What the F. Robot-reader???!?!?!
- By Anonymous User on 01-21-20
By: John Gottman PhD, and others
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....
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A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- By George on 11-02-14
By: Atul Gawande
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Born to Run
- A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- By: Christopher McDougall
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their secrets....
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Amazing read - even for non-runners
- By Corey on 05-31-09
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The Moment
- Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now
- By: Bakari Sellers
- Narrated by: Bakari Sellers
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landscape and policies that are impacting Black families and communities and offers solutions for a better tomorrow....
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What’s below the surface
- By Vernetta Mitchell on 05-02-24
By: Bakari Sellers
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Among the Bros
- A Fraternity Crime Story
- By: Max Marshall
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, leading to an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life....
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Great Book-Not so great reading
- By Hannah Earp on 11-30-23
By: Max Marshall
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The Art of Gathering
- How We Meet and Why It Matters
- By: Priya Parker
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at work, at school, at home, and beyond....
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Would have liked a different narrator
- By Marta on 08-26-18
By: Priya Parker
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Invisible Women
- Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- By: Caroline Criado Perez
- Narrated by: Caroline Criado Perez
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more....
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A statistical fire hose
- By B. Andresen on 09-11-19
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The Second Mountain
- How People Move from the Prison of Self to the Joy of Commitment
- By: David Brooks
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The best-selling author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world....
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Pursue meaning, reject hyper-individualism
- By Adam Shields on 05-07-19
By: David Brooks
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How Big Things Get Done
- The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between
- By: Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York’s skyline in twenty-one months....
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Great on Project Mgmt But Uninformed on Renewables
- By Richard Redano on 03-09-23
By: Bent Flyvbjerg, and others
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The Last Lecture
- By: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
- Narrated by: Erik Singer, Randy Pausch
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with cancer....
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How to Live
- By Kelli G on 04-21-08
By: Randy Pausch, and others
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The Fourth Turning
- What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
- By: William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
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Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play....
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Long Winded
- By Patrick D. on 12-16-23
By: William Strauss, and others
New releases
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The Random Factor
- How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us
- By: Mark Robert Rank
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies.
By: Mark Robert Rank
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Tribulations of an Afro-Latino Caribbean Man
- Racism Didn’t Stop My Smile, Hope, or Journey Forward
- By: Egberto Willies
- Narrated by: Egberto Willies
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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His parents, village, and Panama Canal Zone events prepared him. Above and beyond his tribulations, this Afro-Latino Caribbean man did not allow racism to stop his smile, resolve, or journey forward. Walk with him through his eyes.
By: Egberto Willies
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30 Days to Stop Being Racist
- A Mindfulness Program
- By: Logan Tindell, Harper Daniels, Corin Devaso
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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30 Days to Stop Being Racist is a unique mindfulness workbook that will help you address and overcome racist attitudes and behaviors, and cultivate a more inclusive and equitable mindset. This 30-day program offers a transformative approach to understanding and challenging racism, with daily exercises that blend mindfulness techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, and self-reflection. You'll learn how to identify and challenge racial biases, have difficult conversations, and develop a greater sense of empathy and understanding. This book is part of a series of mindfulness workbooks, each ...
By: Logan Tindell, and others
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Sister in Law
- Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men
- By: Harriet Wistrich
- Narrated by: Catherine Bailey
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Only 30 years ago, rape within marriage was not a crime, Judges saw rape victims as complicit for wearing short skirts; teenage runaways were groomed, pimped and then arrested as ‘common prostitutes’, and harassment, stalking, forced marriage and honour-based violence were not defined or recognised as separate offences in law. Since then there have been important legislative reforms but the law is only as good as those who enforce it. Telling the stories of a series of ground-breaking cases, Harriet Wistrich illustrates how far misogyny is baked into our justice system.
By: Harriet Wistrich
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The Devil in the White City
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality, it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
By: Erik Larson
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Our Island Stories
- Country Walks Through Colonial Britain
- By: Corinne Fowler
- Narrated by: Corinne Fowler
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, so integral to our national identity, is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. In Our Island Stories, Corinne Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule together with transformative results. Through ten country walks with varied companions, Fowler combines local and global history, connecting the Cotswolds to Calcutta, Dolgellau to Virginia, and Grasmere to Canton.
By: Corinne Fowler
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The Random Factor
- How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us
- By: Mark Robert Rank
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies.
By: Mark Robert Rank
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Tribulations of an Afro-Latino Caribbean Man
- Racism Didn’t Stop My Smile, Hope, or Journey Forward
- By: Egberto Willies
- Narrated by: Egberto Willies
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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His parents, village, and Panama Canal Zone events prepared him. Above and beyond his tribulations, this Afro-Latino Caribbean man did not allow racism to stop his smile, resolve, or journey forward. Walk with him through his eyes.
By: Egberto Willies
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30 Days to Stop Being Racist
- A Mindfulness Program
- By: Logan Tindell, Harper Daniels, Corin Devaso
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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30 Days to Stop Being Racist is a unique mindfulness workbook that will help you address and overcome racist attitudes and behaviors, and cultivate a more inclusive and equitable mindset. This 30-day program offers a transformative approach to understanding and challenging racism, with daily exercises that blend mindfulness techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, and self-reflection. You'll learn how to identify and challenge racial biases, have difficult conversations, and develop a greater sense of empathy and understanding. This book is part of a series of mindfulness workbooks, each ...
By: Logan Tindell, and others
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Sister in Law
- Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men
- By: Harriet Wistrich
- Narrated by: Catherine Bailey
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Only 30 years ago, rape within marriage was not a crime, Judges saw rape victims as complicit for wearing short skirts; teenage runaways were groomed, pimped and then arrested as ‘common prostitutes’, and harassment, stalking, forced marriage and honour-based violence were not defined or recognised as separate offences in law. Since then there have been important legislative reforms but the law is only as good as those who enforce it. Telling the stories of a series of ground-breaking cases, Harriet Wistrich illustrates how far misogyny is baked into our justice system.
By: Harriet Wistrich
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The Devil in the White City
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality, it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
By: Erik Larson
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Our Island Stories
- Country Walks Through Colonial Britain
- By: Corinne Fowler
- Narrated by: Corinne Fowler
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, so integral to our national identity, is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. In Our Island Stories, Corinne Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule together with transformative results. Through ten country walks with varied companions, Fowler combines local and global history, connecting the Cotswolds to Calcutta, Dolgellau to Virginia, and Grasmere to Canton.
By: Corinne Fowler
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Life under Pressure
- The Social Roots of Youth Suicide and What to Do About Them
- By: Anna S. Mueller, Seth Abrutyn
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Through stories of survival, resilience, and even rebellion, Mueller and Abrutyn show how social environments can cause suicide and how they can be changed to help kids discover a life worth living. By revealing what it is like to live and die in one community, Life under Pressure offers tangible solutions to one of the twenty-first century's most tragic public health problems.
By: Anna S. Mueller, and others
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Imagination
- A Manifesto
- By: Ruha Benjamin
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagination: A Manifesto offers visionary examples and tactics to push beyond the constraints of what we think, and are told, is possible. This book is for anyone who is ready to take to heart Toni Morrison's instruction: "Dream a little before you think."
By: Ruha Benjamin
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Soul by Soul
- The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims
- By: Adriana Carranca
- Narrated by: Rebecca Mozo
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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US-born Protestant evangelicalism has gone global to an extent of which many of us might be unaware. This book tells the story of Americans’ colossal mobilization to proclaim Christianity “to the ends of the Earth,” a movement that triumphed in the Global South, challenged the Vatican, then turned east in full force after 9/11 to spread the Gospel among Muslims. When the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq set off a wave of anti-American attacks and made the field too dangerous for US missionaries, thousands of disciples, particularly from Latin America, were mobilized to finish the task.
By: Adriana Carranca
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The Religion of Whiteness
- How Racism Distorts Christian Faith
- By: Michael O. Emerson, Glenn E. Bracey II
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the role that White Christian Nationalism plays in American society. As White Christian Nationalism has become a major force, and as racial and religious attitudes become increasingly aligned among whites-for example, the more likely you are to say that the decline of white people as a share of the population is "bad for society," the more likely you are to believe the government should support religious values-it has become reasonable to wonder which of the adjectives in the phrase "White Christian Nationalism" takes precedence.
By: Michael O. Emerson, and others
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To Change the World
- The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
- By: James Davison Hunter
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry? And how might Christians in the twenty-first century live in ways that have integrity with their traditions and are more truly transformative? In To Change the World, James Davison Hunter offers persuasive answers to these questions.
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The Age of Grievance
- By: Frank Bruni
- Narrated by: Frank Bruni
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The twists and turns of American politics are unpredictable, but the tone is a troubling given. It’s one of grievance. More and more Americans are convinced that they’re losing because somebody else is winning. More and more tally their slights, measure their misfortune, and assign particular people responsibility for it. The blame game has become the country’s most popular sport and victimhood its most fashionable garb.
By: Frank Bruni
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The Performer
- Art, Life, Politics
- By: Richard Sennett
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The book draws on history and sociology, and more personally on the author's early career as a professional cellist, as well as on his later work as a city planner and social thinker. It traces the evolution of performing spaces in the city; the emergence of actors, musicians, and dancers as independent artists; the inequality between performer and spectator; the uneasy relations between artistic creation and social and religious ritual; the uses and abuses of acting by politicians. The Janus-faced art of performing is both destructive and civilizing.
By: Richard Sennett
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Love Letter from Pig
- My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer
- By: Julie P. Kabat
- Narrated by: Julie P. Kabat
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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In the summer of 1964, the FBI found the smoldering remains of the station wagon that James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman had been driving before their disappearance. Shortly after this awful discovery, Julie Kabat’s beloved brother Luke arrived as a volunteer for the Mississippi Summer Project. Teaching biology to Freedom School students in Meridian, Luke became one of more than seven hundred student volunteers who joined experienced Black civil rights workers and clergy to challenge white supremacy in the nation’s most segregated state.
By: Julie P. Kabat
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Life in 18th Century France and The "Humorous" Cat Massacre
- By: Ryan Webb
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 22 mins
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What do fairy tales, such as “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Sleeping Beauty,” and “Hansel and Gretel,” have to do with French peasant life in the eighteenth century? What does a cat massacre reveal about the relationship between artisans and the bourgeois in early modern France? In Robert Darnton’s, The "Great Cat Massacre," the underlying themes of fairy tales and the circumstances surrounding a large killing of cats provide the answers to these questions and reveal the attitudes and concerns of peasants and artisans in eighteenth century France.
By: Ryan Webb
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We Refuse to Be Silent
- Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men
- By: Angela P. Dodson - editor
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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Editor Angela P. Dodson brings together the voices of more than thirty-five accomplished women writers on the topic of violence and injustice against Black men. These writers are journalists, authors, scholars, ministers, psychologists, counselors, and other experts. They are also wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, aunties, and friends. Each lends her voice to shine a new light on the injustices and dangers Black men face daily, and how women feel about the vulnerability of our sons, husbands, brothers, fathers, uncles, friends, and other males we care about.
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Asian American Is Not a Color
- Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family
- By: OiYan A. Poon
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Before being struck down by the US Supreme Court in June 2023, affirmative action remained one of the few remaining policy tools to address racial inequalities, revealing peculiar contours of racism and anti-racist strategies in America. Through personal reflective essays for and about her daughter, OiYan Poon looks at how the debate over affirmative action reveals the divergent ways Asian Americans conceive of their identity.
By: OiYan A. Poon
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Get Off My Neck
- Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform
- By: Debbie Hines
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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In Get Off My Neck, Debbie Hines draws on her unique perspective as a trial lawyer, former Baltimore prosecutor, and assistant attorney general for the State of Maryland to argue that US prosecutors, as the most powerful players in the criminal justice system, systematically target and criminalize Black people. Hines describes her disillusionment as a young Black woman who initially entered the profession with the goal of helping victims of crimes, only to discover herself aiding and abetting a system that prizes plea bargaining, speedy conviction, and excessive punishment above all else.
By: Debbie Hines