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    • A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
    • By: Monica Potts
    • Narrated by: Monica Potts
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • An acclaimed journalist returns home to Arkansas to understand how two similar childhoods could result in drastically different fates....

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    • 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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    • How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Paul Slack
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West’s once rock-solid foundations....

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    • 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 5,942 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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    • Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
    • By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,528 ratings
    • At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....

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    • 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 1,623 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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    • 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 538 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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    • 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 141 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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    • Dreaming Disability Justice
    • By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities....

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    • Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
    • By: Robert Pondiscio
    • Narrated by: Robert Pondiscio
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America....

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    • 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 143 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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    • The War to Destroy Christian America
    • By: David Horowitz
    • Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,474 ratings
    • Dark Agenda shows how progressives are prepared to use any means necessary to stifle their opponents who support the concepts of religious liberty that America was founded on and how the battle to destroy Christianity is really the battle to destroy America....

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    • How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
    • By: Jason L. Riley
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,125 ratings
    • Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries....

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    • Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke
    • By: Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi
    • Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns....

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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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    • How America Criminalizes Black Youth
    • By: Kristin Henning
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Drawing upon 25 years of experience rep­resenting Black youth in Washington, DC’s juve­nile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young peo­ple....

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    • A New History
    • By: Amity Shlaes
    • Narrated by: Terence Aselford
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 375 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....

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    • From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
    • By: Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-22
    • Language: English
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    • While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine....

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