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    • The True Story of How One Amazing Dog Changed His Owner's Life
    • By: John Tovey, Veronica Clark
    • Narrated by: Philip Ormond
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • When John Tovey lost his sight at the age of 42, he thought his life was over. He was wrong, it was just beginning....

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    • How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
    • By: Jamie K. McCallum
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • An award-winning sociologist reveals the unexpected link between overwork and inequality....

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    • Outspoken by Pluto
    • By: Ben Tippet
    • Narrated by: Saul Jones
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve....

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    • The Criminalization of Poverty in America
    • By: Peter Edelman
    • Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today....

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    • Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
    • By: James Stone
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from health care to education to inequality....

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    • How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems
    • By: William Eggers, Paul Macmillan
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle towering social problems....

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    • Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice
    • By: Aviva Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Moe Egan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Aviva Chomsky breaks down the concepts, terminology, and debates for activists, students, and anyone concerned about climate change. She argues that science is not enough to change course....

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    • How Gambling Conquered Britain
    • By: Rob Davies
    • Narrated by: Rob Davies
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • A striking exposé of the insidious business practices that have generated enormous profits for the companies operating within the UK's gambling industry....

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    • The National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy
    • By: Martha J. Bailey
    • Narrated by: Kent Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Legacies of the War on Poverty demonstrates that well-designed government programs can reduce poverty, racial discrimination, and material hardships....

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    • How Repealing Obamacare, Replacing the Tax Code and Reforming The Fed will Restore Hope and Prosperity
    • By: Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Ames
    • Narrated by: Steve Forbes
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A clear and vital guide, Reviving America shows how the United States can recover the optimism and entrepreneurial dynamism that made it the greatest nation in history....

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    • Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
    • By: Maya Schenwar
    • Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans....

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    • Immigration Reform and America's Future
    • By: William A. Schwab
    • Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
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    • Right to DREAM makes a compelling argument for the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform....

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    • Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love
    • By: Melissa Fay Greene
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age 24 by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent, immobile patient, who was turned down by every service dog agency....

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    • Shameless Dirty Tricks to Beat the System and Stay Alive!
    • By: Skip Goebel
    • Narrated by: Joseph Miller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For sure - this is the cancer book for rednecks! Only someone who survived boot camp would even understand. Twenty-six years of brain cancer makes me infinitely qualified to speak on survival. I hope the audible gives it justice....

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    • By: Alexandre Dumas
    • Narrated by: Byron Taylor
    • Series: Celebrated Crimes, Book 13-15
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-18
    • Language: English
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    • Volume Seven of Alexander' Dumas' catalogue of crime features three colourful historical figures. Albanian tyrant Ali Pacha (or Pasha) was a brigand who later became an operative of the Ottoman empire. Listen for more....

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    • Inside the Bloody War on Drugs
    • By: Antony Loewenstein
    • Narrated by: John Derum
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The war on drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe and much of the world following suit....

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    • The Women's Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States
    • By: Megan Sholar
    • Narrated by: Margo Vaughn Nelson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men or women....

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