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    • How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy
    • By: Ryan Meili
    • Narrated by: Ryan Meili
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-23
    • Language: English
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    • A Healthy Society offers a new approach to politics–and a new approach to building a healthier world. Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores fundamental conditions that lead to poor health....

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    • In My Own Unique Ways
    • By: Galeeb Kachra
    • Narrated by: Galeeb Kachra
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • Do you want to help achieve change, but don't know how? Other books don't give you practical examples that are within your own reach. This book showcases real cases, based on Galeeb's international experience....

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    • Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son
    • By: Gwen Carr, Dave Smitherman - contributor, Hillary Clinton - foreword
    • Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In This Stops Today, Gwen Carr, Eric Garner's mother, shares the tragedies she has faced, recalls her son's life and death, and recounts her newfound role as an activist. Her book recounts a life of family, community, and of a woman who now speaks for those who no longer can....

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    • Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis
    • By: John Nichols
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The rogues gallery begins with Donald Trump, who deliberately downplayed the coronavirus crisis despite knowing its dangers, as well as his international political allies, above all Boris Johnson....

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    • By: Beate Chelette
    • Narrated by: Caroline Miller
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Chelette, a trainer, coach, and speaker imparts her proprietary strategies that can take any woman from being overwhelmed to awesome....

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    • By: Laurel A. Rockefeller
    • Narrated by: Alex Freeman
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this thought-provoking historical and economic analysis, Laurel A. Rockefeller takes on poverty culture head-on, exploring what it means to be poor in the United States....

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    • The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child
    • By: Betsy DeVos
    • Narrated by: Betsy DeVos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • From coronavirus lockdowns to critical race theory in the classroom, it has become crystal clear that America’s schools aren’t working for America’s students and parents. No one knows this better than Betsy DeVos....

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    • The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration
    • By: Jorja Leap
    • Narrated by: Sonia Kallen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Urgent and empathetic, Entry Lessons is one of the first examinations of the lasting impact of incarceration on women and their families....

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    • Reclaiming Social Issues from Uncivil Servants
    • By: Laura Carno
    • Narrated by: Linda Bruno
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Government Ruins Nearly Everything helps you remember who's the boss and who's the public servant, and gives you tools to reclaim what was yours all along....

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    • Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
    • By: Mary O'Hara
    • Narrated by: Mary O'Hara
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What does it mean to be poor in the UK and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or "bad life decisions" rather than policy choices or economic inequality....

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    • Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana Is Harming America
    • By: Dr. William J. Bennett, Robert A. White
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • William J. Bennett amd co-author Robert White provide strong societal and scientific arguments against the legalization of marijuana....

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    • A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto
    • By: Merle Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade and a country divided, a pioneer in the pro-choice movement and women’s healthcare offers an unapologetic and authoritative take on abortion—“the front line and the bottom line of women’s freedom and liberty”....

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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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    • Lives in the Shadows of the American Dream
    • By: J. Malcolm Garcia
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
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    • Real-life stories of Americans living on the edge of survival, outside the bright lights of the media....

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    • Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance
    • By: Carlyn Zwarenstein
    • Narrated by: Christine Horne
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Drawing on solidarity between illicit drug users and people in pain, in a wise understanding of what humans need to be well, and in radical drug policies like legalization and safe supply, Carlyn Zwarenstein lays out a vision of a world where suffering is no longer lauded....

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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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    • Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
    • By: Frances Ryan
    • Narrated by: Georgie Morrell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In austerity Britain, disabled people have become the favourite target. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and media alike have made the case that Britain's 12 million disabled people are a drain on the public purse....

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