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    • How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
    • By: Virginia Eubanks
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The audiobook is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories....

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    • A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
    • By: Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....

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    • Exposing Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids
    • By: Liz Wheeler
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Having conquered all the major institutions of our culture, the left is closing in on its final frontier—your children. In this new book, Liz Wheeler exposes where the forces of wokeness are at work and explains how parents can fight back for a change....

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    • Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
    • By: Kathryn Paige Harden
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....

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    • The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
    • By: Mary Otto
    • Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 271 ratings
    • Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....

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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 149 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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    • Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
    • By: Jonathan M. Metzl
    • Narrated by: Bob Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In What We've Become, Metzl reckons both with the long history of distrust of public health and the larger forces—social, ideological, historical, racial, and political—that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America.

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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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    • Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
    • By: Lisa McGirr
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history....

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    • Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
    • By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....

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    • How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
    • By: Alicia Garza
    • Narrated by: Alicia Garza
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter....

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    • The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
    • By: Thomas Abt
    • Narrated by: Brad Raymond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....

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    • Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten - How One Boy Overcame the Odds
    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • The poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy's recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour and polite manners hide a terrible past....

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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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    • Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
    • By: Ai-jen Poo
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Age of Dignity maps an integrated set of solutions to address America's new demographic and economic realities....

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    • An Essay in 40 Questions
    • By: Valeria Luiselli
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US....

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    • By: Alison Kafer
    • Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Mitch McConnell
    • Narrated by: Mitch McConnell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • The Long Game is the candid, behind-the-scenes memoir of a man famous for his discretion....

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    • The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
    • By: Mike Lew
    • Narrated by: Brian P. Craig, Mike Lew
    • Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma....

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