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    • One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
    • By: Melissa Fay Greene
    • Narrated by: Julie Fain Lawrence
    • Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • There Is No Me Without You is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS....

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    • The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response
    • By: Andy Slavitt
    • Narrated by: Bradley Whitford
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • The definitive, behind-the-scenes look at the US coronavirus crisis from one of the most recognizable and influential voices in healthcare....

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    • How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense
    • By: Mona Charen
    • Narrated by: Mona Charen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • Mona Charen unpacks the ways feminism fails us at home, in the workplace, and in our personal relationships - by promising that we can have it all, do it all, and be it all. She upends the feminist agenda and the liberal conversation surrounding women's issues by asking tough questions....

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    • Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture
    • By: Kevin Munger
    • Narrated by: Justin Price
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Baby Boomers are the largest and most powerful generation in American history—and they aren't going away any time soon. They dominate cultural and political institutions and make up the largest slice of the electorate....

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    • How the Scandinavians Got It Right - And How We Can, Too
    • By: George Lakey
    • Narrated by: Chris Roman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • George Lakey explores the inner-workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world's happiest, most productive workers....

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    • By: Anne Norton
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe....

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    • Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
    • By: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Three of the nation’s top scholars ­– known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places....

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    • Inside the Walla Walla Prison, 1970-1985
    • By: Christopher Murray
    • Narrated by: John N Gully
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Unusual Punishment details the explosive story of failed reform at one Washington State penitentiary....

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    • The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers
    • By: Michael VanRooyen
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Twenty years ago the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today it is violent attacks....

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    • How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor
    • By: Michael D. Tanner
    • Narrated by: Todd Barsness
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom of both liberals and conservatives, Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, looks at the reasons for poverty in America and offers a detailed agenda for increasing wealth, incomes, and opportunity....

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    • White America and the War on Drugs
    • By: Matthew D. Lassiter
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 29 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians, the media, and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing and incarcerating urban minorities, and how a troubling legacy of racial injustice continues to inform the war on drugs today....

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    • What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis
    • By: Jeff Smith
    • Narrated by: Jeff Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • In 2009 Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester....

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    • Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities....

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    • Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies
    • By: Scott Yenor
    • Narrated by: Nick Stevens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The Recovery of Family Life defends marriage and family life while exposing the limits and blind spots in these powerful revolutionary ideologies....

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    • By: Jesse Ventura, Jen Hobbs
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Any way you look at it, for whoever is using it, marijuana is a medicinal plant in abundant supply. Every month and every year that goes by, we find out more positive things about it....

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    • Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs
    • By: Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes, Jorge Enrique Botero
    • Narrated by: Yetta Gottesman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The crash of a U.S. reconnaissance plane into the Colombian jungle set off a series of events that would bring three South American countries on a collision course toward war....

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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: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 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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    • The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
    • By: Marie Gottschalk
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Caught, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious 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 61 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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    • By: Steven M. Gillon
    • Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In Separate and Unequal, historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders - popularly known as the Kerner Commission....

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