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    • Policymaking by Other Means
    • By: Pamela Herd, Donald P. Moynihan
    • Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Administrative Burden, Herd and Moynihan document that the administrative burdens citizens regularly encounter in their interactions with the state are not simply unintended byproducts of governance, but the result of deliberate policy choices....

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    • Disaster Cascades in Court
    • By: Susan M. Sterett
    • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related disasters, too....

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    • Social Security Retirement and Survivor Benefits for Divorcees
    • By: Jim Blankenship
    • Narrated by: K.M. Sayer
    • Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This book provides a concise, easy-to-follow guide for divorcees to learn about Social Security benefits specifically for their situations....

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    • By: Maggie Paxson
    • Narrated by: Maggie Paxson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why? Listen to find out....

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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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    • Washington's Battle against America's Veterans
    • By: Aaron Glantz
    • Narrated by: David Stampone
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Here, freelance writer Aaron Glantz hones in on the momentous impact of the Iraq war on injured veterans as they return home....

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    • The Amazing, True Story of the Animal Liberation Front in North America
    • By: Ingrid Newkirk
    • Narrated by: Martha H. Weller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-23
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • The book describes how this law-abiding woman comes to challenge the system by taking direct action, and examines why ordinary people are moved to do extraordinary things on behalf of animals....

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    • Forging an American Solution
    • By: Jeb Bush, Clint Bolick
    • Narrated by: Skipp Sudduth
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • From the former Republican governor of Florida and a leading constitutional litigator comes a timely and provocative look at one of the most divisive issues facing the nation today: immigration....

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    • By: Emma Goldman
    • Narrated by: Jean Norman
    • Length: 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-19
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Emma Goldman was a passionate critic of the prison system, criticizing both the treatment of prisoners and the social causes of crime. She considered crime as a natural outgrowth of an unjust economic system....

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    • How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter - and More Unequal
    • By: Brink Lindsey
    • Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The complexity of today's economy is not only making these lucky elites richer - it is also making them smarter....

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    • Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire
    • By: Margaret Regan
    • Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world....

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    • By: Nick Tate
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • President Obama signed it into law. The Supreme Court has ruled it constitutional. And Obama's re-election virtually ensures that ObamaCare, will be implemented in full....

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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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    • By: James Angelos
    • Narrated by: Peter Cross
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In The Full Catastrophe, James Angelos makes sense of the contrasting images of Greece, a nation both romanticized for its classical past and castigated for its dysfunctional present....

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    • Why the NHS Is Worth Saving
    • By: Gavin Francis
    • Narrated by: Gavin Francis
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-23
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Britain's health service is dying. Gavin Francis shows us why we should fight for it....

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    • Why We Go Back to Where We Come From
    • By: Kamal Al-Solaylee
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Drawing on astute political analysis and extensive reporting from around the world, Return illuminates a personal quest. Kamal Al-Solaylee yearns to return to his homeland of Yemen, now wracked by war, starvation and daily violence, to reconnect with his family....

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    • Pain and Politics in the Heart of America
    • By: Jennifer M. Silva
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In We're Still Here, Jennifer M. Silva tells a deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, and politics that will endure long after the Trump administration....

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    • The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right
    • By: Becca Andrews
    • Narrated by: Marisha Tapera, Becca Andrews
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An in-depth look at the legacy of Roe v. Wade, and on-the-ground reporting from the front lines of the battle to protect the right to choose....

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