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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
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    • 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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    • How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair
    • By: Carol Graham
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this timely and innovative account, economist Carol Graham argues for the importance of hope—little studied in economics at present—as an independent dimension of well-being....

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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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    • By: Sarah Weddington
    • Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 02-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Starting with her years at the University of Texas Law School at Austin, Weddington traces the history of her involvement with this momentous Supreme Court case and its aftermath....

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    • The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son
    • By: Marilyn Churley
    • Narrated by: Ellen Davis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-22
    • Language: English
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    • Twenty years after secretly giving up her baby for adoption, then Ontario NDP minister Marilyn Churley found herself fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform adoption disclosure laws and find her son....

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    • How the National Education Association Is Betraying Our Children
    • By: G. Gregory Moo
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-13
    • Language: English
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    • NEA's Reach for Power exposes the National Education Association (NEA) for what it really is and provides a hands-on guide for teachers, parents, and communties to increase their voices in bringing education back to the children....

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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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    • Freedom, Security, Justice
    • By: Jamie Swift, Elaine Power
    • Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-22
    • Language: English
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    • Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19, an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a liveable and obligation-free basic income....

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    • By: Judy Ryan
    • Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-23
    • Language: English
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    • In July 2016, inner-city resident Judy Ryan found a young man—one of ‘her regulars'—slumped and quiet at her gate. He had overdosed from heroin. Fortunately, that man lived. But Judy had reached breaking point....

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    • Why "Yes" Lost the Referendum and Why, if We're Not Careful, We Might End Up Doing It Again
    • By: Jack Foster
    • Narrated by: Jack Foster
    • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-19
    • Language: English
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    • Jack Foster combines modern political history with indignant polemic in this impassioned account of the failed 2014 Scottish independence referendum. In an attempt to understand the reasons for that defeat....

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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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    • By: Robert Massi
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Familiar to viewers as a national TV legal analyst, Robert Massi has heard countless stories of well-intentioned individuals getting caught up in damaging situations that they didn't see coming....

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    • How Smarter Government Can Rescue the American Dream
    • By: Edward D. Kleinbard
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this thought-provoking book, Edward D. Kleinbard demonstrates how the failure to acknowledge the force of brute luck in our material lives exacerbates these crises leading to warped policy choices that impede genuine equality of opportunity for many Americans....

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    • Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America
    • By: Cal Thomas
    • Narrated by: Cal Thomas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Instead of the constant jockeying for political advantage, in What Works, author and columnist Cal Thomas focuses on what promotes the general welfare....

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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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    • Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities
    • By: Zach Norris, Van Jones
    • Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment....

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    • The First 100 Days and Beyond of the Biden Administration
    • By: Thomas Winterbottom
    • Narrated by: Mike Stedham
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-21
    • Language: English
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    • This book discusses the actions that the Biden administration should take to provide America and the world with the best leadership....

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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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