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    • Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
    • By: Maya Schenwar
    • Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans....

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    • How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968
    • By: David Stebenne
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A groundbreaking work of history about the American middle class - its rise, why it faltered, and who truly benefited from its dominance....

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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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    • 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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    • How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
    • By: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them....

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    • By: James Angelos
    • Narrated by: Peter Cross
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-15
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • How to Make Happiness and Well-Being the Purpose of Your Government
    • By: Laura Musikanski, Rhonda Phillips, Jean Crowder
    • Narrated by: Victoria Cruz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Happiness Policy Handbook is the essential resource for policymakers and professionals working to integrate happiness and well-being into governmental processes and institutions....

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    • Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
    • By: John D. Graham
    • Narrated by: Randall R. Berner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-17
    • Language: English
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    • The record of any American President attracts attention, but Barack Obama, the first African-American president in the nation's 240-year history, is of special interest....

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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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    • 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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    • A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
    • By: Gary Younge
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States....

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    • How Latinos in California Transformed Politics in America
    • By: David R. Ayón, George L. Pla
    • Narrated by: Thom Rivera
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Power Shift charts the rise of Latino political power and its impact, from the breakthrough election of the first Mexican American to the Los Angeles City Council in 1949 to today’s leadership of California and its heavyweight role in polarized America....

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    • Single Payer and What Comes Next
    • By: Timothy Faust
    • Narrated by: Brian Holden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • In Health Justice Now, Timothy Faust explains what single payer is, why we don't yet have it, and how it can be won....

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    • Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment
    • By: Zach Norris
    • Narrated by: Van Jones, Adam Lazarre-White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 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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    • A New Diet to Lost Weight
    • By: Laura Jessy Highbury
    • Narrated by: Klaus von Hohenloe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-20
    • Language: English
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    • Author Laura Jessy Highbury uses empirical evidence from a range of disciplines - anthropology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition science, social advertising, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning - to examine America's obesity problem....

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    • How to Make Politicians Work for You
    • By: Graham Steele
    • Narrated by: Graham Steele
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A primer for anyone who wants to become a politician or influence one, The Effective Citizen explains how politicians think and what factors influence that thinking, how to interpret the “non-answer” in political speech, and acknowledges that in politics, bland is safe....

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