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  • Elderhood Audiobook By Louise Aronson cover art

    • Elderhood

    • Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
    • By: Louise Aronson
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings

    • As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....

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  • We've Got You Covered Audiobook By Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein cover art

    • We've Got You Covered

    • Rebooting American Health Care
    • By: Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
    • Narrated by: Susan Bennett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform....

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  • Believe in People Audiobook By Charles Koch, Brian Hooks cover art

    • Believe in People

    • Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
    • By: Charles Koch, Brian Hooks
    • Narrated by: Charles Koch, Steve Carlson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings

    • People are looking for a better way. Towering barriers are holding millions of people back, and the institutions that should help everyone rise are not doing the job. Crumbling communities. One-size fits all education....

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  • No Way to Treat a Child Audiobook By Naomi Schaefer Riley cover art

    • No Way to Treat a Child

    • How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives
    • By: Naomi Schaefer Riley
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • The American child welfare system is bent toward protecting adults, not children. Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe....

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  • Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Audiobook By Anne Case, Angus Deaton cover art

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  • The Program Audiobook By Toni Natalie, Chet Hardin cover art

    • The Program

    • Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM
    • By: Toni Natalie, Chet Hardin
    • Narrated by: Toni Natalie
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 406 ratings

    • Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada, and elsewhere to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to participate in his self-improvement methodology....

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  • “Prisons Make Us Safer” Audiobook By Victoria Law cover art

    • “Prisons Make Us Safer”

    • And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration
    • By: Victoria Law
    • Narrated by: Melissa Moran
    • Series: Myths Made in America
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals....

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  • The Two-Income Trap Audiobook By Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi cover art

    • The Two-Income Trap

    • 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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  • High-Risers Audiobook By Ben Austen cover art

    • High-Risers

    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....

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  • Insane Audiobook By Alisa Roth cover art

    • Insane

    • America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
    • By: Alisa Roth
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings

    • Journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to tell how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker....

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  • Slaying Goliath Audiobook By Diane Ravitch cover art

    • Slaying Goliath

    • The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
    • By: Diane Ravitch
    • Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings

    • Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools....

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  • The Turnaway Study Audiobook By Diana Greene Foster PhD cover art

    • The Turnaway Study

    • The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion
    • By: Diana Greene Foster PhD
    • Narrated by: Samantha Desz, full cast
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings

    • What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away? To answer this question, Diana Greene Foster assembled a team of scientists....

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  • The War on Alcohol Audiobook By Lisa McGirr cover art

    • The War on Alcohol

    • 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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  • Teeth Audiobook By Mary Otto cover art

    • Teeth

    • 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 270 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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  • Victims No Longer Audiobook By Mike Lew cover art

    • Victims No Longer

    • 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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  • Broken Audiobook By Jessica Pryce cover art

    • Broken

    • Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
    • By: Jessica Pryce
    • Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families....

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  • The Vision of the Anointed Audiobook By Thomas Sowell cover art

    • The Vision of the Anointed

    • Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 675 ratings

    • In this critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past 30 years, Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and more....

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  • A Baby's Cry Audiobook By Cathy Glass cover art

    • A Baby's Cry

    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option?....

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  • The American Health Care Paradox Audiobook By Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor, Harvey V. Fineberg cover art

    • The American Health Care Paradox

    • Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less
    • By: Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor, Harvey V. Fineberg
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. This audiobook examines the research, including a comparative study of health care data from 30 countries, to get to the root of this paradox....

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  • Healing Justice Lineages Audiobook By Cara Page, Erica Woodland, Aurora Levins Morales - foreword cover art

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