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    • 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 408 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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    • How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
    • By: Anthony Biglan
    • Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....

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    • 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 144 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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    • A Memoir
    • By: Mitch McConnell
    • Narrated by: Mitch McConnell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • The Long Game is the candid, behind-the-scenes memoir of a man famous for his discretion....

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    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • By: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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    • The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
    • By: Thomas Abt
    • Narrated by: Brad Raymond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....

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    • How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
    • By: Raghuram Rajan
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp, Raghuram Rajan
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization....

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    • From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
    • By: Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-22
    • Language: English
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    • While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine....

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    • By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
    • Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest to help make our society into the kind of "village" that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults....

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    • How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
    • By: Heather Mac Donald
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,304 ratings
    • By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning....

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    • 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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    • An Essay in 40 Questions
    • By: Valeria Luiselli
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 223 ratings
    • A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US....

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    • Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values
    • By: Tammy Bruce
    • Narrated by: Tammy Bruce
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • A woman of contradictions, "a gun-toting, lesbian, feminist, voted-for-Reagan activist", Tammy Bruce is standing in line to become the next Ann Coulter....

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    • How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
    • By: Jenny Schuetz
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems....

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    • Dreaming Disability Justice
    • By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities....

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    • A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family
    • By: Mark Daley
    • Narrated by: Mark Daley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Safe offers a deeply personal window into what happens when the universal longing for family crashes up against the unique madness and bureaucracy of a child protection system that often fails to consider the needs of the most vulnerable parties of all—the children themselves.

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    • 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 134 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 American Dream in Crisis
    • By: Robert D. Putnam
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 450 ratings
    • It's the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success....

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    • By: Eric Rauchway
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • The New Deal was instated at a time of mass unemployment and the rise of fascistic government models and functioned as a bulwark of American democracy. This book looks at how this legacy, both for good and ill, informs the current debates around governmental responses to crises....

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    • The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape
    • By: Robin Warshaw
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens, Gloria Steinem, Wheatley Tanner Letters LLC
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A new edition of the 1988 classic text that exposed the extreme prevalence of rape in America, coining the term "acquaintance rape" and establishing the disturbing statistics on sexual assault that still hold just as true today....

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