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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 210 ratings
    • What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option?....

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  • Feminist, Queer, Crip Audiobook By Alison Kafer cover art

    • Feminist, Queer, Crip

    • By: Alison Kafer
    • Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit....

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  • Please Stop Helping Us Audiobook By Jason L. Riley cover art

    • Please Stop Helping Us

    • How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
    • By: Jason L. Riley
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,127 ratings

    • Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries....

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  • Please Don't Take My Baby Audiobook By Cathy Glass cover art

    • Please Don't Take My Baby

    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • "I'm going to love my baby and give her lots of attention," Jade said. "I'll show my mum she's wrong."....

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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 7 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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  • How the Poor Can Save Capitalism Audiobook By John Hope Bryant cover art

    • How the Poor Can Save Capitalism

    • Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
    • By: John Hope Bryant
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....

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  • Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue Audiobook By Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod cover art

    • Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue

    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • By: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

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  • Social Security for Dummies Audiobook By Jonathan Peterson cover art

    • Social Security for Dummies

    • By: Jonathan Peterson
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • Social Security for Dummies is the one guide you need to navigate the often-complex world of Social Security retirement benefits. This updated edition offers clear guidance on when to claim benefits....

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  • The Sane Society Audiobook By Erich Fromm cover art

    • The Sane Society

    • By: Erich Fromm
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society....

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  • Why the New Deal Matters Audiobook By Eric Rauchway cover art

    • Why the New Deal Matters

    • 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 27 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 Genetic Lottery Audiobook By Kathryn Paige Harden cover art

    • The Genetic Lottery

    • Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
    • By: Kathryn Paige Harden
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings

    • In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....

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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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  • 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 27 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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  • Saving Danny Audiobook By Cathy Glass cover art

    • Saving Danny

    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car....

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  • The Rise of the New Puritans Audiobook By Noah Rothman cover art

    • The Rise of the New Puritans

    • Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun
    • By: Noah Rothman
    • Narrated by: Noah Rothman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings

    • The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep....

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  • Automating Inequality Audiobook By Virginia Eubanks cover art

    • Automating Inequality

    • How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
    • By: Virginia Eubanks
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings

    • In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The audiobook is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories....

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  • Fixer-Upper Audiobook By Jenny Schuetz cover art

    • Fixer-Upper

    • 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 38 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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  • The High Cost of Good Intentions Audiobook By John F. Cogan cover art

    • The High Cost of Good Intentions

    • A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs
    • By: John F. Cogan
    • Narrated by: Terry Ross
    • Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • Combining economics, history, political science, and law, John F. Cogan reveals how the creation of entitlements brings forth a steady march of liberalizing forces that cause entitlement programs to expand....

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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 Great Divide Audiobook By Joseph E. Stiglitz cover art

    • The Great Divide

    • Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities....

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