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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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    • A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
    • By: Martin A. Lee
    • Narrated by: Nick Podehl
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 492 ratings
    • Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased....

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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 91 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 Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
    • By: Reshma Saujani
    • Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But data tells a different story. Historic numbers of women left their jobs in 2021, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988....

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    • How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
    • By: Alicia Garza
    • Narrated by: Alicia Garza
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter....

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    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • By: Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

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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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    • Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
    • By: Cory Booker
    • Narrated by: Cory Booker
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 02-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 640 ratings
    • United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future....

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    • My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America
    • By: Ryan Busse
    • Narrated by: Ryan Busse
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 631 ratings
    • A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point....

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    • Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
    • By: Alissa Quart
    • Narrated by: Beth Hicks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled....

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    • A New History
    • By: Amity Shlaes
    • Narrated by: Terence Aselford
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 375 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....

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    • Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
    • By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....

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    • Exposing Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids
    • By: Liz Wheeler
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Having conquered all the major institutions of our culture, the left is closing in on its final frontier—your children. In this new book, Liz Wheeler exposes where the forces of wokeness are at work and explains how parents can fight back for a change....

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    • How the Scandinavians Got It Right - And How We Can, Too
    • By: George Lakey
    • Narrated by: Chris Roman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • George Lakey explores the inner-workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world's happiest, most productive workers....

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    • New Tools to End Hunger
    • By: Katie S. Martin
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed....

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    • How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them
    • By: Paul LeBlanc
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Many of the systems built to serve people do more harm than good. Dr. Paul LeBlanc draws on his experience working in one such system—education—to reconnect us to the human facets of serving people. In doing so, he charts a course for rebuilding and reinhabiting better systems....

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    • 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 5 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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    • 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 1,125 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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    • A New Paradigm for Wellness
    • By: Steve DeAngelo, Willie L. Brown - foreword
    • Narrated by: Andy Barnett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • An authoritative, persuasive, and riveting call for the legalization and responsible use of medical marijuana, The Cannabis Manifesto is a book whose time has come....

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    • Reckoning with Race in America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 395 ratings
    • The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a White cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history....

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