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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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    • How a Great City Lost Its Soul
    • By: Jeremiah Moss
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • An unflinching portrait of gentrification in the 21st century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York....

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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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    • 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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    • Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten - How One Boy Overcame the Odds
    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • The poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy's recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour and polite manners hide a terrible past....

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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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    • Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 790 ratings
    • What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's best seller Tears We Cannot Stop....

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    • 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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    • Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
    • By: Rob Hopkins
    • Narrated by: Rob Hopkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it....

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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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    • By: Spencer Bishins
    • Narrated by: Spencer Bishins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A former Social Security Administration (SSA) attorney goes behind the scenes to show you why it’s so difficult to win a Social Security Disability case. Working as an attorney advisor for over 10 years, the author drafted and reviewed thousands of disability decisions....

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    • The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
    • By: Bhaskar Sunkara
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 463 ratings
    • From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today....

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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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    • How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
    • By: Heather MacDonald
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • In closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, MacDonald shows how bad ideas get started and then acquire a life of their own....

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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 222 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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    • The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child
    • By: Betsy DeVos
    • Narrated by: Betsy DeVos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • From coronavirus lockdowns to critical race theory in the classroom, it has become crystal clear that America’s schools aren’t working for America’s students and parents. No one knows this better than Betsy DeVos....

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    • How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Star Parker
    • Narrated by: Tyra Kennedy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Uncle Sam’s Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poor---and what Americans must do to stop it....

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    • A Vicarious Memorandum
    • By: Eugene E. Jones
    • Narrated by: Eugene E. Jones Jr.
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Empathetic and excellent advice from one of our nation's leading Housing Authority experts, having served in leadership roles across eight major U.S. cities and one in Canada....

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    • The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
    • By: Muhammad Yunus
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire....

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    • 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 31 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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