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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A New Social Contract for a Better Society
    • By: Minouche Shafik
    • Narrated by: Minouche Shafik
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by Minouche Shafik provides an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive....

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    • By: Amartya Sen
    • Narrated by: Byron Wagner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Freedom, Amartya Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population....

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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 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 377 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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    • 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 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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    • 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 208 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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    • 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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    • How Corporate Owners Are Killing Us
    • By: Jim Marrs
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • America, Jim Marrs argues, has been seized by a culture of death. And who promulgates this culture? Find out....

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    • Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
    • By: Robert Pondiscio
    • Narrated by: Robert Pondiscio
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America....

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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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