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    • Debt Collection in American Medicine
    • By: Luke Messac
    • Narrated by: Luke Messac
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Your Money or Your Life reveals how medical debt collection became a multi-billion-dollar industry and how everyday Americans are made to pay the price....

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    • Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis - and How to End It
    • By: Ryan Hampton
    • Narrated by: Ryan Hampton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans are tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue....

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    • COVID-19 Shakes the World & Chronicles of a Time Lost
    • By: Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Series: Pandemic!, Book 1-2
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your affection. Slavoj Žižek provides a concise and provocative snapshot of the COVID-19 crisis as it widens, engulfing us all....

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    • A New Mother's Search for Home
    • By: Lauren Sandler
    • Narrated by: Lauren Sandler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • From an award-winning journalist Lauren Sandler, This Is All I Got is a poignant and gripping immersion in the life of a young, homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter in the richest city in America....

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    • Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
    • By: Brian Alexander
    • Narrated by: Nick Landrum
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • The Hospital is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises....

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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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    • Healthcare and Innovation
    • By: James B. Rebitzer, Robert S. Rebitzer
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The evolution of the cell phones we carry in our pockets demonstrates that quality can increase while prices fall. Why doesn't healthcare also get better and cheaper? In Why Not Better and Cheaper?, James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer offer an answer to this question....

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    • The Woodson Principles
    • By: Robert L. Woodson Sr.
    • Narrated by: Robert L. Woodson Sr.
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • This book is about "the least among us", and the extraordinary power of grassroots leaders who are transforming the lives of forgotten men and women in the most toxic neighborhoods....

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    • A Plan to Fix a Fractured World
    • By: Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian, Michael Spence, Reid Lidow
    • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Do you feel like we’re in a permacrisis? Chances are you feel some anxiety about the state of the world right now. Mohamed, Michael and Gordon certainly did....

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    • Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences
    • By: M. Watkins, H. Shulman
    • Narrated by: Claire Simon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Understanding that the psychological well-being of individuals is inextricably linked to the health of their communities, environments, and cultures, the authors propose a radical interdisciplinary reorientation of psychology....

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    • America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
    • By: Steven Waldman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Just as Eyes on the Prize captured the rich drama of the civil rights movement, Sacred Liberty brings to life the remarkable story of how America became one of the few nations in world history that has religious freedom, diversity and high levels of piety at the same time....

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    • How America Criminalizes Black Youth
    • By: Kristin Henning
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Drawing upon 25 years of experience rep­resenting Black youth in Washington, DC’s juve­nile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young peo­ple....

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    • Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
    • By: Marc Lamont Hill, Todd Brewster - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the United States following the death of Michael Brown revealed something far deeper than a passionate display of age-old racial frustrations....

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    • The Amazing, True Story of the Animal Liberation Front in North America
    • By: Ingrid Newkirk
    • Narrated by: Martha H. Weller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-23
    • Language: English
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    • The book describes how this law-abiding woman comes to challenge the system by taking direct action, and examines why ordinary people are moved to do extraordinary things on behalf of animals....

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    • The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
    • By: Tim Wise
    • Narrated by: Tim Wise
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Focusing on disparities in employment, housing, education and health care, Wise argues that racism is indeed still an acute problem in the United States today and that colorblind policies actually worsen the problem of racial injustice....

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    • How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
    • By: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 602 ratings
    • America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them....

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    • How a Consistent Life Ethic Can Unite a Fractured People
    • By: Charles C. Camosy
    • Narrated by: Charles C. Camosy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • This is a book about hope in the midst of a polarized culture. Camosy begins with a hopeful starting point in the midst of a crumbling US political culture....

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    • Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 470 ratings
    • The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years....

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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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