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    • Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
    • By: Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 875 ratings
    • The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood....

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 825 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • By: David Pelzer
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Series: Child Called "It", Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,110 ratings
    • On the verge of adolescence, Dave is rescued from his terrifyingly abusive, alcoholic mother and made a permanent ward of the court....

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    • What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
    • By: Heather McGhee
    • Narrated by: Heather McGhee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,722 ratings
    • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color....

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    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • By: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,704 ratings
    • At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

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    • Close Encounters with Addiction
    • By: Gabor Maté MD
    • Narrated by: Daniel Maté
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,377 ratings
    • In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours....

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    • How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
    • By: Christopher F. Rufo
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be “re-educated.”....

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    • A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
    • By: Tim Miller
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,642 ratings
    • As one of the strategists behind the famous 2012 RNC “autopsy,” Miller conducts his own forensic study on the pungent carcass of the party he used to love, cutting into all the hubris, ambition, idiocy, desperation, and self-deception for everyone to see....

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    • Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
    • By: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,033 ratings
    • Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom....

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    • By: Sam Harris
    • Narrated by: Jordan Bridges
    • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,548 ratings
    • Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....

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    • What I Say to My Friends About Racism
    • By: Don Lemon
    • Narrated by: Don Lemon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,191 ratings
    • The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders....

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    • By: Johann Hari
    • Narrated by: Johann Hari
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong....

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    • From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
    • By: Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine....

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    • How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
    • By: Jonathan M. Metzl
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,249 ratings
    • A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences - even for the white voters they promise to help....

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,977 ratings
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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    • America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 30 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 436 ratings
    • The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years....

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    • By: Sam Quinones
    • Narrated by: Tom Jordan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 541 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair....

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    • Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
    • By: Jennifer Pahlka
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Pahlka
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....

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    • How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
    • By: Elisabeth Rosenthal
    • Narrated by: Nancy Linari
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 988 ratings
    • Award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American health-care system....

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