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The Velvet Rope Economy
- How Inequality Became Big Business
- Written by: Nelson D. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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From New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other side.
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The Velvet Rope Economy
- How Inequality Became Big Business
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-03
- Language: English
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Modern Love, Revised and Updated (Media Tie-In)
- True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
- Written by: Daniel Jones, Andrew Rannells, Ayelet Waldman, and others
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Will Brill, Michael Crouch, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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These are just a few of the people who tell their stories in Modern Love, Revised and Updated, featuring dozens of the most memorable essays to run in The New York Times “Modern Love” column since its debut in 2004. Some of the stories are unconventional, while others hit close to home. Some reveal the way technology has changed dating forever; others explore the timeless struggles experienced by anyone who has ever searched for love.
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Modern Love, Revised and Updated (Media Tie-In)
- True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Will Brill, Michael Crouch, Kevin R. Free, Emma Galvin, Catherine Ho, Robin Miles, Maggi-Meg Reed, Sean Runnette, Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-03
- Language: English
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What If This Were Enough?
- Essays
- Written by: Heather Havrilesky
- Narrated by: Heather Havrilesky
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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What If This Were Enough? is a mantra and a clarion call. In its chapters--many of them original to the book, others expanded from their initial publication--Havrilesky takes on those cultural forces that shape us. We've convinced ourselves, she says, that salvation can be delivered only in the form of new products, new technologies, new lifestyles.
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Buyer's remorse
- By Jon Buss on 2018-12-03
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What If This Were Enough?
- Essays
- Narrated by: Heather Havrilesky
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-02
- Language: English
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The Bold World
- A Memoir of Family and Transformation
- Written by: Jodie Patterson
- Narrated by: Jodie Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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In 2009, Jodie Patterson, mother of five and beauty entrepreneur, has her world turned upside-down when her determined toddler, Penelope, reveals, "Mama, I’m not a girl. I am a boy." The Pattersons are a tribe of unapologetic Black matriarchs, scholars, financiers, Southern activists, artists, musicians, and disruptors, but with Penelope’s revelation, Jodie realizes her existing definition of family isn’t wide enough for her child’s needs. In The Bold World, we witness Patterson learning how to meet the needs of her transgender son.
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The Bold World
- A Memoir of Family and Transformation
- Narrated by: Jodie Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2019-01-29
- Language: English
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The Price of Admission
- How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges - and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
- Written by: Daniel Golden
- Narrated by: Nancy Linari
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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Naming names, along with grades and test scores, Golden lays bare a corrupt system in which middle-class and working-class whites and Asian Americans are routinely passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials - children of alumni, big donors, and celebrities. The Price of Admission is a must-listen - for parents and students with a personal stake in college admissions but also for those disturbed by the growing divide between ordinary and privileged Americans.
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The Price of Admission
- How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges - and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
- Narrated by: Nancy Linari
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-05
- Language: English
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Sticks and Stones
- Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
- Written by: Emily Bazelon
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as parents and educators know all too well.
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Sticks and Stones
- Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2013-02-19
- Language: English
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Paul and Me
- Fifty-three Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman
- Written by: A. E. Hotchner
- Narrated by: A. E. Hotchner
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated both men from relative obscurity to recognition and began a close and trusted friendship that lasted until Newman’s death in 2008.
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wonderful narration of a wonderful friendship
- By dartigues on 2022-07-25
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Paul and Me
- Fifty-three Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman
- Narrated by: A. E. Hotchner
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2010-03-23
- Language: English
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Written by: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?
As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference.
It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just
during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.
This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death.
Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.-
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2013-05-14
- Language: English
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Seen, Heard, and Paid
- The New Work Rules for the Marginalized
- Written by: Alan Henry
- Narrated by: Landon Woodson
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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For over twenty years, Alan Henry has written about using technology and productivity techniques to work and live better for publications such as Lifehacker, The New York Times, and Wired. But he found that as a Black man he didn’t have access to some of the more powerful ways to hack your job—like only checking email once a day or blocking out time on your calendar to do deep work.
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Seen, Heard, and Paid
- The New Work Rules for the Marginalized
- Narrated by: Landon Woodson
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-07
- Language: English
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Sex Matters
- How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense
- Written by: Mona Charen
- Narrated by: Mona Charen
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Sex Matters tracks the price we have paid for denying sex differences and stoking the war of the sexes - family breakdown, declining female happiness, aimlessness among men, and increasing inequality. Marshaling copious social science research as well as her own experience as a professional as well as a wife and mother, Mona Charen calls for a sexual ceasefire for the sake of women, men, and children.
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Moderation the best method for everything
- By Elizabeth on 2019-02-03
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Sex Matters
- How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense
- Narrated by: Mona Charen
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-26
- Language: English
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Showing Up for Life
- Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
- Written by: Bill Gates Sr.
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan, Bill Gates Sr.
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
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A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up” - lessons that he learned growing up in the Great Depression, and which he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Through the course of several dozen narratives arranged in roughly chronological fashion, Gates introduces the people and experiences that influenced his thinking and guided his moral compass.
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A Very Important Message
- By Anonymous User on 2018-09-19
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Showing Up for Life
- Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan, Bill Gates Sr.
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2009-04-28
- Language: English
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The Power of Gold
- The History of an Obsession
- Written by: Peter L. Bernstein
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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In this exciting new audio, Peter L. Bernstein tells the story of history's most coveted, celebrated, and inglorious asset: gold.
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The Power of Gold
- The History of an Obsession
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2001-03-02
- Language: English
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The Message
- Written by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Length: 6 hrs
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Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic “Politics and the English Language,” but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and distort our realities.
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The Message
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 2024-10-01
- Language: English
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You're the Only One I Can Tell
- Inside the Language of Women's Friendships
- Written by: Deborah Tannen
- Narrated by: Deborah Tannen
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Best friend, old friend, good friend, BFF, college roommate, neighbor, workplace confidante: women's friendships are lifelines in times of trouble and support systems for daily life. A friend can be like a sister, daughter, mother, mentor, therapist, or confessor - or she can be all of these at once. She's seen you at your worst and celebrates you at your best. Figuring out what it means to be friends is, in the end, no less than figuring out how we connect to other people.
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You're the Only One I Can Tell
- Inside the Language of Women's Friendships
- Narrated by: Deborah Tannen
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-02
- Language: English
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Hill Women
- Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
- Written by: Cassie Chambers
- Narrated by: Cassie Chambers
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong "hill women" who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region - an uplifting and eye-opening memoir for fans of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated.
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Hill Women
- Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
- Narrated by: Cassie Chambers
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2020-01-07
- Language: English
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The Lonely Hunter
- How Our Search for Love Is Broken: A Memoir
- Written by: Aimée Lutkin
- Narrated by: Aimée Lutkin
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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One evening, thirtysomething writer Aimée Lutkin found herself at a dinner party surrounded by couples. When the conversation turned to her love life, Lutkin stated simply, “I don’t really know if I’m going to date anyone ever again. Some people are just alone forever.” Her friends rushed to assure her that love comes when you least expect it and to make recommendations for new dating apps.
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The Lonely Hunter
- How Our Search for Love Is Broken: A Memoir
- Narrated by: Aimée Lutkin
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2022-02-08
- Language: English
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Hope Rising
- Stories from the Ranch of Rescued Dreams
- Written by: Kim Meeder
- Narrated by: Kim Meeder
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Kim Meeder has seen horses go where no one else can tread - stepping through the minefield of a broken child's soul in a dance of trust that only God can understand. From a mistreated horse to an emotionally starved child and back again, a torrent of love washes away their barren places. Kim's ranch is a place where this miracle happens over and over again. It is a place where the impossible flourishes, where dreams survive the inferno of reality - a place where hope rises.
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Very Poetic!
- By marcella on 2021-10-19
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Hope Rising
- Stories from the Ranch of Rescued Dreams
- Narrated by: Kim Meeder
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-26
- Language: English
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Running the Books
- The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
- Written by: Avi Steinberg
- Narrated by: Dustin Rubin
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. And his romantic existence as a freelance obituary writer just isn’t cutting it. Seeking direction - and dental insurance - Steinberg takes a job as a librarian in a tough Boston prison.
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Running the Books
- The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
- Narrated by: Dustin Rubin
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2010-10-19
- Language: English
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A Trial by Jury
- Written by: D. Graham Burnett
- Narrated by: D. Graham Burnett
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Jury duty happens to everyone. When the call came to Graham Burnett, a young historian, he had a shock in store. A Trial by Jury is his startling account of how performing this familiar civic duty challenged him in ways he never thought possible and turned into one of the most consuming experiences of his life.
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A Trial by Jury
- Narrated by: D. Graham Burnett
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2002-01-11
- Language: English
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Let the Lord Sort Them
- The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
- Written by: Maurice Chammah
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: The country’s death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime frontier. When executions resumed, Texas quickly became the nationwide leader in carrying out the punishment.
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Let the Lord Sort Them
- The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-26
- Language: English
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