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  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts cover art

    • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

    • Close Encounters with Addiction
    • Written by: Gabor Maté MD
    • Narrated by: Daniel Maté
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 506 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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    • The Lost Boy

    • Written by: David Pelzer
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Series: Child Called "It", Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2007-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 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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    • Letter to a Christian Nation

    • Written by: Sam Harris
    • Narrated by: Jordan Bridges
    • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2006-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....

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    • My Life in Full

    • Work, Family, and Our Future
    • Written by: Indra Nooyi
    • Narrated by: Indra Nooyi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings

    • For a dozen years as one of the world’s most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. My Life in Full offers a firsthand view of Nooyi’s legendary career and the sacrifices it so often demanded....

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    • Chasing the Scream

    • Written by: Johann Hari
    • Narrated by: Johann Hari
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2023-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong....

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    • Recoding America

    • Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
    • Written by: Jennifer Pahlka
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Pahlka
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2023-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • Maid

    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • Written by: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 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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    • Hidden

    • Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten - How One Boy Overcame the Odds
    • Written by: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2014-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 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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    • Dying of Whiteness

    • How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
    • Written by: Jonathan M. Metzl
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2019-03-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 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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    • Care Work

    • Dreaming Disability Justice
    • Written by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2019-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities....

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    • The Socialist Manifesto

    • The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
    • Written by: Bhaskar Sunkara
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 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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  • Automating Inequality cover art

    • Automating Inequality

    • How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
    • Written by: Virginia Eubanks
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-26
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • The Sum of Us

    • What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
    • Written by: Heather McGhee
    • Narrated by: Heather McGhee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 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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    • Saving Danny

    • Written by: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2015-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car....

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    • No Visible Bruises

    • What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
    • Written by: Rachel Louise Snyder
    • Narrated by: Rachel Louise Snyder
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings

    • An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors....

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    • Great Society

    • A New History
    • Written by: Amity Shlaes
    • Narrated by: Terence Aselford
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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    • Diary of a Psychosis

    • How Public Health Disgraced Itself During Covid Mania
    • Written by: Thomas E Woods Jr
    • Narrated by: Thomas E Woods Jr
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2024-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • You remember the story: some locations did better than others on Covid because some locations followed the rules, and others foolishly ignored them. Covid spread was your fault, you science hater....

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  • Poverty, by America cover art

    • Poverty, by America

    • Written by: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • Missing from the Village

    • The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community
    • Written by: Justin Ling
    • Narrated by: Justin Ling
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2020-09-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings

    • This extraordinary book tells the complete story of the McArthur murders. Based on more than five years of in-depth reporting, this is also a story of police failure, of how the queer community responded, and the story of the eight men who went missing and the lives they left behind....

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