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Best Sellers
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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- Written by: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.
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Very realistic and terrifying.
- By Michael Rozel on 2024-04-24
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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Important context, narrator lacks flow
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-11-13
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Son of Hamas
- A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
- Written by: Mosab Hassan Yousef, Ron Brackin - contributor
- Narrated by: Mosab Hassan Yousef
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas.....
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
- The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
- Written by: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units....
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Great story narrated by a robot
- By Kareem on 2019-10-12
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- Written by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....
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Best book I’ve read in years
- By MadameX on 2019-10-26
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22 Murders
- Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia
- Written by: Paul Palango
- Narrated by: Matthew Hawkins
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by....
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Way too long
- By Jacqueline on 2022-06-12
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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- Written by: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.
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Very realistic and terrifying.
- By Michael Rozel on 2024-04-24
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Written by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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Important context, narrator lacks flow
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-11-13
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Son of Hamas
- A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
- Written by: Mosab Hassan Yousef, Ron Brackin - contributor
- Narrated by: Mosab Hassan Yousef
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas.....
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
- The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
- Written by: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units....
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Great story narrated by a robot
- By Kareem on 2019-10-12
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- Written by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....
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Best book I’ve read in years
- By MadameX on 2019-10-26
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22 Murders
- Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia
- Written by: Paul Palango
- Narrated by: Matthew Hawkins
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by....
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Way too long
- By Jacqueline on 2022-06-12
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Chaos
- Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
- Written by: Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up....
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Fascinating and Compelling Listen
- By Andrew P Bird on 2020-05-15
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Playground
- A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion
- Written by: Jennifer Saginor
- Narrated by: Kassidy Cortese
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In the vein of Running with Scissors, Playground is the glitzy, glamorous, and surreal true story of a young girl who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion and never learned where the party stopped and the real world began....
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The Road to Freedom
- Economics and the Good Society
- Written by: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America's current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure.
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Invisible Women
- Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- Written by: Caroline Criado Perez
- Narrated by: Caroline Criado Perez
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more....
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Should be required listening for all people
- By Michelle on 2019-10-06
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A Woman of No Importance
- The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- Written by: Sonia Purnell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine....
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No issues with EXCELLENT narration!
- By Ron Larocque on 2019-07-16
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Seven Fallen Feathers
- Written by: Tanya Talaga
- Narrated by: Michaela Washburn
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The shocking true story covered by the Guardian and the New York Times of the seven young indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city....
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Essential reading for Canadians
- By Blayne Beacham on 2018-09-13
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Follow the Money: The Shocking Deep State Connections of the Anti-Trump Cabal
- Written by: Dan Bongino
- Narrated by: Dan Bongino
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Follow the Money exposes the labyrinth of connections between D.C.’s slimiest swamp creatures - Democrat operatives, lying informants, desperate, and destructive FBI agents, Obama power brokers, CIA renegade John Brennan, George Soros, and more....
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Obama is the most corrupt president ever
- By Kevin Angus on 2020-10-22
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The Devil's Chessboard
- Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
- Written by: David Talbot
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 25 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful - and secretive - colossus in Washington....
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Not sure what to think…
- By Kathleen on 2023-05-26
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The Only Plane in the Sky
- An Oral History of September 11, 2001
- Written by: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001 - a panoramic narrative woven from the voices of Americans on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma....
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Excellent
- By melt72 on 2023-08-22
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Skunk Works
- A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
- Written by: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies....
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A must for aviation buffs
- By BH on 2018-04-25
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Rules for Radicals
- A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
- Written by: Saul D. Alinsky
- Narrated by: Scott Lange
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change....
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Good to finally get this behind me...
- By Gordon Gower on 2018-12-27
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- Written by: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves....
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So important.
- By Kaitlin M on 2023-03-13
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Fear
- Trump in the White House
- Written by: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies....
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I expected to be shocked
- By Roberta W on 2018-09-15
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A Darker Shade of Blue
- A Police Officer's Memoir
- Written by: Keith Merith
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Darker Shade of Blue, Merith shares both his gut-wrenching and heart-warming experiences and advocates for immediate police reform in a balanced and level-headed manner.
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The Last Girl
- My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
- Written by: Nadia Murad
- Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story....
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Inspirational
- By Lourdes Jaafar on 2021-12-05
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The Chief Witness
- Escape from China's Modern-Day Concentration Camps
- Written by: Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
- Narrated by: Xifeng Brooks
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in China’s northwestern province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime? Being Kazakh, one of China’s ethnic minorities....
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Everyone needs to read this!
- By Anonymous User on 2022-11-03
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Days of Rage
- America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
- Written by: Bryan Burrough
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s. The FBI combated these groups and others as nodes in a single revolutionary underground....
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Brilliant
- By MGS on 2021-08-10
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Black Boys Like Me
- On Race, Identity, and Belonging
- Written by: Matthew R. Morris
- Narrated by: Matthew R. Morris
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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After graduating high school in Scarborough, Morris spent four years in the U.S. on multiple football scholarships and, having spent that time in the States experiencing “the Mecca of hip hop and Black culture,” returned home with a newfound perspective....
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No other words but incredible
- By Rosanna Araujo on 2024-03-07
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Filho do Hamas [Son of Hamas]
- Um relato impressionante sobre terrorismo, traição, intrigas políticas e escolhas impensáveis [A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices]
- Written by: Mosab Hassan Yousef
- Narrated by: Matias Correa
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A história real de um filho do Hamas que se tornou espião israelense, se converteu ao cristianismo e ajudou a combater uma das maiores organizações terroristas do mundo....
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- Written by: Kim Zetter
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....
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Very interesting, technical but easy enough to understand.
- By Jon on 2023-12-07
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Fight of the Century
- Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
- Written by: Michael Chabon - editor, Ayelet Waldman - editor
- Narrated by: an all-star cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case....
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TRANCE Formation of America
- The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave
- Written by: Cathy O'Brien, Mark Phillips
- Narrated by: Cathy O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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TRANCE Formation of America is the documented biography of a victim of government mind control. Cathy O'Brien is the only vocal and recovered survivor of the Central Intelligence Agency's MK-Ultra Project Monarch mind control operation....
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Shocking
- By Maria on 2024-03-28
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- Written by: Shoshana Zuboff
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....
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Excellent message but very hard to consume
- By Jason Thompson on 2020-02-13
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In the Camps
- China's High-Tech Penal Colony
- Written by: Darren Byler
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history....
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From DC Streets to Chief's Seat
- Written by: Clarence Edwards
- Narrated by: Danny Swopes
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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As a Black youth growing up on the streets of Washington, DC, a career in law enforcement was the furthest thing from Clarence Edwards’s mind. In From DC Streets to Chief's Seat, Edwards shares his journey from his teenage years on the streets to becoming the chief of police in Montgomery County, MD. Edwards recounts stories of how preparation, performance, and perseverance were integral to the growth and development of his resilience, which he credits for his personal and professional success.
Written by: Clarence Edwards
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The Road to Freedom
- Economics and the Good Society
- Written by: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America's current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. These movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.
Written by: Joseph E. Stiglitz
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The Moment
- Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now
- Written by: Bakari Sellers
- Narrated by: Bakari Sellers
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Author Bakari Sellers expands on the issues he addressed in his New York Times bestseller My Vanishing Country, examining national politics and policies that deeply impact not only Black people in his home state of South Carolina but the lives of millions of African Americans in communities across the nation. Four years later, Sellers has an answer to the question he raised on CNN, offering much-needed prescriptions to help all Black American lives.
Written by: Bakari Sellers
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Covert City
- The Cold War and the Making of Miami
- Written by: Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
- Narrated by: Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry.
Written by: Vince Houghton, and others
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Mythologies Without End (1st Edition)
- The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020
- Written by: Jerome Slater
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In Mythologies Without End, Jerome Slater argues that US policies in the region are largely a product of mythologies that are often flatly wrong. For example, the Israelis' treatment of Palestinians after 1948 undermined its claim that it was a true democracy, and the argument that Arab states refused to negotiate with Israel for decades is simply untrue. Because of widespread acceptance of these myths in both the US and Israel, the consequences have been devastating to all of the involved parties.
Written by: Jerome Slater
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The Great Abolitionist
- Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
- Written by: Stephen Puleo
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Abolitionist is the first major biography of Charles Sumner to be published in over fifty years. Acclaimed historian Stephen Puleo relates the story of one of the most influential non-presidents in American history with evocative and accessible prose, transporting listeners back to an era when our leaders exhibited true courage and authenticity in the face of unprecedented challenges.
Written by: Stephen Puleo
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From DC Streets to Chief's Seat
- Written by: Clarence Edwards
- Narrated by: Danny Swopes
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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As a Black youth growing up on the streets of Washington, DC, a career in law enforcement was the furthest thing from Clarence Edwards’s mind. In From DC Streets to Chief's Seat, Edwards shares his journey from his teenage years on the streets to becoming the chief of police in Montgomery County, MD. Edwards recounts stories of how preparation, performance, and perseverance were integral to the growth and development of his resilience, which he credits for his personal and professional success.
Written by: Clarence Edwards
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The Road to Freedom
- Economics and the Good Society
- Written by: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America's current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. These movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.
Written by: Joseph E. Stiglitz
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The Moment
- Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now
- Written by: Bakari Sellers
- Narrated by: Bakari Sellers
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Author Bakari Sellers expands on the issues he addressed in his New York Times bestseller My Vanishing Country, examining national politics and policies that deeply impact not only Black people in his home state of South Carolina but the lives of millions of African Americans in communities across the nation. Four years later, Sellers has an answer to the question he raised on CNN, offering much-needed prescriptions to help all Black American lives.
Written by: Bakari Sellers
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Covert City
- The Cold War and the Making of Miami
- Written by: Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
- Narrated by: Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry.
Written by: Vince Houghton, and others
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Mythologies Without End (1st Edition)
- The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020
- Written by: Jerome Slater
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In Mythologies Without End, Jerome Slater argues that US policies in the region are largely a product of mythologies that are often flatly wrong. For example, the Israelis' treatment of Palestinians after 1948 undermined its claim that it was a true democracy, and the argument that Arab states refused to negotiate with Israel for decades is simply untrue. Because of widespread acceptance of these myths in both the US and Israel, the consequences have been devastating to all of the involved parties.
Written by: Jerome Slater
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The Great Abolitionist
- Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
- Written by: Stephen Puleo
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Abolitionist is the first major biography of Charles Sumner to be published in over fifty years. Acclaimed historian Stephen Puleo relates the story of one of the most influential non-presidents in American history with evocative and accessible prose, transporting listeners back to an era when our leaders exhibited true courage and authenticity in the face of unprecedented challenges.
Written by: Stephen Puleo
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Taking Privacy Seriously
- How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect
- Written by: James B. Rule
- Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Taking Privacy Seriously offers both a hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today’s privacy-eroding practices and a robust road map for creating individual authority over our personal data. James B. Rule proposes eleven key reforms in the control and use of personal information—including far-reaching new rights for individuals and meaningful responsibilities for data-keeping organizations—all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data hungry corporate and government institutions.
Written by: James B. Rule
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Blue-Coated Terror
- Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality
- Written by: Jeffrey S. Adler
- Narrated by: Arnell Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Contrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans.
Written by: Jeffrey S. Adler
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A Tiger Rules the Mountain
- Cambodia’s Pursuit of Democracy
- Written by: Gordon Conochie
- Narrated by: Gordon Conochie, Ou Ritthy
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Learn about how the dichotomous twins of idealism and pragmatism, of freedom and power, and of hope and fear are pitched against each other, wrestling for the future of Cambodia. This is Cambodia through the lens of human stories in what journalists and politicians have called 'gripping', 'a tour de force' and 'a must read'.
Written by: Gordon Conochie
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A Darker Shade of Blue
- A Police Officer's Memoir
- Written by: Keith Merith
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Darker Shade of Blue, Merith shares both his gut-wrenching and heart-warming experiences and advocates for immediate police reform in a balanced and level-headed manner. He praises the people in blue, but he also knows on a visceral level that there are deep issues that need to be rectified—starting with recruitment.
Written by: Keith Merith
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A World of Enemies
- America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden
- Written by: Osamah F. Khalil
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Osamah Khalil argues that the militarization of US domestic and foreign affairs was the product of America's failure in Vietnam. Unsettled by their inability to prevail in Southeast Asia, US leaders increasingly came to see a host of problems as immune to political solutions. Rather, crime, drugs, and terrorism were enemies spawned in "badlands"—whether the Middle East or stateside inner cities. Characterized as sites of endemic violence, badlands lay beyond the pale of civilization, their ostensibly racially and culturally alien inhabitants best handled by force.
Written by: Osamah F. Khalil
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Setting Sights
- Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense
- Written by: Scott Crow - editor
- Narrated by: Zac Bergman
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Decades ago, Malcolm X eloquently stated that communities have the legitimate right to defend themselves “by any means necessary” with any tool or tactic, including guns. This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Written by: Scott Crow - editor
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Tripped
- Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
- Written by: Norman Ohler
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs.
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LSD: origin, history and possible future.
- By Anonymous User on 2024-04-19
Written by: Norman Ohler
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Cyborg
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Written by: Laura Forlano, Danya Glabau
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory.
Written by: Laura Forlano, and others
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You Can't Always Say What You Want
- The Paradox of Free Speech
- Written by: Dennis Baron
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech.
Written by: Dennis Baron
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Terrorists on the Border and in Our Country
- Written by: Charles A. Marino
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A nationally recognized security expert reveals the REAL Terrorist threat from the U.S. Southern Border and already INSIDE America. Terrorists on the Border and in Our Country reveals how radical, left-wing, liberal politicians and woke, progressive, "defund-the-police," and "stop-the-wall," nation-wrecking policies caused this crisis and the steps the country must take to combat crime, protect the homeland and its citizens and stop the growing existential challenge to American freedoms and way of life.
Written by: Charles A. Marino
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Sacred Trust
- Election Integrity and the Will of the People
- Written by: Jody Hice
- Narrated by: Kevin Charles
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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As a Republican Congressman, a founding member and leader of the House Freedom Caucus, one of the most senior and aggressive Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, and a vocal defender of election integrity, Jody Hice witnessed firsthand how the gradual erosion of Congressional integrity has crippled America's faith in its most essential institutions. From his first day in office, he experienced direct and relentless pressure from career bureaucrats, even in his party, to subvert the will of the American people.
Written by: Jody Hice
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Four Shots in the Night
- A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
- Written by: Henry Hemming
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker, Henry Hemming
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would deliver more than the truth. It exposed his status as an informant and led to protests, campaigns, far-reaching changes to British law, a historic ruling from a senior judicial body, a ground-breaking police investigation, and bitter condemnation from a US Congressional commission.
Written by: Henry Hemming