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Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt, WINNER of the Walkley Book Award 2025
- By: Rick Morton
- Narrated by: Rick Morton, Tamblyn Lord
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
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From award-winning journalist and writer Rick Morton comes Mean Streak, a gripping and horrifying account of how, over the course of four and a half years, Australia's government turned on its most vulnerable citizens. Winner of the 2025 Walkley Book Award Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary...
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Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt, WINNER of the Walkley Book Award 2025
- Narrated by: Rick Morton, Tamblyn Lord
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-10-24
- Language: English
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The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus
- How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks
- By: Troy Tassier
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized. Where people live and work, how they commute and socialize, and more have a huge impact on the risks we bear during an outbreak. In The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus, economist Troy Tassier examines examples ranging from the 430 BCE plague of Athens to the COVID-19 pandemic to demonstrate why marginalized groups bear the largest burden of epidemic costs—and how to avoid these systemic failures in the future.
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The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus
- How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-03-24
- Language: English
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Quick Fixes
- Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
- By: Benjamin Y. Fong
- Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Americans are in the midst of a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuana, antidepressants, antipsychotics—across the board, consumption has shot up in the twenty-first century. At the same time, the United States is home to the largest prison system in the world, justified in part by a now zombified "war" on drugs. How did we get here?
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Quick Fixes
- Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
- Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 19-03-24
- Language: English
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Overdue
- Reckoning with the Public Library
- By: Amanda Oliver
- Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Based on firsthand experiences from six years of professional work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC, as well as interviews and research, Overdue begins with Oliver's first day at an "unusual" branch: Northwest One. Using her experience at this branch allows Oliver to highlight the national problems that have existed in libraries since they were founded: racism, segregation, and class inequalities.
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Overdue
- Reckoning with the Public Library
- Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-03-22
- Language: English
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The Progress Paradox
- How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
- By: Gregg Easterbrook
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous...
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The Progress Paradox
- How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 26-11-03
- Language: English
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These Walls Between Us
- A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class
- By: Wendy Sanford
- Narrated by: Wendy Sanford
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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From an author of the best-selling women’s health classic Our Bodies, Ourselves comes a bracingly forthright memoir about a sixty-year friendship across racial and class divides. Sanford, who is white, explores her formation in a narrow world of privilege, lifts up the writings and social movements that changed her life, and reveals realities of domestic service rarely acknowledged by white employers.
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A special shared journey
- By Jackie on 05-04-24
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These Walls Between Us
- A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class
- Narrated by: Wendy Sanford
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 29-03-24
- Language: English
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Disposable
- America's Contempt for the Underclass
- By: Sarah Jones
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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In this “barn burner of a book” (The New York Times Book Review) New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones blends personal stories and in-depth reporting to expose the harsh reality of America’s culture of inequality and the devastating impact of the pandemic on our nation’s most...
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Disposable
- America's Contempt for the Underclass
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-02-25
- Language: English
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Free and Equal
- A Manifesto for a Just Society
- By: Daniel Chandler
- Narrated by: Daniel Chandler
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine: You are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it—rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher, John...
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Free and Equal
- A Manifesto for a Just Society
- Narrated by: Daniel Chandler
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-05-24
- Language: English
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Our Crumbling Foundation
- How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
- By: Gregor Craigie
- Narrated by: Gregor Craigie
- Length: 8 hrs
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER · WINNER OF BC BOOK PRIZE GEORGE RYGA AWARD FOR SOCIAL AWARENESS · FINALIST FOR THE BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY · FINALIST FOR THE BC BOOK AWARDS HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE · A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK · A HILL TIMES BEST BOOK “Gregor Craigie’s Our...
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Our Crumbling Foundation
- How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
- Narrated by: Gregor Craigie
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 05-03-24
- Language: English
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Seeing Others
- How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World
- By: Michèle Lamont
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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“A thoughtful recipe for building social justice” (Kirkus Reviews) from acclaimed Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont that makes the case for reexamining what we value—the quest for respect—in an age that has been defined by growing inequality and the obsolescence of the American dream...
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Seeing Others
- How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 12-09-23
- Language: English
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Children of the State
- Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
- By: Jeff Hobbs
- Narrated by: George Newbern, Landon Woodson, Aven Shore, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile justice system and its inhabitants—young people of earnestness, disappointment, hope, and...
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Children of the State
- Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
- Narrated by: George Newbern, Landon Woodson, Aven Shore, Andre Bellido
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 24-01-23
- Language: English
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST...
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-03-16
- Language: English
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Let Us Dream
- The Path to a Better Future
- By: Pope Francis
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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In this uplifting and practical book, written in collaboration with his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, the preeminent spiritual leader explains why we must—and how we can—make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people now. In the COVID crisis, the beloved shepherd of over one...
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Let Us Dream
- The Path to a Better Future
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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Show Them You're Good
- A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College
- By: Jeff Hobbs
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Christian Barillas, Tim Chiou, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace presents a “carefully observed journalistic account [that] widens our view of the modern ‘immigrant experience’” (The New York Times Book Review) as he closely follows four Los Angeles high school boys as...
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Show Them You're Good
- A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Christian Barillas, Tim Chiou, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Jonathan Todd Ross, Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 18-08-20
- Language: English
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Having and Being Had
- By: Eula Biss
- Narrated by: Alex McKenna
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING “A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it’s possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are enthralling.” —Associated Press A...
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Having and Being Had
- Narrated by: Alex McKenna
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-09-20
- Language: English
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Crazy Rich
- Die geheime Welt der Superreichen
- By: Julia Friedrichs
- Narrated by: Sandra Voss
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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Wie grenzenlos der Reichtum einiger weniger wirklich ist und wie ihr Vermögen das Land verändert. Julia Friedrichs ist gelungen, was es so noch nicht gegeben hat: Sie bittet Superreiche zum Gespräch, und diese erlauben ihr umfassende Einblicke in ihre Welt und stellen sich ihren Fragen. Ist Vermögen eine Privatangelegenheit? Braucht es ein anderes Steuersystem? Kann es richtig sein, dass sich extreme Vermögen in den Händen ganz weniger ballen? Wann habe ich genug? Auf den Spuren des Geldes. Ihre Recherchereise führt die Autorin zu Luxusjachten, in Family-Offices und Steueroasen.
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Crazy Rich
- Die geheime Welt der Superreichen
- Narrated by: Sandra Voss
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: German
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The Forgotten Man and White Populist Resentment
- Power, Politics, and Narrative Dominance in the Trump Era
- By: Arthur H. Garrison
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 23 hrs and 45 mins
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American political history has a rhythm and a progression. Part of that progression is White populist anger and resentment. The Forgotten Man and White Populist Resentment: Power, Politics, and Narrative Dominance in the Trump Era traces how this White populism rose to dominate the Republican Party primary base, how the populist campaigns of Pat Buchanan and Newt Gingrich paved the way for the rise of Donald Trump, and how he maintains narrative dominance over both parties and American political discourse.
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The Forgotten Man and White Populist Resentment
- Power, Politics, and Narrative Dominance in the Trump Era
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 23 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-07-26
- Language: English
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Country of Lords
- Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America
- By: Kim Phillips-Fein
- Narrated by: Sarah Welborn
- Length: 11 hrs
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We think of the United States as a nation committed, at least on paper, to ideals of human equality, under God and/or under the law. But as robust as the notion of the "American dream" is a longstanding defense of social hierarchies, including vast gulfs between rich and poor. Drawing on forgotten characters and neglected archives, Kim Phillips-Fein tells the story of the executives, intellectuals, and political leaders who have argued that the words of the Declaration of Independence—that "all men are created equal"—are a myth.
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Country of Lords
- Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America
- Narrated by: Sarah Welborn
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 21-07-26
- Language: English
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La felicità è un atto politico
- Stare bene (insieme) come forma di resistenza
- By: Giulia Blasi
- Narrated by: Giulia Blasi
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Giulia Blasi parte da una serie di riflessioni personali da attivista in preda a un momento di sconforto per decostruire la narrazione dell'isolamento e mettersi alla ricerca di un'alternativa concreta al senso di impotenza che attraversa il nostro tempo. Il risultato è un libro che non fornisce soluzioni facili per problemi complessi ma prova a disegnare una mappa per orientarsi in un periodo di grande difficoltà collettiva, cercando una via d'uscita dal Tapinocene, l'era dell'infelicità.
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La felicità è un atto politico
- Stare bene (insieme) come forma di resistenza
- Narrated by: Giulia Blasi
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 18-02-26
- Language: Italian
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Anti-Fascist Economics
- By: Isabella Weber
- Length: 3 hrs
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As inequality, inflation, and overwhelming corporate power threaten democracy, a rising-star economist asks what it would mean to create an anti-fascist economics that guarantees dignity for all. On the night of President Trump's second presidential victory, economist Isabella Weber tweeted...
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Anti-Fascist Economics
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 13-10-26
- Language: English
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