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Bestsellers
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
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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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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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TRANCE Formation of America
- The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave
- 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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The most eye opening book I’ve ever read.
- By Lynn Dreiling on 02-05-23
By: Cathy O'Brien, and others
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- By: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 02-01-23
By: Siddharth Kara
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On Settler Colonialism
- Ideology, Violence, and Justice
- By: Adam Kirsch
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment.
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Lucid
- By GoingGoingGone... on 11-20-24
By: Adam Kirsch
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
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Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration," and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole....
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Buying the paperback now too
- By Theresa Frey on 03-14-23
By: Angela Y. Davis
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- 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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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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TRANCE Formation of America
- The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave
- 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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The most eye opening book I’ve ever read.
- By Lynn Dreiling on 02-05-23
By: Cathy O'Brien, and others
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- By: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 02-01-23
By: Siddharth Kara
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On Settler Colonialism
- Ideology, Violence, and Justice
- By: Adam Kirsch
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment.
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Lucid
- By GoingGoingGone... on 11-20-24
By: Adam Kirsch
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration," and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole....
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Buying the paperback now too
- By Theresa Frey on 03-14-23
By: Angela Y. Davis
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The Moment of Lift
- How Empowering Women Changes the World
- By: Melinda French Gates
- Narrated by: Melinda French Gates
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings - and especially for women? Because, when you lift up women, you lift up humanity. For the last 20 years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live....
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Phenomenal Book, Absolute Gem
- By D. Sooley on 04-28-19
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Prey
- Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
- By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s cities? No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants—most of them young men—from Muslim-majority countries....
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Feminist Must-Read
- By Annie Raks on 02-26-21
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Where the Wind Leads
- A Refugee Family's Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption
- By: Vinh Chung
- Narrated by: Josh Aaron
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Vinh Chung was born in South Vietnam, just eight months after it fell to the communists in 1975. His family was wealthy, controlling a rice-milling empire worth millions; but within months of the communist takeover, the Chungs lost everything and were reduced to abject poverty....
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Refugees from Vietnam
- By Justicepirate on 06-22-18
By: Vinh Chung
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Civil Resistance
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Erica Chenoweth
- Narrated by: Erica Chenoweth
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a conflict without directly harming or threatening to harm an opponent....
By: Erica Chenoweth
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Hegemony or Survival
- America's Quest for Global Dominance
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones, Noam Chomsky
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe...
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Read and open your mind
- By Rupert on 01-15-04
By: Noam Chomsky
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
- One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
- By: Melissa Fleming
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Doaa Al Zamel was once an average Syrian girl growing up in a crowded house in a bustling city near the Jordanian border. But in 2011 her life was upended....
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One woman's story
- By msrae on 07-06-17
By: Melissa Fleming
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The Last Girl
- My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
- By: Nadia Murad
- Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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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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A Heartbreaking Tale of Survival and Hope
- By Leahmgordon on 11-08-17
By: Nadia Murad
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Denial [Movie Tie-in]
- Holocaust History on Trial
- By: Deborah E. Lipstadt
- Narrated by: Kate Udall
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
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Denial is Lipstadt's riveting account of her singular legal battle, which resulted in a formal denunciation of a Holocaust denier that crippled the movement for years to come....
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All hail victory for Lipstadt.
- By Tammy on 01-06-17
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Brainwashed
- Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
- By: Tom Burrell
- Narrated by: Sylvester Brown Jr.
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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"Black people are not dark-skinned white people", says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds....
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Guidance against the odds.
- By Henry Lee Faulkner on 01-05-21
By: Tom Burrell
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
- By: Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
- Narrated by: Stephen Park
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education"....
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Riveting!!
- By Iread on 11-12-20
By: Chol-hwan Kang, and others
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- By: Dina Nayeri
- Narrated by: Dina Nayeri
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually, she was granted asylum in America. Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers....
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Amazing story of resilience and compassion
- By PAH on 09-06-19
By: Dina Nayeri
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Abolition Democracy
- Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Revelations about U.S. policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy....
By: Angela Y. Davis
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Without You, There Is No Us
- My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- By: Suki Kim
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign....
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The King and I meets Mary Poppins
- By Michael on 02-22-15
By: Suki Kim
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The Desert and the Sea
- 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
- By: Michael Scott Moore
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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Michael Scott Moore incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting, thoughtful exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival....
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Wow!
- By Jonathan on 08-04-18
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The Authoritarian Moment
- How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
- By: Ben Shapiro
- Narrated by: Ben Shapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism....
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The Daily Weasel
- By Jonathan Bruce Williams on 07-30-21
By: Ben Shapiro
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Martin Luther King: The Essential Box Set
- The Landmark Speeches and Sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- By: Clayborne Carson, Kris Shepard, Peter Holloran, and others
- Narrated by: Keith David, Jay Gregory, Martin Luther King, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
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This definitive box set includes all the landmark speeches of the great orator and American leader Martin Luther King, Jr....
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From his own mouth
- By Tony E. on 09-07-16
By: Clayborne Carson, and others
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Seven Fallen Feathers
- 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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Important book…
- By Jo C. on 11-08-21
By: Tanya Talaga
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- By: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Kevin F. Adler
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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Comprehensive examination of homelessness
- By Theodore on 06-17-24
By: Kevin F. Adler, and others
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Palestine in a World on Fire
- By: Ilan Pappe - editor, Katherine Natanel - editor
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides the global perspective and analysis needed to inform how we forge ahead on this path of newfound solidarity.
By: Ilan Pappe - editor, and others
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A Call to Action
- Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
- By: Jimmy Carter
- Narrated by: Jimmy Carter
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights....
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Incomprehensible from a western point of view
- By Richard on 03-28-14
By: Jimmy Carter
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Jews Don’t Count
- By: David Baddiel
- Narrated by: David Baddiel
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Jews Don’t Count is a book for people who consider themselves on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you....
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Powerful and important and…
- By S. Duck on 09-16-23
By: David Baddiel
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Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love
- Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing
- By: Rebecca Vilkomerson, Alissa Wise, Omar Barghouti - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Alissa Wise
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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In this book, two key leaders and former staff of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) focus on the important role of anti-Zionist Jewish organizing within the broader Palestine solidarity movement.
By: Rebecca Vilkomerson, and others
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Half the Sky
- Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
- By: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. Half the Sky is essential listening for every global citizen....
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Life changing
- By TJH65 on 11-30-19
By: Nicholas D. Kristof, and others
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The Education of an Idealist
- A Memoir
- By: Samantha Power
- Narrated by: Samantha Power
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives....
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Sam's Power: Privilege in U.S. Politics
- By RelizzScholar27 on 11-09-19
By: Samantha Power